All Tech Is Human’s Responsible Tech London: Advancing Online Safety for All to happen on 16 July at The Royal Society
All Tech Is Human, a leading Responsible Tech non-profit building a better approach to tackling thorny tech & society issues, will be convening an upcoming curated gathering for 250 individuals across civil society, government, industry, and academia. Responsible Tech London: Advancing Online Safety for All, will unite stakeholders for an impactful evening of welcome remarks, two panel discussions, and ample time to network with other individuals committed to creating a better tech future.
Panel 1: Safety by Design for the Next Generation: Navigating the Evolution of Child Safety Policy
Esther Jaromitski, Global Technology Law Expert, Queen Mary University of London
Esther is a published novelist, doctoral scholar, and senior policy adviser at the UK government dedicated to shaping international law for the digital age.
Her research focuses on the role of social media algorithms in international crime, with a mission to strengthen legal frameworks for the 21st century. Esther is currently a doctoral scholar and is serving as Senior Policy Adviser on Internet Governance at the UK Government’s Department for Science, Innovation and Technology. Previously, she served as a legal adviser to the EU Delegation to the United Nations in New York and conducted research for the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, the Shoah Foundation, and the European Parliament. She also taught Internet Regulation in the Technology, Media, and Telecommunications Law Master program at Queen Mary University of London and worked in the private sector as a consultant and program manager at Blue Globe Innovation.
Esther holds degrees from Leiden University College and Queen Mary University of London. She was a visiting researcher at the UN International Law Commission in Geneva during her PhD. Her work has been published in Oxford Human Rights Hub, the UNODC Library, and other platforms.
David Miles, Director of Safety Policy - EMEA, Meta
As Safety Policy Director at Meta for Europe, Middle East and Africa, Dave has more than twenty-five years executive management experience within the technology, charitable and regulatory sectors. In his current capacity, he is a member of the European Commission’s Alliance to Better Protect Minors Online, the Vatican’s Child Dignity Alliance and former member WePROTECT Global Alliance’s 2021 Global Threat Analysis (GTA) Steering Group.
Prior to joining Meta, Dave was a member of UNICEF’s Expert Roster at the Global Fund to End Violence against Children (EVAC), Policy Director of the British Board of Classification (BBFC) and the Family Online Safety Institute (FOSI). Dave has chaired three prominent working groups for the UK Council for Child Internet Safety (UKCCIS) and prior to this held senior executive positions at IBM, Compaq and Motorola.
In 2014, Dave was admitted to the Freedom of the City of London for his charitable work around promoting accessibility and ensuring technology can support and empower those with special needs.
Michael Tunks, Ofcom
Michael is a Principal at Ofcom working in the Online Safety Group. He is responsible for Policy Development related to preventing child sexual abuse and exploitation online. Prior to joining Ofcom, Michael spent seven years at the Internet Watch Foundation, a not-for-profit organisation, that removes child sexual abuse material from the internet, as their Head of Policy and Public Affairs. In that time, he worked on the development of the Online Safety Act, EU legislation to combat child sexual abuse and exploitation and on the UK’s Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse. Prior to this, Michael worked in policing and local government and began his career working for a Member of Parliament in the House of Commons.
Moderated by:
Charlotte Jee, News Editor, MIT Technology Review
Charlotte is MIT Technology Review's news editor. She has extensive experience as a writer, editor and journalist covering tech, and crops up regularly on broadcast media in the UK, US and beyond.
Panel 2: Generative AI: Understanding its Risks and Rewards in Online Spaces
Mark Bentley, Digital Safeguarding Advisor
Mark has been working in school safeguarding for the past decade – part of this role has been overseeing technological safeguarding systems for web filtering and student monitoring, which has led him to investigate the AI harms landscape, especially in the light of the democratisation of generative AI and the explosion of tiny but harmful sites being accessed by children and young people. Used to navigating the contradictions schools face of not wanting to encourage under-age use of apps, sites and games at the same time as dealing with the fallout from online issues spilling over into the playground, he has spent lots of time testing parental safety controls…and finding them wanting. As the Online Safety Act bites in the UK, COPPA births KOSA in the US and Grok & Friends eat them both for breakfast, he wants to see a greater understanding of what is actually happening to inform legislators, educators and regulators worldwide.
John-Orr Hanna, Online and Child Safety Expert
John-Orr Hanna has over two decades experience in the design and delivery of public safety and related solutions. His experience includes advising governments on policy and technology applications in the online safety space, through to delivering threat intelligence solutions to the world's largest social media platforms. Consistently focused on a safer internet for all regardless of where in the world they access it.
He previously helped to mobilise the early phases of the International NGO - Weprotect -focusing on online CSAM - in direct support of the then UK Prime Minister David Cameron, and US President Obama. Most recently he was Chief Intelligence Officer at Crisp Thinking/ Resolver, responsible for global partnerships with Tier 1 social media companies and brand partners,, with a second remit across Government Affairs (US/UK/EU). Crisp/ Resolver is the largest commercial provider of threat intelligence to the global social media companies sector. Leading threat analysts covering a broad range of global online harms - in over 30 languages and cultures- covering:
Child Endangerment - inc. CSAM
Harassment
Hate Speech inc. Gender based Hate
VIP / Executive Protection
Livestream Threats
Suicide and Self-Harm
Graphic Violence
Mis and Dis Information - across Medical, Elections and wider Geo-political contexts
John-Orr has worked closely with UK, US, EU Governments on developing online safety regulation and operational response. As well as the eSAfety Commissioner for AUS, World Economic Forum, WePROTECT, UK Internet Watch Foundation (IWF), Tech Coalition. He is also a trustee of the SWGfL - who operate the StopNCII.org service to support victims of Non-Consensual Intimate Image (NCII) abuse.
He is an active investor in the Online Harms, Public Safety and Cyber spaces, working with brilliant founders across data, tooling, intelligence and regulation - with a focus on Deep Tech.
Emily Harman, Trust and Safety Consultant and Attorney
Emily Harman is an attorney and Trust & Safety advisor, specializing in child protection and gender-based violence issues. She practiced as a criminal attorney, dealing with violent offences involving sexual harm, and is the former Trust and Safety Lead at OnlyFans. Now, she advises a range of global organisations in the non-government and private sector on key online safety trends.
Moderated by:
Sandra Khalil, Associate Director, All Tech Is Human
Companies and organizations registered for attendance include 5Rights, Alan Turing Institute, Amazon, Bethnal Green Ventures, Big Brother Watch, Bumble, Children's Investment Fund Foundation, Coimisiún na Meán, Google, LEGO Group, Meta, Mozilla Foundation, NSPCC, Ofcom, Oxford Internet Institute, Reboot the Future, Resolver, Supercell, The Future Society, Thomson Reuters Foundation, TikTok, Tony Blair Institute for Global Change, Twillio, Twitch, UK Home Office, Yoti, and many more.
Recent speakers at our gatherings have included Baroness Joanna Shields, Camille François, Douglas Rushkoff, Frances Haugen, Julie Inman Grant, Maya Wiley, Rumman Chowdhury, Sherry Turkle, Sinead Bovell, Tim Wu, Yael Eisenstat, Yoel Roth, and many more.
The upcoming gathering will build on the work of our recent curated gatherings in NYC, DC, SF, and London (see videos below). In addition, we will have a panel dedicated to our ongoing initiative with Thorn around reducing AI-generated harms against children which has received public commitments from companies such as Amazon, Anthropic, Google, Meta, Microsoft, Mistral AI, OpenAI, Teleperformance, and more.
Pictures from our 2024 gathering at The Royal Society…we hope to see you at our upcoming one.
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