The Digital Trust Convention

I5 November 2024, OECD Headquarters, Paris, France

The Digital Trust Convention will explore what is needed for a resilient digital space in which trust and integrity, as the foundation of democratic discourse and effective markets, remain possible in the era of generative AI.

Given the easy availability of AI-automated bots and fakes and their use by commercial, criminal, and geostrategic actors, the Digital Trust Convention looks at how we can:

• Establish trust in people and information and identify approaches, instruments and measures that are effective and sustainable
• Reliably recognise real human beings in the digital space
• Ensure that every citizen/consumer has a fair chance to be heard and have an impact

The Digital Trust Convention brings together a unique combination of leading thinkers and experts from the public and private sectors and a broad range of disciplines to connect, share, learn, and engage. The full-day event is dedicated to a number of sessions in a range of formats to build a multistakeholder community for trust and resilience in the digital space.

The Digital Trust Convention also includes a session on the “Global Challenge to Build Trust in the Age of Generative AI,” which was initiated by VDE, OECD, IEEE, UNESCO, IDB, AI Commons, GPAI, and other partners in 2023.

The Digital Trust Convention is co-hosted by the Atlantic Council, the Bertelsmann Stiftung, KI Park, the Mila Quebec AI Institute, the OECD, the Partnership on AI (PAI), the Association of Electrical, Electronic and Information Technologies (VDE), and the World Privacy Forum. These organisations have many years of experience in the field of digital trust.

Dr Sebastian Hallensleben serves as the Programme Chair of the Digital Trust Convention.

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Please note that the in-person registration for the 2024 Digital Trust Convention is closed. To tune in online, please register here.

TENTATIVE AGENDA

Time	Topic / Format	Speakers
10:00	Opening and Welcome	Jerry Sheehan Director, OECD Directorate for Science, Technology and Innovation Sebastian Hallensleben Programme Chair, Digital Trust Convention; Head of AI & Digital Trust, VDE; Co-Chair AI Risk & Accountability, OECD ONE.AI
10:15	Series of keynotes: Setting the scene: The disruption of trust in the digital space from multiple perspectives	Henry Parker Vice-President Corporate Affairs, logically.ai Katharina Zügel Policy Manager, Forum on Information & Democracy Florian Merkel Principal Product Owner UGC, Holidaycheck
11:25	Keynote: Our task ahead: The three questions we need to answer	Sebastian Hallensleben Programme Chair, Digital Trust Convention; Head of AI & Digital Trust, VDE; Co-Chair AI Risk & Accountability, OECD ONE.AI
11:40	Understanding the type and scale of the problem Panel discussion with audience Q&A; Moderator: Melisa Basol (Founder of Pulse)	Mark-Boris Andrijanic Senior Fellow, Atlantic Council; Vice President, Kumo.AI   Monica Brezzi Head, Governance Indicators and Performance Division, OECD Tim Clement-Jones Liberal Democrat House of Lords spokesperson for Science, Innovation and Technology – House of Lords, UK Pam Dixon Executive Director, World Privacy Forum Winston Ojenge Head of the digital economy program, African Center for Technology Studies (ACTS)
12:30	Lunch Break
13:30	Foundations for a vision of digital trust Series of keynotes, followed by joint Q&A with all speakers	Andreas Kaminski Professor for Philosophy of Science and Technology, TU Darmstadt Peter Lewis Canada Research Chair in Trustworthy AI and Associate Professor, Ontario Tech University, Canada Amir Banifatemi Global Challenge to Build Trust; Co-Founder and Director, AI Commons; Founder and Content Curator, AI for Good Global Summit David Bray Principal/CEO & Distinguished Chair of the Accelerator, LDA Ventures & Stimson Center
14:35	What we can build on: Current initiatives Panel discussion with audience Q&A; Moderator: Benjamin Prud’homme (Mila)	Claire Leibowicz Head of AI and Media Integrity, Partnership on AI Mark-Boris Andrijanic Senior Fellow, Atlantic Council; Vice President, Kumo.AI   Pavol Draxler Security Manager, Binary Confidence Shameek Kundu Executive Director, AI Verify Foundation – Singapore
15:40	Coffee Break
16:10	Creating change: Actions, institutions, resources Panel discussion with audience Q&A; Moderator: Sebastian Hallensleben	Giuseppe Ugazio Associate Professor in Behavioral Philanthropy and Finance, Geneva Finance Research Institute, University of Geneva Jutta Juliane Meier Founder and CEO, Identity Valley Martin Hullin Director Digitalization and the Common Good, Bertelsmann Stiftung Milos Maricic Chair, Executive AI Francesca Bosco Chief Strategy and Partnerships Officer, CyberPeace Institute Rebecca Finlay CEO, Partnership on AI
17:25	The Global Challenge to Build Trust: Exploring the full technology & policy solution space	Karine Perset   Head of AI and Emerging Digital Technologies, OECD – with Sarah Bérubé / Jamie Berryhill, OECD Amir Banifatemi Global Challenge to Build Trust; Co-Founder and Director, AI Commons; Founder and Content Curator, AI for Good Global Summit Arnaud David Director Public Policy EMEA, Amazon Web Services (AWS)
17:45	Summary and Closing: What happens next?	Benjamin Prud’homme Vice-President, Policy, Safety and Global Affairs, Mila Sebastian Hallensleben Programme Chair, Digital Trust Convention; Head of AI & Digital Trust, VDE; Co-Chair AI Risk & Accountability, OECD ONE.AI Martin Hullin Director Digitalization and the Common Good, Bertelsmann Stiftung
18:00-19:30	Reception