Georgetown University School of Continuing StudiesWashington, D.C.

April 4, 2019 • 9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.

TRUTH ABOUT TECH:

SOLUTIONS FOR DIGITAL WELL-BEING

9:15 a.m. WELCOME

9:30 a.m.–10:00 a.m. OPENING REMARKS Hon. Ed Markey, U.S. senator of Massachusetts

11:00 a.m.–11:15 a.m. ENFORCING COPPA: ARE WE PROTECTING KIDS’ PRIVACY? Rohit Chopra, FTC Commissioner

12:45 p.m.–1:10 p.m. HOLDING TECH ACCOUNTABLE Hon. Karl Racine, attorney general of Washington, D.C.

10:00 a.m.–10:45 a.m. STAYING CONNECTED: TECH AND SOCIAL RELATIONSHIPS Dr. Vivek Murthy, 19th surgeon general of the United States In conversation with James P. Steyer, CEO and founder of Common Sense

1:10 p.m.–1:45 p.m. BUILDING MOVEMENTS: MOBILIZING THE POWER OF TECH Cameron Kasky, co-founder of March for Our Lives In conversation with Elizabeth Galicia, Common Sense

10:45 a.m.–11:00 a.m. BREAK

12:00 p.m.–12:45 p.m. LUNCH

2:30 p.m.–2:45 p.m. BREAK

3:30 p.m.–3:45 p.m. CLOSING THE HOMEWORK GAP Jessica Rosenworcel, FCC commissioner

5:00 p.m. CLOSING

1:45 p.m.–2:30 p.m. FUTURE TECH: RAISING KIDS IN THE AI AGE Jakki Bailey, University of Texas

Sandra Calvert, Georgetown University Justine Cassell, Carnegie Mellon University

Moderated by: Michael Robb, Common Sense

3:45 p.m.–4:30 p.m. DIGITAL EQUITY: ENSURING ACCESS AND THE MAKING OF DIGITAL CITIZENS Rachel Barr, Georgetown University Lisa Guernsey, New America

Tina Plaza-Whoriskey, Child Trends Moderated by: Amina Fazlullah, Common Sense

2:45 p.m.–3:30 p.m. TRUST & TECH: DISRUPTING MONOPOLIES Barry Lynn, Open Markets Institute

Roger McNamee, co-founder of Elevation Partners Moderated by: Angela Campbell, Georgetown University Law School

Speakers and panels subject to change.

11:15 a.m.–12:00 p.m. YOU ARE THE PRODUCT: THE HIGH COST OF A FREE INTERNET Franklin Foer, Atlantic

Nicol Turner-Lee, Brookings Institution David Vladeck, Georgetown University Law Center

Moderated by: Cecilia Kang, New York Times

AGENDA

TRUTH ABOUT TECH: SOLUTIONS FOR DIGITAL WELL-BEING@CommonSense #DWB19 #digitalwellbeing

JAKKI BAILEYJakki Bailey is an assistant professor and the Scott C. and Vickie S. Reeve Endowed Faculty Fellow at the University of Texas at Austin in the School of Information. She specializes in immersive media and its influence on cognition, behavior, and learning. Jakki is currently studying VR’s influence on children’s cognitive skills and social responses.

RACHEL BARRRachel Barr is a professor of psychology at Georgetown University and director of the Georgetown Early Learning Project. She is primarily interested in how children bridge the gap between what they learn from media and how they apply that information in the real world. She has published almost 50 works and an edited book on the topic and co-authored Zero to Three’s Screen Sense resources. @ELPlearn

SANDRA L. CALVERTSandra Calvert is a professor of psychology, an affiliated faculty member of the McCourt School of Public Policy, and the director of the Children’s Digital Media Center at Georgetown University. Her interdisciplinary research about children’s media spans the fields of child psychology, public policy, communications, and health. Sandra has served on numerous task forces and advisory boards to improve the well-being of children and youth.

ANGELA J. CAMPBELLAngela Campbell directs the Communications & Technology Law Clinic at Georgetown Law. The clinic advocates for policies to ensure that new communications technologies benefit the public by representing nonprofit organizations before the FCC, the FTC, and the courts. She serves as a faculty advisor to Georgetown’s Institute for Technology Law & Policy and Center for Privacy & Technology. Previously, she was an attorney with the U.S. Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division.

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JUSTINE CASSELLJustine Cassell is associate dean for technology strategy and impact and director emerita of the Human-Computer Interaction Institute in the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University. She was co-founder of the Simon Initiative on Technology-Enhanced Learning, also at CMU. Justine was the founding director of both the Center for Technology and Social Behavior and the technology and social behavior joint Ph.D. in communication and computer science at Northwestern University.

COMMISSIONER ROHIT CHOPRARohit Chopra is a Federal Trade Commissioner and the recipient of multiple awards for his public service in and contributions to the field of consumer finance. Prior to the FTC, Rohit worked at McKinsey & Company, the global management consultancy, where he worked in the financial services, health care, and consumer technology sectors. @chopraftc

AMINA FAZLULLAHAmina Fazlullah is a policy counsel in Common Sense’s D.C. office, with a focus on expanding access to technology and digital well-being. Prior to joining Common Sense, Amina was a tech policy fellow at Mozilla, where she worked to promote broadband connectivity in underserved communities around the world. Amina has also worked with the U.S. Public Interest Research Group, for the Honorable Chief Judge James M. Rosenbaum of the U.S. District Court of Minnesota, and at the FCC.

FRANKLIN FOERFranklin Foer is a national correspondent for the Atlantic and the author of World Without Mind: The Existential Threat of Big Tech, which the New York Times and the Los Angeles Times listed as one of the best nonfiction books of 2017. For seven years, Frank served as the editor of the New Republic. @FranklinFoer

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ELIZABETH GETTELMAN GALICIAElizabeth Gettelman Galicia is vice president of Common Sense Kids Action, where she oversees policy advocacy efforts. Prior to joining Common Sense, Elizabeth was a policy consultant for foundations and nonprofits on issues such as foster care, gun violence prevention, and opioid safety. She spent a decade at the national news outlet Mother Jones and served as policy analyst for San Francisco’s Department of Children, Youth, and Their Families. @3liz

LISA GUERNSEYLisa Guernsey is director of the Learning Technologies project and senior advisor to the Early and Elementary Education Policy program at New America. She also co-founded and leads the Learning Sciences Exchange fellowship program at New America. She is co-author of Tap, Click, Read: Growing Readers in a World of Screens and author of Screen Time: How Electronic Media—From Baby Videos to Educational Software—Affects Your Young Child. Lisa has served on several national advisory committees on early education. @LisaGuernsey

CECILIA KANGCecilia Kang covers technology and regulatory policy for the New York Times out of Washington, D.C. She joined the Times in 2015 after 10 years of covering technology and business at the Washington Post. Cecilia started her career at AP–Dow Jones in New York City and Seoul, South Korea, where she was bureau chief during the Asian economic crisis of 1998. @CeciliaKang

CAMERON KASKYA former student of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, Cameron Kasky couples lessons from the classroom with real-world experiences in civics, politics, and media. Topping Fast Company’s list of the 100 Most Creative People in 2018, Cameron has appeared across multiple media outlets, including CNN, Fox News, the New Yorker, and Time, where he and several other MSD students appeared on the March 2018 cover as part of a story entitled “The School Shooting Generation Has Had Enough.” @Cameron_Kasky

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BARRY LYNNBarry Lynn directs the Open Markets Institute. Previously, he spent 15 years at the New America Foundation researching and writing about monopoly power. He is the author of Cornered: The New Monopoly Capitalism and the Economics of Destruction and End of the Line: The Rise and Coming Fall of the Global Corporation.

SENATOR ED MARKEYOver the course of his 40 years in Congress, Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) has authored the major consumer privacy protections in U.S. law. Ed is the House author of the historic Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), and he has introduced bipartisan legislation, the Do Not Track Kids Act, to prohibit internet companies from using behavioral targeting to advertise to children and teens and collecting personal and location information without parental or individual consent. @SenMarkey

ROGER MCNAMEERoger McNamee is the author of the newly released Zucked: Waking Up to the Facebook Catastrophe and has been a Silicon Valley investor for 35 years. He co-founded successful funds in venture, crossover, and private equity. He is an adviser on HBO’s Silicon Valley. @Moonalice

VIVEK H. MURTHYDr. Vivek Murthy served as the 19th surgeon general of the United States, appointed by President Barack Obama. During his tenure, Vivek launched the Turn the Tide Rx campaign, catalyzing a movement among health professionals to address the nation’s opioid crisis. An internal medicine physician and entrepreneur, Vivek has co-founded a number of organizations: Visions, an HIV/AIDS education program in India; Swasthya, a community health partnership in rural India training women as health providers and educators; software company TrialNetworks; and Doctors for America. @Vivek_Murthy

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TINA PLAZA-WHORISKEYTina Plaza-Whoriskey, senior communications manager at Child Trends, plays a leading role in the development of the Child Trends News Service editorial process and in the strategic communications work of the Hispanic Institute. She has attracted national attention to worthy causes for numerous nonprofit groups and served as media relations director for Celebra la Ciencia, a National Science Foundation-funded project designed to engage Latinx students and families in science. @tinaplaza

ATTORNEY GENERAL KARL A. RACINEKarl A. Racine was sworn in as the District of Columbia’s first elected attorney general in 2015 and was reelected to a second term in 2018. Over the course of his career, he has worked at the D.C. Public Defender Service; served as associate White House counsel to President Bill Clinton; and worked on criminal cases and complex civil litigation at private firms. While in private practice, he was elected managing partner of his firm, Venable LLP, and became the first African American managing partner of a top-100 American law firm. @AGKarlRacine

MICHAEL ROBBMichael Robb is senior director of research at Common Sense, overseeing the Common Sense Research Program, evaluation of organizational impact, and program development research. Michael has been involved in issues involving media and children for over 15 years. He has published research in a variety of academic journals on the impact of electronic media on young children’s language development, early literacy outcomes, and problem-solving abilities. @mikrobb1

COMMISSIONER JESSICA ROSENWORCELJessica Rosenworcel serves as a Federal Communications Commissioner and works to promote greater opportunity, accessibility, and affordability in government communications services to ensure that all Americans get a fair shot at 21st-century success. Jessica brings over two decades of communications policy experience and public service to the FCC. Previously, she served as senior communications counsel for the United States Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. @JRosenworcel

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DAVID C. VLADECKDavid Vladeck is the A.B. Chettle, Jr. professor of law at Georgetown University Law Center, where he teaches federal courts, civil procedure, and a practicum with MIT and runs a litigation clinic. From 2009 to 2013, he served as the director of the Federal Trade Commission’s Bureau of Consumer Protection. Previously, David spent more than 25 years as a staff lawyer and then as director of Public Citizen Litigation Group, handling complex constitutional and administrative litigation in federal court. @GtownTechLaw

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