Castilla y León gambling congress brings CIRSA, Orenes and Codere to Soria

The Junta de Castilla y León is holding the 19th Castilla y León Gambling Congress in Soria on 20 and 21 October. The event is scheduled for the Aula Magna Tirso de Molina at the Diputación Provincial de Soria and is to cover regulation, business, technology and analysis of new player habits, according to the report.

The first day opens at 10:00 with accreditation, followed half an hour later by an official welcome from Luis Miguel González Gago, councillor for the Presidency of the Junta de Castilla y León. At 11:00 the first session, titled on the different gambling games at a crossroads and whether they face evolution or reconversion, is moderated by Fátima Pablos Mateos, director general of Taxes of the Junta de Extremadura. The panel comprises Carlos Duelo Riu, corporate director of Institutional Relations at CIRSA; Jesús Serrano Escudero, a lawyer specialising in gambling; and Rodrigo García Barquín, computer engineer and project head at Interconexión Castilla y León, S.A.

At 12:45 a panel on the future of the gambling company, on transforming without losing the essence, is moderated by Ramón Cubián Martínez, director general of Land of the Community of Madrid and delegate for Gambling Planning and Management. The speakers are Mónica Palomares Rincón, director general of Grupo Cocamatic; Eduardo Estévez Gudiño, director of the Castilla y León Family Business Association; and Pedro García Cuestas, director of Institutional Relations, Communication and CSR and secretary general of Grupo Orenes.

At 17:00 the investigative journalist Javier Chicote Lerena is scheduled to give a lecture on investigative journalism and the courts as keys in the current political and economic landscape. InfoPlay describes him as a journalist specialising in political and economic corruption investigations, born in Logroño in 1979, a journalism doctor from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid and a former head of the investigation area at ABC, who joined Artículo14 in September 2026. The report says he has worked on investigations linked to the Púnica and Gürtel cases, Nueva Rumasa, Manos Limpias-Ausbanc and various political and economic cases, is a founding member of the Association of Investigative Journalists (API) and received the APM award for Best Journalist of the Year in 2018. A monumental visit to Soria is scheduled at 20:00 and the congress dinner at 21:30.

The second day, Wednesday 21 October, begins at 11:00 with a session on the player of tomorrow, covering technology, experience and new habits, moderated by Nerea Alday Garate, director general of Gambling and Spectacles of the Basque Government. The speakers are Laura Fernández de la Cruz, commercial and marketing director of Logical Games46; Ana Parra Sevilla, public administrations manager at Grupo Codere; and Xavier Serra Adelmar, director of the B2B division of Unidesa, CIRSA.

The closing session is scheduled for 12:30, led by Ruth Andérez Alonso, director of Institutional Relations and External Action at the Presidency department of the Junta de Castilla y León, accompanied by Benito Serrano Mata, president of the Diputación Provincial de Soria. The report says the Junta has announced that officials with responsibilities for gambling, taxes and public health from Andalucía, Aragón, Cantabria, Castilla-La Mancha, Extremadura, La Rioja, Madrid and the Basque Country will attend, along with representatives of the DGOJ and police services specialising in gambling control.

The Junta announced in June that it expected about 300 attendees and noted the usual participation of regional authorities, companies and manufacturers linked to machines, bingo, salons, casinos and betting, according to the report.