August 2023 Responsible Tech Mixer Recap: San Francisco - Reducing Online Harms 🎉

(August 09, New York, NY) All Tech Is Human is delighted to release its panel discussion featuring Kavya Pearlman, Tami Bhamik, Matt Dougherty and moderator Sandra Khalil from All Tech Is Human’s Responsible Tech Mixer: San Francisco at Manny’s in San Francisco on August 2, 2023.

All Tech Is Human, a 501c3 organization dedicated to building the Responsible Tech Movement, is thrilled to announce more than 200 people came out for our Responsible Tech Mixer: Reducing Online Harms at Manny’s in San Francisco on August 2, 2023. This gathering was produced with the support of our partners at Crisp, a Kroll Business.

The Responsible Tech Mixer: Reducing Online Harms brought together a wide range of backgrounds and disciplines across academia, civil society, government, and industry, for a panel discussion and mixer featuring Kavya Pearlman (Founder & CEO of the X Reality Safety Intelligence (XRSI)), Tami Bhaumik (VP of Digital Civility at Roblox), and Matt Dougherty (Senior Product Evangelist at Crisp, a Kroll business).

To create healthier online spaces, Roblox’s Vice President of Civility and Partnerships at Roblox Tami Bhaumik explained the importance of data-backed policy and education.

“We need to have evidence-based, balanced policy and regulation that is put forth. So that we can make sure that not only do we have a safe place, but everybody's playing by the same rules…it's about education and awareness. Because if young people don't have the tools and the knowledge, and the parents don't have the tools and the knowledge, then it all kind of falls apart.” she said.

Online safety requires a proactive approach to policymaking. People can use platforms in unanticipated ways – which creates incentives for companies to try to get ahead of harmful material.

“You don't know what else is out there. You don't know how people are misusing your product in ways that you haven't thought of yet. And so some of the things that I've, I've found successful is setting up in-house threat detection teams.” Senior Product Evangelist Matt Dougherty said.

All Tech Is Human launched its 2023 Responsible Tech Speaker Series in March 2023 to bring together a wide range of stakeholders working to co-create a better tech future as part of its 2023 Responsible Tech Mixer Speaker Series. Almost 2,000 unique people have signed up to attend monthly events in New York, which feature authors, technologists, youth advocates, trust and safety professionals, data advocates, and people working at the forefront of a responsible tech future. Our supporters include Atlantic Council, Crisp, a Kroll Business, Tekalo, Mozilla, and Project Liberty. If you’d like to support an upcoming Responsible Tech Mixer series please reach out to hello at alltechishuman dot org.

About the panelists

Kavya Pearlman is an award-winning cybersecurity professional and the founder & CEO of the X Reality Safety Intelligence (XRSI), a Standard Developing Organization with the mission to help build safety and inclusion in emerging tech ecosystems. Kavya is the pioneer of the novel XRSI Privacy and Safety Framework for the Immersive Technologies Domain, Metaverse Safety Week Annual Awareness Campaign, and various baseline security, privacy, and ethics standards for Emerging Technologies. She has won several awards for her work and has been named one of the Top twenty Cybersecurity influencers for three consecutive years, 2018-2019-2020, and again for the year 2022 by IFSEC Global.

Tami Bhaumik is the Vice President of Civility and Partnerships at Roblox where she spearheads the platform's digital civility initiative and works to foster a global community of internet safety leaders to ensure good digital citizenship on Roblox. To establish a healthy and safe community, Tami is focused on providing kids, teens, parents, and caregivers with the skills needed to create positive online experiences, in partnership with the world’s leading safety and industry organizations. At Roblox, she empowers platform users to self-govern and create a confident, resilient online community with the knowledge and tools to create positive experiences for themselves and others in the metaverse.

Matt Dougherty has been in the online safety space for nearly 20 years, currently as the Senior Product Evangelist at Crisp, a Kroll business, and formerly as Director of Trust & Safety at Google and Snap where he focused on protecting users across harms on search, ads, enterprise, and social products. His main focus is helping move companies and teams from reactive to proactive to preventative, and getting ahead of risks around the next corner.

Sandra Khalil manages strategic partnerships for All Tech is Human, a global responsible technology nonprofit organization based in New York. Before her time at All Tech Is Human, she spent eight years working in federal, municipal, and think tank roles making people-to-people connections and amplifying globally underrepresented voices. Sandra holds a Master of Science in Global Security, Conflict, and Cyber from New York University with a concentration on cyber policy. Her interests are at the nexus of people, technology, and democracy, with the end user being the most critical stakeholder and driver of innovation for a safer, equitable, and inclusive tech future.