01/10/2024

Together with over 40 leading organisations in human rights, digital innovation, climate action, and social justice, TACD is joining the “Tech and Society Summit” on 1 October 2024 in Brussels. This exclusive event will bring together influential voices from civil society and EU decision-makers to tackle critical issues at the crossroads of technology, society, and the environment.

Programme highlights

Dive into the sessions, explore the schedule, and get acquainted with our fantastic speakers and moderators in the draft programme.

During the event, we will facilitate panels, networking opportunities and round-table conversations that will cover issues defining everyone’s agendas in 2024 and beyond:

• Digital austerity: Impact of digitalisation on essential services
• Limiting Big Tech power
• Exposing the environmental costs of technology: Is an alternative possible?
• Vision for our safety in the age of surveillance, securitisation, and criminalisation
• From broken by design to building a better internet from the ground up
• Human rights-based enforcement of legislation, EU law and decision-making process – A civil society perspective
• Building a healthy online public sphere: Reigning in Big Tech and building rights-respecting alternatives
• Brussels in the world: platform regulation and surveillance export control beyond 2024
• … and much more!

Among a number of opportunities to get visibility, there will also be key moments throughout the day for journalists and participants to exchange on the topics of tech, the environment and democracy.

The event is invite-only.