The Marconi Society will host a free virtual Symposium, The Decade of Digital Inclusion, on November 2-3, 2022. The Marconi Society is a nonprofit chaired by Vint Cerf and dedicated to creating digital equity. This event honors wireless innovator, Siavash Alamouti, recipient of the Eric E. Sumner Award, and the program includes a number of technology notables.With nearly half the world unconnected and $42B in broadband infrastructure funding going out to states in the US right now, digital equity is center stage in the journey to bring opportunity to everyone. The Decade of Digital Inclusion brings together technologists, policy makers and digital inclusion advocates to create collaborations to bridge the digital divide.
Program highlights include:
- Vint Cerf and Shamina Singh of Mastercard’s Center for Inclusive Growth in a fireside chat about “Creating an Economy That Works for Everyone.”
- Vint will also lead a globally-oriented panel called “How Do We Define Broadband,” including Mei Lin Fund of the People-Centered Internet, Christophe Diot of Google, and Matt Rantanen of the Southern California Tribal Chairmen’s Association.
- Sir David Payne of the University of Southampton will discuss “Bringing Digital Equity Into Tomorrow’s Technology” with technology innovators Siavash Alamouti (Mimik), Aakanksha Chowdhery (Google), Marty Cooper (DynaLink), Taher Elgamal (Salesforce), Joe Kakande (Meta) and Henry Samueli (Broadcom).
- Danielle Davis, Policy Council for the Multicultural Media, Telecom and Internet Council, will lead a panel called “The (Big) Data Economy: Inclusion and Fairness” featuring Jordana Barton–Garcia of Connect Humanity, Sarah E. Chasins of Berkeley Engineering, Laura Chioda of Berkeley Haas and Tiffany Deng of Google.
