The Digital Risk Summit São Paulo 2026 runs October 13–15 at the Grand Mercure Vila Olímpia and brings together risk, Trust & Safety, fraud prevention and compliance leaders from marketplaces, fintechs and digital banks. According to organizer Marketplace Risk, the edition expects more than 600 attendees and more than 80 speakers. Zarv is attending.
When and where is the Digital Risk Summit São Paulo 2026?
DRSAO26 runs from Tuesday, October 13, to Thursday, October 15, 2026, at the Grand Mercure São Paulo Vila Olímpia, R. Olimpíadas, 205. The program opens with a welcome reception on Tuesday from 7 to 9 PM. Sessions run Wednesday from 9:30 AM to 5 PM and Thursday from 9:30 AM to 4 PM (São Paulo time, GMT-3).
The event is in person only, with no livestream. Sessions are held in Portuguese and English, with simultaneous translation. The official registration page lists a Platform / Operator ticket (marketplaces, fintechs, banks and digital platforms) at R$ 770 and a Solution Provider ticket (vendors) at R$ 2,320. There are no refunds, and buying the wrong ticket type means paying the difference at the door.
What will the industry debate at DRSAO26?
The organizers frame the program around digital risk: Trust & Safety, compliance, fraud prevention and regulation across marketplaces, fintechs and platform-based businesses. The event is presented by G2 Risk Solutions and Incognia, and the official pages promise real cases from companies scaling safely in Latin America. They also cite Brazilian and Latin American regulation, including LGPD, AML and KYC, plus trends in AI, embedded finance, super apps and RegTech.
Two themes repeat in the published program: AI-accelerated fraud, and the need to look at networks, not just individuals. For teams that own identity verification and customer approval policy, those are the two conversations closest to daily work.
Which sessions should you attend if you own fraud and risk?
The official agenda currently shows these Wednesday, October 14 sessions. The schedule may change, and the page lists more sessions than were visible when we checked, so confirm on the official agenda. The Program Book is also available for download.
- 9:30–10:15 AM, Incognia Room: keynote "Fraude na Era da IA: Novos Riscos, Novas Estratégias" (Fraud in the Age of AI: New Risks, New Strategies), with Felipe Rendeiro of Visa. It covers AI-driven attack vectors and how to protect the business without blocking legitimate customers.
- 10:30–11:15 AM, Incognia Room: "Fraude em Rede: Enxergando Além do Indivíduo para Detectar Conluio" (Network Fraud: Seeing Beyond the Individual to Detect Collusion), with Helen Branco and Ana Fiorentini of iFood, and Nathalia Fernandes of Incognia. A case study on how a relational view exposes coordinated patterns that account-by-account analysis misses.
- 10:30–11:15 AM, Avalara Room: "O Crescimento mais Acelerado do que seu Controle de Risco" (Growth Faster Than Your Risk Controls), with Hugo Fonseca of G2 Risk Solutions and Gustavo Justi of Grupo Casas Bahia. The session looks at sellers approved through fast onboarding who are never actually monitored.
Wednesday ends with a networking reception from 5 to 7 PM, and the 8 to 9:30 AM check-in breakfast doubles as a networking slot.
Who is already part of the conversation at DRSAO?
The event page lists companies such as Mercado Livre, iFood, Nubank, Itaú Unibanco, Visa, Santander, PicPay, Localiza and 99 among those already in the conversation. Attendees of the previous edition point to the format. André Ferraz, co-founder and CEO of Incognia, called it "a great milestone for the region's digital ecosystem," for bringing together fraud leaders from digital platforms and financial institutions. Paulo Deus, founder of Bluwall, described the event as the first local one to give Trust & Safety the attention it deserves.
Why do network fraud and monitoring matter now?
Because the two sessions describe the same blind spot. The organizers say Latin America is the region most affected by e-commerce fraud in the world, and that the fastest-growing platforms are the most likely to miss the problem. Fast onboarding approves a lot of people. If nobody watches what happens afterward, the exposure surfaces months later, usually first in Finance, as chargebacks that make no sense.
The lesson reaches beyond marketplaces. Accounts that look legitimate one by one can tell a different story once they are connected, which is why organized fraud often slips past rules that score each signup alone. We covered the mechanism in how relationship graph analysis identifies scammers disguised as good customers and in why identity verification and fraud prevention belong in a single step.
Three questions to bring to the sessions
Attendees can test their own operation against three simple questions.
Do you look at the account or the network around it?
A clean account in isolation can belong to a coordinated group. Ask whether today's analysis can see the links between devices, merchants and accounts, or whether each decision is made alone.
Who was approved and never looked at again?
The gap between onboarding and monitoring is where risk grows unnoticed. Ask how many customers or sellers approved in the past year have had their behavior reviewed since.
Does your defense against AI block fraudsters or good customers too?
Protecting the business without adding friction is the balance the keynote promises to address. Tracking approval rates by customer profile shows whether the policy protects the operation or just shrinks volume.
Where Zarv fits
In Zarv's journey, the decision to approve a customer is the verification stage, and Zarv ID delivers that decision already translated into risk, for lenders and financial institutions and other operations that need to approve fast without approving wrong. Risk does not end at signup: Zarv Signal follows behavior through the life of the contract, at the monitoring stage.
Frequently asked questions
When is the Digital Risk Summit São Paulo 2026?
The event runs October 13–15, 2026, at the Grand Mercure Vila Olímpia in São Paulo. The welcome reception is Tuesday, October 13, from 7 to 9 PM, and sessions take place Wednesday, October 14, and Thursday, October 15. Exact session times are on the official agenda, which may change.
Who organizes the Digital Risk Summit São Paulo?
DRSAO26 is organized by Marketplace Risk, a global conference series on risk, Trust & Safety and compliance for digital platforms, and presented by G2 Risk Solutions and Incognia. The São Paulo edition brings together marketplaces, fintechs, digital banks, wallets and super apps, along with solution providers.
Is there a livestream, and is translation available?
There is no virtual option or livestream: the event is in person only. Sessions are held in Portuguese and English, and the organizers say simultaneous translation will be available to all attendees. Registered attendees also get access to the community app, with the agenda, networking and meeting scheduling.
How much does a ticket cost, and which one should you buy?
The official page lists the Platform / Operator ticket at R$ 770 and the Solution Provider ticket at R$ 2,320. The right one depends on your employer: those who operate a marketplace, fintech or digital platform buy the first, and those who sell products or services to that market buy the second. On-site registration is available but costs significantly more.
How do you protect a platform that grows faster than its risk controls?
Start by separating two decisions: who gets in, and what happens after they do. Strong verification at the door cuts fraud at the source, and continuous monitoring catches what changes over time. Running only the first leaves risk unwatched, and that gap is where organized fraud tends to grow.
Conclusion
The Digital Risk Summit São Paulo 2026 puts the people who approve customers, monitor platforms and investigate fraud in the same room. For anyone deciding risk in Latin America, the agenda leaves one practical question to take home: what does your operation see after the signup is approved?
Sources: Marketplace Risk, Digital Risk Summit São Paulo 2026 (DRSAO26): event page, registration, agenda, sponsors and testimonials at marketplacerisk.com (accessed October 2026).