Deleting the apps, trying month offline, organizing phone-free gatherings — personal strategies like these are a great way to push back against the extractive, attention-sucking design of Big Tech platforms. But what about through law? Can policy actually hold these companies accountable and is there any hope?

Join the Attention Sphere for a panel and Q&A digging into the history and current state of tech policy: from decades of fights over privacy and surveillance to today’s battles over social media and AI. We’ll talk about what’s worked, what hasn’t, and what’s actually possible from here.

Guest Speakers:

~ Adam Billen, Co-Executive Director of Encode, where he’s helped pass laws like the TAKE IT DOWN Act and push state-level AI regulation across the country.

~ Zamaan Qureshi, co-founder and Director of Campaigns and Policy at Design It For Us, where he leads the youth-led fight for safer social media and tech accountability.

~ Ava Smithing, Founding Partner at The Attention Studio, working on nonpartisan policy solutions to build a healthier, less extractive tech ecosystem.

~ Alan Butler, Executive Director and President of the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC), where he’s spent over a decade litigating and advocating for privacy rights.

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