Public Event

In Person

All Tech is Human's Responsible Tech Mixer + Task Force for a Trustworthy Future Web

Jun

26

Join 200 people in NYC for a Responsible Tech Mixer, panel conversation around creating better online environments, and report release party for DFRLab's Task Force for a Trustworthy Future Web! The Task Force for a Trustworthy Future Web is charting a clear and action-oriented roadmap for future online ecosystems to protect users’ rights, support innovation, and center trust and safety principles.

This is part of All Tech Is Human's popular monthly Responsible Tech Mixer + Interview Series that draws a diverse range of backgrounds across civil society, government, industry, and academia who are committed to tackling wicked tech & society issues and co-creating a tech future aligned with the public interest.

"The Atlantic Council’s Democracy + Tech Initiative at the Digital Forensic Research Lab (DFRLab) has launched a multi-sector Task Force for a Trustworthy Future Web specifically to support such collaboration in 2023 and beyond. Designed to lay the groundwork for stronger cross-sectoral ideation and action in the years to come, the Task Force will set a clear and action-oriented agenda for future online ecosystems that can protect users’ rights, support innovation, and incorporate trust and safety principles."

All Tech Is Human is a non-profit committed to uniting people and organizations to tackle wicked tech & society issues and co-create a tech future aligned with the public interest.Find all of our projects and links here, and read about our mission and accomplishments here.

when

Monday
June 26, 2023
6:00 pm

LoCATION

Betaworks • 29 Little West 12th Street, New York, NY 10014

agenda

Speakers

Yoel Roth

Tech Policy Fellow
Technology Policy Fellow University of California, Berkeley, Goldman School of Public Policy
Biography

Yoel Roth is currently a Technology Policy Fellow at UC Berkeley, and a Nonresident Scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Roth's research is focused on how to address collective security challenges on distributed and decentralized social media platforms. He's also working on a book project about the field of trust and safety, and how technology companies navigate complex policy and governance challenges.

At Twitter, Roth was the Head of Trust & Safety, leading Twitter’s content moderation, integrity, and platform security efforts — including policy development, threat investigation, product, design, research, and operations.

Before joining Twitter, Roth received his PhD from the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania. Roth's research and teaching examined the technical, policy, business, and cultural dynamics of social networking and dating apps at the dawn of the “App Store” age.

Maya Wiley

President and CEO
The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights
Biography

Maya Wiley is a nationally respected civil rights attorney and activist who has dedicated her life to the fights for justice, equality, and fairness.

Wiley’s father was a leader in the civil rights and economic justice movements, and she has been a leader inside and outside government. Serving as the first Black woman counsel to the mayor of New York City, she helped deliver on civil and immigrant rights. During her tenure, the city also saw an expansion of minority/women-owned business enterprises contracts. Following her time at City Hall, Wiley moved to academia as a faculty member and senior vice president for social justice at the New School University. While there, she chaired the New York City Civilian Complaint Review Board (CCRB). As chair, she led the release of the “hold” on proceedings against Daniel Pantaleo whose illegal chokehold killed Eric Garner. That move led to the CCRB’s successful administrative prosecution of Pantaleo that resulted in his firing. Wiley’s tenure at the CCRB was marked by increased case closure rates, increased transparency, and an intense focus on public outreach so that potential victims of police abuse were aware of ways to seek the board’s assistance. In 2021, Wiley was a candidate for New York City mayor.

As a Henry Cohen professor of public and urban policy at the New School, Wiley founded the Digital Equity Laboratory on universal and inclusive broadband. She also served as a legal analyst for NBC News and MSNBC.

Early in her career, Wiley worked at the ACLU and the NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Inc., where she focused on multiple racial justice issues. She also worked in the Civil Division of the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York. Following the September 11 attacks, Wiley co-founded the nonprofit Center for Social Inclusion, an organization that focused on transforming structural racism into fair opportunity at the intersection of race and poverty as it relates to education, the digital divide, land use planning, the green economy, and more. Wiley was also a senior advisor on race and poverty at the Open Society Foundations.

Wiley earned her B.A. from Dartmouth College and her J.D. from Columbia Law School. She lives in Brooklyn with her partner, Harlan, and their two daughters and cats.

Mike Masnick

CEO and Founder
Floor64
Biography

Mike is the visionary behind Floor64, building up the core idea into reality and recruiting the management team. In addition to providing the strategic direction for the company, Mike oversees all editorial aspects of the Floor64’s public and customer sites. Mike’s insight into the realms of business and technology are the basis for his frequent posts to the award winning Techdirt blog. The widely followed, often quoted blog was launched in 1997. Prior to founding Floor64 Inc., Mike worked in business development and marketing at Release Software, an e-commerce startup, and in marketing at Intel. Mike has a bachelor’s degree in Industrial and Labor Relations and an MBA -- both from Cornell University.

Kat Duffy

Director
Task Force for a Trustworthy Future Web
Biography

Kat Duffy is a visiting senior fellow at the Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensic Research Lab the Director of the Task Force for a Trustworthy Future Web.  She advises companies, governments, and international nongovernmental organizations on building socially responsible business practices within the technology sector, developing strategies to align emerging technologies with democratic norms and human rights, and implementing best practices for civil-society engagement in the tech and human-rights space.

Through her previous work at the US State Department and in the nonprofit sector, Duffy has overseen the implementation of more than a hundred million dollars in foreign assistance and philanthropic programming designed to support democracy, rights, and governance initiatives across the globe, with a particular focus on digital rights, digital safety, civic tech, and tech platform social accountability. She served for five years on the board of directors of the Global Network Initiative, where she helped drive the expansion and diversification of nongovernmental organization constituency participants, and also served as an expert advisor for the World Economic Forum’s Partnering with Civil Society in the Fourth Industrial Revolution Initiative. Duffy received her BA from Yale University and her JD from the University of Michigan, and has lived and worked in Spain, South Africa, Colombia, Cuba, and Tunisia.  

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In Person
Public Event

All Tech is Human's Responsible Tech Mixer + Task Force for a Trustworthy Future Web

June 26, 2023
6:00 pm

Postponed: New Date TBA

RSVP

About

Join 200 people in NYC for a Responsible Tech Mixer, panel conversation around creating better online environments, and report release party for DFRLab's Task Force for a Trustworthy Future Web! The Task Force for a Trustworthy Future Web is charting a clear and action-oriented roadmap for future online ecosystems to protect users’ rights, support innovation, and center trust and safety principles.

This is part of All Tech Is Human's popular monthly Responsible Tech Mixer + Interview Series that draws a diverse range of backgrounds across civil society, government, industry, and academia who are committed to tackling wicked tech & society issues and co-creating a tech future aligned with the public interest.

"The Atlantic Council’s Democracy + Tech Initiative at the Digital Forensic Research Lab (DFRLab) has launched a multi-sector Task Force for a Trustworthy Future Web specifically to support such collaboration in 2023 and beyond. Designed to lay the groundwork for stronger cross-sectoral ideation and action in the years to come, the Task Force will set a clear and action-oriented agenda for future online ecosystems that can protect users’ rights, support innovation, and incorporate trust and safety principles."

All Tech Is Human is a non-profit committed to uniting people and organizations to tackle wicked tech & society issues and co-create a tech future aligned with the public interest.Find all of our projects and links here, and read about our mission and accomplishments here.

When

June 26, 2023
6:00 pm

Where

Betaworks • 29 Little West 12th Street, New York, NY 10014
RSVP

Agenda

Speakers

Yoel Roth

Tech Policy Fellow
Technology Policy Fellow University of California, Berkeley, Goldman School of Public Policy
Biography

Yoel Roth is currently a Technology Policy Fellow at UC Berkeley, and a Nonresident Scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Roth's research is focused on how to address collective security challenges on distributed and decentralized social media platforms. He's also working on a book project about the field of trust and safety, and how technology companies navigate complex policy and governance challenges.

At Twitter, Roth was the Head of Trust & Safety, leading Twitter’s content moderation, integrity, and platform security efforts — including policy development, threat investigation, product, design, research, and operations.

Before joining Twitter, Roth received his PhD from the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania. Roth's research and teaching examined the technical, policy, business, and cultural dynamics of social networking and dating apps at the dawn of the “App Store” age.

Maya Wiley

President and CEO
The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights
Biography

Maya Wiley is a nationally respected civil rights attorney and activist who has dedicated her life to the fights for justice, equality, and fairness.

Wiley’s father was a leader in the civil rights and economic justice movements, and she has been a leader inside and outside government. Serving as the first Black woman counsel to the mayor of New York City, she helped deliver on civil and immigrant rights. During her tenure, the city also saw an expansion of minority/women-owned business enterprises contracts. Following her time at City Hall, Wiley moved to academia as a faculty member and senior vice president for social justice at the New School University. While there, she chaired the New York City Civilian Complaint Review Board (CCRB). As chair, she led the release of the “hold” on proceedings against Daniel Pantaleo whose illegal chokehold killed Eric Garner. That move led to the CCRB’s successful administrative prosecution of Pantaleo that resulted in his firing. Wiley’s tenure at the CCRB was marked by increased case closure rates, increased transparency, and an intense focus on public outreach so that potential victims of police abuse were aware of ways to seek the board’s assistance. In 2021, Wiley was a candidate for New York City mayor.

As a Henry Cohen professor of public and urban policy at the New School, Wiley founded the Digital Equity Laboratory on universal and inclusive broadband. She also served as a legal analyst for NBC News and MSNBC.

Early in her career, Wiley worked at the ACLU and the NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Inc., where she focused on multiple racial justice issues. She also worked in the Civil Division of the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York. Following the September 11 attacks, Wiley co-founded the nonprofit Center for Social Inclusion, an organization that focused on transforming structural racism into fair opportunity at the intersection of race and poverty as it relates to education, the digital divide, land use planning, the green economy, and more. Wiley was also a senior advisor on race and poverty at the Open Society Foundations.

Wiley earned her B.A. from Dartmouth College and her J.D. from Columbia Law School. She lives in Brooklyn with her partner, Harlan, and their two daughters and cats.

Mike Masnick

CEO and Founder
Floor64
Biography

Mike is the visionary behind Floor64, building up the core idea into reality and recruiting the management team. In addition to providing the strategic direction for the company, Mike oversees all editorial aspects of the Floor64’s public and customer sites. Mike’s insight into the realms of business and technology are the basis for his frequent posts to the award winning Techdirt blog. The widely followed, often quoted blog was launched in 1997. Prior to founding Floor64 Inc., Mike worked in business development and marketing at Release Software, an e-commerce startup, and in marketing at Intel. Mike has a bachelor’s degree in Industrial and Labor Relations and an MBA -- both from Cornell University.

Kat Duffy

Director
Task Force for a Trustworthy Future Web
Biography

Kat Duffy is a visiting senior fellow at the Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensic Research Lab the Director of the Task Force for a Trustworthy Future Web.  She advises companies, governments, and international nongovernmental organizations on building socially responsible business practices within the technology sector, developing strategies to align emerging technologies with democratic norms and human rights, and implementing best practices for civil-society engagement in the tech and human-rights space.

Through her previous work at the US State Department and in the nonprofit sector, Duffy has overseen the implementation of more than a hundred million dollars in foreign assistance and philanthropic programming designed to support democracy, rights, and governance initiatives across the globe, with a particular focus on digital rights, digital safety, civic tech, and tech platform social accountability. She served for five years on the board of directors of the Global Network Initiative, where she helped drive the expansion and diversification of nongovernmental organization constituency participants, and also served as an expert advisor for the World Economic Forum’s Partnering with Civil Society in the Fourth Industrial Revolution Initiative. Duffy received her BA from Yale University and her JD from the University of Michigan, and has lived and worked in Spain, South Africa, Colombia, Cuba, and Tunisia.  

Sponsors

Proof of Full Vaccination Required

Betaworks requires all visitors to show proof of full vaccination to enter. No exceptions. Two ways that you can show proof:
  • Official vaccine card with at least 2 weeks having passed since the date of the last required dose (1 dose for J&J/AstraZeneca, 2 for Pfizer/Moderna)
  • An active digital pass such as the NY State Excelsior Pass or the CLEAR app
In Person
Public Event

All Tech is Human's Responsible Tech Mixer + Task Force for a Trustworthy Future Web

When

POSTPONED: New Date TBA
June 26, 2023
6:00 pm

Where

Betaworks • 29 Little West 12th Street, New York, NY 10014
RSVP

Sold Out

Postponed: New Date TBA

Event Details

Join 200 people in NYC for a Responsible Tech Mixer, panel conversation around creating better online environments, and report release party for DFRLab's Task Force for a Trustworthy Future Web! The Task Force for a Trustworthy Future Web is charting a clear and action-oriented roadmap for future online ecosystems to protect users’ rights, support innovation, and center trust and safety principles.

This is part of All Tech Is Human's popular monthly Responsible Tech Mixer + Interview Series that draws a diverse range of backgrounds across civil society, government, industry, and academia who are committed to tackling wicked tech & society issues and co-creating a tech future aligned with the public interest.

"The Atlantic Council’s Democracy + Tech Initiative at the Digital Forensic Research Lab (DFRLab) has launched a multi-sector Task Force for a Trustworthy Future Web specifically to support such collaboration in 2023 and beyond. Designed to lay the groundwork for stronger cross-sectoral ideation and action in the years to come, the Task Force will set a clear and action-oriented agenda for future online ecosystems that can protect users’ rights, support innovation, and incorporate trust and safety principles."

All Tech Is Human is a non-profit committed to uniting people and organizations to tackle wicked tech & society issues and co-create a tech future aligned with the public interest.Find all of our projects and links here, and read about our mission and accomplishments here.

Agenda

Speakers

Yoel

Roth

Tech Policy Fellow
Technology Policy Fellow University of California, Berkeley, Goldman School of Public Policy

Yoel Roth is currently a Technology Policy Fellow at UC Berkeley, and a Nonresident Scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Roth's research is focused on how to address collective security challenges on distributed and decentralized social media platforms. He's also working on a book project about the field of trust and safety, and how technology companies navigate complex policy and governance challenges.

At Twitter, Roth was the Head of Trust & Safety, leading Twitter’s content moderation, integrity, and platform security efforts — including policy development, threat investigation, product, design, research, and operations.

Before joining Twitter, Roth received his PhD from the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania. Roth's research and teaching examined the technical, policy, business, and cultural dynamics of social networking and dating apps at the dawn of the “App Store” age.

Maya

Wiley

President and CEO
The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights

Maya Wiley is a nationally respected civil rights attorney and activist who has dedicated her life to the fights for justice, equality, and fairness.

Wiley’s father was a leader in the civil rights and economic justice movements, and she has been a leader inside and outside government. Serving as the first Black woman counsel to the mayor of New York City, she helped deliver on civil and immigrant rights. During her tenure, the city also saw an expansion of minority/women-owned business enterprises contracts. Following her time at City Hall, Wiley moved to academia as a faculty member and senior vice president for social justice at the New School University. While there, she chaired the New York City Civilian Complaint Review Board (CCRB). As chair, she led the release of the “hold” on proceedings against Daniel Pantaleo whose illegal chokehold killed Eric Garner. That move led to the CCRB’s successful administrative prosecution of Pantaleo that resulted in his firing. Wiley’s tenure at the CCRB was marked by increased case closure rates, increased transparency, and an intense focus on public outreach so that potential victims of police abuse were aware of ways to seek the board’s assistance. In 2021, Wiley was a candidate for New York City mayor.

As a Henry Cohen professor of public and urban policy at the New School, Wiley founded the Digital Equity Laboratory on universal and inclusive broadband. She also served as a legal analyst for NBC News and MSNBC.

Early in her career, Wiley worked at the ACLU and the NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Inc., where she focused on multiple racial justice issues. She also worked in the Civil Division of the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York. Following the September 11 attacks, Wiley co-founded the nonprofit Center for Social Inclusion, an organization that focused on transforming structural racism into fair opportunity at the intersection of race and poverty as it relates to education, the digital divide, land use planning, the green economy, and more. Wiley was also a senior advisor on race and poverty at the Open Society Foundations.

Wiley earned her B.A. from Dartmouth College and her J.D. from Columbia Law School. She lives in Brooklyn with her partner, Harlan, and their two daughters and cats.

Mike

Masnick

CEO and Founder
Floor64

Mike is the visionary behind Floor64, building up the core idea into reality and recruiting the management team. In addition to providing the strategic direction for the company, Mike oversees all editorial aspects of the Floor64’s public and customer sites. Mike’s insight into the realms of business and technology are the basis for his frequent posts to the award winning Techdirt blog. The widely followed, often quoted blog was launched in 1997. Prior to founding Floor64 Inc., Mike worked in business development and marketing at Release Software, an e-commerce startup, and in marketing at Intel. Mike has a bachelor’s degree in Industrial and Labor Relations and an MBA -- both from Cornell University.

Kat

Duffy

Director
Task Force for a Trustworthy Future Web

Kat Duffy is a visiting senior fellow at the Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensic Research Lab the Director of the Task Force for a Trustworthy Future Web.  She advises companies, governments, and international nongovernmental organizations on building socially responsible business practices within the technology sector, developing strategies to align emerging technologies with democratic norms and human rights, and implementing best practices for civil-society engagement in the tech and human-rights space.

Through her previous work at the US State Department and in the nonprofit sector, Duffy has overseen the implementation of more than a hundred million dollars in foreign assistance and philanthropic programming designed to support democracy, rights, and governance initiatives across the globe, with a particular focus on digital rights, digital safety, civic tech, and tech platform social accountability. She served for five years on the board of directors of the Global Network Initiative, where she helped drive the expansion and diversification of nongovernmental organization constituency participants, and also served as an expert advisor for the World Economic Forum’s Partnering with Civil Society in the Fourth Industrial Revolution Initiative. Duffy received her BA from Yale University and her JD from the University of Michigan, and has lived and worked in Spain, South Africa, Colombia, Cuba, and Tunisia.  

Sponsors

Proof of Full Vaccination Required

Betaworks requires all visitors to show proof of full vaccination to enter. No exceptions. Two ways that you can show proof:
  • Official vaccine card with at least 2 weeks having passed since the date of the last required dose (1 dose for J&J/AstraZeneca, 2 for Pfizer/Moderna)
  • An active digital pass such as the NY State Excelsior Pass or the CLEAR app

6/26/2023

Betaworks

All Tech is Human's Responsible Tech Mixer + Task Force for a Trustworthy Future Web

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Join 200 people in NYC for a Responsible Tech Mixer, panel conversation around creating better online environments, and report release party for DFRLab's Task Force for a Trustworthy Future Web! The Task Force for a Trustworthy Future Web is charting a clear and action-oriented roadmap for future online ecosystems to protect users’ rights, support innovation, and center trust and safety principles.

This is part of All Tech Is Human's popular monthly Responsible Tech Mixer + Interview Series that draws a diverse range of backgrounds across civil society, government, industry, and academia who are committed to tackling wicked tech & society issues and co-creating a tech future aligned with the public interest.

"The Atlantic Council’s Democracy + Tech Initiative at the Digital Forensic Research Lab (DFRLab) has launched a multi-sector Task Force for a Trustworthy Future Web specifically to support such collaboration in 2023 and beyond. Designed to lay the groundwork for stronger cross-sectoral ideation and action in the years to come, the Task Force will set a clear and action-oriented agenda for future online ecosystems that can protect users’ rights, support innovation, and incorporate trust and safety principles."

All Tech Is Human is a non-profit committed to uniting people and organizations to tackle wicked tech & society issues and co-create a tech future aligned with the public interest.Find all of our projects and links here, and read about our mission and accomplishments here.

speakers

Yoel Roth

Tech Policy Fellow
Technology Policy Fellow University of California, Berkeley, Goldman School of Public Policy
Biography

Yoel Roth is currently a Technology Policy Fellow at UC Berkeley, and a Nonresident Scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Roth's research is focused on how to address collective security challenges on distributed and decentralized social media platforms. He's also working on a book project about the field of trust and safety, and how technology companies navigate complex policy and governance challenges.

At Twitter, Roth was the Head of Trust & Safety, leading Twitter’s content moderation, integrity, and platform security efforts — including policy development, threat investigation, product, design, research, and operations.

Before joining Twitter, Roth received his PhD from the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania. Roth's research and teaching examined the technical, policy, business, and cultural dynamics of social networking and dating apps at the dawn of the “App Store” age.

Maya Wiley

President and CEO
The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights
Biography

Maya Wiley is a nationally respected civil rights attorney and activist who has dedicated her life to the fights for justice, equality, and fairness.

Wiley’s father was a leader in the civil rights and economic justice movements, and she has been a leader inside and outside government. Serving as the first Black woman counsel to the mayor of New York City, she helped deliver on civil and immigrant rights. During her tenure, the city also saw an expansion of minority/women-owned business enterprises contracts. Following her time at City Hall, Wiley moved to academia as a faculty member and senior vice president for social justice at the New School University. While there, she chaired the New York City Civilian Complaint Review Board (CCRB). As chair, she led the release of the “hold” on proceedings against Daniel Pantaleo whose illegal chokehold killed Eric Garner. That move led to the CCRB’s successful administrative prosecution of Pantaleo that resulted in his firing. Wiley’s tenure at the CCRB was marked by increased case closure rates, increased transparency, and an intense focus on public outreach so that potential victims of police abuse were aware of ways to seek the board’s assistance. In 2021, Wiley was a candidate for New York City mayor.

As a Henry Cohen professor of public and urban policy at the New School, Wiley founded the Digital Equity Laboratory on universal and inclusive broadband. She also served as a legal analyst for NBC News and MSNBC.

Early in her career, Wiley worked at the ACLU and the NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Inc., where she focused on multiple racial justice issues. She also worked in the Civil Division of the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York. Following the September 11 attacks, Wiley co-founded the nonprofit Center for Social Inclusion, an organization that focused on transforming structural racism into fair opportunity at the intersection of race and poverty as it relates to education, the digital divide, land use planning, the green economy, and more. Wiley was also a senior advisor on race and poverty at the Open Society Foundations.

Wiley earned her B.A. from Dartmouth College and her J.D. from Columbia Law School. She lives in Brooklyn with her partner, Harlan, and their two daughters and cats.

Mike Masnick

CEO and Founder
Floor64
Biography

Mike is the visionary behind Floor64, building up the core idea into reality and recruiting the management team. In addition to providing the strategic direction for the company, Mike oversees all editorial aspects of the Floor64’s public and customer sites. Mike’s insight into the realms of business and technology are the basis for his frequent posts to the award winning Techdirt blog. The widely followed, often quoted blog was launched in 1997. Prior to founding Floor64 Inc., Mike worked in business development and marketing at Release Software, an e-commerce startup, and in marketing at Intel. Mike has a bachelor’s degree in Industrial and Labor Relations and an MBA -- both from Cornell University.

Kat Duffy

Director
Task Force for a Trustworthy Future Web
Biography

Kat Duffy is a visiting senior fellow at the Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensic Research Lab the Director of the Task Force for a Trustworthy Future Web.  She advises companies, governments, and international nongovernmental organizations on building socially responsible business practices within the technology sector, developing strategies to align emerging technologies with democratic norms and human rights, and implementing best practices for civil-society engagement in the tech and human-rights space.

Through her previous work at the US State Department and in the nonprofit sector, Duffy has overseen the implementation of more than a hundred million dollars in foreign assistance and philanthropic programming designed to support democracy, rights, and governance initiatives across the globe, with a particular focus on digital rights, digital safety, civic tech, and tech platform social accountability. She served for five years on the board of directors of the Global Network Initiative, where she helped drive the expansion and diversification of nongovernmental organization constituency participants, and also served as an expert advisor for the World Economic Forum’s Partnering with Civil Society in the Fourth Industrial Revolution Initiative. Duffy received her BA from Yale University and her JD from the University of Michigan, and has lived and worked in Spain, South Africa, Colombia, Cuba, and Tunisia.  

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WHEN

Monday, June 26, 2023
6:00 pm

WHERE

Betaworks
29 Little West 12th Street
New York, NY 10014

Agenda

Tools
For
Thinking

How New Technologies are Changing How We Create, Share, and Build Knowledge

When

June 26, 2023
6:00 pm

Where

Betaworks • 29 Little West 12th Street, New York, NY 10014
Proof of Full Vaccination Required

RENDER is Over, but Camp is just beginning

We had some great speakers and participants turn out for Render, and we all got to participate in very interesting conversations. You can find recordings of all of our sessions below. If you're working on a Tool for Thinking and want to participate in our upcoming accelerator program, you can learn more here.

Building Bicycles for the Mind

Join 200 people in NYC for a Responsible Tech Mixer, panel conversation around creating better online environments, and report release party for DFRLab's Task Force for a Trustworthy Future Web! The Task Force for a Trustworthy Future Web is charting a clear and action-oriented roadmap for future online ecosystems to protect users’ rights, support innovation, and center trust and safety principles.

This is part of All Tech Is Human's popular monthly Responsible Tech Mixer + Interview Series that draws a diverse range of backgrounds across civil society, government, industry, and academia who are committed to tackling wicked tech & society issues and co-creating a tech future aligned with the public interest.

"The Atlantic Council’s Democracy + Tech Initiative at the Digital Forensic Research Lab (DFRLab) has launched a multi-sector Task Force for a Trustworthy Future Web specifically to support such collaboration in 2023 and beyond. Designed to lay the groundwork for stronger cross-sectoral ideation and action in the years to come, the Task Force will set a clear and action-oriented agenda for future online ecosystems that can protect users’ rights, support innovation, and incorporate trust and safety principles."

All Tech Is Human is a non-profit committed to uniting people and organizations to tackle wicked tech & society issues and co-create a tech future aligned with the public interest.Find all of our projects and links here, and read about our mission and accomplishments here.

Speakers

Howard

Rheingold

Author
Tools for Thought
@hrheingold

Yoel

Roth

Tech Policy Fellow
Technology Policy Fellow University of California, Berkeley, Goldman School of Public Policy
https://twitter.com/yoyoel

Maya

Wiley

President and CEO
The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights
@mayawiley

Mike

Masnick

CEO and Founder
Floor64
@mmasnick

Kat

Duffy

Director
Task Force for a Trustworthy Future Web
@rightsduff

Schedule

11:30 AM
Doors Open
12:00 PM
Welcome
with MC
12:10 PM – 12:20 PM
How Do We Define Tools for Thinking and Why Do They Matter?
Join Jerry Michalski and John Borthwick as they talk about their interest in tools for thinking, and what excites them the most about the future of the category.
12:20 PM – 12:50 PM
Inflection Points for Tools for Thinking
What are the key inflection points that will supercharge Tools for Thinking in the near future? How will new technologies, user metaphors, and funding models change how people build these tools? John Borthwick will be discussing how the landscape is changing with the co-founders of Readwise, Daniel Doyon & Tristan Homsi.
12:50 PM – 1:00 PM
Q+A
1:00 PM – 1:15 PM
Demo: Protocol Design for Tools for Thinking
Gordon Brander will be presenting a brief demo on Subconscious and the Noosphere, products he and his team are working on to allow Tools for Thinking to become interoperable and better connected.
1:15 PM – 2:00 PM
Lunch and Networking
2:00 PM – 2:45 PM
The History and Future of Software as Tools for Thinking
Some of the earliest examples of software explored by pioneers like Doug Engelbart, JCR Licklider, Alan Turing, and others were at their core technologies that help magnify, inspect, and spread our ideas. Jerry Michalski will be sitting down (virtually) with Howard Rheingold, author of Tools for Thought, to explore the history and future of "mind-amplifying technology".
2:45 PM – 3:00 PM
Q+A
3:00 PM – 4:00 PM
Tools for Thinking Product Demos
We’ll hear from builders and thinkers deep in the space and get to take a look at what they’re working on. We’ll be checking out Plexus, Re:Collect, Jerry’s Brain, Subconscious and more. 
4:15 PM – 4:45 PM
Leveraging AI and ML in Building New Tools for Thinking
Alice Albrecht and Linus Lee will be sitting down with Chris Pedregal to discuss their work in leveraging AI and Machine Learning for creating new kinds of tools for thinking.
4:45 PM – 5:00 PM
Q+A
5:00 PM – 5:30 PM
Idea Dimensionality and Representing Semantic Meaning
How do ideas - and the human brains that make and hold them - interact?  Get prepared for meta! Esther Dyson and Jerry Michalski, will discuss the idea of how people work together to shape, compare, intertwine and ultimately produce multi-faceted ideas and multi-dimensional idea spaces.  As David Waltz (Thinking Machines) once said, “Words are not in themselves carriers of meaning, but merely pointers to shared understanding.” Watch and lob questions as the two of them try to build and share the idea of how better ideas can be developed through collaboration.
5:30 PM – 5:45 PM
Q+A
5:45 PM – 7:00 PM
Closing and Happy Hour

Proof of Full Vaccination Required

Betaworks requires all visitors to show proof of full vaccination to enter. No exceptions. Two ways that you can show proof:
  • Official vaccine card with at least 2 weeks having passed since the date of the last required dose (1 dose for J&J/AstraZeneca, 2 for Pfizer/Moderna)
  • An active digital pass such as the NY State Excelsior Pass or the CLEAR app