{"id":777033058,"date":"2025-10-13T09:45:18","date_gmt":"2025-10-13T12:45:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=777033058"},"modified":"2026-04-21T18:15:34","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T21:15:34","slug":"evive-announced-as-the-first-innovation-to-be-featured-at-pitch-regulating-the-game-2026-sydney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/evive-announced-as-the-first-innovation-to-be-featured-at-pitch-regulating-the-game-2026-sydney","title":{"rendered":"Evive announced as the first innovation to be featured at Pitch! \u2013 Regulating the Game 2026 Sydney"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Pitch! will debut at the Sydney Opera House on March 9, 2026, as part of Regulating the Game: 2026 Sydney.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Press release.- The organisers of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/call-for-final-conference-chair-regulating-the-game-2026-sydney\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Regulating the Game<\/a>\u00a0conference have announced\u00a0<strong>Evive Australia<\/strong>\u00a0as the first innovation to take the stage at\u00a0<strong>Pitch!<\/strong>, the high-energy showcase of bold ideas, transformative solutions, and disruptive thinking, debuting at the\u00a0<strong>Sydney Opera House on March 9, 2026<\/strong>\u00a0as part of Regulating the Game 2026 Sydney.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to the organisers of the event,&nbsp;<strong>Pitch! @RTG<\/strong>&nbsp;is the spark that ignites innovation, champions compliance, and accelerates progress across the gambling sector. More than a stage, it\u2019s a&nbsp;<strong>marketplace of ideas<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2014 a crucible for change where policy meets practice, new technologies are unveiled, and fresh approaches to regulation and sector leadership are tested.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The organisers said: \u201cEvive embodies this spirit perfectly. Representing the alchemy of lived experience, clinical insight, and savvy technology, Evive is an app designed to help people change how they play or seek support for gambling harms. Currently available in the United States,&nbsp;<strong>Evive is being localised for Australia<\/strong>&nbsp;to strengthen harm prevention and support through evidence-based, user-centred design.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Created by&nbsp;<strong>Sam DeMello<\/strong>, a tech specialist drawing on his lived experience of gambling harm, and supported by&nbsp;<strong>Jay Robinson<\/strong>, a safer-gambling expert with over two decades of harm-minimisation and prevention experience, Evive Australia delivers personalised tools, resources, and pathways for anyone seeking to reduce risk or access help.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Paul Newson<\/strong>, principal at Vanguard Overwatch and founder of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/industry-spotlight-sessions-announced-for-regulating-the-game-2026-sydney\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Regulating the Game<\/a>, said: \u201cEvive brings together real-world experience, clinical expertise, and technology to create an accessible and credible platform for change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cPitch! was conceived to spotlight exactly these kinds of innovations \u2014 ideas that challenge convention, improve safeguards, and reimagine the future of regulation and industry practice.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Whether someone is thinking about cutting down or already on a help-seeking journey,&nbsp;<strong>Evive provides a one-stop shop for support, insight, and behavioural change<\/strong>, while giving operators and regulators confidence that effective, evidence-based harm minimisation tools are being deployed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Jay Robinson<\/strong>, a safer gambling expert, said: \u201cEvive isn\u2019t just another app. It\u2019s a bridge between lived experience, behavioural science and practical support.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIt shows that compliance and compassion can coexist, and when they do, everyone benefits. The app gives regulators and operators confidence in credible harm reduction tools, while giving people a safe, stigma free path to change.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Sam DeMello<\/strong>, CEO and founder of Evive, who has deep lived experience through his own recovery from gambling harms, said: \u201cWe built Evive to make gambling support as accessible,&nbsp;personalized,&nbsp;and data-rich as gambling itself by using the same technology that has fuelled&nbsp;the rapid&nbsp;growth of the industry.&nbsp; We believe that by combining empathy and evidence, we can help people improve their relationship with gambling, on their own terms, without stigma or judgment.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The organisers of the Regulating the Game conference said: \u201cFrom enhancing operational effectiveness to strengthening consumer safeguards, Pitch! is where&nbsp;<strong>tangible advances in capability are born \u2014 and the future of the sector is imagined<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pitch! will debut at the Sydney Opera House on March 9, 2026, as part of Regulating the Game: 2026 Sydney.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":777033060,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":true,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"Evive Australia, an app leveraging lived experience and technology for gambling harm prevention, will be the inaugural innovation showcased at \"Pitch!\" during the \"Regulating the Game: 2026 Sydney\" conference. This initiative underscores the industry's commitment to fostering compliance, accelerating progress in responsible gambling, and providing evidence-based tools for player support. The platform aims to bridge behavioural science with practical support, offering operators and regulators confidence in credible harm reduction.","focusai_entities":"Evive Australia, Evive, Sam DeMello, Jay Robinson, Paul Newson, Vanguard Overwatch, Regulating the Game, Sydney Opera House","focusai_location":"Sydney, Australia, United States","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (1.0), compliance_legal (1.0), operator_casino (0.9), product_ux (0.8), tech_data (0.7), investor_analyst (0.8), supplier_vendor (0.9), journalist_researcher (1.0)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"Regulatory Adoption Pathways","query":"What specific regulatory frameworks or licensing conditions will facilitate the widespread adoption of evidence-based harm prevention tools like Evive across diverse iGaming jurisdictions?"},{"label":"Efficacy & Integration Metrics","query":"What key performance indicators (KPIs) will Evive Australia track to demonstrate its efficacy in reducing gambling harms, and what are the technical integration requirements for operators to deploy this solution effectively within their existing platforms?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[16336,4,159],"tags":[24940],"class_list":["post-777033058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-australasia-news","category-events-articles","category-shows","tag-egulating-the-game-sydney-2026","press-release"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777033058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/176"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=777033058"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777033058\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":777033059,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777033058\/revisions\/777033059"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/777033060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777033058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777033058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777033058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}