
GDI is delighted to announce that tickets for our New York City Conference 2023 are on sale now. Following our incredibly successful 2022 conference in New York, our first international conference since March 2020, Global Dating Insights is excited to return to New York City on Thursday, 30th March 2023.
Tickets are available on Eventbrite at this link.
Hosted at the Dream Downtown, New York City, speaker sessions will run all day, with free lunch and refreshments provided throughout. The conference is followed by an evening of drinks, giving guests an informal networking opportunity to make professional connections.
The night before the conference, Wednesday, 29th March, we are also hosting an exclusive pre-conference networking session.
The 2022 New York conference was a great success, and a fantastic return to live events post COVID. Speakers included Grindr, Google, The Meet Group, Dating Group, and many more.
Tickets are currently available here. Get your tickets now before they sell out!
Thank you to our sponsors Purchasely, Social Discovery Group, RealGifts, Stream, Scamalytics, irisnet, Spectrum Labs, and El Camino for their support.

Check out our event video from the 2022 conference:
Event Agenda
Time | Speaker |
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10.00 - 10.15 | 'Do Things That Don’t Scale… Then Scale Them!' - Geoff Cook, CEO, The Meet Group |
10.15 - 10.30 | 'The Future of Dating is Matchmaking' - Kellie Ammerman, CEO, Tawkify & Adam Cohen-Aslatei, Managing Director, Tawkify |
10.30 - 10.45 | Sukesh Mohan, Vice President, El Camino |
10.45 - 11.00 | 'Behind-the-curtains of OkCupid's data-storytelling and newsjacking press strategies' - Michael Kaye, Global Head of Communications, OkCupid |
11.00 - 11.15 | 'User-oriented approach as a cornerstone in scaling two large dating apps' - Jake Vygnan, Co-Founder and COO, Taimi & Hily |
- | BREAK |
11.30 - 11.55 | '18+ Only: Keeping Dating Spaces Free from Underage Users and Content: A panel on regulatory requirements and best practice' - Dr Hannah Shimko, Chief Executive, ODA; Tomer Poran, VP Solution Strategy, ActiveFence; Julie Dawson, Chief Policy & Regulatory Officer, Yoti; Amanda Volz, VP, Global Customers & Strategic Partnerships, Thorn |
11.55 - 12.10 | 'Video Killed the Swiping Star' - Luke Connolly, Co-Founder, Ditto |
12.10 - 12.25 | 'The New Social Discovery Group' - Bill Alena, Chief Investment Officer, Social Discovery Group |
12.25 - 12.40 | 'Are Dating Apps Driving People to Loneliness?' - Jakob Lundstrom, Co-Founder and CEO, Djungo; Linda Murray Wennberg, Co-Founder and COO, Djungo |
12.40 - 12.55 | 'Solving The ‘Deeper Dating’ Puzzle' - Alex Durrant, CEO & Co-founder, Jigsaw |
- | LUNCH |
2.00 - 2.25 | 'Balancing User Experience and Safety While Keeping the Integrity of a Platform's Policy' - Matthew Soeth, Head of Community, Spectrum Labs and Alice Hunsberger, VP, Global Head of Customer Experience, Grindr |
2.25 - 2.40 | 'Background Checks 101: What Dating Apps Need to Know & What Garbo Does Differently' - Kathryn Kosmides, Founder and CEO, Garbo |
2.40 - 2.55 | 'How Artificial Intelligence is Winning the Battle Against Online Dating Scammers' - Zach Schleien, CEO, Filteroff |
2.55 - 3.10 | 'AI Video & Image moderation to protect services, brands and property' - Christoph Hermes, Senior Business Development Consultant, Irisnet |
3.10 - 3.25 | 'How Online Dating Facilitates ENM and Open Relationships' - Amanda Wilson, Co-Founder, #open & Jane Reynolds, Director of Product Marketing, OkCupid |
- | BREAK |
3.40 - 3.55 | 'The Power of Gifting: How Dating Apps can Increase Profit' - Rebeca Valdez, Strategic Growth Expert, RealGifts |
3.55 - 4.10 | 'From Grindr to Motto, why Joel Simkhai is doing things differently' - Joel Simkhai, Founder & CEO, Motto |
4.10 - 4.25 | 'Is Love Blind? Swiping Left on Swiping' - Taly Matiteyahu, CEO & Founder, Blink |
4.25 - 4.40 | 'The Startups Panel: From Promising Potential to Popular Phenomenon' - Evan Harris, Founder, MoDate; Greg Wheeler, Co-Founder and CEO, Ditto; Brad Jones, Founder and CTO, Meet Kinksters |
4.40 - 4.55 | 'Swipe after the Swipe - Solving the Dating Apps Churn Dilemma' - Ankit Nayal, Founder & CEO, Flamme - The Couples App |
- | CLOSE |