Uploaded July 2026 | Updated September 2026, 7 hours ago

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An entire industry was built on bespoke, in-house RGSs. Not by design, but by necessity. And necessity has a half-life.

At NEXT Summit Valletta 2026, Robert Lenzhofer, CEO and Co-Founder of hizi.io, argues that as real-money games scale globally, rebuilding the same commodity software over and over has become impossible to ignore. This session is about the shift from custom backends to shared execution, and why it marks the start of a new infrastructure era for real-money games. Joined by Rob Fell (CEO, RiskCherry) and Jan Urbanec (CEO, Automat Games).

Session presented by hizi.io.


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