This Trust & Safety Connect event is focused on Video & Moderation.
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 18th August starting at 11am EST (New York time). The event starts with a half-hour of peer networking followed by a 45 minute panel, and then an additional half-hour of peer networking.
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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).
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Trust & Safety Connect is sponsored by:
  RealMe - Improve safety with user access to background info and raise your ARPU
   vPaaS by Meet Group - Video at scale
  Courtland Brooks - Internet dating and communities consultancy-agency
Additionally, this event is sponsored by Women In Dating, a wonderful initiative that has just been launched by RealMe, and supported by IDEA and GDI.
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
For the last 4 years Karima has headed Happn's legal and corporate affairs and led data protection initiatives. She is responsible for data privacy, customer service and corporate communications.
Prior to working with Happn Karima was Senior Legal Counsel at Daily Motion, and worked with Microsoft specifically working on MSN & Hotmail in France and EMEA.  Karima has a Masters in Computer Science Law.
Think ofKim's new dating app, Snack, as "Tik Tok Meets Dating." It's focused on video, and as a consequence, video & moderation is of paramount importance.
Kim has a long heritage in dating and spent 10 years at PlentyofFish. She was VP Product, Revenue & Marketing at POF. POF also grew to be focused on video, using vPaaS.
Prior to POF Kim worked in global securities, and with Publicis.
Poliana is an attorney specializing in Cybersecurity, White-Collar Crimes and Internal Investigations. She was focused on internal investigations and her passion for technology led her to Cybersecurity. She assists clients with preventive, reactive and mitigating actions in respect to cyber incidents and data protection.
Her experience in corporate crime and internal investigations give her a broad view on internal policies, risk assessment, due diligence, and enable her to understand Cybersecurity related measures as a multidisciplinary project.
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Poliana got her Masters in Law from University College London in 2015. She specialized in White-Collar Crimes at Fundação Getúlio Vargas in 2018, and she is currently completing an MBA in Cybersecurity.  Â
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
Adekunle Adeniji, Founder, 2CanPlay
Aleksandr Purtov, Integrity Services Product Lead, Bumble
Alex Leshan, Product Owner, DatingPro
Alice Goguen Hunsberger, Sr Director Customer Experience, Grindr
Andrea McKee, Director of Future Development, Reflex Media
Annie Brown, Founder, Lips
Anthony Oyogoa, co-Founder & CEO, UrSafe
Bill Alena, Head of M&A, The Dating Group
Bill Shafton, VP, Business & Legal Affairs, Grindr
Bregt Colpaert, COO, Massive Media
Bruno Mustone, Managing Director, Forcespenpals.co.uk
Catherine Cook Connelly, CMO, The Meet Group *
Christian Steinhof, VP PR & Corporate Communications, ParshipMeet Group
Christopher Taylor, Head of Mobile, The League
Claire Rénier, PR Manager, Happn
Courtney Kovacevich, VP Partnerships, RealMe *
Dan Kurani, CEO, Friended
Daryl Webster, Director of Customer Support, Reflex Media
David Siu, VP of Engineering, The League
Denise Sandquist, co-Founder & CEO, Fika
Elizabeth Wasserman, heybaby
Elymae Cedeño, Strategy & Operations Lead, Bumble
Emma Clark, CEO, Qemistry
Emma Inniss, Head of WLD Customer Service, Venntro Media Group
Felix Hoo, Head of Subscriptions, EME Hive
Guillaume Asselot, Founder, Seeders
Haluk Akin, co-Founder, Pembe Panjur
Haze Deng, CRO, Ruby Life
Higinio Dillinger, President/Owner, Cebcor
Hunt Ethridge, Founder, Hunt For Advice
James Leftwich, Founder & CEO, Nolongerlonely.com
Jane Ramadan, Account Manager, Business Development, RealMe *
Jean-Marc Larouche, entrepreneur
Jessica Alderson, Founder, SoSyncd
Justyn Hornor, Head of Product, Reflex Media
Kolina Kretzschmar, Head of Operations, Snack
Laura Brashier, Founder, RomanceOnly
Lien Louwagie, VP Community, Massive Media
Lily Galib, Trust and Safety Program Manager, Grindr
Lisa Butkiewicz, CEO, Meetopolis
Marcia Rubin, CEO, Yak Network
Marko Krosnjar, Chief of Staff, The League
Mary Beth Harvey, co-Founder, Friended
Meg Bruno, VP Marketing, Reflex Media
Michael Carter, President, Passions Network
Michael Rapp, Head of Data Science, The League
Michele Tobin, VP Partnerships, The Meet Group *
Miranda Bonamo, Community Manager, Friended
Mitch Wapner, Sr Account Manager, RealMe *
Nadav Mills, Director of Product, DOWN
Neil Davis, CBO, RealMe *
Pablo Krapirca, Head of Product for Core Services, Spark Networks
Riely Clark, Project & Marketing Coordinator, heybaby
Rory McClelland, Head of Safety & Product, Bumble
Sachin Karia, co-Founder, Qemistry
Sid Klein, CEO, Matchmaker2Matchmaker
Sitara Menon, Sr Marketing Manager, OkCupid
Sukesh Mohan, VP Business Development, El Camino Technologies
Tim Mourtazov, CEO, SmartMatch App
Tiffany Von Walter, Lead Customer Success, The League
Timothy Sexton, co-Founder, DNA Romance
Ulysses Diaz, Program Manager, Reflex Media
Uwe Jugel, Head of Data, Lovoo
Yaroslav, Owner, BeHappy International
Zackary Lewis, CEO, SayAllo
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
