Inside AGE 2022

austgamingexpo.com | #1 AUG 2022 | INSIDE AGE | 55 Inside AGE: It’s now three years since the industry last came together for AGE. How important is the return of the show for IGT? Dallas Orchard: For the industry I think it’s important. I sit on the board of GTA and AGE is our big trade show and our big event. I think the whole industry needs it just to get everyone back together, give people that confidence that’s been missing these last couple of years and to allow people to meet face-to- face again. From an IGT perspective, it’s just as important. We’ve done a lot of work these past 18 months to really turn the company around in Asia-Pacific, particularly focussed on the Australian market, and we’re really keen to show people what we’ve done. We see this as the beginning of a new era for IGT in Asia-Pacific with the new types of games, the new strategy and the additional systems functionality we’ve developed. We are very excited about it. AGE : What can exh i b i tor s expect from IGT at this year’s show? DO: For starters, IGT is focused on being much more strategic across the board and using our global scale with a local focus. So from a systems perspective we’ve been winning a lot of business with Advantage in