Regulating the Game is an international conference focused on the future performance, credibility, and sustainability of gambling regulation and regulated markets. It convenes regulators, industry leaders and practitioners, policymakers, researchers, and stakeholders to engage with the hard questions shaping the sector - from financial crime and consumer harm to public confidence, innovation, and market legitimacy.

The program is designed to address contemporary public policy challenges while supporting measurable uplift in regulatory practice, compliance capability, and industry performance. It encourages intellectual curiosity, critical analysis, and the exchange of informed perspectives across regulatory, industry, and research domains.

Regulating the Game provides a structured environment to examine how compliance obligations operate in practice, where regulatory intent and operational reality diverge, and how governance, culture, and systems can be strengthened to deliver more effective regulatory and compliance outcomes across the sector.

Rather than promoting predetermined solutions, the conference focuses on examining what works, what does not, and where regulatory frameworks and industry practices must adapt in response to emerging risks, changing behaviour, and heightened public expectations.

From knowledge to regulatory judgement

The program goes beyond information-sharing. Participants are invited to critically engage with sector-specific risks, regulatory design choices, and operational realities.

Sessions focus on strengthening regulatory judgement and organisational capability, equipping attendees to:

• assess regulatory effectiveness,

• scrutinise industry practices,

• respond to emerging threats such as financial crime, technological change, and black-market activity, and

• contribute meaningfully to evidence-based policy development.

A deliberately cross-sector conversation

Regulating the Game is built on the premise that effective regulation and sustainable industry practice are strengthened through informed cross-sector engagement - without compromising regulatory independence, statutory objectives, or public-interest obligations.

The conference brings together regulators, policymakers, industry leaders, and subject-matter experts in a structured environment designed to support robust dialogue, constructive challenge, and respectful disagreement. This approach recognises that regulation operates within real-world legal, operational, and commercial constraints, and that both regulatory frameworks and industry practices are improved when diverse perspectives are tested rigorously against evidence.

A rigorous agenda shaped by regulatory stewards

The program features keynote addresses, in-depth panels, and masterclasses led by senior regulators, industry stewards, researchers, and practitioners with direct experience operating within highly regulated and scrutinised environments.

The agenda brings together expertise required to address the real problems facing contemporary gambling regulation - from governance and legal design to financial crime, emerging technologies, behavioural risk, and enforcement. Structured for deep thematic exploration, the program is supported by practical instruction through the Masterclass Series that strengthens regulatory judgement, compliance capability, and organisational practice across the sector.

Connections that support better regulation

A cornerstone of Regulating the Game is the opportunity to build trusted professional networks across jurisdictions and disciplines.

These connections support:

• informed policy dialogue,

• the testing of new regulatory ideas,

• cross-jurisdictional learning, and

• collaboration that strengthens regulatory practice over time.

This network is not simply social. It functions as a source of policy intelligence, professional support, and shared learning in an increasingly complex regulatory landscape.

A realistic view of regulation

Regulating the Game recognises that gambling regulation operates in conditions of complexity and constraint. Trade-offs are unavoidable, harm cannot be eliminated entirely, evidence is often incomplete, and public expectations can exceed both regulatory reach and industry capability.

The conference creates space to confront these realities honestly, and to examine how regulatory systems and industry practices can remain credible, adaptive, and effective through stronger governance, mature compliance, and informed decision-making in the face of uncertainty, scrutiny, and change.