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Advantech-Innocore is a leading global gaming supplier. The company specializes in designing and manufacturing industrial-grade computer products, displays and peripherals designed specifically for the gaming industry. A-I provides customers with off-the-shelf and customized products and services that meet the requirements for casino machines, AWPs, VLTs, multi-player games, arcade games and slot machines.

Advantech is a premier member of Intel Internet of Things (IoT) Solutions Alliance, bringing first-to-market IoT solutions to the world. As a member of the AMD Elite Partner Program, Advantech offers a wide range of AMD-based high-performance computing platforms. Advantech is also an Elite Partner of Nvidia for high-performance and long-life cycle graphics solutions.

As the gaming-focused business unit of the $2 billion Advantech Group, Advantech-Innocore stands alone among hardware suppliers in its capabilities to support customers large and small in all regions of the world.

This year Advantech celebrates 40 years of embedded and industrial computing. Since 1998 when the prototype DPX-80 products rolled off the production lines and into the hands of slot machine manufacturers, Advantech-Innocore has charted a steady course of growth as a gaming industry supplier. The company now boasts an installed base in casinos, AWPs and arcades from the U.S. and Australia to Russia, South Africa, Latin America and Eastern Europe. A-I continues to develop new products to suit the unique hardware requirements of the evolving gaming industry worldwide.

Visit Advantech-Innocore in San Diego at Indian Gaming Tradeshow & Convention, Booth 2449 to see the latest solutions.

Learn more at advantech-innocore.com.

Headquartered in Las Vegas and backed by more than 25 years of industry experience, Bluberi is an inventive company that is dedicated to developing and delivering the highest-quality casino gaming experience to players and operators.

The team is composed of seasoned, multi-talented innovators who are focused on bringing gaming to life with entertaining games and high-performing cabinets. Bluberi products are designed to add vitality to gambling and transport players to an energetic world of winning. In addition to the risk-taking spirit of gambling, the company adds imagination and innovation to everything it creates.

New ideas are the lifeblood of Bluberi, as it produces, designs, creates and executes gaming experiences that are electric and efficient. The company’s research and development acumen stems from decades of experience within the casino industry and in-depth knowledge of multiple gaming environments.

Bluberi strives to create procedures and processes that will make everything easier for customers, while consistently elevating the level of technology and vibrancy in its games and cabinets.

For more information, visit bluberi.com.

Eclipse Gaming creates entertaining gaming experiences that connect with the player. With a focus on the tribal gaming market, as well as select commercial markets, Eclipse Gaming develops engaging slot games and innovative solutions that engage the audience and deliver measurable results.

The company offers a growing library of video slot games, along with its IMPACT family of slot cabinets, including the IMPACT 49 premium portrait cabinet, IMPACT 43 portrait platform and IMPACT 27 dual-screen cabinet.

Based in Duluth, Georgia, a metro Atlanta suburb, the company has a 40,000-square-foot campus and manufacturing center. With employees across the United States, the company has doubled its employee base over the past several years and actively recruits STEAM professionals to help propel Eclipse’s growth.

Eclipse’s No. 1 mission is to generate powerful results that benefit its partners and directly impact the needs and objectives of the communities where it does business and has customers—with an overriding focus on “Going Beyond the Game.”

Eclipse will showcase 16 slot titles at IGA 2023, including its new Bandits Bounty games, Outlaws and Bandidos, plus a new Asian theme, Dragons Court Deluxe. Two new Arcade Series titles — Big Shake Carnival and Big Shake Neon — offer a unique perceived skill feature called the Rapid Fire Bonus, along with a multi-level progressive, bonus wheel and second-chance re-spins.

For more information, visit Booth 2020 and eclipsegamingsystems.com.

Everi’s mission is to lead the gaming industry through the power of people, imagination and technology. As one of the largest suppliers of technology solutions for the casino floor with an expanding focus in adjacent industries, Everi’s commitment is to continually develop products and services that provide gaming entertainment, improve patron engagement and help customers operate their businesses more efficiently.

The company develops entertaining game content and gaming machines, gaming systems and services for land-based and iGaming operators. With beginnings rooted in tribal gaming, Everi remains committed to partnering with casino operators to deliver novel entertainment experiences to their players while ensuring they generate high returns on their investment in its products.

Known for its high-performing standards across the gaming space, Everi plans to continue developing engaging player experiences and award-worthy products. Everi also prides itself on a unique online library of award-winning stepper, video slot and progressive jackpots content. The compelling and distinct Everi Digital gaming catalog is delivered through the proprietary Spark Remote Game Server and now consists of nearly 70 distinct titles, with more on the way.

Everi has helped tribal operators meet the emerging mobile ecosystem with the Digital Neighborhood, representing a complete suite of financial, casino loyalty and compliance products and services that bring commonality and continuity to operator workflows. The growth of the Digital Neighborhood and Everi Mobile suites demonstrates the company’s leadership position and highlights Everi’s ability to develop solutions that incorporate customer-centric features across loyalty, payments and casino operations.

As the preeminent provider of trusted financial technology solutions that power the casino floor, Everi positioned itself as the industry’s fintech leader and a strategic partner for forward-thinking customers. The collective goal: improving operational efficiencies and fulfilling regulatory compliance requirements. Everi’s robust collection of integrated products, services and kiosks facilitates convenient and secure financial access transactions while providing self-service player loyalty tools and applications, as well as regulatory and intelligence software.

For more information, visit everi.com.

HBG Design’s team of 100 architects, interior designers and design support professionals in Memphis, Tennessee, San Diego, California and Dallas, Texas have helped build the firm’s 44-plus-year focused specialty as a premier provider of professional services in the Indian gaming industry.

With an emphasis on cultivating personal relationships and creating memorable guest experiences, HBG has designed more than 35 million square feet of gaming/entertainment, hotel, food and beverage, spa, multi-purpose event, confer- ence and retail space, and more than 30,000 guest rooms and suites in the last two decades alone. HBG Design is nationally recognized as a Top 5 Casino Design and Hotel Design firm by Building Design & Construction and Hotel Business magazines.

March 1 marked the eagerly anticipated opening of the new 23-story hotel and large-scale expansion at Four Winds Casino Resort in South Bend, Indiana, for the Pokagon Band of Potawatomi. The resort’s transformative design by HBG offers approachable luxury, warm rustic detailing and significant references to tribal culture within a 317-key hotel tower featuring 83 suites; the new 10,500-square-foot Cedar Spa; and a large multi-purpose conference and events center. Notably, the new design offers a luxurious hospitality suite and outdoor terrace, a rooftop pool and enclosed poolside bar and lounge, all situated on the hotel’s third level.

HBG Design looks forward to celebrating the spring opening of the Tule River Tribe’s new 105,000-square-foot Eagle Mountain Casino in Porterville, California. The firm continues to advance the design of the highly anticipated Aquadome and hotel at Gun Lake Casino in Wayland, Michigan, owned and operated by the Match-E-Be-Nash-She-Wish Band of Pottawatomi Indians. The six-story Aquadome is a glass-roofed, climate-controlled, multi-functional pool and event center atrium – an entertainment oasis that will stand out in the superregional resort market for its uniqueness of form and experience.

For more information, visit hbg.design.

Since 1999, Imagine This has helped clients transform their gifting programs into robust revenue and profit generators using proven techniques, resources, data and 22 years of experience in the gaming industry. Serving more than 300 casinos with a 100 percent profitability track record, Imagine This has proven to scale casino profit through its signature Casino Continuity Program.

Imagine This works with properties of all sizes and demographics. The Casino Continuity Program consists of a four-to-five-week gift offer, which is a powerful inflation buster. Clients who are new to this type of program, as well as veterans of this marketing approach, reach towering new heights by taking advantage of the unmatched logistical capabilities, unique resources and finan- cial strength Imagine This can offer.

Imagine This is the only supplier that can scale week-over-week, month- over-month and year-over-year without missing a beat. Scaling is the No. 1 fac- tor needed to optimize clients’ revenue and profit. This is made possible through:

• Proprietary Inventory Position: Imagine This produces and controls its own inventory, rather than relying on third-party providers.
• Warehouse/Shipping Logistics: Imagine This eliminates the risk of non- delivery.
• Robust Return Policy: Clients only pay for what they use. Player satisfaction is 100 percent guaranteed along with a full 100 percent return policy they can rely on.
• Reliability: Players are assured to receive what they came in for and won’t get turned away or offered something else.
• Quality Products: Complete control over the production of the gifts man- ufactured by Imagine This factories ensures the highest perceived value.
• Vetted Gifts: Product successes are tracked to make sure only proven win- ners are offered to clients.
• Complimentary Services: Full set of complimentary services with accom- panied high-end lifestyle videos curated to get your players in the door.

Interested in taking advantage of the company’s signature Casino Continu- ity Program or complimentary services? Imagine This is ready to serve at any capacity.

Head to imaginethis.com to learn more.

For more than 30 years, casino operators have looked to Interblock for cutting-edge innovation, original style and technical perfection. Today, Interblock is the world’s leading developer and supplier of award-winning electronic table gaming products. Its multi-player gaming devices set industry standards and provide the ultimate in luxury interactive experiences.

Interblock is globally recognized in more than 234 jurisdictions for diamond-quality gaming solutions and technical support. Interblock’s exclusive collection of fully and semi- automated electronic gaming tables delivers superior product performance, innovative features and unprecedented entertainment.

For the past five years, Interblock revolved around three primary categories: stadium technology, stand-alone products and universal cabinets. In October 2022, the company unveiled a fourth product category: live electronic table game pits. In a proactive effort to increase the number of games played, reduce labor costs and payout errors, accumulate supplemental revenue and enhance security on existing live pits, Interblock’s development of live ETG pits provides casinos with the perfect solution. Featuring live dealers, advanced technology and the games of craps, roulette, blackjack and baccarat in multiple variations, live ETG pits are designed to transport existing pits into the future.

Live dealers, guided by Interblock’s dealer terminal, encourage play to triple decisions per hour, increase the house advantage/hold percentage, eliminate overpayments and provide players with an intimate, personalized gaming experience.

Looking toward the future, Interblock vows to continue revolutionizing the gaming industry, innovating with its team and identifying product categories that attract players and extend play. Through the implementation of best practices from a financial and infrastructure perspective, Interblock looks forward to building the casino floor of the future alongside loyal customers.

For more information, visit interblockgaming.com.

Since taking the first legal post-PASPA wager in 2018, Kambi has established itself as the leading independent provider of premium sports betting technology and services to the reg- ulated North American betting and gaming industry.

Kambi is the trusted partner to more than 40 operators, including betPARX, Churchill Downs Inc., Seneca, Desert Diamond Casinos, Mohegan and Rush Street Interactive. The company has a track record of offering proven excellence in online and on-property sports- books, providing operators with the high-performance technology and regulatory certainty required to grow and out-compete the market.

Kambi’s core sportsbook encompasses a broad offering, from scalable technology and odds-compiling to customer intelligence and risk management, built on and delivered through a market-leading, in-house developed sports betting platform. Through its recent acquisitions, Kambi Group offers market-leading UX and UI capabilities powered by front-end specialists Shape Games, and also is a global leader in providing esports data and odds with Abios.

Founded in 2010, Kambi has spent more than a decade focused exclusively on the sports betting vertical, building a cutting-edge and data-led turnkey product that delivers a superior user experience and provides partners with the freedom to differentiate. Today, Kambi’s services not only include an award-winning end-to-end sportsbook but also an increasingly open platform and a range of stand-alone sports betting services that enable operators to engage and excite players to build market-leading positions.

With offices in eight global locations, including its U.S. headquarters in Philadelphia, Kambi employs a growing team of more than 1,100 highly skilled employees who are experts in the fields of sports, esports and technology. Together, Kambi knows what it takes to succeed in the competitive U.S. sports betting market.

For more information, visit kambi.com.

Marker Trax is a cashless, digital alternative to casino markers. The product is the first of its kind to offer regulatory-compliant casino-marker technology that takes inefficiency out of issuing advances and gives casinos the tools to manage their casino credit underwriting and repayments.

Developed and patented in 2018 by the company’s founder, Gary Ellis, Marker Trax offers a more efficient gaming experience for players. The Marker Trax system allows players to be scored and given access to their markers in minutes.

Marker Trax integrates into casino operating systems, allowing for easy startup and player tracking.

For more information about Marker Trax, visit markertrax.com.

For more than a century, Morse Watchmans has been known as an innovator of high-quality, cost-effective security technology for enterprises.

Specializing in state-of-the-art key management, asset management, guard tour and key ring systems, Morse Watchmans delivers reliable, easy-to-use products to meet an organization’s growing security needs.

Its flagship product, the KeyWatcher Touch electronic key control system, allows gaming facilities and other industries to manage, track and store all facility keys. The KeyWatcher Touch is modular, scalable, customizable, expandable and reconfigurable, allowing customers to include lockers in the design to secure assets such as access cards, wallets, cellphones, laptops and cash trays safely and efficiently.

Program the KeyWatcher Touch to include all authorized users, assign specific keys to specific people, and add or remove users with ease, as needed. All key removal and key return transactions are recorded. Get automatic email transactional information and reports for any user at any time.

When a key return is overdue, the KeyWatcher Touch sends an alert and reports which user has that specific key. The KeyFind feature locates which KeyWatcher Touch cabinet contains a specific key, and determines who has it out. In addition, the KeyAnywhere feature enables customers to return a key to any KeyWatcher Touch cabinet located in the facility.

Every KeyWatcher Touch comes with Morse Watchmans’ patented SmartKey system to make all key control features and technology possible. When a SmartKey is inserted into the KeyWatcher Touch, an ID microchip in the SmartKey records transactional activity with user information through a SmartKey Reader. SmartKeys come in many colors for easier identification, and also can be attached to the tamper-proof KeyRings to keep groups of keys organized.

KeyWatcher Touch systems can be integrated with other access control systems for even greater security. They come with bright 7-inch touchscreens to make removing and returning keys easy. The industrial-grade steel cabinets are treated with anti-microbial powder coating.

Morse Watchmans is the original developer and global leader of electronic key control with offices in the U.S. and the U.K. and product distributors worldwide. In December 2021, Morse Watchmans was acquired by TouchPoint Inc., a privately held diversified global growth company. TouchPoint’s portfolio provides access hardware, medical technology and intelligent inventory management solutions. Morse Watchmans joins TouchPoint’s intelligent inventory management platform, positioned for exponential market growth to provide global key control and asset management solutions.

For more information, visit morsewatchmans.com.