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Bulgarian-born Mariya Gabriel is the current European Commissioner for Digital Economy and Society.
She was the Vice-President of the EPP Group in the European Parliament from 2014-2017.
Mariya Gabriel was a Member of the European Parliament, EPP/GERB (Citizens for European Development of Bulgaria) from 2009-2017. Since 2012, Mariya Gabriel has served as Vice-President of EPP Women. Prior to this she was Parliamentary Secretary to MEPs from the GERB political party within the EPP Group in 2008-2009.
She is part of project teams, such as Digital Single Market, Energy Union, Better Regulation and Interinstitutional Affairs, Budget and Human Resources, and Jobs, Growth, Investment and Competitiveness.
As a member of the project teams, her responsibilities include launching ambitious proposals for the completion of a connected Digital Single Market, supporting the development of creative industries and of a successful European media and content industry, as well as other activities turning digital research into innovation success stories.
Dr Linda Papadopoulos
Chartered Counselling and Health Psychologist
Dr Linda Papadopoulos is one the most well-known and respected psychologists working in the UK, and internationally, today and her work has informed government policy.
Dr Linda is a Chartered Counselling and Health Psychologist and an Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society (BPS). She has worked in various treatment settings, both privately with her own practice and in the National Health Service. During her considerable years as a Chartered Psychologist, she has gained extensive experience in the counselling of individuals, couples and families, and also specialises in behavioural psychology, with a specialist interest in body image and Psychodermatology.
She was included in the Top 20 therapists in London by the Evening Standard newspaper and was awarded the Madame Figaro Women of the Year Award in 2008 in the field of academia.
Dr Linda has a prolific academic publication record and has published widely in peer-reviewed academic journals. Her latest book, Whose Life Is It Anyway?, offers valuable insight and advice on living through your 20s on your own terms. Dr Linda was also a contributing editor at Cosmopolitan magazine where she was a resident psychologist with a very popular monthly column for over a decade. She is a regular commentator on psychological issues in broadcast, radio and print media internationally, providing professional psychological commentary for numerous channels and networks including CNN, CBS, Discovery, CNBC, BBC International, VH1 and MTV, to name just a few.
Dr Linda can be heard on TalkRADIO where she co-hosts a show called Dan’s Dilemmas with Dr Linda, which includes celebrity interviews and discussion about the most pressing issues of the day. In addition, Dr Linda has recently launched her own podcast, The Psychology Behind, which explores the many sides of human psychology, looking at anxiety, grief, body confidence, attitudes in the workplace and everything in between. Dr Linda provides insight and actionable tips to help tackle these issues head on.
Speakers:
Professor Homero Gil de Zúñiga
University of Vienna
Homero Gil de Zúñiga has a Ph.D. in Politics from the Universidad Europea de Madrid and a Ph.D. in Mass Communication from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and was a former Associate Professor at University of Texas at Austin. He now holds the Medienwandel Professorship at the University of Vienna, where he directs the Media Innovation Lab (MiLab). Prior to joining Vienna, he participated in the summer doctoral programme at the Oxford Internet Institute at University of Oxford, and he was appointed Nieman Journalism Lab Research Fellow at Harvard University. Currently, Professor Gil de Zúñiga also serves as Research Fellow at the Universidad Diego Portales, and the Center for Information Technology Policy at Princeton University. His research addresses the influence of new technologies and digital media over people's daily lives, as well as the effect of such use on the overall democratic process. He has published several books, volumes, and produced over 200 journal articles, book chapters, and refereed conferences papers (for example, Journal of Communication, Communication Research, Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, Human Communication Research, New Media & Society, and so on). He has obtained grants and awards as principal investigator, co-principal investigator or executive committee member totalling more than $4 million.
Artist, designer, storyteller
Noa Jansma was born and raised in Amsterdam, and is currently studying at the Design Academy Eindhoven, within the "Man and Leisure" and "Man and Communication" department. Her projects are broadly themed and hard to label: an exploration, a fight, a dance between the inner-world and the outer-world. Strength, vulnerability and tactility are recurring inspirations; storytelling to provoke emotion and discussion. Confronting herself with the opposite of her understanding is a red thread throughout Noa's work. Noa's well-known project is about street harassment. Titled #dearcatcallers, at the heart of the project is an Instagram account whereby Noa took and uploaded selfies with each of her catcallers over the period of one month. In the resulting photo series, both the object (herself) and the objectifier (the catcaller) are assembled into one composition, causing a shifted power ratio while also raising awareness for the topic. The project received much international attention and discussion, while the Instagram account gained around 350,000 followers, tens of millions of views, multiple international exhibitions, and is being used in various teaching programmes. As a result of Noa's work, governments in multiple countries are now discussing how to treat street harassment more seriously.
Marjolijn Bonthuis
ECP | Platform for the Information Society
Marjolijn Bonthuis is Deputy Director at ECP. This foundation aims to stimulate the development of the Netherlands as an information society, through creating the necessary economic, social and political preconditions in order to capitalise on the opportunities of ICT, remove threats associated with ICT, and foster debate on the meaning of information technology for Dutch society. Aimed-for results include an improved general societal wellbeing, as well as the strengthening of the economic competitiveness of the Netherlands. The foundation’s primary instrument to reach these ends is through its status as an open, independent platform, where the following parties meet and exchange views in a pre-competitive setting: government administration; businesses (providers and end users of products and services; professional and trade associations) scientific, educational and research institutions; civil society; and politics. This platform enables stakeholders to initiate and conduct the necessary activities to realise the potential of the Netherlands as an information society. Marjolijn is responsible for programmes and projects in the field of Cyber Safety and Security, among which is the Dutch Awareness Centre (www.saferinternetcentre.nl). She is also one of the members of the Steering Committee of the Dutch Media Literacy Centre (www.mediawijzer.net) and Dutch delegation leader of the UN Netherlands Internet Governance Forum (NLIGF).
Barbara Buchegger
ÖIAT/Saferinternet.at/Austrian Safer Internet Centre (SIC), Austria
Barbara Buchegger is pedagogical project manager for the Awareness Centre of the Austrian Safer Internet Centre (SIC). She is responsible for Saferinternet.at’s services for the educational sector, from the development of learning resources to teacher training. She is an expert in online safety, media education, digital literacy and collaborative e-learning. She is an on- and offline facilitator and trainer for teachers in the fields of internet use and e-learning. In her work for Saferinternet.at, she mainly works with pupils, teachers, head teachers and parents because of her pedagogical expertise. She is an in-demand speaker on both a national and international level in this field. She is chairperson of the European expert group on digitalisation and youth (DG Education and Culture). Barbara is a graduated engineer from the University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences, Vienna and holds a Master of Education Degree from Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria.
Claire Bury
DG CONNECT European Commission, Belgium
Claire Bury is currently Deputy Director General in DG CONNECT with responsibility for regulatory aspects of the Digital Single Market. She is also a Visiting Professor at the College of Europe in Bruges. She was previously Director of Modernisation of the Single Market in Directorate General Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs. Before that, she was Head of Unit for Company Law, Corporate Governance and Financial Crime in Directorate General Internal Market and Services, and Deputy Head of Cabinet to Internal Market Commissioners Charlie McCreevy and Frits Bolkestein. An English barrister by training, she worked in the Commission’s Legal Service and, before coming to Brussels, in the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office.
Emma Collins
Instagram
With a mix of previous experience in the UK civil service, and heading up digital and technology policy and campaigns at the Confederation of British Industry in the UK and in Brussels, Emma Collins joined the Facebook public policy team in 2016, moving to work on Instagram public policy across Europe, the Middle East and Africa in late 2017. At Instagram, it is part of Emma’s job to make sure that the platform and its policies promote a safe and kind space for the Instagram community. Emma holds an LLB Hons degree in Law from Durham University, and an MSc in Public Policy and Politics from the University of London, Birkbeck. Originally from the North of England, Emma lives in South West London.
Will Gardner
Childnet International/UK Safer Internet Centre (SIC)
Will Gardner is the CEO of Childnet, a children’s charity working with others to help make the internet a great and safe place for children. Will has been at Childnet since 2000 and has been the CEO since 2009. He is a Director of the UK Safer Internet Centre (SIC), in which Childnet is a partner alongside two other charities - the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) and the South West Grid for Learning (SWGfL) and, in this role, Childnet organises Safer Internet Day (SID) in the UK. He is a member of the Executive Board of the UK Council for Child Internet Safety (UKCCIS) and is also on Facebook’s Safety Advisory Board. Will lives in London with his wife and their five children.
Gail Kent
DG CONNECT European Commission, Luxembourg
Gail Kent is one of the most senior British officials in the European Commission in Luxembourg. She is Director of Data in one of the largest DGs and was also throughout 2016 the acting Deputy DG. Her current responsibilities include both policy and programme management in the fields of Data Economy, promoting cultural heritage and removing digital barriers. She has more than 20 years of high level experience of managing large budgets, finance, compliance and HR in a multi-lingual, multicultural highly political environment. Comfortable with senior levels in government, public sector and NGOs she has sound judgment, budgetary acumen and good political skills. Outside of her main job, she has presided a staff Committee with members from several EU institutions looking at childcare provision for staff’s children. She also has presided several recruitment competitions and oversees middle management post procedures in other DGs.
Fred Langford
Internet Watch Foundation (IWF), United Kingdom
Fred Langford is an experienced President, Chartered Director and Senior Executive with a demonstrated history of working in the information technology field, particularly internet, governance, digital, information/cyber security and self-regulation. He is skilled in government, management, networking, leadership and security. Fred is a strong business development professional who also possesses a formal CISSP (Certified Information Systems Security Professional) qualification.
Chris Pinchen
The Privacy Agency
Chris is the founder of The Privacy Agency, where he provides specialist, made-to-measure consultancy and training around the topics of technology and privacy to organisations, companies, groups and individuals. His work is highly focused on surveillance, censorship and privacy issues, as well as digital literacy, making the complex accessible to reach as wide an audience as possible.
Boris Radanović
South West Grid for Learning (SWGfL)/UK Safer Internet Centre (SIC)
Boris is the Online Safety Officer for the UK Safer Internet Centre (SIC) working at the South West Grid for Learning (SWGfL). The UK Safer Internet Centre is the national awareness centre and isa member of the European Insafe network under the European Commission’s Safer Internet Programme. Prior to that, for the last three years, since its creation, Boris worked as the Awareness Coordinator for the Croatian Safer Internet Centre where he conducted more than 100 presentations and educational interventions about online safety to children, parents, teachers, police officers, social care workers and companies in Croatia. As an expert speaker in the field of online safety, he has been working with the European Commission's TAIEX (Technical Assistance and Information Exchange) instrument on four expert missions to Belarus, Montenegro, Macedonia and Serbia to present the topic of online safety to government officials, NGO’s and stakeholders. He has also as presented as a keynote and guest speaker at European conferences on the topics of new and emerging trends and applications being used by children and youth online. For the last ten years, Boris has been working in the field of social media marketing, online advertising as well as maintaining the online and media presence for companies and NGOs that he has worked with. Boris has led and contributed to the creation of awareness tools, resources and materials, as well as created innovative campaigns for the Croatian SIC on the topic of online safety and safeguarding of children online.
Geert Reynders
Foundation T.I.M.
Geert Reynders is the father of Tim and chairman of the Foundation T.I.M. (Tegen Internet Misstanden – Against Internet Abuses). In May 2017, 16-year-old Tim died due to a choking game that went terribly wrong. Since that time, Tim’s parents, Geert and Anita, and sister Anna, have taken up the mission of informing and warning parents, children and professionals about these dangerous online challenges. Their story has received broad attention from national newspapers, radio and TV: a clear signal that there is a big need for this type of information. They have also gathered together a group of experts for developing structural tools and raising awareness among relevant groups of people. Activities are currently focused on the Netherlands, but the Foundation is striving for better international cooperation in sharing knowledge and best practices.
Marietje Schaake
MEP
Marietje Schaake has been serving as Member of European Parliament for D66/ALDE political group since 2009. She is Coordinator on the International Trade committee, where she is the ALDE spokesperson on transatlantic trade and digital trade. Schaake also serves on the committee on Foreign Affairs and the subcommittee on Human Rights. She is the Vice-President of the US Delegation and serves on the Iran Delegation and the Delegation for the Arab peninsula. Furthermore, Schaake is the founder of the European Parliament Intergroup on the Digital Agenda for Europe. In 2017, she was Chief of the European Union Election Observation Mission in Kenya. Since 2014, Schaake has been a “Young Global Leader” with the World Economic Forum and she was recently appointed as co-chair of the WEF Global Future Council on Agile Governance. Schaake is a Member of the Transatlantic Commission on Election Integrity, the Global Commission on the Stability of Cyberspace and chair of the CEPS Taskforce on Software Vulnerability Disclosure in Europe. Furthermore, she is a member of the European Council on Foreign Relations and an advisor to the Center for Human Technology. Schaake was featured by Politico as one of the 28 most influential Europeans in the “Class of 2017”.
Peter-Paul Urlaub
eco - Association of the Internet Industry, Germany
Peter-Paul Urlaub studied law in Cologne with a focus on European and International Law. In 2013, he joined eco part-time as an internet content analyst while working on his legal clerkship. After successfully clearing the bar exam in 2015, Peter-Paul became a full-time employee at eco's hotline. He is responsible for ISP (internet service provider) relations at eco's hotline, improving notice and takedown, and attending competence groups with the ISPs. Additionally Peter-Paul coaches new content analysts at eco's hotline. Besides handling reports, his responsibilities at eco include INHOPE-related tasks. He has been active with INHOPE activities since 2015 and chairs the Data, Stats and Technology Task Group. Peter-Paul started a Master's programme in April 2018 with the goal of achieving a Master of Law in the field of information law.
