PITCH! @RTG SYDNEY 2026

Provoke innovation.
Inspire compliance.
Excite industry.

ABOUT PITCH! @RTG

Where Innovation Meets Impact

Pitch! @RTG is the spark that ignites innovation, champions compliance, and accelerates progress across the sector. This high-energy showcase is a flagship feature of the Regulating the Game conference, shining a spotlight on bold ideas, transformative solutions, groundbreaking research, and disruptive thinking.

More than a stage, Pitch! is a marketplace for ideas — a crucible for change where policy meets practice, new technologies and research are unveiled, and pioneering approaches to regulation and industry leadership emerge. It’s where breakthrough products and services are introduced, and where disruptive policy concepts and sector insights are shared to provoke debate, spark collaboration, and inspire progress.

From enhancing operational effectiveness to streamlining compliance processes, strengthening consumer safeguards, and reshaping regulatory and industry mindsets, Pitch! is the place where tangible advances in capability are born and the future of the sector is imagined.

We’re looking for initiatives that:

Leverage RegTech for smarter compliance
Harness regulatory technology to automate reporting, monitor risk in real-time, or uplift compliance frameworks through AI, machine learning, or blockchain integrations.
Champion consumer empowerment and market competition
Present ideas that enhance consumer choice, convenience, flexibility, and control-demonstrating how innovation and competition can deliver better consumer outcomes.
Innovate payments and cashless ecosystems
Showcase technologies or policy approaches that support safe, seamless, and transparent cashless solutions, and explore their implications for consumer protection and regulatory oversight.
Enhance product compliance and integrity
Introduce solutions or frameworks that embed compliance by design, ensure product safety, and align with evolving regulatory expectations.
Advance risk management practices
Develop tools or strategies that anticipate and mitigate sector risks - whether operational, regulatory, or reputational - and enable dynamic response capabilities.
Shape or influence public policy
Present ideas or research that inform better regulatory design, improve stakeholder alignment, or offer a blueprint for forward-thinking gambling policy.
Strengthen industry supervision
Showcase innovations that support smarter monitoring, targeted enforcement, or more efficient supervisory practices across the gambling ecosystem.
Promote consistency in standards
Highlight efforts that contribute to harmonised regulatory approaches, shared benchmarks, or cross-jurisdictional cooperation.
Explore blockchain and digital asset regulation
Tackle the emerging challenges of digital currencies and tokenised gambling products, and introduce strategies to regulate these evolving technologies.
Combat cyber crime and build digital resilience
Present tools, techniques, or frameworks to detect, prevent, and respond to cyber threats in regulated gambling environments.
Support safer gambling and reduce gambling harm
Share technologies or models that monitor player behaviour, enhance early intervention, or embed safer gambling principles into operations and design.
Disrupt financial crime with smarter tools
Reveal approaches that elevate sector defences against fraud, illicit finance, and organised crime infiltration.
Mitigate money laundering risks
Demonstrate how your solution enhances AML/CTF controls, improves detection, or aligns with upcoming regulatory reforms.
Redefine compliance frameworks
Share transformative ideas for reshaping governance, embedding culture, or aligning compliance with business strategy.
Integrate ESG into regulatory and industry practice
Showcase initiatives that drive environmental, social, and governance (ESG) leadership within gambling policy, operations, or oversight.
Refine investigative and enforcement practices
Present techniques or tools that improve investigative rigor, case management, or regulatory responsiveness.
Modernise audit and assurance
Introduce models or technologies that strengthen internal controls, independent assessments, or continuous compliance testing.
Utilise artificial intelligence for regulatory excellence
Explore how AI is being applied to risk detection, behavioural analytics, predictive supervision, or decision-making in compliance settings.

A Night of Big Ideas and Bold Connections

As a key networking event of the conference, Pitch! blends vibrant hospitality, curated entertainment, and powerful storytelling. Held in the breathtaking Yallamundi Rooms at the Sydney Opera House, this iconic venue sets the stage for an unforgettable evening of inspiration, conversation, and connection, brought to life by our dynamic host and served with incredible food and drinks.

Ready to Pitch?

We’re inviting organisations, entrepreneurs, and changemakers to submit an expression of interest to present at Pitch!

Selected participants will receive a 10-minute slot, plus time for audience Q&A. We’re looking for concise, high-impact presentations that inform, challenge, and inspire.

Important: Pitch! presenters must be registered attendees of Regulating the Game 2026.

If your work is breaking new ground, solving critical industry problems, or shaping the future of gambling regulation—Pitch! is your platform to stand out and engage a global audience of regulators, policy leaders, and industry decision-makers.

Submit your Expression of Interest below, and our team will be in touch to guide you through the next steps.

Topics

RegTech
Consumer Empowerment & Market Competition
Payments & Cashless Innovation
Product compliance
Risk Management
Public Policy
Industry Supervision
Standards
Blockchain & Digital Assets
Cyber Crime
Safer Gambling and Gambling Harm
Financial Crime
Money Laundering
Compliance
ESG & Sustainable Growth
Investigations & Enforcement Innovation
Audit and Assurance
Artificial Intelligence

SEE PREVIOUS PITCHERS

GO - Focal's Gaming Floor app to guide Safer Gambling Interactions

The wining 2025 pitch showcased how "GO", the new on the floor app, supports Focal’s data-driven risk identification system. The app enables staff to identify players at risk in specific venues. It also offers gambling operators effortless access to both risk and guest interaction data across various mobile devices.

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PITCH!@RTG SYDNEY 2026

THE PITCHERS

GetEvive

Smart Gambling Support: Introducing Evive Australia

Evive, Australia represents the alchemy found in lived experience and deep clinical and prevention expertise, all combined with savvy tech. The tool (currently available in the US) is being localised for Australian harm mitigation. It is designed for anyone wanting to change how they play, or seek support for gambling harms. Evive Australia assures operators, regulators and people using the tool that they are receiving relevant harm minimisation strategies. Whether someone is thinking about cutting down, or is on a help-seeking journey, Evive is a one-stop shop. It is created by Sam DeMello, a tech specialist who is in recovery from lived experience of gambling harms.

Jay Robinson - safer gambling expert with 20 years experience in Australia harm min - is supporting the adaptation of the tool for an Australian audience, including affected others.

BNDRY

The AML Compliance platform, tailored to Australia’s pubs and clubs

Australia’s pubs and clubs are under growing pressure to strengthen their financial crime compliance programs under the AML/CTF Act. AUSTRAC’s CEO has raised serious concerns about money laundering risks in the sector, already taking enforcement actions against venues that fall short.

The problem is, most compliance technology is built for banks, leaving hospitality venues struggling with fragmented, costly, and complex systems that aren't designed for how gaming operations actually work.

One of the biggest challenges is automating transaction monitoring. In banking, a transaction is the transfer of value between accounts—but in gaming, it’s far more complex. Clubs and pubs must monitor both carded and uncarded play, where identifying who is behind the activity and assessing their risk becomes difficult. What’s needed is technology that can combine data from gaming systems and in-venue observations, reconcile it to verified member and visitor profiles, screened against the latest watchlists—all in real time.

To meet this challenge, BNDRY has partnered with Cherryhub to build a compliance hub tailored to the industry. Powered by BNDRY’s bank-grade security, the solution integrates directly with Cherryhub to access gaming machine system data, member and visitor data, and floor staff observational data, to automate the daily operational tasks of a robust financial crime compliance program—all in one single operational dashboard.

Focal Prevent

Expanding Player Protection with ‘Prevent” Real-Time Risk Identification and Safer Gambling Messaging System

Gambling operators are required to balance entertainment with consumer protection.
Teams must identify risk across both carded and uncarded play, act quickly, and maintain accurate documentation — all while navigating complex regulations and competing priorities.

Prevent, Focal’s reimagined player protection technology uses live data to provide proactive support and tailored resources to guests. Purpose-built for land-based operators to prevent gambling harm through early identification, this solution —an upgraded version of Focal’s award-winning ALeRT Bettor Protection System —continues to reach the right customers, with the right message, at the right time, now in real time.

Join Nadine and discover how Prevent:

Expands player protection to everyone who gambles at your venue
Addresses risk early and protects customers with real-time alerts
Reaches customers instantly with automated safer gambling messaging
Monitors carded and uncarded play and provides an accurate picture of risk
Streamlines reporting and compliance for regulatory purposes

Prevent goes beyond identification – it protects and prevents. Developed from over 30 years of global gambling research, it combines the precision of behavioural data with the reality of venue operations to deliver measurable impact.

LivOn Productions

Assist: The Missing Player in Safer Gambling — Empowering Supporters to Stop Harm Before It Spirals

Most gambling-harm prevention models focus on operators, regulators, and people who gamble. The group with the most day-to-day influence — family, friends, partners, and coaches, collectively “supporters” — is still missing from the picture. Supporters notice risks early, absorb emotional and financial impacts, and often intervene long before services do, yet remain largely unseen and unsupported.

Anita argues that meaningful harm reduction requires elevating this overlooked pillar. Her book Assist was written to close that gap, offering practical, evidence-informed guidance drawn from behavioural science and her lived experience as the spouse of someone experiencing gambling harm.

In her Pitch! session, Anita explores:

The role of supporters
Why supporters are the most accurate early-risk detectors and the most motivated influence in someone’s recovery.

Tools that make a difference
Communication approaches, boundary-setting strategies, and early-risk identification methods that help supporters act effectively without compromising their wellbeing.

How the sector can respond
Steps regulators, operators, and community services can take to integrate supporters into harm-prevention systems and build more human-centred pathways to help.

This session positions supporter empowerment as the next frontier in harm minimisation — a shift that enables earlier intervention, more effective protection, and a safer, more compassionate gambling environment.

Angel Australia Pty Ltd

Angel Smart Gaming Table real, accurate gaming data for player protection

Poker machines are awash with accurate data from which property managers can make decisions to protect their players from harm. From the beginning of table gaming, operators have been largely reliant on data from the observations and manual recording of dealers and supervisors the accuracy of which is not so reliable and therefore poor for any proper decision making. Angel has developed and installed in Casinos a Smart Table technology solution using video assisted artifical intelligence software that provides absolutely accurate granular level data about individual players game play including, buy ins, time at table, bets placed, win /loss across all tables and all betting sessions all history. Finally, accurate data that operators can rely on for their harm minimisation and regulatory compliance needs.