The Road Ahead for Responsible Tech panel at the Responsible Tech Summit

12:00 pm EDT | The Road Ahead for Responsible Tech | Malcom Glenn (Director of Public Affairs, Better.com / Senior Fellow, Center for Workforce Inclusion / Fellow, New America), Cassandra Madison (VP of Partnerships at the Tech Talent Project), Emma Leiken (Chief of Staff, Responsible Technology, Omidyar Network) and moderator Allie Brandenburger (co-founder & CEO of TheBridge)

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Malcom Glenn | Director of Public Affairs, Better.com / Senior Fellow, Center for Workforce Inclusion / Fellow, New America @malcomglenn

Malcom Glenn is a writer, speaker, organizational consultant, and public policy and communications specialist.

Malcom is the Director of Public Affairs at Better, a platform that makes homeownership easier and more accessible, where he leads the company's policy and executive communications efforts. He's an advisor at Meteorite—a leading social impact firm—and its two signature initiatives, the Health Action Alliance and the Civic Alliance. Malcom is also a Fellow at New America and a Senior Fellow at the Center for Workforce Inclusion. At New America, he writes and advises the Future of Land and Housing program on housing policy, and at CWI, he writes and advises the organization's innovation hub, CWI Labs, on how technology can create opportunities for aging workers. He was most previously the Head of Global Policy for Accessibility and Underserved Communities at Uber Technologies, where he led Uber's international work to make the platform more accessible for historically marginalized groups, including people with disabilities, low-income families, communities of color, seniors, and returning citizens.

Malcom is a member of the board of trustees for the CTA Foundation, which is affiliated with the Consumer Technology Association and supports programs disability and senior inclusion, as well.

Cassandra Madison, VP of Partnerships at the Tech Talent Project

Cassandra Madison is an experienced public servant whose expertise sits at the intersection of technology, operations, and policy. She has spent the past 15 years helping to ensure that big ideas get implemented in a way that drives innovation, improves the lives of those accessing services, and builds a positive culture in the workplace. Cass is currently VP of Partnerships at the Tech Talent Project, a nonpartisan nonprofit working to increase the ability of the U.S. government to recruit modern technical leaders in order to achieve critical economic, policy, and human outcomes. Prior to joining Tech Talent, spent 7 years in state government and served as an appointee of Vermont Governor Phil Scott. As Deputy Commissioner of the Department of Vermont Health Access (DVHA) she focused on strengthening operational performance and improving success in the delivery of large scale information technology (IT) projects.

Emma Leiken (Chief of Staff, Responsible Technology, Omidyar Network @emma__leik

As Chief of Staff of the Responsible Technology team, Emma works to ensure that the global and diverse team runs efficiently and that various workstreams remain connected and in sync. Currently, the programmatic areas she works on and is particularly interested in are related to mis and disinformation, safe and healthy online spaces, and digital youth / Gen Z and better understanding how we can including them as stakeholders and partners in our work to make technology better and more inclusive, safe and equitable.

Prior to joining Omidyar Network, Emma completed research on the complex role of human intermediaries in India’s Aadhaar biometric digital ID infrastructure. While working in People Operations at Google, she collaborated with the company’s Next Billion Users team to understand the financial challenges faced by new internet users in India, Indonesia, Mexico, and Brazil. Previously, Emma lived and worked in India as a researcher with the Fulbright-Nehru Research Fellowship supported by the U.S. Department of State. She also worked on performing arts education initiatives in rural Maharashtra.

Emma holds a B.A. in religion from Oberlin College. She received her M.A. in international development from the London School of Economics and Political Science.

Allie Brandenburger, co-founder & CEO of TheBridge @aebrandenburger [MODERATOR]

Allie Brandenburger is Co-founder & CEO of TheBridge, a non-partisan organization building understanding and collaboration between tech, policy, politics. TheBridge uniquely provides a neutral forum for productive discussions educating from all perspectives of issues at the intersection of innovation and regulation. Allie has organically grown TheBridge community and company, built partnerships with leading global technology companies, non-profit companies and government (fed, state, local). Allie is unique in her ability to “speak the language” of stakeholders in the private and public sectors and across industries and translate between the cultures of politics and tech.