ISOC LIVE

HYBRID 29 OCT 11:00 EDT / 15:00 UTC: All Tech Is Human - Responsible Tech Summit 2026. From Principles to Power: Embedding Accountability in the AI Era isoc.live/22478 With @juliaangwin.com , @ruchowdh.bsky.social , @alexbores.nyc & more. #ResponsibleTech #AIAccountability #AIGovernance

SUMMARY - The Tokenizer Tax: Why Using the Same Model Could Cost Up to 17x More in Emerging Markets isoclive.substack.com/p/tokenizer-... CLEAR finds the same text can cost up to 17x more tokens depending on language and model. Via @restofworld.org #AI #LanguageEquity

WEBINAR 28 OCT 16:00 CET / 15:00 UTC: IGF - Global Dialogue on Slowing Down AI Development: Safety, Innovation and Global Equity isoc.live/22472 @intgovforum.bsky.social with @sonialivingstone.bsky.social, Jutta Croll, Roman Chukov and more. #IGF #AIGovernance #AISafety #DigitalEquity

WEBINAR 28 OCT 10:00 UTC: The IGF Policy Network on Open Digital Infrastructure (PNODI) Public Consultation Webinar isoc.live/22461 @intgovforum.bsky.social on PNODI's stocktaking: what counts as infrastructure, and what makes it open? #IGF #DigitalInfrastructure #InternetGovernance

WEBINAR 27 OCT 16:00 UTC: FutureNet World - From AI Pilots to Business Impact: What Will Define the Next Generation of Telecom Operations? isoc.live/22467 Vodafone, Telenor, Orange, Polystar and Appledore on AI-ready network data and agentic AI. #AgenticAI #AutonomousNetworks #Telecom #AI

SUMMARY - The 10 Myths about Starlink – A Reality Check for Telecom Operators, Investors, and Regulators isoclive.substack.com/p/strand-myths Strand Consult: #Starlink extends coverage but can't replace terrestrial networks. #LEO #Telecom #D2D

HYBRID 5 NOV 08:30 EST / 13:30 UTC: 2026 NY Metro Joint Cyber Security Conference isoc.live/22351 Keynote update: @rongula.bsky.social on 'Nation-States, Rogue AIs, and the Boring Stuff That Stops Both'. #NYMJCSC2026 #CyberSecurity #InfoSec #CybersecurityAwarenessMonth #SecureOurWorld

HYBRID 24 OCT 16:00 EDT / 20:00 UTC: Positive Exposure - Demystifying Disability: Celebration and Conversation with Author Emily Ladau and Xian Horn isoc.live/22449 @emilyladau.bsky.social talks with Xian Horn (Give Beauty Wings). #DemystifyingDisability #DisabilityRights #Accessibility #A11y

WEBINAR 28 OCT 16:00 EDT / 20:00 UTC: IPK - Co-Opting AI: Quantum isoc.live/22437 @ipk.bsky.social , UVA's DTD Lab and Sloane Lab host Paul Davies and Mauritz Kop on what quantum computing inherits from AI. Moderated by @monasloane.bsky.social . #AI #Quantum #QuantumComputing

HYBRID 6 NOV 18:00 EST / 23:00 UTC: NYPL - How AI Civics Can Build Public Power Over Tech With Data & Society isoc.live/22423 Panel: @megyoung0.bsky.social, @khari.bsky.social, Sareeta Amrute, Hannah Sassaman, @justinhendrix.bsky.social (mod) #AICivics #PublicInterestTech #AIGovernance #CivicTech

HYBRID 5 NOV 08:30 EST / 13:30 UTC: 2026 NY Metro Joint Cyber Security Conference isoc.live/22351 Keynote by Robert J. Darling; talks by @rongula.bsky.social, Mike Wilkes and more, live from Civic Hall. #NYMJCSC2026 #CyberSecurity #InfoSec #CybersecurityAwarenessMonth #SecureOurWorld

WEBINAR 23 OCT 16:00 UTC: Data Labelers Association - Confronting the politics of research and journalism on data work and AI isoc.live/22414 Toolkit launch. With Dorcus Maundu, @milamiceli.bsky.social & @rinachandran.bsky.social #DataWorkers #DataLabelers #AIEthics #AIJustice

WEBINAR 5 NOV 12:00 EST / 17:00 UTC: .US Stakeholder Council - .US Town Hall 2026 isoc.live/22391 Public town hall with Chair Dustin Loup, Jason Loyer and Kristin Johnson: the state of .US and the domain industry, policy for growth, civic priorities. #DotUS #DNS #InternetGovernance

WEBINAR 21 OCT 11:00 EDT / 15:00 UTC: IEEE - Thematic Study Day: Artificial Intelligence isoc.live/22386 IEEE History Week: AI as a brand, Soviet AI, robotics history and 39 years of IEEE CIS, with @computer.org and @ieeeras.bsky.social. #IEEEHistory #AI #HistoryOfComputing #Robotics

WEBINAR 4 NOV 16:30 CET / 15:30 UTC: eco - ICANN87 Readout – Highlights & Take-Aways from the Annual General Meeting isoc.live/22379 eco and ICANN host a readout of the Bali AGM, with GAC, ccNSO, ISPCP, SSAC, GNSO, RrSG, ALAC leads. #ICANN87 #DNS #InternetGovernance #DomainNames

SUMMARY - Resilience at Machine Speed: National Cyber Defense in the Age of AI isoclive.substack.com/p/dco10 DCO's 10th Policy Watch: resilience is built, not bought. Ten basics, the Hugging Face agent breach, a post-quantum roadmap. #CyberSecurity #AI

WEBINAR 21 OCT 6pm IST / 12:30 UTC: ISOC Mumbai - From Enigma to Chat Control: Why Encryption Is Everyone's Business isoc.live/22371 Jean F. Quéralt (The IO Foundation) on encryption and surveillance, moderated by Ishita Trivedi. #GlobalEncryptionDay #Encryption #ChatControl #ISOCMumbai

WEBINAR 27 OCT 08:00 EDT / 12:00 UTC: ISOC - Early Career Fellowship Symposium 2026 isoc.live/22355 @internetsociety.org presents its 2026 Early Career Fellows and their projects in three panels. #InternetSociety #EarlyCareerFellowship #InternetGovernance #DigitalInclusion

WEBINAR 14 OCT 16:00 CEST / 14:00 UTC: Hertie School - Government Automation for Context-Specific Public Service Delivery isoc.live/22330 @hertieschool.bsky.social hosts Elsa Estevez (UNS Argentina) on automation's public value and 'disvalue'. #DigitalGovernment #GovTech #PublicSector #AI

HYBRID 26-30 OCT 09:00 EET / 07:00 UTC: RIPE 93 isoc.live/22335 RIPE NCC hosts the 93rd RIPE Meeting in Sofia, Bulgaria: plenaries on routing security and RPKI, plus IPv6, DNS, Address Policy and other working groups. Online participation is free via Meetecho. #RIPE93 #IPv6 #RPKI #DNS

HYBRID 2 DEC 10:00 UTC: UK Internet Governance Forum Meeting 2026 isoc.live/22347 UK IGF in London and online (secretariat @nominet.uk): AI, national security, digital ID, an Under-16s social media ban, global digital governance. #UKIGF #InternetGovernance #DigitalPolicy #AIGovernance

HYBRID 22-23 OCT 9am EDT / 13:00 UTC: ARIN 58 Public Policy and Members Meeting isoc.live/22323 ARIN meets in Miami and online: nine number policy proposals, elections, IPv6 Task Force, routing security. #ARIN58 #IPv6 #InternetGovernance #RoutingSecurity

SAVE THE DATE 15-17 OCT: BIGF - 21st Bangladesh Annual Internet Governance Forum 2026 isoc.live/22305 Bangladesh IGF and BTRC meet in Dhaka on 'Governing the Internet in the Age of Intelligence'. Online Day 0 on 14 Oct. #bigf2026 #InternetGovernance #AIGovernance #DigitalInclusion

WEBINAR 15 OCT 15:00 EAT / 12:00 UTC: ATU - Regional Webinar on "IPv6 National Implementation: Accelerating Pan-Africa Transition and Connectivity" isoc.live/22298 ATU and Masterspace on national IPv6 roadmaps, policy enablers and case studies. #IPv6 #Africa #DigitalTransformation

WEBINAR 14 OCT 05:00 UTC: IGF - MAG Chair Office Hours VII isoc.live/22294 The @intgovforum.bsky.social Secretariat hosts an online office hour with IGF 2026 MAG Chair Jennifer Chung (DotAsia). #IGF2026 #InternetGovernance #MAG

WEBINAR 15 OCT 09:00 EDT / 13:00 UTC: CGFoE - Adjudicating False Information: A Global Case Law Analysis isoc.live/22290 @cgfoe.bsky.social paper launch on how courts handle false information, with Anya Schiffrin and UN SR Leopoldo Maldonado. #FreedomOfExpression #Disinformation #CaseLaw

HYBRID 13-14 OCT 10:00 WAT / 09:00 UTC: 14th AfICTA Summit isoc.live/22287 AfICTA meets in Abuja and online on security, digital skills and indigenous content for inclusive growth, with keynote Jimson Olufuye. #AfICTA2026 #DigitalSkills #Cybersecurity #DigitalEconomy

WEBINAR 9 OCT 08:30 EDT / 12:30 UTC: ISOC Alumni - From Prevention to Education: A Dual Approach to Misinformation isoc.live/22276 Alethos Initiative's Alexander Garfin & Larisa Miller with author Saadia Azim. #Misinformation #InformationIntegrity #MediaLiteracy

HYBRID 13 OCT 13:00 EDT / 17:00 UTC: Internet Caucus Academy - AI Rogue Agents: Who's Liable When They Act On Their Own? isoc.live/22269 Rayburn briefing + livestream with Matt Pearl (CSIS), Aaron Rieke, Soham Mehta (FAI); mod. @amyschatz.bsky.social #AIAgents #AILiability #AIPolicy

WEBINAR 8 OCT 12pm EDT / 16:00 UTC: digitalLIFT - Day of Equity 2026 isoc.live/22265 @digitallift-us.bsky.social runs six sessions for Digital Inclusion Week: equity landscape, GenAI, essential-service portals, Digital Navigators, funding case, the future. #DigitalEquity #DigitalInclusionWeek

WEBINAR 9 OCT 18:00 UTC: Makatob - The Importance of Cybersecurity in Internet Governance: Safeguarding Digital Rights, Trust, and Global Connectivity isoc.live/22262 Makatob hosts ISOC Ghana President Dr. Maud Ashong Elliot. #Cybersecurity #InternetGovernance #DigitalRights

SUMMARY - Encryption and Globalization 15 Years Later: End-to-End Encryption and the Third Round of the "Going Dark" Debate isoclive.substack.com/p/encryption... Swire, Ahmad & @mikespecter.com: E2EE seldom blocks lawful access. #E2EE @ietf.org #GlobalEncryption

HYBRID 9 OCT 10:00 UTC: Digital Reality Challenge - Empowering Women for a Safer Internet isoc.live/22248 Host Naomi Amoanwah Appiah (GCTU) with Dr. Maud Ashong Elliot (ISOC Ghana) and Gloria Amofah-Adjekum #OnlineSafety #WomenOnline #DigitalInclusion #Ghana

SUMMARY - Data Sovereignty in Practice isoclive.substack.com/p/wef-data-s... WEF council paper (co-chair @digitalarun.bsky.social): localization alone can't deliver sovereignty; authority must match capability across the stack. Plus a sovereignty-washing test. #DataSovereignty

WEBCAST 7 OCT 09:15 EEST / 06:15 UTC: Finnish Internet Forum 2026 isoc.live/22243 Finland's national IGF meets at Parliament with the Committee for the Future. Panels on technological sovereignty and social media age limits. #fiforum #suomi #DigitalSovereignty #SocialMedia

SUMMARY - AWS CEO on Datacenter Policy isoclive.substack.com/p/amazon-dat... AWS CEO Matt Garman likens the AI data center buildout to the interstates, rebuts critics on water and power, ends NDAs with officials and pledges $1B+ to host communities. #DataCenters #AI

HYBRID 23-24 OCT 09:00 EDT / 13:00 UTC: Kernochan Center - Origins, Evolution, and Possible Futures of the 1976 Copyright Act isoc.live/22227 With BCLT: Judges Leval & Newman and four Registers of Copyrights on the Act at 50. Online from $25. #Copyright #CopyrightLaw #IPLaw #AI

SUMMARY - Religious Scholars Met With Anthropic. What They Heard Stunned Them. isoclive.substack.com/p/nyt-anthro... @nytimes.com: @colah.bsky.social sought faith leaders' views on Claude's morals and possible consciousness, then clashed with the Vatican. #AI #AIEthics

RECAP - AI, Speech, and the First Amendment: Where Are the Constitutional Lines? isoclive.substack.com/p/netcaucus-... #FirstAmendment @meganiorio.bsky.social @epic.org @kateruane.bsky.social @cdt.org @corbinkbarthold.bsky.social @netchoice.bsky.social @viacristiano.bsky.social

HYBRID 2-3 OCT 09:00 EDT / 13:00 UTC: GW Law - The Future of the Copyright Act Symposium isoc.live/22224 The 1976 Act at 50: two days of papers, opened by Register Shira Perlmutter; keynote: Ginsburg, Goldstein, Litman & @pamelasamuelson.bsky.social. #Copyright #CopyrightAct #IPLaw

We’re THRILLED to officially launch our Online Trust and Safety Hub! This new site brings together training, educational content, anti-scam resources, and trusted third-party materials in one place. Because everyone deserves to feel safe online. Explore the hub: onlinesafety.internetsociety.org

SUMMARY - Royal Society – Safe, secure and robust AI for safety-critical systems isoclive.substack.com/p/rsoc-ai-sa... @royalsocietypublishing.org seminar with @tammykolda.bsky.social, Desmond Higham and @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social's Ying Xiao #AISafety

SUMMARY - AI Agents, Misalignment and the Risk of Losing Human Control: Evidence from the OpenAI-Hugging Face Incident isoclive.substack.com/p/un-ai-agents Brief from the UN AI science panel co-chaired by @yoshuabengio.bsky.social, via @unodet.bsky.social. #AISafety

RECAP/RECORDING - Internet Frontiers: Navigating Data to Inform Public Discourse isoclive.substack.com/p/isoc-pulse... #TribalBroadband @pulse.internetsociety.org @internetsociety.org @techpolicyinst.bsky.social @connecthumanity.bsky.social @manypossibilities.net @janeruffino.bsky.social

WEBINAR 28 SEP 12:00 EDT / 16:00 UTC: Royal Society - Safe, secure and robust AI for safety-critical systems isoc.live/22211 @royalsocietypublishing.org seminar: Kolda, Higham and Xiao on AI deployment, security and medical bias in LLMs. #AISafety #AI #LLMs #PhilTransA

WEBINAR 29 SEP 18:00 UTC: EURALO Round Table series: ICANN NextGen projects in the loop. Episode 1: "Internet for Everyone: The Quest for Universal Acceptance" isoc.live/22207 Expert input from Maria Kolesnikova and Maarten Botterman. #UniversalAcceptance #ICANN #NextGen

SUMMARY - “The internet is a giant copying machine”: Interview with Vint Cerf isoclive.substack.com/p/vint-cerf-... Cerf tells @thebulletin.org AI agents need common protocols and accountable identities, and asks who pays creators when AI replaces the click. #AIagents

WEBINAR 28 SEP 14:30 UTC: NCUC - AI and DNS Abuse: Keeping the Internet Safe and Open isoc.live/22203 With @danyork.bsky.social (@internetsociety.org), Ram Mohan (@identity.digital), @farzdusa.bsky.social, Eyitayo Iyortim (AfTLD) & Brian Cimbolic (.ORG). #DNSAbuse #AI #ICANN #OpenInternet

WEBINAR 26 SEP 10:30 IST / 05:00 UTC: ISOC Chennai - Governing Intelligence: AI and the Future of the Internet isoc.live/22193 ISOC Chennai & KriVin Academy host Sameer Gahlot (NIXI, Diplo) on inclusive, trustworthy AI governance. #AIGovernance #InclusiveAI #FutureOfInternet #TechX

SUMMARY - Data Centers Have a Community Engagement Problem isoclive.substack.com/p/cool-vecto... On @coolvector.bsky.social, three communications veterans say developers must listen first, be transparent and explain why a site was chosen. #DataCenters #AI