Online Children’s Rights:
Putting interoperable age verification and parental consent into live operation.
Athens & Online
October 31st 2023
Please join us online, or in person in Athens, for our third annual conference, this year focusing on Online Children’s Rights: Putting interoperable age verification and parental consent into live operation.
The conference will consider the latest developments in law and regulation requiring online age assurance and parental consent, including the EU Digital Services Act, US state laws, and the UK Online Safety Act. It will look forward to Phase II of the euCONSENT programme; a project which is developing European-wide infrastructure to facilitate interoperable Age Verification and Parental Consent mechanisms and delivered a successful largescale pilot last year. The results of the project have been donated to a new non-profit organisation – euCONSENT ASBL which is preparing to put this new network of cooperating age verification providers serving major platforms into live operation next year.
There will also be contributions from charities, regulators and several of these global platforms.
The conference will run from 1pm – 5:30pm Athens time (11am – 3:30pm GMT, Noon – 4:30pm CET, 8am – 12:30pm EST).
Please register here to attend online or in-person.
Conference venue is National Hellenic Research Foundation Leof. Vasileos Konstantinou 48, Athina 116 35, Greece
euConsent Conference
Online Children’s Rights: Putting interoperable age verification and parental consent into live operation..
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October 31st 2023
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Schedule
13:00
Welcome
John Carr OBE
Conference Chair
13:10
Professor Dennis Sarigiannis
Director and President of the Board, National Hellenic Research Foundation
13:20
Introduction
Iain Corby
Secretary General, euCONSENT
13:25
The achievements of euCONSENT Phase I
Kostas Flokos
CEO UpcoMinds
Tony Allen
CEO Age Check Certification Scheme
13:45
Online Age Assurance – the state of the art
Alastair Graham
CEO at AgeChecked
Stefan Schellenberg
Chairman of the board, JusProg
Andy Lulham
Chief Operations Officer, VerifyMy
Julie Dawson
Chief Policy & Regulatory Officer, Yoti
Kostas Flokos
CEO UpcoMinds
Moderator:
John Carr OBE
Conference Chair
14:15
Child Rights by Design from the Digital Futures Commission
Professor Sonia Livingstone
Professor of Social Psychology, Department of Media and Communications – LSE
14:40
Next steps in Australia following the release of the age verification roadmap
Kelly Tallon
Manager of Regulatory Strategy and Policy, Australian Office of the eSafety Commissioner
Iain Corby
Executive Director, Age Verification Providers Association
Prerecorded Interview
15:00
Parental Control Tools paper
Dr. Mariya Stoilova
Research Officer, Global Kids Online – Department of Media and Communications – LSE
15:25
Coffee Break
15:45
How leading platforms would like to see age assurance evolve?
David Miles
Meta, EMEA Head of Safety Policy
16:05
Legal Requirements for AV
Professor Abhilash Nair
University of Exeter
16:30
Unlocking Data Protection: Navigating the Online Safety and Data Protection regulatory landscape
Wei Lynn Ng
Senior Policy Officer at ICO, High Priority Inquiries
Carmen Hernandez
Online Safety Policy Associate, Ofcom
Martin Bieri
CNIL
Moderator:
Iain Corby
Executive Director, Age Verification Providers Association
17:20
Closing remarks
John Carr OBE
Conference Chair
Featured Talks & Speakers
John Carr
Conference Chair
Denis Sarigiannis
Director and President of the Board National Hellenic Research Foundation
Kostas Flokos
euCONSENT Project Coordinator, CEO UpcoMinds
Iain Corby
Executive Director, Age Verification Providers Association
Stefan Schellenberg
Chairman of the board, JusProg
Kelly Tallon
Manager of Regulatory Strategy and Policy, Australian Office of the eSafety Commissioner
Wei Lynn Ng
Principal Policy Adviser Regulatory Policy Projects, ICO
Carmen Hernandez
Online Safety Policy Associate, Ofcom
Tony Allen
Chief Executive Officer at Age Check Certification Scheme
Sonia Livingstone
Professor of Social Psychology, Department of Media and Communications - LSE
Mariya Stoilova
Research Officer, Global Kids Online - Department of Media and Communications - LSE
Abhilash Nair
Associate Professor of Internet Law, University of Exeter
Julie Dawson
Chief Policy & Regulatory Officer, Yoti
Andy Lulham
Chief Operations Officer VerifyMy
Alastair Graham
CEO at AgeChecked
David Miles
Safety Policy Director at Meta - Europe, Middle East and Africa
Martin BIERI
CNIL
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