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Exploring how crypto and blockchain are reshaping regulated gambling across multiple jurisdictions, this session examines integrity case studies, enforcement insights and audience Q&A. It will highlight where supervision is tightening and how operators can manage risk in a market still grappling with fragmented rules and fast-moving technology.

Delegates are invited to gather at the Main Stage, Hall 3, for the Official Opening Ceremony commencing at 12pm.

Focusing on cross-border enforcement trends, AML exposure for directors and the legal risks of multi-jurisdictional operations, this session will draw on practical examples, regulatory analysis and audience Q&A. Participants will see how operators can structure licensing across EU, offshore and local frameworks while responding to increasingly coordinated enforcement action.

Offering a jurisdiction-by-jurisdiction breakdown of U.S. and Canadian licensing models heading into 2027, this session will cover tribal partnerships, sweepstakes versus regulated frameworks and the mounting pressure from marketing, payments and banking enforcement. Through case studies, market analysis and audience Q&A, it will set out the main compliance fault lines across North America’s fragmented market.

The workshop establishes a dedicated Business-to-Government (B2G) policy dialogue addressing the divergent regulatory philosophies governing digital technologies across the European Union and the Global Majority (encompassing Asia, Africa, MENA&GCC and Latin America). The workshop aims to transition dialogue from isolated national codification toward actionable inter-regional policy harmonization and mutual learning.

Develop practical frameworks for applying CSR across product, AI, compliance, and commercial strategy.

Unveil how influential women create opportunities that compound.

The Malta Digital Innovation Authority (MDIA) and the Malta Financial Services Authority (MFSA) are set to host a dedicated Malta workshop. The workshop will provide delegates with insights into two of Europe’s most significant regulatory frameworks: the Markets in Crypto-Assets (MiCA) Regulation and the EU Artificial Intelligence Act. Representatives from both authorities will share perspectives on the evolving regulatory landscape and its implications for industry stakeholders. 

As operators assess new jurisdictions, AI is increasingly being used to analyse regulation, consumer behaviour, competition and operational requirements before launch. Examine where these tools can deliver value and where they still require specialist oversight.

Measures like ad bans or payment blocks often redirect players to unlicensed platforms instead of boosting licensed operators. Explore why enforcement alone doesn’t protect market share.

The 2026 FIFA World Cup was the first global sporting event where sportsbooks, prediction markets, and AI-powered betting experiences competed for the same fan attention. This live analysis examines what worked, what failed, and whether prediction markets changed the economics, engagement models, and technology stack of sports betting.

Brazil’s regulated market saw betting site access surge by 237% in 2025, driven by legalization and mobile adoption, but rapid growth is now, in 2026, colliding with stricter supervision, taxation (18% GGR), and enforcement frameworks. Discover where operators are already failing, licensing gaps, payment blocking, and compliance blind spots, and how to survive Brazil’s shift from expansion to enforcement.

Europe’s iGaming market, projected to exceed €27 billion, is now defined by stricter enforcement, advertising bans, and increased compliance obligations across jurisdictions. Grasp how aggressive regulation is impacting channelisation, pushing players offshore, and forcing operators to rethink market strategies.

Each US state enforces its own licensing, taxation, and compliance framework, requiring operators to duplicate infrastructure across jurisdictions such as New Jersey, Michigan, and Pennsylvania. Understand how this structure inflates operational cost, slows deployment timelines, and forces selective market entry rather than national scale.

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Some African markets hold up to 60-70% of activity in unlicensed operations, undermining legitimate operators. Regulators from across the continent examine why enforcement continues to lag behind legislation, which tools are proving effective against illegal operators, and how stronger regional cooperation can increase channelisation into licensed markets.

Industry leaders go head-to-head on questions many discuss privately but rarely on stage. Does the best tech always win? Can a newcomer break through without an established network? Are conferences deal-making engines or simply expensive social clubs? And in an era of AI-driven matchmaking and digital sales, does face-to-face trust still outperform data and product differentiation?

One year into the new online market and with the long-awaited reform of land-based gaming on the horizon, what will the Italian public gaming market look like in the years ahead?

One year after the introduction of Italy’s new licensing framework, which reduced the number of license holders from approximately 90 to 46, operators assess its real impact on competition, compliance requirements, and market dynamics.

Moving beyond the idea of a battle between channels to explore models of integration. Identity, security, player protection tools, loyalty, customer support and access to services can be shared across channels, provided that the regulatory framework clearly defines their respective roles and boundaries.

Italy’s ban on gambling advertising continues to reshape the market, limiting the visibility of licensed operators while unregulated operators exploit offshore acquisition channels. The discussion will also examine the experience of other European countries, where advertising restrictions have not reduced demand but have instead shifted the channels through which consumers access gambling. The new model of responsible advertising.

Behind every iGaming event is a hidden economy of hotels, hospitality, transport, tech suppliers, and business tourism services. Explore how host cities and governments can better measure and benefit from the real economic impact of gaming conferences beyond the show floor.

Retail venues and online platforms still run under different rules, but players don’t separate them. This session explores how operators align responsible gaming tools and communication across land-based sites, betting shops, and digital channels. Learn how consistent messaging and shared data improve compliance, strengthen player protection, and create a unified experience across every touchpoint.

Live dealer streams, game-show formats, and experiential products are reshaping online casinos, blending streaming, social features, and data-driven personalisation. Engage in how operators are using these tools to boost engagement, tailor offers and lobbies, and create fun, social sessions – all while embedding responsible gambling measures.

The gaming machine sector accounts for around half of tax revenues and supports significant employment, yet it is often affected by policy decisions made without sufficient input from the market. The future of gaming machines must be addressed as a matter of industrial policy. The new framework will need to balance economic sustainability, security, product innovation, player protection and the role of gaming machine operators.

In a sector often shaped by polarised narratives and public scrutiny, delivering accurate, balanced and responsible reporting on public gambling is both a challenge and a duty. Media coverage plays a crucial role in shaping public perception, influencing policy debate and defining the social legitimacy of the industry.

Discover how amusement and non-wagering entertainment formats are expanding as operators diversify away from pure gambling revenue streams. The session will examine how hybrid entertainment venues are becoming part of broader leisure ecosystems.

Rising regulatory costs and shrinking margins are putting smaller operators under increasing pressure. This session will examine the future of Italy’s retail market and the possibility of it evolving towards a large-scale retail model that may be easier to regulate, but potentially less effective and less connected to customers.

Native advertising continues to play a significant role in performance-driven acquisition. This panel explores how marketers and advertisers approach native campaigns, from strategy and creative considerations to optimization, scaling, and revenue generation across different markets and business models.

Affiliate marketing is entering a post-arbitrage stage. The winners will not be the teams that buy the most traffic, but the teams that build the best performance infrastructure across fragmented media, AI-driven discovery and alternative user environments.

As Meta’s AI-driven systems continue to reshape media buying, advertisers must rethink how they scale profitably. This session explores the strategic adjustments behind managing a $300,000-per-day Meta account, focusing on how advanced teams influence algorithmic behavior to prioritize higher-value customers over low-cost conversions.

How are leading telehealth brands scaling profitably in 2026? This keynote breaks down the winning formula behind Snapchat advertising and ad spend matching opportunities of up to $100,000—giving marketers a practical roadmap for sustainable customer acquisition and revenue growth.

This session explores how changing consumer behavior is reshaping the affiliate funnel, and how discovery, trust, community and AI are creating new opportunities for performance marketers to drive action and scale.

Josh Snow, founder of AffiliateMarketing.com, reveals how brands, affiliates, and creators build partnerships that compound into serious, scalable growth. A fast, tactical look at the strategy, offers, and media behind winning in modern affiliate marketing — and the moves most operators miss.

TikTok continues to evolve as a platform for content discovery, brand engagement, and commerce. This session explores how audiences interact with brands across the TikTok ecosystem, from initial discovery through consideration and purchase, and examines the changing role of the platform in the customer journey.

AI is increasingly influencing how marketers approach search, demand generation, and performance media. This panel explores how these developments are changing the media-buying landscape, including evolving approaches to audience targeting, campaign management, creative, and performance measurement.

As Meta advertising continues to evolve, creative development, AI, and performance marketing are becoming increasingly interconnected. This session explores how these areas are shaping the modern Meta advertising landscape and the considerations involved in developing and scaling performance-focused campaigns.

Six industry experts go head-to-head as the moderator presents today’s biggest traffic controversies. From AI-generated creatives and EEAT to Facebook’s future and the scalability of SEO, each team must instantly choose a side, defend it with evidence, and challenge the opposing view.

A discussion on how regulators and enforcement bodies are approaching compliance failures, market abuse, and illicit finance within the digital asset sector. As regulatory scrutiny intensifies, how must exchanges, custodians, and service providers adapt their compliance strategies to remain operational in a rapidly tightening global framework?

As Europe rolls out the Markets in Crypto-Assets (MiCA) framework, the global digital asset industry is watching closely. Is MiCA creating the most robust regulatory blueprint for crypto markets — or pushing innovation to friendlier jurisdictions? This panel compares Europe’s approach with evolving frameworks in the U.S., the UK, and Asia, exploring whether MiCA will shape the global rulebook or fragment the crypto landscape.

As Europe rolls out the Markets in Crypto-Assets (MiCA) framework, the global digital asset industry is watching closely. Is MiCA creating the most robust regulatory blueprint for crypto markets — or pushing innovation to friendlier jurisdictions? This panel compares Europe’s approach with evolving frameworks in the U.S., the UK, and Asia, exploring whether MiCA will shape the global rulebook or fragment the crypto landscape.

Most of the world still gets whatever financial system its geography allows. Stablecoins, tokenized collateral and onchain banking break that link, delivering the same infrastructure to anyone with a connected device. Reeve Collins on what changes when access stops being a privilege of location.

Three competing visions for programmable money are converging at the same moment. Stablecoins offer speed and global reach without the banking relationship; tokenized deposits preserve it; CBDCs give governments the control they never had over digital cash. This panel puts representatives of each model on stage and forces the real question: in ten years, which one is the default settlement layer — and which were just stepping stones.

Some banks are bolting blockchain onto what they already have. Others are building from nothing on rails designed for it. Both are live, serving real clients and settling real value, and they have arrived at very different answers about what a bank needs to be. This panel asks what genuinely changes when settlement is instant and the ledger is shared.

Behind every crypto price is a network of market makers, liquidity providers, and prop traders whose influence is rarely disclosed and almost never scrutinised. The conflicts embedded in market-making arrangements are structural — and most institutional investors entering this asset class don’t fully understand them. This session opens the black box before it opens them.

Tokenized real-world assets have never looked healthier on paper. The totals keep climbing, the announcements keep coming, and yet most of what has been issued barely moves once it lands. This panel asks what is actually trading, what is simply parked, and whether tokenization has solved anything for assets that were illiquid to begin with. With the people who issue these assets sitting next to the people who have to price them when there is no market to look at.

The tokenised asset market has hit $34 billion and no single player controls it — yet. TradFi giants brought institutional credibility and distribution; native crypto protocols built the infrastructure and the integrations; and the battle for who owns the custody, the rails, and the end investor is far from over. This panel maps the real competitive landscape and asks who wins when the market hits the next order of magnitude.

Dubai has done what no other jurisdiction managed: turned regulatory clarity into a genuine capital magnet for the global digital asset industry. Dr Marwan Alzarouni, CEO of the Dubai Blockchain Center, sets out what comes after the foundation — the infrastructure, the institutions, and the ambitions that define Dubai’s next phase as the world’s leading digital asset hub.

The MENA conversation is dominated by licensing, institutional capital, and regulatory milestones — but the region’s most consequential crypto story is happening at the user level. Across the Middle East, crypto is being used for remittances, savings, payments, and financial access in ways that have nothing to do with ETFs or tokenised treasuries. This panel examines who the real MENA crypto user is, what they actually need, and whether the products being built for the region are meeting them where they are.

A head-to-head debate on the ultimate safe haven, comparing Bitcoin and gold in terms of volatility, adoption, and long-term reliability. Experts will discuss which asset can truly serve as a store of value in today’s economic climate.

Emerging markets remain one of the most compelling growth frontiers for FX brokers and fintechs, especially in the emerging regions. This panel brings together senior industry leaders to explore how firms can build commercial strategies, partnerships and locally relevant operating models.

Consumer expectations are reshaping payments through demand for faster, seamless, and secure experiences. This panel explores how PSD3 and PSR are accelerating open banking, driving innovation, and redefining products, services, risk management, and operational resilience across the payments ecosystem.

A keynote by Brett King, a top-10 globally ranked Futurist, an International Bestselling Author, a world-renowned futurist, delivered keynotes at major global events including Web Summit, TED, CES, and Money20/20, and has appeared on CNBC, BBC, Bloomberg, and FOX. A leading voice in fintech and innovation, he has advised the Obama administration, regulators in 18 countries, and the UAE government.

This keynote explores how AI agents are transforming fintech. AI agents are evolving from support tools into autonomous drivers of financial services. This keynote explores how they transform fintech through real-time decision-making, powering personalised advice, trading, fraud detection, and automated compliance, reshaping how institutions operate and serve customers.

As traders become more sophisticated and digital expectations for AI-driven trading continue to rise, what are the tools and technologies shaping the future of the industry? How can firms leverage AI, predictive analytics, and data to create smarter, more personalized customer journeys and redefine trader engagement?

This fireside chat goes behind the headlines, separates the real incidents from the hype, and lands on the pattern underneath all of them. Models from OpenAI and Meta slipped their evaluation sandboxes and reached outside systems, including Hugging Face. In Anthropic’s own tests, leading models from OpenAI, Google, and xAI schemed and blackmailed to avoid being shut down. And a Claude powered agent asked to book a gym class simply hacked the booking system to get its way.

An expert discussion on the rise of AI-powered fraud in payments and trading, from deepfakes to synthetic identities and the challenges facing the digital economy. Experts will explore emerging risks, changing fraud patterns, and the importance of collaboration, AI agents innovation, and trust in protecting businesses and customers.

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Cross-border payments orchestration are the backbone of international trade, powering everything from e-commerce and remittances to B2B transactions and marketplace settlements. As businesses demand faster, more transparent, and cost-effective global payments, this panel explores how banks, PSPs, fintechs, and payment innovators are building the next generation of cross-border payment infrastructure while balancing speed, compliance, and resilience.

Covering Brazil’s licensing pathway, corporate structuring, tax exposure and compliance obligations, this session outlines what operators need to move from approval to full market readiness. Practical guidance, regulatory updates and audience Q&A will focus on the steps required in one of the industry’s most closely watched jurisdictions.

In several LatAm markets, 40-60% of GGR still flows through unlicensed operators, despite tightening regulation; this session gives a rare, practical view into how authorities are adjusting tactics, where they’re failing, and what operators should expect next.

An interactive workshop exploring the role of Israeli innovation in gaming technology, AI, fintech, cybersecurity and player acquisition. Through case studies, discussion and audience Q&A, the session will highlight how operators, affiliates and suppliers can engage with Israel’s startup ecosystem, build strategic partnerships and apply new technologies in a fast-changing iGaming market.

A strong personal brand can help increase visibility and professional credibility. This session explores the principles of personal branding and thought leadership, including strategies for creating content, engaging audiences, and growing an authentic presence over time.

Tim’s speech will explore how working across multiple GEOs helps affiliates reduce risk, find new growth opportunities, and build stronger long-term partnerships. He’ll share how to choose markets based on traffic, adapt testing and deal models by GEO, and scale without relying on a single market.

Practical insights you can apply to your own campaigns straight away: which metric to trust at each stage, when to kill a source instead of a campaign, and why a profitable campaign can still cost you the offer.

Europe’s gambling market operates across borders, but regulation remains fragmented. Regulators and industry experts will examine where closer European cooperation can strengthen enforcement against illegal gambling, improve player protection, and align practical measures such as intelligence sharing, payment disruption, AI-driven risk detection, and evidence-based policymaking, without requiring full regulatory harmonisation.

Despite tighter regulation across Europe, offshore operators still capture up to 30-50% of market share in highly restricted jurisdictions, driven by faster onboarding, fewer limits, and better odds. Unpack the economic and product-driven forces behind black market growth and what must change to improve channelisation.

Despite strict regulation ensuring fairness, player mistrust remains high due to opaque UX and misunderstood mechanics, with many users underestimating RTP and overestimating risk. Unlock how transparency in product design, RNG visibility, odds clarity, and decision-making, can increase trust, retention, and long-term player value.

The longevity market is flooded with supplements and products making bold promises, but many of those claims aren’t supported by solid evidence. Witness practical, science-based framework for evaluating longevity claims, along with 3 questions to ask before trusting any health product, supplement, or emerging trend.

Gambling, finance, and health operate under strict scrutiny. This session examines how affiliates and brands stay compliant while still producing marketing that converts.

This session explores the role of subscriptions, customer engagement, and retention in supporting longer-term customer relationships and ongoing business growth.

Explore the fundamentals of building a nutraceutical product, from idea to launch. This session provides an overview of the product development journey and highlights key considerations for businesses looking to enter the nutraceutical market.

Tangible real examples of how to build AI agents for various departments of the business from ad creation to ad management to revenue reporting & analytics. A short talk jampacked with real examples that entrepreneurs, affiliates & marketing seniors can implement from day 1

Learn how a few simple post purchase tactics can increase your LTV, decrease your refunds and keep your customers coming back for more. Armed with ClickBank’s 20+ years of platform data and reporting, Justin will be lifting the curtain with case studies and split tests from current Platinum and Diamond clients, showing what our $1M+ partners are doing to stay at the top of their game.

No AI theory. Attila will show you the actual systems I built: an AI copywriting Super Skill that works with Claude and virtually any AI model, including open-source models; an automated Image Ad Factory powered by the KIE API and today’s top image models; and an AI media buying machine that uses Claude + Meta CLI to build and launch campaigns. You’ll see the workflows, prompts, tools, and automations behind each system, and how you can build them yourself.

The session will be practical and data-driven: real case studies, real experiments, real numbers from Convergen cases studies and Livemetrics dashboards.

What makes an advertisement effective isn’t always obvious at first glance. Drawing on observations from a large collection of ads, this session explores patterns in creative performance, audience response, and advertising decision-making, and considers what these observations may reveal about how marketers evaluate and develop performance-focused creative.

Traditional CRO is changing fast. The old model of endless minor tests, long research cycles and incremental optimisation is being disrupted by AI. In this keynote, I’ll share what we’re seeing across thousands of e-commerce brands, how AI and agentic workflows are changing the way we research, build and optimise post-click experiences, and what brands should be doing now to stay ahead.

What comes after UGC? As competition for attention increases, marketers are rethinking how creative is produced and deployed at scale. This session examines emerging approaches to creative operations and their role in supporting modern paid growth strategies.

Media buying UA campaigns fail not because of bad traffic or bad creatives — but because traffic sources, tracking platforms and advertisers are each optimizing in isolation. This panel brings all three together to examine how alignment (or the lack of it) determines campaign outcomes, and what each party can do differently.

Artificial intelligence, automation, and integrated systems are becoming increasingly prominent in modern advertising. This session examines their evolving role across the advertising ecosystem and considers how these developments may influence the future of the industry.

AI is increasingly influencing how performance advertising is created, tested, and optimized. This session explores the evolving role of AI in creative development and examines how advertisers are approaching the use of AI within performance-focused creative workflows.

Examining how player behaviour is changing and distinguishing between a genuine decline in demand and a shift towards other channels. The focus is not on protecting one channel over another, but on understanding the customer journey and how the regulated offering needs to evolve.

From managing social media platforms to exploring how emerging technologies can help prevent gambling addiction, combat illegal activity, and strengthen oversight of the gaming industry and its economic ecosystem.

Italy’s regulatory framework has become a benchmark for other European countries, from tackling illegal gambling and driving technological development to safeguarding players, businesses and government revenues.

Payment systems have evolved far beyond simply processing transactions, becoming essential tools for ensuring regulatory compliance across both physical and digital channels. This session will explore how the growing shift towards cashless payments is reshaping transaction traceability, fraud prevention and the customer journey as a whole.

The new online and land-based markets require ongoing investment in technology and product development, which could put considerable pressure on businesses, particularly smaller operators.

Italy’s mobile experience is shaped by retail habits, regulatory constraints, UX restrictions, and payment friction that don’t exist in more open markets. A look at what mobile-first actually means in practice how operators adapt onboarding, navigation, payments, and engagement flows for thumb-driven usage while still driving conversion and retention within Italian limits.

Gifting mechanics and mystery boxes have moved from novelty to retention infrastructure, with startups leading the charge on models that go well beyond the traditional bonus. Examine what’s working, where regulators are drawing lines, and whether gamification is building genuine loyalty or just masking churn.

Which sustainability models actually work in gaming and which are just PR? Hear proven case studies from Italy and international markets, backed by research and measurable outcomes. Learn how leading operators are balancing profitability, compliance, player trust, and long-term resilience.

The future of gaming machines must be approached as a matter of industrial policy. The new framework will need to strike a balance between economic sustainability, security, product innovation, player protection and the role of gaming machine operators.

Explore how the communication of public gambling is changing, balancing the need for transparency and social responsibility with the dynamics of digital engagement. A discussion bringing together media professionals, industry experts and key stakeholders to examine challenges, opportunities and future perspectives of an increasingly hybrid and strategic narrative.

Most networks launched in the last cycle are gone. The ones still here adapted, through bear markets, shifting regulation and changing user expectations. This panel brings together the people who have built through every cycle to discuss what actually forced them to change, where privacy and payments fit in that evolution, and what the next decade demands.

Every exploit and every laundering case traces back to something nobody checked. This panel gets into the unglamorous work of prevention, covering smart contract audits, transaction screening and the systems that flag bad actors before funds move. Less about regulation, more about what actually gets built and what still slips through.

Self-custody is the founding promise of crypto and still the part users find hardest. As wallets absorb social logins, account abstraction and embedded finance, the line between convenience and true ownership keeps blurring. The people building the world’s largest non-custodial wallets discuss what has to change before holding your own keys becomes the default.

The creator of Litecoin takes the stage for fireside chat on where the network goes next and what more than a decade of building peer-to-peer money has taught him.

Every transaction on most public blockchains is permanently visible to anyone who cares to look, something nobody would accept from a bank account. Yet privacy technology stays politically contested and commercially underbuilt. This panel makes the case for confidential transactions as a baseline and asks what it takes to deliver them without sacrificing compliance.

Quantum computing threatens the cryptography every blockchain depends on, with timeline estimates ranging from a decade away to already too late. Migration to post-quantum standards is slow, costly and barely started. This panel cuts through the speculation to ask what the realistic window is and what should already be underway.

Ethereum abandoned proof-of-work and most new chains never considered it, yet the largest proof-of-work networks keep settling enormous value without incident. The UTXO model offers privacy and parallelisation advantages account-based chains still struggle to match. Is the original architecture legacy technology, or the only design that has genuinely lasted?

Crypto payments have been five years away for about ten years. The rails are fast, cheap and global, and almost nobody uses them to buy anything. This panel looks at the last mile: merchant acceptance, user experience, regulation and the unglamorous integration work standing between crypto and everyday spending.

The co-inventor of the cryptographic timestamping work that underpins blockchain takes the stage for a keynote on where the technology came from and where it is heading next.

Migrants send over $800 billion home every year and lose a serious share of it to fees and delays. Crypto rails move the same value in seconds for a fraction of the cost, and adoption is already real across Latin America, Africa and Southeast Asia. This panel examines what is working, what is blocking wider rollout and whether crypto can finally displace the incumbents.

In no other asset class does social narrative move price the way it does in crypto. An honest conversation about how influence actually operates — who the real power brokers are, and whether the relationship between creators and the projects they promote is sustainable.

The payments world is being reshaped as stablecoins and PSPs transform how fast, low-cost, borderless transactions are delivered. This panel explores their convergence, enabling more efficient cross-border payments, new settlement models, and the evolving role of digital assets in global finance, while debating whether this shift is a threat or a major opportunity.

How the industry is evolving into a more connected ecosystem where platforms, brokers, and prop firms each play a critical role in trader success.  

Are Prop Firms the Next Regulatory Target? The proprietary trading industry has grown rapidly, driven by retail demand, online platforms, and challenge-based models. As global expansion continues, regulatory scrutiny and risk are emerging as key factors shaping the future of prop firms and the wider industry.

In 2026’s volatile markets, shaped by geopolitics, shifting rates, and fragmented liquidity, execution is under pressure. This panel explores how liquidity providers adapt to risk, whether liquidity is fragmenting, and how brokers can ensure consistent execution using technology, smart routing, and deeper liquidity access.

In this fireside chat, we’ll explore key technology priorities for brokers, including data integration and hosting, CRM systems, cybersecurity, and automation. Discover how these technologies can improve efficiency, strengthen security, enhance client service, and help brokerage businesses prepare for the future.

Is CPA still the dominant choice, or are revenue share and hybrid structures becoming the preferred route for sustainable growth?Industry experts will discuss the pros and cons of CPA, RevShare, and hybrid models, how to align incentives between partners, and what deal structures are delivering the best long-term results in today’s financial services landscape.

Renowned Wall Street trader, educator, and entrepreneur, he has spent more than two decades mastering the US stock market while building one of the industry’s most respected trading education ecosystems, training over 20,000 students worldwide. Featured in CNBC’s Wall Street Warriors, starting as a licensed broker in New York to becoming Managing Partner at Hold Brothers LLC, in this keynote, shares the strategies that have helped thousands of traders achieve success, earning him one of the largest and most loyal trading communities in the industry.

Why do some trading communities thrive while others fade? Explore how gamification, social trading, copy trading, strategy-following, live sessions and community platforms drive engagement, trust, and trader retention. Explore how social trading experiences, leaderboards, rewards, and educational funnels can build trust, encourage participation, and improve trader retention.

Bringing together regulators and industry leaders to address licensing, AML, illegal gambling and player protection across Africa, this session will focus on cooperation, regulatory alignment and the future of a more resilient market. Practical discussion, regional case examples and audience Q&A will round out the workshop.

Europe codifies first through MiCA and the EU AI Act. Much of the Global Majority iterates live, through sandboxes and special economic zones. This workshop asks where the two can meet without one losing certainty and the other losing speed, and how to build permanent policy channels between central banks, conduct authorities and industry rather than meeting only when something breaks.

Fraud in iGaming has surged 64% YoY, with AI-driven scams such as deepfakes increasing 10x. Organised fraud networks are using automation, synthetic identities, and cross-border coordination to outpace traditional detection and enforcement. Examine where operator controls, regulatory oversight, and investigative efforts are falling behind and what must change to accelerate detection and response.

If your anti-fraud strategy begins and ends with static rules, you’re leaving money on the table. Discover the hidden capabilities that catch sophisticated fraud while improving conversion, player acquisition, and long-term revenue.

With 82.9% of operators reporting increased fraud and ~42% of attacks targeting the deposit stage, this live simulation pits fraud tactics against AML teams in real time, exposing exactly where detection fails and how fast responses need to be. Drawing on frontline investigative experience, the discussion will examine how criminal networks exploit weaknesses across payments, onboarding, and transaction monitoring and what operators can do to stay ahead.

Pop-ups, deposit limits, AI monitoring, affordability checks – which tools genuinely protect players, and which simply satisfy regulators? Hear how companies are combining tech, data, and human support to reduce harm while maintaining player trust.

Finland’s parliament has approved the country’s biggest gambling reform in decades, replacing Veikkaus’ online monopoly with a licensing system from 2027. Learn what drove the decision, how Finland plans to channel players back into the regulated market, and what other jurisdictions can learn from its transition.

Italy’s strong live poker culture sits within tight regulation and limited casino infrastructure, raising a key question: is poker a skill game, gambling product, or entertainment vertical? Explore regulation, online growth, affiliates, media, and live ecosystems shaping its future. Bringing together legal, operator, affiliate/media, player, and venue perspectives, it examines how poker can scale in Italy’s current framework.

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In high-stakes iGaming, the balance between commercial control and authentic connection defines whether a VIP becomes a long-term asset or a short-term spike in revenue. This panel dissects the invisible power dynamics shaping high-value player relationships: from boundary-setting and risk management to emotional leverage and loyalty architecture.

Female participation in sports, esports, and mobile gaming is rising across Europe, while betting products and UX remain largely male-focused. With acquisition costs increasing, this gap is becoming a missed growth opportunity. Unveil why the industry has lagged behind, what female engagement data shows, and how operators can better design products and acquisition strategies to capture this segment.

AI is reshaping iGaming hiring, where CVs and job titles are losing relevance to adaptability, AI fluency, and reputation-based evaluation. At the same time, companies are struggling to retain experienced talent as automation reshapes roles, increases mid-level churn, and exposes weak progression paths. Learn where AI hiring works and fails, what signals matter beyond CVs, and how operators are improving retention and reducing mid-level attrition.

Explore how the shift away from multi-brand strategies is forcing operators to rethink customer acquisition and return to single-brand models, while eliminating the arbitrage opportunities that once helped mitigate fluctuations in customer acquisition costs. The session will examine how operators are adapting through customer relationship management, search engine optimisation and owned media channels.

Prediction market platforms are moving towards regulatory frameworks that challenge the current approach to sports betting regulation. This session will explore how prediction markets are blurring the lines between regulated gambling, financial products and betting in disguise.

Unveil how behavioural tracking systems now process thousands of player signals per second to detect risk patterns, with operators increasingly required to intervene before regulatory thresholds are breached. The session will break down how predictive models are being used to balance compliance with retention pressure.

The session will explore how high-volume events can expose vulnerabilities in sportsbook technology, why regulators are calling for increasingly robust integrity monitoring systems, and which practical measures can effectively mitigate regulatory risk at scale.

Consultants and representatives from regulatory and certification bodies explain when the term “traceability” is misused, and what risks may arise both for providers offering non-compliant services and for companies that use them.

Every day, new payment solutions are launched claiming major advantages over competitors but what are those advantages in practice? How do these systems actually work? What are the real differences, benefits, and hidden risks?

As crypto assets, tokenised markets, and prediction platforms grow, the lines between investing, speculation, and gambling are becoming harder to define. Industry leaders and regulatory experts examine where these models fit legally, how risk is assessed, and whether they represent competition, convergence, or a new category entirely.

We´re championing up-and-coming startups with the exciting Pitch competition. Held live on stage, it’s your chance to connect with investors and VCs—don’t miss this golden opportunity!

How to build your performance agency into a real sellable asset that you can later sell the business for multiple 7-figures or even 8-figures. He’s going through all the caveats/pitfalls/traps agency owners often bake into their business and how to avoid them so they build an actual asset for an exit.

The ecommerce landscape is becoming increasingly competitive as customer acquisition costs rise and consumers expect more personalized experiences. From AI-driven customer insights and automated acquisition to smarter support and conversion optimization, this panel examines the strategies helping ecommerce businesses grow profitably in 2026.

Retaining customers extends beyond the initial conversion. This session examines the role of subscriber engagement, lifecycle marketing, and customer relationship strategies in fostering long-term loyalty and sustained business growth.

This panel explores what still works in search arbitrage today, where margins are being squeezed, and how advertisers and traffic operators are adapting their strategies around intent, native traffic, AI, and conversion economics.

As the affiliate marketing landscape evolves, businesses are placing greater focus on long-term partnerships, quality traffic, and sustainable acquisition. This panel explores the factors that can influence lasting growth in affiliate marketing, including partnerships, traffic strategies, performance measurement, and adapting to changes across the industry.

As restrictions tighten and competition intensifies, gambling operators are relying less on traditional search. Reveal how affiliates and brands use communities, influencers, direct traffic, and alternative acquisition strategies to drive player growth outside Google’s ecosystem.

The first wave of blockchain gaming burned players with tokenomics dressed as gameplay. The studios still standing learned a different lesson: the best Web3 game is one where players never have to think about the blockchain. This panel examines the stealth adoption strategy — real games, real studios, real retention — and whether invisible infrastructure is finally the unlock the industry needed.

Capital, users, and builders are consolidating around a shrinking set of ecosystems. The people building the actual plumbing of Web3 — connectivity layers, cross-chain protocols, oracles — argue which components of the stack are genuinely durable.

The AI Act is in force and the compliance scramble is largely over, which leaves a harder question. Rules govern what companies may build, but they say very little about how societies absorb the result. This panel looks past the regulatory milestone at the things policy does not settle: public trust, labour, institutional capacity and who gets a say in how AI reshapes daily life.

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AI agents are already rebalancing portfolios and moving capital without a human approving each step. The systems they transact through were built for people who read confirmation screens and make mistakes slowly. This panel gets into what breaks at machine speed, and how much autonomy anyone should hand a piece of software with a wallet.

A hands-on 25-minute session with Tony Ventura exploring how AI tools are reshaping business, creativity, and decision-making in real time. Less theory, more demonstration — expect live examples, tools you can use the same day, and a Latin American perspective on why digital transformation is accelerating faster in emerging markets than anywhere else.

Watch a humanoid robot deliver savage stand-up comedy before taking your toughest questions live in an unfiltered AMA.

Animoca has backed several hundred companies across Web3, which makes Robby Yung one of the few people who can say what is actually being built where AI agents meet onchain finance rather than what is being promised. This fireside looks at where the two are genuinely converging, what the portfolio is telling him about which models work, and what he expects to break first.

Investors see hundreds of decks and back a handful. The polite version of why sits in the rejection email. The real one almost never does. This panel asks early-stage investors to be specific about what actually kills a deal, what founders consistently get wrong in the room, and what they wish someone had said before the meeting. With a founder on stage to answer back.

AI has absorbed an enormous share of the capital that once flowed into crypto, and much of it is not coming back. This panel asks where that leaves Web3, what is genuinely still being funded, and whether the two sectors are competing for the same money or converging into one thesis.

Discover how gamification is reshaping forex trading, driving engagement, influencing behaviour, and creating more interactive trading experience. Real case studies of influencing trader behaviour, engagement, and decision-making in a responsible way.

AI-powered search is changing how customers discover, evaluate, and trust financial brands. As AI-driven search reshapes online discovery, how can firms stay visible, credible, and competitive? This panel explores the future of SEO and content, how consumers use AI to research financial services, and the strategies firms need to drive discovery, trust, and customer acquisition. 

As financial advice increasingly moves from traditional institutions to TikTok creators, YouTubers, Instagram personalities, and “finfluencers,” regulators are racing to keep up. In an era where viral content can move markets, shape investor behavior, and blur the line between education and promotion, financial firms face a new challenge: how to stay compliant while remaining culturally relevant and digitally competitive.

Leading experts will discuss the trends and innovations shaping the markets of tomorrow. From macroeconomic shifts and geopolitical events to AI-powered solutions, digital assets, crypto payment evolution, regulatory frameworks, and next-generation trading infrastructure, this panel will provide insights into the opportunities and challenges that will define forex in 2027 and beyond.