This Trust & Safety Connect event is focused on User Verification.
This exclusive quarterly event provides an essential, fast and focused experience designed to help you and your company align with the best of what the dating and online social community industries are doing in trust & safety. You'll meet with Trust & Safety leaders from top dating and online social communities around the world and gain a deeper perspective from your peers.
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Trust & Safety Connect is hosted and attended by the Internet Dating Excellence Association (IDEA) and Online Social Community Association (OSCA). This is a 1.5 hour long event that is by-invite-only and will take place on Wednesday 2nd February starting at 12 midday EST (New York time). The event starts with a half-hour of peer networking followed by a 50 minute panel, and then an additional short networking session.
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Trust & Safety Connect panels all tackle key issues, ideas, opportunities, legislation and business environment changes affecting us all. We'll focus on challenging issues worthy of collaboration, interesting new tech., and aim to help you improve your trust & safety strategy, for the good of us all.
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Meet your peers. You'll get to know other Trust & Safety focused CXOs and leaders at online social communities and dating companies.Â
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There are 40 places available to this closed-door session. Please look out for your invite in email or in the IDEA & OSCA Linkedin groups, from your host and organizer Mark Brooks. RSVP by simply replying to Mark's email invitation (mark@courtlandbrooks.com).
Trust & Safety Connect is kindly sponsored by:
 FaceTec - 3D face authentication software used by Tinder and MeetMe
 RealMe - Verifying users, making dating apps and social communities more trusted
 vPaaS by Meet Group - Video at scale
 OneRep - Making privacy affordable for everyone
 Courtland Brooks - Internet dating and communities consultancy-agency
Norman Petty joined The Meet Group in March 2021 and is General Counsel. He leads the trust and safety team which is responsible for ensuring the safety of millions of active users across The Meet Group properties and on vPaaS partner apps. Â
Prior to joining The Meet Group, Norman spent the last 25 years as SVP and Associate General Counsel at The Wall Street Journal / Dow Jones. Â
Norman will lead the panel at this Trust & Safety Connect event. Â
12 years ago Michael started Hubpeople. The company offers white label dating SAAS solutions to media companies and entrepreneurs who want to start their own dating brands. Based in Isle of Man.
Michael is focused on consumer Web and App user experiences delivered at scale.
He is really interested in the product of the rational (technology & logic) and empirical views (psychology & experience) such as Ai, user experience and nudge economics.
He previously worked across the US and Europe in the software middleware and telecommunications sectors in software and systems engineering positions which involved a mixture of business and technology.
Neil has been an innovator in television and digital media since 1981.
He worked as SVP of AOL from 1995-2001 and originally joined MyLife (then Reunion.com) in 2005.
Now Neil is leading business development and partnerships for RealMe, into the dating and social community space. RealMe helps people be safer when socializing online.
Dating and social companies can validate their userbase, enable users to view background profiles and have safer interactions.
Dean heads growth and alliances for FaceTec.  FaceTec protects 30 million new user accounts every month with a patented, industry-leading 3D Face Authentication software which anchors digital identity. FaceTec’s 3D FaceMaps™ make trusted, remote identity verification finally possible.
Prior to FaceTec Dean was CRO at Jumio vision and AI systems. He also worked with Impravata cybersecurity, Digital Harbor, and IBM.
Mark runs the agency-consultancy Courtland Brooks (est. 2005) which is comprised of an elite team of 30 industry specialists focused on serving strategy, marketing and business development assistance to Internet dating companies and online social communities.
He supports the dating and online social community industries by heading IDEA.gp (since 2007) & OSCA.gp, hosting LTR, and publishing the news summary services Online Personals Watch (est. 2004) and Very Social Network (est. 2006).
Mark graduated from HBS in 2014 and completed an Executive MSc in Behavioral Science at London School of Economics in 2017.
Mark is committed to helping dating and social industry executives connect, learn and share, and get inspired for a more effective and prosperous future.
* supporting sponsors of TSC
Adesh Soodeen, Founder & CEO, Lets Latte
Aleksandr Purtov, Integrity Service Product Lead, Bumble
Alex Pinto, CEO, ForHimDating
Andrey Bronetski, General Director, Mamba.ru
Andrew Chang, COO, Pink Triangle Press
Anthony Oyogoa, co-Founder & CEO, UrSafe
Bernadett Simon, Head of Marketing, Dating Central Europe Zrt
Catherine Cook Connelly, SVP Marketing & Co-Founder, The Meet Group *
Colin Hodge, CEO, DOWN
Dahlia Eisenberg, co-Founder, Vegpal
Daniil Baryshnikov, Integrity (Trust & Safety) Product Manager, Bumble
Eddy Ankrett, President, DatingAgencyAssociation
Elymae Cedeño, Strategy & Operations Lead, Bumble
Firas Abdallah, Founder, Ur My Type
Greg Wheeler, co-Founder, Isodate
Haluk Akin, co-Founder, Pembe Panjur
Hannah Shimko, Communications and Policy Director, Online Dating Association
Higinio Dillinger, President/Owner, Cebcor
Hristo Zlatarski, CEO, Elitebook.bg
James Leftwich, Founder, NoLongerLonely
Jean-Marc Larouche, entrepreneur
Jeffrey Tinsley, Founder & CEO, RealMe *
Jessica Alderson, Founder, SoSyncd
Justin Siegel, CEO & co-Founder, JNJ Mobile
Kolina Kretzschmar, Head of Operations, Snack
Laouari Medjebeur, co-Founder, Mektoube.fr
Lisa Butkiewicz, CEO, Meetopolis
Makatu Roni, co-Founder & CEO, Lua
Manuel Santos, Fraud&Abuse Analyst, Massive Media
Mark Kapczynski, CEO, OneRep *
Mark Owen, President, Events and Adventures
Meg Bruno, VP Marketing, Reflex Media
Michele Tobin, VP Partnerships, The Meet Group *
Natalie Frangi, co-Founder & CEO, Nuit
Péter Weiler, President & co-Owner, Dating Central Europe Zrt
Priyanka Sehgal, Founder, Sparkles Dating
Radha Patel, Founder, Single to Shaadi, The Auntie Network
Riely Clark, Project & Marketing Coordinator, heybaby
Robert Fisher, Director or Product Development, Pink Triangle Press
Robin Helmreich, Product Owner, LemonSwan
Sabine Schöler, MD, LemonSwan
Saman Sarraf, Director, Events and Adventures
Sanjay Panchal, Founder, Elate
Serge Roberge, Head of Technology, Pink Triangle Press
Srinath Duggirala, Product Lead, Matrimony.com
Thomas Nomaksteinsky, co-Founder, Mektoube.fr
Uwe Thomas, CEO, Icony.com
The first TSC was focused on background checks and authentication. The panel was led by Norman Petty from The Meet Group and included panelists from RealMe, Garbo and member of the House of Representatives, Steven Handy.
See invitation site here with speakers and attendees
