Toomas Hendrik Ilves was the President of Estonia fro, 2006 to 2016. From Wikipedia "*In 2013 he chaired the High-Level Panel on Global Internet Cooperation and Governance Mechanisms convened by ICANN <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICANN>. From 2014 to 2015 Ilves was the co-chair of the advisory panel of the World Bank <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Bank>'s World Development Report <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Development_Report> 2016 "Digital Dividends" and was also the chair of World Economic Forum <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Economic_Forum>'s Global Agenda Council on Cyber Security beginning in June 2014. Beginning in 2016, Ilves has been co-chairing The World Economic Forum <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Economic_Forum> working group '**The Global Futures Council on Blockchain Technology'." *Should be an interesting fireside chat with Dean Janow. The Global Digital Futures Forum is somewhat pared down in length from previous years, but not in strength. High-level, as always. ISOC Live posted: "Today, Friday February 21 2020 the Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA) and Columbia World Projects present a double event. First, at 1pm EST (18:00 UTC) former Estonia President Toomas Hendrik Ilves will deliver the Georg" [image: livestream] <https://livestream.com/internetsociety/gdf20>Today, *Friday February 21 2020* the *Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs <https://sipa.columbia.edu/>* (SIPA) and *Columbia World Projects <https://worldprojects.columbia.edu/>* present a double event. First, at *1pm EST* (18:00 UTC) former Estonia President *Toomas Hendrik Ilves* will deliver the *George W. Ball Lecture <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Ball_(diplomat)>* in the form of a discussion with SIPA *Dean Merit E. Janow*. This will be directly followed at *2:30pm EST* (19:30 UTC) by the *Niejelow Rodin Global Digital Futures Forum <https://www.eventbrite.com/e/cybersecurity-the-digital-state-and-democratic-governance-tickets-88726829335>*. The forum, now in its sixth year, brings together leading scholars from across Columbia University, CEOs, senior policy makers, entrepreneurs, legal and policy experts, amongst others to discuss the broad challenges and opportunities created by the wide-ranging digital transformations occurring in the world today. The theme of this year’s Forum is *Cybersecurity, the Digital State, and Democratic Governance*. Both events will be webcast live via a partnership with the* Internet Society New York Chapter <http://isoc-ny.org>*. *VIEW ON LIVESTREAM: https://livestream.com/internetsociety/gdf20 <https://livestream.com/internetsociety/gdf20>* *SCHEDULE (EST = UTC-5):* *1:00pm-2:15pm | George W. Ball Lecture* *2:30pm-4:00pm | Pursuing Digital and Cyber Peace* *4:00pm-4:30pm | Data Flows and Transparency* *4:30pm-6:00pm | Digital Identity: A Development Agenda* *AGENDA: http://bit.ly/3bJpLPa <http://bit.ly/3bJpLPa>* *TWITTER: @IlvesToomas <https://twitter.com/IlvesToomas>* *#SIPADigitalFutures <https://bit.ly/sipadigitalfutures>* *Permalink* https://isoc.live/11803/ -- -------------------------------------- Joly MacFie +2185659365 -------------------------------------- -