Silicon Valley comes to Parliament: the impact of digital on democracy

Date: 17.11.2010 09:30 - 14:00

Location: Portcullis House and Speaker’s State Apartments, Westminster

A panel of leading technologists and business leaders from Silicon Valley will provoke us with their thoughts on the issues for Parliament, government and democracy created by digital access and innovation.

Informed by the work they are leading in the US and internationally, they will imagine and debate the opportunities and challenges of digitally enabled democracy. The audience will be invited to question the panel in the seminar and continue discussions at a reception in Speaker’s House. The seminar will be opened by the Speaker of the House of Commons, The Rt Hon John Bercow MP.

The panel, chaired by Jonathan Drori, will be made up by Reid Hoffman, Chairman of Linkedin; Megan Smith, CEO of Google.org; John Lilly; CEO of Mozilla; Nancy Lublin, CEO and Chief Old Person of DoSomething.org and Joi Ito, CEO Creative Commons.

This event is by invitation only.

Panel: Portcullis House 9.30am-12.30pm

Reception: Speaker’s State Apartments 12.30pm-2pm