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.