Welcome coffee

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

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

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

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