SBC Awards Lisbon 2026

SBC Awards Lisbon 2026 is the 13th annual awards ceremony from SBC Events, capping off the three-day SBC Summit (September 29 – October 1), the world's largest iGaming conference with an expected 40,000 delegates. The ceremony takes place the evening of October 1 at MEO Arena.

SBC Awards is the top industry award in betting and iGaming, recognizing operator and solution-provider achievements across key categories:

• Payments
• Marketing
• Platform solutions
• Data
• Responsible gambling
• Innovation

This isn't really an event you attend "for knowledge" or even "for contacts" in the standard business-meeting sense — it's the industry's closing statement, delivered in full gala format: welcome drinks, dinner, the awards ceremony itself, and an afterparty with a DJ (based on past years).

For affiliates and webmasters already in Lisbon for SBC Summit, Awards Lisbon is a natural extension of the trip rather than a reason to travel on its own — the relaxed evening setting often works better for networking with operator leadership than the formal expo meetings earlier in the week. For anyone attending just for the ceremony without the rest of the summit, keep in mind the main value here is the sense of industry occasion, not educational content or direct deal-making.