Racing & Gaming Summit Welcomes Six 
Corporate Sponsors for Inaugural Event

More than 300 lottery, racing and gaming machine executives expected to attend

TUCSON, Ariz. (Nov. 21, 2002) - GEM Communications and the University of Arizona Race Track Industry Program (RTIP) are proud to welcome six leading gaming industry vendors as official sponsors of the inaugural Racing & Gaming Summit, Dec. 10 in Tucson.

Bally Gaming Systems, Barco, International Game Technology (IGT), Sierra Design Group, Spielo and WMS Gaming are all participating in the new one-day conference, which brings together executives from the racing, gaming machine and lottery industries, as well as educators and Wall Street analysts and investors. The new Summit precedes the 29th Annual Symposium on Racing, presented by RTIP Dec. 10-13, which draws about 1,000 attendees from throughout North America.

More than 275 racing, gaming machine and lottery professionals have already pre-registered for the Racing & Gaming Summit, and organizers expect total attendance at this first-time event to top 300.

Ron Barbaro, Chair and CEO of Ontario Lottery & Gaming Corp., will present the luncheon keynote address at the Racing & Gaming Summit. He will discuss the tremendous success of the marriage of slot machines and racetracks in Ontario, where some 15 racetracks are participating in the slot machine program.

Both the Racing and Gaming Summit and the 29th Annual Symposium on Racing will be presented at Loews Ventana Canyon Resort in Tucson. Registration for the one-day Racing and Gaming Summit is $375. Registration for the Symposium on Racing is $725. A reduced combination rate of $595 will be offered to people who attend both the Racing & Gaming Summit and the 29th Annual Symposium on Racing. Registration information and the most current information about the Summit, seminar topics and speakers can be found at www.rgsummit.com, or at www.ag.arizona.edu/rtip.

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