Brian Zinke is the Executive Director of Surveillance at Encore Boston Harbor, joining the pre-opening team in 2018. He leads Surveillance Operations, Surveillance Technical Services and Access Control.

Brian began his casino career in surveillance at The Mirage in Las Vegas in 1989. He joined Bellagio’s opening team in 1998, serving as its first Surveillance Operations Manager. In 2007 he transitioned to Table Games at Wynn Las Vegas for the newly created position of Games Protection Manager, remaining in that role for eight years. Brian has held Surveillance Director roles at New York-New York Hotel & Casino and ARIA Resort & Casino and was part of the opening support teams for Treasure Island (TI) Surveillance in 1993 and MGM National Harbor Surveillance in 2016.

Over the course of his 37-year gaming career, Brian has led and mentored surveillance teams and gained firsthand insight into how advances in surveillance technology support game protection and casino operations.

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Panel Discussion: What Will Game Protection Look Like in the AI Age?
A lot has changed in the last 20 years. The games are changing. Technology is changing. People’s mindsets are changing. From a game protection perspective “sleight of hand” has given way to “sleight of finger.” In this conversation game protection leaders talk about the biggest changes they have seen on the gaming floor in the last 20 years and discuss the current threat landscape, including the evolution of the advantage play team, electronic device threats and dealer-employee collusion trends. Are we prepared for the future? Are the biggest threats external or internal? What should we change, what should we keep the same? We ask the panel and audience two critical questions: What are the main threats to casino floor today and what do we need to do to modernize the game protection playbook to combat those threats?