Senior Vice President-Public Policy and Chief Privacy Officer
AT&T, Inc.

Dorothy Attwood, Senior Vice President-Public Policy and Chief Privacy Officer for AT&T, Inc., is responsible for development and coordination of AT&T's strategic public policy initiatives and customer privacy policies at the international, federal and state level across all lines of businesses.

Middle East Africa Citizenship Lead Manager
Microsoft

Most recently on a short assignment with the Dutch Firm Motivaction, which specializes in social and political marketing research. Prior to this, Jeffrey spent many years at the United Nations. His last post was as Director of the Division for Operations, United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime in Vienna. In this capacity, he oversaw global network of 30 field offices and 4 regional desks promoting knowledge-based expertise in the context of sustainable development and human security, anti-corruption and facilitating the development by Governments of effective counter-measures against drug abuse, illicit drug production and trafficking, human trafficking and other forms of transnational organized crime.

Chief Executive Officer
Family Online Safety Institute

For the past 30 years, Stephen Balkam has had a wide range of leadership roles in the nonprofit sector in the both the US and UK.  He is currently the Founder and CEO of the Family Online Safety Institute (FOSI), an international, nonprofit organization headquartered in Washington, DC.  FOSI’s mission is to make the online world safer for kids and their families.  FOSI convenes the top thinkers and practitioners in government, industry and the nonprofit sectors to collaborate and innovate and to create a “culture of responsibility” in the online world.

Assistant Professor
University of Bahrain

Dr. Mohamed Baqer has held the position of Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Engineering, Collage of Information Technology, University of Bahrain since 2008.

CHIS & Internet Consultant

John Carr is one of the world’s leading authorities on children and young people’s use of the internet and associated new technologies. He is currently a Senior Expert Adviser to the International Telecommunication Union and has previously been an Expert Adviser to the European Union. John is also a former member of Microsoft’s Policy Advisory Board for Europe, the Middle East and Africa. In addition John has been engaged professionally to advise several, major high tech companies.