Tom Sulston

Tom’s 25-year career in software consultancy helped commercial and not-for-profit organisations develop and deploy software that is proven reliable, secure, and delightful. He is one of the co-founders of Digital Rights Watch, where he now serves as Head of Policy, bringing technical realism and social justice to digital policy aims. Tom is old enough to have enjoyed the early days of the Internet, before large corporations and governments started using it as a tool to commit human rights abuses at unimaginable scale. He’d like other people to share in the joy and wonder of our shared global humanity without being treated as data pigs to be slaughtered for the enrichment of the world’s worst corporations. More hamster dance, fewer autonomous weapons.