The Future of Trust & Safety: May 14, 2024 | New York City
All Tech Is Human will host The Future of Trust & Safety on Tuesday, May 14 6:00pm-8:30pm in New York City. This curated convening is designed to bring together 200 emerging and established Trust and Safety professionals from across industry, civil society, academia, and government to share how to break into the space and consider what the future of Trust and Safety will look like.
The convening will include the panel Cultivating the Next Generation of Trust & Safety Leaders where speakers will share career advice, what makes their role exciting, challenges they face, how policy influences Trust and Safety operations, and reflections on the future of trust and safety. In addition, we will have a child safety-focused panel on Safety by Design.
We are now accepting applications to attend the Future of Trust & Safety! Click below to begin the process. We are looking for people new to Trust & Safety, emerging talent, established individuals, and those interested in the field. Attendance to this gathering is free for those invited after filling out our application. Please note: we receive far more requests than spots available.
Some of the companies and orgs that have attended our recent curated gatherings include:
Accountable Tech, Airbnb, Alliance for Peacebuilding (AfP), Atlantic Council, Berkman Klein Center, Bipartisan Policy Center, Center for Democracy & Technology, Center for Humane Technology, Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), Center for Tech and Civic Life, Children and Screens, Common Sense Media, Council for Responsible Social Media, Crisis Text Line, Digital Democracy Institute of the Americas (DDIA), Discord, Electronic Arts (EA), Encode Justice, Fairplay, FOSI, Future of Privacy Forum, German Marshall Fund, Global Network Initiative, Institute for Security + Technology, Integrity Institute, The International Centre for Missing & Exploited Children, Match Group, Mental Health America, Meta, Moonshot, Mozilla Foundation, National Center for Missing & Exploited Children, National Democratic Institute (NDI), New America, Nonviolent Peaceforce, Pinterest, Reuters, Roblox, Search for Common Ground, Siegel Family Endowment, Stanford Internet Observatory, Tech Coalition, Tech Matters, Tech Policy Press, TechCongress, The Reclaim Coalition, Thorn, TikTok, Trust & Safety Forum, Trust & Safety Professional Association (TSPA), USAID, VSCO, Wikimedia Foundation, X, Yoti, Young People's Alliance, and YouTube.
Some of our previous speakers have included: Frances Haugen, Julia Angwin, Julie Inman Grant, Kashmir Hill, Kate Klonick, Maya Wiley, Rumman Chowdhury, Sherry Turkle, Tim Wu, Tracy Chou, Yael Eisenstat, and Yoel Roth.
Panel: Cultivating the Next Generation of Trust & Safety Leaders
This convening will bring together emerging and established Trust and Safety professionals to share how to break into the space and consider what the future of Trust and Safety might look like. Panelists will share career advice, what makes their role exciting, the challenges they face, how policy such as the Digital Services Act influences trust and safety operations, and what they think the future holds in store for the sector. Additionally, the panel will showcase the diversity of professional opportunities in trust and safety and the importance of different backgrounds.
Speakers include:
Eirliani Abdul Rahman, Former Twitter Council member & doctoral student, Harvard University
A doctoral student in public health at Harvard University, Eirliani was a visiting researcher at the University of Cambridge’s Minderoo Centre for Technology and Democracy. She is a member of the inaugural cohort of "Harvard Students in AI" program hosted by the Berkman Klein Center at the Harvard Law School and a former New America Open Technology Institute Fellow. She has received fellowships and awards from Harvard and won the inaugural doctoral fellowship from the University of Konstanz’s Centre for Human | Data | Society. Eirliani served in the Singapore Foreign Service for a decade and was third-in-command at the embassies in Berlin and Delhi.
Since its inception in 2016, she was a founding member of Twitter’s Trust and Safety Council as an expert on child online safety. In December 2022, Eirliani made global headlines following her resignation from the council, speaking out against the meteoric rise in hate speech after Elon Musk’s purchase of the platform. In response, Musk dissolved the council four days later. Her work has been profiled by inter alia the BBC, CBC, NPR, Slate, Harvard Public Health, the Sunday Times, and Business Insider.
Alexis Camille Crews, Founder, E∙NOUGH Consulting
Alexis Crews, the founder of ENOUGH Consulting, is a strategist at the technology and geopolitics intersection. At the Integrity Institute, she leads the development of their public affairs division.
Her global impact was prominent at Meta, where as a Strategic Advisor for Governance, she developed frameworks for emerging technologies and led educational programs for the Facebook Oversight Board, focusing on global compliance and policy engagement. In 2019, Alexis was key in the Regulatory Escalations team, overseeing global legal takedown requests, showcasing her proficiency in international regulatory affairs. Her strategic prowess was evident in the 2020 US Elections War room, where she directed over 200 specialists globally to devise an electoral integrity strategy.
Jacob Silver, Senior Data & Implementation Officer, Oversight Board
Jacob Silver is a Senior Data & Implementation Officer at the Oversight Board, an independent body that holds Meta accountable to its policies and human rights commitments on Facebook, Instagram and Threads. The Data & Implementation team tracks Meta’s responses to the Board’s recommendations, assessing evidence of their implementation and impact. Jacob also leads a staff and Board Member working group focused on Meta’s use of automated moderation systems.
Prior to working for the Board, Jacob was a Senior Researcher at Memetica, a digital investigations firm specializing in disinformation, extremism and coordinated harassment. There, he led and contributed to investigations for the New York Times, Institute for Strategic Dialogue and Global Disinformation Index. Jacob has an MA in Mass Communications Analytics from the University of Florida, and is pursuing an MS in Data Science from the City University of New York.
Moderator: Sandra Khalil, Trust and Safety Lead & Head of Partnerships
Panel: Safety by Design
Child safety has a long-standing tradition of industry collaboration and support to reduce Child Sexual Abuse Material (CSAM) and Child Sexual Abuse (CSEA) content. Generative AI adds a new layer that creates an opportunity for abuse through the misuse of technology. This panel will explore current efforts to reduce risk and exploitation of minors in online spaces. Our panel of experts will share individual efforts as well as how industry, civil society, and government are working together towards a safer digital future for children.
Speakers include:
Dr. Rebecca Portnoff, Head of Data Science, Thorn
Dr. Rebecca Portnoff has dedicated her career to defending children from sexual abuse. She is currently Vice President of Data Science at Thorn, owning strategy and vision for machine learning (ML)/AI across the organization. The ML/AI and algorithmic solutions her team builds have global impact: used across hundreds of LE agencies, hotlines and technology companies. She acts as an ecosystem leader to address emerging threats against children via novel research and cross-industry collaborations, bridging the gap between child safety experts and technologists.
Rebecca brings with her over a decade of experience in ML/AI, child safety, and trauma-informed leadership. She holds a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from Princeton University, where she also minored in vocal jazz, and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from UC Berkeley.
Afrooz Kaviani Johnson, Child Protection Specialist, UNICEF
Afrooz Kaviani Johnson is UNICEF’s global thematic lead for protecting children in relation to the digital environment. She manages global partnerships and policy advocacy from UNICEF’s Headquarters in New York and provides advice and assistance to UNICEF offices worldwide in their efforts to prevent and respond to technology-facilitated violence. Afrooz has spent over a decade leading teams and initiatives aimed at promoting children’s rights and combatting child abuse and exploitation. Prior to moving to New York in late 2020, she was based in Malawi and, before that, in Thailand.
Earlier in her career, Afrooz worked as a Senior Investigator and Conciliator for the Australian Human Rights Commission, and as a lawyer in a corporate firm, as in-house counsel, and in the community legal sector.
She holds a Juris Doctor and Master of Social Science and is currently an external PhD candidate at Leiden Law School of Leiden University in the Netherlands.
Sean Litton, President and Chief Executive Officer, Tech Coalition
Sean Litton is the President and Chief Executive Officer of the Tech Coalition, the organization leading the tech industry's fight against online child sexual exploitation and abuse with more than 30 member tech companies committed to the fight. Sean has worked on the front line of child protection for more than 20 years, serving as the Global President of International Justice Mission before joining the Tech Coalition in 2021. Passionately committed to protecting children, Sean focuses his and the Tech Coalition's efforts on achieving tangible results to reduce the prevalence of abuse and safeguard children looking to enjoy the same online tools and services we all use to connect, share, and learn.
Juliet Shen, Community Advisory Board, Integrity Institute; Research Associate for Columbia University's Trust and Safety Tools Consortium.
Committed to developing tools and resources that uplift all platforms to better protect children and marginalized communities, Juliet Shen currently serves on the Community Advisory Board for the Integrity Institute and as a Research Associate for Columbia University's Trust and Safety Tools Consortium. She was most recently a Product lead at Google where she works on scaled spam and abuse. Prior to Google, Juliet was the Director of Product for Trust & Safety at Grindr and an early member of Snapchat’s Trust & Safety team as its first Product Manager where she built out counterabuse infrastructure and features that detect online abuse targeting youth and empower them to take action. Throughout her career, she has led the development of child abuse detection and enforcement, internal investigation tools, and machine learning classifiers with a special focus on bridging cross-disciplinary challenges.
Juliet holds a dual bachelor’s degree in Political Science and Sociology from the University at Albany.
Moderator: Matt Soeth, Head of Trust & Safety and Global Affairs, All Tech Is Human
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