June 25, 2009

Istanbul results - You have still time to take the query!

It was nice to meet you in Istanbul! We thank you for visiting the Northern Light booth and answering the EL 2011 Query. We got a total of 140 replies. Each respondent contributed valuably to the preparation of the EL 2011 in Helsinki. We are still eager to hear your ideas for EL 2011. Please take the query, if you have not done so yet. Why don't you ask your colleagues to take the query, too?

“What is the future going to look like for lotteries?”, many of you wondered. The overwhelmingly most popular theme was “Future scenarios” with 74 votes. The hands-on approach and relevant business cases also proved popular: “Best practices” received the second most votes, totalling 48. After these two topics, the vote ended in a tight draw between “Multi-jurisdictional games”, “Game creation”, “Business growth sectors”, “Effective marketing” and “Facing competition”.

All in all, you recommended a broad scope in congress development, yet at the same time suggested that we should keep things firmly together. “Casual”, “engaging” and “innovative” - those were some of the key words you came up with.Encouraged by these inspiring results, we'd like to keep hearing from you on the road to the EL 2011. Please check back regularly!

The query will be open until the end of this year. We would like everyone in the lottery community to take it, so if you or some of your colleagues didn’t take it in Istanbul, please share your ideas with us by filling it out right now!

"Have an open forum for anyone to express ideas on the market."

"Speakers that are out of the box and tell about issues that really concern the industry."

"We have to share scenarios."

"Organizing interactive workshops to share more experiences between lotteries."

"Make very task oriented break outs."

"Keep keynote speakers relevant to gaming."

"I would like to see and hear the views of leaders from the most successful lotteries."

"Outside speaker talking about real issues in this industry."

"Give real life case studies from the lottery environment."

"...platform to make contact with each other, make appointments etc..."

"Make networking easy."

"Promote interactivity in working sessions between audience and speakers."

"Suggest lotteries to bring operational staff.."

"... to put attention on the future instead of talking about the past..."

"Casual theme, business attire is so 80´s!!!"

"The speakers are the very most important."