Atlantic Lottery Corporation, IGT, Announce 8-Year Tech Deal
Posted on: June 26, 2025, 03:11h.
Last updated on: June 26, 2025, 03:13h.
- Atlantic Lottery purchases a new central gaming system for its video lottery product
- Rollout of new system expected to begin spring 2026
Last week at the Canadian Gaming Summit in Toronto, Atlantic Lottery Corporation (ALC) CEO Dallas McCready, on a panel with Canadian Gaming Association President & CEO Paul Burns and Karin Schnarr, Alcohol and Gaming Commission of Ontario CEO Karin Schnarr, and Lindsay Slader, Senior VP for Compliance, GeoComply, spoke about building a sustainable gaming model, and the impact of technology innovation in all that.
Sustainable Gaming Model
The announcement of an eight-year video lottery central system technology agreement between International Game Technology (IGT) and ALC is an extension of that.
Technology is disrupting everything in the industry,” McCready told the audience. “From the channels and the distribution side of it, we’ve had a privileged relationship with thousands of retailers across Atlantic Canada for years. And you go to the clerk to get to a LOTTO MAX or Lotto 649 for tonight. We’re losing those opportunities as consumer trends have changed over the last number of years, so we need to bring in technology to stay relevant from the retail component side of things, whether that’s self-checkout, things like that, to protect that core part of our business and the product side there.
Eight-Year Deal
IGT’s subsidiary, IGT Canada Solutions ULC, signed the agreement with ALC, to supply IGT’s cloud-based IntelligenEVO video lottery central system technology across Atlantic Canada technology to improve system performance and player experience. This new system will further enable the integration and promotion of healthy play features, in accordance with expert recommendations.
ALC’s current gaming system technology has been in place since 2014 and has reached the end of its expected lifecycle, making it increasingly difficult to get replacement parts and provide maintenance. Atlantic Lottery Corporation is the first World Lottery Association-affiliated lottery operator to deploy the central management system in a game-to-system distributed market.
ALC First to Deploy IGT System
By leveraging IGT’s IntelligenEVO technology, Atlantic Lottery will power its video lottery network with the industry’s best-in-class central system and position itself to maximize future contributions to good causes,” said Michael MacKinnon, Atlantic Lottery VP, Product. “As an organization that prioritizes system security and exceptional player experiences, Atlantic Lottery believes that IGT’s IntelligenEVO solution will help generate high player satisfaction and optimal network performance.”
ALC will tap into the system’s suite of player-focused functionality. The technology’s game-to-system and open API design optimizes data collection and delivery, enabling ALC to customize their program as player needs evolve.
The rollout of the system is expected to begin in spring 2026.
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