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2006 - Year of Implementation and Value Creation!
2006 Annual Meeting
Good Things Happen When We All Pull Together
2006 Annual Meeting
2006 - Year of Implementation and Value Creation!
2006 Annual Meeting
Agenda
Welcome (9:00am – 10:00am)
Antitrust Reminder
Financial Report / Review 2006 Budget
Achievements 2006
Keynote Speaker (9:20am – 9:40am)
Tom Peck, SVP & CIO, MGM MIRAGE
"The Impact of Standards on Operations"
Member Recognition
Closing Remarks
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Antitrust Reminder
 GSA has strict antitrust guidelines that its Board and
members adhere to. A copy of the guidelines is included in
the handouts.
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Membership Growth
80
76
70
70
Members
60
71
59
Gold
50
Silver
40
38
35
37
30
Others
Total
22
20
10
Platinum
8
0
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Year
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2006 Board Of Directors
Chair
Vice Chair
Secretary
Treasurer
Lyle Bell
Randy Hedrick
Moti Vyas
Fred Lychock
Robert Marnell
Ken Bossingham
Mark Lipparelli
Derrik Khoo
Ken Weil
Steve Sutherland
Brendan O’Connor
Don Karrer
Tom Galanty
Jon Berkley
Rob Siemasko
Seminole Tribe of Florida
IGT
Viejas Casino
R. Franco USA
Aristocrat Technologies
Atronic Americas
Bally Technologies
E-Genting
Harrah’s Entertainment
Konami Gaming
Multimedia Games
Penn National Gaming
Progressive Gaming
TransAct Technologies
WMS Gaming
John Hilbert
Bob McKenzie
Tom Peck
Ron Harris
Future Logic
MEI
MGM Mirage
Rocket Gaming Systems
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Financial Report
Financials: 2006 Budget vs. 2005 Audited
2006 (budget)
2005 (audited)
Revenues
$1,902,640
$1,635,010
Expenses
$1,882,882
$1,579,351
Retained Earnings
$ 333,142
$ 323,384
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2006 Financials: Projection / Budget
2006 (projected)
2006 (budgeted)
Revenues
$2,103,440
$1,902,640
11%
Expenses
$2,002,987
$1,892,882
6%
Retained Earnings $ 423,837
$ 333,142
27%
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Variance
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Expenditure Breakdown
Technical Development
31%
Operational
45%
Training
8%
Certification
6%
Tradeshow and M eetings
4%
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M arketing
6%
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2006 Achievements
The Road to Open Standards
 Industry Support for G2S
 BOB/SSAS Integration (G2S) effort – since Oct 2005 there were 100+
meetings, 3 times a week, 31 industry experts, resulted into a 1200+
pages
 Revised GSA Patent Policy
 Old policy had strict penalty provision for non-disclosure > over
disclosure
 Patents will be licensed under Reasonable Terms and Conditions
 Committee Charters have been updated to define scope
 Members must choose to ‘Opt-in’ to committee participation
 Only ‘Necessary Patents’ must be disclosed
 Board Strategic Focus
 GSA Staff and Member Volunteer Effort
 Technical Director hired - Marc McDermott
(ex chief of the electronic services division of the state of NV Gaming Control Board)
 Total of 7,700+ hours of conference calls
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Technology
 G2S – Game To System Standard
 G2S v1.0 - December 2006 (Vote)
 Transport Standard
 Multicast v1.0 – Available NOW
 Point-to Point v1.0 – November 2006 (Comments)
 S2S - System to System Standard
 S2S v1.2 – Available NOW
 GDS - Gaming Device Standard
 Note Acceptor, Touch Screen, Printer, Page Description Language,
Magnetic Card Reader - Available NOW
 Certification
 Profiles Development underway
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Implementation
 G2S
 Demonstrations of the standard by GSA members at G2E
 S2S
 Choctaw Casino Durant - Choctaw Tribe of Oklahoma
 Hard Rock Casino - Seminole Tribe of Florida
 Toolkits
 GSA encourages 3rd party toolkit developers
 International Community
 Australia: AGMMA recommends GSA’s G2S as the protocol standard
for New South Wales
 Russia: Exploring the use of GSA’s GAT as a standard
 Regulations
 Nevada regulations for downloadable software facilitate G2S
implementation
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Certification and Education
 Certification
 Development of On-line Certification Program
 GSA issues GSA SAS certificates
 The Open Group chosen as Certification Authority
 Education
 GSA provides grant of $900,000 to the UNLV Foundation
 Assistant Professors in Informatics are actively being recruited
 UNLV and GSA will develop academic / educational track on GSA
standards and technology
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Tom Peck
SVP & CIO - MGM MIRAGE
"The Impact of Standards on Operations"
GSA … The Right Thing to Do!
G2S, S2S, GDS, Transport, …
Reinvest Capital & Speed to Market
“GSA Facilitates the Identification, Definition,
Development, Promotion and Implementation of Open
Standards to Enable Innovation, Education, and
Communication for the Benefit of the Entire Industry.”
Develop Bench of Talent; Supportability; SDKs
Sharing of Data; Interoperability; Same “Language”
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An Operator’s View
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An Operator’s View
Lost Sales
Lost Marketing
Higher Costs
Ties up Capital
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An Operator’s View
Complexity
Multiple Servers
Extra Staff
Ties up Resources
Consumes Capital
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An Operator’s View
Lengthy Development … Testing … Regulatory Process = Hinders Agility & Speed
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Benefits of Standardization
“The world is getting smaller … hardware, software, and
content must move irrespective of boundaries & borders …
the need for commonality and standards grows.”
CEO of Major Technology Company
What this also means to our guests …
… the Las Vegas strip is getting “smaller”
… technology, games, devices must be transparent
… they want their games / options anytime, anywhere
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Benefits of Standardization
• Data must be consistent, accurate, available and shared
• Speed to market … differences sometimes paralyzes momentum
• Faster migration paths … adapt to meet business needs / trends
• Innovate … as technology moves forward, users get more benefit
• Standards expand the marketplace … the pie gets bigger
• Integrate the entire ecosystem … foster price competition … choose on
value and end-to-end experience
• Drives down TCO … allows for reinvestment
• We want product-rich AND customer-centric
• Draw professional service organizations in … integrators and ASPs
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Hospitality and Gaming 2010
• Brand is more powerful than location for hotel choice
• Brand is driven by experience
• Technology helps drive experiences … guests want consistency
• Corporate brands are replaced by more specific brands
• China, India and the Gulf Nations will add 1.4MM branded rooms
• “Machines” are replacing employee-customer interactions
• Customer segmentation … manage the multi-channel experience
• Personas (goals, attitudes, behaviors) drive customer desires
• Sell Experiences … NOT Products
• Stop selling standalone devices … consumers want end-to-end control
• Buying stand-alone products fails to capture downstream products, services
and content
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Boundary less Partnership
Operators
Manufacturers
Suppliers
For the Good of All!
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GSA 2007 / Recognition
Our Focus in 2007
Certification
Education
Global Support
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Association Recognition
GSA Members
Atronic Systems – 5 Year Membership
Fred Lychock – Longest Serving Board Member
Christine Freytag – Project Manager
Michelle Olesiejuk – Executive Director
Jeana Hines – Technical Communication Consultant
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Closing Remarks
Q&A
Our Platinum Members
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