2020 EVENT VIDEOS
Virtual breakout sessions
Innovating to eliminate harmful gambling
How can new tech improve integrity
Research
1st Breakout
How can new tech improve integrity
Collaboration and tech: the stakes for sports betting integrity
Silvia Paleari, Senior Public Affairs Manager, IBIA
Silvia Paleari
Senior Public Affairs Manager IBIA
Silvia Paleari, Senior Public Affairs Manager at the International Betting Integrity Association explains how technology helped to have better systems in place to ensure sports betting integrity and highlights what future developments should take into account in order to be effective.
Research
How can academic-industry research collaboratives advance the understanding and
mitigation of product risks?
Dr Jonathan Parke, Founder and Director, Sophro Ltd
Dr Jonathan Parke
Founder and Director Sophro Ltd
Understanding and reducing the risks of harm posed by gambling products is an emergent and integral element of safer gambling strategies. However, making gambling safer through design adjustments (to both games and their platforms) is a demanding, complex and contentious exercise.
Innovation through collaborative research with industry can accelerate progress in understanding
and upgrading product safety. In this session, we will consider how using examples.

Karim Chikh
Head of LeCoR Analytics Kindred
How can AI be applied to detect problem gambling and what’s Kindred’s approach.

Silvia Paleari
Senior Public Affairs Manager IBIA
Silvia Paleari, Senior Public Affairs Manager at the International Betting Integrity Association explains how technology helped to have better systems in place to ensure sports betting integrity and highlights what future developments should take into account in order to be effective.

Dr Jonathan Parke
Founder and Director Sophro Ltd
Understanding and reducing the risks of harm posed by gambling products is an emergent and integral element of safer gambling strategies.
However, making gambling safer through design adjustments (to both games and their platforms) is a demanding, complex and contentious exercise.
Innovation through collaborative research with industry can accelerate progress in understanding
and upgrading product safety. In this session, we will consider how using examples.
2nd Breakout
Innovating to eliminate harmful gambling
The Online Gambling Self-Exclusion Puzzle: Putting the Pieces Together
Jack Symons
CEO, GamBan
Jack Symons
CEO GamBan
An overview of effective self-exclusion, exploring tools, barriers, impact, characteristics,
improvements and the ongoing need for collaboration.
Research
AI for Anti-Money Laundering in Online Gambling
Charitos Charitou
fourth year PhD student, Computer Science Department at City, University of London
Charitos Charitou
fourth year PhD student, Computer Science Department at City, University of London
We present the challenges that exist in Online Gambling and why is hard to detect money laundering. Further, we give an overview of the methods that we have been investigating to reduce the risk of money laundering in online gambling.

Jack Symons
CEO GamBan
An overview of effective self-exclusion, exploring tools, barriers, impact, characteristics,
improvements and the ongoing need for collaboration.

Johan Claesson
Integrity Officer at the Swedish FA
It will descripe the situation in Sweden and what we need to fight the problem.

Charitos Charitou
fourth year PhD student, Computer Science Department at City, University of London
We present the challenges that exist in Online Gambling and why is hard to detect money laundering. Further, we give an overview of the methods that we have been investigating to reduce the risk of money laundering in online gambling.
3rd Breakout
Innovating to eliminate harmful gambling
2020 Vision: Tough Choices To Futureproof Remote Gambling
Matt-Zarb Cousin
Director of Clean Up Gambling and Co-Founder of Gamban
Matt-Zarb Cousin
Director of Clean Up Gambling and Co-Founder of Gamban
The liberalization of remote gambling, combined with inadequate regulation and oversight, has led to a public backlash in a growing number of jurisdictions. This will undoubtedly lead to more restrictive laws in the UK in the imminent Gambling Act Review.
This presentation will argue why it is in the long-term interests of the sector to facilitate substantive reforms that may drastically alter operator business models.
How can new tech improve integrity
Sports Integrity: a betting industry perspective
Oliver Lamb
Head Sportsbook Controller, Kambi
Oliver Lamb
Head Sportsbook Controller Kambi
A look at how the industry’s responses to match fixing have evolved over the years, and how technology & further collaboration can shape this going forward
Research
Academics working collaboratively with the gambling industry: A personal overview
Professor Mark Griffiths
Nottingham Trent University
Professor Mark Grffiths
Nottingham Trent University
This talk will be a personal overview of how Professor Griffiths has worked with the gambling industry throughout his career, how research being funded by the gambling industry can be perceived and how it compares to other types of funded research, and how technological innovation within the gambling industry has moved the field of responsible gambling forward.

Matt-Zarb Cousin
Director of Clean Up Gambling and Co-Founder of Gamban
The liberalization of remote gambling, combined with inadequate regulation and oversight, has led to a public backlash in a growing number of jurisdictions. This will undoubtedly lead to more restrictive laws in the UK in the imminent Gambling Act Review. This presentation will argue why it is in the long-term interests of the sector to facilitate substantive reforms that may drastically alter operator business models.

Oliver Lamb
Head Sportsbook Controller Kambi
A look at how the industry’s responses to match fixing have evolved over the years, and how technology & further collaboration can shape this going forward

Professor Mark Grffiths Nottingham Trent University
This talk will be a personal overview of how Professor Griffiths has worked with the gambling industry throughout his career, how research being funded by the gambling industry can be perceived and how it compares to other types of funded research, and how technological innovation within the gambling industry has moved the field of responsible gambling forward.
4th Breakout
Innovating to eliminate harmful gambling
Digital training delivery and its role in creating a more sustainable and responsible industry.
Caty Illingworth
Head of Training and Development, Epic Risk Management
Caty Illingworth
Head of Training and Development, Epic Risk Management
EPIC will discuss the challenges of retaining focus on the importance of Safer Gambling training
during a pandemic, covering:
- The human element of digital learning
- Adapting our training approach during Covid
- The importance of continuous development and developing the Safer Gambling leaders of the future
How can new tech improve integrity
Improving Integrity
Yasmin Hayden
Bug Bounty Specialist, HackerOne
Yasmin Hayden, Bug Bounty Specialist, HackerOne
HackerOne’s mission is to empower the world to build a safer internet. But what does this mean for those of us who are building it? As technology continues to innovate and evolve at rapid speeds, how do we maintain integrity and security?In this talk, bug bounty specialist Yasmin Hayden will examine these questions and look at the following:
- How security can become more collaborative
- How transparency and defaulting to disclosure can promote trust
- How developers can innovate faster without security slowing them down
Research
Re-examining data as a first step towards collaboration to achieve innovation
Dr David Forsström
Researcher at the Department of Psychology, Stockholm University
Dr David Forsström
Researcher at the Department of Psychology, Stockholm University
Cases will be presented that highlight the need for new types of data and a renewal when it comes to analyzing data in order to able to answer questions about how responsible gambling might impact gamblers on an individual level.
When changing perspective in the way data is used, it will lead to innovation that will demand more a extensive collaboration between researchers and gambling companies.

Caty Illingworth
Head of Training and Development, Epic Risk Management
EPIC will discuss the challenges of retaining focus on the importance of Safer Gambling training during a pandemic, covering:
- The human element of digital learning
- Adapting our training approach during Covid
- The importance of continuous development and developing the Safer Gambling leaders of the future

Yasmin Hayden
Bug Bounty Specialist, HackerOne
HackerOne’s mission is to empower the world to build a safer internet. But what does this mean for those of us who are building it? As technology continues to innovate and evolve at rapid speeds, how do we maintain integrity and security?
In this talk, bug bounty specialist Yasmin Hayden will examine these questions and look at the following:
- How security can become more collaborative
- How transparency and defaulting to disclosure can promote trust
- How developers can innovate faster without security slowing them down

Dr David Forsström
Researcher at the Department of Psychology, Stockholm University
Cases will be presented that highlight the need for new types of data and a renewal when it comes to analyzing data in order to able to answer questions about how responsible gambling might impact gamblers on an individual level. When changing perspective in the way data is used, it will lead to innovation that will demand more a extensive collaboration between researchers and gambling companies.