The conference was opened by Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Kubiciel with a presentation on the status quo of the legal framework for sports betting providers in Germany. Among other things, he spoke about the state regulation on the various forms of gambling protected by criminal law. He also talked about the actual challenges of transferring state regulations into already existing regulation and compliance models and distinguished between online providers and betting shops. This topic was taken up by Mrs. Klein who went into more detail on the previous remarks of Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Kubiciel using the example of the company Tipico. She presented the company's compliance system and compliance structure, which are based on research work by the University of Harvard, among others, and went into detail about their particularities. The focus was on the topics of game and betting manipulation, protection of players and minors, money laundering and the integrity of technology and employees. Mr. Nothelfer then bridged the gap between conventional sports and esports. First of all, he spoke about the term esports in the actual and legal sense. He then focused on the question of how § 265c StGB can be applied to comparable cases in esports. He took this as a starting point to discuss the status quo of state regulation in esports on the one hand and to outline possibilities for future regulation on the other.

After a short coffee break, where lively discussions had already taken place, a panel discussion with the speakers and the industry experts Prof. Dr. Michael Tsambikakis, Hans-Joachim Eckert and Dr. Tim Bagger von Grafenstein followed. The focus was primarily on the status quo of state regulation and compliance in conventional sports and the question of how the esports industry can learn from this, as far as it is comparable to it. The participants of the conference also took part in the lively discussion. Although the panel was concluded after an hour, the discussions that had begun were carried on for quite some time afterwards.