Annual Meeting

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Annual Meeting

• November 14, 2007

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Platinum Members
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Agenda

• Welcome
• Anti-trust Reminder
• GSA Orientation
• Financial Report
• Achievements
• Keynote
• Education
• Closing Remarks

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Who Are We?

• GSA is a non-profit organization established in
  May 1998
• GSA is affiliated with
• UNLV
• Australian Gaming Machine Manufacturers
  Association
• Macau Polytechnic Institute
• GSA is an international organization of gaming
  manufacturers, suppliers, operators, vendors
• Currently a total of 72 members
• GSA is funded through corporate membership dues

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Vision and Mission Statement

• Vision
• To be the leading standards forum that creates
  value by facilitating innovation and efficiencies
  for the gaming community
• Mission
• The gaming Standards Association (GSA) is an
  international trade association that creates
  benefits for gaming manufacturers, suppliers,
  operators and regulators. We facilitate the
  identification, definition, development,
  promotion and implementation of open standards to
  enable innovation, education, and communication
  for the benefit of the entire industry.
• Value
• We will operate with integrity, fairness and
  transparency
• We believe that open standards benefit our
  industry because they provide speed to market,
  innovation, value and extended useful life

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Global Membership
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Membership Composition
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Membership Growth
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2007 Board Of Directors

• Chair Lyle Bell Seminole Tribe of Florida
• Vice Chair Randy Hedrick IGT
• Secretary Don Karrer Penn National Gaming
• Treasurer Bob Sobczyk Ameristar Casinos
• Jim Morrow Aristocrat Technologies
• Ken Bossingham Atronic Americas
• Bruce Rowe Bally Technologies
• Derrik Khoo Sin Huat E-Genting Holdings
• Tim Stanley Harrahs Entertainment
• Steve Sutherland Konami Gaming
• Jon Berkley Las Vegas Gaming
• Tom Peck MGM Mirage
• Brendan OConnor Multimedia Games
• Tom Galanty Progressive Gaming
• Rob Siemasko WMS Gaming
• John Hilbert Future Logic
• Bob McKenzie MEI

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Standards
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Financial Report
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Financials 2007 Budget vs. 2006 Audited

• 2007 (budget) 2006 (audited)
• Revenues 2,056,220 2,147,836
• Expenses 2,304,075 2,051,112
• Net ( 247,855) 96,742
• Retained Earnings 172,252 420,107

Source data 2007 September financials
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Financials 2007 Projected vs. Budgeted

• 2007 (projected) 2007 (budgeted)
  Variance
• Revenues 2,146,878 2,056,220 4
• Expenses (2,044,816) (2,304,075) -11
• Net 102,062 ( 247,855) 141
• Retained Earnings 522,169 172,252
  203
• Liability ( 538,000) ( 538,000)
• Equity Liability ( 15,831) (
  365,748) 95

Source data 2007 September financials
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Expenditure Breakdown 2007
Source data 2007 September financials
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Key 2008 Goals

• S2S Standard Update
• Hire an S2S Technical Director
• Ensure a Single Toolkit for G2S Standard
• Provide a subsidized toolkit to regulators
• Drive international adoption of standards
• Partner with MPI knowledge transfer, adoption of
  standards
• Australia, South Africa adoption of standards
• Continue to support key GSA programs
• Certification
• Education (UNLV)
• Support goals through a necessary increase in
  member dues by 7
• Silver membership increase 1,400
• Gold membership increase 2,100
• Platinum membership increase 5,250

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Financials Three Years Forecast

• 2007 (projected) 2008 2009 2010
• Revenues 2,146,878 2,118,000 2,118,000 2,1
  18,000
• Expenses (2,044,816) (2,429,672)
  (2,303,377) (2,187,615)
• Net 102,062 ( 311,672) (
  185,377) ( 69,615)
• Retained Earnings
• Previous Year 420,107 522,169
  210,497 25,119
• Equity 522,169 210,497
  25,119 ( 44,496)
• Liability ( 538,000) ( 179,000)
• Liabilities Equity ( 15,831) 31,497
  25,119 ( 44,496)

Source data 2007 September financials
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Financials Three Years Forecast With Dues
Increase

• 2007 (projected) 2008 2009 2010
• Revenues 2,146,878 2,262,550 2,262,550 2,2
  62,550
• Expenses (2,044,816) (2,429,672)
  (2,303,377) (2,187,615)
• Net 102,062 ( 167,122) (
  40,827) 74,935
• Retailed Earnings
• Previous Year 420,107 522,169
  355,047 314,219
• Equity 522,169 355,047
  314,219 389,154
• Liability ( 538,000) ( 179,000)
• Liabilities Equity ( 15,831)
  176,047 314,219 389,154

Source data 2007 September financials
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Financials 2008 Budget vs. 2007 Projected

• 2008 (budget) 2007 (projected) Variance
• Revenues 2,262,550 2,146,878 5
• Expenses (2,429,672) (2,044,813) 19
• Net ( 167,122) 102,065
• Retailed Earnings
• Previous Year 522,169 420,107
• Equity 355,047 522,169
• Liability ( 179,000) ( 538,000) -67
• Liabilities Equity 176,047 (
  15,831) 1212

Source data 2007 September financials
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Expenditure Breakdown 2008
Source data 2007 September financials
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Industry Recognition

• Jan 05, 2007 Global Gaming Business
• G2S Top honors as Best Productivity- Enhancement
  Technology
• Jan 22, 2007 - IGWB
• G2S one of the top 3 gaming products of the year
• Apr 25, 2007 Casino Enterprise Management
• G2S Slot Floor Technology Award
• May 3, 2007 - UNLV
• The UNLV foundation honors Gaming Standards
  Association with membership in The Benefactor
  Society of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
• May 24, 2007 Casino Journal
• G2S Silver award in top 20 most innovative
  gaming products of the year 2006

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2007 Achievements
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2007 Achievements

• Developed a Sunset strategy for SAS
• Demonstrated GSA Standards Interoperability at
  G2E
• Developed UNLV GSA Certified Engineer Program
• Established liaisons with regulator communities
  US, South Africa, Australia, Europe
• Continued to improve standards to support
  business needs - organized operator forums and
  established Operators Advisory Committee
• Established board subcommittees (certification,
  marketing)
• Continuing development of a world-class
  certification process
• GSA has enhanced its certification program to be
  International by adopting an ISO 17025
  requirement for recognized Testing Laboratories
• International committee meetings Europe / Asia

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2007 Achievements - Technical

• GDS Standard
• The GDS Connector Standard was approved
• All the GDS peripheral device standards have been
  revised and are in the final stages of Membership
  approval
• Administrative changes
• Changes due to errors discovered during
  implementation
• Transport Standard
• The Point to Point Transport protocol was
  approved by the membership
• The Transport Committee released new versions of
  G2S and S2S WSDLs allowing developers more
  flexibility in data compression options

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2007 Achievements - Technical

• S2S Standard
• S2S version 1.2.6 was approved by the membership
• documentation improvements and enhanced
  reliability
• S2S version 1.3 was developed and released for
  Member Comments and is the final stages of
  Membership approval.
• Includes enhanced functionality for existing
  classes
• Includes 4 additional classes Bonus,
  Progressive, Pass Through and Authorization
• G2S Standard
• G2S Version 1.0.3 was approved by the committee
• Provides numerous corrections based on early
  development
• Provides the development base for current
  applications
• G2S version 1.1 is being completed and will be
  sent to sent for Member Comment in December
• Adds the Device Configuration class
• Provides numerous infrastructure improvements
  such as namespace negotiation and enhanced error
  handling

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Industry Update
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Keynote

• Jay Walker
• Walker Digital LLC

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Certified Engineer Program

• Dr. Hal Berghel
• Associate Dean Howard Hughes College of
  Engineering
• Director School of Informatics

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Certified G2S Engineers

• Mark Arnold
• Jelani Brandon
• Alan Chisholm
• Randy Graham
• Ron Gogan
• Jeff Greulich
• Georgi Kolarov
• June Light
• Chris Mitchell
• John Padgett
• Bernard Paquet
• George Pee
• Moises Prat
• Paul Ruas
• David Smiley

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Program Schedule 2008
Jan 14 Overview of the G2S Protocol GSA 010 GSA 110
Jan 15 - 18 Basic Game Play with G2S GSA 111
Jan 28 Feb 01 Advanced Topics in G2S GSA 112
Feb 12 An Executive Briefing on GSA Protocols GSA 001
Feb 13 An Executive Overview of G2S GSA 010
Feb 26 An Executive Overview of S2S GSA 020
Mar 04 An Executive Overview of Transport and Security GSA 030 GSA 130
Mar 05 - 07 Advanced Transport and Security Protocol GSA 131
Mar 10 Overview of the G2S Protocol GSA 010 GSA 110
Mar 11 - 14 Basic Game Play with G2S GSA 111
Mar 24 - 28 Advanced Topics in G2S GSA 112
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