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The most valuable thing a digital marketplace offers isn’t a ride, a date or a place to stay. It's user trust. That trust is earned offline, long after an app is closed, and protecting it is one of the industry's defining responsibilities. In this opening keynote, Jonathan Byrne, Director of Global Safety and Security at Airbnb, draws on a career spanning the military, the Metropolitan Police, Uber and now Airbnb, to set out what it takes to protect real-world experiences at a global scale. As AI accelerates both threats and defences, Jonathan makes the case for how teams can continue to help protect users in the real world. He argues that the industry’s strongest defence is not a single process or model, but intertwined connection: between specialist teams, between global standards and local insight, and between platforms, law enforcement and civil society.

Can deepfakes really bypass facial biometrics? The short answer is yes, they can. Deepfakes don't necessarily need to fool the human eye; they just need to trick the system. Fraudsters are increasingly using techniques that exploit weaknesses in facial biometric verification. Traditional detection approaches are struggling to keep up. Join us for a session on how AI deepfakes are reshaping digital identity, including: - AI-generated image fraud and other attack techniques - Why deepfake detection alone can't keep up - How grounding identity in the physical world creates a stronger defense Whether you're skeptical or already concerned, join us and bring your questions.

As EU and UK product safety regulations such as DSA and GPSR raise the compliance bar globally, platforms face a choice: wait for enforcement or build proactive monitoring infrastructure. This session brings together experts in compliance and marketplace trust and safety to discuss how enforcement agencies actually prioritize actions, what signals they respond to, and how platforms can build the cross-jurisdictional visibility needed to stay ahead of shifting requirements. Attendees will hear directly from a platform navigating these obligations in real time, alongside legal and policy expertise on how regulators think and where the next wave of scrutiny is likely to land. The goal: leave with a clearer picture of what staying ahead of enforcement actually looks like in practice. Key Takeaways for Attendees: ● Where to look for product safety alerts and how to act on them ● How to strategically develop product safety policy across jurisdictions ● Why regulator enforcement priorities are critical for understanding risk ● How to measure risk versus opportunity in product categories

Most platforms treat SMS one-time passcodes as a fixed cost of doing business: expensive, occasionally frustrating, but necessary. Bumble's engineering team decided to test that assumption. Jim Dolan, VP of Engineering, will discuss the technical and organizational case for replacing SMS OTPs with passive, key-based authentication across Bumble's global platform, and what the migration has revealed so far — from reduced fraud exposure and lower operational cost to a smoother sign-up experience for new members. A candid session for engineering, fraud, product and risk leaders evaluating whether their own authentication stack is quietly working against them, and what to expect when you start pulling the thread.