ORADA Responsible AI Conference Highlight: Cyber Influence in the Age of AI - Hostile, Digital Influence Perpetrators, Methods and What Lies Ahead

We're bringing the ORADA Conference Programme closer to you and sharing one programme highlight every few days. What is hostile digital influence and how can democracies, businesses as well as community and social groups defend against it?

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Avela Gronemeyer
March 06, 2025

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We’re excited to bring you this incredibly relevant and urgent topic at ORADA 2025.

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Dear Leader,

We’re living in some of the most geo-politically challenging times in recent history. AI, social media and messaging apps have become an indispensable, ubiquitous part of our lives - convenient, easy to use, entertaining, (largely) informative and a means by which we keep in contact with loved ones both near and far. At the same time, these platforms provide the surface from which cyber influence campaigns and attacks can be exercised in the digital sphere. Hostile digital influence can and has been exercised against democracies, businesses, community and social groups as well is individuals.

What is it and how can negative and harmful influence be mitigated? How can democracies, businesses and communities defend against hostile digital influence?

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What to Expect During the Cyber Influence in the Age of AI: Hostile, Digital Influence Perpetrators, Methods and What lies Ahead Session

In this interactive session, Florian Frank, a cyber intelligence expert will dive into the realm of digital, hostile influence and the elements that constitute such campaigns helping us to paint a picture of the threat actors, types of attacks and the methodologies used, including how AI is applied in digital, hostile influence. 

We will also look at real practical examples of how hostile digital influence campaigns have been launched and executed in various geographies to exercise undue influence together with how these campaigns and methods can be defended against. We will further unpack the challenges we face as decision makers and defenders as we look ahead.

Take a look at the rest of the programme below: 

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ORADA Conference: 03 - 04 April 2025

ORADA 2025 Programme

Day 1: Thursday, 3 April 2025

Time

Programme Item

08:30 - 08:45

Welcome and Opening

08:45 - 09:30

Keynote - Balancing the Opportunity, Responsibility and Accountability in Data and AI

09:30 - 10:15

The Business Case for Responsible and Accountable Data and AI

10:15 - 10:45

Critical Steps for Businesses to Successfully and Ethically Integrate AI

10:45 - 11:00

Break & Networking

11:00 -  12:00

PAM: Founderland’s AI Platform for Underrepresented Founders -  Inclusivity at its Core

12:00 - 13:30

Workshop 1: From AI Opportunities to AI Responsibility and Compliance: Unpacking the EU AI Act

13:30 - 14:00

Lunch Break

14:00 -  15:15

Cyber Influence in the Age of AI: Hostile, Digital Influence Perpetrators, Methods and What Lies Ahead

15:15 - 15:30

Outtro to Workshops & Networking Break

15:30 - 17:30

Workshop Break-aways

Option 1

Workshop 2: Practical Machine Learning Modelling

Option 2

Workshop 3: The Turing Institute - AI Ethics Governance in Practice

Day 2: Friday, 4 April 2025

Time

Programme Item

08:30 - 08:45

Welcome Back

08:45 - 09:30

Enabling a Responsible AI Ecosystem

09:30 - 10:15

Panel: The Impact of AI on Journalism, Communications and Media

10:15 - 11:00

Achieving Social and Economic Inclusion in the Age of Data & AI

11:00 - 11:15

Break & Networking

11:15 - 12:15

Panel: Cybersecurity in the Age of Data & AI - Challenges and Opportunities

12:15 - 13:00

AI Adoption at the Edge to Process Data Locally

13:00 - 13:15

Vote of Thanks and Closing

Note: The ORADA 2025 Programme is subject to change based on planning and logistical requirements.

​​​​​​Affirming our Diversity and Inclusion Position Considering Current Political and Social Discourse

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Our views on strength in diversity haven’t changed and neither has our position on being evidence based and science led. Inclusion is not only morally right and humane, it also leads to better outcomes as many studies have repeatedly confirmed. The need for people of good conscience - from all demographics and walks of life - to connect, share insights and good practices for the responsible and inclusive use of digital, data and AI solutions has intensified. It is critical that people who share these values are aware that there are others out there who believe that human rights belong in every sphere, including the digital sphere.

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Technological progress is both inevitable and unavoidable. Technology is neither good nor bad. We just have to make decisions around its use responsibly.

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