This Trust & Safety Connect event is focused on Looming Legislation - A Legislative Update for Trust & Safety - What You Need to Know.
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 17th August starting at 11:30am 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:
 RealMe - Verification + Background checks. Making dating apps & 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
Hannah's key areas of expertise and knowledge are advocacy, policy, comms, and engagement.
She has a passion for culture, tech and heritage and has a PhD in Cultural Heritage with a significant background in research and analysis.
She has also worked extensively in filming and events at historic properties, arts & cultural programming, activity & interpretation planning, and development & fundraising.
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.
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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.
Mark runs Courtland Brooks, an agency-consultancy focusing on strategy, marketing and bus dev for Internet dating and online social communities. He's served POF, Meet Group, and 120+ companies since 2005. Prior to this, he worked with Friendster and ran an adventure club in Silicon Valley. Mark has been quoted in press 288 times (18 times in WSJ).Â
He heads IDEA.gp (since 2007) & OSCA.gp, hosts LTR, and the executive news summary services Online Personals Watch (since 2004) and Very Social Network (since 2006). He also owns Matchmaker.com.
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Mark is a grad of Harvard Business School (PLD, 2014) and London School of Economics (Exec. MSc Behavioral Science, 2017).
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Mark helps dating and social leaders connect, learn and share for an even more effective and prosperous future.
- Adam Cohen-Aslatei, Founder & CEO, S'More
- Akihiko Sano, US Head, Pocoha (DENA)
- Alex Leshan, Product Owner, Dating Pro
- Alice Hunsberger, VP, Global Head of CX, Grindr
- Armen Grigoryan, Founder, The Fun Singles
- Amanda Wilson, co-Founder, #open
- Andrew Nolan, Marketing and Sales Director, Pink Triangle Press
- Ann Austin, Secretary, Online Dating Association
- Catherine Cook Connelly, SVP Marketing & Co-Founder, The Meet Group *
- David Epstein, co-Founder, #open
- David Wolfe, Chief Product Officer, RealMe *
- Dayo Israel, Founder & CEO, Melanin Matchmaker
- Eddy Ankrett, President, DatingAgencyAssociation
- Emily Burg, CEO, heybaby
- Firas Abdallah, Founder, Ur My Type
- Geoff Cook, CEO, The Meet Group & co-CEO, ParshipMeet Group *
- Greg Wheeler, co-Founder, Isodate
- Greta McAnany, Founder, Blue Fever
- Haluk Akin, co-Founder, Pembe Panjur
- Heather Dougherty, Founder & CEO, Date Evolution
- Henning Wiechers, CEO, Metaflake
- James Leftwich, Founder, NoLongerLonely
- James Summerfield, VP of Research and Development, SafeHello
- Jay Neves, COO, First Beat Media
- Jazmine de Luna, Sr. Influencer Relations Officer, Christian Filipina
- Jeffrey Tinsley, Founder & CEO, RealMe *
- Jessica Alderson, co-Founder, SoSyncd
- Joe Nunziata, Head of Dating Business, Together Light
- Julia Chang, Head of Business Development, RealMe *
- Julie Griggs, co-Founder, Fourplay Social
- Kathryn Kosmides, CEO, Garbo
- Kelly Miranda, Director of Business and Regulatory Affairs, Grindr
- Kimberly Phillips-Simonetti, Owner, The Match Pro
- Kolina Kretzschmar, Head of Operations, Snack
- Konstantin Poltoran, CEO, Meetville
- Ksenia Droben, CEO, Ksenia Droben Partnervermittlung
- Layne Srncik, VP of Prodct & Solutions, SafeHello
- Leslie Wardman, CEO, Ambiance Matchmaking
- Lisa Marie, COO, Sameera Sullivan Matchmaking
- Louella Alderson, co-Founder, SoSyncd
- Luke Connolly, co-Founder, Isodate
- Luke Smith, Editor, Global Dating Insights
- Mairead Molloy, Global Director, Berkeley International
- Mark Owen, President, Events and Adventures
- Mark Smith, Managing Partner, SF Firm
- Meg Bruno, VP Marketing, Reflex Media
- Michael Carter, President, Passions Network
- Michael Krayenhoff, co-Founder & COO, The Inner Circle
- Michele Tobin, VP Partnerships, The Meet Group *
- Mitchell Wapner, Communications Manager, RealMe *
- Nadav Mills, Director of Product, DOWN
- Natalie Frangi, co-Founder & CEO, Nuit
- Peter Christopher, CEO, Together Light
- Peter Stolz, COO, SugarDaddyForMe.com
- Philip van den Heuvel, co-Founder, Breeze Social
- Rachel Russo, Founder, Rachel Russo Relationships
- Riely Clark, Project & Marketing Coordinator, heybaby
- Robert Fisher, Product Development & Customer Success Director, Pink Triangle Press
- Roman Tarnavskyi, COO, SocialTech
- Saichitra Swaminathan, Chief Portal & Mobile Officer, BharatMatrimony
- Sarah Louise Ryan, Co-Director, Tailor Matched
- Scott Styles, Founder, Styles Strategy
- Serge Roberge, Head of Technology, Pink Triangle Press
- Sergey Sigitov, co-Founder, Unison
- Shivam Kaushik, co-Founder, Glii
- Sid Klein, CEO & co-Founder, Matchmaker2Matchmaker & Safe Date
- Sneha Ramachandran, Head of Operations & Performance Marketing, S'More
- Sofia Miranda, In-House Counsel, Brotherton Holdings
- Taito Kimura, Matchmaker, IB Japan
- Timothy Sexton, Founder & CEO, DNARomance
- Vladimir Zoric, Project Manager, First Beat Media
- Zackary Lewis, CEO, SayAllo
We all have to fight the daily battle with scammers. This TSC panel was focused on "Defending our Communities Against Scammers." The panel was led by Norm Petty from The Meet Group, and comprised Jorij Abraham, CEO of Global Anti-Scam Alliance & ScamAdviser. Also Steve Baker, a former Director at the FTC, and Mark Kapczynksi, SVP at OneRep.
See invitation site here with speakers and attendees
The fourth TSC was focused on the nuances of user-verification. Challenges and key tools were discussed. The panel was led by Norman Petty from The Meet Group and included panelists from Hubpeople, RealMe and FaceTec.
See invitation site here with speakers and attendees
The third TSC was focused on off-platform conduct. The panel was led by Norman Petty from The Meet Group and included panelists from Grindr, East Meet East and Inner Circle.
See invitation site here with speakers and attendees
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
