Agenda

David is Director UK Safer Internet Centre at SWGfL; the national awareness centre and part of the European Insafe network.  David has worked extensively in online safety for 20 years with children, schools and wider agencies. David advises a number of Governments and school inspectorates on online safety strategy and policy, particularly with regards schools and child development.  David has recently acted as an expert to the UN ITU in the development of national child online protection assessment reports

David has presented at conferences nationally and internationally.  He is a member of UK Council for Internet Safety as well as the Twitter Trust and Safety Council.  David is a Fellow at the EP3 Foundation and member of IEEE standard for Child Data Governance.

Shri Anshu Prakash currently serving as Secretary in the Department of Telecommunications, Government of India, is an officer of the Indian Administrative Service of 1986 batch.  He belongs to AUGMUT cadre of IAS.

After graduating in Economics in 1982 from St. Stephen’s College, Shri Anshu Prakash earned MBA Degree in 1984 from Faculty of Management Study, University of Delhi.

In his distinguished career, spread over 33 years, Shri Anshu Prakash has served in various key positions.  While in Government of Delhi, during different phases of his career, he served as Secretary, New Delhi Municipal Corporation; Additional Commissioner, Municipal Corporation of Delhi; Chairman and Managing Director, Delhi Transport Corporation; Principal Secretary Health and Family Welfare and finally Chief Secretary, Government of Delhi.

He also served in Goa as Commissioner, Excise and Sales Tax; and Collector and District Magistrate, South Goa.  In Andaman and Nicobar Islands, he served as the Development Commissioner and in Arunachal Pradesh as Commissioner and Secretary, Health.

In Government of India, Shri Anshu Prakash has worked in different capacities in the Ministries/ Departments of Tourism, Economic Affairs, Health and Family Welfare, Heavy Industry, Rural Development and now in Department of Telecommunications. In his current assignment, in addition to serving as Secretary Telecom, he is also the Chairman of the Digital Communications Commission.  He is responsible for leadership and policy formulation for the growth and development of the Telecom Sector.

Ms. Liu Duo, President and Professorate Senior Engineer of the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology (CAICT), graduated from the Department of Electronic Engineering of Tsinghua University and received her master’s degree from the Institute of Acoustics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

She has long engaged in the studies of ICT and its integration in other fields, and mainly taken the lead in the studies of standards, policies and strategies for telecommunications networks, next-generation Internet, industrial Internet, cloud computing, big data, artificial intelligence (AI) as well as cyber and information security etc. As the former Vice Chairman of the ITU-T Study Group on Future Networks, Vice Chairman of the ITU-T IPTV Focus Group and Chairman of the ITU-T IoT Global Standards Initiative, she has made great contribution to the recognition and acceptance of Chinese standards by the international community.

She also serves as Vice Chairman of the China Communications Standards Association (CCSA), Vice President and Secretary-General of the Internet Society of China (ISC), Chairman of the Alliance of Industrial Internet (AII), and Secretary-General of the Artificial Intelligence Industry Alliance (AIIA). Ms. Liu is a recipient of the special government allowance of the State Council and she has been awarded several honors, including the titles of “National March 8th Red-Banner Pacesetter” and “National Outstanding Scientific and Technological Worker”, etc. She is a deputy to the 13th National People's Congress (NPC) of China and a member of the 13th Beijing Municipal Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC).

Career civil servant of the Higher Body of Commercial Technicians and State Economists since 1995. She has developed her professional career in public and private organizations, always linked to the digital sector.

Since 1997, she has held positions of various responsibilities in the different state regulators of the telecommunications sector: Deputy Director General of Sectorial Policies of the Ministry of Economy, the Cabinet of the Secretary of State for Telecommunications of the Ministry of Science and Technology and the International Directorate of the Telecommunications Market Commission. She has also been member of the Board of Directors of various companies with public ownership (Red.es, Aucalsa, SEGIPSA).

She has been national expert in digital matters in International Cooperation Programs of the EU Commission, specifically with Bulgaria (2005), Poland (2003) and Latvia (2005).

Graduate of the Maria Curie-Skłodowska University in Lublin, master of law at the Faculty of Law and Administration. 

From 2000 to 2003 an employee of the Ministry of Communications responsible for cooperation with courier companies. Since 2003 involved in the activity of the regulator for the telecommunications and postal markets. From 2005 to 2014 he was the head of Department of the Postal Market. From 2014 to 2016 he held the position of Deputy President of UKE.

Karol Krzywicki was a co-author of the Postal Law Act and executive regulations to that and other acts falling within the scope of postal market. He was involved in developing regulatory tools, such as the financing mechanism for postal services, regulatory accounting and cost calculation as well as the monitoring system for the quality of service. He contributed to the development of the EU Third Postal Services Directive and to the establishment of the European Regulators Group for Postal Services. 

He represented the President of UKE internationally in the Postal Directive Committee of the European Commission, the Administrative Council of the Universal Postal Union (UPU), plenary meetings of the European Regulators Group for Postal Services (ERGP) and the European Committee for Postal Regulation (CERP). He was twice a delegate to the UPU Congress, in 2016 as the deputy head of the delegation of Poland which was elected a member of the Council of Administration and the Postal Operations Council.

On 15 February 2017 Krzywicki was appointed by the Minister of Digital Affairs as the Deputy President of UKE with responsibility for the postal market.

In his private life he is interested in the automotive industry and international affairs.

Marten Kaevats, is the National Digital Advisor in the Government Office of Estonia or unofficially the Chief Innovation Officer of Estonia. He studies the impact of various scalable technologies on the spatial behaviour of individual people and communities, as he believes that the industrial revolution and the hyperlocal model of life will create reformatory changes to the spatial and social behaviour of people. Marten has graduated from govermental talent managment programme in 2017. He is educated as architect and city planner and has been the chief of TAB 2015 “Self Driven City” curatorial team. Marten is also an active member of several civil society organisations; he was also one of the founding members of the Uue Maailma Selts (New World Society) in 2007 which triggered reformatory changes in participatory democracy and a revolution in civil society, also he founded and cotributed to the creation of freeware community web platform Community Tools, established in 2008.

Betty is Director of Access Space Alliace an international organisation unifying the small satellite sector. Betty is also CEO of AB5 Consulting, an award-winning consulting company based in London, UK, specialised in high technological sectors, including telecommunications, IoT, satellite & space, transport and nuclear. An award-winning engineer, Betty works with the industry, regulators and UN Agencies, in due diligence, system assessment, business development, market access, regulatory and licensing, and stakeholders’ management. Her experience includes the management of complex international projects in the aerospace, satellite, defence, nuclear, and transport of dangerous goods sectors. She holds two Masters’ in Science in aeronautical and space engineering, a diploma in international nuclear law and a MBA. Betty is a certified project manager; she is president of the UK Chapter of the Space and Satellite Professionals International (SSPI), VP for Industry of the Women’s Engineering Society, and board member of the International Women in Engineering and Science (INWES) Europe. Betty seats on the University of West London engineering and ICT schools' industry committees. Betty is also engaged in society; she is a school governor and chair of the resource committee (£11M budget) at a prominent High School and participates regularly to school fairs and events to promote engineering with boys and girls.