@pokerhawk 228774 wrote:
Is this really final?
Because if it is you guys must really love Spain and don’t give a shhhhh about other …
You have the Barcelona Affiliate Conference in September and you have the IGBEspana in Madrid in November, why not make another conference in October in Sevilla or Pamplona if you guys are so focused on Spain.Sorry but i’m really angry that there is no more focus on other parts of Europe.
Take care
Wow Big Post! Please see explanation etc. below
First the Barcelona and Madrid conferences are completely different, Madrid is an event now in its 4th year where is is completely targeted at the Spanish speaking market so all content, stands, etc is in Spanish and completely targeted at the Spainish speaking markets and is unlikely to move or change as it works and attracts 400-500 people that are focused on that market…..We also do an event like this in France in March and likely to do one in Italy too
Barcelona is a rolling conference which is international with content and stands that target all markets, similar to LAC it is a big expo and conference – Reason we went to Barcelona was because it was what the “people” wanted – See pic here https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.381905043514.161185.80091828514#!/photo.php?fbid=10150156244293515&set=a.381905043514.161185.80091828514&type=1&theater
If you want us to move it to another city and we can investigate but it isn’t as simple as you think and has zero baring on whether we like Spain or not, the three we presented in the vote was what we could get, personally I wanted Amsterdam but it wasn’t available so couldn’t be voted on
1) Needs to be in a country that is iGaming Friendly (i.e. not Germany)
2) Venue needs 5,000 sqm on one floor
3) Venue needs to be near or close to city centre
4) City needs to be reasonably easy to fly to
5) City needs to be “fun” and “appealing”
6) Venue (obviously) needs to not be hundreds of thousands
7) Venue needs to be available (harder than you think)
City needs hotels with free rooms for around 700-1,000 people available at that time
As I say just name a city and we will look into it
Oh and reason we did the vote on Buda is some key sponsors said affiliate feedback was that they won’t going to come back and although we had already booked we offered it out to the masses as we fully understand that you guys drive the event and are the backbone so it really isn’t a decision driven from internal priorities