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Global gaming conference Sydney 2006 a success

September 27, 2006 on 7:56 pm | In Australasian Gaming Conference |

As per a previous blog post, we were lucky enough to attend this years global gaming conference, held in Sydney Australia. The three days of the conference held in early September 2006 just flew by! See the official site here.

In other posts we’ve reviewed the different products on display, all sorted by manufacturer. There were almost 300 exhibitors though, so we’ll cover the major slot makers and reference other exhibitors in limited depth. The overall ratings given to each poker machine maker are very similar - this indicates a high level of quality of presence, not an inability for us to rate them properly!

You can play the pokies that are present - they all come pre-loaded with credits. Thats not what the convention is really about though - its about getting a feel for machines/brands and making deals.

The conference seemed to be primarily designed for male attendees - if the number of attractive ‘promo girls’ is any indication.

The Sydney conference in a nutshell:

City : Sydney Australia.

Venue : Darling Harbour Exhibition Centre.

Exhibitors: around 300. Huge variation in type - from the major slot makers, to ATM sellers, coin machine makers - even venue aroma specialists. The larger exhibitors were also giving out ’show bags’ which usually contained interesting trinkets and gaming machine brochures.

Attendees : many thousands by our count.

Poker machines present : several hundred.

Drinks : delicious and complementary.

Deals made at venue : there were many discussions made between attendees and exhibitors which likely will lead to huge sales.

Overall rating: 4.5 / 5 stars. Organisation was excellent. Design and layout were superb. There were simply no glitches. Everything ran smoothly. Even the queue to obtain entry badges was orderly and processed efficiently.

The addition of extra seating around the bars may be helpful in future years (though the drinks bill might go up a bit!).

Next years conference is at the end of August 2007, and we’re already pre-registered. There is also a larger exhibition held annually in Las Vegas. Thats being held in October 2006 and we’re going to miss it (no invite as yet!), but we have every intention of attending the 2007 Las Vegas conference and you’ll see all the juicy details here afterwards.

Until next year…

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