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Opening Session

Date: Sunday, April 26, 2009
Time: 3:30pm - 5:30pm

The 2009 Annual Meeting and Exposition officially kicks off with the Opening Session hosted by COMMON and IBM starting at 3:30pm on Sunday. COMMON President, Randy Dufault, will welcome attendees and cover important highlights for the week ahead. Randy will also outline all the successes and initiatives that each pillar of COMMON has accomplished for the COMMON community. Randy and IBM’s Ross Mauri, General Manager, IBM Power Systems, will jointly present the 2009 COMMON/IBM Power Systems Innovation Awards, followed by an address by Ross Mauri to the audience.

The Opening Session in Reno will close with an exciting presentation from our keynote speaker, Jeff Jonas, IBM Distinguished Engineer and Chief Scientist, IBM Entity Analytics:

Title: Cops and Robbers Las Vegas Style

Abstract: Opportunists consider Las Vegas an excellent target - not only because of the vast amounts of cash that changes hands, but also the ability to get lost in the 40 million people who visit annually. There are single scams that can cost a casino $250,000 in 15 minutes. Other activities, such as unknowingly transacting with an "excluded person", can cost an organization its gaming license. The gaming industry has evolved its policies, processes and systems to respond to these threats. These defensive moves have greatly collapsed the window of time between detection and preemption.

Jeff Jonas, a Las Vegas resident who has architected and built numerous casino systems, will take you behind the scenes of the casino business and describe "trip-wires" that now make it possible to detect the unwanted -- in some cases even before the opportunist arrives at the casino.

Opening Session is followed by the Welcome Reception in the Exposition Sunday evening starting at 5:30 pm.