Presenters

Steve Blackburn, Partner, Ashurst Risk Advisory
Steve is an internationally recognized expert in financial crime prevention, risk management, and compliance. He is the Global Chair of Ashurst Risk Advisory's Financial Crime practice, with extensive experience in regulated sectors like financial services, gaming, wealth management, and superannuation. Previously, Steve served as Chief Financial Crime Officer at two multinational banks, leading transformations in anti-money laundering, counter-terrorism financing, and anti-bribery programs. He also served as Chief Risk Officer for Australia's largest gaming and hospitality group, overseeing major risk and compliance reforms. Steve has represented industries before government committees and regulators globally.

Dr. Jamie Wiebe, Executive General Manager Responsible Gaming, Crown Resorts Ltd
Jamie is an advocate for global public health, research and development and is most passionate about utilising evidence-based policies to create impact. Holding a Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D) from the Department of Medicine, Community Health Sciences at the University of Manitoba and has more than 20 years of direct experience in gambling harm prevention, research and operationalisation harm minimisation programs. Throughout her leadership, Jamie has provided strategic direction and guidance in the design, analysis and interpretation of countless research projects to help the gambling industry understand ways to reduce potential harm to players. Jamie is currently the Group Executive General Manager of the Crown PlaySafe Strategy Team at Crown Resorts. During her at Crown, she has led the way for Crown Resorts’ safer gambling transformation, initiating and leading world-first gambling reforms such as technologically led solutions for assessing and preventing gambling harm, investment in neuroscience and behavioural staff training and implementation of robust guardrails for marketing activity across the group. Her commitment to best practise sees her working collaboratively with industry experts and community stakeholders, recognising safeguards are needed across the industry for the collective prevention of gambling related harms. Prior to joining Crown, Jamie held senior leadership roles overseas including Director of Player Health at BCLC, and Managing Director of Advancement and Best Practices at the Responsible Gambling Council, both based in Canada. Her innovative work has bridged the divide between industry and research, resulting in significant positive impacts to culture and embeddedness of safer gambling principles within organisations and tangible impacts to player safety and wellbeing.