Player Protection Summit 2026

The Player Protection Summit 2026 was announced by Eventus International for 3 and 4 December 2026 in Vienna, Austria, to run alongside two other Eventus events in the city that week: the iGaming DACH Summit, aimed at the German-speaking markets, and the Lottery CX Summit. An archived copy of the summit page from March 2026 describes a two-day conference on player safety for operators; at that point the page still showed the agenda, speakers and venue, the Hilton Vienna Park, of the 2025 edition. The status of the event is now unclear. As of 31 October 2026 the Player Protection Summit page on the Eventus website redirected to the AI in iGaming Summit 2026, which the organiser calls an inaugural event, held in Vienna on the same dates. The Player Protection Summit no longer appears in the organiser's list of events. Eventus had not said on its website whether the player protection programme was renamed, merged into the AI event or dropped, so readers should check with the organiser before planning around it. The original description set out the intended agenda. It covered responsible marketing, the protection of high-stakes and vulnerable players, monitoring player behaviour, keeping up with regulation, and meetings with safer gambling service providers and industry associations. Part of that ground now sits elsewhere in the same week. The iGaming DACH Summit's second day is billed as covering player protection based on data, responsible gambling, compliance and AI, while the AI in iGaming Summit says it will look at scaling AI without weakening compliance or player protection. Our event page lists no speakers, venue or ticket prices for the 2026 summit. The pass prices and venue details published for the other Vienna events that week belong to those events and may not apply to this one. For affiliates the relevance is indirect. Responsible marketing was one of the planned themes, and the DACH summit's agenda on Germany's State Treaty review and affordability reform touches the rules under which affiliates promote operators there. Until Eventus confirms what has happened to the summit, the iGaming DACH Summit is the more reliable place to follow these topics in Vienna this December.