Agenda

(view the Agenda for Day Two)

Day One - Thursday, May 31, 2012

8:00 AM - 9:00 AM
Registration and Coffee
9:00 AM - 9:30 AM
Welcome and Opening Remarks
9:30 AM - 09:50 AM
Keynote Address
09:50 AM - 10:30 AM
Mini Keynotes 1-4
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
Coffee Break
11:00 AM - 11:40 PM
Mini Keynotes 5-8
11:40 AM – 1:00 PM
Panel Session 1
  • Workshop 1: Technology and Revolutions: Opportunities and Challenges - Looking at the role technology companies play in enabling, supporting or limiting civil society, free speech and human freedom.

      Location: Robertson Auditorium, Floor 2

      Panelists include:
    • David Gorodyansky : CEO, AnchorFree creator of the VPN HotSpotShield
    • Gideon Lichfield : Technology and Society correspondent, The Economist (moderator)
    • Bob Boorstin : Director, Public Policy, Google
    • Zied Dridi : Head of Internet Services Department, ATI
  • Workshop 2: Forging new territory: Implementing the UN Guiding Principles on Human Rights and Business in the Technology Sector - Looking at the role technology companies play in enabling, supporting or limiting civil society, free speech and human freedom.

      Location: Fisher West, Floor 1

      Panelists include:
    • Susan Morgan : Executive Director, GNI
    • Caroline Rees : President of SHIFT, Harvard Kennedy School's Corporate Social Responsibility Initiative
    • Steve Lippman : Director, Environmental Sustainability, Microsoft
    • Faris Natour : Director Research and Innovation, BSR (moderator)
  • Workshop 3: Frontline lessons from other sectors: Learning what works in human rights - What are some of the lessons from apparel, computer hardware, and other industries that can be applied to the technology sector?

      Location: Fisher East, Floor 1

      Panelists include:
    • Bennett Freeman : Senior Vice President, Calvert Investments Former US Deputy Assistant Secretary for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor
    • Tim Mohin : Director, Corporate Responsibility, Advanced Micro Devices
    • Daniel Fibiger : Manager, Social and Environmental Responsibility, Gap
    • Sarah Altschuller : Corporate Social Responsibility Practice, Foley Hoag
1:00 PM - 2:20 PM
Lunch
2:20 PM - 3:20 PM
Unconference 1
3:20 PM – 3:50 PM
Coffee Break
3:50 PM – 5:35 PM
Panel Session 2
  • Workshop 4: To Regulate or Not To Regulate the Internet, is that the question? - Exploring when regulation and governance of the internet makes sense, and how should the sector manage, influence, and navigate internet regulation.
  • Workshop 5: From Startups to the Fortune 500: Incorporating human rights by design - How and why companies should embed human rights during the development of new technologies rather than responding to crises when they occur.

      Location: Fisher West, Floor 1

      Panelists include:
    • Nathan Freitas : Founder, The Guardian Project
    • Robert Scoble : Blogger, Chief Learning Officer, Rackspace (moderator)
    • Lauren Compere : Managing Director and the Director of Shareholder Engagement, Boston Common Asset Management
    • Mohamad Najem : Co-founder, SMEX
    • Mary Catherine Wirth : Sr. Legal Counsel, Online Services, Adobe Systems
  • Workshop 6: Secure web browsing, encryption and the future of certificate authorities - Exploring the benefits and limitations of the HTTPS security protocol.
5:35 PM – 6:00 PM
Closing Notes
6:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Cocktail Hour
 

Day Two - Friday, June 1, 2012

9:00 AM – 9:30 AM
Coffee and Registration
9:30 AM – 10:00 AM
Mini Keynotes 9-11
10:00 AM – 11:15 AM
Panel Session 3
  • Workshop 7: A practical workshop: turning policies into practices - A hands on workshop giving participants an understanding of how to develop good policies that promote innovation, investment AND a responsible human rights agenda.

      Location: Fisher East, Floor 1

      Panelists include:
    • Auren Hoffman : CEO, Rapleaf (moderator)
    • Ebele Okobi-Harris : Director, Business & Human Rights Program, Yahoo!
    • Salim Ismail : Sought-after speaker, strategist and entrepreneur,
    • Arvind Ganesan : Business and Human Rights Director, Human Rights Watch
    • Anas Qtiesh : Program Manager, Meedan.org
  • Workshop 8: Coding for human rights - From geo-location data to database security, examining the rights implications of coding and developing the strategies to help engineers understand the offline implications of their programs.

      Location: Fisher West, Floor 1

      Panelists include:
    • Bram Cohen : Chief Scientist & Co-founder, BitTorrent, Inc
    • Patrick Ball, PhD : Chief Scientist and Vice-President, Human Rights Program, Benetech
    • Peter Fein : Agent, Telecomix CTO at juju.com
    • Kamal Sedra : Managing Director, Development & Institutionalization Support Center
    • Kathleen Reen : VP Asia and New Media, Internews (moderator)
  • Workshop 9: Social networking - Exploring how defending human rights can actually strengthen a company's bottom line.

      Location: Roberson Auditorium, Floor 2

      Panelists include:
    • Hooman Radfar : Executive Chairman, Clearspring
    • Jillian York : Director for International Freedom of Expression and Blogger, EFF (moderator)
    • Ilya Zhitomirskiy : Co-Founder, Diaspora
    • Shanthi Kalathil : Consultant and Organizing Committee Member, International Digital Economy Accords (IDEA) Project, The Aspen Institute
    • Dilawar Syed : President & CEO, Yonja Media Group
11:15 AM – 11:45 AM
Coffee Break
11:45 AM – 1:00 PM
Panel Session 4
  • Workshop 10: Intermediary liability - What are the freedom of speech and business implications of making content platforms responsible for user-generated content

      Location: Robertson Auditorium, Floor 2

      Panelists include:
    • Lokman Tsui : Policy Advisor Asia Pacific, Public Policy and Government Affairs, Asia Pacific, Google
    • Cynthia Wong : Attorney, Centre for Democracy and Technology (moderator)
    • Alberto Cerda : Director, Derechos Digitales
    • Rebecca Arbogast : Vice President, Global Public Policy, Comcast
  • Workshop 11: Understanding government relations and navigating legal jurisdiction in a borderless world - Exploring the difficulties governments, corporations and civil society face when dealing with a digital world 'beyond jurisdiction'.

      Location: Fisher West, Floor 1

      Panelists include:
    • Mong Palatino : Blogger, Activist, Philippine Parliament - Member
    • Lisa Emelia Svensson : Ambassador for Corporate Social Responsibility, Swedish Government (moderator)
    • Jeffrey H. Dygert : Executive Director, Public Policy, AT&T
    • Staci Pies : Director, Government and Regulatory Affairs, Skype
  • Workshop 12: Visual media technologies, content and human rights - Content has changed our world, how do we manage its impact on society, governance, and privacy?
1:00 PM – 2:00 PM
Lunch
2:00 PM – 3:00 PM
Unconference 2
3:00 PM – 3:30 PM
Coffee Break
3:30 PM – 4:45 PM
Panel Session 5
  • Workshop 13: London and our rights: Social media in times of crisis - What are the responsibilities of companies in protecting the human rights of their users and the extent to which they can, and should, cooperate with authorities?

      Location: Robertson Auditorium, Floor 2

      Panelists include:
    • Widney Brown : Senior Director, International Law and Policy, Amnesty International
    • Sascha Meinrath : Internet in a Suitcase Project, New America Foundation's Open Technology Initiative
    • Salil Tripathi : Director of Policy, Institute for Human Rights and Business
    • Jessi Hempel : Senior Writer, Fortune Magazine (moderator)
    • Joe Sullivan : Chief Security Officer, Facebook
  • Workshop 14: Privacy -- what are the responsibilities of companies to their users? - How should corporations respond to invasions of privacy by governments, law enforcement and other actors and what do users expect from their platforms?

      Location: Fisher West, Floor 1

      Panelists include:
    • Chris Soghoian : Online Privacy Specialists, Open Society Fellow, Graduate Fellow at the Center for Applied Cybersecurity Research
    • Alex Fowler : Global Privacy and Public Policy Leader, Mozilla
    • Eva Galperin : Activist, Electronic Frontier Foundation
    • Barton Gellman : Contributing Editor at Large, Time Magazine (moderator)
    • Nicole Ozer : Technology and Civil Liberties Policy Director, ACLU of Northern California
  • Workshop 15: Mobile, Telcos and the Future of Freedom of Speech
4:45 PM – 5:30 PM
Concluding Panel - The Future of Digital Rights in Latin America and Beyond.
5:30 PM – 6:00 PM
Closing Remarks
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