At last week’s iGaming North America Conference, online gaming was a key focus.

Last week Las Vegas hosted the iGaming North America Conference, a gathering of gambling industry executives from online and offline ventures alike to evaluate the U.S. gaming industry’s current condition and foresee what’s ahead for it.

Over a two-day period, these experts shared ideas about how to evolve the online gaming industry in the U.S. in particular. Attendees touted the successes of regulated online casino gambling in many parts of Europe and the U.K., suggesting that the U.S. could take more than a lesson or two from those successes. It was even pointed out how the Nevada Gaming Control Board already successively penned an agreement with their counterparts in Alderney as a fine precedent.

It became a point of clear consensus at this event as well that any inklings of a conflict between offline and online gaming establishments is a myth, and that land-based casinos are just as eager to see online casinos and online poker rooms as the players themselves.

The land-based casinos mostly agree (with the exception of some Native American run establishments) that federal regulations for online gambling would benefit Las Vegas and that state regulations would benefit local casinos, in both cases by making a wider player pool more comfortable considering stepping foot in a brick and mortar casino to play.

Those present also warn not to rule New Jersey out as the first state to legalize online casino gambling and online poker within the state, despite the current governor’s objections.