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Realism in the AI industry: how to unlock the next step

Scaling AI from Teams to Enterprise

In many organisations, AI adoption begins bottom-up: employees start using tools independently, often without governance, measurement, or strategic alignment. While this creates short-term productivity gains, it rarely translates into sustainable competitive advantage, structural cost savings, or meaningful customer value.

This session explores how to move from fragmented experimentation to strategic transformation:

* Positioning AI as a core element of business strategy or even the business model
* Shifting from isolated tool usage to building long-term organisational capabilities
* Applying AI at the organisational level to ensure company-wide value creation, not just individual productivity gains

Scouting creators for High-Risk: AI vs UGC

Traditional UGC creators are quitting High-Risk niches like Gambling and Crypto due to legal fears and reputation risks. Even AI content creators are now building their own "moral filters," making it harder than ever to scale aggressive campaigns.

This session introduces the AI Creative production Framework by Allformance how to find and vet the performing AI content creatives that actually say "Yes" to high-risk growth.

What's Actually Working in AI Right Now — A View From the Trenches

Everyone's talking about AI's potential. This talk cuts through the hype with a ground-level look at what's actually delivering results right now across dating, adult, and iGaming — the verticals where mainstream AI won't go but where the ROI is loudest. Real deployments, real surprises, and the opportunities in plain sight.

The Last Customer

There is a Last Customer somewhere on every AI adoption curve. The human who interacts with the product for the final time before the system reorganises around an agent, a companion, or a synthesised version of them. For the businesses on this schedule, that moment may be closer than it appears, and the deus ex machina bringing it on is not arriving from outside. It is being built, quarter by quarter, by the people in this room. This talk traces the curve by drawing striking parallels to a mid-century experiment, names the arrival, and asks what an industry owes the customers it depends on to survive.

The Stablecoin Payments Playbook: How Operators Are Cutting Settlement Costs and Unlocking New Markets

Stablecoins are on track to capture 12% of global cross-border payment flows by 2030, and regulatory clarity is arriving in the US, EU, and Singapore simultaneously. For operators in iGaming, dating, and high-growth tech, that convergence creates a real window to eliminate chargebacks, cut the cost of cross-border payouts, reduce dependency on legacy banking rails like SWIFT, and reach users in markets that card schemes don't serve. But stablecoins aren't a universal fix, and implementation matters. Frank Rengenhart, Head of Partnership Sales at Rapyd, breaks down the trends reshaping global payments, where stablecoins create genuine operational upside, where they fall short, and the practical steps operators can take to start capturing that value today.

Conversion Killers: Scaling Revenue While Navigating VAMP and Chargeback Thresholds

As fraud and chargeback thresholds tighten under frameworks like VAMP, growth becomes harder to sustain. Small increases in disputes or fraud rates can limit approvals and trigger monitoring programmes.

This session focuses on how to protect conversion while staying within thresholds — using better routing, real-time visibility, and smarter dispute management to scale revenue without increasing risk.

What nobody tells you before accepting crypto payments

A practical and forward-looking discussion on what it really takes to work with crypto successfully. Beyond the headlines, we’ll explore how to pay/accept crypto, manage volatility, understand fees, navigate tax and regulatory considerations, and build secure, user-friendly payment flows. The session focuses on turning potential challenges into opportunities—helping businesses confidently integrate crypto payments.

The New Crypto Tax Framework in Cyprus

The session will focus on:
• How crypto-related activity affects banking relationships and PSP onboarding

• The compliance expectations banks and regulators actually apply in practice

• Common structuring and reporting mistakes that lead to frozen accounts or rejected onboarding

• How businesses can benefit from a stable and predictable flat-tax environment within the EU, and how this stability can enhance credibility, access to markets, and long-term operability — outcomes that are currently most efficiently achieved through a Cyprus presence

The Rise of European Schemes

European payment schemes are rapidly transforming the digital payments ecosystem. Once dominated by global card networks, the market is now shifting toward mobile-first, bank-backed local payment methods with soaring adoption rates. This session explores the rise of leading European schemes, their strengths, limitations, and the impact of new entrants. We will examine the emergence of Wero as a potential pan-European solution, the challenges of interoperability, and the growing fragmentation driven by national initiatives. Participants will gain insight into the strategic forces shaping the future of European e-commerce payments.

AI-Powered Content at Scale: Accelerating Creative Production on AWS

Modernizing High-Scale Digital Platforms on AWS: Migration, Scalability, and Innovation

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