DAY ONE (2 DECEMBER)
Opening and Welcome
Akaki Saghirashvili
Ministry of Economy and Sustainable Development of Georgia, Deputy Minister
Göran Marby
CEO and President of the ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers)
Gigabit society and Georgia
Natia Kuprashvili
Chairman at Journalism Resource Center, CEO Alliance of Broadcasters - Georgia
Sophio Tvalavadze
ICT department, Ministry of Economy and sustainable Development of Georgia
Eka Kubusidze
Head of ICT department, Ministry of Economy and sustainable Development of Georgia
Ekaterine Imedadze
Head of the Telecommunications Market Regulation Department of the Communications Commission
Artificial Intelligence and Personal Data Protection
Beka Kenkadze
Senior Lawyer of Private Sector Oversight department, State Inspector’s Service
Mariam Sharangia
Head of Strategic Development Department, Georgia's Innovation and Technology Agency
Georgian top level domain .ge-zone Challenges
The Child Code and Internet
Ivane Makharadze
Head of the Audiovisual Media Services Regulation Department of the Georgian Communications Commission
Brian O’Neill
Professor of Media and Communications and Director of Research, Enterprise & Innovation at Technological University Dublin (Ireland)
Covid19 and Rights of Digital Citizens and Media Literacy
Nini Shengelia
Head of the Center for Digital Democracy, Sector 3 fellow and social media law expert.
Lauri Palsa
Senior adviser in National Audiovisual Institute (KAVI) in partnership with the Ministry of Education and Culture
Archil Javelidze
Deputy Head of a Private Sector Oversight Department, the State Inspector’s Service
DAY 2 (3 DECEMBER)
InfoSec Ecosystem of Georgia and Existing Challenges
Teona Turashvili
Head of Media, Internet and Innovations Direction, Institute for Development of Freedom of Information (IDFI)
Nato Goderdzishvili
Chief Manager for Cybersecurity Strategic Directions, Digital governance Agency
Levan Avalishvili
Programs Director, Institute for Development of Freedom of Information (IDFI)
Georgia and Cyber readiness
COVID-19 and Online learning challenge
Marika Sikharulidze
Head of the program for digital technologies at the Teacher’s Professional Development Center of Georgia
David Veliashvili
Founder of a Georgian online platform for language learning lingwing.com
Freedom of Expression and the Internet: Current Challenges
Tamar Kobakhidze
Project Officer, Council of Europe Project “Supporting Freedom of Media and Internet in Georgia”
Pavlo Pushkar
Head of division at the Department for the Execution of Judgments of the European Court of Human Rights of the Council of Europe
Lika Tsiklauri
Head of the Department of Civil, Political, Economic, Social and Cultural Rights Protection of the Public Defender's Office