This Trust & Safety Connect event is focused on Off-Platform Conduct.
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 27th October 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).
Trust & Safety Connect is kindly sponsored by:
  RealMe - Verifying users, making dating apps and social communities more trusted
   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 is supported by IDEA and GDI. Mariko and Masha are council members.
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
Mariko spotted a market gap for Asian dating and started East Meet East, now EME Hive, in 2013. Mariko joined the dating industry in 2013.
Mariko received the Forbes Japan Women Award (most influential women in business, 2019). Quipper, an e-learning mobile app company which Mariko co-founded, was sold for $40m in 2015.
EME Hive is North America’s largest dating / live-streaming app for Asians.
Alice has been focused on Trust & Safety for digital communities for 11 years now. She joined Grindr in 2020 and before that, was at OKCupid for 10 years!
Cross-functional collaboration, process improvement and policy development is her jam.
Alice is focused on helping global platforms feel human, inclusive, and authentic.
Masha has been MD of Inner Circle for a year now.  Inner Circle is a community of 3.5 million singles in 57 cities in 27 countries around the world.
The company was also the winner of Deloitte’s Technology Fast 50 in The Netherlands in 2018.Â
Masha is a seasoned digital technology CMO and was at Park Now, DTG (the Dutch Yellow Pages), VNU, Excite@Home and Playboy, prior to Inner Circle. 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, CEO, 2CanPlay
Alex Leshan, Product Owner, DatingPro
Amanda Wilson, co-Founder, #open
Andrey Bronetski, General Director, Mamba.ru
Anthony Oyogoa, co-Founder & CEO, UrSafe *
Bill Shafton, VP, Business & Legal Affairs, Grindr
Bruno Mustone, Managing Director, Forcespenpals.co.uk
Bruno Ulmkalns, Marketing Consultant, Dating Options Ltd
Catherine Cook Connelly, CMO, The Meet Group *
Courtney Kovacevich, VP Partnerships, RealMe *
Crystal Cansdale, Head of Comms, Inner Circle
Daryl Webster, Director of Customer Support, Reflex Media
David Epstein, co-Founder, #open
Emma Clark, CEO, Qemistry
Eric Hegmann, Consultant, Parship
Felix Hoo, Head of Subscriptions, EME Hive
Gvantsa Nyamari, Head of Legal, EME Hive
Hanna Kozlowska, Freelance Journalist, (ex Quartz & NY Times)
Heather Hopkins, Founder, Graze
Higinio Dillinger, President & Owner, Cebcor
Hunt Ethridge, Founder, Hunt For Advice
Jane Ramadan, Account Manager, Business Development, RealMe *
Jessica Alderson, co-Founder, SoSyncd
Joanne Ng, CEO, Dateworks
Joe Hurley, Director of Operations, EME Hive
Kate Gould, Sr Marketing Manager, Brotherton Holdings
Kolina Kretzschmar, Head of Operations, Snack
Kris Covino, co-Founder, Date.com
Laura Ciccone, Co-Founder, Blinkdate
Lisa Butkiewicz, CEO, Meetopolis
Louella Alderson, co-Founder, SoSyncd
Michael Carter, President, Passions Network
Michael Couvreur, co-Founder, Himoon
Michele Tobin, VP Partnerships, The Meet Group *
Michelle Wolters, co-Founder, Klup
Michiel van den Berg, co-Founder, Klup
Mitchell Wapner, Sr. Account Manager, RealMe *
Natalie Frangi, co-Founder & CEO, Nuit
Neil Davis, CBO, RealMe *
Nicole Chasin, VP Marketing, XO
Numair Qureshi, Founder & CEO, Mixo App
Rick Marini, COO, Grindr
Sai Swaminathan, Chief Portal & Mobile Officer, BharatMatrimony
Sergey Sholom, co-Founder, NoNameDating
Shar Fuller, co-Founder, Mai Tai UK
Sid Klein, CEO, Matchmaker2Matchmaker
Siobhan Copland, Director, Cupid in The City
Steven Ward, CEO, Master Matchmakers
Tammy Shaklee, Founder & President, H4M
Thomas Butorac, co-Founder, Meerkat
Timothy Sexton, co-Founder, DNARomance
Tina Houser, CEO, Press Play
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
