View our list of confirmed sessions below. Schedule is subject to change.
Legislation and Litigation: Approaches to Accountability for Social Media
5:15 pm – 7:00 pm
- Dimitri A. Christakis, MD, MPH (Moderator), Chief Health Officer, Special Olympics International; George Adkins Professor, University of Washington School of Medicine; Editor in Chief, JAMA Pediatrics; Chief Science Officer, Children and Screens: Institute of Digital Media and Child Development
- Matthew Bergman, JD, Founding Attorney, Social Media Victims Law Center; Professor, Lewis and Clark Law School
- Alix Fraser, Vice President of Advocacy, Issue One
- Imran Ahmed, CEO & Founder, Center for Countering Digital Hate
Brain Development in a Digital World
8:45 am – 9:45 am
- Tzipi Horowitz-Kraus, PhD, Associate Professor Educational Neuroimaging Group Faculty of Education in Science and Technology, Faculty of Biomedical Engineering, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology Haifa, Israel Neuropsychology Department; Associate Professor, Kennedy Krieger Institute Baltimore, Maryland
- Heather Kirkorian, PhD, Laura M. Secord Chair in Early Childhood Development, Professor and Chair, Department of Human Development and Family Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Lucía Magis-Weinberg, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Washington
Teen Mental Health: The Double-Edged Sword of Social Media
9:45 am – 10:45 am
- Erin L. Belfort, MD, DFAACP (Moderator), Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Tufts University School of Medicine
- Meredith Gansner, MD, Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist and Assistant Professor, University of Rochester Medical Center
- Anne (Annie) Maheux, PhD, Assistant Professor & Winston Distinguished Fellow, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Winston Center on Technology and the Developing Mind
- Ben Forman, Honors Mechanical Engineering Student, University of Colorado
Cyber Risks and Violence: Understanding Child Safety Online
11:15 am -12:15 pm
- Desmond Upton Patton, PhD, MSW (Moderator), Schwartz University Professor / PIK University Professor, University of Pennsylvania
- Mandy Sanchez, PhD, Director of Programming, Culture Reframed
- Ran Barzilay, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine; Attending Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
- Brendesha Tynes, PhD, Professor of Education and Psychology, University of Southern California Center for Empowered Learning and Development with Technology
Spirits in the Material World: Physical Health and Digital Media Use
1:30 pm – 2:20 pm
- David L. Hill, MD, FAAP (Moderator), Adjunct Associate Professor of Pediatrics, UNC School of Medicine
- Jason M. Nagata, MD, MSc, Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Division of Adolescent and Young Adult Medicine, University of California, San Francisco
- John Brand, PhD, Research Scientist, Department of Epidemiology in the Geisel School of Medicine, Dartmouth College
- Rebecca Robins, PhD, Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School; Sleep Scientist, Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Diverse Media Use in Diverse Families: Knowledge Base and Persisting Gaps
2:30 pm – 3:20 pm
- Stephanie M. Reich, PhD (Moderator), Professor, Education (primary), Psychological Science, Informatics, University of California, Irvine
- Sarah M. Coyne, PhD, Professor Human Development, School of Family Life, Brigham Young University
- AnneMarie McClain, PhD, MA, EdM, MS, Assistant Professor of Media Science, Boston University; Educational Consultant, GBH
- Linda Charmaraman, PhD, Senior Research Scientist, Founder/Director of the Youth, Media, & Wellbeing Research Lab, Wellesley Centers for Women, Wellesley College
Debate: Should High Schools Impose Full-Day Smartphone Bans?
8:45 am – 9:45 am
- Paul Weigle, MD (Moderator), Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist, Associate Medical Director, Hartford Healthcare; Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry, University of Connecticut School of Medicine
- Josh Golin, Executive Director, Fairplay
- Daniel Buck, MA, Research Fellow, American Enterprise Institution
- Carlene MacMillan, MD, Co-Founder, Fermata; Chief Product Officer, Radial
- Brandon Cardet-Hernandez, President, Mrs Wordsmith
#Born: How Screen Use Shapes Early Development and Relationships
9:45AM-10:45AM
- Rebecca Parlakian, MA, Ed (moderator), Senior Director of Programs, ZERO TO THREE
- Brandon T. McDaniel, PhD, Senior Research Scientist, Parkview Mirro Center for Research and Innovation
- Sheri Madigan, PhD, R.Psych, Professor & Canada Research Chair in Determinants of Child Development, Department of Psychology, University of Calgary and the Alberta Children’s Hospital Research Institute
Guinea Pigs or Pioneers? The Risks and Rewards of an AI-Mediated Childhood
11:15 am – 12:15 pm
- Michelle De Mooy (Moderator), Director, Georgetown University McCourt School of Public Policy’s Tech and Public Policy Program
- S. Craig Watkins, PhD, Ernest A. Sharpe Centennial Professor, University of Texas at Austin; Executive Director, IC2 Institute
- Amanda Lenhart, MA, Senior Fellow, Joan Ganz Cooney Center at Sesame Workshop; Affiliate, Data & Society Research Institute
- Teodora Pavkovic, MSc, Director of Wellbeing, Lead Online Safety and Digital Wellbeing Expert, Linewize by Qoria
Research Designs: Addressing Causal Mechanisms in a Sea of Correlational Studies
1:30 pm – 2:20 pm
- Sunny Xun Liu, PhD (Moderator), Director of Research, Stanford Social Media Lab
- Thomas N. Robinson, MD, MPH, The Irving Schulman Endowed Professor in Child Health and Professor of Pediatrics and of Medicine and, by courtesy, of Epidemiology and Population Health, Stanford University
- Elizabeth Hoffman, PhD, Associate Director, ABCD Study®, National Institute on Drug Abuse/NIH
- Matías Dodel, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Social Sciences, Universidad Católica del Uruguay
Child-Centered Design: Creating Better Digital Experiences for Youth
2:30 pm – 3:20 pm
- Katie Davis, EdD (Moderator), Associate Professor, University of Washington
- Alexis Hiniker, PhD, Associate Professor of Human-Computer Interaction, University of Washington Information School
- Zamaan Qureshi, Co-Chair, Design It For Us
- Medha Tare, PhD, Senior Director of Research, Joan Ganz Cooney Center at Sesame Workshop
