Conference Day One - Tuesday 24th March 2026

In an era of fast-moving regulation and heightened scrutiny, regulatory adherence can no longer be treated as a back-office obligation. Executives must elevate regulatory alignment into a strategic enabler - making evolving rules work for the organisation while reinforcing trust with stakeholders. This requires constructive alignment internally across leadership teams and resilient, transparent relationships with regulators, industry bodies, and civil society. In this session, Kate Ross from Microsoft will discuss how senior leaders can position regulatory coherence as a driver of long-term resilience and global consistency.

• Embedding regulatory alignment as a board-level priority that informs business strategy
• Forging constructive internal coherence to ensure adherence supports growth and innovation
• Building trusted, long-term relationships with regulators and external stakeholders
• Creating globally consistent strategies that adapt to diverse regulatory environments

Kate Ross

GM & Associate General Counsel, Digital Safety Unit
Microsoft

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Not every platform has a large compliance department — yet regulatory demands continue to expand across safety, AI, competition, and privacy. Legal and compliance leaders must find ways to meet obligations with lean teams and constrained budgets. This session will explore practical strategies for prioritising risks, leveraging technology, and embedding compliance across the organisation to ensure resilience without overextending resources.

• Prioritising compliance risks and obligations to focus limited resources where they matter most
• Leveraging technology, automation, and external expertise to extend team capacity
• Embedding compliance responsibilities into wider business functions to reduce silos
• Building scalable frameworks that allow small teams to manage growing regulatory complexity

Camilla Gerosa

Legal Counsel
Bending Spoons

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Ieva Kovarskyte

Legal Director
Remedy Entertainment

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Laetitia Temper

Safety Specialist
TIER-Dott

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Aaron Rodericks

Head of Trust & Safety Policy
Bluesky Social

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Platforms are navigating an unprecedented wave of overlapping obligations from the DSA, DMA, OSA, AI Act, NIS2, and DMCC. Tackling each regulation in isolation creates duplication, inefficiency, and unnecessary risk. This panel will examine how legal and compliance leaders can design a global compliance architecture that unifies these requirements into a single, coherent framework.

• Harmonising compliance obligations across multiple regimes without duplicating effort
• How to build a scalable global compliance architecture that adapts to future regulation
• Practical approaches to embedding compliance into operations while maintaining agility and innovation
• Lessons from leading organisations on managing fragmented regulatory landscapes

Nicola Aitken

European Compliance Officer
Meta

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Kim Kunes

Vice President, Gaming Trust & Safety
Microsoft

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When organisations take on high-risk initiatives - whether building subsea cables, expanding global partnerships, or rolling out AI-driven capabilities - the need for robust compliance and ethics frameworks becomes paramount. Here Samer Jannoun shares how he has helped spearhead the design and implementation of governance structures to manage complex, high stakes risks across corruption, competition, sanctions, trade, human rights, and AI ethics.

• Designing and operationalising a Global Compliance Special Oversight Programme from the ground up
• Embedding compliance into the company’s highest-risk initiatives, from the world’s largest subsea cable build to AI ethics frameworks
• Building strong internal and external partnerships

Samer Jannoun

Head of Regional Ethics & Compliance, Regional Oversight  
Meta

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Join us as we share insights into a leading marketplace’s strategic approach to ensuring online safety compliance under the DSA and OSA. Exploring how regulations are impacting marketplaces, the complexities of rolling out compliance in line with new products, and the critical role of proactive engagements with government and regulators.

• Navigating New Product Challenges: Understanding the intricacies of embedding online safety compliance into the development and launch of innovative products.
• Effective strategies for government affairs, including building robust relationships and fostering collaborative dialogue with European regulators to shape sensible and effective online safety policy.
• Operationalising Compliance at Scale: Practical approaches to implementing and maintaining comprehensive safety measures across a vast marketplace, ensuring user trust and adherence to legal frameworks

New regulatory frameworks are raising the bar for content governance, requiring platforms to build transparent and accountable moderation processes, and enable quick takedowns. From notice-and-action systems to trusted flaggers and user appeals, compliance teams must design workflows that meet legal obligations while protecting user rights and platform integrity. This session will examine how to operationalise these obligations in practice and strengthen oversight through fair, independent mechanisms.

• Designing effective notice-and-action mechanisms that balance speed, accuracy, and transparency
• Implementing trusted flagger programmes and integrating their input into moderation processes
• Building fair, user-friendly appeals systems that withstand regulatory scrutiny
• Embedding independent oversight into content governance to enhance accountability

Anna Dowuona-Kludze

Online Safety Act Compliance Officer
Meta

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Curtis Barnes

Senior Compliance Lead - TikTok Core
TikTok

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As regulation tightens, the line between Trust & Safety and Compliance is becoming increasingly blurred. T&S teams’ risk being pulled into purely regulatory functions, while compliance leaders need to understand the operational realities of new regulatory requirements. This session explores how the two functions work in tandem to avoid duplication, preserve agility, and build a unified approach to safety and compliance that meets both legal obligations and user expectations.

• Clarifying roles and responsibilities between T&S and Compliance teams
• Aligning regulatory obligations with day-to-day Trust & Safety operations
• Avoiding duplication and inefficiency by building shared frameworks and governance models
• Ensuring user protection and safety remain central while meeting compliance requirements

Kate Ross

GM & Associate General Counsel, Digital Safety Unit
Microsoft

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Rhett King

Head of Trust and Safety
Clubhouse

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Aditi Udayabhaskar

Manager, Regulatory Compliance, UK Online Safety Act
eBay

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Two years into the Digital Services Act and with the UK’s Online Safety Act now in force, platforms have had to operationalise some of the most ambitious regulatory frameworks ever introduced. This panel will bring together senior legal and Trust & Safety leaders to share candid reflections on how these regimes are working in practice, what lessons have been learned, and how compliance strategies are being reshaped for a more regulated digital ecosystem. The discussion will go beyond theory to explore the operational, organisational, and strategic realities of navigating these landmark regulations and their ripple effects across global markets.

• Honest evaluations of what has worked under the DSA and OSA, and where challenges remain in delivering on policy goals
• How enforcement, transparency, and systemic-risk duties are reshaping compliance operations and regulator relationships
• Practical insights into the organisational cost, unintended consequences, and day-to-day realities of implementing both Acts
• Informing future compliance strategies as global frameworks continue to converge and diverge

Ashmeet Wadwa

Senior Legal Counsel - Content & Safety
Bumble

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Anna Dowuona-Kludze

Online Safety Act Compliance Officer
Meta

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Nicola Margiotta

Lead Counsel - Content Regulation
TikTok

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