Speakers

Roberto Saporito

Founder & CEO at NextGen Payment

NextGen has been founded by Roberto Saporito, former Global Head of HBR & Gambling during 13 years at Worldline. Now Founder & CEO of NextGen Payment since 3 years. All his knowledge, experience and network is dedicated to NextGen Payment and his Partners and Customers. The main focus of NextGen Payment is payment solutions for high risk merchants accounts - specializing in adult, dating, webcams, digital goods, nutra, cryptocurrency and gaming/gambling. NextGen offers services for: - Acquiring (CC submit) - Chargeback & Fraud prevention - IBAN accounts & cards - Crypto pay in & pay out - Gateway integration - Consultancy

Chris Youngs

Head of Business Development at Paxum

With over 25 years of experience in the adult industry, Chris Youngs brings deep expertise across every facet of the business, from operations and strategy to finance and compliance. He currently leads business development at Paxum, the award-winning global payment platform that has become the industry standard for adult banking, with over 50 accolades to its name. A regular speaker and panelist at conferences worldwide, Chris is passionate about helping adult businesses scale, adapt, and thrive in a fast-changing landscape.

Victor Romero

CEO & Founder at Smart Bulk Payments - 3P Smart LTD

Victor Romero is the CEO of SMART BULK PAYMENT, an institutional-grade bulk payout infrastructure built for high-volume digital platforms operating in the content creator economy. His company specializes in payout execution using stablecoin rails, designed for businesses that manage thousands of payments daily. With over a decade of experience in fintech, crypto infrastructure, and compliance, Victor's team has developed a system capable of processing up to 10,000 payouts per minute, combining operational efficiency with advanced risk controls. His platform integrates intelligent automation such as wallet validation, duplicate detection, and pre-execution error prevention, ensuring accuracy and reliability at scale. Through a robust API-first architecture, the company automated payouts to affiliates, creators, and partners globally, maintaining full auditability and control.

Andrei Covaci

CEO at Buygoods

Nearly 5 years ago, Andrei Covaci stepped up to lead BuyGoods with a big dream: to turn it into a top-tier affiliate marketplace. With his knack for tech and a curious mind, Andrei quickly led the charge on innovative changes that set BuyGoods apart in the digital marketing world. He blends an engineer's analytical skills with the vision of a seasoned strategist, firmly believing that the right team and perfect timing can make magic happen. His leadership hasn't just skyrocketed BuyGoods; it's also created a vibrant, collaborative workplace culture that everyone loves being a part of. When he speaks, Andrei's passion for digital marketing and leadership shines, bringing valuable insights and an infectious enthusiasm to every conversation. He isn't just a visionary leader — he's a compelling storyteller who makes every discussion lively and engaging. If you're looking for inspiration and practical strategies, you won't want to miss what Andrei has to say!

Andra Ionescu

CEO at MaxWeb

Andra Ionescu is the CEO of MaxWeb, bringing over 15 years of experience in digital marketing, finance, and operations. She grew within the business from affiliate management into operations leadership, where she worked closely with partners and helped scale affiliate programs to tens of millions in sales. Today, she leads the company with a hands-on approach, combining data, strategy, and a deep understanding of how affiliates grow. Andra is known for building strong teams, supporting partners directly, and creating a culture where performance and trust go hand in hand.

Olivier Maciejewski

Founder at OFM Legal & LegaFlow

Olivier is a former M&A and investment funds lawyer (Luxembourg, Paris), now an independent legal consultant specialized in the OFM industry. After several years working with top influencers and content creators on the marketing side, he built a dedicated legal practice for the adult content economy, a sector facing growing regulatory pressure and rising legal exposure. Through OFM Legal, he advises the biggest OnlyFans agencies and some of the world's top content creators across France, Dubai and beyond, covering contracts, corporate structuring, tax expatriation, model–agency relationships and multi-jurisdictional compliance. His clients range from established agency operators to high-earning creators navigating cross-border revenue, crypto payments and complex tax situations. He is also the founder of LegaFlow, the SaaS platform that automates monthly legal compliance for OFM agencies at scale, bringing structure, traceability and protection to an industry where most still rely on generic templates and informal arrangements. Olivier's approach is simple: protecting the model is what protects the agency. Real contracts, real consent, real structure, designed for how this industry actually works.

MscaitlynBrooks

Independent Creator& CEO at MscaitlynBrooks

Caitlyn Brooks is an award-winning and multi-nominated creator, mentor, and digital media professional with over 12 years of experience in the online creator and performance space. She is recognized for her expertise in audience development, personal branding, and creator strategy, with a long-standing career built on consistency, innovation, and digital influence. Throughout her career, Caitlyn has served as an ambassador across multiple creator-focused platforms and initiatives, while also dedicating herself to mentoring emerging and established creators. Her work focuses on helping others build sustainable, strategic, and authentic digital careers in an evolving creator economy. At AWSummit, she hosts the Creator Space, where she leads conversations on growth, monetization, and modern personal branding for creators navigating today’s digital landscape

Lucien Maman

Founder at Notiscale

Founder. AI wizard. Builder at heart. After completing a PhD in AI, Lucien Maman spent the last several years building AI-driven companies focused on automating growth at scale. Now, through Notiscale, he’s rethinking how agencies and creators scale their business through AI by focusing on what really matters: chatting operations across every platform. The idea isn’t to replace teams overnight, but to plug smart AI into the right places so agencies can handle more fans, stay active 24/7 and scale without the usual operational chaos. His focus is simple: bringing cutting-edge AI into real business operations and making scaling feel effortless. All your creators. All your platforms. All your fans. One tool.

Daniel Luca

CMO & Founder at Performly

Dan Luca is the CMO & Founder of Performly, a performance marketing agency built exclusively for eCommerce supplement brands looking to scale profitably through paid media. Performly helps brands grow beyond marketplaces by building high-performing direct-to-consumer acquisition systems focused on sustainable revenue and measurable ROI. With years of experience in performance marketing, paid advertising, and compliance-first growth strategies, Dan has helped over 100 supplement brands navigate the complexities of Meta and Google advertising while generating more than $204 million in DTC sales. His team combines creative testing, conversion optimization, and back-end analytics to maximize profitability without compromising platform compliance. Through a data-driven, ROI-first approach, Performly aligns paid media, creative, and customer acquisition strategy to help ambitious brands scale efficiently, increase customer lifetime value, and build long-term, profitable growth.

Tim OnlyMonster

Business Development Manager at OnlyMonster

Tim is a Senior Business Development Manager at OnlyMonster, a Creator Operations Platform built for professional creator management at scale. He runs one of the company's largest client portfolios, selling across three continents in four languages. His advantage is simple: he meets each market in its own language and on its own terms, instead of translating one pitch for everyone. What he brings to the stage is a practitioner's read on where creator operations is heading — and what it takes to get there.

Kartsev Andrii

Head of Media Buying Team’s at One Media

As the Head of One Media Media Buying Teams, Andrii Kartsev possesses 6+ years of experience in both management and traffic runs. Сurrently, he manages large buying teams (45+ specialists overall) across three verticals, with Nutra as the main one. He’s been a part of One Media Holding since the very beginning, helping it become one of the leading players in the Ukrainian market through his strong management and analytical skills. The statistics speak for themselves: in 2025, profit across his media buying teams increased by 240%. What’s more, Andrii has built an effective system that lets junior buyers quickly grow into seniors. Today, he is ready to share insider strategies on team development and consistent profitability.

Daniel Stanica

Founder at COMPETICO

Daniel Stanica is the founder of Competico, an SEO, AI Visibility, and Competitive Intelligence advisory. With 20+ years building, scaling, and exiting digital businesses, he helps brands adapt their SEO and affiliate strategies for the AI-search era.

Penko Stoev

Growth Partner at MeUp

Penko Stoev is a Growth Partner at MeUp, a link building platform specialising in high-risk industries. He works with companies in iGaming, Adult, Fintech and beyond, helping them achieve their ranking goals with strategies tailored to their specific challenges. He knows the obstacles these industries face inside out: Google's stricter restrictions, censorship, publishers who can't be relied on, and more. And he's here to break down exactly how he navigates all of it and how you can do it too.

Deepak Tailor

Founder at LatestFreeStuff

Deepak Tailor is the Founder of LatestFreeStuff.co.uk and Co-Founder of LatestDeals.co.uk, two of the UK’s leading consumer communities that help over 4 million people save money, discover great deals and claim exclusive freebies from major brands. Over the past 13 years, he has built the businesses into trusted destinations for consumers while working with hundreds of advertisers and affiliate partners to deliver high-performing customer acquisition campaigns. His expertise spans affiliate marketing, SEO, audience growth, content strategy, partnerships and publisher monetisation. As search continues to evolve with AI and changing consumer behaviour, Deepak is passionate about helping publishers future-proof their businesses by diversifying traffic sources, strengthening audience engagement and building sustainable revenue beyond traditional SEO. His talks are practical, data-driven and packed with real-world examples from scaling two of the UK’s largest savings communities.

Daniel Kaiser

Co-Founder & CEO at Spotlight PR

Daniel Kaiser is the Founder & CEO of Spotlight PR and a serial entrepreneur with nearly 15 years of experience across performance marketing, SEO, media buying, PR, online reputation management, sales and AI. Throughout his career, he has built and scaled businesses, led international teams and helped brands turn digital visibility into measurable commercial growth. Today, Daniel works with founders, executives, and high-growth companies to strengthen trust, protect brand reputation and improve marketing performance through Digital PR, Search Reputation Management and Brand Protection. His expertise combines Brand Marketing, SEO, PR, and Online Reputation Management to show how reputation directly influences conversion rates, customer acquisition costs and revenue. His talks are practical, data-driven, and built around real-world case studies, offering actionable strategies that help businesses transform search reputation into a measurable competitive advantage.

Anthony Nocella

CEO at Cosmo Payment

Anthony Nocella is the CEO of Cosmo Payment, one of the industry's most trusted and user-friendly platforms for content creators, freelancers, and affiliates to send and receive payments globally. With years of experience and deep roots in the digital economy, Anthony has emerged as a respected veteran in a space often overlooked by traditional financial institutions. Under his leadership, Cosmo Payment has committed itself to delivering fast, secure, and seamless payment solutions tailored to the unique needs of this evolving workforce. Beyond transactions, Anthony is also a vocal advocate for destigmatizing the industries his company serves, pushing back against outdated corporate and social biases with a mission rooted in fairness, dignity, and progress.

Ionut Scripcariu

Managing Partner at LiraPay

Ionut Scripcariu is the Managing Partner of an ambitious Fintech company, co-founded with a descendant of one of Romania's most esteemed banking families since 1848. With over 25 years of experience in the payments industry, he contributed to developing notable card programs in the Balkans for Banks as VolksBank, Unicredit or Piraeus, while working at the first Romanian independent card processing center authorized by VISA and Mastercard.

Michael Maurer

Business Developer at https://platformpay.io/

Michael Maurer is a seasoned online marketing strategist whose career began in high school and has since evolved into a track record of building, scaling, and exiting successful businesses. Over the years, he has launched and sold multiple ventures, including a high-performing ad agency, demonstrating an ability to take ideas from inception to acquisition with precision and success. As a former top vendor on ClickBank with multiple best-selling products, Michael pairs his creative insight with data-driven execution. Having managed and optimized more than eight figures in media spend, he understands exactly how to deploy capital efficiently, scale campaigns, and protect profitability. Today, at PlatformPay.io, Michael helps vendors maximize their back-end revenue and boost long-term earnings through passive subscription models. His expertise lies in increasing customer lifetime value, improving retention, and engineering recurring revenue streams that compound over time.

Jasin Impiglia

CEO at LeadX Pro

Jasin Impiglia leads the LeadX Pro team, managing seven figures in monthly ad spend primarily across Meta and Native. With experience as an advertiser, affiliate, and network builder, he brings a rare 360° perspective on performance marketing. Specializing in the Dating, Lead Generation, and Nutra - Jasin is known for building meaningful partnerships and scaling profitable campaigns across multiple traffic sources. At Affiliate World Cancun, he'll share the traffic sources and systems driving profitable growth for media buyers in 2026.

Stanislav Slota

CEO at LeaderPrivate

Stanislav Slota is the Founder and CEO of LeaderPrivate, bringing over 10 years of experience in affiliate marketing. He began his career as a solo affiliate expert before launching LeaderPrivate to help brands achieve scalable, performance-driven growth. Under his leadership, the company has delivered over 400 projects across international markets, built partnerships with leading platforms including TikTok, Taboola, MGID, and Tonic, and manages more than $1M in monthly ad spend. LeaderPrivate consistently achieves an average 30% ROI across verticals such as mainstream dating, lead generation, and e-commerce, supported by a 30-person in-house team and sustained 100% year-over-year growth through disciplined scaling.