University of Nevada announces its Academic Agenda in Aruba Gaming Expo

“The Protection of your Assets: An Organization Focus” is the title of the course which will be presented as the academic topic of Aruba Gaming Expo, Congress & Business, an event which will take place on September 1 and 2 at the Westin Resort & Hotel in this important tourist destination of the Caribbean.

This topic arises great interest because protection and security inside a casino requires the surveillance of all the departments. The management, watching slot machines, internal auditory and finance, plays a fundamental role in detecting and preventing fraud. Beyond the traditional game and the frauds made by unknown people, many fraudulent practices are the work of sophisticated participation plans of the people who work inside these organizations. The topic will be presented in two sessions; one from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. which will furnish numerous strategies and techniques to increase the capacity to spot and identify fraudulent actions and the help to design and develop the protection procedures and preventive formation practices.

The selection of the topic of the course was the product of the visit of Cheryl Olson, Associate Director of the Program of Casino Management of the University of Nevada, one of the principal gaming rooms and institutions such as the Aruba Association of Hotels and Tourism. Professor Olson asked about the needs and listened to suggestions from the operators, to create an innovating proposal which would be useful to the interested parties.

The course will be in charge of instructor Hoke Damn, Director and Head of Excellence Surveillance of Pinnacle Entertainment. He began his career in the casino industry in 1985 working with the slot machine department in a casino in Reno, Nevada. When transferred to the Security Department, Damn discovered that he had a passion with all the topics related with security and surveillance. This is how his instinct led him to develop a variety of management functions including the ones in his current position. Inscriptions to the course “The Protection of your Assets: an Organizational Focus” are already open and you can do so by sending an email to operativo@arubagamingexpo.com and/or cherylo@unr.edu

In this respect, the General Director of Aruba Gaming Expo 2010, Jose Anibal Aguirre, declared: “The new format for academic congresses and business rounds responds to the specific training needs and growth of the Caribbean market. The event, which does not exceed 20 stands, all of them with identical dimensions of nine cubic meters, facilitates, with a minimum investment, and without having to move large equipment, technical personnel and costly decoration and mounting, a high productivity business event to which 200 casinos of the Caribbean and of the Eastern Coast of the United States, Mexico and Venezuela, have been invited with an intense electronic marketing campaign.”

Press/ News No 4
AGE 2010