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title: "Webinar - The Online Safety Act: Compliance, Friction and Deadlines."
description: Learn how the Online Safety Act impacts the dating sector and how to meet compliance deadlines while reducing friction. Register now.
image: https://oneid.uk/hubfs/OSA%20Webinar%20(3)-1.png
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# Webinar: The Online Safety Act – a Dating Sector Case Study on Reducing Onboarding Friction While Meeting Compliance Deadlines

![OSA Webinar dating gaming and social media](https://oneid.uk/hs-fs/hubfs/OSA%20Webinar%20page%20%20(5).png?width=600&height=250&name=OSA%20Webinar%20page%20%20(5).png)

  

**Duration: **45 minutes

 

Is friction and abandonment the price for complying with the **UK Online Safety Act**? Get the all-important answer at our webinar, co-hosted with regulatory experts** Illuminate Tech**. We will explore how the UK Online Safety Act impacts the dating, social media and gaming sectors. Learn how your business can meet compliance deadlines while minimising friction in user onboarding, identity and age verification processes.

**We will focus on:**

- Key regulatory updates and deadlines affecting the social media, dating and gaming sectors.
- Practical steps to implement highly effective age assurance measures while preserving user privacy.
- Strategies to reduce onboarding friction and reduce abandonment using seamless user verification solutions.

# Watch On Demand Now:

 

## The speakers

![Ofcom - Isobel Angel](https://oneid.uk/hubfs/Role-model-768x1024.jpg)

##### Isobel Angell

Senior Associate, Ofcom

Isobel is a Senior Associate in Ofcom’s Online Safety Supervision team. She currently leads Ofcom’s supervisory relationships with services operating in the online dating and gaming industries. Her work involves regular targeted engagement to understand services’ approach to trust and safety, before assessing compliance with the Online Safety Act and then driving improvements as required.

![George Ofcom](https://oneid.uk/hubfs/1694172389610.jpeg)

##### George Billinge

Founder, Illuminate tech

George Billinge is founder of Illuminate Tech, a mission-driven research and advisory firm working to cultivate a safer, more trusted internet. Founded by former members of Ofcom’s Online Safety Group, Illuminate Tech work to lower the barriers to compliance and support the responsible design of tech platforms. Combining deep technical expertise in age assurance and digital identity technologies with nuanced insight into the digital regulatory landscape, they believe that committing to safety-by-design isn’t just the right thing to do: it can also be a core component of building a trusted brand.

![rob-kotlarz-1](https://oneid.uk/hubfs/DigitalIdentityNet_August2021/images/rob-kotlarz-1.png)

##### Rob Kotlarz

Founder, OneID®

Rob is a fintech founder, innovator, investor, digital identity product and market development thought leader, and entrepreneurial business development leader passionate about disruptive technologies that improve society. He is the founder of OneID® and works closely with the team that is transforming how people verify themselves online.

![Sizzl dating oneid](https://oneid.uk/hubfs/1685020534963.jpeg)

##### Phil Beesley

Co-Founder, SIZZL

Phil founded Sizzl - a dating app that places simplicity and safety at the core of its workings. By partnering with OneID®, Sizzl is the safest dating app in the UK.

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