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Conference Schedule
18:00
Opening Reception
8:30
Opening Remarks (USC 3rd Floor - Grand Ballroom)
9:00
Keynote: Surveilled, Tricked & Trapped: The Stakes of Failing to Enforce in Tech
Stephanie Nguyen Room: 9:00-10:00 Abstract: For decades, policymakers relied on minimal intervention to preserve innovation and trust market forces to self-correct. But in today’s digital economy—marked by targeted advertising, platform dominance, and youth exploitation—this hands-off approach is no longer naïve; it’s harmful. At the heart of many digital harms are pervasive, opaque data practices—including mass surveillance and targeting—that drive manipulation, exploitation, and power concentration. These upstream practices are not incidental; they are central to core corporate business models. Drawing on lessons from the Commission, effective regulation must tackle these root causes rather than just respond to downstream effects. Existing tools can and must be used to curb harmful data practices at their source. Bio: Stephanie T. Nguyen is a senior fellow researching the intersection of tech, artificial intelligence and regulation at the Vanderbilt Policy Accelerator and the Georgetown Tech and Society Initiative and was most recently the Chief Technologist at the Federal Trade Commission under Chair Lina M. Khan. She built, designed, and executed the first Office of Technology and recruited, hired, and led a team of tech experts focused on competition and consumer protection enforcement matters, led compelled research studies on AI investments & partnerships and surveillance pricing, and strengthened digital capacity building across regulatory agencies. In the U.S. Digital Service under the Obama administration, Nguyen served in critical roles to build, design, deploy technological services to millions of people spanning migrant youth reunification, healthcare access, and student loan repayment programs. She led investigative research as a Research Scientist at the MIT Media Lab and at Consumer Reports – surfacing predatory fees across food delivery services during the pandemic, discriminatory automobile insurance pricing, and health app data privacy. Nguyen was a Gleitsman Fellow from Harvard’s Center for Public Leadership and received a Masters in Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School and a Bachelors in Digital Media Theory & Design at the University of Virginia.10:00
Break
10:30
Session 1B:
Room: USC 3rd Floor - Continental Ballroom 10:30-12:00Session 1C:
Room: USC 3rd Floor - Amphitheater 10:30-12:00Session 1D:
Room: USC 3rd Floor - 309 10:30-12:0012:00
Lunch
13:30
Session 2A:
Room: USC 3rd Floor - Grand Ballroom 13:30-15:00Session 2B:
Room: USC 3rd Floor - Continental Ballroom 13:30-15:00Session 2C:
Room: USC 3rd Floor - Amphitheater 13:30-15:00Session 2D:
Room: USC 3rd Floor - 309 13:30-15:0015:00
Break
15:30
Session 3A
Room: USC 3rd Floor - Grand Ballroom 15:30-17:00Session 3B:
Room: USC 3rd Floor - Continental Ballroom 15:30-17:00Session 3C:
Room: USC 3rd Floor - Amphitheater 15:30-17:00Session 3D:
Room: USC 3rd Floor - 309 15:30-17:0017:00
Town Hall
9:00
Dave Levin
Room:
9:00-10:00
