| Date | Time | Session | Theme | Session type | Confirmed speakers |
| Tue 15th September | 10:00 – 10:40 | Protecting digital rights during a pandemic | Trust | Opening remarks and Keynote | Russell Haworth, Nominet Lilian Edwards, Newcastle University – speaker slides |
| 11:00 – 12:30 | Building trust in digital identity | Trust | Panel | Dr Edgar Whitley, LSE Carole Bayle, Thales Bryn Robinson-Morgan Vice President of Product Management, Digital Identity, Mastercard Julie Dawson, Director of Regulatory & Policy – Yoti Sue Daley, Tech and Innovation Lead at Tech UK Dr Michael Veale, UCL Faculty of Laws |
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| 14:00 – 14:30 | Inclusion in multi-stakeholder internet governance: breaking through the buzzwords | Inclusion | Keynote | Anriette Esterhuysen, UN MAG | |
| 15:30 – 17:00 | Digital equality | Inclusion | Panel | Helen Milner, The Good Things Foundation Rich Denyer-Bewick, Citizens Online Ellen Helsper, LSE Suzanne Westlake, Ocado Atif Choudhury, Chief Executive of Diversity and Ability |
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| Wed 16th September | 10:00 – 10:30 | UK digital strategy | Data | Keynote | Caroline Dinenage MP, DCMS |
| 11:00 – 12:30 | Examining algorithmic transparency and how to achieve it | Data | Panel | Carly Kind, Ada Lovelace Institute Natalia Domagala, Head of Data Ethics at the Cabinet Office Dr Brent Mittelstadt, Alan Turing Institute Ashley Casovan, AI Global Milly Zimeta, Head of Public Policy at the Open Data Institute |
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| 14:00 – 14:30 | Environment keynote | Environment | Keynote | Myles Allen, Professor of Geosystem Science and Head of the Climate Dynamics Group, University of Oxford – speaker slides | |
| 15:00 – 16:30 | The Internet and environment | Environment | Panel | David Souter (chair), ICT Development Associates Michelle Thorne, Mozilla Foundation Daniel Zeichner MP, Climate Change APPG Ugo Vallauri, Restart Project |
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| 17:00 – 18:00 | Networking session | ||||
| Thur 17th September | 10:00 – 10:30 | An address on the current state of the Internet | Keynote | Yih-Choung Teh, Group Director, Strategy and Research, Ofcom | |
| 11:00 – 12:30 | The role of the Internet in mitigating the economic impact of Covid-19 and fuelling the recovery in the UK | Panel | Gus Hosein, Privacy International Kulveer Ranger, Global Head Strategy & Communications, Financial Services & Insurance, Atos Ellen Judson, Demos Chi Onwurah MP, Shadow Digital Minister |
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| 14:00 – 14:30 | UK IGF 2020 wrap-up | Sheetal Kumar Ben Bradley Olivier Crepin-Leblond |
Session overviews
Building trust in digital identity
This panel will look at how to best ensure consumer trust in the use of digital identities, using the NHSX’s Covid-tracing app as an indicative case study.
Digital equality
During COVID-19, digital inequalities have been further exposed as many have been forced to work, teach, and learn from home without effective, affordable internet access and digital skills.
Whilst measures can be introduced to further include citizens, we know that these do not always increase equality. So, what’s the relationship between the two and how can we ensure people from all groups and backgrounds benefit fully from the opportunities of the Internet?
Examining algorithmic transparency and how to achieve it
This panel will consider the key challenges for policymakers surrounding AI, including the need for better algorithmic transparency and how to update the UK’s data ethics framework.
The Internet and the environment
Digital technologies are one of the fastest growing sources of energy consumption and carbon emissions, with new IoT and digital devices accelerating this contribution. This panel will address the Internet’s role as a polluter as well its duty to mitigate the adverse environmental impacts of digitalization as a central component of responsible digital innovation.
The role of the internet in mitigating the economic impact of Covid-19 and fueling the recovery in the UK
COVID-19 has and continues to have a huge impact on the nation’s work and life, as well as the Internet, its utilization and governance. Beyond this, we now face the challenge of unprecedented scale to kick-start the economy and ensure its multiple cogs and wheels are working.
This panel will address the ongoing role of the Internet in post-Covid recovery, with a focus on the economy. Will the new system reflect the old system? Which parts will remain, and which will be discarded? How are firms shaping as well as adapting to the post-Covid world? And what does this mean for trade in the post-Brexit landscape?
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