G-Tech Lottery card Demo for the G-Tech Users Conference at Pebble Beach California 1988 or Gaming functions concept. Gemplus Smartcard 1988. Attendee card Gerard Pons, CEO of Telemediacartes.

By 1988-89, G-Tech Corporation in partnership with Telemediacartes initiated a number of projects for Smartcard systems in USA, involving Lottery cards, Gaming- Casino, Providence, Rhode Island, Chicago, Atlantic City, and Las Vegas. These mostly took place around 1987-90

In 1988, GTECH Corporation—then the world's dominant provider of online lottery systems and computer networks—hosted its prestigious annual Users Conference at Pebble Beach, California.
While specific workshop agendas or attendee rolls from this 1988 event are confined to archived corporate records, the conference took place during a defining era for the company:
• Market Dominance: By 1988, GTECH supplied centralized technology and terminals for the vast majority of state-run lotteries across the United States and international markets.
• The "Users" Network: The conference gathered GTECH's primary "users"—who were actually high-ranking state lottery directors, government officials, and international gaming administrators—to preview new terminal hardware, encryption technology, and transactional software.