| 10th November 2023 |
09.00 – 10.00 | Registration of the participants Welcome coffee |
| Greetings to the Forum participants |
10.00 – 10.30 | Opening of the Central Asian Internet Governance Forum Welcome speech: - RIPE NCC – Vahan Hovsepyan, External relations officer
- ICANN – Andrea Beccalli, Stakeholder Engagement Senior Director- Europe, ICANN
- TikTok – Sergei Sokolov, Director of government relations and corporate affairs in Eastern Europe
- KASPERSKY – Valery Zubanov, Managing director of Kaspersky Lab for Central Asia and Mongolia
- IGF – video performance
● Department of Digital Transformation of MDDAI RK – Altynbekov Asanali |
11.00 – 12.30 | Session 1. Artificial Intelligence and New Technologies: trends, opportunities, risks, and solutions for the digital society Moderator: Tattu Mambetalieva |
| - “Development and application of generative artificial intelligence: challenges and prospects in the modern world.” – Kanat Sarsekeyev, Senior Manager, Head of technology risk group in Kazakhstan and Central Asia
- Oleg Byakhov Government and Regulatory Affairs Executive, Global Government Business Development, IBM
- “International experience and approaches to the regulation of artificial intelligence” – Alexei Marciuc, Chairman of the ComunitateaInternet Association, Coordinator of the Internet Governance Forum in Moldova (MIGF)
- “Issues of AI development in Kazakhstan” – Asel Alchikanova, RSE Analyst at the Digital Government Support Center
- “Digital Code of the Kyrgyz Republic as a regulatory framework for the use of digital technologies” – Tattu Mambetalieva, director of PF Civil Initiative on Internet Policy
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12.30 – 13.30 | Lunch |
13.30 – 15.00 | Session 2. Digital Resilience: new approaches to addressing persistent challenges Moderator: Valery Zubanov |
| - “A resilient Internet for economic and social prosperity” – Andrea Beccalli, Stakeholder Engagement Senior Director- Europe, ICANN
- “E-sustainability Monitoring is a UNESCAP tool, a survey of Central Asian countries and recommendations for development” – Ekaterina Genkina, International Expert on Change Management, co-author of the UNESCAP study
- Toomas Tirs, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Estonia to the Republic of Kazakhstan, Republic of Kyrgyzstan, Republic of Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Republic of Uzbekistan
- “Cybersecurity as one of the foundations of digital sustainability” – Valeriy Zubanov, Managing director of Kaspersky Lab for Central Asia and Mongolia
- “How to improve protection against emerging threats in the network. The Experience of the Kyrgyz Republic” – Azamat Manapov, State Committee for National Security of the Kyrgyz Republic
- “How to improve protection against emerging threats in the network. Experience of the Republic of Uzbekistan” – Khusan Soatov, Ministry of Information Technologies of the Republic of Uzbekistan
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15.00 – 15.30 | Coffee-break |
15.30 – 17.00 | Session 3. Digital citizenship: the impact of AI on human rights and ethical principles of its application Moderator: Irina Baykulova |
| - «FREEDOM ON THE NET 2023: Key Findings» – Freedom House (online)
- “Biometric identification in Kazakhstan: the impact of new technologies on the protection of personal data” – Roman Reimer, co-founder of the Public Foundation “Wings of Liberty”
- “Assessment of the ethical consequences of the use of AI systems for the information privacy of employees” – Alexey Muntyan, Founder and CEO of Privacy Advocates
- “The use of artificial intelligence in the digital age: the consequences of content moderation for human rights” – Baurzhan Rakhmetov, Assistant Professor at the International School of Economics, KazGUU University, PhD degree in Politics and International Relations from Cardiff University, UK
- “The rating of digital rights in Central Asia has been completed! What’s next?” – Zukhra Halimova, Independent expert on digital transformation of the Republic of Tajikistan
- “Cybersecurity and human Rights protection system in the AI era” – Dana Utegen, Deputy Director of the Maqsut Narikbayev University Graduate School of Law, Director of the Digital Rights Center Qazaqstan at the AIFC
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17:00 – 18:00 | Summing up the forum |