GPI launches Global Poker Conference in Europe & the U.S.

The aim is to create an open forum capable of accommodating Industry-wide discussion, encouraging the exchange of information, and giving Poker - both as a professional global sport and as a business community - a focal point from which to grow and adopt new initiatives. 

As GPI CEO Alex Dreyfus explains, “The purpose of our twin Global Poker Conferences is to get the Poker Industry to communicate. We’re pushing it to structure itself as a cohesive Industry rather than the set of disparate initiatives it is today. Connecting them with GPI’s twin European and American Poker Awards - held in unison with our GPC conferences - is the perfect way to do this.”

Both iterations of the Global Poker Conference are set to cover topics most relevant to today’s playerbase and operators including discussions on business cases aided by expert speakers from across the world, as well as panels moderated - and geared towards - both professional and amateur Poker players alike.

Social Media best practices and novel new ways of promoting both Poker Tours and Poker Rooms are on the agenda as well. Furthermore, both conferences will represent a ‘shared’ experience, with European experts in attendance at GPC: America, and American Industry thought leaders in attendance at GPC: Europe.

Both Global Poker Conferences are set to host upwards of 100 to 150 attendees in their respective debuts. GPC: America will take place alongside the American Poker Awards on February 27th at the SLS Hotel in Beverly Hills, California. GPC: Europe will follow closely after, taking place alongside the European Poker Awards on March 25th in Malta. Both conferences are set to begin a yearly tradition, with both continents’ GPC gatherings connected the GPI’s European and American Poker Awards year over year.