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Welcome reception
Breakfast
Welcome remarks
Intelligence in motion: AI that protects, predicts, and performs
Digital commerce is entering a new era where intelligence must move faster than fraud and operate across the entire customer journey, not just at checkout.
In this opening keynote, Riskified leadership will unveil how AI-driven behavioral intelligence and pre-checkout innovations are transforming fraud management from point-in-time decisions into continuous, autonomous protection. Attendees will see how network-wide intelligence, real-time decisioning, and explainable AI come together to stop fraud earlier, approve more good customers, and deliver measurable business impact, while previewing Riskified’s vision for the future of agentic commerce and enterprise growth.
Innovation in action: Experiencing intelligence across the commerce journey
This Innovation Showcase brings Intelligence in Motion to life through live, guided demos from Riskified Product Managers. Attendees will see how AI-driven decisions operate across the commerce journey, from pre-checkout behavioral intelligence to real-time approvals, policy controls, and post-transaction protection. The session highlights how network intelligence, explainable AI, and adaptive decisioning work together to stop fraud earlier, reduce friction for good customers, and drive measurable business impact.
Networking break & Innovation row
When fraud looks legit: Detecting scams, device takeovers, and abuse at scale
Fraud is evolving to look like legitimate customer behavior. From device takeovers to social engineering scams, attacks now use real identities, making them difficult to detect with traditional signals alone. In this session, we’ll show how fraud has shifted from isolated transactions to connected behaviors, and why single-merchant detection falls short. Learn how AI and network-level intelligence uncover hidden relationships across identities, devices, and merchants to reduce fraud and abuse while protecting approvals.
Protecting luxury ecommerce without compromising the client experience
Luxury brands face a constant balancing act: stopping fraud and abuse while delivering the seamless, high-touch experience their customers expect. Hear how Loewe reduces false declines, protects high-value orders, and ensures fraud prevention never comes at the expense of the luxury client journey.
Lunch
The identity-aware CX revolution: Solving the identity gap to fight policy abuse
For years, Customer Experience (CX) leaders have been forced into a compromise: offer instant resolution to loyal customers, or implement rigid hurdles to stop the rising tide of refund and return abuse. While AI has scaled customer service efficiency, it has also inadvertently scaled the opportunity for exploitation through GenAI-enhanced tactics like highly persuasive scripts, synthetic identities and voice spoofing. The missing link? Risk-Aware Identity Intelligence.
Join Maria Vargas (SVP of Member Experiences, Rue Gilt Groupe) and Riskified for an exclusive look at how to move beyond traditional CX automation. We will reveal how graph intelligence helps CSRs instantly distinguish between high-value members and the professional abusers responsible for millions in losses.
Merchant Success Story
Join us for a 20-minute Q&A spotlighting a leading ecommerce merchant who’s transforming fraud prevention into a growth driver. In this “Merchant Success Story,” you’ll hear how innovative strategies and Riskified’s technology helped them overcome complex fraud challenges, reduce friction, and unlock new opportunities. This candid conversation offers real-world insights and practical takeaways for staying ahead in the ever-evolving world of ecommerce fraud.”
Before the buy button: Orchestrating trust and conversion across the pre-checkout journey
Fraud, abandonment, and false declines don’t start at checkout. They begin earlier, as shoppers create accounts, log in, and update credentials long before a payment is attempted. This session explores how leading merchants are shifting fraud protection upstream, expanding intelligence across the pre-checkout journey to meet evolving fraud tactics while preserving seamless customer experiences. You’ll see how behavioral signals, account updates, and issuer intelligence are used to orchestrate trust decisions earlier in the journey, applying the right controls at the right moments, with adaptive checkout serving as an enabling layer rather than a standalone capability. This unified approach delivers more personalized authentication paths, fewer false declines, higher conversion, and stronger business outcomes across the full shopper lifecycle.”
Networking break
Who owns the risk when AI pays? The accountability void in agentic commerce
In 2025, agentic commerce rewrote the rules of online shopping and, in the process, opened up new discussions regarding risk and liability. Between breakneck AI innovation, consumer Gen AI adoption, and AI-spurred transactions, agentic commerce has definitively entered the chat. But this huge opportunity also poses a critical question: is AI-driven shopping putting merchants at risk? The discussion will examine how agentic commerce is transforming online payments and changing the risk, liability, and conversion playbooks in the process. “
Fraud Boxer – Live Taping
Join Jordan Harris, host of Fraud Boxer, for a special live taping at Ascend EMEA. In this candid, high-energy conversation, Jordan will sit down with a leading ecommerce executive to unpack real-world fraud challenges, decisioning tradeoffs, and the strategies shaping modern risk management. Expect sharp insights, unfiltered perspectives, and practical takeaways you can apply immediately to protect revenue and drive growth.”
Titan Talk
Presented by Riskified, the Titans of Ecommerce Awards recognizes standout individuals who have demonstrated exceptional leadership in combating ecommerce fraud and driving business success.”
Innovation row
Retail & fashion roundtable: Risk-aware identity intelligence that delivers loyalty
High return rates. Serial refund abuse. Peak-season pressure on approval rates. Retail and fashion teams are under constant pressure to stop fraud without alienating their best customers. In this roundtable, peers from leading retail and fashion brands share how they reduce false positives, protect high-value shoppers, and defend margins in an environment of rising returns and increasingly sophisticated abuse. Expect candid discussion on approval rate tradeoffs, identity intelligence that mitigates refund and returns abuse, cross-border risk, and the strategies brands use to build trust while keeping checkout fast and conversion strong across channels and regions.”
Travel roundtable: Booking lifecycle risk mitigation in the airline and OTA industries
Long booking windows, high average order values, and complex refund rules make travel fraud especially costly and highly sensitive to false positives. Airlines and OTAs must stop fraud and friendly fraud without declining legitimate travelers or damaging lifetime value. In this peer-led roundtable, travel leaders share how they balance fraud prevention, approvals, and refund risk across the full booking lifecycle. Expect practical discussion on reducing false positives, managing post-purchase disputes and refunds, and protecting revenue while keeping the customer journey fast, and loyalty high. “
Online gambling & betting roundtable: Analyzing player fraud risk at speed & scale
Bonus abuse, account takeovers, friendly fraud, and rapid withdrawal scams are hitting gambling and betting operators at unprecedented speed. All of this unfolds under strict regulatory oversight, where mistakes can mean lost revenue, unhappy players, or compliance exposure. This roundtable brings together gambling and betting leaders to share how they identify fraud and abuse in real time, separate risky behavior from legitimate play, and protect revenue without slowing the action. Expect candid discussion on fraud signals, player lifecycle risk, withdrawals, disputes, and the tradeoffs operators make to stay fast, compliant, and player-friendly.”
Cross-asset transfer roundtable: Assessing crypto & money movement risk in real time
Financial transfer providers across remittances, cryptocurrency, money transfer, and precious metals operate in high-volume, high-risk environments where trust is essential. This roundtable brings together industry leaders to discuss how AI, real-time identity intelligence, and strong compliance programs can protect against fraud without adding friction to the customer experience. Drawing on insights from Riskified’s experts, we will examine emerging threats like cash-out fraud, first-time buyer abuse, and fraud-as-a-service. Participants will share practical strategies to reduce friction for legitimate users, navigate complex regulatory requirements, and use machine learning to spot risk across fiat, digital, and commodity currencies. Attendees will leave with actionable ideas to protect growth and strengthen trust as money moves globally at digital speed.”