# Talks

## Invited to speak

Standards bodies, universities, conferences and public meetings across 9
countries — on free software, Indian-language computing, net neutrality,
privacy and fairness in data systems. Each entry names the institution that
invited me and the room it happened in, so it can be checked against the
organiser's record.

Invited: 63 · Cities: 22 · Countries: 9 · Records: 69

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## 2018–26

- 24 Jul 2026 · Talk · **Can the Commons Correct the Machine?** — Future of the Commons Collective, India — place unrecorded, India · write-up: https://anivar.net/talks/foc-talks-july-2026.pdf
- 18 Jul 2026 · Talk · **Mentor and organisation administrator, 2007–2016, across five seasons** — GSoC Alumni Camp India, India — place unrecorded, India (not an invitation) · event: https://sites.google.com/view/2026-alumni-in-india/home
- 18 Jul 2026 · Paper · **Remote participation — decision-subject and operator-of-record drafts, DAWN BoF** — IETF 126, Online (not an invitation) · event: https://datatracker.ietf.org/meeting/126/
- 29 Apr 2026 · Workshop · **Small AI as a Pathway to Safer AI** — Careful Industries & Digital Futures Lab, India — place unrecorded, India
- 15 Jan 2026 · Workshop · **Designing for Future Resilience: AI Infrastructures in a Shifting Landscape** — Careful Industries & Digital Futures Lab, India — place unrecorded, India
- 14 Nov 2025 · Panel · **What Role Can India Play in Shaping Global Standards for Socially Intelligent, Just, and Ethical AI?** — Just AI Awards 2025, Hyderabad, India · recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zKmQka0ofM · write-up: https://www.defindia.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/Just-AI-report-2025.pdf · event: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/just-ai-awards-2024_justaiawards2025-aiimpactsummit-digitalcitizensummit2025-activity-7394820589175201792-3eTF
- 6 Nov 2025 · Panel · **Tech-Policy Interventions for Low-Resource Languages** — Bahu Bhasa 2025, Hyderabad, India · event: https://bahubhasa.oki-india.org/2025/Main_Page
- 21 Sep 2025 · Panel · **Copyright vs Right to Copy** — The Goa Project Sessions, Online · event: https://thegoaproject.wordpress.com/2025/09/18/copyright-vs-right-to-copy-anivar-aravind-siddharth-bharadwaj/
- May 2025 · Panel · **Restaurant Technology Show panel** — Food & Hospitality Week 2025, Melbourne, Australia
- 3 Nov 2024 · Panel · **The Identity Project: Unmaking of a Democracy — in conversation with Rahul Bhatia** — Manorama Hortus, Calicut, India
- 6 Sep 2024 · Panel · **The Future of AI: Opportunities & Challenges** — Just AI Awards 2024, Hyderabad, India · recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNvy3_rOilA
- 12 Sep 2023 · Fellowship · **APRALO General Assembly** — ICANN, Istanbul, Türkiye (not an invitation) · event: https://community.icann.org/x/VYBUDw
- 10 Jun 2021 · Panel · **What comes after digital identity on public digital infrastructures** — RightsCon 2021, Online
- 17 Mar 2021 · Panel · **Finally, do we have the Personal Data Protection Act** — ITechLaw, Online · event: https://www.itechlaw.org/conferences/2021-india-international-virtual-summit-0
- 6 May 2020 · Talk · **FOSS — Philosophy, Community and Politics** — Swathanthra Malayalam Computing, Online · recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQHDJ7RrB6o
- Mar 2020 · Talk · **Small 3 stories: presentation on Day 2 of the People's Tribunal on Aadhaar-related issues** — Rethink Aadhaar, Delhi, India
- 15 Jan 2020 · Panel · **On Risks of the Data Protection Bill** — Harvesting the Network, Bengaluru, India
- Jan 2020 · Talk · **Choosing the right software license** — IndiaOS 2020, Bengaluru, India · recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yxo_sFMCduQ
- 25 Sep 2018 · Panel · **Speaker, Round Table on Data Protection** — SFLC.in, Bengaluru, India

## 2014–17

- Dec 2017 · Workshop · **Neo-Brahmi Generation Panel working meeting** — ICANN, Colombo, Sri Lanka (not an invitation) · event: https://www.icann.org/en/announcements/details/sri-lankan-community-preparing-for-a-multilingual-internet-using-local-scripts-12-12-2017-en
- 28 Oct 2017 · Talk · **ICANN60** — ICANN, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates · event: https://meetings.icann.org/en/abudhabi60
- 21 Sep 2017 · Panel · **Aadhaar, Data Protection & Privacy Rights** — Citizens for Constitutional Governance, Kochi, India
- 20 Sep 2017 · Talk · **Malayalam Computing & Malayalam Layouting in Print, Web & Mobile** — Kerala Bhasha Institute, 50th anniversary, Thiruvananthapuram, India
- 19 Sep 2017 · Panel · **Discussion on the Digital Divide** — #ICOMM17, Thiruvananthapuram, India
- 5 Jul 2017 · Talk · **Fairness in Civic Technologies** — Disrupt Kerala 2017 Summit, Thiruvananthapuram, India · event: https://www.fayaport80.com/
- 9 May 2017 · Panel · **Revisiting Aadhaar: Law, Tech and Beyond** — SFLC.in, Delhi, India · event: http://sflc.in/panel-discussion-revisiting-aadhaar-law-tech-and-beyond-may-9-2017-new-delhi/
- 10 Mar 2017 · Keynote · **Fairness in Big Data & AI** — FOSSMeet, Calicut, India · event: http://fossmeet.in/
- 20 Feb 2017 · Workshop · **Information Security in India's Digital Payment Systems** — Observer Research Foundation, Bengaluru, India · event: http://www.orfonline.org/research/orf-national-project-cyber-security-training-law-enforcement-agencies/
- 3 Nov 2016 · Fellowship · **ICANN57** — ICANN Fellowship, Hyderabad, India (not an invitation)
- 6 Oct 2016 · Panel · **Global Justice in a Digital World** — Germany speaking tour 2016, Hamburg, Germany · event: https://web.archive.org/web/2017/https://bigdata.blackblogs.org/veranstaltungsreise/
- 5 Oct 2016 · Panel · **Digital Rights Movements & Global Justice** — Germany speaking tour 2016, Berlin, Germany · event: https://web.archive.org/web/2017/https://bigdata.blackblogs.org/veranstaltungsreise/
- 2 Oct 2016 · Workshop · **India's struggle for net neutrality: fighting Free Basics** — Life is no Algorithm conference, Cologne, Germany · event: https://bigdata.blackblogs.org/programm/program-english/
- Oct 2016 · Panel · **Global Justice in a Digital World** — Germany speaking tour 2016, Bremen, Germany · event: https://web.archive.org/web/2017/https://bigdata.blackblogs.org/veranstaltungsreise/
- 30 Sep 2016 · Panel · **Inaugural plenary** — Life is no Algorithm conference, Cologne, Germany · event: https://bigdata.blackblogs.org/programm/program-english/
- 29 Sep 2016 · Panel · **Global Justice in a Digital World** — Germany speaking tour 2016, Frankfurt, Germany · event: https://web.archive.org/web/2017/https://bigdata.blackblogs.org/veranstaltungsreise/
- 26 Aug 2016 · Talk · **Mozilla India Meetup 2016** — Mozilla, Pune, India
- 19 Aug 2016 · Talk · **Fuelling and defending a free and open internet: contribution pathways with Mozilla** — ICEFOSS 16, Kochi, India · event: http://2016.fossasia.org/
- 18 Mar 2016 · Talk · **India's fight for net neutrality and an open internet** — FOSSASIA OpenTech Summit 16, Singapore, Singapore · event: http://2016.fossasia.org/
- 15 Dec 2015 · Paper · **Fostering knowledge societies with read & write access: FOSS as information infrastructure** — Fourth Global Congress on Intellectual Property and the Public Interest, Delhi, India · event: http://global-congress.org/
- 6 Nov 2015 · Workshop · **Global South perspectives on net neutrality and zero rating** — Mozilla Festival, London, United Kingdom · event: https://2015.mozillafestival.org/
- 29 May 2015 · Talk · **Swathanthra Malayalam Computing: a case study** — Consultation on the OSS policy of the Government of India, Delhi, India
- 26 Feb 2015 · Talk · **Indian language computing: the community perspective** — UGC national seminar on Malayalam informatics, Irinjalakuda, India
- 18 Dec 2014 · Talk · **Sustaining community initiatives: the SMC experience** — Swathanthra 2014, Thiruvananthapuram, India
- 16 Dec 2014 · Talk · **Launch of the Indic Project** — 13th anniversary of Swathanthra Malayalam Computing, Kerala, India
- 5 Nov 2014 · Talk · **Malayalam computing: status, opportunities and the way forward** — Amma Malayalam, Thiruvananthapuram, India
- 27 Sep 2014 · Talk · **Contributing to Indian language computing efforts** — IEEE All-Kerala Students' Congress 2014, Thiruvananthapuram, India
- 11 Mar 2014 · Workshop · **Language computing initiatives under SMC** — Workshop on free mobile platforms, Thiruvananthapuram, India

## 2010–13

- 21 Dec 2013 · Panel · **Malayalam language and Wikipedia** — Wiki Sangamotsavam 2013, Alappuzha, India
- Oct 2013 · Fellowship · **Google Summer of Code Mentor Summit** — Google, Mountain View, United States (not an invitation)
- 7 Aug 2013 · Talk · **Twelve years of Malayalam computing and the way forward** — IEEE Kerala Section technical talk, Kerala, India
- Jun 2013 · Talk · **Indic scripts on mobile: status and roadmap** — FUEL GILT Conference 2013, Pune, India
- 8 Feb 2013 · Paper · **A computing roadmap for Malayalam University** — Malayalam computing stakeholder consultation, Thiruvananthapuram, India
- Feb 2013 · Lecture · **Aaron Swartz memorial lecture** — SAFI College of Science and Technology, Calicut, India
- 15 Nov 2012 · Talk · **Re-imagining freedom movements in the internet age** — Difference in Democracy conference, Kochi, India
- Nov 2012 · Talk · **Privacy in India: issues and challenges** — Civil society groups, Kochi, India
- Oct 2012 · Talk · **Privacy in India: issues and challenges** — Civil society groups, Calicut, India
- Feb 2012 · Talk · **India's invisible censorship** — ViBGYOR International Film Festival, Kerala, India
- Jan 2012 · Talk · **E-governance and privacy in India: challenges and the way forward** — Gnowledge Lab, Mumbai, India
- 9 Aug 2011 · Talk · **The Indic computing scene and steps forward** — Future directions of free software in Kerala, Thiruvananthapuram, India
- Feb 2011 · Talk · **FOSS tools in disaster preparedness: Sahana, Ushahidi and OpenStreetMap** — FOSSMeet@NITC, Calicut, India
- Aug 2010 · Talk · **State surveillance in India: from the IT Act 2008 to the BlackBerry case** — Say No to UID campaign, Delhi, India
- Jan 2010 · Talk · **Challenges to the knowledge commons** — The Civil Society Summit: the state of the republic at 60, Bengaluru, India

## 2005–09

- Sep 2009 · Talk · **Introduction to free knowledge: concept, framework and practice** — Software Freedom Day, Calicut, India
- Nov 2008 · Talk · **Silent, vibrant and distributed: a history of the free software movement in India** — National Conference on Free Software, India — place unrecorded, India
- Jul 2008 · Talk · **Emerging concerns on ICTs for development** — South Asian Peoples' Assembly, Colombo, Sri Lanka
- Mar 2008 · Talk · **Open standards, and why they are necessary for a democratic society** — NIT FOSSMeet, Calicut, India
- 15 Jan 2008 · Talk · **Subverting people's power and needs: the Asian Development Bank in Kerala** — South Asian workshop on IFIs and debt, Sri Lanka, Sri Lanka
- Feb 2007 · Talk · **From seeds to software: a culture of copying** — NIT FOSSMeet, Calicut, India
- Nov 2005 · Talk · **Window to Freedom** — College of Engineering, Thiruvananthapuram, India

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