Acclaimed Author and Policy Advocate Tim Wu To Participate in a Fireside Chat at All Tech Is Human’s Responsible Tech Summit: Shaping Our Digital Future on Sept. 14.
(Wednesday, September 6, 2023, New York, New York) All Tech Is Human is thrilled to announce author, policy advocate, and professor at Columbia Law School Tim Wu will be participating in a fireside chat with CEO and Editor of Tech Policy Press Justin Hendrix at All Tech Is Human’s Responsible Tech Summit: Shaping Our Digital Future, on Thursday, September 14, at SVA Theatre in New York City.
Responsible Tech Summit: Shaping Our Digital Future will bring together 275 individuals across civil society, government, industry, and academia to tackle wicked tech & society issues. The 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 produced in partnership with the Consulate General of Canada in New York.
Tim Wu is an author, policy advocate, and professor at Columbia Law School. Wu's best known work is the development of Net Neutrality theory, but he also writes about private power, free speech, copyright, and antitrust. His books The Master Switch and The Attention Merchants have won wide recognition and awards.
Justin Hendrix is CEO and Editor of Tech Policy Press, a new nonprofit media venture concerned with the intersection of technology and democracy. Previously, he was Executive Director of NYC Media Lab. He spent over a decade at The Economist in roles including Vice President, Business Development & Innovation. He is an associate research scientist and adjunct professor at NYU Tandon School of Engineering. Opinions expressed here are his own.
Wu and Hendrix join a lineup of fireside chats and panels focused on co-creating a better tech future. Also featured at Responsible Tech Summit: Shaping Our Digital Future…
Fireside Chat: Sherry Turkle (Abby Rockefeller Mauzé Professor of the Social Studies of Science and Technology in the Program in Science, Technology, and Society at MIT) in conversation with Julie Scelfo (Founder & Executive Director of Get Media Savvy).
Fireside Chat: Frances Haugen (Accountability and transparency in social media advocate) in conversation with Nabiha Syed (CEO, The Markup)
Panel Discussion: Digital Spaces and Public Goods featuring Sinead Bovell (Generation Connect Visionaries Board Member, International Telecommunication Union), Theodora Skeadas (Public Policy Strategic Advisor and advances Responsible Technology Development), and Sabhanaz Rashid Diya (Co-Founder, Tech Global Institute).
Panel Discussion: How Will AI Transform Elections featuring Samantha Bradshaw (Fellow, Center for International Governance Innovation), Allie Funk (Research Director for Technology and Democracy, Freedom House), Shuman Ghosemajumder (Canadian technologist, entrepreneur, and author), Heather Evans (Schwarzman Scholar and AI Expert).
More About Tim Wu
Tim Wu is an author, policy advocate, and professor at Columbia Law School. Wu's best known work is the development of Net Neutrality theory, but he also writes about private power, free speech, copyright, and antitrust. His books The Master Switch and The Attention Merchants have won wide recognition and awards.
Wu has worked in academia, federal and state governments. He worked at the White House for the National Economic Council; at the Federal Trade Commission, for the New York Attorney General’ as a fellow at Google, and for Riverstone Networks in the telecommunications industry. He was a law clerk for Judge Richard Posner and Justice Stephen Breyer. He graduated from McGill University (B.Sc.), and Harvard Law School.
Wu is a contributing opinion writer for the New York Times, and was formerly a contributing writer at NewYorker.com and contributing editor at the New Republic. He has been named to the Politico 50 twice, to America’s 100 most influential lawyers, and also won awards from Scientific American magazine, National Law Journal, 02138 Magazine. He has twice won the Lowell Thomas Award for travel writing and in 2017 he was named to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.