This Trust & Safety Connect event is focused on Defending Our Communities Against Scammers.
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 May 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:
 FaceTec - 3D face authentication software used by Tinder and MeetMe
 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
Jorij Abraham has been part of the international eCommerce community since 1997.
The mission of the Global Anti Scam Alliance (GASA.org) is to prevent consumers worldwide from getting scammed. ScamAdviser.com is the global blacklist for malicious websites and sees 5M+ visits a month from consumers.
He was head of e-commerce at Bijenkorf (an upmarket dept store chain), TUI (Europe’s largest travel organization), online publisher at Sanoma Media (the largest media company in the Benelux).
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He also founded eVentures Europe and vZine. In 2011 he set-up the Ecommerce Foundation to foster global digital trade and from 2013 – 2017 he was Director of Research & Advice at Thuiswinkel.org (the Dutch Ecommerce Association) and Ecommerce Europe (the European Ecommerce Association with 25.000+ members in 20 countries).
He is also e-commerce professor at the University of Applies Sciences, TIO.
Steve spent 27 years as a Director at The FTC responsible for 11 U.S. states and managing a 20 person law office focused on federal court civil cases against consumer fraud internationally.
Steve knows the trends in scammer activity and can advise on what he is seeing happening now, and changing in the future.
Steve also spent the last 5 years working with the Better Business Bureau (BBB) as an International investigations specialist.
Mark is SVP of OneRep.com which helps consumers and employees protect themselves online.
Mark is the former CMO of Gooten, a smart supply chain solution for brands, retailers and eCommerce merchants looking to leverage print-on-demand manufacturing and drop-shipping.
Before joining Gooten, Mark founded Screen Stars, a virtual childcare and distance learning support.
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Mark also served as the CMO of Wrench, the market leader for on-demand car care directly to your home or office.
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Mark is also a Venture Partner at Arrowroot Capital, where he focuses on investments in SaaS. He's also the Executive Director of the UCLA Venture Capital Fund, supporting innovation by young entrepreneurs.
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.
Here is a complete list of RSVPs to TSC Edition 5
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* supporting sponsors of TSC
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Akihiko Sano, CEO, DeNA Corp (US Subsidiary)
Alex Leshan, Product Owner, Dating Pro
Carmelia Ray, CEO, Carmelia Ray Consulting & Matchmaking
Catherine Cook Connelly, SVP Marketing & Co-Founder, The Meet Group *
Corina Kreuz, Head of Customer Care and Data Engineering, Lovoo
Dawoon Kang, co-Founder, Coffee Meets Bagel
Dean Mericka, SVP Growth and Alliances, FaceTec *
Dennie Smith, Founder, Meet Geek UK
Dimitri Shelest, Founder & CEO, OneRep *
Erin Kapczynski, VP Marketing, OneRep *
Geoff Cook, CEO, The Meet Group & co-CEO, ParshipMeet Group *
Hannah Shimko, Communications and Policy Director, Online Dating Association
Haze Deng, Chief Revenue Officer, Ruby
Higinio Dillinger, President & Owner, Cebcor
Jason Cowlishaw, VP, Information Security, Match Group
Jeffrey Tinsley, Founder & CEO, RealMe *
Jenny Foster, CX Manager, Coffee Meets Bagel
Joe Nunziata, Head of Dating Business, Together Light
Julia Chang, Head of Business Development, RealMe *
Julie Griggs, co-Founder, Fourplay Social
Kate Gould, Director of Marketing & Technology, Brotherton Holdings
Kolina Kretzchmar, Head of Operations, Snack
Laura Brashier, Founder, RomanceOnly
Laura Ciccone, Co-Founder, Blinkdate
Michele Tobin, VP Partnerships, The Meet Group *
Mitchell Wapner, Communications Manager, RealMe *
Monji Batmunkh, co-Founder & CEO, Matter
Nadav Mills, Director of Product, DOWN
Neil Davis, Chief Business Officer, RealMe *
Nicky Dunn, CEO, PiSociety
Peter Christopher, CEO, Together Light
Riely Clark, Project & Marketing Coordinator, heybaby
Robert Fisher, Product Development & Customer Success Director, Pink Triangle Media
Sid Klein, CEO & co-Founder, Safe Date
Steven Ward, CEO, Master Matchmakers
Tammy Shaklee, President, H4M
Udit Shah, Founder, Ador
Vladimir Zoric, Project Manager, First Beat Media
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
