The organisers of some of the largest events for affiliates in the iGaming industry iGB Affiliate have revealed that the entire exhibition space that is available to participants in the upcoming 2017 edition of the London Affiliate Conference (LAC), as well for the Financial Partners Expo (FPE) has been already booked. This is a new record for the event, which was one of the most attended events in the industry this year.
The head of the Business Development division of the iGaming James King commented on the announcement made, saying that everyone at the company is very happy with the great support and rising interest of both sponsors and exhibitors to their London event. According to him, the interest towards the 2017 event has been unprecedented so far, which on the other hand came as an indicator of the industry’s strength and continuous growth.
Mr. King also revealed that the organisers did not want to freeze registrations to the companies that would like to take part in the event, despite the fact that the exhibition space had already been booked up. He explained that the team of iGB Affiliate had several branding opportunities that were still available in case that a certain company would like to be involved in the 2017 London Affiliate Conference.
As iGB Affiliate have informed, the floor space provided for the Conference has been already booked by the participants, regardless of the fact that the organisers have moved the event from the Olympia Hall where its previous home was, to the larger ExCel in order to meet the increasing interest to the Conference and the surging number of participants who have expressed their desire to join in.
The London Affiliate Conference is to take place right after ICE Totally Gaming show, in the period from February 9th to February 12th, 2017. Earlier this year, the organisers from iGB Affiliate have announced that thy expected more than 5,000 delegates from all over the world. According to the organisers, this would be a 10% increase of the participants who joined the 2016 edition of the Conference at the Olympia Hall.
Since the inaugural LAC event almost a decade ago, the interest towards the Conference has been constantly rising. In 2007, when the first event took place, there were only 600 delegates. In 2016, their number rose to 4,555, and as mentioned above, they are expected to be even more in 2017.
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Daniel Williams
