The Most Innovative Gaming Tech Solution Providers to Watch in 2021

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From Editor’s Desk “Computers had their origin in military cryptography—in a sense, every computer game represents the commandeering of a military code-breaking apparatus for purposes of human expression” — Austin Grossman Gaming Tech is the leap towards the future. The application of these solutions scales far beyond the gaming space. The integration of these solutions in education, cognitive, and other areas makes it one of the most underrated domains. These solutions will help us unravel the technological future which we often see in movies. This issue of The Enterprise World, The Most Innovative Gaming Tech Solution Providers 2021 features some of the leading companies providing innovation and breakthrough services each step of the way. These companies and their teams are visionaries, pooling in the best resources, expertise, and technology. They are the light-bringers of the future and the pioneers of today’s technological era. Featured on the cover story is the leading name in the space - Brainware. BrainWare® is a learning company, establishing itself around cognitive assessment and cognitive training. They built a program that is considered the world's most researched, comprehensive, integrated cognitive skill development tool delivered online today with demonstrated sustainability and transfer. They have placed this advanced solution into a digital cloud environment, making it fun, interactive, and engaging. With propagation via the Internet, they can now offer these services at a reasonable price point, so distribution can reach a critical mass. They make the solution available for families, schools, students, and the workforce. In conversation with Damian Mifsud, Co-founder, and CEO of Know Me Now. KnowMeNow offers high-quality and efficient KYC (Know Your Customer) services packaged in a digital identity wallet with reusability features for clients. Adeeb Malik Adeeb Malik

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Leaders in Spotlight This issue of The Enterprise World, The They built a program that is considered the Most Innovative Gaming Tech Solution world's most researched, comprehensive, Providers 2021 features, integrated cognitive skill development tool delivered online today with demonstrated As the name suggests, gaming technology sustainability and transfer. They have placed works towards enhancing the games but also this advanced solution into a digital cloud the applications to the same are limitless. environment, making it fun, interactive, and Gaming technology has many applications in engaging. With propagation via the Internet, the field of cognitive solutions, AR/VR, and they can now offer these services at a many more. Thus, the applications not only reasonable price point, so distribution can enhance the gaming industry but also many reach a critical mass. They make the solution other upcoming ones. These solutions will available for families, schools, students, and help us unravel the technological future the workforce. which we often see in movies. In a conversation with the CEO of AgeCheq, Featured in this edition are some of the Mr. Roy Smith. AgeCheq provides leading companies in the Gaming Tech space. transparency and consent management tech These companies and their respective teams for companies from SMEs to global are visionaries, bent on innovating and multinationals. unearthing groundbreaking products and services. Not only are they highly advanced, In conversation with Damian Mifsud, Co- integrated with the latest technology, and founder and CEO of Know Me Now. packed with unique attributes. KnowMeNow offers high quality and efficient KYC (Know Your Customer) Featured on the cover story is the leading services packaged in a digital identity wallet name in the space - Brainware. BrainWare® with reusability features for clients. is a learning company, establishing itself around cognitive assessment and cognitive training.

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Learning is about everything from reading, writing, They are how our brains organize the interplay of all the and math, to nuclear physics, medicine and mental processes toward goal-directed, purposeful literature. But how does learning actually take behavior. And like all cognitive skills, Executive place? Functions play a role in learning and just about everything we do in our lives. We don't often think about the basic processes our brains use to learn. Those processes, called cognitive skills, are One of the most important things to understand about the foundation for learning. Cognitive skills are how our Executive Functions is that they are essential in reading, brain takes in information from the outside world and math, and other academic subjects, as well as in building processes it, stores it, retrieves it, organizes it, and social and emotional competence. In other words, comprehends and applies it. Skills like attention, memory, Working Memory is the same mental process whether we visual and auditory processing speed, and the way our are using it to comprehend what we are reading, to solve a brains hold on to information while we think about it. complex math problem, or to consider what someone else This is what happens during the learning process. is saying and what might be causing them to say it. While individual cognitive skills can be stronger or We all have cognitive strengths. We all have cognitive weaker, it is the way all these capacities integrate, flow weaknesses. In order to help people learn more efficiently and work together that makes up our overall intelligence. and effectively, making the learning process easier for the Executive Functions play a vital role in the integration. learner, we need to understand each learner’s cognitive 1023 SMeMpt2e0m2b1er 2021

COVER STORY strengths and weaknesses. This is where BrainWare impact the skills that account for half – 50 percent of the Learning comes in and establishes itself as both the factors that predict your learning performance. Seriously! pioneer and the leader in their field.  They built a program that is considered the world's most Their solutions are unmatched and ahead of their time. researched, comprehensive, integrated cognitive skill Also, their dedication to helping parents, teachers, development tool delivered online today with workforce trainers – everyone who cares about learners -- demonstrated sustainability and transfer. They have is unrivaled and exceptional. They truly are one of the placed this advanced solution into a digital cloud most respected and sought-after companies, more than environment, making it fun, interactive, and engaging. deserving to be the Most Innovative Gaming Tech With propagation via the Internet, they can now offer Solution Provider to Watch in 2021!   these services at a reasonable price point, so distribution can reach a critical mass. They make the solution The Company available for families, schools, students and the workforce. BrainWare is a learning company, establishing itself around cognitive assessment and cognitive training. BrainWare Learning Company’s cognitive training program, BrainWare SAFARI , offers a solution that Did you know that 50 percent of the variability in learning empowers learners to take grea®ter control of their outcomes is driven by your cognitive profile? What that opportunities, and create a life of greater choices, hope, means is that the BrainWare Learning Company can and better understanding which can lead to happiness and a better life. They want you to understand and appreciate the joys of learning and, in this process, empower you with direct control of 50 percent of what accounts for learning outcomes. “The Big Lie: Intelligence is fixed and there is nothing you can do about it.” --Roger Stark, CEO, BrainWare Learning Company It's the comprehensive integrated architecture that they use which makes them effective and efficient. Because the brain is an integrated system, if you want significant physiological change in the brain, in a short time with demonstrated sustainability and transfer, you have to work the brain the way the brain was built to work. That's highly comprehensive and highly integrated. BrainWare Learning Company’s mission is to enhance an individual's ability to assimilate, process, comprehend and apply information as effectively and as efficiently as possible. And even though they believe we have some great teachers, unfortunately, most teachers have not been trained on the cognitive learning process. But that is also an opportunity. We can empower teachers to help children (and adults) who learn differently. We can help teachers to personally take responsibility for impacting and developing what accounts for 50 percent of each child's learning success. The inception of BrainWare, and the journey so far Roger Stark, Founder and CEO, and Betsy Hill, COO, and www.theenterpriseworld.com 13

President of BrainWare Learning Company have always being administered around the country. He sent teams out looked for opportunities where they can give back to to explore and everybody that looked at and observed people and help them in any way possible. They wanted these sessions, came back with the same response: This is to provide something that would change the way the pretty amazing stuff!  world looks at things. And in this search, a lot of ideas came to Roger’s desk. One day, a couple of doctors Despite the success of these clinical procedures, Roger walked into his office and asked, “What do you know was not satisfied. The sessions were one-on-one with a about the brain?” highly trained clinician. He wanted everyone to be able to have this kind of training. He started a journey to lower One conversation led to another, and those doctors the price point, so more people can have a greater debunked the myths that have been perpetuated about the opportunity to access this powerful program that builds brain. For example, all men are smarter than women, in intelligence.  math, not true. Women may think that they’re not as innately as good at math, but only because they’ve been The first challenge for the BrainWare Learning Company told that for hundreds of years; actually, they're just as was to have a solid plan and model. At this point their smart and just as capable. Another myth - some people are service wasn’t a business yet, just an idea. It needed to be born stupid, others are smart, and there is nothing that can a multidisciplinary approach and they had to get expert be done to change that. The doctors said they could personnel on board right from the beginning such as disprove this scientifically, and that is the moment Roger speech and language pathologists, clinical psychologists, was hooked and knew this would be the revolution he occupational therapists, vision specialists, developmental would bring to the world! auditory specialists, neurologists and more, all of the disciplines that work with the brain. After that came “When we think about the fact that people learn heated conversations, conflicts, and many late-night differently, and that seven out of ten of our children discussions. And then came the video-game developers.  perform below grade level proficiency, it’s hard to pinpoint what a ‘normal learner’ is. I'm not sure what Video-game developers are cut from a different cloth; to normal is, because we’ve got more non-normal learners have sync and get understanding among doctors, scientists than ‘normal learners.’ This fascinated me, and the and game developers was an amazing accomplishment. plasticity of the brain and how they could change the The BrainWare team’s unwavering spirit and desire to brain and people.” - Roger Stark, CEO, BrainWare help people made this possible and led to the creation of Learning. BrainWare SAFARI, the world's most researched, comprehensive, integrated cognitive skill development At the time, of that initial conversation with the doctors, system delivered online. they introduced Roger to the clinical procedures that were 1045 SMeMpt2e0m2b1er 2021

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The challenges on the education side of the BrainWare 4 years of cognitive growth for the BrainWare group, program were equally daunting and extensive. The field of compared to just 4 months for the control group. education is very complicated, involving a lot of decision- makers and a lot of moving parts. Their journey began when As the BrainWare team started to reach out to schools, the original version of BrainWare SAFARI 1.0 was in its finding institutions and educators with the intellectual Beta release.  curiosity, who were willing to participate and understand the importance of the BrainWare system for the learning There was a study that recruited students from elementary to curve of a child, helping students and teachers become middle school age, and these students were assigned to either better, smarter, and more understanding versions of one of two groups, a study group or a control group, –the first themselves, was not an easy feat. would use BrainWare SAFARI and the second would not. To study the effects on cognitive ability and academic Not an easy feat, but looking at the transformations these performance,  a nationally normed cognitive test (the kids went through allowed the BrainWare team to Woodcock-Johnson Cognitive Battery) was administered demonstrate the effectiveness of the program in the real before and again after 12 weeks. In addition to the cognitive world. And there was no turning back. Today, BrainWare battery, some of the  Woodcock-Johnson achievement tests Learning Company is one of the foremost names when it were also used to gauge the transfer to academic comes to providing exceptional and unmatched cognitive performance.  solutions. The results were staggering. The BrainWare SAFARI group Why BrainWare? Why now? increased their academic abilities by almost 2 years (1 year, and 11 months on average) while the control group improved Let’s look at the facts. Schools, especially in the US, by just 1 month. Over the course of those 12 weeks, the spend less than 5 percent of their budget on what drives difference in cognitive gains was even more dramatic – over 50 percent of a student’s learning outcomes. This is not 1067 MSeMpt2e0m2b1er 2021

COVER STORY the case with all schools, but in most schools, educators are experience with being able to hire people from more more inclined towards teaching rather than facilitating disadvantaged backgrounds. Equity requires providing an learning. individual with the ability to think, reason and problem- solve. With BrainWare programs, a workforce can achieve Do not be surprised if teachers don’t want to be held just that, and the benefits to the company are limitless. accountable for your child’s learning; they simply don’t have the resources to support and care for children who learn “You are the CEO of YOU Inc. If you want different, you differently.  can have different, but you must do different! You got this, You can make this happen. All you have to do is want to Not convinced yet? do it and be willing to put forth the effort.” --Roger Stark, CEO, BrainWare Learning Company According to statistics, 7 out of 10 students in school cannot read and comprehend at grade level proficiency. 25 percent of BrainWare Learning: what makes them different, and high-school graduating seniors today cannot read and what sets them apart comprehend their own diplomas. Over a third of first-year college students need remedial reading, writing, or math The challenge that parents and teachers face is that the classes. 40 percent of college freshmen today do not have the educational system is not equipped to deal with children ability to read, comprehend, and apply complex text.  who learn differently. BrainWare guides them through to the best of their experiences, ensuring ways to optimize The BrainWare system helps you, as a parent, a teacher, or transformational learning experiences with the child. And learning specialist, understand a child’s brain and learning they empower each parent and teacher to do that.  process in an effective and precise way. Everyone is unique and has a different way and level of learning.  First, they carefully assess a child’s learning capacity, the cognitive strengths and weaknesses that support or Also, the BrainWare system is not limited to children. impede the capacity of a child to learn. Second, they Cognitive skills are the components that drive intelligence in empower their clients with a neuroeducator guide and a individuals at all ages. Our workforce needs help as well. coach that works with them for 12 weeks, so they feel Organizations need to work more diligently and have a better www.theenterpriseworld.com 0187

problems they face, and what they are looking for, addressing the root cause, not the symptoms. The team is particularly sensitive to the markets it serves and makes sure that they have great empathy. Most of the children they work with have become discouraged by their learning experiences in school. They often have low self- esteem. Their parents are confused and unsure.  It takes an exhaustive team of experts in all fields related to the brain, pooling their knowledge and resources together to create solutions that help increase cognitive abilities, and lower the stress levels for the entire family. empowered and know they are never alone. BrainWare The Leadership at BrainWare Learning Learning empowers them with a “GPS for Learning” that brings enormous clarity to parents when they see that first “What's the force about? If you believe you can, you can. assessment. And this neuroeducator guide along with the If you believe you can't, you can't. May the force be with BrainWare Cognitive Master Coach works with the learner you!” --Roger Stark, CEO BrainWare Learning Company every step of the way, showing them where they are, where they need to go, and how to get there. Roger Stark has been a formidable and visionary leader, working towards fostering broader understanding of the Learning skills or cognitive skills are like a puzzle and can very concept of learning. Not only is he a charismatic seem very difficult. It's like an onion and with every layer person determined to change the world, but also a you peel, a new unknown becomes known. So, the dedicated entrepreneur, working with educators, doctors, BrainWare Learning team meets each child where they are scientists and game developers, and creating teams with developmentally, always making sure they're explaining their coordination that is unwavering and services that are a client’s progress and developments, earning their trust and revolution in the world. respect through the process.   “It's been a perfect plan. I have planned this since I was What sets them apart is the comprehensive integrated six years old, exactly how I planned it, just like every architecture that they use to build cognitive infrastructure other human being, right? (This is a joke!)” - Roger with demonstrated sustainability and transfer. Sustainability Stark, CEO, BrainWare Learning Company is the key. Alongside Roger is the COO, President and Chief Roger Stark was thrilled when he and his team were invited Neuroeducator of BrainWare Learning, Betsy Hill. With to the United States Congress to provide a joint her expertise in teaching and related fields, she brings a congressional briefing on neuroscience and education. Why? unique expertise in applying neuroscience to learning and Because they have done some pretty remarkable things that no one's ever done before.  There are a lot of things that set the BrainWare team apart, but central is their ability to unpack the learning and teaching process in a very systematic and affordable way. This empowers the parent or teacher and the coach to be far more effective in every step of the process, applying the most effective cognitive training techniques and personalized learning strategies to support each student. Changing times and changing trends The number one priority for BrainWare Learning Company is understanding their clients - what they want, what 1089 MSeMpt2e0m2b1er 2021

COVER STORY teaching to the company. She is highly dedicated, always things, but nothing matches the work he does now, upholding the mission and goals of BrainWare. She is helping our most treasured assets, those that learn nothing less than an exceptional leader, a teacher, a differently, and providing them with a life of hope, visionary and neuroeducator. opportunity, and choice.  Betsy has a diverse background in both the corporate world “God did not make any junk, and I assure you he did not and the world of education, from classroom teacher to start with your child.”  -- Roger Stark, CEO, BrainWare university professor to business executive. Betsy holds a Learning. Master of Arts in Teaching as well as an MBA from the prestigious Northwestern University. She will also tell you Roger and Betsy’s take on the competition in the that she learned as much from raising three boys as a single market and how they deal with it? mother as from all her university education and corporate experience combined. “People do what they do. I'm very familiar with everybody that's doing something in this space. I think we “All of that varied experience, understanding different have some unique components ourselves. I like to be industries, really helps when there's not a roadmap, when aware of what the competition is doing but I don't look at you have to invent things and draw on experiences, and you them as much as I look at the science. I'm always looking can use previous experiences or industries as analogies at neuroscience, looking at cognitive science, all the because you've been there and you've worked there.” - Betsy different disciplines that work with the brain. I’m more in Hill, COO, and President, BrainWare Learning Company. tune with the latest technology than the people,” Roger adds.  Roger’s path was a little different. His mother was a social activist, coming from a very difficult environment. She “We have so much opportunity in front of us that we like decided she wanted to take an active role for all the women to focus on what we're about and building the best that were being abused at factories around the country. company we can build. We know what the data says around the world on how people develop,” said Roger. One part Norma Rae, one part Coal Miner’s Daughter, she “What we do in 12 weeks is nothing short of remarkable; told Roger, “Sometimes in life, you just have to stand up for most companies want six months or more. We like to what you believe in, because if you don't stand up, life will focus on what we do well and make sure that ethics is the knock you down. You have to take a stand when something engine, integrity is the driver. As long as we have ethics has meaning. This is who we are as a people. And we need and integrity, we want to continue to drive it. We've not to do everything we can to make sure we're always trying to seen anybody that can drive faster or greater results in a be the best we can be for ourselves and others.” This has shorter period for less money than us. remained close to Roger’s heart even to the present day. When someone is struggling or has a problem, Roger will “If you're concerned about being in a market that's always be there. competitive, just try being in a market where there is no competition. Because when you have no competition, then Both Roger and Betsy have dedicated their lives to helping your only competition is inertia. It's much easier to sell in others.  With BrainWare Learning Company, they have the a market where there is competition because then there's a opportunity to touch millions of lives and know that every category of things that people are looking for and you can life is dramatically changed for the better.  differentiate yourself. And you can create value as compared to something else,” said Betsy. “It's much “There's nothing more rewarding and nothing more fulfilling harder when there is no competition.” “That is why we than to be able to help a child and a family in need,” said believe BrainWare Learning Company is in a league of its Roger. “As long as I can do that, I will. I extend my time. I own. We are competing against ourselves and our own extend my money. I extend my effort each and every day, benchmarks,” said Roger. “And the sky’s the limit!” just trying to be the best Roger Stark I can be.” Before BrainWare, Roger ran international corporations with offices spread around the globe. He ran offices in China, Switzerland, France, England, Latin America, San Francisco, Dallas, Las Vegas, New York and Chicago. He has led hundreds of members of his team to do different www.theenterpriseworld.com 109





Interview with TEW ‘‘ A great entrepreneur innovates, disrupts and manages to ‘sell’ his vision to his team and clients. How can you prove who KnowMeNow. • Endorsed by Insight Success, you are? Malta Enterprise, Legal Tech Hub Tell us about the company. (Vienna), European Business Know your Customer or Know Awards your Client is a set of guidelines KnowMeNow is a technology • QGen founded in 2006. generally used in the financial company, member of QGen Group, Innovation affiliate JitKYC doing services. This allows the service the holistic 360 degree compliance business as (dba) KnowMeNow in providers to verify the client based solution service provider. The 2018. on the information. With KYC one company provides decentralized can verify if the person is who he open blockchain trust ecosystem. What were the initial challenges claims to be. The firm offers reusable KYC you faced? services in a more efficient, reliable Many people are unable to receive and compliant manner than ever • Assembling the A-team benefits from the government before. • Educating the market digitally, including social security, • Syncing the 2-sided marketplace, basic health care and even Learning’s from experience in users and merchants. education. Lack of identification is QGen Group: particularly a hindrance to legal • Need to address operational and Which was that point that migration to other countries, and to regulatory pain points related to triggered the growth of the receive remittances internationally KYC costs, customer on-boarding company? through formal channels. abandonment rates and issues with regulatory bodies (fines, licence Having 15 years of experience in KnowMeNow is committed to suspension and revocation, etc.) implementing large financial firm addressing these problems, • Reduces costs, improves customer onboarding, KYC harnessing the power of the onboarding by having a frictionless programs, remediation programs, blockchain to deliver more KYC experience and also answers the fundamental pain points that efficient, more secure and more the question ‘Can KYC be reused?’ drive interest in KnowMeNow are: reliable ways of verifying and with a straight YES • Ever-increasing and more rigid sharing data. regulations (yearly AML directive KnowMeNow improves overall updates) In an interview with The customer experience, gives users • Onerous compliance costs Enterprise World, Damian control and autonomy over their • Desire to continually improve Mifsud, Co-Founder and CEO own personal data through customer experience at merchant's tell us all about the founding of decentralization and cryptographic end immutability • High frustration levels amongst 2021 MSeMpt2e0m2b0er 2021

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Interview with TEW clients who have to repeat There is no middleman interaction Using trusted identification monotonous document submission at any point. verification providers, process for every registration with KnowMeNow can identify and different merchants KnowMeNow offers high quality verify a user within minutes. Full and efficient KYC (Know Your control is given back to the user How have the company graphs Customer) services packaged in a over their identity data, whilst changed since the foundation? digital identity wallet with KnowMeNow partners, such as Can you share a few statistics? reusability features for clients. remote gaming operators and banks seamlessly onboard verified • Number of users up by 000s We have created a unique re-usable consumers without running onerous growing daily KYC solution that allows KYC procedures. • Support for major 2 mobile app customers to easily upload, verify platforms; iOS and Android and re-share their KYC The Main Benefits and USPs of our • 10+ verticals worldwide documentation across multiple product, follow: • 10s of 000s of customer checks platforms in real time. • AML Compliant Solution across multiple jurisdictions • Eases Fraud Management Our KYC solution creates a simple • Speeds up Customer Onboarding What is the reason behind your user onboarding process and is • Easy Technical Integration company’s long-standing catered to fit all types of user (Merchant Node provided) success? journeys - and more importantly, it • Blockchain Secured aims towards compliance and • Continuous innovation frictionless customer acquisition. How do you decide to take the • Disruptive cutting-edge company a step further in terms technology This is a brief outline of how is of your products/services? • Best of breed tech, fully owned works IP We listen, we collect feedback • In-depth knowledge of the KnowMeNow is an autonomous • User workgroups compliance space framework that allows customers to • Track regulatory changes • Long experience and leadership in create their own identity profiles on field their smartphones, whilst at the Is there any new addition to the same time allowing various list of products/services? The Products/Services businesses to perform inexpensive, Anything exciting you would like permission-based KYC reviews in to share? What are the products/services a faster, more reliable and the company focuses on? How compliant manner than before, Roadmap revolves around are your services different from using the unique features of customer identity those in the market? blockchain technology. • More checks, more document types verification and sector KnowMeNow - The digital identity The application has one simple specific checks app. objective: that of giving users back • Extending KYC and embedding the control over their personal data digital ID wallet in a B2B offering How is reusable KYC possible? in a reusable environment. As a as well blockchain enabled mobile The KnowMeNow smart phone application, KnowMeNow acts as Leadership application makes this possible for an identity wallet, giving users the What do you think are the end-users… and helps conversions control over what identity responsibilities of an at the merchant’s end with a documents they upload, verify and entrepreneur? straight forward three-step process, share. namely: Upload - Verify - Onboard. An entrepreneur needs to have the 2043 SMeMpt2e0m2b0er 2021

ability to spot gaps and How do you look after your One person who you admire the opportunities and subsequently employees? What makes your most? help solve real life problems with team unique? products and services that serve as Margaret Thatcher practical solutions. We empower our employees We involve them in the running of Which is the most inspiring quote A great entrepreneur innovates, the organization and listen to their you have read? disrupts and manages to ‘sell’ his views all along the way vision to his team and clients Keep moving forward when you hit Leadership, based on inspiring and We are transparent and a wall motivating the professionals around communicate the vision from him, is an integral part of before they join us… this will Constant vigilance- a need or a entrepreneurship. ensure that we are all in sync and strategy? Please share your striving towards the same goals views. Idea + Vision + Team + Leadership We built a brilliant tightly knit Belief in product and focus Can you please brief us about committed team. your professional experience? Keep eye on competition and Communication and mutual respect market trends, but innovation Damian Mifsud, Chief Executive are key. cannot be dictated by what others Officer, KnowMeNow. do We run a very fluid and flat Damian is the co-founder of organization. Leaders set trends not follow them KnowMeNow, a blockchain based Digital ID Wallet, and also the Is there any special experience Multi-disciplinary approach founder of QGen Group, the award with your clients you would like winning global KYC and KYB to highlight? Part of the strategy - feeds into it end-to-end solution provider. • We have a very good relationship It’s a rat-race out there. How do Damian has over 25 years with all our clients. you cope with that? experience in compliance and • We are in it for the long term not payments for regulated financial for a ‘one night stand’. We believe We have a very strong market businesses including Barclays in relationships. scanning, measuring and analysis Merchant Services, Omnipay, and • We invest in relationships and mechanism in place which helps us MasterCard. nurture them. gather insights that in turn aid us in • We are as successful as our clients managing our SMART goals. What are the key achievements of are. FOCUS on our goals... but not be your entrepreneurial journey? completed blindfolded. Personal Questions Successfully launching and bootstrapping a number of award- Can you tell us which your winning FinTech and RegTech favourite book is? And your companies that went global and favourite part of the book (if worked with/for top tier any)? international blue chip companies. Down and Out in Paris and London Guest speaker at various high- by the English author George profile events. Orwell (published in 1933) European level awards winning www.theenterpriseworld.com 0245

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Online games are pretty popular among the youth these days, and why not? For the graphics and everything, they become too hard to miss. Fun and games are on one side, but what is even more interesting is that online gaming has also established itself as a prominent growth sector in the current and the global economy as well! Now, who would have thought about that? In fact, in the past few years, its growth has been increasing widely, owing to the evolution of mobile platforms in the gaming sector. This evolution has thus added diversity and flexibility for the players across the globe. Here are a few facts about online gaming you don't want to miss. Grand Theft Auto V The Grand Theft Auto V games series is probably one of the most loved games in the world. What you did not know was the fact that GTA V is the most expensive game ever made! It cost approximately $137 million to just build the game, and about $128 million more for its marketing, making it one of the most expensive games ever made. Rockstar North, the developer of the game earned over $1 billion just in its initial 3 days! Isn't that baffling? Next in line with the most expensive game is 'Call of Duty: Modern War Far 2' which cost around $250 million overall including the development and the marketing. South Korea Had Once Banned Midnight Gaming Because of the excessive gaming of South Korean children, the country had once passed a law popularly called the 'Cinderella Law'. According to this law, children under the age of 16 were not to play online video games after midnight (from 12 AM to 6 AM). 28 September 2021

Although the law did not affect mobiles and gaming consoles, the children just couldn't resist playing the games and thus began stealing resident registration numbers so that they could elude the law. This is an important fact in the list of facts about online gaming. So much for the online video games! VPN Making Online Games Better In recent years, the Virtual Private Network or the VPN has been giving the players so much more benefits that it has now become a necessity. The VPN simply allows the players to re-route their connection through a server in any country they want. Now isn't that amazing? It makes the gameplay smoother. This is an important fact in the list of facts about online gaming. Thus VPN allows early access to DLC and its updates with the players' security online. VR Becoming the New Trend We have all known of Virtual Reality through sci-fi movies, but today it is not limited to just that. It has now become a part of our lives. The newly introduced VR Gaming Console has gained a lot of popularity making it a grand success. Looking at it in such a way, it is for sure that VR Gaming will have a bright future. This is an important fact in the list of facts about online gaming. 68% of Smartphone and Tablet Owners Enjoy Online Gaming With the evolution of gaming in smartphones, there is no doubt that they have been a huge source for the industry's growth. Even though the quality of the games on mobile phones is not as great as compared to the PC or the Xbox, the developers have developed certain limits to it and have made it available to more people. And considering its reach, mobile gaming will only get much bigger and popular. These are some facts about online gaming. www.theenterpriseworld.com 29





CEO, AgeCheq There is a new era of technology and modern Roy Smith, CEO at AgeCheq has provided everyone with a techniques that do not pertain to one particular solution and an impeccable service in this domain. industry. Moreover, the advancements in one AgeCheq has provided feasible and efficient solutions in industry and sector are trickling down and improving the IoT and also providing software-as-a-service (SaaS). They standards and techniques of related industries too. Thus, the have revolutionised the industry with their work and opportunities and possibilities in the coming times are changed the way one looks at these services. With top-notch endless and their applications and uses are even more products to offer combined with the latest techniques, exciting. Such is the concept and uses of IoT (Internet of meeting the utmost standards and providing best in class Things). It refers to a system of interrelated, internet- quality. AgeCheq under the expert leadership of CEO, Mr connected objects that can collect and transfer data over a Roy Smith has carved a name for themself in the industry wireless network without human intervention. Personal or and earned a solid reputation as one of the best in the field. business possibilities are endless. 32 September 2021

Roy Smith A Man On A Mission To Provide Best Performing IoT Solutions In a conversation with the CEO of AgeCheq, Mr Roy potentially huge partnership and book some business when Smith. Let us find more about his company, his journey and that happened, but lack of enforcement (see 2) led to very a few things in between. slow adoption after the initial early adopters. In the past 12 months, there have been many big privacy fines (notably Kindly brief us about the company. $5B fine to Facebook), coupled with the inception of CCPA in California leading 16 other states to enact similar AgeCheq was founded in 2013, originally to provide child regulations, leading to a “perfect storm” of interest in user- privacy compliance tech to the mobile gaming industry, but facing privacy compliance – our speciality. we pivoted in 2015, rebranding as PrivacyCheq in response to the much larger market opportunities in IoT and A belief that our mission was valid and dogged persistence. increased privacy regulation in the EU (GDPR), US We stuck to our core founding competency while we waited (CCPA) and elsewhere (LGPD in Brazil, for example). for this market to mature. Complying with any of these new Today we provide transparency and consent management privacy regulations is a massive undertaking, impacting all tech for companies from SMEs to global multinationals. aspects of company operations. We launched our first IoT The AgeCheq brand continues to refer to our COPPA and privacy product in September 2015 as a response to the CCPA child privacy compliance services. FTC's emphatic scolding of the consumer IoT market for poor privacy management at the 2015 CES show. Despite Reasons you feel pushed the company in the right lacklustre industry response that we attribute to no direction and gave it the reputation and success it truly enforcement, we have continued to innovate in the IoT deserves. space, offering solutions for GDPR and CCPA. We expected the enforcement of GDPR (which began in May 2018) to be the inflection point, and we did initiate a www.theenterpriseworld.com 33

Tell us about what the products/services your company requirements. This low-cost service can be configured and offers and how your company is different. implemented within days, providing notices that users quickly understand because they use the “Nutrition Facts” For EU IOT vendors, we offer a complete SaaS paradigm everyone knows from food products. Anyone can transparency and consent management platform called see a live demonstration on their smartphone by texting ConsentCheq. This service administrates all the required “CCPA” to 717-467-3214. interactions with users, including delivering friendly privacy notices, gathering and conserving user preferences, Sufficient about the company, can you please tell about facilitating daily data processing in line with user yourself and your journey, achievements, etc. preference, including to third/fourth/fifth parties, and finally logging all activity to enable compliance to be proven to I'm a lifelong entrepreneur, since 1985 when I co-founded regulators. ConsentCheq is a “one-stop” integration that Turtle Beach Systems to create music products. Today that handles GDPR for EU users, and soon, LGPD for Brazilian company is the #1 provider of headphones for games users. For IoT vendors with a US footprint, our new service, (NASD:HEAR). A few years after exiting when the Apple PrivacyUX for CCPA is specifically for enterprises that iPhone was gaining popularity, I founded appMobi as a need to comply with the California Consumer Privacy Act mobile app development company and exited by selling to (CCPA) and its successor, the CPRA (Prop 24). Intel in 2013, which is when I used my knowledge of the mobile gaming market to see the privacy compliance We are not aware of any privacy compliance technology opportunity that became PrivacyCheq. Long ago, I was a companies specifically targeting the IoT market. Our coder who also did “biz guy” stuff, but my role now just services differ from competitors in many ways: involves strategy, management and marketing. We have designed these services from the consumer's I'm very proud of the companies I helped create, and the perspective, giving the best user privacy management fact that the culture we created and maintained at those experiences. companies was enjoyable and productive for everybody. Many of the people who worked at Turtle Beach still stay in Over 60% of all user interactions use mobile devices today. touch on social media and tell me it was the best job they PrivacyCheq is the only company on the market that has ever had because they were respected and there was a fun optimized its user experience for mobile devices. atmosphere. I enjoy fatherly pride that Turtle Beach is a worldwide brand that was created on my kitchen table in The vast majority of consent management tools in the 1985. market built their solutions on browser cookies, a technical mistake that became apparent in 2020 as Google obsoleted He is highly inspired by the business story of Ken Olsen, third-party cookies due to privacy concerns, leaving 90+ founder of DEC. Ken's entire success was built on creating services with no viable future. When we designed our a smaller, cheaper version of the IBM mainframe computers platform, we chose a secure central database with API that ruled computing in the '60s. He was very successful architecture that has none of the problems facing cookie and DEC was considered the market leader in systems. Minicomputers. When presented with the idea of a Microcomputer that would cost only a few thousand dollars Are there any products in the line, anything exciting you and be used in the home, Ken rejected the idea, leading to wish to share. DEC not participating in the PC revolution. It's my goal to never be Ken – always keeping an open mind to what the We strive to understand our market and its trends very market is telling you, even when it's not what you believe. deeply, even to the point of having a “Futurist” in our staff. Typically, we will predict a shift and be ready with a product feature or marketing message before the shift occurs. With over 500,000 California enterprises covered by the new CCPA (now being enforced) and a need to show customers quick response as a way to build trust, last week we launched PrivacyUX LIVE START for CCPA, a rapid integration solution for CCPAs new “just in time” notices 34 September 2021







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The number of mobile game apps and online game may be a mistake because there are huge audiences and apps available for purchase in the various app stores markets that would love to see these limitations lifted and seems to increase exponentially every day. new options made available. However, there are some serious – and obvious – gaps in those markets. Some great options for sports-based gaming might include things that are popular in various parts of the world, Here are just a few suggestions for some major including: improvements that could be made to the mobile game apps and online gaming industry with just a few additions: · Cricket Better Board Games · Soccer The 2020 pandemic led many of today's young adults to · Polo discover or rediscover the joy of board games. Families were stuck indoors for months on end, leaving them to look · Equestrian games and racing for ways to entertain themselves. This led to a huge spike in the number of people indulging in traditional board games – · Kabaddi and loving them! There are so many other sports that could be made into What does this mean for the mobile game apps and online amazing mobile game apps and online games. Doing so gaming industries? It means that their platforms are ripe for would give the industry a serious boost. Let's just hope adaptations of these classic games. Whether allowing game developers get the picture! multiple players to collaborate in a group or playing against artificially intelligent “bots”, players would delight in Enhanced Card and Casino-Style Games seeing these games appear on their phones in the coming months. Casino-style and card games are immensely popular around the world. However, many of these games are based More Diverse Sports Game Options on games that have been done so many times that it is hard to choose one to play – and not to get bored with the many There are endless numbers of sports games available today, options available. A few more options based on a different but there are serious limitations to those that are available. card and casino games would be a boon to consumers and This includes the near exclusivity to console gaming and a game developers alike. focus on things like basketball and American football. This Until these offerings become available for mobile game apps, choose a trusted website likeAskGamblers to find 40 September 2021

great casino-style games you crave – and be sure to voice your Heart-Racing Racing and Driving Mobile Game apps hope for more options to game development companies! Race car and driving games are some of the most classic Educational Games forAllAges games on the market. If you think about the video game arcades that dominated the 1980s and 1990s, racing and Developers gear most educational games to children, but this driving games were some of the first and most popular. It is may be a mistake. Gamification of corporate training and no wonder so many people love and are nostalgic for these college education has become commonplace, so adults games today. obviously want educational games, too! Adding some options for everything from foreign language to practical skills would That has left a massive gap in the mobile game apps and be a major crowd-pleaser for mobile users. online gaming industry. So many modern consumers would be delighted with more driving or racing options – Action andAdventure Games That Deliver something that is strangely lacking in today's gaming industry. With just a few solid additions in app stores, these Everybody loves good role-playing or action and adventure games could quickly return to their original popularity. game. However, the options for single players on mobile phones and other devices have long been underwhelming. Children's Games to Keep Kids Busy Even options available online are not always what consumers are looking for. There are so many options for children's games available today. But, a lot of those options are of incredibly low Instead of focusing on console gaming, game developers quality. Better games for children – with more engaging would do well to invest their time and talent into improving content and more educational content – would be a the graphics and gaming experiences for these mobile- welcome addition to the popular device stores for parents friendly and online games. This would increase the number of of active children. downloads and online players – and give them the kind of experience they are looking for. All these game suggestions are simple, but that is why they are so genius. Just a few simple changes to the current More Puzzling Puzzle Mobile Game apps mobile game apps and online game offerings could potentially revolutionize the industry and re-energize Like many other game genres, there are endless numbers of consumers! puzzle games. However, most of those puzzle games do not offer the kind of challenge that puzzle lovers are really looking for. As such, a few more high-quality puzzle games would be a smart choice forgame developers. www.theenterpriseworld.com 41