Anivar A Aravind

Invited to speak

Standards bodies, universities, conferences and public meetings across nine 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
Kind
All Keynote Panel Talk Workshop Paper Lecture Fellowship
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Pick a period, a year, a kind or a place below — each year, kind and place slice is a page of its own. The whole record follows beneath.

By period What the work was
2018–26 19 Corrigibility, agentic systems and the return to standards
2014–17 28 Net neutrality, internet governance, Aadhaar and fairness in data systems
2010–13 15 Privacy, surveillance and Indic computing on mobile
2005–09 7 Free software, open standards and the knowledge commons
By year 19 years
2026 5 2025 4 2024 2 2023 1 2021 2 2020 4 2018 1 2017 9 2016 10 2015 4 2014 5 2013 6 2012 5 2011 2 2010 2 2009 1 2008 4 2007 1 2005 1
By kind 7 in use
Keynote 1 I opened or closed the event and set its argument. Panel 19 A seated discussion with several voices; I answer, I do not present. Talk 35 An invited talk on a named subject, in a session of my own. Workshop 7 A working session — participants build, draft or test something. Paper 3 A written submission presented to a conference or consultation. Lecture 1 A single lecture inside somebody else's teaching programme. Fellowship 3 A funded programme attended in full, not a single appearance.
By place 26 places · most-visited first
Thiruvananthapuram 10 Calicut 8 Bengaluru 5 Delhi 5 India — place unrecorded 5 Online 5 Hyderabad 4 Kochi 4 Kerala 3 Cologne 2 Colombo 2 Pune 2 Abu Dhabi 1 Alappuzha 1 Berlin 1 Bremen 1 Frankfurt 1 Hamburg 1 Irinjalakuda 1 Istanbul 1 London 1 Melbourne 1 Mountain View 1 Mumbai 1 Singapore 1 Sri Lanka 1
By country 9 countries
India 49
Germany 6
Sri Lanka 3
Australia 1
Singapore 1
Türkiye 1
United Arab Emirates 1
United Kingdom 1
United States 1
The whole record

69 appearances · grouped by period · newest first

2018–26

Corrigibility, agentic systems and the return to standards
2025 · Nov 6
Bahu Bhasa 2025
Hyderabad · Open Knowledge Initiatives & LTRC, IIIT Hyderabad

Tech-Policy Interventions for Low-Resource Languages

Roundtable moderator, Day 1; panellists Banwang Losu (Wancho Literary Society), Dr. Bhushan Bhave (Vidya Prabodhini), Dr. Meenakshi Munda (Kolhan University) and Runa Bhattacharjee (Wikimedia Foundation).

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2025 · May
Food & Hospitality Week 2025
Melbourne Convention & Exhibition Centre · Restaurant Technology Show

Restaurant Technology Show panel

Appearing for Foodhub. The week ran 18–20 May 2025 at the MCEC, uniting four shows: Foodservice Australia, the Pizza Pasta & Italian Food Show, the Commercial Kitchen Show and the Restaurant Technology Show.

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2024 · Sep 6
Just AI Awards 2024
Hyderabad · Telangana Global AI Summit, HICC

The Future of AI: Opportunities & Challenges

Track 1, Ethical AI-solutions for Social Good (Digital Empowerment Foundation & Emerging Technologies, Government of Telangana). Also served on the awards jury and technical advisory committee. DEF India published the recording as "AI for Social Good: Opportunities, Challenges, and the Way Forward".

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2023 · Sep 12
ICANN
Istanbul, Türkiye · Asian, Australasian and Pacific Islands Regional At-Large Organisation

APRALO General Assembly

The regional At-Large community's face-to-face assembly, 12–13 September 2023, attended as a funded At-Large Structure representative. Third ICANN gathering, after the Hyderabad fellowship and speaking at Abu Dhabi.

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2020 · Jan 15
Harvesting the Network
Ashirwad, off St. Marks Road, Bengaluru · Maraa, Alternative Law Forum and AIPF Karnataka

On Risks of the Data Protection Bill

An afternoon on WhatsApp and vigilante violence, then this panel with Nayantara Ranganathan and Arvind Narrain, weeks after the bill reached Parliament. He read it as a weaponisation of the privacy judgement that takes away informational self-determination, and argued it had to be read alongside the account aggregator framework; he circulated a marked-up copy of the bill that morning.

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2014–17

Net neutrality, internet governance, Aadhaar and fairness in data systems
2017 · Dec
ICANN
Colombo, Sri Lanka · Root Zone Label Generation Rules

Neo-Brahmi Generation Panel working meeting

Drafting label generation rules for the nine Neo-Brahmi scripts, in the week ICANN launched the Sinhala Generation Panel in Colombo. The panel is the largest of its kind, with members across Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Singapore and Sri Lanka; the day is not recorded because the announcement places the meeting only within that week.

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2017 · Oct 28
ICANN
Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates · speaker

ICANN60

Second appearance at the internet's naming and numbers body, after attending ICANN57 in Hyderabad as a fellow.

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2016 · Oct 6
Germany speaking tour 2016
Centro Sociale, Hamburg · Globale Gerechtigkeit auch in der digitalen Welt

Global Justice in a Digital World

One panel — "Globale Gerechtigkeit auch in der digitalen Welt", on the consequences of the smartification of life — carried across five German cities with Lina Ben Mhenni, who blogged the Tunisian revolt, and Yves Ndagano, a former child soldier in the Congo who worked the coltan mines. Dated from the organisers' own listing, which put Hamburg on 6 October.

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2016 · Oct 5
Germany speaking tour 2016
Regenbogenfabrik, Berlin · Globale Gerechtigkeit auch in der digitalen Welt

Digital Rights Movements & Global Justice

One panel — "Globale Gerechtigkeit auch in der digitalen Welt", on the consequences of the smartification of life — carried across five German cities with Lina Ben Mhenni, who blogged the Tunisian revolt, and Yves Ndagano, a former child soldier in the Congo who worked the coltan mines.

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2016 · Oct
Germany speaking tour 2016
Kommunikationszentrum paradox, Bremen · Globale Gerechtigkeit auch in der digitalen Welt

Global Justice in a Digital World

One panel — "Globale Gerechtigkeit auch in der digitalen Welt", on the consequences of the smartification of life — carried across five German cities with Lina Ben Mhenni, who blogged the Tunisian revolt, and Yves Ndagano, a former child soldier in the Congo who worked the coltan mines. The organisers listed Bremen as 7 or 8 October without settling it, so the day is not recorded here.

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2016 · Sep 30
Life is no Algorithm conference
Cologne, Germany

Inaugural plenary

Opened the conference, then ran a working session on the Free Basics campaign; a four-city German speaking tour followed.

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2016 · Sep 29
Germany speaking tour 2016
Festsaal Campus Bockenheim, Frankfurt · Globale Gerechtigkeit auch in der digitalen Welt

Global Justice in a Digital World

One panel — "Globale Gerechtigkeit auch in der digitalen Welt", on the consequences of the smartification of life — carried across five German cities with Lina Ben Mhenni, who blogged the Tunisian revolt, and Yves Ndagano, a former child soldier in the Congo who worked the coltan mines.

Panel Event ↗ Wayback ↗

2010–13

Privacy, surveillance and Indic computing on mobile
2013 · Oct
Google
Mountain View, California · organisation administrator for Swathanthra Malayalam Computing

Google Summer of Code Mentor Summit

The annual unconference closing the Google Summer of Code cycle, 280 attendees from 177 mentoring organisations. Travel and visa funded through Software in the Public Interest; SMC's projects ran under the Indic Project.

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2005–09

Free software, open standards and the knowledge commons
Categories

What each kind of appearance means

Kind records what the invitation asked for. Place is resolved through a fixed table of patterns, so a city is never inferred from a college name.

Kind What was asked for
Keynote 1 appearance
I opened or closed the event and set its argument.
Panel 19 appearances
A seated discussion with several voices; I answer, I do not present.
Talk 35 appearances
An invited talk on a named subject, in a session of my own.
Workshop 7 appearances
A working session — participants build, draft or test something.
Paper 3 appearances
A written submission presented to a conference or consultation.
Lecture 1 appearance
A single lecture inside somebody else's teaching programme.
Fellowship 3 appearances
A funded programme attended in full, not a single appearance.
Method How the record is kept
Place resolves through a table.
City and country come from a fixed pattern list — never from splitting a free-text string, which turns “NIT Calicut” into a country.
Artefacts are linked where they exist.
Recording, slides and write-up appear only where a public copy exists. Everything else shows the event page, which records that the event happened; the recording or the deck records what was said in it.
Month precision is stated.
Where the day was not recorded, the entry shows the month alone instead of a plausible date.

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