WorldGaming Executive Open Space: Disruption
Challenging the status quo and exploring what comes next. Two hours, no agenda, no slides, and a room of senior people willing to argue in good faith off the show floor of SBC Lisbon.
Disruption is a word the industry uses loosely. The definition is tighter than the usage: significant change to an industry or market driven by innovation in technology, or a break from the normal way something operates.
On Tuesday 29 September, from 15:00 to 17:00 at the Melia Lisboa Oriente, Dan Phillips hosts an interactive Open Space session on where that break is likely to come from in gaming, and who is actually positioned to cause it. This is a working discussion. Members bring live problems, the room pulls them apart, and everyone leaves with something they did not walk in with.
On the table
A starting set of topics. Bring your own and we will make room for it.
- Look outside our industry. What can we learn from other sectors and adjacent markets?
- Challenge the global leaders. How do smaller or newer players compete with established dominance?
- Make market entry easier. Where can the journey be streamlined, and which regulatory or operational barriers are genuinely unnecessary?
- Innovate for the next generation. What will the next generation of players need, and are we building for them?
- Build your brand. How do you cut through, grow share and build recognition on a limited budget?
- People vs AI. What is the case for investing in people, skills and experience rather than defaulting to AI?
- Your challenge. Whatever is keeping you awake. Raise it and the room works on it.
Who is it for?
In short, everyone. Specifically, anyone:
- Building a brand or launching something new
- Sitting on a new product or business idea
- Running an SME and weighing up the next step
- Leading a market position that needs protecting
- Looking to challenge the way things are done
- Or who simply values a good conversation and an exchange of ideas
No fixed agenda. No slide deck. Good people, good discussion and some potentially disruptive ideas. We close with drinks, nibbles and whatever the debate has turned into by then.
About Dan Phillips
Dan has spent three decades in gaming, from the casino floor in London to C-level roles at Playtech and what is now Entain Group, across online, retail and social, in both B2B and B2C. He joined Playnetic as CEO in 2023 and now sits on the board as a Non-Executive Director. In those roles he has owned product, service and operations end to end, running large teams and P&Ls through market expansion and regulatory change. He now advises Tier 1 operators and SMEs on sports betting, iGaming and casino operations, technology, regulation, RFPs, product and people development, M&A and market entry.