Call for Speakers Open for the Think Twice Conference
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The Think Twice Conference (TT5)
AI & Governance: Opportunities and Risks for Digital Freedom
Date and Location: October 16–17, 2026, Brussels, Belgium
Call for Speakers Deadline: May 1st, 2026
The following is the sign-up sheet for those interested in presenting at TT5. The Think Twice Conference brings together diverse voices to discuss emerging issues in technology and society. The conference takes place on a semi-annual basis in different locations around the world. This year’s theme focuses on artificial intelligence and its impact on governance and digital freedom.
When TT4 took place in Prague in 2022, AI was absent from the agenda. Today, AI is deeply embedded in public life. Governments are beginning to use AI to automate services, support decisions, detect anomalies, and manage resources. These tools can improve efficiency and transparency, but they can also create new risks: biased data, opaque systems, concentrated power, cyber vulnerabilities, and the erosion of trust.
TT5 explores two central questions:
1) How can AI strengthen governance while protecting digital freedom?
2) How can digital freedom shape the governance of AI?
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All speakers must commit to physically presenting at the event. Limited seating will be available for the general public. A separate conference registration will be sent to the general public at a later date. Presentations will be broadcast with live feedback from a global online audience, abstracts and bios of accepted speakers will be published on the conference website.
Please submit an abstract of no more than 300 words along with a short bio about yourself.
Presentation Frameworks
1. AI for Governance
How can AI support democratic institutions, public services, civic participation, and open decision-making?
2. AI Governance
How can societies regulate and oversee AI to ensure accountability, fairness, openness, and the protection of rights?
Topics of Interest
- AI for public services and democratic participation
- Transparency and open data
- Automated regulation and oversight
- Digital freedom and user autonomy
- Impact of AI on political communication and civic life
Submission Guidelines
Initial deadline for submissions: May 1, 2026.
Submissions are welcome for individual talks. We will offer approximately 15 minute slots for individual speakers. Presentations and abstracts should be in English. Based on the amount of slots available, we will also offer some applicants to be participants in group roundtables.
We also welcome abstracts from those who would like to present posters, stands, or other forms of participation in the conference.
Presenters will be selected by a working group committee established by the boards of Pirate Parties International and the European Pirates.
Participants from all government and non-government organizations and civil society, from all political ideologies, are welcome.
