What Role Can India Play in Shaping Global Standards for Socially Intelligent, Just, and Ethical AI?
Fireside chat at the Just AI Awards 2025 ceremony, 7th Digital Citizen Summit / AI Impact Summit. Chair Jayesh Ranjan; moderator Osama Manzar. Recorded as "AI at a Crossroads: Voices Challenging the Hype".
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).
The Identity Project: Unmaking of a Democracy — in conversation with Rahul Bhatia
Day 3 of the festival (1–3 November 2024). Identity, identification and democracy, around Rahul Bhatia's book.
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.
What comes after digital identity on public digital infrastructures
Community lab proposed by the Rethink Aadhaar group; accepted for the fully online RightsCon 2021.
Finally, do we have the Personal Data Protection Act
Session aired live 4:00-5:00 PM IST and recorded by ITechLaw.
Panel on the Personal Data Protection Bill
Public discussion at Ashirwad, St. Marks Road, weeks after the 2019 bill was introduced in Parliament.
Speaker, Round Table on Data Protection
Invited as a marquee speaker after confirming participation in the round table.
Revisiting Aadhaar: Law, Tech and Beyond
Convened four months before the Supreme Court recognised privacy as a fundamental right; the summary report was covered in the press.
Opened the conference, then ran a working session on the Free Basics campaign; a four-city German speaking tour followed.