Thursday - 8 September 2022
08.00 – 17.00 Registration of participants
location: Conference area
09.00 – 10.30 What can we learn from the past and what will the future bring? Boomers and Zoomers!
location: Meet Hall
moderator: Philippe Vlaemminck
• Jeffrey Derevensky, McGill University, Canada
• André Wilsenach, former regulator Alderney, consultant, Alderney
• Thomas Nilsson, Founder Sustainable Interaction, Sweden
• Jason Frost, President Euromat, Belgium
• Birgitte Sand, former regulator Denmark, consultant, Denmark
• Brett Abarbanel, UNLV, United States
10.30 – 11.00 Coffee / tea break
location: Outside Meet Hall
11.00 – 11.45 Women and Gambling and Leadership
location: Meet Hall
moderator: Tracy Damestani
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Maris Catania, Kindred, Malta
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Beata Guzik, Vlaemminck.law, Belgium
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Tanja Sveen, Norsk Tipping, Norway
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Hermann Pamminger, European Casino Association, Belgium
11.45 – 12.30 Why you all should stay until tomorrow afternoon
Presentation : Speed dating style
location: Meet Hall
moderator: Pieter Remmers
12.30 – 13.45 Lunch
location: Restaurant
13.45 – 15.25 Parallel Sessions
Session 1 – AI in general and in particular
location: Meet 1
moderator: Arjan van ’t Veer
• Technical solutions for blocking unregulated gambling: A scoping review
Michael Egerer, University of Helsinki, Finland
• Beyond identification – Using technology to assist at-risk players
Tracy Schrans, Focal Research Consultants Limited, Canada
• Exploring product risk in online gambling using behavioural tracking data
Jonathan Parke, Sophro, United Kingdom
Sanjoy Sarkar, Playtech Plc, United Kingdom
• Algorithmic systems for early detection of players at risk
Tilman Becker, University of Hohenheim, Germany
Session 2 – What can we learn from a treatment perspective
location: M6
moderator: Nathalie Smit
• GamCare data review: Themes and trends from a UK treatment perspective
Anna Hemmings and Rachel Hassan, GamCare, United Kingdom
Dora Dodig Hundric, University of Zagreb, Department of Behavioural Disorders Faculty of Education and Rehabilitation Sciences, Croatia
• Concerned significant others in PG treatment
Anders Nilsson, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden
Cristian Andrei, Responsible Gaming Romania, Romania
• What can we learn from GamCare client data about the effectiveness of treatment?
Rachel Hassan, GamCare, United Kingdom
Session 3 – Research and problem gambling
location: M2/M3
moderator: Beata Guzik
• Psychiatric and somatic comorbidity among persons with diagnosed gambling disorder: A nationwide register study
Tanja Grönroos, Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare, Finland
• Young people, parents, and gambling. Results from a Swedish population survey and focus groups
Jessika Spångberg, Public health Agency of Sweden, Sweden
• Individual differences in interpersonal security predict suicidal ideation and problem gambling
Mauro Schiavella, Seafrog Technology S.r.l., Italy
• A new index measuring recovery capital in gambling disorder
Belle Gavriel-Fried, Tel Aviv University, Israel
Daniel McGrath, University of Calgary, Canada
Session 4 – Prevention, what to do?
location: M5
moderator: Jakob Jonsson
Jeffrey Derevensky, McGill University, Canada
Riitta Matilainen, EHYT Finnish Association for Substance, Finland
• The risk potential of online gambling: A systematic literature review
Tobias Hayer, University of Bremen, Germany
Sunghwan Yi, University of Guelph, Canada
• Real-time, data-driven player interactions
Tanja Sveen, Norsk Tipping AS, Norway
Session 5 – Research: characteristic/analytics
location: M5
moderator: Thomas Nilsson
Zsolt Demetrovics, University of Gibraltar, Gibraltar
• Criminogenic problem gambling: Types of crimes and characteristics of perpetrators
Per Binde, University of Stockholm, Department of Public Health Sciences
• Treatment effectiveness, adherence, and statistical moderators in an online intervention for problem gambling: 14 years of data Jussi Palomäki, Helsinki University Hospital, University of Helsinki, Finland
• Social support and social aspects of gambling and gambling problems in Swelogs 2021
Magdalena Lagerlund, Folkhälsomyndigheten, Sweden
• Gambling and its relations to other types of game playing in the Finnish Player Barometer 2022 study
Jani Kinnunen, Tampere University, Game Research Lab, Finland
Session 6 – RG and the industry
location: M1
moderator: Malcolm Bruce
• Bridging the theory practice gap in safer gambling strategies
Arno Nagelschmied, Casinos Austria AG & Austrian Lotteries, Austria
• Implementing gambling limits by affordability
Axel Lyckberg, Svenska Spel, Sweden
• Responsible gaming strategy: How it works and what are the effects
Stefania Colombo and Daniele Spadafora, IGT PLC, Italy
• Are the Belgians still the bravest of the gambling market?
Roland Louski, Loterie Nationale, Belgium
• Game over: Analyzing exclusions from German online casino’s
Vadim Kufenko, University of Hohenheim, Gambling Research Center, Germany
15.25 – 15.55 Coffee/tea break
location: Outside M rooms
15.55 – 17.35 Parallel Sessions
Session 1 – AI in general and in particular
location: Meet 1
Moderator: Willem Keessen
• Game change – An end to end digital pathway to player interventions
Christofer Hagstedt, Sustainable Interaction Sweden AB, Sweden
Christian Percy, BetBuddy Playtech, United Kingdom
Tony Schellinck, Focal Research Consultants, Canada
• Identifying and intervening with problematic gamblers through the use of AI
Paul Dent, Gordon Moody, United Kingdom
• Comparison of three methods for calculating the gambling costs: Production losses in Finland
Tiina Latvala, Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare, Finland
Session 2 – New Ways
location: M6
moderator: Peter-Paul de Goeij
• The ‘Path to Play”: Mapping the gambling journey
Laura Balla, Gambling Commission, United Kingdom and Jack Wilson, 2CV Research, United Kingdom
Brett Abarbanel, UNLV International Gaming Institute, United States and Joseph Macey, University of Turku, Finland
• Loot boxes in video games: demographics, psychology and wellbeing
James Close, University of Plymouth, United Kingdom
• A qualitative investigation of the motivations for videogame loot box engagement
Helen Lloyd, University of Plymouth, United Kingdom
• Pathways into betting on e-sports: An explorative interview study
David Forsstrӧm, Competence centre for Psychotherapy, Centre for Psychiatry Research, Department of Clinical Neurology, Sweden
Session 3 – Research and problem gambling
location: M2/M3
moderator: Zalt Demetrovics
• Psychosocial effects of gambling treatment in the daily clinic for gambling addiction
Neven Ricijas, University of Zagreb, Department of Behavioural Disorders, Faculty of Education and Rehabilitation Sciences, Croatia
• Stigmatization of disordered gamblers in Germany
Andrea Wöhr, Universität Hohenheim, Forschungsstelle Glücksspiel, Germany
• The structures of services and availability of gambling disorder treatment – results from Finland
Maria Heiskanen , Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare, Finland
• The societal costs of problem gambling in Norway
Joakim Hellumbråten Kristensen, Department of psychosocial science, University of Bergen, Norway
• Expert Opinions on evaluating gambling-related harms – The Problem Gambling Severity Index and Future Innovations
Anne Salonen, Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare, Finland
Session 4 – Prevention, what to do?
location: M5
moderator: Jonny Engebø
• Global self-exclusion system
Simon Vincze, Casino Guru, Slovakia
• Stratifying the risk for the development of pathological gambling
Spyros Champi, Cyprus Gaming and Casino Supervision Commission, Cyprus
• Improving gambling participation and the prevalence of problem gambling statistics in Great Britain
Helen Bryce, Gambling Commission, United Kingdom
Matthew Young and Trudy Smit Quosai, Greo, Canada
Sari Castrén, Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare, Finland
Session 5 – The role of the authority and what with COVID-19
location: M4
moderator: Mauro Schiavella
• The addiction prevention fund: Three targets of this fund administrated by the Kansspelautoriteit
Jolijn Fanoy-Vogel, Kansspelautoriteit, Netherlands
• The new 24/7 national helpline in the Netherlands
Nathalie Smit, Loket Kansspel, Netherlands
• Mandatory loss limits, how do they prevent problem gambling in general and how did they help during the COVID-10 pandemic? Bjørn-Helge Hoffmann, Norsk Tipping AS, Norway
• Gambling and the COVID-19 pandemic in the Province of Quebec (Canada)
Magaly Brodeur, Université de Sherbrooke, Canada
Maria Schietse, Svenska Spel, Sweden
Session 6 – RG and the industry
location: M1
moderator: Malcolm Bruce
• The originals: The land based lotteries & casinos
Beata Guzik and Philippe Vlaemminck, Vlaemminck.law, Belgium
• Does lighting strike the same place twice? The effect of lottery win location on subsequent gambling
Tomi Roukka, National Institute for Health and Welfare, Finland
• Historical market change from Veikkaus perspective
Susanna Saikkonen, Veikkaus, Finland
• Nordic light – A stepwise model of duty of care (rather than a smorgasbord
Jakob Jonsson, Sustainable Interaction and University of Stockholm, Sweden
• Exclusion as a player protection measure
Suzanne Lischer, Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Switzerland