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 - 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

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
• 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