Collective responses to tackling foreign information manipulation and interference (FIMI)
19 October 2023 10.00-16.30
1 Great George Street London SW1P 3AA, United Kingdom
10.00 – 10.30 – Registration
Moderator: Jessica Cecil
10.30 – 10.45 – Welcome, EU Ambassador to the UK Pedro Serrano
Message from Irène Mingasson, Head of Unit, Service for Foreign Policy Instruments (FPI), European Commission
10.45 - 11.45 - Session 1: Lessons revisited - Cooperation in the context of the war in Ukraine
Speakers
Krisztina Stump, Head of Unit in charge of combatting online disinformation, DG CNECT, European Commission
Liubov Tsybulska, expert in hybrid threats and strategic communication, Ukrain
11.45 – 12.00 coffee break
12.00 – 13.00 Session 2: What works? - EU and UK approaches to countering Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference (FIMI)
Speakers:
Lutz Guellner, Head of Division, Strategic Communication, Task Forces and Information Analysis, EEAS
Rachael Goodwill, Deputy Director & Head of Counter Information Manipulation Department, Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO)
Q&A
13.00 – 14.00 Networking lunch
14.00 – 15.00 Session 3: How audiences get exposed to FIMI and solutions to countering it
Speakers:
Dr Richard Fletcher, Director of Research, The Reuters Institute for Journalism, Oxford University
Ben Nimmo, Global Lead, Threat Intelligence at Meta
Carl Miller, Research Director, Centre for the Analysis of Social Media (CASM), Demos
Viktors Makarovs, Special Envoy on Digital Affairs at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Latvia
15.00 – 15.15 coffee break
15.15 – 16.30 Session 4: Where do we go from here? – a paradigm for collective responses
Speakers:
Lutz Guellner, Head of Division, Strategic Communication, Task Forces and Information Analysis, EEAS
Alex Aiken, Executive Director of Government Communications
Tara Denham, Director General, Global Affairs, Canada
Mr ISHII, Hideaki, Director for Public Diplomacy Strategy Division, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Japan
16.30 - 16.45 End of proceedings