SBC Summit Lisbon 2026 brings around 40,000 industry professionals, 600+ speakers and 800+ exhibitors to Feira Internacional de Lisboa and MEO Arena, with a dedicated Player Protection Symposium and Player Protection Zone running alongside the main conference stages.
Most player protection conversations focus on what happens once a player is on a real game: limits, self-exclusion tools and behavioural monitoring. Far fewer ask what happens when the game itself is fake. That is the gap Gamecheck exists to close, and it is why James Elliott, our founder, is opening the Player Protection Symposium this year. The Gamecheck SEAL gives operators a way to show their games are real, backed by checks carried out with the original game providers.
Operators who visit Stand PP100 in the Player Protection Zone will receive the Gamecheck SEAL at no cost for their first month, with standard pricing applying after that.
Speaker: James Elliott, Founder, Gamecheck
Session: 'Innovation in tech: how can technology keep players safe from harm?'
Venue: Player Protection Symposium
Time: 11:00am to 11:40am
Today's the day. Gamecheck Founder James Elliott opens the Player Protection Symposium from 11am to 11:40am with 'Innovation in tech: how can technology keep players safe from harm?'. His session kicks off a programme built around three themes: balancing regulation against the black market, the operator's role in safeguarding players, and technology's growing part in identifying and supporting at-risk players.
James's session makes a case that most of the room will not have heard framed quite this way before. Behavioural analytics has become a mature, well-funded part of player protection technology, watching for risky session patterns and flagging problems early. That work matters, and it is not going anywhere. But it only ever answers one question: is this player showing signs of harm. It says nothing about a deeper one, which is whether the game in front of them is even real to begin with. A player can have completely healthy session data and still be sitting in front of a fake game, because the models measuring that session were never built to catch this kind of problem in the first place.
If you are at the event this morning, this is one worth clearing your schedule for. Eleven o'clock, the Player Protection Symposium, forty minutes that could change how you think about player protection.
Operators who visit Stand PP100 in the Player Protection Zone will receive the Gamecheck SEAL at no cost for their first month, with standard pricing applying after that.
Day two of SBC Summit Lisbon, and Stand PP100 has already had a steady flow of visitors since it opened yesterday. The Player Protection Zone sits on the exhibition floor alongside SBC's six-stage conference agenda, and it is built to be a hands-on space rather than another row of banners and brochures. At the stand, the Gamecheck team has the Search Tool, the Chrome Extension, the app, and the Gamecheck SEAL all set up to try directly, not just to look at.
For operators, that means seeing the Gamecheck SEAL process from end to end: how a game gets checked with its original provider, what the tamper-proof badge looks like once it is live on a domain and how a player can scan it through the app to confirm it belongs to that site rather than being copied from somewhere else.
For providers, it is a chance to see how Gamecheck's checks work alongside them rather than around them, since checking a game always sits with the provider, not with Gamecheck itself.
For regulators, the stand offers a look at what independent, provider-backed checking looks like at scale, across more than 43,500 online casinos monitored worldwide.
Stop by, hand over a domain, and watch the Search Tool return a result in seconds: real games in operation, fake games detected or a check still pending. It tends to make the point faster than any pitch could.
Three familiar faces from Gamecheck are on the ground at Stand PP100 this week, each with a slightly different conversation to have.
Jack Crabtree, Head of Sales, leads Gamecheck's sales work and is the first point of contact for any operator thinking about bringing the Gamecheck SEAL onto their own platform. If the question in your head is "what would this actually take for us", Jack is the person to ask.
Lizzie McDermott, Partnerships Manager, works with partners to build Gamecheck's tools into their existing player protection strategies rather than treating them as a bolt-on. She is worth finding if you are already doing work in this space and want to know how Gamecheck fits alongside it.
Umur Ozan, Creative Strategist, is on hand to talk through how the Gamecheck brand and the player protection message land with operators, along with the creative and video work behind the campaign. If you want to know how Gamecheck tells this story, he is the one to seek out.
For anyone working across Latin America who cannot make it to Lisbon in person, Rosa Ochoa continues to lead Gamecheck's business development in that region remotely, and Spanish-speaking operators can reach her directly. Between the four of them, there is a route in for pretty much any operator, provider or regulator with questions about where Gamecheck fits into their own player protection plans.
Operators who visit Gamecheck at Stand PP100 in the Player Protection Zone will receive the Gamecheck SEAL at no cost for their first month, with standard pricing applying after that. The team will be at the stand throughout the event, and don't miss Founder James Elliott on the Symposium stage at 11am today.
SBC Summit Lisbon has never shied away from big numbers, and this year is no exception. But the more interesting change is not the size of the room, it is what the room is starting to ask. A symposium built around player protection used to mean a conversation almost entirely about behaviour. This year it opens with a question about the product itself, and Gamecheck is glad to be the one asking it.
The games on an online casino should be exactly what they claim to be. Gamecheck gives operators the tools to keep games real, protect their players and earn their trust. If you can't make it to Lisbon, let's talk anyway. Email sales@gamecheck.com to book a meeting with the team.
Published On: Sep 29, 2026
Updated On: Nov 03, 2026
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Where can I find Gamecheck at SBC Summit Lisbon?
The Gamecheck team is at Stand PP100 in the Player Protection Zone for the full event, with the Search Tool, Chrome Extension, app and Gamecheck SEAL all available to try.
Who should I speak to at the Gamecheck stand?
Jack Crabtree, Head of Sales, for operators considering the Gamecheck SEAL; Lizzie McDermott, Partnerships Manager, for existing partners; and Umur Ozan, Creative Strategist, for brand and campaign questions. Rosa Ochoa is reachable remotely for Latin America.
When is James Elliott speaking?
James opens the Player Protection Symposium today from 11am to 11:40am with his session, 'Innovation in tech: how can technology keep players safe from harm?'.
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