2026 Schedule

TIMES IN EDT

9:30am Welcome from William Keep, Professor Emeritus, and Interim Dean Sunita Ahlawat, TCNJ School of Business.

9:35 – 10:30: Session 1: Academic Research

Sydney Graham (Spammy, Scammy, Copy and Paste)

Jacob Ørmen (Perpetual Precarity)

Lucas Dixon (Critical Perspectives MLM- Future Research)

10:30 – 10:45: Break

10:45 – 11:45: Session 1: Academic Research Cont.

Stacie Bosley (Earnings Claims & Disclaimers & Self-Regulation)

Kenan Kalayci (Pyramid Schemes)

Claudia Gross (The Law and Consumer Harm in Multi-level Marketing)

11:45 – 12:00 Session 1 Q and A

12:00 – 1:00: Lunch

1:00 – 1:30: Session 2: Brittany Morgon (Health and Nutrition MLMs)

1:30 – 2:00: Session 2: Tracy Coenen (Pink Truth: Truth, Time, and the Slow Collapse of Mary Kay)

2:00 – 2:30: Session 2: TINA.org (Reality Bites – a Look at FTC Enforcement Actions Post-Neora)

2:30 – 2:45: Break

2:45 – 3:30: Session 3: Monica Vaca and Doug Brooks (Contract Clauses)

3:30 – 4:00: Session 4: FTC fireside chat with Kati Daffan and Lois Greisman (FTC)

TIMES IN EDT

9:30 – 10:00: Keynote – Melanie Ross-Levin - pending Delaware legislation

10:00 – 10:45: Session 5: Panel session on draft legislation for states

Kati Daffan

Douglas Brooks

John Breyault

John Whitelaw

10:45 – 11:00: Break

11:00 – 11:30: Session 6: Poland’s cases against iGenius and IM Academy/Iyovi

Dariusz Lomowski

11:30 – 12:00: Session 7: Clarkson Law

Glenn Danas

Kristen Simplicio

12:00 – 13:00: Lunch

13:00 – 13:30: Bridget Read (post-book publication experience)

13:30 – 3:00: Session 8: Social Media Activists

Steven Hassan (Founder, Freedom of Mind)

Gladys (MLM Exit)

Megan Williams & Brandie Hadfield (Flipping the Pyramid)

Meggan Lanahan (MLM Recovery Room Podcast)

3:00 - 3.15: Break

3:15 – 3:45: Session 9: State of the Industry

William Keep

Máire O Sullivan

3:45: Close conference