Pathways to Safer Systems

The agenda is set to London/Dublin local time (BST/IST)

11:55 CEST
09:55 UTC
05:55 EDT
02:55 PDT

What do safer systems look like? How each one of us — hotlines, industry, law enforcement and regulators alike — can better curate safer systems to address current trends and future needs, and what we can reasonably expect from one another to ensure all sectors in the online child protection space are held to account.

Jason Barry, Meta
Samantha Woolfe, INHOPE

A recorded address from the European Parliament on what the AI Act can deliver for children and where its limits lie.
Brando Benifei MEP, Co-Chair of the AI Act Working Group, European Parliament

How do young people move from isolation into exploitation? This keynote examines the loneliness that offenders deliberately cultivate and the organised communities that recruit, escalate and reward. Featuring researchers and investigators working across nihilistic violence, radicalisation and organised online exploitation, with questions from the room and online participants.

Henry Adams, Resolver
Ciaran O’Connor, Institute for Strategic Dialogue
Rob Richardson, National Crime Agency
Professor Maura Conway, Dublin City University

70 million deterrence messages. 82% of those who saw one stopped searching. The case for meeting demand upstream, alongside the removal and referral of CSAM already carried out by the network.

Sarah Smith, Lucy Faithfull Foundation

Opening with data from INHOPE’s 58 member hotlines, this session follows one thread: who is being harmed, what exploitation looks like once money is involved, and where that money moves. Contributions include ten years of Albanian evidence on online violence against girls, casework from the French hotline, and the view from mobile networks that carry the payments, including what operators are doing to disrupt them.

Chaired by Kalina Zografska, INHOPE
Altin Hazizaj, CRCA/ECPAT Albania
Alejandra Mariscal Lopez, Point de Contact, France
Igor Loran, Bee Secure, Luxembourg
Jenny Jones, GSMA

From transaction data to prosecution. Investigators and financial platforms set out how financially motivated sextortion is identified, traced and disrupted across payment ecosystems, where handovers between sectors still break down, and what lessons have been learnt to improve responses across sectors.

Chaired by Sherrie Bosisto, Global Emancipation Network
William Crogan, Homeland Security Investigations
Danny van Althuis, Europol EC3
Sally Frank, Cash App / Block
Andrew Adcock, Tether
Ane de Vos, International Justice Mission

An introduction to the schema: what it standardises and why shared technical infrastructure matters to the collective effectiveness of the network.

Grete Raidma, INHOPE

How can shared standards support the cross-border exchange of evidence? This plenary brings together those building standards for abuse reporting, classification and the tools law enforcement relies on, alongside a view from cloud infrastructure on what adoption takes at scale.

Chaired by Kalina Zografska, INHOPE
Tobias Knecht, Abusix
Catherine Curtin, An Garda Síochána
Laurent Fegerolles, Interpol
Julia Fossi, AWS

End of Day 1

In person only.

The second day of the summit will not be streamed online and is reserved for in-person attendants only

Thomas Andersson, ECPAT Sweden

Red Barnet and Danske Bank present the collaboration framework they have built between a hotline and a bank, and the financial indicators it rests on. Participants then work in small groups to test the framework against the realities of their own national contexts.

Nadia Jung Petersen, Save the Children Denmark
Morten Beier, Danske Bank

How Industry Is Responding to Exploitation at Scale
Moderated by Amitabh Kumar, Contrails.ai
Jason Barry, Meta
Laura Higgins, Roblox
Jeff Sen, WeTransfer
Guillermo Galarza, Tik Tok

What are offenders doing with generative tools, and where? Research from dark web forums sits alongside investigative findings from mainstream platforms and a perspective from inside an AI developer, followed by discussion with the room.

Introduced and Chaired by Sarah Mower, Yahoo Inc
Mikko Ahtila, Save the Children Finland
Thiago Tavares, SaferNet Brasil
Ashley Feden, Anthropic
Catherine Curtin, An Garda Síochána

Where does the leverage sit, who holds it, and where are the gaps? Speakers from AI development, hosting, the Council of Europe and the Tech Coalition - a cross-industry coordination body — discuss models, hosting, domains and the gaps between them, how safer systems are being built, and where there is room for improvement.

Chaired by John Buckley, OpenAI
Chelsea Carlson, OpenAI
Michele Neylon, Blacknight Solutions
Naomi Trewinnard, Council of Europe Lanzarote Committee
Erin Saltman, Tech Coalition

What must the new European framework deliver in practice, and what is still missing? Regulators and legislators address these questions, followed by group discussions on key regulatory questions whose conclusions carry forward into the closing plenary.

Chaired by Emilio Puccio, European Parliament Intergroup on Children’s Rights
Arda Gerkens, ATKM, Netherlands
Fred Langford, Ofcom
Patrick Goodliffe, Coimisiún na Meán
Filipe Batiwale, Online Safety Commission, Fiji

Chaired by Mick Moran, Irish Internet Hotline
Ana Revenco, Minister for Home Affairs 2021-2023, Republic of Moldova
William Crogan, Homeland Security Investigations
Emilio Puccio, European Parliament Intergroup on Children's Rights
Morten Beier, Danske Bank

Mick Moran, Irish Internet Hotline