UK IGF 2024 Highlights

Welcome and Opening

Paul Fletcher CEO, Nominet 

Keynote Address

The Rt Hon Baroness Jones – Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Future Digital Economy and Online Safety 

How can we foster digital inclusion in the UK?

• Helen Milner OBE, Group Chief Executive of Good Things Foundation

• Dr Ellen Helsper, Professor of Socio-Digital Inequalities, London School of Economics (LSE)

• Lord Clement-Jones, House of Lords Liberal Democrat Spokesperson for Science, Innovation & Technology

• Professor Lizzie Coles-Kemp, Head of Department Information Security at The Royal Holloway University of London

How can we achieve effective multi-stakeholder cooperation on digital governance?

• Chris Mondini, Managing Director for Europe at ICANN 

• Areeq Chowdhury, Head of Digital Policy at The Royal Society

• Izaan Khan, Board Member, Internet Society Youth Standing Group

• Lea Kaspar, Executive Director at Global Partners Digital

The governance and regulation of Al

• Katherine Yesilirmak, Deputy Director of Strategy in the Responsible Tech Adoption Unit

• Anna Lindsay, Partnerships Lead at VoiceBox

• Jakob Mökander, Head of Science and Technology Policy at The Tony Blair Institute 

• Tommy Shaffer Shane, AI Policy Manager, at The Centre for Long-Term Resilience

What is the impact of misinformation and disinformation on democracy and what can we do to prevent it?

• James Ball, Journalist, Broadcaster & Author 

• Henry Parker, Vice President of Corporate Affairs at Logically

• Chris Morris, Chief Executive at Full Fact

• Hannah Perry, Head of Research (Digital Policy) at Demos

20 years on from WSIS – where should we go next?

• David Souter, Independent Expert on Digital Society 

• Georgia Osborn, Senior Research Analyst at Oxford Information Labs

• Laura O’Brien, Senior International Counsel at Access Now

• Pari Esfandiari, President and Co-Founder of Global TechnoPolitics Forum

Keynote Address

Yih-Choung Teh, Group Director for Strategy and Research at Ofcom

Closing Remarks

• Bobbie Dennis, Policy & Public Affairs Officer at IWF 

• Archie Breare, Public Affairs Manager at techUK