INHOPE Summit 2026 - Meet the Day 1 speakers

Jason Barry
Jason Barry joined the Legal team at Facebook/Meta in April 2014. Jason serves as the Trust and Safety Manager for the Americas at Facebook. He leads strategic engagement with law enforcement and governments across the Americas and oversees Meta's child safety work globally. Jason was a Special Agent with Homeland Security Investigations before joining Facebook/Meta, where he served in International Affairs at the U.S. Embassy in Mexico City and as a Special Agent in San Francisco. Jason specialised in investigations that involved child exploitation and human trafficking.

Brando Benifei
Brando Benifei is an Italian MEP serving his third term in the European Parliament. During the previous mandate he was co-Rapporteur for the Artificial Intelligence Act and, thanks to this work, in March 2024 he won the prize for the Best MEP of the Mandate assigned by The Parliament Magazine.
Now he is Coordinator in the Committee on International Trade for the Socialists and Democrats Group and Chair of the European Parliament's EU-US delegation.

Henry Adams
Henry Adams is Director, Trust & Safety, at Resolver. He has spent the past decade mitigating risk in diverse, high-harm settings. Henry is a former Head of Intelligence with a background in global counter terrorism, national policing operations and crisis negotiation.
At Resolver, he initially led global intelligence operations before overseeing the development of predatory network disruption tools. Today, Henry is a member of Resolver's Trust & Safety Division leadership and their primary interface with industry, academia, governments and regulators. He is a passionate advocate for the protection of children, and a proponent of the power in taking proactive, intelligence-led approaches to safety.

Ciarán O'Connor
Ciarán O'Connor is a Senior Analyst at ISD UK, working in the Research and Policy unit. Ciarán specialises in using open-source research to track and monitor information operations and extremism online, with a particular focus on far-right activity and communication across both open and closed networks and platforms. Ciarán previously worked as a journalist on the investigations team at Storyful, a social media news agency that specialises in the verification and analysis of amateur footage and information operations online.

Prof. Maura Conway
Maura Conway is Paddy Moriarty Professor of Government and International Studies in the School of Law and Government at Dublin City University (DCU), Ireland; Professor of Cyber Threats in CYTREC at Swansea University, UK; and founding Coordinator of VOX-Pol (voxpol.eu). Prof. Conway's principal research interests are in the area of terrorism and the internet, including 'cyberterrorism,' the functioning and effectiveness of violent extremist online content, and online radicalisation. She has authored over 60 articles, reports, and chapters in her specialist area(s), and her research has appeared in, among others, Studies in Conflict & Terrorism, Criminology & Public Policy, and Social Science Computer Review.

Sarah Smith
Sarah leads Project Intercept, a Nominet-funded initiative at the Lucy Faithfull Foundation developing online warning messages to deter access to child sexual abuse material (CSAM). Her work sits at the intersection of technology, prevention, and child protection, partnering with global platforms to interrupt harmful behaviour before it escalates. Sarah has worked in prevention and online safety for nearly a decade, and prior to that was a newspaper journalist and editor working both nationally and internationally.

Kalina Zografska
Kalina Zografska is Head of Technology & Innovation at INHOPE, the global network of internet hotlines working to combat child sexual abuse material online. With more than 15 years' experience in software development and technical product management, she leads work to strengthen secure reporting, data exchange, and technology-enabled collaboration across INHOPE's member hotlines and partner law enforcement and industry. Kalina brings practical expertise in product development, platform operations, and building tools that help protect and connect trust & safety moderators at scale.

Altin Hazizaj
Altin Hazizaj is Executive Director of CRCA–ECPAT Albania and a child rights expert with over 30 years of experience in child protection, advocacy and policy reform. He leads Albania's Safer Internet Centre, including the National Hotline iSIGURT.al, and has pioneered national responses to child sexual exploitation and juvenile justice. He has also co-led the largest research on violence against children in Europe (BECAN). His work focuses on digital safety, child-friendly justice, legislation and translating evidence into policy and systemic change.

Jenny Jones
Jenny is the GSMA's Director of Child Rights. She has over 20 years of experience working at the intersection of children's rights and the digital environment. Jenny is responsible for the GSMA's mPower Youth programme, which addresses the full range of potential impacts on child rights in the digital context – from protection to participation – through knowledge sharing and advocacy. She also coordinates the GSMA Mobile Alliance to Combat Digital Child Sexual Exploitation.

Sherrie Bosisto
Sherrie Bosisto is founder and executive director of Global Emancipation Network (GEN), a technology nonprofit building intelligence infrastructure to end human trafficking and child sexual exploitation. With 20+ years bridging law enforcement, technology platforms, and policy, she is one of the only practitioners who speaks fluently in both worlds and is trusted by both.

William Crogan
William Crogan is the Attaché for Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) at the U.S. Embassy London, overseeing law enforcement coordination and liaison functions in the United Kingdom, Republic of Ireland, and Iceland. HSI is the principal investigative arm of the Department of Homeland Security and upholds border security and public safety by disrupting and dismantling global criminal enterprises, including malicious actors who commit crimes of exploitation.

Sally Frank
Sally Frank is a subject matter expert in CSAM and child sex trafficking investigations, with extensive experience not only in the United States but on the ground across Asia and Africa. Sally has held key roles at the National Centre for Missing & Exploited Children, International Justice Mission, and the Dallas Children's Advocacy Centre. In her current role as Block's Anti-Human Exploitation Program Lead, Sally leads company-wide policy and programs addressing CSAM and human trafficking, including oversight of the company's CyberTipline reporting.

Andrew Adcock
Andrew Adcock is the Head of AML at Tether, where he oversees the FIU unit. Andrew has a strong background in fintech compliance and operational risk, having previously served as CEO of an FCA-regulated crowdfunding platform and Operations Manager at a trade finance company that utilised stablecoins for cross-border payments serving companies based in Sub-Saharan Africa.

Ane de Vos
Ane (Bastiaan) de Vos is Director of Advocacy, Programs, and Partnerships at IJM Netherlands. With senior leadership experience in international development and humanitarian response across multiple continents, he works with governments and NGOs to strengthen protections against human trafficking. His focus includes policy and regulatory reform, cross-border cooperation, trauma-informed care, and mobilising partnerships and funding to improve outcomes for vulnerable populations.

Grete Raidma
Grete Raidma is a Project and Policy Manager at INHOPE, where she leads international projects and policy initiatives focused on strengthening the global response to child sexual abuse material. Her work centres on cross-border cooperation, capacity building and the development of practical tools and standards, including the Universal Classification Schema and CPORT. Before joining INHOPE, she worked as a lawyer at the Estonian Police and Border Guard Board.

Tobias Knecht
Tobias Knecht founded Abusix in 2009 and leads it as CEO. Long before abuse handling was an industry, he built and ran one of the internet's first abuse desks. Today Abusix protects 7 of Europe's 10 largest telcos and serves ISPs, cloud and hosting providers worldwide. Tobias co-chairs the RIPE Anti-Abuse Working Group and co-created XARF, the open standard for abuse reporting. His mission: make the internet suck less.

Detective Sergeant Catherine Curtin
Cathy Curtin has over 25 years' experience in front-line policing with An Garda Síochána, and currently leads a team at the Online Child Exploitation Unit (OnCE) within the Garda National Protective Services Bureau (GNPSB). As part of her role at the OnCE unit, Detective Sergeant Curtin oversees complex investigations, victim identification processes, and the advancement of strategic projects aimed at combating online child exploitation. Her responsibilities also include ongoing collaboration with national and international stakeholders and law enforcement partners to strengthen cross-border efforts against cyber-enabled crimes against children.

Laurent Felgerolles
Laurent Felgerolles led a business unit in the internet industry for 10 years before joining INTERPOL in 2009. In 2014, he was responsible for the delivery of the third version of the International Child Sexual Exploitation Database and joined the specialised unit Crimes Against Children (CAC). As the current Head of the Programme Office of the unit, he is in charge of developing partnerships and overseeing the strategic delivery of the CAC programme.

Dr Julia Fossi
Dr Julia Fossi is Global Head of Policy and Strategic Engagements for Trust & Safety at AWS, where she leads the team that sets and enforces the company's positions on online abuse and leads its strategic engagement across the global safety ecosystem. She previously directed international strategy and the Safety by Design initiative at Australia's eSafety Commissioner, led child online safety policy at the NSPCC, and began her career in UK government. She holds a PhD from the University of Nottingham.