Brighthood

Ethical leadership and sustainable businesses – leading change in the mobile industry

Mats Granryd, Director General, GSMA

As Director General, Mats Granryd leads the GSMA in supporting its global membership through a range of industry programmes, advocacy initiatives and industry-convening events.

In 2016, Mats led the mobile industry in becoming the first sector to commit to the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Supporting this, Mats serves on the Broadband Commission for Sustainable Development, the Business & Sustainable Development Commission and The B Team.

Before joining the GSMA, Mats was President and CEO of Tele2 and also spent 15 years in a variety of roles at Ericsson.

GSMA

The Global System for Mobile Communications; GSMA was formed in 1995 and is a trade body that represents the interests of mobile operators worldwide, uniting more than 750 operators with almost 400 companies in the broader mobile ecosystem, including handset and device makers, software companies, equipment providers and internet companies, as well as organisations in adjacent industry sectors. The GSMA also produces the industry-leading MWC events held annually in Barcelona, Los Angeles and Shanghai.

Experience from lobbying in child protection and the creation of the HERO program – US veterans trained in counter-child-exploitation and digital forensics

Camille Cooper, Vice President of Public Policy, RAINN

Camille Cooper serves as the vice president of public policy at RAINN, where she leads efforts at the federal and state level to improve the criminal justice system, prevent sexual assault, and ensure justice for survivors.

At RAINN, Cooper’s work focuses on efforts to secure funding for sexual violence programming, eliminate the large volume of untested and unanalysed forensic evidence from sexual assault cases, known as the rape kit backlog, address campus sexual violence, and protect children against sexual violence.

Cooper has more than 20 years of experience in federal and state political legislative drafting, strategy, and lobbying on topics related to child protection, child exploitation, anti-child trafficking. She has helped create some of the largest reforms in child exploitation and child protection in the US, including The PROTECT Our Children Act of 2008 which established hundreds of millions in federal and state funding for the Internet Crimes Against Children Task Forces, The HERO Act which established the Hero Child Rescue Corps in partnership with Homeland Security and Special Operations Command, and the Justice for Victims of Trafficking Act which established protections for victims of sex trafficking.

Prior to joining RAINN, Cooper served as director of government affairs at the National Association to Protect Children, a non-profit organization dedicated to protecting children from abuse, neglect, and exploitation. Cooper holds a Certificate in Strategic Leadership from the U.S. Army War College as part of the Commandant’s National Security Program.

RAINN

RAINN is the largest anti-sexual violence organization in the United States. RAINN created and operates the National Sexual Assault Hotline in partnership with more than 1,000 local sexual assault service providers across the country and operates the DoD Safe Helpline for the Department of Defense. RAINN has served over 3 million people, and provides services to over 26,000 survivors a month. RAINN also carries out programs to prevent sexual violence, help survivors, and ensure that perpetrators are brought to justice.

New tools for measuring the progress on ending child sexual abuse and exploitation: The Index for assessing60 countries’ response to child sexual exploitation and the ITU UNESCO Broadband Commission Report on Child Safety Online

Dr. Joanna Rubinstein, President & CEO, World Childhood Foundation USA, Commissioner of the ITU UNESCO Broadband Commission for Sustainable Development

In 2015, Rubinstein was appointed as President & CEO of World Childhood Foundation (WCF) USA. An expert in global health and sustainable development, Rubinstein brings to WCF over a decade of experience in leadership roles at Columbia University (CU) and at the United Nations (UN) helping develop and lead several global initiatives in health, education and in the development of the 2030 agenda.

Using the new Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) framework, Rubinstein is leading Childhood USA in advocating for ending child sexual abuse and exploitation by convening annual high-level meetings at the UN, developing digital tools for prevention, and by funding innovative, evidence building programs in the US.

Rubinstein was instrumental in the development and launch this year of a benchmarking tool by The Economist Intelligence Unit, looking at 60 countries’ response to child sexual abuse and exploitation. In 2018, Rubinstein was appointed as a Commissioner of the ITU/UNESCO Broadband Commission for Sustainable Development where she co-chairs a Working Group on Child Safety Online. She also serves on numerous boards, including The Global Partnership to End Violence Against Children, Leadership Council of the Sustainable Development Solutions Network and the Early Childhood Development and Peace Building Consortium.

World Childhood Foundation

Childhood, founded by Her Majesty Queen Silvia of Sweden in 1999, acts as a liaison between donors and community-based organizations and is currently supporting over 100 projects in 17 countries.

The World Childhood Foundation identify and support existing projects and new initiatives that are aligned with Childhood’s mission; to defend the rights of children and to promote better living conditions for vulnerable and exploited children at risk all over the world. Among other things by stimulating, promoting and enabling the development of solutions to prevent and address sexual abuse, exploitation and violence against children.

The Broadband Commission for Sustainable Development

The Broadband Commission, established in 2010, is comprised of leaders from government, industry, international organisations and academia. It is a top-level advocacy body promoting broadband as an accelerator of global development. In September 2015 it was re-named the Broadband Commission for Sustainable Development with the specific purpose of working to help achieve, through the power of broadband connectivity, the Sustainable Development Goals.​

How close cross sector collaboration can help safeguard children

John F. Clark, President and CEO, The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC)

Clark has an extensive law-enforcement background, including 28 years with the United States Marshals Service. Throughout his career, Clark has been a leading child advocate. During his tenure at USMS, Clark implemented and administered Title I of the Adam Walsh Child Safety and Protection Act, which directed USMS to locate and apprehend fugitive sex offenders. He also oversaw the implementation and operation of the National Sex Offender Targeting Center.

Clark was appointed director of the USMS in 2006 by then-President George W. Bush as its ninth director, a post he held for five years. Before joining the USMS, Clark worked for the U.S. Capitol Police and U.S. Border Patrol. He earned a Bachelor’s of Science Degree from Syracuse University.

NCMEC

The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children is a private, non-profit corporation whose mission is to help find missing children, reduce child sexual exploitation, and prevent child victimization. NCMEC works with families, victims, private industry, law enforcement, and the public to assist with preventing child abductions, recovering missing children, and providing services to deter and combat child sexual exploitation

Using tech and treatment to prevent sexual offending – PreventIT and Preventell

Christoffer Rahm, Principal Investigator Priotab, Researcher Karolinska Institutet, Chief Psychiatrist Psychiatric Clinic South Stockholm

Christoffer Rahm is a psychiatrist and researcher at the Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden. He’s principal investigator for two clinical trials that aim at reducing child sexual abuse by developing better care for adults with sexual interest in children. One of the trials, called Priotab, involves a test of a new pharmaceutical, and recruits patients from all over Sweden via the Preventell helpline linked to the Anova clinic at Karolinska University Hospital. The other, PreventIT, is a test of a new online strategy. It reaches out to anonymous users of child sexual abuse material, globally, via pedophile forums at the Darknet. They are offered therapist assisted internet cognitive behavioral therapy for free.

Karolinska Institutet

Karolinska Institutet is one of the world’s foremost medical universities.

As a university, KI is Sweden’s single largest centre of medical academic research and offers the country’s widest range of medical courses and programmes. Since 1901 the Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet has selected the Nobel laureates in Physiology or Medicine.

Using tech and treatment to prevent sexual offending – PreventIT and Preventell

Katarina Görts Öberg, PhD, Psychologist and Head of ANOVA

Since 2010, Katarina Görts Öberg has been head of the research program at ANOVA, Karolinska Institutet, focused on the development and evaluation of treatments for problematic and criminal sexual behaviour. Öberg also participated in studies pertaining to research for understanding biomarkers for hypersexual disorder. She is one of the responsible for the helpline PrevenTell, which aims to reach people at risk of committing sexual assaults, and offering treatment to stem unwanted and illegal sexual behaviour.

Karolinska Institutet

Karolinska University Hospital is the home of a multi-disciplinary project called ANOVA. It falls under the Theme of Inflammation and Infection as an interdisciplinary unit. Since the early 1990s ANOVA has investigated, diagnosed and treated men with andrological illnesses, patients with sexual conduct behaviours, paraphilia, and people with gender dysphoria.

ANOVA is a highly specialised unit that conducts research, development, and teaching, both in Sweden and internationally. The work is theoretically based in the enriching and developing borderland between psychiatry and somatic sciences. ANOVA’s main mission is to prevent sexual and reproductive ill health and sexual violence, and to investigate and treat people with gender dysphoria through high quality diagnostics, treatment, research, development and teaching.

Live-streaming and emerging technologies in child sexual abuse crime – Soft launch of the NetClean Report 2019

Anna Borgström, CEO NetClean

Anna Borgström has been with NetClean since 2009, working globally with businesses, organisations and governments to fight child sexual abuse through innovative technological solutions. Borgström is deeply involved in making a difference for children through a combination of corporate social responsibility, ethical business practices and technology. Borgström has a strong belief in businesses’ power to change the world.

NetClean

By combining world leading technology with thorough knowledge of how child sexual abuse material is distributed and consumed, NetClean develops effective solutions that protect businesses and organisations from child sexual abuse material being handled in their IT environment. Using hash technology, NetClean ProActive detects known child sexual abuse material on work computers, no matter how it is accessed or handled. The technology reacts when it detects the digital fingerprint of an image or video that law enforcement has classified as child sexual abuse material. By following the trail of a detected image, new material can be found, offenders can be prosecuted and children can be rescued.

NetClean’s technology is used in over 110 countries by big businesses, multinational companies and public sector organisations.

Creating awareness and sharing knowledge about this issue is important to NetClean. The Brighthood Conference and the NetClean Report – a report about child sexual abuse crime – are two examples of that.

New tools for measuring the progress on ending child sexual abuse and exploitation. – The index for assessing 60 countries’ response to child sexual exploitation and the ITU UNESCO Broadband Commission Report on Child Safety Online

Conor Griffin, Regional Director, EMEA, The Economist Intelligence Unit.

Conor Griffin leads The Economist Intelligence Unit’s Public Policy practice in Europe, Middle East and Africa. In this role, he is responsible for managing the team that designs and delivers bespoke research and engagement programmes that drive real impact on headline policy issues.
His areas of specialisation include social policy, education policy, and technology policy. His regional expertise includes the EU, China, and the GCC. Griffin regularly delivers in-person presentations at conferences and client events and has also contributed insights to several media outlets, including the Financial Times. Conor holds a Master’s degree in international relations from the College of Europe and an economics degree from Birkbeck University in London.

The Economist Intelligence Unit

The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) is a British business within the Economist Group providing forecasting and advisory services through research and analysis, such as monthly country reports, five-year country economic forecasts, country risk service reports, and industry reports

Uri Sadeh, Adv. MSc. Coordinator of the Crimes against Children Unit, INTERPOL

Trained as a lawyer, Uri Sadeh worked on various human rights topics in Israel, before joining INTERPOL in 2007. He served as a Criminal Intelligence Analyst, Project Manager, and finally, as Coordinator – Services Development, at INTERPOL’s Crimes against Children Unit. In 2014 Sadeh took a leave of absence from INTERPOL to join the Israel National Police and promote the creation of an Online Crimes against Children section within it. Two years later the new National Center for Online Child Protection was inaugurated and Sadeh went on to head its Online Child Sexual Exploitation Investigations team. In January 2019, Sadeh returned to INTERPOL as Coordinator of the Crimes against Children Unit.

INTERPOL

INTERPOL; the International Criminal Police Organization, is an inter-governmental organization with 194 member countries. Headquartered in Lyon, France, INTERPOL provides investigative support, expertise, and training to law enforcement in all member countries in battling three major areas of transnational crime:  terrorism, cybercrime, and organized crime. To aid police in all member countries to work together, INTERPOL enable them to share and access data on crimes and criminals, and offer a range of technical and operational support.

From darknet to social media – Different worlds of child sexual abuse material

John Rouse, Detective Inspector Manager Operations and Victim Identification Australian Centre to Counter Child Exploitation

Detective Inspector Rouse has 35 years’ service with the Queensland Police Service in Australia. In 1996 Jon commenced investigating crimes against children and in 2001 he commenced at Task Force Argos where he implemented Australia’s first operation to proactively target internet child sex offenders.

He has instigated multiple national and international investigations targeting child exploitation criminal networks and has delivered training to law enforcement officers in Australia and across the world.

Jon is currently the joint Subgroup Chair of the INTERPOL Covert Internet Investigators Group and is a Director with The Society for the Policing of Cyberspace (POLCYB).

He is the recipient of four Commissioners Certificates for his operational leadership and two Queensland Police Excellence awards for Child Protection Prevention.

In May 2018, Jon accepted the ‘Champion for Children Award’ in New York from the International Centre for Missing and Exploited Children for his dedication for over 24 years to fighting and investigating crimes against children.

Jon was awarded the Queensland Australian of the Year for 2019 and is the recipient of the Queensland Police Medal, the National Service Medal, the Exemplary Conduct medal, the National Police Medal and the Australian Police Medal.

Fighting child sexual abuse in online web search – applying new technologies to improve detection

Emma Higham, Product Manager, Google Search

Emma Higham works on child safety as a product manager for Google Search. Emma is responsible for a portfolio of product features and classifiers that protect children online. Her team helps make sure Search surfaces high quality information for the wide range of queries people come to Google with every day, while ensuring that unlawful or outright harmful information isn’t promoted. The team is heavily invested in working to ensure CSAM is not discoverable through Search—and that any detected CSAM is reported to the relevant authorities.

Google

Google is committed to fighting child sexual abuse material (CSAM) online and preventing its products from being used to spread this content. Google invests heavily in fighting child exploitation online and uses proprietary technology to deter, detect, and remove offences across its products. Emma Higham and Nikola Todorvic will share how their teams protect children from abuse and exploitation by detecting predatory material and working to ensure it isn’t discoverable in Google Search. They will also highlight how the company partners with NGOs and industry to incorporate new technologies that protect children and ensure offenders are reported to the relevant authorities.

Fighting child sexual abuse in online web search – applying new technologies to improve detection

Nikola Todorovic, Google SafeSearch Engineering

Nikola Todorvic leads Google’s SafeSearch engineering team. His team of software engineers develops ranking algorithms and machine learning systems that allow Google to detect and report CSAM  content. SafeSearch engineering is the technology hub at Google for detection of pornography, violence and child sexual abuse. The team is heavily invested in working to ensure CSAM is not discoverable through Search—and that any detected CSAM is reported to the relevant authorities.

Google

Google is committed to fighting child sexual abuse material (CSAM) online and preventing its products from being used to spread this content. Google invests heavily in fighting child exploitation online and uses proprietary technology to deter, detect, and remove offences across its products. Emma Higham and Nikola Todorvic will share how their teams protect children from abuse and exploitation by detecting predatory material and working to ensure it isn’t discoverable in Google Search. They will also highlight how the company partners with NGOs and industry to incorporate new technologies that protect children and ensure offenders are reported to the relevant authorities.

Rennie Mirro, Moderator

Rennie Mirro is one of Sweden’s best known and most acclaimed musical artists. During his 30-year career, Mirro has been awarded several awards, including two time ”Guldmasken”  for best male performer in the musical “Grease” and for “Singin’ In The Rain”.

Originating from the classic ballet, Rennie had early on in his career the Royal Opera House in Stockholm as his home stage but was also given the opportunity to dance on the biggest stages around Europe.

In present days Rennie has established himself both as an actor and as a TV-host frequently recurring in several large Swedish television productions as well as in feature films.

This issue terrifies me on many levels, being that I myself am a victim of child abuse. It terrifies me that there are so many people, mostly men that have young children as their main sexual prey. It angers me profoundly that they’re able to victimise undisturbed in the shadows mostly due to the fact of our, the victims, shame and fear.

The world wide web is a wonderous thing, I want to contribute in keeping it that way. I want to contribute in keeping the darkness from spreading.

The way NetClean operates in aiding victims but also offenders give a clear hope for the future, and that’s a future I want to be a part of!