Ukrainian Gaming Week

About the speaker: 

• actively develops the affiliate fintech sector;  
• has designed and implemented a marketing strategy for Moneyveo;
• has advised companies from various countries on payday & installment loans issues;  
• member of the top team of an international financial holding company – Lime Credit Group; 
• is a Tier-1 webmaster focusing on payday loans in Ukraine, Russia, Kazakhstan, and Poland.  

He will be a moderator at the conference.

About the speaker:

• expert in IP rights and gambling;
• specializes on licensing and regulation of the gambling business;
• has been a corporate lawyer and a member of the Czech Bar Association;
• Head of the legal department at Endorphina Ltd – a company developing online casino games.

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About the speaker: 

• Ukrainian politician;
• People’s Deputy of Ukraine of the 8th session;
• headed the Sub-Committee on the development of tourism, health resorts and recreation;
• representative of The Association of Hospitality Industry of Ukraine;
• member of the working group at the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine on development of the new law on legalization of the gambling business;
• has her own blog in Facebook with almost 25,000 followers.

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About the speaker: 

• lawyer specializing in international law, specialist in the field of corporate and tax law;
• Senior Lawyer, Head of the Legal Department at the Kyiv-based office of Law & Trust International;
• focuses on tax structuring and development of international holding structures in the gambling industry;
• provides gambling licensing services;
• specialist in gambling payment solutions: bank accounts, processing, reimbursements to cards, etc.;
• has experience in company registration, opening accounts, and customer support in the UK, Switzerland, Turkey, the United Arab Emirates, China, Bangladesh, India, the EU countries;
• opens correspondent accounts for financial organizations, settlement accounts for large companies and holdings, as well as accounts for cryptocurrency and gambling businesses.

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 About the speaker:

• since 2011, he has been the Head at All-Ukrainian Association of Employers in the Recreation and Entertainment Sector that represents local gambling operators;
• council member of the Federation of Employers of Ukraine;
• acts on behalf of gambling market employers in the dialogue with the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine;
• member of the working group aimed at gambling business legalization at the Verkhovna Rada Committee on Finance, Taxation and Customs Policy.

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Interview

About the speaker:

• specialist with 7 years of experience in tax structuring and consulting;
• has been a Managing Partner at Stron Legal Services for two years;
• successfully implemented over 70 fintech, e-commerce and IT projects;
• has been a lecturer at Legal High School educational platform;
• author of expert articles at mind.ua.

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About the speaker:  

• lawyer, acknowledged expert in gambling and sports law;
• associate at Fomin, Sergienko and partners, which is currently operating under the Sports & Gaming Lawyers brand, since 2013; 
• has represented Favorit and Parimatch in the dialog with the authorities concerning betting legalization in Ukraine on behalf of the All-Ukrainian Union of Betting Development;
• Head of the Ukrainian Gaming Industry Association, a public organization uniting gaming and gambling experts, since 2016;
• Member of the Committee on Ethics and Fair Play of Ukrainian Football Federation since 2017;
• has been a Member at the Interdepartmental working group at the Ministry of Finance of Ukraine for reviewing and solving problem matters related to gambling business and lotteries;
• has been a consultant of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on Family, Youth Policy, Sports and Tourism;
• has been a Chairwoman at the Coordination Council for the Socially Responsible Legalization of Casinos.

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About the speaker:

• politician, lawyer;
• People's Deputy of Ukraine of the 9th session;
• member of Servant of the People political party;
• member of the Sub-Committee on Human Rights of The Verkhovna Rada Committee on Human Rights, De-occupation and Reintegration of the Temporarily Occupied Territories in Donetsk, Luhansk Regions and the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, the city of Sevastopol, national minorities and interethnic relations;
• Co-chairman of the Group on Interparliamentary Relations with the Republic of Latvia;
• member of the Groups on Interparliamentary Relations with the Republic of Italy, Canada and the Republic of Poland.

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About the speaker:

• 15 years of experience in the iGaming niche;
• assisted in launching the gaming companies on 17 regulated markets;
• worked with B2C and B2B providers in the gambling industry;
• has been working at Betfair for 5 years, reaching the position of Key Account/VIP and Affiliate Manager;
• has been working with individual clients at NetEnt – the leading provider of top class gaming solutions for casino operators all over the world;
• in 2015, became a Sales Manager at NetEnt, reaching the position of Regional Sales Manager in 2 years and Head of Sales later that year;
• currently is a Director of Business Development at NetEnt.

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Story of success

About the speaker: 

• has been engaged in the gambling industry for more than 20 years;
• co-founder and director of the Ukrainian Gaming Business Association;
• owner and director of FUN GAME LLC, Ukraine’s only company that has obtained a mobile online casino license before the gambling ban introduction;
• took part in the development of Bill No. 1807 on the regulation of the Ukrainian gambling market, which was submitted to the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine in 2015;
• member of the working group aimed at gambling business legalization at the Verkhovna Rada Committee on Finance, Taxation and Customs Policy.

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About the speaker: 

• specialist with five years of experience in the field of financial services for corporate customers at banks of Ukraine and France;
• has 8 years of experience in international corporate and banking services, support in the acquiring of the fiscal residence for physical entities and businesses in the CIS and EU, the USA, Canada, Singapore, and Latin American countries;
• over the last two years, she has been holding the position of the Business Development Director for Eastern Europe at International Wealth;
• author of over 300 unique articles for International Wealth portal and other online resources;
• hosted author’s webinars and seminars in Ukraine and Russia, as well as boutique events in Austria and Hungary;
• experienced speaker at specialized conferences.

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Expert opinion (Part 1)

Expert opinion (Part 2)

About the speaker: 

• Regulatory & Public Affairs, Policy Development, Strategy, expert with 15 years of experience in Gambling and Gaming;
• since 2004 till 2010, has been a Permanent Representative of Malta to the EU, advocating for Malta’s gambling laws, representing the government amongst EU Institutions and the Member States;
• since 2010 till 2016, has been a Seconded National Expert at the European Commission, helping to bring European regulators and the industry to one table and elaborating policy on consumer protection, technical standards, as well as country-specific legislative assessments;
• since 2016 till 2018, has been employed at one of the largest British gambling companies – bet365 in a regulatory/international development role, working on business development, licensing and compliance;
• currently is a Head of Regulatory Affairs at Playtech – company developing gambling software established in 1999.

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About the speaker:

• marketing expert specializing on e-business;
• since 2016, he has been a Chief Policy Officer at Playtech engaged in the development of gambling software;
• is responsible for the relationships with policymakers, institutional organizations, and industry stakeholders on a global level (with the exception of Italy);
• has been the Head of Remote Gaming at Agenzia Dogane e Monopoli, Italy's gaming regulatory authority, for more than eight years;
• was a member of the European Commission’s Expert Group on Gambling Services;
• focused on marketing activity at Fondazione Musica per Roma, Euler Hermes, and Business International.

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About the speaker: 

• has been working in online gambling for more than 10 years;
• has been holding various positions at Parimatch, UB Gaming and M.S.L.;
• the founder of Quints – developer of software for affiliate marketing and analysis of the ad campaigns efficiency. Quints has been acknowledged by many awards, including the Gaming Innovation Start-up in Macao;
• the founder of SupportLAB – an outsourcing company offering a wide range of client support services.

About the speaker:  

• has been focusing on HR and recruitment at international companies engaged in IT, FinTech, petrochemistry, and energetics for more than 10 years;
• has 5 years of recruitment experience in the industry with socially negative stereotypes;
• has been involved in iGaming recruitment for over two years;
• has experience in staff selection in the CIS countries, Western and Eastern Europe, as well as in China and Turkey;
• has successfully built professional multilanguage teams in Europe and the CIS countries;
• has developed and implemented corporate training programs for customer service members and HRs;
• has designed efficient internal development programs, incentive programs, as well as programs aimed at enhancing the internal company reputation (HR branding).

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About the speaker:

• serial entrepreneur who launched his first business at 18;
• since 2007, has been participating in research projects conducted by the State Institute of Complex Technical and Economical Analysis;
• founded BETEGY in 2012 – a company working with sports analytics, licensing systems of data processing and visualization for the global companies in the betting and media sectors;
• his team has developed an automated self-learning system that can predict results of the football matches with high accuracy.

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About the speaker:

• has been working in the sales sector for corporate and commercial customers since 2011;
• Head of Sales (Russia and CIS) at -Core Labs S.A., which provides cloud and edge solutions for media business and entertainment industry;
• implements marketing programs and grows the company’s market share in the CIS;
• worked as a Field Sales Manager at Linxdatacenter, the hybrid IT infrastructure provider;
• occupied the position of Territory Account Manager CIS at Veeam Software, which specializes in software development.

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