Half-Day Executive Retreat

Fraud Forum: For Identity Insiders

Hosted by Microblink

Menlo Park, CA April 26, 2026

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An Invitation to the Inner Circle of Fraud & Identity Innovation

Microblink’s Fraud Forum events are designed to be private, off-the-record retreats designed for senior leaders in fraud prevention, risk, and compliance.

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Agenda

1:00 pm

Arrival and Networking

2:00 — 2:30 pm

Welcome Address

Setting the stage for an afternoon built around real-world fraud challenges, emerging threats, and the tech shaping 2026. Speakers: Hartley Thompson, CEO, Microblink

Erin West, Founder, Operation Shamrock

2:30 — 4:15 pm

Identity Insider Roundtables

Beyond Buzzwords: What's Actually Changing in Fraud, Identity & AI

2:30 — 2:45 pm

We'll touch on some of the major trends and shifts affecting our industry today, including how “unified identity fabric” has gone from buzzword to board-level priority, how agentic commerce is quietly rewriting how customers buy (and how fraudsters scheme), the increasing sophistication of deepfakes, and why eID is finally having its moment. Speaker: Albert Roux, EVP, Product, Identity, Microblink

Agentic Commerce – The New Identity Frontier

2:45 — 3:15 pm

A practical conversation on how agentic commerce changes the mechanics of trust. From interoperability protocols (MCP and beyond) to new discovery models (Google → chat interfaces), the panel breaks down the shifts already reshaping fraud vectors and user journeys. Speakers:
Albert Roux
Dave Griesbach, Principal Product Manager, Former Google & Airbnb
Chris Sanger, VP Payments and Risk, SeatGeek

Deepfake Debrief — View From the Trenches

3:15 — 3:45 pm

A behind-the-scenes look at how synthetic faces and documents are actually generated, deployed, and weaponized. You’ll see real-world examples and come away with actionable insight. Speakers:
Shivendra Kishor, Senior Director, Instacart
Tyler Brutsman, Solutions Engineer, Microblink
Vincenzo D’Elia, Engineering Director, Microblink

Identity Insider Roundtable

3:45 — 4:30 pm

This will be a fully participatory discussion where attendees set the agenda. Expect candid, unfiltered conversations about the attacks teams are actually seeing in the wild, the places where existing controls are starting to crack, and the worries keeping leaders up at night as we head into 2026. Chatham House rules apply, so you can speak freely.

4:30 pm — 4:45 pm

Networking Break

4:45 pm — 5:15 pm

Industry Fireside Chat: Staying Relevant in 2026 and Beyond

A cross-industry conversation on what leaders are preparing for next, including regulation, deepfake defenses, payment risk, and the evolving relationship between humans, AI, and identity. Dan Kaplan, VP – Sales, Microblink
Collin Chen, Fraud Product, Amount
Holly Sandberg, Director – Trust & Safety, Reverb
Travis Dawson, VP Product and Business, Complex NTWRK
Samant Nagpal, Head of Payments and Risk, Gusto

5:15 pm — 5:30 pm

Closing Keynote

A sharp, forward-looking wrap-up on where identity and fraud are headed—and what leaders need to operationalize now. Speakers:

Hartley Thompson, CEO, Microblink
Marwan Forzley, CEO, Veem

5:30 pm — Late

After the event, stay for dinner and open-bar cocktail reception. This is where the real debates happen.

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