Agenda

 Konstantinos Komaitis is a resident senior fellow with the Atlantic Council’s Democracy + Tech Initiative at the Digital Forensic Research Lab (DFRLab). He leads the Council’s work on global digital governance and democracy and brings decades of experience in developing and analyzing internet policy to ensure an open, interoperable, and global internet.

Komaitis has more than ten years of experience in policy development and strategy. Before joining the Atlantic Council, he worked for The New York Times, focusing on data governance issues. Previously, he served as a senior director at the Internet Society, where he led initiatives on connectivity, regulation, and internet governance, including the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority transition. Komaitis also spent seven years as a senior lecturer at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, where he researched and taught internet policy, focusing on governance, intellectual property, trade, and cybersecurity.

Komaitis has provided strategic advice on internet governance and public policy to companies, governments, and international organizations. A recognized public speaker, he has delivered talks worldwide, including at TEDx, and has published in Politico, the Atlantic Council, Brookings, Slate, TechDirt, and EurActiv.

He holds two master’s degrees and a doctorate and is the author of a book on domain name regulation. Komaitis serves on the board of the Global Network Initiative (GNI) and is a member of the Advisory Network at the Freedom Online Coalition (FOC). He also co-hosts the Internet of Humans podcast.

 Anita Gurumurthy is a founding member and Executive Director of IT for Change where she leads research and advocacy on data and AI governance, platform regulation, and feminist frameworks on digital justice.

She is a Visiting Fellow at the UN University International Institute for Global Health and serves as an expert on various bodies – including the T20’s digital transformation track and the UN CSTD’s Working Group on Data Governance.

Anita has been part of the High Level Committee of the NetMundial+10 under Brazil’s leadership, the UN Secretary-General’s 10-Member Group on Technology Facilitation, and the Paris Peace Forum’s working group on algorithmic governance. Anita is also a Board member of global justice organizations such as the ETC Group, and University centers such as the Tech & Policy Lab at the University of Western Australia. Anita contributes regularly to academic and media spaces.