The final day of the SBC Digital Summit North America wrapped up a successful conference, covering a huge range of topics ranging from esports, horses, regulation, land based gaming and the current state of sports in general. On this last day, everything began with a keynote from Ezra Kucharz, Chief Business Officer at DraftKings, who took a broad view of the U.S. sports betting market.
After giving a history of how we got to legal, regulated sports betting across much of the country, Kucharz noted that there’s still a long way to go. “Only a fraction of the U.S. today offers regulated betting and while DraftKings are up and running in many of those states the market is far from being fully realized,” he said.
But there’s no denying the roadblock COVID-19 has presented, and Kucharz noted that innovation will be the way through. “New protocols and contingencies will become commonplace,” he said. “The games we love will both be the same and different simultaneously. But while so many adjustments take place in and around sports, global betting and innovation will remain constant.”
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