For over the past 20 years, he has been immersed in studying various demographic groups in the gambling industry that he has serviced. Ten years ago, Ari along with his business partner Ben Fox, began to study the video gaming phenomenon and gathered data on video gaming's effect on our younger generations. They created Gameacon, a consumer conference for video gaming enthusiasts, the Casino Esport Conference an educational and networking event for the casino industry and his bi-weekly podcast called New Gaming News. As the host of NGN, Ari reviews evolving trends in the gambling, esports, and video gaming spaces and how these industries are on a collision course to create a new type of entertainment related to what younger generations desire. Ari studies how AI artificial intelligence, virtual reality, augmented reality, and other high tech types of play will be rolled out into our entertainment landscape for the gambling and the overall entertainment space. He has years of experience in helping others understand the future and how to apply entertainment offerings more aligned to our high tech world.