Yesterday’s Tools Won’t Solve Tomorrow’s Problems: Operationalising Safer Gambling as a Business Capability
As gambling products, customer behaviour, and regulatory expectations evolve, traditional safer gambling tools and compliance-led approaches are reaching their limits. This session is designed to help leaders move forward with clarity, not complexity, by focusing on practical shifts that can be applied immediately within existing organisations. The session will explore: 1) A clear-eyed look at why tool-heavy, activity-based models often fail to influence real behaviour, and how leaders can identify the pressure points in their own systems. 2) How to embed safer gambling into everyday decisions across product design, customer interactions, data use, and governance, without creating new silos or layers of bureaucracy. 3) Concrete examples of small but high-impact changes operators and regulators can implement to strengthen accountability, improve decision quality, and support more sustainable play. 4) Creating agency, not overwhelm: How organisations can progress safer gambling maturity incrementally, using existing structures and people, rather than waiting for perfect tools or wholesale transformation.