IAGR2025 session:
PANEL – Regtech: The regulator’s ally or an unregulated shortcut?
The gambling sector is undergoing a profound transformation as regulatory scrutiny intensifies globally. As regulatory scrutiny evolves within jurisdictions and across borders, it’s natural that the gambling sector mirrors the use of technology in other sectors.
Regulatory technology (RegTech) tools and platforms are designed to help gambling operators comply and regulators to understand that level of compliance.
This panel, moderated by Birgitte, explores how RegTech has evolved in the gambling industry, the regulatory and operational challenges it addresses, and what innovations and policy shifts are likely to shape its future.
About Birgitte:
Birgitte Sand is a Senior Executive with over 25 years of experience, including most recently as Director of the Danish Gambling Authority. During her twelve-year tenure as the head gaming regulator in Denmark, she was responsible for the successful construction and consolidation of a liberalized gambling licensing regime covering betting, on line casino, land-based casinos, lotteries, and gaming machines.
Sand’s leadership expertise includes covering in-depth restructuring tasks, implementation of numerous comprehensive law complexes, massive digital transformation of work processes including ground-breaking technological solutions towards companies and citizens. Participation in a wide range of top-level decisions based on political agreements, has provided Sand with an exquisite experience in inspiring, formulating and transforming visions to sustainable strategies and tangible results.
Birgitte comes with profound international experiences from tireless international cooperation and sharing of knowledge as a regulator and since then as an independent gaming consultant and advisor for both gaming authorities, governments and industry. She is also an experienced board member covering both responsible gambling research, the use of AI for problem gambling, development of compliance tools and establishment of gaming offerings in a new market.
Birgitte is Past President and Patron of IAGR, the International Association of Gaming Regulators, she was awarded “European Regulator of the Year 2017” by IMGL, the International Masters of Gaming Law, she received a Compliance Lifetime Achievement Special Award 2021 by VIXIO Gambling Compliance and was inducted into the SBC Sports Betting Hall of Fame of 2021.
