SBC Summit Latinoamérica 2023

GLI’s Latin America & Caribbean team will present two important panels at the upcoming SBC Summit Latinoamerica. Read about these sessions below, then visit sbcevents.com/en/sbc-summit-latinoamerica for more information.

“Cross-border Collaboration: Regulatory Re-Alignment Across Latin America’s Gaming Markets”
November 1, 11:45 local time

GLI Vice President, Latin America & Caribbean Karen Sierra-Hughes moderates this panel that points a keen eye to the future of gaming in the region.

Latin America continues to be a patchwork of regulations from country to country and often from state to state, but might 2023 be the year that the industry, in collaboration with national and regional regulators, begins to encourage an alignment across borders? This panel considers the effect of impending Brazilian legislation while examining patterns in regulatory oversight in markets as big as Colombia and Mexico and as small as Costa Rica, while hypothesizing a roadmap for collaboration between operators and legislators across the continent.

Joining this discussion is Cecilia Valdés, Presidenta Ejecutiva at Asociación Chilena de Casinos de Juego

“Puerto Rico: 1 Year Later”
November 1, 11:45 local time

GLI Caribbean Regional Manager José Carlos Figueroa-Troche moderates the fascinating panel, “Puerto Rico: 1 Year Later.”

One year after the issuing of land-based sports betting licenses in Puerto Rico, how has the vertical developed within the territory? How have major sporting events such as the NCAA and World Baseball Classic boosted sports betting uptake and contributed to increased tax revenues for the island of Puerto Rico? This panel discusses the future development of Puerto Rican gaming, with one eye on land-based sportsbooks and another on the potential of regulated iGaming.

Scheduled to appear as panelists are Jaime Rivera Emmanuelli, Regulator, Puerto Rico Gaming Commission; Ismael Vega, General Manager, Casino Metro Sheraton; and Carlos Infante, Partner, Estrella LLC.