Open Technology Institute at 15

In-person registrants sign in and pick up name tags.

Speakers:

• Anne-Marie Slaughter – CEO, New America
• Lilian Coral – Vice President, Technology and Democracy, and Head of the Open Technology Institute, New America

Members of the OTI community take the stage to discuss some of the big tech policy issues on the horizon and present new takes on pressing challenges. Presentations include:

• Data on the Mind: Mental Privacy and “Neural Data” Regulations in the U.S. │ Jameson Spivack, Deputy Director for U.S. Policy, Future of Privacy Forum
• State Digital IDs Threaten to Transform the Internet │ Jay Stanley, Senior Policy Analyst, Speech, Privacy, and Technology Project, ACLU
• What’s the Value of Privacy? │ Sydney Saubestre, Senior Policy Analyst, Open Technology Institute, New America
• Reconnecting Public Media to the Public │ Josh Kramer, Head of Editorial, New_ Public
• Networking Human Rights Archives │ Jacqueline Geis, Research Fellow, Human Rights Center, UC Berkeley School of Law
• AI in Defense of Free Knowledge │ Tajh Taylor, Special Advisor, Product & Technology, Wikimedia Foundation
• Kid Safety in the AI Era │ Amina Fazlullah, Head of Tech Policy Advocacy, Common Sense
• Interrogating and improving content moderation for indigenous and low-resource languages in the Global South │ Aliya Bhatia, Senior Policy Analyst, Free Expression Project, and Dhanaraj Thakur, Research Director, Center for Democracy and Technology
• What 6G Should Be: Ubiquitous and Seamless Connectivity, Not Just Another ‘G’ │ Michael Calabrese, Director, Wireless Future; Senior Advisor, Technology and Democracy, New America

Speakers:

• Aliya Bhatia – Senior Policy Analyst, Free Expression Project, Center for Democracy and Technology
• Michael Calabrese – Director, Wireless Future; Senior Advisor, Technology and Democracy, New America
• Amina Fazlullah – Head of Tech Policy Advocacy, Common Sense
• Jaqueline Geis – Research Fellow, Human Rights Center, UC Berkeley School of Law
• Josh Kramer – Head of Editorial, New_ Public
• Sydney Saubestre – Senior Policy Analyst, Open Technology Institute, New America
• Jameson Spivack – Deputy Director for U.S. Policy, Future of Privacy Forum
• Jay Stanley – Senior Policy Analyst, Speech, Privacy, and Technology Project, ACLU
• Tajh Taylor – Special Advisor, Product & Technology, Wikimedia Foundation
• Dhanaraj Thakur – Research Director, Center for Democracy and Technology

Coffee and snacks will be served.

Speakers:

• Deirdre K. Mulligan – Professor, School of Information, UC Berkeley; Faculty Co-Director, Center for Law and Technology, UC Berkeley; Former Principal Deputy U.S. Chief Technology Officer, White House Office of Science and Technology Policy

Jay Graber, CEO of Bluesky, joins OTI at 15 for a fireside chat with New America’s CEO, Anne-Marie Slaughter. The conversation will be followed by a Q&A in which in-person and virtual attendees can take part.

Speakers:

• Jay Graber – CEO, Bluesky
• Anne-Marie Slaughter – CEO, New America

The thought leaders and experts who founded, shaped, and led OTI through its 15-year history join us for a panel on where the field has been and where it needs to go.

Speakers:

• Kevin Bankston – Senior Advisor on AI Governance, Center for Democracy and Technology
• Alan Davidson – Head of Government Affairs at Databricks, former Assistant Secretary of Commerce
• Sascha Meinrath – Palmer Chair in Telecommunications, Penn State University, Director, X-Lab
• Sarah Morris – Managing Director, Waxman Strategies, former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Commerce
• Lilian Coral – Vice President, Technology and Democracy, and Head of the Open Technology Institute, New America
• Chhaya Kapadia (Moderator) – Chief of Staff, Open Technology Institute, New America

OTI’s Policy Director gives a lightning talk on how the program is thinking about building the future internet we want.

Speakers:

• Prem M. Trivedi – Policy Director, Open Technology Institute, New America

Speakers:

• Paul Butler – President and Chief Transformation Officer, New America

Drinks and appetizers will be served following the conclusion of the day’s programming.