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2006 Annual Meeting
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Agenda

• Welcome (900am 1000am)
• Antitrust Reminder
• Financial Report / Review 2006 Budget
• Achievements 2006
• Keynote Speaker (920am 940am)
• Tom Peck, SVP CIO, MGM MIRAGE"The Impact of
  Standards on Operations"
• Member Recognition
• Closing Remarks

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Antitrust Reminder

• GSA has strict antitrust guidelines that its
  Board and members adhere to. A copy of the
  guidelines is included in the handouts.

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Membership Growth
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2006 Board Of Directors

• Chair Lyle Bell Seminole Tribe of Florida
• Vice Chair Randy Hedrick IGT
• Secretary Moti Vyas Viejas Casino
• Treasurer Fred Lychock R. Franco USA
• Robert Marnell Aristocrat Technologies
• Ken Bossingham Atronic Americas
• Mark Lipparelli Bally Technologies
• Derrik Khoo E-Genting
• Ken Weil Harrahs Entertainment
• Steve Sutherland Konami Gaming
• Brendan OConnor Multimedia Games
• Don Karrer Penn National Gaming
• Tom Galanty Progressive Gaming
• Jon Berkley TransAct Technologies
• Rob Siemasko WMS Gaming
• John Hilbert Future Logic
• Bob McKenzie MEI
• Tom Peck MGM Mirage

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Financial Report
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Financials 2006 Budget vs. 2005 Audited

• 2006 (budget) 2005 (audited)
• Revenues 1,902,640 1,635,010
• Expenses 1,882,882 1,579,351
• Retained Earnings 333,142 323,384

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2006 Financials Projection / Budget

• 2006 (projected) 2006 (budgeted)
  Variance
• Revenues 2,103,440 1,902,640 11
• Expenses 2,002,987 1,892,882 6
• Retained Earnings 423,837 333,142
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Expenditure Breakdown
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2006 Achievements
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The Road to Open Standards

• Industry Support for G2S
• BOB/SSAS Integration (G2S) effort since Oct
  2005 there were 100 meetings, 3 times a week, 31
  industry experts, resulted into a 1200 pages
• Revised GSA Patent Policy
• Old policy had strict penalty provision for
  non-disclosure gt over disclosure
• Patents will be licensed under Reasonable Terms
  and Conditions
• Committee Charters have been updated to define
  scope
• Members must choose to Opt-in to committee
  participation
• Only Necessary Patents must be disclosed
• Board Strategic Focus
• GSA Staff and Member Volunteer Effort
• Technical Director hired - Marc McDermott
• (ex chief of the electronic services division of
  the state of NV Gaming Control Board)
• Total of 7,700 hours of conference calls

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Technology

• G2S Game To System Standard
• G2S v1.0 - December 2006 (Vote)
• Transport Standard
• Multicast v1.0 Available NOW
• Point-to Point v1.0 November 2006 (Comments)
• S2S - System to System Standard
• S2S v1.2 Available NOW
• GDS - Gaming Device Standard
• Note Acceptor, Touch Screen, Printer, Page
  Description Language, Magnetic Card Reader -
  Available NOW
• Certification
• Profiles Development underway

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Implementation

• G2S
• Demonstrations of the standard by GSA members at
  G2E
• S2S
• Choctaw Casino Durant - Choctaw Tribe of Oklahoma
• Hard Rock Casino - Seminole Tribe of Florida
• Toolkits
• GSA encourages 3rd party toolkit developers
• International Community
• Australia AGMMA recommends GSAs G2S as the
  protocol standard for New South Wales
• Russia Exploring the use of GSAs GAT as a
  standard
• Regulations
• Nevada regulations for downloadable software
  facilitate G2S implementation

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Certification and Education

• Certification
• Development of On-line Certification Program
• GSA issues GSA SAS certificates
• The Open Group chosen as Certification Authority
• Education
• GSA provides grant of 900,000 to the UNLV
  Foundation
• Assistant Professors in Informatics are actively
  being recruited
• UNLV and GSA will develop academic / educational
  track on GSA standards and technology

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Tom Peck
SVP CIO - MGM MIRAGE

• "The Impact of Standards on Operations"

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GSA The Right Thing to Do!
G2S, S2S, GDS, Transport,
GSA Facilitates the Identification, Definition,
Development, Promotion and Implementation of Open
Standards to Enable Innovation, Education, and
Communication for the Benefit of the Entire
Industry.
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An Operators View
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An Operators View
Lost Sales Lost Marketing Higher Costs Ties up
Capital
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An Operators View
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An Operators View
Lengthy Development Testing Regulatory
Process Hinders Agility Speed
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Benefits of Standardization
The world is getting smaller hardware,
software, and content must move irrespective of
boundaries borders the need for commonality
and standards grows. CEO of Major
Technology Company What this also means to our
guests the Las Vegas strip is getting
smaller technology, games, devices must be
transparent they want their games / options
anytime, anywhere
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Benefits of Standardization

• Data must be consistent, accurate, available and
  shared
• Speed to market differences sometimes paralyzes
  momentum
• Faster migration paths adapt to meet business
  needs / trends
• Innovate as technology moves forward, users get
  more benefit
• Standards expand the marketplace the pie gets
  bigger
• Integrate the entire ecosystem foster price
  competition choose on value and end-to-end
  experience
• Drives down TCO allows for reinvestment
• We want product-rich AND customer-centric
• Draw professional service organizations in
  integrators and ASPs

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Hospitality and Gaming 2010

• Brand is more powerful than location for hotel
  choice
• Brand is driven by experience
• Technology helps drive experiences guests want
  consistency
• Corporate brands are replaced by more specific
  brands
• China, India and the Gulf Nations will add 1.4MM
  branded rooms
• Machines are replacing employee-customer
  interactions
• Customer segmentation manage the multi-channel
  experience
• Personas (goals, attitudes, behaviors) drive
  customer desires
• Sell Experiences NOT Products
• Stop selling standalone devices consumers want
  end-to-end control
• Buying stand-alone products fails to capture
  downstream products, services and content

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Boundary less Partnership
Operators Manufacturers Suppliers
For the Good of All!
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GSA 2007 / Recognition
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Our Focus in 2007

• Certification
• Education
• Global Support

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Association Recognition

• GSA Members
• Atronic Systems 5 Year Membership
• Fred Lychock Longest Serving Board Member
• Christine Freytag Project Manager
• Michelle Olesiejuk Executive Director
• Jeana Hines Technical Communication Consultant

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Closing Remarks
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QA
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