ISAGA is a professional association for students, teachers, trainers, researchers, practitioners and other professionals. Its aim is to promote gaming simulation methods, including research, consulting, learning and teaching methods, such as traditional business and management simulation games, policy exercises, computer simulations and computer-supported simulation games, role play, learning games, scenarios, dynamic case studies, experiential learning activities, business-theatre, etc..

Higher education reform, harmonization, and developing new teachers are key issues of AEC. To celebrate Thaisim's 10th anniversary and to appreciate half century legend of ISAGA, we planned this conference as an opportunity to exchange the wisdom from many countries. We will discuss the future of Simulation & Gaming, ISAGA, people, and learners together. Everyone is welcome to discover the future; so come, let's gather in Thailand!!!

International Gambling Conference 2018 12-14 February 2018 Auckland, New Zealand Flipping the iceberg on gambling harm, mental health and co-existing issues. The 2018 Responsible Gaming Association of New Mexico’s 22nd annual problem gambling conference will be held on Thursday and Friday, August 9-10, 2018 from 8:00am to 4:30pm each day. The event will be at Isleta Resort and Casino in Albuquerque. This year’s conference title is “Empowering Treatment with New Research Findings”.

a. Design of S&G (Simulation Gaming) board, card, and other formats and approaches

b. Facilitation & debriefing of S&G

c. S&G to test and develop theories in different social and other domains

d. S&G for practical design of environmental, social, industrial, political issue.

e. S&G for crisis management, risk management, and natural disaster management

f. S&G applications in language, communication, science, history, business management, logistics, supply chain, and other disciplines

g. S&G in active learning, experiential learning, skill development, and learning outcomes

h. Applications of S&G in computer-assisted, internet-based, AI-based, and other cutting-edge technological platforms

i. Experiences in using S&G in South East Asia region

j. Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality, and Mixed Reality for S&G

12 September 2018 - Conference day 2

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08.00 - 09.30 Welcome and official opening

• Graham White, chairman of the European Association for the Study of Gambling, the Netherlands
• Heathcliff Farrugia, CEO Malta Gaming Authority, Malta
• Silvio Schembri, Minister, Malta (Video Message)

09.30 - 11.00 What’s new? What position has the Industry? And the regulator?

Moderator: Graham White, chairman of the European Association for the study of Gambling, the Netherlands

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• Graham White, chairman of the European Association for the Study of Gambling, the Netherlands
• Birgitte Sand, IAGR Trustee & Patron, Denmark

11.30 - 12.30 InBrief: What’s new in the research arena? Who has a Vision?

Moderator: Pieter Remmers, Assissa Consultancy Europe, the Netherlands

• Got game? Taking stock of 50 years of research in product-related risk and looking ahead beyond 2020
  Jonathan Parke, Sophro Ltd, United Kingdom
• Artificial Intelligence and gambling research: Progressing from tracking behaviour today to designing safety into the product in the future
  Christian Percy and Simo Dragicevic United Kingdom

13.45 - 15.25 Parallel Sessions

Session 1 - Responsible Gaming Strategy and Politics

• Beyond Reno II: Who cares for vulnerable gamblers?
  Gerhard Bühringer, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany
• Considering co-occurring disorders in gambling disorder: Implications for prevention, treatment and responsible gambling
  Marc N. Potenza, Yale University, School of Medicine, USA
• Improving strategies in Responsible Gaming Programs: its complete implementation in the Province of Neuquén, Argentina
  Julio Ángel Brizuela and Propuesta Cia-Brizuela, APAL Section of Pathological
• The recent evolution of the Belgian gambling landscape
  Roland Louski, Loterie Nationale, Belgium
• Responsible Gambling Strategy Board - overview of research programme
  Tim Livesley, Responsible Gambling Strategy Board, United Kingdom

Session 2 - Focus on Research, Gambling and Harm

• A new instrument for measuring gambling participation
  Rachel Volberg, University of Massachusetts, USA
• A comparative analysis of Canadian University policies towards alcohol, drugs and gambling use
  Loredana Marchica, McGill University, Canada
• “It never rally ends” - A qualitative study of everyday life and living conditions in families of problem gamblers
  Trude Klevan, University of South-Eastern Norway, Norway and Vibeke Krane, University of South-Eastern Norway, Norway and Bente Weimand, Akerhus University Hospital, Norway
• The future need for harm minimisation and gambling counselling for the Arabic-speaking community in Sydney, Australia: An exploration of Socio-Economic Indexes for Areas (SEIFA) from Australian Census 2016
  Keis Ohtsuka, Victoria University, Australia
• Advances in Quebec public health & gambling studies: naming harms, measuring impacts, targeting environments
  Elisabeth Papineau, Instituté national de santé publique du Québec, Canada

Session 3 - Regulators and Economics

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• Ideas from Behavioural Economics for Responsible Gambling
  Douglas Walker, College of Charleston, USA
• Regulation of cross border gambling
  Václav Ulrich and Jan Řehola, Faculty of Law of Charles University, Czech Republic
• How should gambling machines be taxed?
  Leighton Vaughan Williams, Nottingham Trent University, United Kingdom
• The Licenses of the Gaming Industry in Macao: Overview and Improvement
  Changbin Wang, Macao Polytechnic Institute, China

• Tax incidence of gambling: Evidence from the Finnish gambling market
  Tomi Roukka, National Institute for Health and Welfare/University of Turku, Finland

Session 4 - Automated Identification: Self-exclusion and what’s next? The industry involved

• Automated identification of possible problem behaviour in online gambling matching expert assessment
  Elisabeth Crone Linding, Danske Spil and Kim Mouridsen, Midway AI, Denmark
• Raising Standards in compliance: Can Artificial Intelligence help industry stay one step ahead of criminal spenders in online gambling?
  Simo Dragicevic, Playtech, United Kingdom
• The long-term effects of a real-time loss-limit reminder at Norsk Tipping
  Michael Auer, Neccton, Austria
• Responsible gambling in practice: a case study of views and practices of Swedish oriented gambling companies
  David Forsström, Department of Public Health Sciences, Sweden
• Collaborative Innovation Identifying good practice and inspiring change
  Jenny Holland, GambleAware, United Kingdom

Session 5 - (Preventing) Gambling Harm

• From the Slots to the Bottle: A Mixed-Method Study of Addiction Substitution among Recovered Gamblers
  Hyoun Kim, University of Calgary, Canada
• Gambling-related harm
  Alexander Blaszczynski, University of Sydney, Australia
• GAME-BLING: When gaming meets gambling
  Mina Hazar and Adela Colhon, YMCA of Greater Toronto, Canada

• 'The law itself doesn't change things'. The local prevention of gambling-related harms after the Act on organizing alcohol, tobacco, drugs and gambling prevention
  Jani Selin, National Institute for Health and Welfare, Finland

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Session 6 - (Socio-)economic costs

• Gambling expenditure in Finland - who contributes the most to the profits of the gambling industry?
  Anne Salonen, National Institute for Health and Welfare, Finland
• Social costs of Gambling in Italy
  Fabio Lucchini, FeDerSerD (Italian Federation of Workers of the Addiction Departments and Services), Italy
• Venezuelan Socio-Economic crisis and its impact on Gambling
  César A. Sanchez Bello, Seccion Juego Patologico (APAL), Venezuela
• Is slot machine density highest in socioeconomically disadvantaged areas in Finland?
  Susanna Raisamo, National Institute for Health and Welfare, Finland

• Two Disasters and the Future of Las Vegas Gaming: Shootings at the Mandalay and the Fall of Steve Wynn
  William Thompson, University Nevada, USA

15.55 - 17.15 Parallel Sessions

Session 1 -State of the Art in the Practices of Responsible Gaming

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• Experiences from proactive responsible gambling communication
  Judith Torstensson, Svenska Spel, Sweden
• Effects of wagering advertisements and inducements on betting behaviour
  Nerilee Hing, CQUniversity, Australia
• Bring Responsible Gaming to Retail
  Jesse Saccoccio, IGT, Italy
• The Relationship between Exclusions from Gambling Arcades and Accessibility: Evidence from a newly introduced exclusion program in Hesse, Germany
  Tanja Strohäker, University of Hohenheim, Germany

Session 2 - The Netherlands Gaming Authority

Seminar: The Tulips are Growing

Session 3 - Focus on Women

• Never too old, never old enough… Gambling-related problems among older adults: risk factors and experimental treatment with focus on Women
  Fulvia Prever, SUN(N)COOP & ALEA, Italy
• Identifying help-seeking behaviours among women gamblers: a cross-sectional population survey from Quebec, Canada
  Adѐle Morvannou, Concordia University, Canada
• Exploring experiences of violence amongst women with gambling disorder
  Fulvia Prever, SUN(N)COOP & ALEA, Italy
• Mixed model of care and gender differences
  Adele Duncan, Gordon Moody Association, United Kingdom

Session 4 - Treatment of Problem Gaming

• Developing an on online treatment program for problem gambling
  Nigel Turner, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Canada
• The impact of therapeutic contract and CBT treatment in gambling disorder: A pilot study
  Pedro Hubert, IAJ - Instituto Apoio Jagador, Portugal
• Problem gambling, craving and hypnosis
  Stephanie Lienard, Private practise / Addiction Treatment Center, France
• Pharmacological Treatment of Pathological Gambling with Oxcarbazepine (Trileptal)
  Viorel Lupu, Luliu Hatieganu University of Medicine and Pharmacy Cluj Napoca, Romania
• ORTHOS intensive residential treatment for pathological gamblers: Outcomes after 10 years of the experimental project
  Riccardo Zerbetto, Orthos, Italy

Session 5 - Gambling Regulations

• The Italian Gaming Machines and Gambling Regulated Market 15 years later: keynotes for further market implementation towards the players safety
  Emmanuele Cangianelli, MAG, Italy
• New Malta Gaming Regulatory Framework
  Olga Finkel, WH Partners, Malta
• Casino Anti-money laundering Rules and Procedures in Macao
  Carlos Siu Lam, Macao Polytechnic Institute, China
• Illegal online sports betting machines in the Netherlands
  Toine Spapens, Tilburg University, the Netherlands

Session 6 - What’s in games and Solutions?

• Merging game design features and player behaviour risk markers: What can we learn?
  Christian Percy, Playtech, United Kingdom
• Daily Fantasy Sports, Social Casino Games, and Ethnic Differences in Gambling Behaviours: Results from a State-wide Prevalence Study
  Lia Nower and Devin Mills, Rutgers University, USA
• In-play sports betting a scoping study
  Elizabeth A. Killick, Nottingham Trent University, United Kingdom

• The game of Kinzo: gamblers reported perceptions, paths and behaviours
  Serge Sevigny, Université Laval, Canada