The inaugural TASI Festival will bring together leaders from government, industry, civil society, and academia to shape the future of trust and safety in the digital age. Key themes include AI and ethics, child safety, gender-based online violence, scams and fraud, and responsible innovation.

Monday October 6, 2025 

Opening reception 

(by invitation only) 

Tuesday October 7, 2025

Day 1

08:00 - Registration / Tea Coffee

09:00 - Room 1 - Opening remarks

09:15 - Room 1 - Panel: From Paris to Delhi: Shaping Global AI Governance and Ethical Innovation

• In the wake of the AI Summit in Paris, this high-level conversation will reflect on the key insights and global commitments emerging from that dialogue — and how they inform the road to Delhi in February. The panel will explore the evolving landscape of ethical AI innovation, focusing on responsible development, inclusive design, and effective governance. How can emerging technologies be aligned with democratic values, online safety, and cross-border policy frameworks? What roles do global tech companies, AI startups, and policymakers play in shaping the global AI ecosystem — and what lessons must be carried forward as India prepares to host the next chapter?

09:45 - Room 1 -  Welcome remarks

10:00 - Room 1 -  Keynote Speech 

• Dr. S. Jaishankar, Hon’ble Minister of External Affairs, Government of India

10:30 - Coffee 

11:00 - Room 1 - Panel: AI for Safety

• This session moves from principles to practice, focusing on how AI intersects with online safety, harm detection, and trust and safety operations. Panelists will explore current and emerging risks — such as AI-generated child sexual abuse material, scams, deepfakes, and recommender harms — and examine mitigation strategies like red-teaming, safety evaluations, data governance, and transparency tooling. The discussion will also surface challenges in translating safety-by-design principles into product roadmaps, particularly in Global South contexts.

11:00 - Room 2 - Panel: Bodies, Bans & Algorithms by FRIDA

• This panel by FRIDA explores how censorship and platform algorithms shape access to Bodies, Bans & Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights content. It invites platform stakeholders, creators, educators and advocates to ask: Who gets to speak about bodies online? Who decides what’s safe? And how do we reclaim digital spaces as sites of consent, autonomy, empowerment and knowledge sovereignty?

12:00 - Room 1 - Panel: Protecting Children Online with Google, Meta and Snapchat

• Panelists will explore how platforms are building policies, tools, and AI-driven solutions to prevent serious harms to children — including emerging risks like AI-generated abuse. They will discuss how partnerships with local communities and youth voices are critical for shaping responsive, safety-first approaches.

12:00 - Room 2 - Combatting sexual child abuse content with INHOPE

• In this session, INHOPE will present its Universal Classification Scheme and how it can support consistent responses to online harms

13:00 - Lunch 

14:00 - Room 1 - Spotlight: GSMA's Mobile Gender Gap research

14:15 - Room 1 - Spotlight: Panel: Building safer digital spaces for girls with Girl Effect

• The panel will spotlight practical strategies to create a digital world where girls can participate, express, and thrive without fear. This panel will explore how dismantling harmful gender norms around technology, building girls’ digital skills and literacy, and fostering safe, gender-responsive online spaces requires an ecosystem approach, that of engaging girls, boys and parents alike. 

14:00 - Room 2 - Workshop: Designing Safer Pathways - GroSafe’s AI Chatbot for Child Protection

• This interactive workshop introduces GroSafe, an EU-funded initiative using gaming, knowledge management, and AI to protect children from online grooming. Participants will explore GroSafe’s in-development AI reporting chatbot, designed to make it easier for young people to seek help and report concerns. Through breakout discussions and hands-on testing, attendees will provide feedback on the chatbot’s design, usability, and implementation challenges. The session closes with opportunities to contribute to ongoing research and shape the future of safer digital reporting tools.

15:00 - Room 1 - Panel: Click to Protect - How Digital Platforms can disrupt Human Trafficking Networks, with Booking.com

• While the fight against human trafficking requires mobilisation on the ground, digital platforms can play a meaningful supporting role. In this session, we’ll explore how platforms, working in partnership with industry experts and stakeholders, can contribute to disrupting human trafficking networks. In this session, we’ll explore how platforms, working in partnership with experts and stakeholders, can contribute to disrupting human trafficking networks.

15:45 - Room 1 - Spotlight: Tackling image-based abuse: Cross-platform collaboration in action with StopNCII.org 

16:00 - Room 1 - Panel: Disconnecting the Scam with Truecaller

• This panel will explore how India can build a safer digital ecosystem for its citizens by strengthening intelligence-sharing between government, industry, and technology providers. Speakers will examine the complex, evolving nature of online fraud, the role of legislation such as the Digital Personal Data Protection Act in shaping accountability, and the need for collaborative, tailored solutions—rather than a one-size-fits-all approach—to advance trust and safety online.

17:00 - Room 1 -  Closing remarks

17:15 - End of sessions

Evening reception 

(by invitation only) 

Day 2 - Wednesday October 8, 2025

08:00 - Registration / Tea Coffee

09:00 - Room 1 - Welcome back

09:15 - Room 1 - Fireside Chat: Dating and Safety

• Online dating is now part of everyday life, but it also raises urgent questions about safety, trust and accountability. This candid conversation will explore how platforms, policymakers, and civil society can work together to make dating safer — from tackling harassment and scams to preventing exploitation and abuse. Drawing on global experience and India-specific realities, the discussion will unpack policy frameworks, platform interventions, and the cultural shifts needed to build respectful, trust-based online relationships.

10:00 - Room 1 - Video Message : AI and Safety by Design 

• Australia's eSafety Commissioner, Julie Inman Grant

10:15 - Room 1 - Spotlight : Regulatory Sandbox with The Children's Online Redress Sandbox

10:15 - Room 2 - Closed Door Rountable: Bridging Influence and Policy - a discussion on Responsible Content Creation

• A neutral, solutions-focused space for policymakers and content creators to: exchange perspectives on the responsibilities that come with influence, discuss how to align creative freedom with public interest, and
  explore policy and partnership pathways that promote trust, transparency, and constructive engagement online.

10:30 - Room 1 - Panel: Designing for youth: Privacy, protection, and participation in the digital age

• As young people spend more of their lives online, the responsibility to create digital environments that promote wellbeing has never been greater. This panel will bring together leaders from age assurance providers, global industry, and independent experts to explore practical solutions for safer, more empowering online experiences for youth. Panelists will discuss how innovations in tech can work alongside safety-by-design principles to protect children’s rights without compromising their access to opportunity and expression. Drawing on perspectives from advocacy, research, and platform governance, the conversation will address the complex balance between privacy, protection, and participation—highlighting what it takes to build trust with young users and the adults who care for them.

11:00 - Room 2 - Panel - Children's Safety by Design: Policy, practice and the future with Institute for Governance, Policies & Politics

• This panel will look at how India can build safer, more inclusive digital spaces for children through thoughtful policy, design, and practice. Speakers will explore opportunities to strengthen protections, support well-being, and ensure children’s rights are respected—while highlighting pathways for innovation that reflect India’s diverse cultural and social context.

11:30 - Coffee

12:15 - Room 1 - Panel: Child Influencers in the Creator Economy, with Advertising Standards Council of India

• As children increasingly participate in the digital creator economy, often amassing large audiences and shaping consumer trends, urgent questions arise around their wellbeing, rights, and protections. This panel brings together experts, digital platforms, policy, and child rights advocacy to explore the emerging landscape of child influencers and examine the ethical and regulatory challenges of monetizing childhood on social media, including advertising disclosures, labor rights, consent, data protection, and the role of parents and guardians.

12:15 - Room 2 - Panel : Reimagining Safety: Youth, Tech, and Active Citizenship with SafetyPin

• This panel explores how young people are reshaping the meaning of safety—beyond top-down measures—through community-led audits, real-time alerts, advocacy, and peer networks. Drawing on examples where digital tools have mapped and improved public spaces, speakers will examine how tech for social good can amplify youth voices, foster active citizenship, and build safer, more inclusive environments—online and offline, especially for marginalized communities.

13:00 - Lunch 

13:45 - Room 1 - Fireside Chat : In conversation with a Minister from the Government of India (Tbc)

14:30 - Room 1 - Panel: Responding to Technology Facilitated Gender-Based Violence – What’s working and what’s next

• Technology-Facilitated Gender-Based Violence (TFGBV) manifests differently across geographies, but its impacts are strikingly similar—silencing women, deterring participation, and eroding trust online. This panel brings together practitioners from India, France, and the United States, spanning civil society, government, and the legal sector, who are directly confronting these harms. Panelists will highlight what’s working in different contexts, the constraints they face, and where collaboration across sectors and borders can make the biggest difference.

15:30 - Room 1 - Panel: Decoding TFGBV: Building policy and governance solutions with UN Women

• Turning frontline lessons into systemic change requires laws, policies, and governance models that are both ambitious and grounded in reality. This panel convenes parliamentarians, civil society leaders, donors, and international experts to explore how the lived experiences of women facing online abuse can inform stronger protections. Panelists will examine how policy frameworks, platform accountability mechanisms, and multilateral cooperation can be shaped to address evolving forms of TFGBV while balancing rights to privacy and expression. The conversation will focus on bridging the gap between what survivors need and what systems currently deliver, charting a path for responsive and enforceable solutions.

14:00 - Room 2 - Workshop: Sandboxing a Regulatory Sandbox with The Children's Online Redress Sandbox

• This session explores how regulatory sandboxes can provide a safe space to test and refine policies and tools for child online safety. By enabling experimentation, sandboxes help balance innovation, protection, and children’s rights in the digital age.

15:00 - Room 2 - Activity : Well-being for T&S Workers with Fortis Mental Health

15:15 - Room 2 - Panel : Well-being of T&S Workers 

• Trust & Safety workers—moderators, policy experts, enforcement teams, and crisis responders—play a critical role in keeping online spaces safe, often under intense emotional, psychological, and ethical pressure. This panel will explore best practices in mental health support, trauma-informed workplace design, organizational responsibility, and the role of technology in reducing exposure to harmful content.

17:00 - Room 1 -  Closing remarks

17:15 - End of Day 2

Closing reception 

(by invitation only) 

Last updated 28 August 2025