Events hub

Global Events and 

Industry Engagements

Stay connected with GliaNet Alliance as we shape the future of technology across the globe. Our Events hub serves as your central resource for tracking our conference appearances, speaking engagements, and industry gatherings worldwide. From upcoming presentations to archived insights, discover where we're making an impact in the digital ecosystem. Subscribe to our mailing list to receive timely updates on our next destination and ensure you never miss an opportunity to connect with our team of experts.

PLAMADISO Talk Series at the Weizenbaum-Institute

The PLAMADISO (#Platforms, #Markets, & the #Digital #Society) Talk format provides an open and accessible platform for researchers across fields, including economics, computer science, law, and engineering, to present and discuss their cutting-edge research. PLAMADISO is passionate about fostering interdisciplinary exchange and breaking down traditional disciplinary boundaries. Similarly, PLAMADISO strives to promote dialogue between the academic world, private and public decision-makers, and the interested public. Since 2019, the PLAMADISO Talk Series has showcased fascinating research from top experts and brought those together with an engaged audience. The Talk Series is hosted by the Research Group "Digital Economy, Internet Ecosystem, & Internet Policy" - part of the Weizenbaum Institute for the Networked Society in Berlin.

Building a Trust Layer for the Web

In this PLAMADISO Talk Series, Richard Whitt shows how a new profession of Net Fiduciaries can serve us under duties of care, good faith, and loyalty. In turn, these trustworthy intermediaries can arm us with edgetech applications, such as authentic personal AI agents, which can protect, enhance, and promote our best interests.  In his talk, Whitt will also introduce us to the GliaNet Alliance. This new coalition of companies and supporters is building out a real-world community of practice of Net Fiduciaries.

View the Talk Series recording, HERE.

Trust Over IP, 'Ecosystem & Governance Working Group', Speaker Series

The Mission of the Trust Over IP Foundation is to develop complete architecture for Internet Digital Trust and a better Internet for everyone. Specifically, the organization; promotes global standards for confidential, direct connections between parties, leverages the opportunities for interoperable digital wallets and credentials, protects citizen and business identities by anchoring them with verifiable digital signatures, integrates the technical elements for digital trust with the human elements—the business rules and policies that govern collaboration in a successful digital trust ecosystem, and fosters communication and knowledge sharing amongst Digital Trust experts. Scott Perry co-Chairs the Steering Committee and Ecosystem & Governance Working Group which creates specifications, templates, companion guides, whitepapers and blogs in the governance of digital trust ecosystems.

Bringing trust-based human governance to the Web

Scott Perry, Co-Chair of the Steering Committee at Trust over IP, welcomed Richard Whitt—author, public policy expert, and President of the GliaNet Alliance—as a featured guest in the ToIP Ecosystem & Governance Working Group Speaker Series. Richard shared key insights from his book Reweaving the Web and introduced GliaNet’s vision for reshaping internet governance—centered on a trustworthy new class of “Net Fiduciaries.”

View the presentation recording, HERE.

Kwaai Personal AI Summit Co-located with Southern California Linux Expo

Southern California Linux Expo (SCaLE 22x), SCaLE 22x took place on March 6-9, 2025 at the Pasadena Convention Center in Pasadena, CA. SCaLE is the largest community-run open-source and free software conference in North America. It is held annually in the greater Los Angeles area. The Kwaai Personal AI Summit was on Mar 6 in Pasadena, CA co-located with SCaLE22x.

'Governing AI for Autonomous Humans' 

#KwaaiSummit AI Policy Talk · March 6th at #SCALE22X

Richard Whitt, public policy expert and founder of the GliaNet Alliance and GLIA Foundation, explored how we could create AI governance models that foster trust, agency, and human autonomy in the digital age.

Participants came together to explore AI governance and personal AI policy grounded in individual empowerment.

View the full conference recording HERE, 

featuring Richard's talk at: 4:53:55 - 5:09:17 

RightsCon Taipei

Each year, RightsCon hosted by AccessNow convenes business leaders, policy makers, general counsels, government representatives, technologists, academics, journalists, and human rights advocates from around the world to tackle pressing issues at the intersection of human rights and technology.  In engaging fireside chats, hands-on workshops, strategic roundtables, private meetings, and a lively exhibition space, RightsCon is where a global movement comes together to build strategies and drive forward change toward a more free, open, and connected digital world.

Read more about GliaNet Alliance at the event HERE.

'Human Rights: The insurance for multistakeholder digital governance'

Over the years, the multistakeholder model for digital governance has been diluted and efforts to advance the role of governments have become more coordinated. In only two years, the number of UN-related processes have increased exponentially and multilateral governance is on the path to displace multistakeholder processes and fora. This move has implications for human rights. Collaborative governance ensures participation, a precondition for the exercise of human rights and the only means to ensure accountability and transparency. The recent Global Digital Compact (GDC), for instance, though it had at its core human rights, it was characterized by a lack of openness & participation by civil society was challenging. This session discussed how best to sustain & evolve the multistakeholder model & how best civil society can participate in this new multilateral reality.

The State of the Net Conference

Hosted by The Internet Education Foundation, SOTN is the nation’s premier Internet policy conference featuring top DC policymakers—a key event enabling the dialogue between public interest advocates and nonprofits, research institutions, and the business community toward the goal of educating policymakers about the importance of technology in promoting communications, commerce, and democracy.

'Emerging Tech Under Trump' 

President, Richard Whitt, joined the panel "Emerging Tech Under Trump" to explore AI, blockchain and other edge technologies shaping our future. Richard highlighted GliaNet Alliance's mission to empower people with digital technologies by establishing trustworthy digital relationships putting human interests first. 

View the presentation recording, HERE.

Silicon Flatirons 

Hosted by the Silicon Flatirons center for innovation at the University of Colorado Law School, This conference brings together leading minds in technology policy to address one of today's most pressing challenges: creating effective governance structures for our rapidly evolving digital landscape.

'Models for AI Governance at the State Level'

This set of talks analyzes how the New Federalism applies to AI governance. As AI technology advances at a breakneck pace, regulatory frameworks at both the state and federal levels struggle to keep up. This panel will consider whether states, acting in lieu of federal legislation, are best positioned to regulate AI, and what models of governance—ranging from state-centric approaches to international collaborations—are emerging as potential solutions. In particular, how proactive and activist should states be with respect to AI regulation? Is a laissez faire model advisable, or are strong precautionary steps warranted? How should strategic considerations, such as commercial and military competition with China, figure into this calculus?

View the presentation recording, HERE.

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