Find out more and view the highlights from 2022 UK IGF event.
| Timings | Session title | Session overview | Confirmed speakers |
| 09:00 – 09:30 | Welcome and Opening of UK IGF | Nick Wenban-Smith, General Counsel & Head of Stakeholder Relations, Nominet | |
| 09:30 – 10:15 | Ministerial Address | Lucy Powell, Shadow DCMS Secretary of State & Labour MP for Manchester Central | |
| 10:20 – 11:20 | Online Safety | As a new Government inherits the pivotal Online Safety Bill, this panel has been designed to think about its future, and what changes it may undergo in the coming months as the Prime Minister begins to carve out her own regulatory landscape. Panellists will also discuss the impact that the Bill will have on the industry, and what the response may look like. | Damian Collins MP Sharon Gaffka, Love Island Season 7 contestant & online harms campaigner Jon Higham, Online Safety Policy Director, Ofcom Parven Kaur, Founder of Kids N Clicks |
| 11:20 – 11:35 | Break | ||
| 11:35 – 12:35 | Digital Inequalities: The barriers facing young and old | This panel aims to bring experts from all generations together to host an open discussion about digital inclusion, inequality and their individual experiences of the online world. The Digital Youth Index will also be used to steer discussions on the reality of the online world for young people, with panellists aiming to unpack its findings. | Jess Barrett, Voicebox representative Professor Lizzie Coles-Kemp, Department of Information Security at Royal Holloway University of London Sonia Livingstone, Lead Consultant for General Comment 25 on the UN Convention of Rights of the Child Cliff Manning, Research and Development Director at Parent Zone – Member of Digital Youth Index Advisory Board Sally West, Policy Manager at Age UK |
| 12:35 – 13:20 | Lunch | ||
| 13:20 – 13:50 | Keynote Speech | Yih-Choung will present the results of Ofcom’s 2022 “Online Nation” report in his speech and then discuss the findings as well as any of the themes of this year’s UK IGF, including online harms, and digital inequality, encryption, transparency and AI, and avoiding internet fragmentation. | Yih-Choung Teh, Group Director for Strategy and Research, Ofcom |
| 13:55 – 14:55 | Encryption | This workshop-style panel will explain and demonstrate encryption to the public. It will include a deep dive into how the technologies work and participants will be shown how to secure their digital environment, what to expect when submitting information securely to third parties, and what strong encryption means. This will be followed by a debate between panellists on the merits and risks of encryption. | Stephen Bonner, Executive Director of Regulatory Futures at the Information Commissioner’s Office Alec Muffett, Led the team that added end-to-end encyption to Facebook Messenger Dan Sexton, Chief Technology Officer at the Internet Watch Foundation |
| 14:55 – 15:10 | Break | ||
| 15:10 – 16:10 | Transparency and AI | This panel will discuss how to ensure that the datasets collected by governments, advertisers, and businesses through AI and Machine Learning are transparent to the users whose data they have collected as well as how inaccurate data can lead to biased decision-making, and the impact this can have on trust. | Bridget Boakye, Tony Blair Institute AI lead Dr Rumman Chowdhury, Director of Machine Learning, Ethics, Transparency and Accountability at Twitter Dr Evert Haasdljk, Artificial Intelligence Expert & Senior Forensic Manager at Deloittee Stephen Metcalfe MP, Conservative MP for South Basildon and Chair of the APPG on AI, Chair of Science and Technology Select Committee Mariarosaria Taddeo, Oxford Internet Institute, Fellow of the Alan Turing Institute |
| 16:15 – 17:15 | Avoiding Internet Fragmentation | A number of recent Government proposals have departed from the ‘one internet’ framework, raising questions about how committed the UK is to the multistakeholder model of internet governance. This panel will discuss these attempts to fragment the internet, as well as what can be done about it, and what role the UK internet governance community can play in promoting a united approach. | Marjorie Buchser, Executive Director at the Digital Society Initiative Akos Erzse, Tony Blair Institute Margot James, Executive Chair of WMG at the University of Warwick and former Digital Minister Scott Malcomson, Author of ‘Splinternet: How Geopolitics and Commerce are Fragmenting the World Wide Web’ Emily Taylor, Associate Fellow at the International Security Programme at Chatham House |
| 17:15 – 17:30 | Sum up and wrap up |