Slingo, Inc., a leading cross-media gaming company, today announced that its CEO, Rich Roberts, will be a guest speaker at the ‘IGDA Summit 2012’ during Casual Connect in Seattle. The panel entitled ‘The Convergence of Casual Games and Real Money Gaming’ is being held at the Fairmont Olympic Hotel on July 24 at 10:00 a.m.

A highly sought-after speaker in Europe where iGaming is the fastest-growing and most lucrative segment of casual gaming, Roberts is a respected voice on monetizing casual gaming across various consumer entertainment segments, including online gaming, mobile apps, lottery tickets, and slots. He has been a transformative voice at Slingo, deftly positioning the company at the forefront of this high-growth business both here and overseas.

Slingo is played by over 55 million people across a variety of gaming platforms, including online, retail, mobile, casino slots and others. Over 50 million Slingo games have been downloaded across the Internet and almost 5 billion games of Slingo have been played online. Currently, Slingo is the #1 Casino App on iTunes, while the Zynga Slingo Facebook game was one of the fastest growing Facebook games to date.

Slingo.com has more than 4 million registered users ‘ 80 percent of which are women who are highly engaged and spend an average of 34 minutes per visit. That reach is an unparalleled benefit for Slingo’s advertising partners, as the company recently experienced a 100% year-over-year increase in seamlessly integrated video ads, which now total more than 14 million video opportunities per month.