Personal Democracy Forum

Since 2004, Personal Democracy Forum (PDF) has helped nurture a world-wide conversation about technology’s impact on government, politics, media, and democratic societies. Speakers have ranged from Senator Kirsten Gillibrand to former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, Black Lives Matter co-founder Alicia Garza to Microsoft President Brad Smith, NYC Mayor Mike Bloomberg to new media mogul Arianna Huffington, New York Times columnist Zeynep Tufekci to EFF co-founder John Perry Barlow and cyber security analyst Bruce Schneier.