RCS at Scale: Trust, Control & the Race for Value

In this episode of MEF Leadership Forum USA 2026, you will hear from Brien Jones-Lantzy, Head of Compliance, Spam and Fraud Mitigation – Vonage, Chris Hutson, Senior Sales Director, CPaaS – ENEA, James Lapic, Co-Founder – Zipwhip, Kim McKibben, Director Operator Relations for North America – Sinch, and Stephanie Lashley, VP, Messaging Strategic Alliances & Infrastructure – Bandwidth.

The discussion explores how operators, platforms, and brands can work together to maintain trust, security, and performance as RCS scales across enterprise use cases in the U.S. It will examine key challenges around identity verification, fraud prevention, ecosystem governance, and shared responsibility — as well as the critical issues that must be addressed to enable secure and sustainable commercial growth for RCS.