20-01-2006 Electric debate on the WTO ruling

The International Gaming Conference & Expo, to be held in San Jose, Costa Rica, April 9-11, will feature an "electric debate" on the impact of the World Trade Organization ruling on cross-border gaming involving Antigua and the US.

The organizers of the event called upon Mark Mendel, the lead attorney for Antigua in the case against the US before the WTO, and renowned gaming law expert I. Nelson Rose, Professor of Law at Whittier Law School, to debate and discuss what the ruling really means for the industry.

The conference, sponsored by BetCris and World Sports Exchange among others, will also put under the spotlight the lack of a guideline within the offshore gaming jurisdictions, the future of online poker, the new products in the interactive gaming arena (including bingo, backgammon and skill games), the future of horse racing betting, the payment process (solutions and risk management), the legal and regulatory issues in the US and internationally, the new generation of IPOs and the new wawe of gaming technologies.