Tuesday, September 23

Safeguarding Children’s Humanity in the Digital Age

Name: Safeguarding Children’s Humanity in the Digital Age
Start: 2025-09-23T09:30:00-04:00
End: 2025-09-23T12:30:00-04:00
Location: The Langham, New York, Fifth Avenue

By Human Change Campaign

How to restore childhood with enriching real-life experiences and ensure future generations can still develop critical life skills

Date and time

Location

The Langham, New York, Fifth Avenue

400 5th Avenue New York, NY 10018

Agenda

9:30 AM

Registration and Breakfast

10:00 AM - 11:30 AM

Panel: Moderated Discussion and Audience Q&A

11:30 AM - 12:30 PM

Networking Reception

Featuring light lunch canapés

Good to know

Highlights

3 hours
In person

About this event

Significant progress has been made in raising awareness of the harms of excessive technology use on children, particularly their impaired development of critical life skills. While there is still much work to be done, it is time to broaden the conversation – when we protect children from over-digitalization, what are we replacing those digital experiences with? How do we raise resilient, purposeful children in a world which pushes for experiences and relationships to be mediated through a screen and for the ease of technology to replace the lessons learned from overcoming challenges? And what might our society look like in 10, 20 years if we do not act to safeguard childhood now?

Featured speakers including:

Daniel Barcay, Executive Director of the Center for Humane Technology
John Mack, Artist and Founder of Life Calling
Mathieu Lefevre-Maton, CEO of More in Common
More speakers to be announced soon!

Organized by

Human Change Campaign

Visit the Human Change House on the Davos Promenade which will be hosting high-level discussions with leading international researchers, medical practitioners, and political and business leaders all week from the 15th of January. The panels will be addressing topics that include developmental risks of using social media and digital devices, the impact of tech on adolescent mental health and physical wellbeing, public health campaigns, digitalisation of education, how tech addiction is shaping the future workforce and society, exploring policy solutions, and more.

Our notable panellists include Dr. Mitch Prinstein, Chief Science Officer, American Psychological Association, Dr. Gaia Bernstein, Co-Director of the Gibbons Institute of Law Science and Technology at Seton Hall University School of Law, Dr. Michael Rich, Founder of the Digital Wellness Lab at Boston Children’s Hospital, Julie Inman Grant, Australia's eSafety Commissioner, Dr. Stacy Drury, Psychologist-in-Chief at Boston Children's Hospital, Larissa May, Founder of #HalfTheStory, and others.