The All India Gaming Federation (AIGF) is geared up to perform a key role in the upcoming SBC Digital India conference & exhibition. AIGF’s senior team will join an esteemed line-up of speakers who will share highly useful information pertaining to the opportunities in India’s real-money gaming market.

The AIGF represents the major players in the Indian online skill games industry in discussions with national & state governments and has moreover formulated a self-regulatory charter for rummy, poker, fantasy sports, casual games & esports operators.

AIGF CEO Roland Landers & General Secretary Sunil Krishnamurthy will use SBC Digital India’s keynote to portray the potential of India’s skills games industry & to detail the AIGF’s work, while advisory panel member Christina Thakor-Rankin will participate in a conference session regarding the future of fantasy sports.

The online event on 27–28 January will witness a multitude of company founders & other senior executives from AIGF members share their insights & ideas with an audience consisting of the local industry as well as global operators.

The theme of opening day’s agenda of the event is sports, which comprises panels regarding the next steps for India’s 90 million-player online fantasy sports market, what a regulated sports betting industry could imply for cricket, the new generation of esports players & the utilisation of brand ambassadors by gaming companies.

The esteemed speaker line-up for day one comprises Dinesh Kruplani (Founder & CEO, Crustplay), Mukul Anand (Head of Product, FanFight), Suresh Paladugu (Director, NorthAlley), Seemant Shankar (Co-Founder & CTO, Sports Unity), Vidushpat Singhania (Managing Partner, Krida Legal), Sanupam Samantray (Co-Founder, Playtonia) and Laxmi Khanolkar (Co-Founder & CEO, Apar Games).

Shankar said: “Digital gaming has grown exponentially over the last five years. The ongoing pandemic is bringing an increased focus on how consumers are shifting to gaming as their primary platform not only for entertainment but also for the largely lacking human connection.”

“SBC Digital India is where the heavyweights of the gaming industry in the country will come together to share their experiences of the challenges and ideas for the road ahead to a brighter future in real-money gaming.”

Day 2 will see a shift of theme from sports to skill gaming. The agenda for Day 2 will consist of sessions on the possibility of more states allowing land-based casinos, the legal battles confronting the online skill games industry, the growth potential of poker operators & investment opportunities for European operators.

Day 2’s speaker lineup comprises an assortment of leaders from some of India’s most successful gaming companies, including Pariekshit Maadishetti, the founder of Grid Logic Group & the event’s title sponsor Taj Rummy.

He will be accompanied by local-market experts like Manoj Jain (Senior Vice-President, Delta Corp), Yashashvi Takallapalli (Co-Founder, NostraGamus), Debashish Bhattacharjee (Co-Founder & CMO, Pocket52), Sudhir Kamath (CEO & Co-Founder, 9Stacks), Anuj Gupta (Founder, Adda52.com) & Kinshuk Sunil (Founder, Hashstash).

Sunil said: “Online gaming is growing rapidly in India. As an industry which is now self-regulating and enables its millions of users to play and earn real money, conferences like SBC Digital India are great opportunities to bring the industry together and have meaningful discussions about the road ahead.”