St. Julian's, Malta · Startup Casumo is a Malta-based online casino and gaming company known for its gamification-driven approach to iGaming, blending adventure-style progression mechanics with traditional casino and sports betting products. Founded in 2012 by Swedish entrepreneurs who established operations in Malta to leverage the island's regulated gaming jurisdiction, Casumo holds licenses from the MGA, UKGC, and other European regulators. The company has built a strong brand around player engagement and UX innovation in a highly competitive market, employing hundreds of people in Malta and serving players across multiple European markets.
Dubai, AE · Event Organisator Conversion Club (registered as CONVERSION EVENTS AND CONFERENCES-FZCO) is a Dubai-based event organization founded around 2019 that specializes in affiliate and performance marketing conferences. The organization runs the Conversion Conf series of major events across Europe, including editions in Warsaw, Limassol, and Kyiv, and has hosted over 50 events for a community of more than 30,000 marketers worldwide. Its portfolio spans verticals including iGaming, Finance, eCommerce, Nutra, and Dating, earning it recognition as Event Agency of the Year in 2025.
Hong Kong, Hong Kong · Event Organisator Eventus International is a global summit and exhibition company specializing in gaming and iGaming conferences across emerging and established markets worldwide. Led by founder and CEO Yudi Soetjiptadi and COO Lou-Mari Burnett, the company delivers senior-level, C-suite-focused events connecting studio heads, operators, regulators, and technology providers. Their portfolio spans multiple continents and includes regional SPiCE series events across Asia and the Middle East, the LiGA Summit in Latin America, and specialist events such as the iGaming Studio Summit in Riga, Latvia. The company maintains registered offices in Hong Kong and South Africa and serves the global gaming sector.
Tbilisi, Georgia · Person Giorgi Gvenetadze is the COO of Flutter CEE, the Central and Eastern European division of Flutter Entertainment, one of the world's largest publicly traded online gambling companies with a market capitalisation exceeding $30 billion. In his role he oversees operational expansion across high-growth markets in Eastern Europe and Central Asia, navigating regulatory complexity and building local infrastructure. He is a regular speaker at major iGaming industry conferences including SBC Summit Tbilisi, where he addresses regional market entry strategies and sustainable growth.
Tbilisi, Georgia · Person Irakli Davarashvili is the CEO and Founder of Promofy, an AI-driven gamification and player retention platform for the iGaming industry, which won gold at Pitch ICE 2026 in Barcelona. With 12 years of experience in iGaming, he has worked with major casino brands to develop player engagement and retention strategies using AI-powered personalisation and free-to-play mechanics. Promofy is based in Tbilisi and has expanded its operations into Latin America and other emerging markets.
Sliema, Malta · Startup Octoplay (trading as Gameshop Limited) is a Malta-based B2B iGaming slot game developer founded in October 2022 by former Evolution Gaming executives. The company builds and supplies online slot titles through its own Remote Gaming Server (RGS) and holds licences from the Malta Gaming Authority, the UK Gambling Commission, and several other regulators. Its portfolio includes over 70 slot and 'smash' game titles.
Lisbon, Portugal · Event Organisator SBC (Sports Betting Community) is a global media and events company organising large-scale gaming, betting and igaming-technology conferences. Its SBC Summit in Lisbon is one of Europe's biggest industry gatherings, bringing together operators, suppliers, payments and technology companies for exhibitions, conference tracks and networking.
London, United Kingdom · Event Organisator SBC Events (Sports Betting Community) is a leading organiser of international conferences and exhibitions for the sports betting and gaming industries, founded by Rasmus Sojmark in 2009 and headquartered in London. The company runs flagship events including SBC Summit Barcelona, SBC Summit Malta, SBC Summit Tbilisi, and events across the Americas and Asia, bringing together senior executives from betting, gaming, affiliates, technology, and sports media. SBC also operates media channels and advisory services, making it one of the most prominent event and media companies in the global iGaming sector.
Lisbon, Portugal · Event SBC Summit is Europe's largest gaming, igaming and sports-betting industry conference, hosted across the Feira Internacional de Lisboa and MEO Arena in Lisbon's Parque das Nações. It convenes thousands of operators, technology suppliers, payments providers and investors for exhibitions, conference tracks, a startup and investment angle, and large-scale networking.
Tbilisi, Georgia · Event Organisator SMH Global (Sports Media Holding) is a Tbilisi-based company operating at the intersection of sports, media, and iGaming across Eurasia, founded by Lasha Machavariani. The company is the exclusive integral partner of Setanta Sports across 15 countries and co-organises the SBC Summit Tbilisi alongside SBC Events. SMH Global also provides advisory, M&A, market entry, and regulatory services to operators and sports brands, and manages athletes and sports federations across Eastern Europe and Central Asia.
St. Julian's, Malta · Startup Tipico is one of the largest sports-betting groups in Europe, headquartered in Malta with major technology and operations teams on the island and a footprint that spans Germany, Austria, Croatia, Colombia, and (via Tipico US) a growing US presence following a merger agreement with another US operator. Originally founded in Germany in 2004 by Dieter Pawlik and Philip Wessels, the company relocated its group holding and core tech organization to Malta to take advantage of the MGA's multi-jurisdictional licensing framework, which lets Tipico run a single platform across many regulated markets. Tipico's Malta operation builds the trading engine, pricing models, risk-management systems, retail POS network, and mobile apps that process billions of euros in annual betting volume, and the company is today one of the island's largest single private-sector tech employers. It is an anchor example of how Malta's regulatory and talent setup supports very large-scale gaming technology organizations.