Alexis Conran, TV Presenter and Actor (LAMDA trained) is best known as the man who identifies, uncovers and helps us to protect our businesses and ourselves against scams. As writer and presenter of the highly acclaimed BBC TV show, The Real Hustle, he is in the rare position of being able to advise and educate even the most-foolhardy on issues surrounding security and risk (in the real and virtual world), and identify the human behavior, communication skills and confidence tricks that the world’s top scammers rely on to achieve their unscrupulous aims. An expert in social engineering, Alexis shares insights into information security and how people are psychologically manipulated into performing actions or divulging confidential information.

As a charismatic and engaging keynote and after-dinner speaker, Alexis employs his knowledge of the dark and deceptive world of hustling, pickpockets and con-artists to speak candidly on the risks and security threats constantly faced by businesses, and to deliver important messages on the shrewdest ways to protect against the ever-increasing number of scams. His recent clients include Google, IBM, the RSA Security Conference, Experian, RBS, Halifax, Aviva, Facebook, Porsche, VISA, The Metropolitan Police and the City of London Police Fraud in Action Unit.

Alexis currently hosts his own weekly show, on Talk Radio. He has been part of several Channel 5 programs all focused around how to keep people safe from scams and sharp practices. He also contributes to ITV’s This Morning and BBC Radio 4 and 5Live, and was crowned champion of Celebrity MasterChef 2016.
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Dr Jonathan Lusthaus is Director of The Human Cybercriminal Project in the Department of Sociology, a Research Associate at the Centre for Technology and Global Affairs, and a Research Fellow at Nuffield College, University of Oxford.

He is also an Adjunct Associate Professor at UNSW Canberra Cyber. Jonathan’s research focuses on the "human" side of profit-driven cybercrime: who cybercriminals are and how they are organised. He is a regular speaker at major conferences, such as Black Hat, Enigma and the International Conference on Cyber Security.

Jonathan has also written widely across academic, policy and media publications, including for the European Journal of Sociology, the Council on Foreign Relations and The New York Times. He is the author of Industry of Anonymity: Inside the Business of Cybercrime published by Harvard University Press. Fieldwork for this study took place over a 7 year period, involved travel to cybercrime hotspots around the globe, and included almost 250 interviews with law enforcement, the private sector, and former cybercriminals.

Jonathan holds a doctorate in sociology from the University of Oxford, where he was a Clarendon Scholar.

Anton Moiseienko is a Research Fellow at RUSI’s Centre for Financial Crime and Security Studies. His current and recent work covers a range of subjects, including financial crime online, the intersection between cybercrime and money laundering, corruption in the UK and overseas, and criminal risks posed by free-trade zones.

Anton holds a PhD in law from Queen Mary University of London and a master’s degree in law from the University of Cambridge. His book Corruption and Targeted Sanctions was published by Brill. He is also a co-editor of four books on transnational crime, including the Research Handbook on Transnational Crime published by Edward Elgar. Anton’s articles have appeared in leading peer-reviewed journals such as the International & Comparative Law Quarterly and Criminal Law Review.

Anton regularly speaks at practitioner and academic events, including guest lectures at a number of UK universities.

You can find Anton on Twitter at @antonm_law.

Angélique Monneraye is currently working as a policy officer on intellectual property rights enforcement in the Unit 'Intellectual Property’, at DG Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs (GROW), European Commission. She is a national expert from the French Directorate-General of Customs and Excise seconded to the European Commission.

After obtaining a Master's degree in European studies (Institute of Political Studies of Grenoble, France), Angélique Monneraye joined the French Customs Administration in 2008. She worked as a policy officer at the Clearance Policy Unit of the French Directorate-General of Customs and Excise (2009 - 2014) and in the field of enforcement of intellectual property rights at the French Directorate-General for Enterprise in the Ministry for the Economy and Finance (2015 - 2018).

Peter Lauth is responsible for Visa Risk Services in Central and Central Eastern Europe, which includes control and prevention activities in respect of fraud. These activities include holding client councils, client risk reviews and audits; as well as best practice sharing and being an escalation point for Visa clients and internal stakeholders alike.

Peter joined Visa in November 2018 and is based in Frankfurt, Germany. Peter has previously worked for eight years for PayPal in risk operation and risk management functions in Dublin and Berlin until 2015. Peter then joined Worldline as a risk manager in first and second line of defense roles before joining Visa.

Bonnie Patten, Esq. is Executive Director and co-Founder of truthinadvertising.org (TINA.org), a non-profit consumer advocacy organization focused on protecting consumers from false advertising and deceptive marketing. From its inception, Truth in Advertising (TINA.org) has worked to expose brazen falsehoods in marketing for what they are, whether it’s fly-by-night operations hawking obscure products or the marketing activities of the nation’s largest corporations. TINA.org’s work has uncovered deceptive practices and false advertising that often target vulnerable consumers, from senior citizens to parents of children with disabilities to families in economic distress.

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Bonnie provides the overall vision, leadership, and direction to help TINA.org achieve its mission and strategic goals. Her commitment to educating the public about deceptive marketing and fraudulent ads stems from her belief that education is the only viable way to effectively eradicate the market of false ads.

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Spencer McLain is Ekata’s Vice President and General Manager of the EMEA region. He leads Ekata’s international expansion efforts and owns key relationships with card brands and payment service providers. Spencer supports multiple fraud platform partnerships, collaborates with Product Management to improve Ekata’s API products to ensure that they provide maximum lift in risk models and/or rule-sets, and acts as a key liaison to complex data customers who require specialized testing/analysis.

Alex is Fintact's Senior Vice President of Business Development, International. He is responsible for Fintact’s international expansion activities, building relationships with legal and accounting firms, financial institutions, insurers, notaries and the real estate industry. Alex has over two decades of experience in senior roles at investment banks and accountancy firms. He started his career as a lawyer.

Christian A. Chmiel, CEO of Web Shield, is responsible for the development and implementation of novel investigation techniques and research tools to identify fraudulent or brand damaging online merchants. Before he served as the Deputy Head of Compliance for a major German acquiring bank, and specialized in online fraud investigations, credit card compliance and underwriting.

He has served clients across a wide range of sectors, including financial services, IT software, entertainment, travel and health. Christian has undertaken assignments in the mainland Europe, Israel, Georgia, North America and the United Arabian Emirates. He brings deep experience in conducting investigations into fraudulent online merchants, risk calculations and forecasting methodologies to the table.

Christian is a lecturer at the Web Shield Academy and has written and co-written a series of publications about the various aspects of risk management, fraud detection and investigative methodology.

He has been honoured as one of the ETA's Forty Under 40 class of 2019.

Markus Prause, Web Shield's Vice President Underwriting and Monitoring, is responsible for the areas of online investigation, merchant monitoring and client integrity. Before, Markus worked for a German financial institution and two merchant acquirers in the field of risk and compliance. He is specialized in the area of on-boarding and non-compliance investigations, client integrity retention and risk consulting. Markus is a Certified High-Risk Underwriter (WSA) and an instructor at the Web Shield Academy.

Marc Bongers is the Vice President Client Development at Web Shield. He has over a decade experience in Business Development and Strategy for Know Your Customer (KYC) and Underwriting, Remittance, Online Payments and Retail Banking. Before, he held various commercial positions, most recently that of Sales Director for iSignthis and Head of Business Development Europe for Western Union.

Bill is a professional banker, a payments and risk specialist for over 25 years. He headed-up risk functions and special investigations in Lloyds Bank issuing and acquiring, following with acquiring and processing at First Data, and then insurance risks at RBS/Direct Line. He set-up, ran, grew and sold an outsource business that identified and managed liars in people's insurance and lost-card claims using teams trained in advance forensic psychology.

For the last 12 years, he has been diving into many other businesses: largely advising merchants, acquirers and others in the payment chain to help reduce risks and costs, to improve business and to make significant organisational change. The catalyst for change will often come from losses, from regulators or from a card-scheme challenge. He is a mentor for innovative payments start-ups and sits on working parties and panels for the UK regulators. He works across the EU, but often much further afield. Furthermore, Bill has degrees in Mechanical Engineering and in Banking, and is a member of the high IQ society.

For over 25 years, Kevin has been a business leader within the payments industry working with issuers, acquirers, payment schemes and retailers. More recently this includes a continued focus on payments acceptance, risk and compliance. Additionally works with processors, telco’s, solution providers and regulators, particularly in the areas of payments innovation, fraud, risk and compliance management.

He spent nearly 17 years at Visa in Europe and internationally, where Kevin held various senior management and leadership positions, focused on card programmes and acceptance product development and management across Europe, as well as global initiatives while seconded to Visa International. On returning to Europe, Kevin led the Visa Europe acceptance and acquiring development team before moving into risk management, as the Head of Fraud Management and Compliance.

Since leaving Visa in late 2011, Kevin has operated as an independent and trusted payments and risk management consultant and business advisor. He is a co-founder of the Association of Independent Risk & Fraud Advisors (AIRFA).

Oleg Leonov is a Product Risk and Compliance Officer, responsible for the development and implementation of verification/investigation techniques and solutions within the organization. Oleg covers compliance and risk areas for a payment gateway, which includes over 200 global and local payments methods and hundreds of merchants. Focusing on fraud prevention, KYC procedures and merchant monitoring, all while cooperating with a team of over 100 analysts.

Oleg has worked directly with every aspect of risk and compliance management on the operational level and possesses the detailed awareness of every process. He has a very extensive knowledge in this field and is constantly following emerging payment trends and their potential implications. He is responsible for the company’s regulatory compliance and for the staff awareness of existing threats, as well as maintaining a relationship and staying in contact with regulatory authorities.