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Conference Agenda

Three-Day Programme

A primarily single-track schedule across three days on the GreenArrow Email sponsored main stage in the Auditorium, with coffee and networking across the venue supported by Halon, our Coffee & Networking Partner, helping upgrade on-site drinks service at Casa Milà – La Pedrera with Cal Blay. Selected breakout activity takes place in the EasyDMARC Lounge and GALA Library, with optional invite-only sessions on Wednesday afternoon.

Main Stage: GreenArrow Email
Coffee & Networking Partner: Halon
GALA Lunch: KumoMTA
Farewell Toast: SURBL & Postmastery

Monday 20 April 2026 · Opening half-day · 11:30–18:40

Early Registration / Lanyard Pickup Only

Networking / Break Registration

Registration, Coffee and Informal Networking

Networking / Break Gaudí Room Coffee by Halon

Opening Remarks

Opening / Close Auditorium

Speaker: Andrew Bonar (Emailexpert)

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Email Is Infrastructure: It’s Not Just a Channel

Talk Auditorium

Speakers: Gerasim Hovhannisyan & Alec Beglarian (EasyDMARC)

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Inside Mailbox Filtering: What Gets Senders Blocked in 2026

Talk Auditorium

Speaker: David Finger (Seznam)

A receiver's perspective on what signals genuinely move the needle, what senders consistently get wrong, and what's actually shifted in filtering since the big enforcement changes.

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Whose Side Are You On? The Politics of Filtering & Sender Responsibility

Talk Auditorium

Speaker: Kieran Cooper (Halon)

Too often senders feel like filters are the enemy, even using military-like analogies to describe the battle to get mail delivered. But what if the filters were not there? Rather than trying to beat each other, how can senders and receivers work together to fight the common enemy?

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Coffee & Snacks

Networking / Break Gaudí Room + Auditorium Coffee & Networking Partner

Coffee service supported by Halon, helping upgrade on-site drinks service to Cal Blay across all three days.

Blocklist & Reputation Panel: Enforcement, Intelligence & Recovery

Panel Auditorium

Speakers: James Hoddinott (Proofpoint); Raymond Dijkxhoorn (SURBL); Stéphane Decamps (Hornetsecurity); Melinda Plemel (Spamhaus); Moderator: Anne-Sophie Marsh (Iterable)

Conversation with blocklists cleaning up spamtrap misconceptions.

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Hidden in Plain Sight: How we detected and shutdown an affiliate spam ring

Talk Auditorium

Speaker: Chris Adams (Bird)

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PowerMTA in Practice: Implementation and Deliverability Monitoring

Lightning Auditorium

Speaker: Hervé Baïle (Smartprofile)

In this lightning talk, Hervé Baïle will share Smartprofile’s practical experience integrating PowerMTA into an existing multi-channel marketing platform. Hervé will cover the main implementation choices, the technical and operational constraints behind them, how PowerMTA was connected to our internal systems and email generation stack, and the key lessons we learned along the way. He will also briefly touch on the monitoring approach we use day to day to support reliable email operations and deliverability oversight.

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State of Authentication

Talk Auditorium

Speaker: Todd Herr (GreenArrow Email)

Todd Herr will cover a brief history of SPF, DKIM, DMARC and ARC, explain what each does, discuss BIMI as a carrot and mailbox provider requirements as a stick for authentication, and look ahead at DKIM2 and what the future might look like if it becomes a standard.

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Tuesday 21 April 2026 · Full day · 08:30–18:35

EasyDMARC Lounge: Rethinking Email as Infrastructure

Breakout EasyDMARC Lounge

Bring your email infrastructure questions, deliverability, authentication or otherwise. Pressure-test ideas with the team, and explore practical solutions in a relaxed setting. Join a small group discussion or make time for a more focused 1:1 conversation. Book a slot now to reserve time with the EasyDMARC team and/or special guest Dela Quist.

Snacks and Refreshments available in the lounge. Book a slot now

Networking and Late Registrations

Networking / Break Gaudí Coffee by Halon

Networking coffee service supported by Halon, Coffee & Networking Partner.

When “Everything Looks Right” but Mail Still Fails

Talk Auditorium

Speaker: Steve Atkins (Word to the Wise)

Practical troubleshooting for DNS and authentication edge cases.

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Delivery Myth Busters

Panel Auditorium

Speakers: LB Blair; Varun Jain (SendPost)

Join LB Blair, Strategic Advisor, and Varun Jain, CTO at SendPost, for an analysis of nearly 4 billion messages sent over one year.

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Morning Networking Break

Networking / Break Auditorium Coffee by Halon

Coffee and networking supported by Halon.

Avoiding DNS Lock-In: CNAME Chaining & NS Delegation

Talk Auditorium

Speaker: David Harris (GreenArrow Email)

How ESPs can use CNAME chaining and NS delegation to avoid vendor lock-in, along with how to seamlessly migrate between email delivery vendors.

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DKIM 2

Talk Auditorium

Speaker: Professor Richard Clayton (University of Cambridge)

This talk explains the design of DKIM2, how it records the entities that have processed an email, and why it addresses long-standing issues such as backscatter, DKIM replay and the DMARC mailing list problem. The protocol is now being standardized within an IETF working group.

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Moderated Q&A with Professor Richard Clayton

Talk Auditorium

Moderator: Mike Hillyer (KumoMTA)

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Lunch — Sponsored by KumoMTA

Lunch GALA Restaurant

Gala lunch brought to you by KumoMTA.

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Meet the KumoMTA Team: Ask Us Anything

Breakout / AMA GALA Library

Hosts: Mike Hillyer, Tom Mairs and the KumoMTA team

Join us for an open, candid session with the engineers and experts behind KumoMTA. Whether you're evaluating MTAs, deep in a migration, or optimizing deliverability at scale, this is your chance to get real answers to real-world questions. No slides, no sales pitch, just direct access to the people building the platform. Bring your toughest challenges.

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Certification as a Deliverability Control System

Talk Auditorium

Speakers: Sebastian Kluth; Franziska Kuper (CSA)

Practical view of common failure modes, early warning indicators and the remediation actions that work.

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Managing Deliverability in Challenging Industries

Talk Auditorium

Speaker: Josephine Skinner (Omnivery)

How proactive deliverability support, paired with best practice, helps even traditionally risky content reliably reach the inbox.

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EasyDMARC Lounge: Rethinking Email as Infrastructure

Breakout EasyDMARC Lounge

Bring your email infrastructure questions, deliverability, authentication or otherwise. Pressure-test ideas with the team, and explore practical solutions in a relaxed setting. Join a small group discussion or make time for a more focused 1:1 conversation. Book a 15 minute slot now to reserve time with the EasyDMARC team and/or special guest Dela Quist. Refreshments and snacks available.

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Monitoring Email Infrastructure & Deliverability at Scale

Talk Auditorium

Speaker: Andrey Sas (Social Discovery Group)

A practical look at campaign anomalies, SMTP issues, deliverability metrics, notification policies and how to make sure your monitoring stack is itself healthy.

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Finding the Right Knobs and Dials to Tweak

Talk Auditorium

Speakers: Kieran Cooper (Halon) & Jakub Olexa (Omnivery)

A conversation about what modern delivery teams need in the current environment in order to keep email flowing smoothly.

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Afternoon Networking Break

Networking / Break Auditorium Coffee by Halon

Coffee and networking supported by Halon.

Lightning Round: The Next 5 Years of Email Infrastructure

Lightning Auditorium

Speakers: Kate Nowrouzi (Sinch); Kieran Cooper (Halon); Chris Adams (Bird); Mike Hillyer (KumoMTA); Maarten Oelering (Postmastery); David Harris (GreenArrow Email); Ruben Khachatryan (EasyDMARC)

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Beyond 4xx & 5xx: The Truth About Bounces

Talk Auditorium

Speaker: Syed Alam (Postmastery)

This session pulls back the curtain on how SMTP responses are used in practice. We’ll explore why not all 5xx codes are truly “hard” bounces and how sender-related issues are sometimes surfaced through recipient-style errors.

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Implementing Gen AI in Deliverability: How Infobip Built a Deliverability AI Assistant

Lightning Auditorium

Speaker: Muharem Suljagic (Infobip)

How Infobip uses AI to scale deliverability expertise, giving customers immediate, actionable guidance to prevent issues and improve sending quality.

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The Publisher’s Blueprint: Hybrid Multi-MTA Orchestration Layer

Talk Auditorium

Speaker: Florin Armasu (Data Innovation)

A technical how-to session on building an orchestration layer that decouples logic from sending, enabling dynamic routing across a hybrid MTA stack for business continuity and better ROI.

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Thinking Evil and Harnessing Toxicity

Talk Auditorium

Speaker: KAM (PCCC)

Kevin A. “KAM” McGrail shares how organizations can use “Think Evil” concepts to improve cybersecurity, creativity and honest internal discussion.

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Wednesday 22 April 2026 · Closing day · 09:30–13:55 core programme · invite-only sessions follow

Coffee & Networking

Networking / Break Gaudí Coffee by Halon

Coffee and networking supported by Halon, Coffee & Networking Partner.

Using Analogies to Help Senders Understand Deliverability

Talk Auditorium

Speaker: Jess Swazey (GreenArrow Email)

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From Legacy to Modern: Leboncoin's MTA Transformation

Case Study Auditorium

Speakers: Edouard Perret; Marie Douillet (Leboncoin)

With 11 million emails a day across transactional and messaging flows, Leboncoin outgrew its aging Postfix stack. This session walks through the migration to PowerMTA on AWS, covering architecture choices, IP warm-up, bounce handling and product ownership lessons.

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The Evolution of Blocklists and RBLs

Talk Auditorium

Speaker: Giovanni Bechis (PCCC)

A historical and technical look at how RBLs evolved from transport-level indicators to richer signals, ending with a new generation of lists capable of analyzing and correlating full email content.

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Abuse Is Everyone’s Problem: How Abuse Shapes the Email Ecosystem

Talk Auditorium

Speaker: Erick Galembeck (Sinch)

This session explains how abuse such as form abuse and platform abuse can damage sender reputation and harm even legitimate mailers, with practical steps to prevent it without hurting deliverability.

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Networking Break

Networking / Break Gaudí Room + Auditorium Coffee by Halon

Coffee and networking supported by Halon.

Beyond the Hype: Practical AI Implementation in Deliverability Operations

Talk Auditorium

Speakers: Boris Pavlov; Desislava Zhivkova (Omnisend)

A practical account of what Omnisend actually implemented, where AI helped, what failed, what had to be rolled back, and why domain expertise still matters more than ever.

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The Art & Science of Deliverability

Talk Auditorium

Speakers: Laura Atkins; Lauren Meyer; Nathalie Small; Alice Spencer (Word to the Wise, SendItRight, Bird, Ometria)

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Conference Wrap Up

Opening / Close Auditorium

Speaker: Andrew Bonar

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Farewell Toast & This Is Not Lunch

Networking / Break Gaudí Sponsored Experience

Drinks and bites by Cal Blay, sponsored by SURBL and Postmastery.

Deliverability with Lauren and Matthew

Private Session Room TBC By invite