The 2026 Gaming in Holland Conference has confirmed its speaker lineup ahead of the June 4 event at the KIT Royal Tropical Institute in Amsterdam.

Confirmed speakers include Ella Seijsener, Director Licensing & Supervision, Netherlands Gambling Authority; Arjan Blok, CEO, Nederlandse Loterij; Petra de Ruiter, CEO Holland Casino; and Floor van Bakkum, Team Manager Player Protection, Netherlands Gambling Authority. Also on the list are Björn Fuchs, Chair, VNLOK; Josh Hodgson, COO, H2 Gambling Capital; Frank Tolboom, Partner, Franssen Tolboom Advocaten; Robin Bleichrodt, Managing Director, FGS Global; Leo Judkins, Founder, The iGaming Mastermind; Maarten Wessels, Global Head of Commercial Growth, Adyen; Dr. Andreas Ditsche, CEO, iGaming.com; and Richard Dennys, Owner, Free Spirit Partners.

The programme also includes two breakout sessions led by legal and compliance specialists. Franssen Tolboom Advocaten will host “Relicensing: Tips and practical guidance” with Chris Adriaansz and Joris Crone, while Chevron Consultants will run “AMLR/AMLA: Legal challenges and implications” led by Jochen Biewer.

Gaming in Holland founder Willem van Oort said: “I am extremely pleased with this year’s speaker lineup. As always, the Netherlands Gambling Authority will provide an update on the latest regulatory developments. Leading operators are well represented, too. If you want to know what’s happening in the Dutch gambling market, there is no better place to be. If you attend our event, you will meet the decision makers. In my opinion, that’s what it’s all about.”

According to the organisers, the 2026 event will focus on how regulated industry stakeholders can help address illegal gambling activity, alongside regulatory developments, market growth, M&A, business challenges, player protection and political developments. Registration is open, and the organisers said European Gaming Media readers can use discount code EGM15 for 15% off the full ticket price.

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Pitch! @RTG is designed to surface transformative ideas — a crucible where technology meets real-world regulatory challenges, where compliance is re-engineered for purpose, and where new approaches to governance and sector leadership are tested in front of regulators, operators and innovators.

BNDRY exemplifies this mission. As pubs and clubs come under heightened scrutiny under the Anti-Money Laundering and Counter-Terrorism Financing (AML/CTF) Act, BNDRY has partnered with Cherryhub to deliver a compliance platform purpose-built for the operational realities of hospitality venues. Rather than retrofitting systems designed for banks, BNDRY and Cherryhub have engineered a solution for gaming floors, member-based venues and mixed-cash environments.

Many venues grapple with fragmented systems and the complexity of monitoring both carded and uncarded play. BNDRY and Cherryhub tackle this head-on. The platform integrates gaming machine data, member and visitor profiles, and frontline observational inputs into a single operational dashboard — providing clarity and automation where venues have long struggled.

The platform streamlines and automates the core AML/CTF obligations that pubs and clubs need to do continuously:

• Knowing members, visitors and staff

• Monitoring behaviour and transactions to detect anomalies

• Reporting to AUSTRAC

• Securely storing compliance records for seven years.

This new approach bridges the gap between bank-grade compliance capability and the fast-paced, people-driven realities of pubs and clubs — offering a scalable, auditable and future-ready solution as regulatory expectations continue to rise.

“BNDRY is a standout example of the practical innovation Pitch! was built to spotlight. Pitch! exists to surface the RegTech, policy and research innovations the sector often doesn’t know are out there — a crucible where ideas, technology and regulatory practice are tested and refined. That mix of capability and imagination is exactly what will strengthen regulatory outcomes and uplift the sector,” said Paul Newson, Principal at Vanguard Overwatch and founder of Regulating the Game.

“Australia’s pubs and clubs are facing financial crime risks and compliance expectations unlike anything before, and AUSTRAC’s focus on the sector is only intensifying. Venues need solutions built for their operational realities — not repurposed bank tech — which is why we built BNDRY. Through our partnership with Cherryhub, we’re integrating data from multiple systems, reconciling player activity, and automating the heavy lifting, to make AML/CTF compliance operationally achievable while showing what’s possible when purpose-built technology meets real-world challenges,” said John Rayment, CEO of BNDRY.

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Leading gambling law and regulation conference Regulating the Game (RTG) has announced “Prevent” – a real-time gambling risk identification and safer gambling messaging system developed by Focal – as the latest innovation selected to feature at next year’s Pitch! event.

Part of RTG’s networking schedule taking place alongside the summit itself in Sydney in March, Pitch! – to be held on the evening of 9 March at the Sydney Opera House – is designed to surface solutions that confront real regulatory challenges by strengthening consumer protection, enhancing governance and offering operators practical capability uplift.

Organisers said “Prevent” exemplifies this mission by reframing player protection as a core operational system rather than an ancillary responsibility. Specifically, it advances the identification of risk across the millions of interactions land-based venues experience by using live behavioural data to detect risk early, generate real-time alerts and deliver safer gambling messaging directly to customers.

It is the next evolution of Focal’s award-winning ALeRT Bettor Protection System, bringing faster insights, automated outreach and a more complete picture of customer behaviour.

According to RTG, “Prevent” expands the reach of player protection by identifying emerging risk in real time, monitoring both carded and uncarded play, delivering instant and automated safer gambling messages, supporting venue teams with accurate, consolidated risk information and streamlining compliance reporting and documentation.

“‘Prevent’ is exactly the sort of innovation Pitch! is built to spotlight. We’re looking for solutions that lift capability, that translate research into operational practice and that show what is possible when technology meets real-world regulatory challenges. ‘Prevent’ is pushing safer gambling further upstream – and making it part of mainstream operations,” said Paul Newson, Principal at Vanguard Overwatch and founder of RTG.

RTG also revealed its first batch of sponsors for the 2026 event, namely GLI as Gala Dinner Partner and Amazon Web Services as a Silver Sponsor, with support from ebet, CherryHub, Intralot Australia, IGT, Everi, Vanguard Overwatch, Leagues Clubs Australia and Thomson Geer.

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