LAS VEGAS, NV – The Global Gaming Expo (G2E), presented by the American Gaming Association (AGA) and organized by RX, has added a main stage session focused on the gaming industry’s response to prediction markets for Tuesday, Sept. 29.
“Collaboration both across and beyond the industry is critically important in preserving and protecting the state- and tribal-regulated gaming market, its employees, consumers, and the communities we serve,” said Bill Miller, President and CEO of the American Gaming Association. “In the midst of ‘prediction markets’’ brazen encroachment, our panel of leaders will showcase the strength of our unity.”
Miller will moderate “A United Front: Confronting Prediction Markets Together” at 1 p.m. The panel will include Gwen Mills, President of UNITE HERE; Rodney Butler, Chairman of the Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation; and Rep. Steven Horsford of Nevada.
Prediction markets have quickly evolved into one of the most significant challenges facing state and tribal gaming. As litigation unfolds and regulators debate jurisdiction, the panel will examine why unity matters, how the regulated gaming industry can align legal, political and public policy strategies and what collective action may be necessary to protect gaming, sovereignty and regulatory authority.
“UNITE HERE, the tribal gaming industry, and the commercial gaming industry are standing side-by-side in a campaign to end illegal prediction market gambling. This is a pivotal moment to come together as a coalition to face an unprecedented challenge,” said UNITE HERE’s President, Gwen Mills. “Prediction markets are threatening the livelihoods of casino workers throughout the country. Our members are casino housekeepers, bartenders, servers, cooks, and dishwashers. Together with responsible gaming employers, we have built a union standard with high wages, access to affordable health insurance, and the ability to retire with dignity. We are now united for a common goal – upholding tribal, state, and federal law and protecting jobs.”
“Nevada set the gold standard for gaming regulations. Prediction markets are gambling dressed up as innovation. They are exploiting our youth, threatening Nevada’s hospitality jobs, and gutting the integrity that keeps the gaming industry honest. That’s exactly why Nevada fought back,” said Congressman Steven Horsford. “My bipartisan Prediction Markets Are Gambling Act stops federally regulated trading platforms from hiding sports betting and casino-style gambling behind the label of ‘financial products.’ You don’t get to claim the benefits of the gaming industry without playing by its rules.”
The session joins G2E’s previously announced main stage programming. Tuesday’s schedule includes Miller’s keynote, a gaming industry CEO panel moderated by CNBC’s Contessa Brewer and a conversation with Wayne Gretzky and BetMGM’s Adam Greenblatt. On Wednesday, Global Gaming Women will host activist Elizabeth Smart for a discussion on resilience in the workplace.
