Recent Invited Talks & Panels

2024

  • Invited Panelist, “Should the EU create a Sovereign Tech Fund on AI and digital commons?” Centre for European Policy Studies, Ideas Lab 2024.  Brussels, Belgium. March 2024.

2023

  • Invited Panelist, “Designing Conflict-Sensitive Technologies” Build Peace 2023. Nairobi, Kenya.  December 2023.

  • “Understanding Generative AI and Online Hate Speech” Addressing Online Hate in the Age of Artificial Intelligence, International Religious Freedom or Belief Alliance Ministerial Conference, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic & Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe - Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights. Prague, Czech Republic.  November 2023.

  • Invited Panelist, “Upholding Human Rights in the Digital Age: Fostering a Multistakeholder Approach for Safeguarding Human Dignity and Freedom for All” Main Human Rights Session, United Nations Internet Governance Forum.  Kyoto, Japan.  October 2023.

  • “Generative AI and Online Hate” The Warsaw Human Dimension Conference, Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe - Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights. Warsaw, Poland.  October 2023.

  • Invited Panelist, “Online Hate in the Age of AI” Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe - Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights. The Role of Civil Society in the Promotion and Protection of Tolerance and Non-Discrimination: Supplementary Human Dimension Meeting III at The Hofburg Imperial Palace, Vienna, Austria. June 2023.

  • “Iterative Human Rights & Agile Governance” European University Institute, School of Transnational Governance, Summer School on Agile Governance.  Florence, Italy.  June 2023.

  • “Addressing the Deterioration of Digital Civic Space and Media in Afghanistan.” The University of California, Irvine - International Justice Clinic. RightsCon, June 2023.

  • “Considerations for Artificial Intelligence and Freedom of Religion or Belief” Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe - Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights, Invited Presentation to the Panel of Experts on Freedom of Religion or Belief.  March 2023.

  • Invited Panelist, “Addressing Anti-Semitism in the Age of Artificial Intelligence (AI)” The 2023 Skopje Conference on Addressing Anti-Semitism in the OSCE Region, Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe.  February 2023.

2022

  • “PeaceTech as Battleground: The Russian Invasion of Ukraine” European University Institute, School of Transnational Governance.  Florence, Italy.  November 2022.

  • “What Now?  What Next? Gen Z & The Future of Iran” Persia Educational Foundation.  October 2022.

  • “Iterative Human Rights & Agile Governance” European University Institute, School of Transnational Governance, Summer School on Agile Governance.  Florence, Italy.  July 2022.

  • Invited Panelist, “Data for Peace: Unleashing the Power of Data in Humanitarian Response” European University Institute, School of Transnational Governance.  Florence, Italy.  July 2022.

  • “Why free knowledge is a human right: how Wikipedia is advancing human rights and access to knowledge” Palestine Digital Activism Forum, 7amleh - The Arab Center for Social Media Development.  May 2022.

  • “AI, Non-Charismatic Human Rights, and Challenges for Access to Justice” Invited Panelist at “AI in the EU and Access to Justice” Central European University, Leiden University, and European Society of International Law.  January 2022.

2021

  • “Human Rights Challenges & Big Tech” Czernin Security Forum, Institute of International Relations, Prague.  November 2021.

  • “AI algorithms – (re)shaping public opinions through interfering with access to information in the online environment?” with Cezara Panait.  EUROSFAT Forum, Europuls Centre of European Expertise, Bucharest, Romania.  October 2021.

  • “AI and Non-Charismatic Human Rights” Digital Technologies and Human Rights - Opportunities and Challenges: Supplementary Human Dimension Meeting III, Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe - Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (OSCE – ODIHR).  July 2021.

2020

  • “Trends in Spatialities of Power and Cyberwar” Czernin Security Forum, Institute of International Relations, Prague.  October 2020.

  • Invited Discussant, “Border Control and Invisible Threats. Does the Closure of Borders in Europe Stop Covid-19?” Czernin Security Forum, Institute of International Relations, Prague.  October 2020.

  • “Strategies and Techniques for Online Human Rights Advocacy” Konrad Adenauer Foundation.  October 2020.

  • “The Rights to Assembly & Association and Artificial Intelligence” Delegation of the European Union to Ukraine & Internews Ukraine. June 2020.

2019

  • Invited Expert, The Kofi Annan Commission on Elections and Democracy in the Digital Age.  Vienna, Austria.  July 2019.

  • “Human Rights and the Age of Artificial Intelligence” Lviv Media Forum. Lviv, Ukraine. June 2019.

  • “Disruptive Tech: The Impact of the Rise of Technology on Individual Rights” Panel, European Public Policy Conference, Hertie School of Governance & IE School of Global and Public Affairs.  Madrid, Spain. March 2019.

  • “Targeted Emails and Digital Security in Public Policy” Global Public Policy Institute. Berlin, Germany. January 2019.