Frances Haugen to speak at All Tech Is Human’s Responsible Tech Summit: Shaping Our Digital Future

(Wednesday, August 2, 2023, New York, NY) All Tech Is Human is delighted to announce Frances Haugen, an advocate for accountability & transparency in social media, will speak at Responsible Tech Summit: Shaping Our Digital Future on Thursday, Sept. 14, 2023, at SVA Theatre in New York, New York.

Responsible Tech Summit: Shaping Our Digital Future will bring together almost 300 individuals across civil society, government, industry, and academia in NYC to tackle wicked tech & society issues. The Responsible Tech Summit is focused on uniting stakeholders, promoting knowledge-sharing & collaboration, and understanding values and trade-offs to co-create a tech future aligned with the public interest. This gathering will coincide with the upcoming release of All Tech Is Human’s Responsible Tech Guide and is being done in partnership with the Consulate General of Canada in New York.

Responsible Tech Summit: Shaping Our Digital Future features a prolific lineup of speakers including Sherry Turkle, the Abby Rockefeller Mauzé Professor of the Social Studies of Science and Technology in the Program in Science, Patrick K. Lin, author and researcher focused on artificial intelligence, privacy law, technology policy and regulation, and intellectual property, Julie Scelfo, award-winning journalist and Founder & Executive Director of Get Media Savvy, and Sinead Bovell, founder of tech education company WAYE.

All Tech Is Human is a 501c3 nonprofit dedicated to bringing people, ideas, and organizations together to tackle wicked tech and society issues and co-create a tech future aligned with the public interest. All Tech Is Human offers resources and programs for community empowerment including the Responsible Tech Job Board, Talent Matchmaking, Mentorship program, and multidisciplinary educational reports, including the flagship Responsible Tech Guide. All Tech Is Human’s community Slack features more than 6,000 people across 73 countries.

About Francis Haugen

Frances Haugen is an advocate for accountability & transparency in social media. Born in Iowa City, Iowa, Frances is the daughter of two professors and grew up attending the Iowa caucuses with her parents, instilling a strong sense of pride in democracy and responsibility for civic participation.

Frances holds a degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Olin College and a MBA from Harvard University. She is a specialist in algorithmic product management, having worked on ranking algorithms at Google, Pinterest, Yelp and Facebook. In 2019, she was recruited to Facebook to be the lead Product Manager on the Civic Misinformation team, which dealt with issues related to democracy and misinformation, and later also worked on counter-espionage.

During her time at Facebook, Frances became increasingly alarmed by the choices the company makes prioritizing their own profits over public safety and putting people's lives at risk. As a last resort and at great personal risk, Frances made the courageous decision to blow the whistle on Facebook. The initial reporting was done by the Wall Street Journal in what became known as “The Facebook Files”.

Since going public, Frances has testified in front of the US Congress, UK and EU Parliaments, the French Senate and National Assembly, and has engaged with lawmakers internationally on how to best address the negative externalities of social media platforms.

About Beyond the Screen

Beyond the Screen is a non-profit driving systems-level change for social platforms by building an ecosystem of accountability for the industry.

Social platforms have an immense influence on society at large but operate with minimal transparency. Though billions of people use these platforms, only a few hundred deeply understand how they operate. Regulators, concerned citizens and researchers are in the dark, unable to bring their expertise to the challenges and harms emerging from social platforms.