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8:15 - 9:15 – Registration

9:15 – 10:00 – Opening session

• Welcome remarks by , Director-General, UNESCO
• Message from , Prime Minister of Iceland 
• Message from , President of Brazil 
• Keynote address by , Journalist and CEO of Rappler, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate

10:00– 11:00 - Opening panel discussion

• Opening remarks by Tawfik Jelassi, Assistant Director-General for Communication and Information, UNESCO
• Maria Ressa, Journalist and CEO of Rappler, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, The Philippines
• , Under-Secretary-General for Global Communications, UN
• , Communicator and digital influencer, Brazil
• Moderated by , investigative journalist and features’ writer for The Guardian and The Observer, UK

11:00 – 12:30 – Session 1: Supporting an Internet for Trust

• Christophe Deloire, Chair of the Forum on Information and Democracy, Secretary General of Reporters Without Borders (RSF)
• Helani Galpaya, Chief Executive Officer, LIRNEasia, Sri Lanka
• Pansy Tlakula, Chairperson of the Information Regulator, South Africa
• Nizar Yaïche, Global Digital Leader for Government and Public Services, PwC, Tunisia
• Chris Sharrock, Vice President, UN Affairs and International Organizations, Microsoft
• Moderated by Patrícia Campos Mello, Reporter at large and columnist, Folha de Sao Paulo, Brazil

12:30 – 14:00 – Lunch break

14:00 – 14:30 – Fireside chat: UNESCO’s Guidelines for regulating digital platforms

• Tawfik Jelassi, Assistant Director-General for Communication and Information, UNESCO
• Andrew Puddephatt, Senior Consultant for UNESCO
• Moderated by Mira Milosevic, Executive Director, Global Forum for Media Development

14:30 – 15:45 – Session 2: Defining the multistakeholder regulatory scope

• Thomas Schneider, Head of International Affairs, Office of Federal Communications (OFCOM), Switzerland
• Latifa Akharbach, President of the African Communication Regulation Authority Network (ACRAN) and President of the High Authority for Audiovisual Communication (HACA), Morocco
• Alison Gillwald, Executive Director, Research ICT Africa, South Africa
• Bertrand de La Chapelle, Executive Director, Internet and Jurisdiction Policy Network, France.
• Emma Bates, CEO and co-funder DIEM, US
• Moderated by Ian Phillips, Vice President, International News, The Associated Press

15:45 – 16:00 – Break

16:00 – 16:20 – Talk: Content moderation: an issue that matters to all of us

• Billy Perrigo, Journalist, TIME Magazine
• Daniel Motaung, Whistleblower and former content moderator for Facebook, South Africa

16:20 – 17:15 – Session 3: Promoting freedom of expression and information in the digital ecosystem 

• Irene Khan, UN Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression
•  H.E. Hon. Ms Ourveena Geereesha Topsy-Sonoo, Commissioner, African Union (online)
• Teresa Ribeiro, Representative on Freedom of the Media, Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE)
• Pedro Vaca Villarreal, Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Expression, Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR)
• Moderated by Joseph Ailonga, Secretary General Southern Africa Editor's Forum (SAEF), Namibia

17:15 – 18:45 – Session 4: Transparency reporting  

• Brandon Silverman, Former CEO & Co-Founder of CrowdTangle, USA
• Karim Ibourki, Former Chair of the European Regulators’ Group for Audiovisual Media (ERGA) and President of the Superior Audiovisual Council of Belgium
• Nighat Dad, Executive Director, Digital Rights Foundation; Member, Meta Oversight Board
• Ojoma Ochai, Managing Partner of the Creative Economy Practice at CC Hub, Nigeria
• Alexandria Walden, Global Head of Human Rights, Google
• Moderated by Churchill Otieno, President, Kenya Editors Guild; Chairman, Eastern Africa Editors Society

9:15 – 9:30 –  Opening remarks

• Věra Jourová, Commissioner for Values and Transparency, European Commission (online)

9:30 – 11:00 – Session 5: Content management and accountability

• Éric Garandeau, Director of Policies and Governmental Relations, TikTok
• Catalina Botero Marino, Member & Co-Chair, Meta Oversight Board, Colombia
• Moustapha Mamy Diaby, Senior Advisor, ICT and Digital Transformation, African Union
• David Kaye, Professor of Law at the University of California Irvine; Chair of the Global Network Initiative; Former UN Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression
• Christopher Wylie, Whistleblower from Cambridge Analytica
• Moderated by Natalia Antelava, Editor-in-Chief, Coda Story, Georgia

11:00 – 11:15 – Break

11:15 – 12:30 – Session 6: User empowerment and complaints mechanisms

• Julie Inman Grant, Australia’s eSafety Commissioner (online)
• Damar Juniarto, Executive Director of SAFEnet, Indonesia
• Caleb Gichuhi, Africa Lead, Build Up, Kenya
• Amalia Toledo, Public Policy Specialist at Wikimedia Foundation, USA
• Dilara Begum, Associate Professor and Chairperson of the Department of Information Studies at East West University, Bangladesh
• Moderated by HRH Princess Rym Ali, Founder of the Jordan Media Institute and President of the Anna Lindh Foundation

12:30 – 13:00 – Youth talk: The role of youth in the development of multistakeholder regulatory policies

• Henri Verdier, Ambassador for Digital Affairs, France
• Charlotte Ernst, Young entrepreneur, Austria
• Arsham Edalatkhah, Student, Iran
• V Spehar, underthedesknews host, USA
• Moderated by Guilherme Canela, Chief of Section Freedom of Expression and Safety of Journalists, UNESCO

13:00 – 14:30 – Lunch break

14:30 – 15:45 – Session 7: Technical challenges in applying a human rights-based approach to digital platform regulation

• H.E. Ms Emilija Stojmenova Duh, Minister of Digital Transformation, Slovenia
• Lina Oueidat, ICT and Cybersecurity National Advisor, Lebanon
• ‘Gbenga Sesan, Executive Director of the Paradigm Initiative, Nigeria
• Demi Getschko, CEO of the Brazilian Network Information Center, Brazil
• Rumman Chowdhury, AI global policy expert, USA
• Prabhat Agarwal, Head of Unit, DG CONNECT, European Commission
• Moderated by Julia Angwin, Journalist and Pulitzer Prize winner, USA

15:45 – 16:00 – Break

16:10 – 17:00 – Session 8: Safeguards to guarantee the existence of independent regulators

• Camilla Bustani, Director, International, Ofcom, UK
• Roch-Olivier Maistre, President, ARCOM and REFRAM
• Gustavo Gomez, Executive Director, Observacom, Uruguay
• Nouri Lajmi, Expert and former President of the Independent High Authority for Audiovisual Communication (HAICA), Tunisia
• Moderated by Blanca Lilia Ibarra Cadena, President of the Instituto Nacional de Transparencia y Acceso a la Informacion, Mexico

17:00 – 18:30 – Session 9: Defining the way forward  

• Kerri-Ann Jones, OECD Deputy Secretary-General
• Luís Roberto Barroso, Justice of the Supreme Federal Court, Brazil 
• Roberto Viola, Director General of DG CONNECT, European Commission (online)
• Miranda Sissons, Director of Human Rights, Meta (online)
• Agustina del Campo, Director of the Center for Studies on Freedom of Expression, and Co-chair of the Global Network Initiative, Argentina
• Peggy Hicks, Director of the Thematic Engagement, Special Procedures and Right to Development Division, Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR)
• Moderated by Tawfik Jelassi, Assistant Director-General for Communication and Information, UNESCO

18:30 - 18:40 - Closing remarks

• Amb. Santiago Irazabal Mourão, President of the 41st session of the General Conference of UNESCO
• Tawfik Jelassi, Assistant Director-General for Communication and Information, UNESCO