Opening

  • Myron Nicolatos, President of the Supreme Court of Cyprus
  • Jan Kleijssen, Director, Information Society and Action against Crime Directorate, Council of Europe\
  • Ionas Nicolaou, Minister of Justice and Public Order of Cyprus

Key-note address

‘Freedom of expression in the digital age'
  • Jean-Marc Sauvé, Vice-President of the Conseil d'État of France

Panel 1

Freedom of expression online in the light of Strasbourg case-law and related standard-setting activities
  • George Nicolaou, Former Judge of the European Court of Human Rights and Former Justice of the Supreme Court of Cyprus: The internet as an enabler of freedom of expression and public debate
  • Pavlo Pushkar, Department for the Execution of Judgments of the European Court of Human Rights, Council of Europe: Practical considerations regarding the execution of judgments
  • Matthias Traimer, Bureau of the Steering Committee on Media and Information Society, Council of Europe: Standard-setting activities at the Council of Europe with respect to the freedom of expression online
  • Monica Horten, Visiting Fellow at the London School of Economics & Political Science: Balancing freedom of expression online: insights from copyright cases  

Panel 2

The roles and responsibilities of internet intermediaries
  • Ineta Ziemele, Former Judge of the European Court of Human Rights and Justice of the Constitutional Court of Latvia: Article 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights and the role of intermediaries
  • Maciej Szpunar, Advocate General at the Court of Justice of the European Union: The liability of intermediaries in the EU
  • Arnd Haller, Google, Legal Director (D/A/CH/Be/Ne/Lux/Nordics): Practice of intermediaries with respect to the identification and removal of illegal content
  • Karmen Turk, Media law attorney: The many facets of intermediaries and respective legal implications

Panel 3

Contemporary challenges to the freedom of expression
  • David Anderson, Former United Kingdom Independent Reviewer of Terrorism Legislation (2/2011 – 2/2017): The maintenance of independent oversight in the fight against terrorism and radicalisation online
  • David Diaz-Jogeix, Article 19: The use of blocking, filtering , algorithms and automated decision-making and their compatibility with international human rights standards
  • Flutura Kusari, European Centre for Press and Media Freedom: Online media self-regulation: legal questions and implications
  • Robert Spano, Judge of the European Court of Human Rights: Limitations to the freedom of expression online in the context of national security concerns