Meet our speakers

We are pleased to welcome a global line-up of speakers from independent media, civil society, local and global tech companies, governments and policy- and decisionmakers to present and discuss their takes on building and scaling alternative platforms and solutions to counter disinformation and strengthen democratic resilience. 

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Babette Ngene

Director of the Public Interest Technology team at the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF)

Keynote Speaker

Bank Vath

Media innovator and programme lead at Prosob.Media (Media4Impact)

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Esther Mwema

Award-winning artist and digital inequalities expert

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Gaston Wright

Social innovation and digital rights expert

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Leah Kimathi

Founder and Executive Director of the Council for Responsible Social Media

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Leo Pekkala

Deputy Director, National Audiovisual Institute (KAVI), Finland Head of Department, Media Education and Audiovisual Media

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Leyla Mohamed

Editor of Radio Ergo at IMS (International Media Support)

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Maksym Dvorovyi

Senior Legal Counsel at the Digital Security Lab Ukraine

Keynote Speaker

Marie Bjerre

Minister for European Affairs, Denmark

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Mariya Frey

Journalist and board member of SUSPILNE

Facilitator

Mira Milosevic

Executive Director of the Global Forum for Media Development (GFMD)

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Nadim Nashif

Founder and Executive Director of 7amleh – The Arab Center for the Advancement of Social Media.

Facilitator

Paul McNally

Award-winning journalist, AI Adviser at IMS (International Media Support) and found of Develop Audio

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Paula Miraglia

Founder and CEO of Momentum – Journalism & Tech Task Force and co-founder and publisher of Gama Revista

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Peter Pomerantsev

Senior Fellow at Johns Hopkins University, Agora Institute

Keynote Speaker

Premesh Chandran

Premesh Chandran, Co-founder, Malaysiakini and Awatar Innovations

Facilitator

Roby Alampay

Chairman of PumaPodcast, Head of Public Engagement at PLDT-Smart and Adviser at IMS (International Media Support)

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Sam Gregory

Executive Director of WITNESS

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Wanjiru Nguhi

Lawyer, political commentator and founder of Mwafrika Mwenzangu