Can AI Replace Casino Analysts? A Real-World Test of ChatGPT’s Market Forecasting Skills
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Can AI Replace Casino Analysts? A Real-World Test of ChatGPT’s Market Forecasting Skills

Life moves pretty fast, but sometimes we need to slow it down a bit.  You’re doing that right now by reading this blog post.  The world of AI, or the world which AI is creating, is developing at break-neck speed.  The capabilities of AI are growing and increasing so fast that even those actively trying…

Omni-Channel (and Online Casino) Gaming
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Omni-Channel (and Online Casino) Gaming

I was recently asked to speak on a panel during the Digital Play Summit at the Indian Gaming Association Tradeshow and Convention on the topic of Omni-Channel gaming (offering online casino games in addition to bricks and mortar), and how shifting consumer behaviors are reshaping gaming. Interesting and timely topic (check), highly successful and impressive…

G2E Presentation: Demographic and Psychographic Analytics
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G2E Presentation: Demographic and Psychographic Analytics

On Thursday, October 17, 2019, Convergence Strategy Group Managing Partner Suzanne Leckert and Tribal Gaming Services’ Joseph Witterschein led a discussion on Understanding Your Customers Through Demographic and Psychographic Analytics at the Global Gaming Expo in Las Vegas, Nevada.  This important event for the gaming industry attracted nearly 30,000 attendees, including commercial and tribal casino…

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Life-Long Learning (or what I’ve learned recently)

Keeping up with the latest research, trends, and technology can be exhausting in any industry.  From time to time, I am guilty of allowing myself to get so busy with work, that continuing education is put on the back burner.  However, I’ve managed to fit in some really interesting in-person and online training courses over…

Traffic Patterns and their Impact on Project Success
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Traffic Patterns and their Impact on Project Success

As real estate professionals have repeated for years, “location, location, location”.  When our clients begin the process of planning large and small-scale development projects, the location is generally a given.  A parcel may already be owned, and our client wishes to utilize it to its fullest, or a small number of parcels are being considered…

Opportunities in Sports Betting: Part 2
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Opportunities in Sports Betting: Part 2

We live in an age where data are abundant.  This abundance allows analysts such as me the ability to delve deeper than ever before into markets, and to more fully understand their potential.  With the spread of sports betting in the United States, it can be helpful for legislators, investors, developers, operators, sports teams, and…