The Institute for National Security Studies (INSS) hosted the second annual international conference of the Lipkin-Shahak Program on National Security and Democracy in an Era of-Truth and Fake News.
12 November 2020 (with KCSC)
15:45
Fireside chat with Michael Rich, president of the RAND Corporation
* in English
16:00
Panel – Disinformation in 2020: Actors, Threats and Solutions
* in English
Chair: Brigadier General (Ret.) Itai Brun, Deputy Director, Research and Analysis VP, INSS
Speakers:
Yochai Benkler, Berkman Professor of Entrepreneurial Legal Studies at Harvard Law School
Nina Jankowicz, Fellow at Wilson Center and author of 'How to Lose the Information War: Russia, Fake News, and the Future of Conflict'
Ofer Fridman, Lecturer in War Studies, and the Director of Operations, King’s Centre for Strategic Communications (KCSC).
Aengus Bridgman, Political behaviour researcher, research fellow at the Center for the Study of Democratic Citizenship
Tehila Shwartz Altshuler, Senior Fellow and Head of the Democracy in the Information Age Project at IDI
Alicia Wanless, Director of the Partnership for Countering Influence Operations at the Carnegie Endowment for international peace
Ohad Zaidenberg, CTI League Founder and Executive
William Marcelino, Senior Behavioral and Social Scientist and Professor at the Pardee RAND Graduate School
18:00
Memory Construction and Strategic Communications
* in English
Chair: Dr. Neville Bolt, Director, KCSC.
Speakers:
Elīna Lange-Ionatamišvili, Senior Expert, NATO Strategic Communications Centre of Excellence (NATO StratCom CoE), Riga, Latvia.
Dr .Vinicius Mariano de Carvalho, Director, Brazil Institute, King’s College London.
Dr .Vera Michlin-Shapir, Institute of Modern Russia (IMR).
Dr. Andrea Ellner, Lecturer in Defence Studies, King’s College London.
Prof. Gad Yair - The Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Hebrew University
19 November 2020 (with RAND Corporation)
15:45
Fireside chat with Dror Shalom, former Head of Analysis Division, Israeli Military Intelligence, IDF
* in Hebrew
16:00
Panel – How to Detect Fake News? Tools and Methods for Spotting Lies
* in Hebrew
Chair: Inbal Orpaz, researcher at Lipkin Shahak program at the Institute for National Security Studies.
Speakers:
Noa Barak, Head of Development, "Globes" fact-checking platform
Yossi Dorfman, strategic advisor and digital expert
Dr. Tomer Shadmi, a Law, Ethics and Technology expert, researcher at The Lipkin-Shahak Program in the INSS
Guy Zohar, Journalist and television presenter, "Kan" broadcasting
Tali Lipkin-Shahak, editor and presentor, manger of military and security programs at Israel Army Radio (Galei Tzahal)
Chaim Levinson, "Haaretz" political reporter
Jonathan Klinger, Lawyer and a technology and information journalist
Orly Goldklang, Deputy Editor of "Makor Rishon" weekly newspaper
18:00
Panel – The New Superpowers: Tech Giants as National Security Players
* in Hebrew
Chair: Brigadier General (Ret.) Itai Brun, Deputy Director, Research and Analysis VP, INSS.
Speakers:
Prof. Eviatar Matanya, the founder and former Director General of the Israel National Cyber Directorate
Prof. Karine Nahon, associate professor in The Information School at University of Washington and the Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya
Tomer Simon, National Technology Officer at Microsoft Israel
Noam Katz, vice head of the public diplomacy department in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Yael Eisenstat, former Global Head of Elections Integrity Ops for political advertising at Facebook
Dr. Jennifer Kavanaugh, RAND Corporation
Guy Rolnik, Journalist
Gen. (Ret.) Amos Yadlin, director of the Institute for National Security Studies
