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Sue Gardner (she/her)

Founder & CEO, Tiny Ventures

Sue Gardner’s work is motivated by the desire to ensure that everybody in the world has access to the information they want and need. Sue spent the first decade of her career as a journalist.

In 2003 she became head of CBC.CA, the website of one of Canada’s best-loved cultural institutions, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Later she was executive director of the Wikimedia Foundation, the non-profit that operates Wikipedia, which she ran through its major period of growth. Today she serves as an advisor or board member for a variety of non-profit, grantmaking, and policy organizations, mostly related to technology, media, and digital rights.

Sue has an honorary doctorate of law from Ryerson University, was named a Technology Pioneer for the World Economic Forum at Davos, has been ranked by Forbes magazine as the world’s 70th most powerful woman, was the inaugural recipient of the Knight Foundation’s Innovation Award, received the Cultural Humanist of the Year award from the Harvard Humanist Association, and is a proud recipient of the Nyan Cat Medal of Internet Awesomeness for Defending Internet Freedom.

Sessions

The internet is harming society part one: How we got here

November 4, 2021  3:15 PM – 3:25 PM
In this brief talk, Sue will describe how and why the internet developed the way it did. See more.

The internet is harming society part two: How to fix it

November 4, 2021  6:30 PM – 7:30 PM
So far, the conversation about how best to shape our experiences online has mostly been taking place among technologists and internet experts. We think that’s a mistake. We believe people with expertise in other realms can bring valuable experience and insight to these debates. See more.
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