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Schedule & Agenda

Welcome to the schedule of events for the Marketplace Risk New York Conference (MRNYC). Check out the logistics page to learn more about hotels, public transportation, parking, and tourists  attractions. ​

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AGENDA

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Focused on digital risk and critical areas such as trust & safety, compliance, fraud prevention, and evolving regulations across digital platforms, including marketplaces, fintechs, and platform-based businesses.​

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Schedule of Events

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(September 14, 2026)

Monday

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5:00 PM - 7:00 PM

Welcome Reception

 

(September 15, 2026)

Tuesday​​​

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8:00 AM - 9:00 AM

Check-in and Registration

9:00 AM - 9:40 AM

Keynote

9:50 AM - 5:00 PM

Sessions

5:00 PM - 7:00 PM

Networking Reception at Jay Conference Bryant Park

 

(September 16, 2026)

Wednesday​​​

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8:00 AM - 9:00 AM

Check-in and Registration
9:00 AM - 4:00 PM

Sessions

LegitScript Room

Beyond the Pixel: Building Verifiable Trust into Every Image Platforms Host

Sep 15, 2026

From:

3:10 PM

To:

3:40 PM

- Thomas Eriksson, Founder, SASHA

Every day, digital platforms host millions of images they can't fully verify, leaving them exposed to manipulation, misuse, fraud, and moderation decisions they can't defend. This session goes beyond the pixel to explore how resilient, invisible image signatures can embed provenance and authenticity directly into content, surviving cropping, resizing, screenshots, and filters. Drawing on SASHA's work building tamper-resistant image technology, SASHA founder Thomas Eriksson will share practical approaches for platforms to verify originals, detect copies, strengthen trust & safety decisions, and power reliable takedowns, moving toward a digital ecosystem where sharing is safe and authentic by default.

LegitScript Room

Combining Expert Analysts, Traditional ML, and AI Agents to Stop Fraud & Scams

Sep 15, 2026

From:

3:55 PM

To:

4:25 PM

- Joseph McAllister, Co-Founder & CTO, MouseCat
- Reza Parang, Senior Product Manager, Coinbase

Detecting fraud and scams is fundamentally a needle in a haystack problem. Most companies use a mix of ML models, rules, expert human analysts, and increasingly AI agents. But each layer of defense comes with tradeoffs around precision, cost, scale, complexity, and regulatory risk. Maximizing the performance of the overall system is an increasingly complex problem. In this presentation, risk practitioners from Coinbase and MouseCat will discuss proven techniques for combining these systems in a way that emphasizes the strengths of each. Attendees will walk away with practical frameworks for how ML models and AI agents can be combined to surface the highest risk activity to human experts, how to operationalize thousands of historic analyst case notes, and much more.

Persona Room

Beyond the Screens

Sep 15, 2026

From:

3:55 PM

To:

4:25 PM

- Kristin Kupiec, Manager, Critical Investigations & LERT, DoorDash
- Brooke Heinichen, Lead Policy Manager, Bumble
- Alice Hunsberger, Head of Trust and Safety, Musubi
- Theodora Skeadas, Community Policy Manager, DoorDash

Online harm often translates into challenging offline experiences. This panel examines life beyond the screen - what happens after an incident is over, and individuals move on. We will discuss methods for making amends with impacted individuals, changes to product features that can improve safety and the quality of a user’s experience, and post-mortem best practices.

KPMG Room

Managing Identity & Trust Beyond Onboarding

Sep 15, 2026

From:

3:55 PM

To:

4:25 PM

- Spencer Chee, Sr. Director of Revenue & Growth, Gig, First Advantage
- Erin Smalley, Sr. Director, Product Management, First Advantage

Increasingly establishing trust and safety doesn’t end at the onboarding stage for most employers. As new avenues for identity and document fraud evolve in the workplace and digital platforms scale, organizations are rethinking how identity verification and risk controls work across the entire user lifecycle. In this discussion, Erin Smalley and Spencer Chee will explore emerging identity trends, evolving fraud patterns you need to be aware of, and practical approaches platforms can use to balance growth, safety, and user experience. Attendees will learn how leading marketplaces are moving beyond point-in-time verification toward more dynamic trust models that help protect platforms while reducing friction for legitimate users.

Incognia Room

The End of "One-Size-Fits-All" Fraud: What Global Identity Attacks Tell Us About the Future of Digital Trust

Sep 15, 2026

From:

4:40 PM

To:

5:10 PM

- Travis Dawson, VP, Product and Business, Complex
- Vishal Kapoor, VP of Product Management, Shipt
- Sidharth Shah, Group Product Manager, Identity and Fraud, Marqeta
- Hartley Thompson, CEO, Microblink

Fraud is no longer evolving uniformly. Organized fraud operations are increasingly adapting their techniques to specific regions, document ecosystems, and verification environments. The attack affecting a North American marketplace may look completely different from the techniques targeting platforms in Europe, Latin America, or Asia. Drawing on insights from Microblink's latest fraud intelligence research, this session explores how regional fraud patterns are emerging, why AI is accelerating specialization rather than standardization, and what marketplace operators should do to adapt. Attendees will learn: - Why fraud tactics increasingly differ by geography. - How AI is changing the economics of document fraud. - Why static verification models struggle against adaptive attackers. - Practical ways marketplaces can build region-aware fraud defenses without increasing customer friction
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