Speakers 

Short bios from the speakers can be found here

9 December 2020

10.00 - 12-00 CET - Public Thematic Panel: Artificial Intelligence

Moderator: Ben Wagner — Assistant Professor, Faculty of Technology, Policy and Management, TU Delft

Speakers:

• Andrea Renda — Senior Research Fellow at CEPs, member of the European Commission High Level Expert Group on Artificial Intelligence
• Dafna Feinholz — UNESCO- Chief of Bioethics and Ethics of Science and Technology
• Sarah Chander — Senior Policy Adviser, European Digital Rights
• Vidushi Marda — Senior Programme Officer, Article 19
• Juha Heikkila — European Commission, Head of Unit Robotics and Artificial Intelligence, European Commission, Directorate General for Communications Networks, Content and Technology (DG CNECT)

12.00 - 13.30 CET - Interactive expert session (Closed session): Artificial Intelligence (I)

Moderator: Sarah Chander — Senior Policy Adviser, European Digital Rights

Speaker:

• Paul Nemitz — Adviser, European Commission, Directorate General for Justice and Consumers
• Griff Ferris — Legal and Policy Officer, Fair Trials
• Chenai Chair — Digital Policy Officer, World Wide Web Foundation

12.00 - 13.30 CET - Interactive expert session (Closed session): Private sector (I)

Moderator: Javier Martín Cerracin — Policy Officer, Human Rights, European External Action Service (EEAS)

Speakers:

• Christen Dobson — Business and Human Rights Resource Centre
• Paul Roeland — Clean Clothes Campaign 
• Jacqueline Geis — Chief Executive Officer, Videre
• Gbenga Sesan — Executive Director, Paradigm Initiative
• Jason Pielemeier — Policy Director, Global Network Initiative

14.00 - 16.30 CET - Plenary Opening session

Video Message:

• Josep Borrell — High Representative of the EU for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy/Vice President of the European Commission  
• Jutta Urpilainen — Commissioner for International partnerships, European Commission

High level panel (14.00 – 14.30)

Speakers:

• Michelle Bachelet — United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
• Eamon Gilmore — EU Special Representative for Human Rights
• Alice Mogwe — FIDH President (International Federation for Human Rights)

Setting the scene (14.30 – 16.20)

Moderator: Jennifer Baker

Speakers:

• Heidi Hautala — Vice-President of European Parliament
• Giuseppe Abbamonte — Director for Media Policy, European Commission, Directorate General for Communications Networks, Content and Technology (DG CNECT)
• Michael O'Flaherty — Director of the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA)
• Marie Arena — Member of the European Parliament,  Chair of the Subcommittee on Human Rights
• Sharon Hom — Executive Director at Human Rights in China
• Eliska Pirkova — Europe Policy Analyst, Access Now

16.30 - 18.00 CET - Interactive expert session (Closed session): Privacy and Surveillance (I)

Speakers:

• Raphael Warolin — Policy Officer, European External Action Service (EEAS)
• Christine Mardirossian — Project Manager, European Commission, Directorate General for International Cooperation and Development

16.00 - 18.00 CET - Interactive expert session: Fundamental Rights and Freedoms (I)

Moderator: Adrian Shahbaz — Director for Technology and Democracy, Freedom House

Speakers:

• Felicia Anthonio — #Campaigner and #KeepItOn Lead at Access Now
• Bahar Saba — MENA Programme Officer, Article 19
• Olivier Luyckx — Head of Unit Security, Nuclear Safety, European Commission, Directorate General for International Cooperation and Development
• Guy Berger — Director for Freedom of Expression and Media Development, UNESCO

10 December 2020

09.00 - 10.30 CET - Interactive expert session: Privacy and Surveillance (II)

Moderator: Ilia Siatitsa — Privacy International

Speakers:

• Paulina Guttierez — Law and Policy Prorgamme, Article 19
• Djordje Krivokapić — Assistant Professor, Faculty of Organisational Sciences, University of Belgrade
• Dominika Bychawska — Siniarska – Human Rights lawyer
  

09.00 - 10.30 CET - Interactive expert session (Closed session): Fundamental Rights and Freedoms (II)

Moderator: Elizabeta Kitanovic — Conference of European Churches

Opening remarks: Nathan Law — Pro-Democracy Activist

Speakers:

• Roman Pratasevich — Journalist, Democracy activist
• Mohamad Najem — SMEX
• Alain Amrah Horutanga — Blogger, co-founder of YAGA

10.30 - 12.30 CET - Public Thematic Panel: Technology, Business and Human Rights

Moderator: Guus Houttuin — Senior Adviser on Trade Issues, European External Action Service (EEAS)

Speakers:

• Mark Hodge — B-Tech Project
• Anna Herold — Head of Unit for Audiovisual and Media Services Policy, European Commission, Directorate General for Communications Networks, Content and Technology (DG CNECT)
• Iverna McGowan — Director of Europe Office, Center for Democracy and Technology
• Stephen Turner — Director EU Public Policy, Twitter
• Cornelia Kutterer — Microsoft´s Senior Director for EU Rule of Law & Responsible Tech
  

• Alexey Kozliuk — Program director of Mass Communications Foundation

12.30 - 14.30 CET - Public Thematic Panel: Fundamental Rights and Freedoms in the Digital Sphere

Moderator: Lutz Guellner — Head of the Division on Strategic Communications, European External Action Service (EEAS)

Speakers:

• Patrick Penninckx — Head of Information Society Department, Council of Europe
• Maria Ressa — CEO and President of Rappler
• Aura Salla — Public Policy Director, Head of EU Affairs at Facebook
• Ritwajit Das — International Dalit Solidarity Network
• Jürgen Heissel — Director of the Office of the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe
  

14.30 - 16.30 CET - Public Thematic Panel: Privacy and Surveillance

Moderator: Barbora Bukovska — Article 19

Speakers: 

• Danna Ingleton — Co-Director, Amnesty Tech
• Griselda Triana — Mexican journalist and human rights defenders
• David Kaye — law professor University of California- Former UN Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Expression
• Fionnuala Ní Aoláin — UN Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms while countering terrorism
• Irina Orssich — Team Leader, Technologies and Systems for Digitising Industry, European Commission, Directorate General for Communications Networks, Content and Technology (DG CNECT)

16.30 - 18.00 CET - Interactive expert session: Artificial Intelligence (II)

Moderator: Amba Kak — Director of Global Policy & Prorgams,

Speakers:

• Oliver Unger — Legal Officer, German Federal Ministry of Justice and Consumer Protection
• Philip Dawson — Fellow on Technology and Human Rights, The Carr Center for Human Rights

• Renata Avila — Alliance for Inclusive Algorithms

16.30 - 18.00 CET - Interactive expert session: Private sector (II)

Moderator: Guus Houttuin — EEAS Senior Adviser on Trade Issues, European External Action Service (EEAS)

Speakers:

• Anne Marie Engtoft Larsen — Denmark Tech Ambassador
• Tyler Gillard — Responsible Business Conduct Unit, OECD
• Camille Le Pors — Corporate Human Rights Benchmark / World Benchmarking Alliance
• Théo Jaekel — Ericsson
• Penelope Faulkner — Vietnam Committee on Human Rights (VCHR)

18.00 - 19.00 CET - Closing

Moderator: Jennifer Baker

• Barbora Bukovska — Article 19
• Sarah Chander — Senior Policy Adviser, European Digital Rights
• Iverna McGowan — Director, Europe Office, Center for Democracy and Technology
• Adrian Shahbaz — Director for Technology and Democracy, Freedom House

Closing speeches

• Luisa Ragher — Head of Human Rights Division, European External Action Service (EEAS)
• Chiara Adamo — Head of Unit Gender Equality, Human Rights and Democratic Governance, European Commission, Directorate-General for International Cooperation and Development 
• Sylvain Mossou — EuroMed Rights