Programme
Plenary sessions - The first keynote speakers announced.
Daniel King
Talk - Gambling-gaming convergence : The public health dimensions of digital game monetisation
Associate Professor (Research) and clinical psychologist in the College of Education, Psychology, & Social Work at Flinders University, Australia. His expertise is the study of digital technology-based problems, with a focus on online gaming and simulated gambling. He has authored over 250 peer-reviewed publications, including a book on gaming disorder ("Internet Gaming Disorder: Theory, Assessment, Treatment, and Prevention").
Virve Marrioneau
Talk - Challenges and opportunities in regulating digital gambling
Director of the Centre for Research on Addiction, Control, and Governance at the University of Helsinki. She focuses her research on gambling harms, the regulation of gambling, and digital gambling environments.
Charles Livingstone
Talk - Reconstructing gambling research, and policy, for the 2030s : Preventing and reducing global gambling harm
Associate Professor in the School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University, Australia. He is head of the Gambling and Social Determinants unit in SPHPM, and teaches health policy and health politics. He has research degrees in economics and social theory. His research priorities focus on critical gambling studies, including gambling policy reform and the politics, regulation and social impacts of gambling. He is a Commissioner for the Lancet Public Health Commission on Gambling, and a member of the WHO expert advisory group on gambling.