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David is CEO at SWGfL and a Director UK Safer Internet Centre; the national awareness centre and part of the European Insafe network.  David has worked extensively in online safety for over 20 years with children, schools and wider agencies. He advises a number of Governments, organisations and industry partners on online safety strategy and policy and has been appointed as an expert child online protection adviser to the UN ITU and nominated by UK Government as an expert to the Council of Europe Tech Facilitated Gender Based Violence committee.

David has presented at conferences nationally and internationally.  He is a member of UK Council for Internet Safety and has recently been invited to be a member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Coalition for Digital Safety.

David has led the creation of a number of Helplines that directly and indirectly support victims of online harm, perhaps most notably the Revenge Porn Helpline in 2015 that supports adults who are victims of non consensual intimate image (NCII) abuse.  Consequentially, David has overseen the development of StopNCII.org, the worlds first device side hashing technology that empowers adults who experience NCII to prevent their images being shared online.

David has led pioneering work, such as the development of multi award winning resources, and with Plymouth University, he has published a number of ground-breaking research reports.

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Pat currently works in the Public Policy Department of the GSM Association and is the global lead for the GSMA’s privacy related policy issues.

Pat has over sixteen years experience in data protection, privacy, interception and disclosure law and regulatory policy in the fixed, mobile and Internet sectors. Pat has developed and led mobile industry initiatives that seek to ensure privacy is designed into products, services and business processes and that have produced globally applicable privacy principles, mobile application privacy design guidelines and an accountability framework. Pat continues to work on range of global initiatives that are user centred and that embed privacy from a cultural, technical and business process perspective.

Pat has a degree in Social Anthropology and Development and holds privacy and information security audit qualifications. He has served on the International Standard Organisation's Privacy Steering Committee and is a member of the British Computer Society. He is also a member of the Global Pulse Privacy Advisory Group on big data, a member of an external ethics panel for a leading mobile operator on the use of big data for development, and also sits on the international advisory board for the Adaptive Security and Privacy project.

Brittany Smith works on Google's public policy strategy team, supporting work across Europe on child safety, digital literacy and controversial content. She is responsible for working externally alongside policy allies, and internally coordinating policy support for product and program launches. Having recently earned her MSc in women's studies and public policy, her personal and professional interests lie at the intersection of Internet policy and rights advocacy.

Leo Kelion is the technology desk editor for the BBC News website. The role involves managing the BBC’s team of online tech writers and video journalists as well as doing TV and radio interviews on related news stories. He also helps produce and appears on BBC World Service’s Tech Tent radio programme.

For the past 15 years, Jens has been engaged in European and international public policy, focusing on digital economy and technology policy. He is based in Brussels.
Jens began his European affairs career as a trainee at the US Desk of the European Commission’s Directorate General for trade and external affairs. He also worked for the American Chamber of Commerce to the EU, managing staff support to the Telecommunications Subcommittee and to the European-American Industrial Council. He later headed the Technology, Media and Telecoms Practice of a leading European Public Affairs consultancy, Adamson BSMG Worldwide. In that role, he managed a team of consultants advising clients such as IBM, Vodafone, Orange and Tele2 on telecommunications and information society policy.
Before joining Dell in 2007, Jens managed Intel’s EU Affairs team. He and his team drove Intel’s corporate and technology policy agenda, including data protection, cybersecurity, telecommunications and spectrum regulation, copyright and digital rights management, patents and standards policy and regulation. Jens personally led Intel’s European policy work on digital content, copyright and DRM. He managed several engagements between Intel executives, and European Commissioners and Member State governments.
Jens established Dell’s European Government Affairs practice and set up its Brussels office. In his role as “Director, Government Affairs, EMEA,” Jens was responsible for managing Dell’s engagement with policy makers in the region, building support programs for Dell’s Public Sector businesses in major European markets, and advising management on state aid and antitrust issues relating to Dell’s operations in the European region.
Jens has been an active and longstanding member of leading industry organizations, such as BSA – the Software Alliance, Digital Europe and the American Chamber of Commerce to the EU, where he has chaired committees and working groups.

Jennifer Hanley is the Vice President of Legal and Policy for the Family Online Safety Institute (FOSI). Jennifer directs FOSI’s government outreach and policy strategy. Jennifer helps FOSI build relationships with government officials as well as external partnerships and advises leading technology companies on best practices, policy developments, and emerging issues around online safety. Jennifer implements FOSI’s global projects and initiatives and manages the Washington, D.C. staff team. She also leads FOSI’s research work. Jennifer develops policy positions on Internet safety issues including online privacy, mobile safety, cyberbullying, sexting, controversial content, student data privacy, encouraging positive online content for kids, and federal and state legislation and regulations. Jennifer also represents FOSI on panels and in the press.

Lisa Felton is currently Global Head of Consumer Regulation and Content Standards at Vodafone. Prior to that, she held the position of Global Governance and Strategy Manager and also has 14 years’ experience as a lawyer both within Vodafone and in private practice. Lisa holds an MA from Oxford University in Law and a Masters in International Law of Human Rights.

As Twitter's Head of Global Safety Outreach, Patricia Cartes works to define policy and to ensure user safety and security in the challenging realm of modern social media. Patricia's team works 24x7 to defend and respect the voice of Twitter users and to fight online abuse including targeted harassment, child sexual exploitation, human trafficking and cyber-bullying.

Patricia Cartes started working in the technology industry in 2006 when she joined Google’s Webspam team. After building an expertise in site integrity, she joined Facebook as one of the founding members of the company's operations in Europe, the Middle East and Africa. During her time in their User Operations team she managed Facebook’s Intellectual Property and Safety teams, focusing on legal issues as well as on suicide prevention and child protection. In 2011 she joined their Public Policy organization where she was appointed their Head of Safety responsible for maintaining relationships with online safety organizations, Law Enforcement & Military agencies, government hotlines and data protection authorities, across EMEA.

Jasmina Byrne is Chief of Foresight and Policy in UNICEF with over 25 years of experience in global research and policy development. She leads UNICEF’s work on analysis of global trends and anticipatory policy in areas such as digital technologies, public governance, society and the environment. Previously, she managed UNICEF’s Office of Research portfolio on children and digital technologies, child rights and child protection. Jasmina’s interests in digital issues span the period of 15 years through conducting research, policy innovation and advocacy on behalf of children. She was one of the creators and leads of Global Kids Online, a multi-country research initiative on children’s use of digital technologies, and the lead of UNICEF’s data governance initiative. She has authored and co-authored several studies and policy documents on children’s use of digital technologies, internet governance and digital civic engagement including co-authoring UNICEF’s Manifesto on Children’s Data Governance.

Julie has almost 25 years experience in the tech industry. She joined ByteDance in April 2020 to manage the EMEA Product Policy team. Since June 2021, she has been leading the Global Product Policy team for TikTok and Bytedance.

Prior to joining ByteDance, Julie has spent 10 years at Meta in different Trust & Safety roles, leading globally on Safety Policy as part of the Public Policy team.  Prior to joining Meta, she spent 10 years in the ecommerce industry. Julie is French and studied in La Sorbonne university, as well as ESJ Paris.

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