Democracy Week and UC Law San Francisco (not EFF) will host this event. EFF Executive Director Nicole Ozer will be speaking at the Innovators & Investors for Democracy Forum.
From the Organizers:
The Forum brings together founders, funders, civic leaders, researchers, and students for panels, lightning talks, and breakout sessions working through critical issues related to protecting and revitalizing our democracy, the impact that tech and AI are having on our democracy, and ways tech and AI can strengthen our democracy.
When:
Thursday, October 8
Time: 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM Pacific
Where:
UC Law San Francisco
200 McAllister St, San Francisco, CA 94102
Cost:
Varies
Event Requirments:
Registration online required.
About the Speaker:
Nicole Ozer is EFF's Executive Director leading cutting-edge law and policy to advance rights, justice, and democracy and is a legal expert on artificial intelligence, privacy and surveillance, and digital speech.
Before becoming Executive Director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation in June 2026, she had launched the Center for Constitutional Democracy at UC Law San Francisco as its Inaugural Executive Director and earlier was the founding Director and longtime leader of the Technology and Civil Liberties Program at the ACLU of Northern California.
Nicole was also a Technology and Human Rights Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School, a Fellow at the Stanford Digital Civil Society Lab, a Visiting Researcher at the Berkeley Center for Law and Technology, and an intellectual property attorney at Morrison & Foerster LLP in San Francisco.
About Democracy Week:
We’re a cross-partisan group inviting people and organizations from across the political spectrum to connect, discuss in good faith, and take action to innovate and build the American democratic republic we all want to live in.
About UC Law San Francisco:
We are an intellectual hub and action center bringing together scholars, practitioners, and community leaders for innovative work across legal strategies to defend and advance rights, justice, and democracy, and make a real difference in people’s lives.
The fabric of democracy, rule of law, and our constitutional and civil rights is being challenged on many fronts while we are also in a period of rapid technological change, widening economic gaps, and decreasing social trust. These threats are part of a global trend affecting not only the U.S., which presents the opportunity to learn from experiences in other places. At the same time, California is well-placed to explore and offer forward-looking solutions to reverse this movement and reimagine new systems and structures.
Through cutting-edge scholarship, high-impact legal projects in our courts, legislatures, and communities, and supporting a new generation of leaders, The Center for Constitutional Democracy is meeting the moment and building for the future.
