Digital Trust Summit Brussels 2026

Event Description

This event is part of the pre-launch of NewFrames International Film Festival of Advocacy.

The Digital Trust Summit is where policymakers, artists and business leaders meet to confront one of the defining questions of our time: trust in the age of AI. NewFrames brought its first European edition to Brussels, co-organised with Global Data Innovation and ACTE.

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ALL PHOTOS OF THE EVENT ARE : HERE

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Program

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8:30 AM — Registration, Executive Breakfast & Networking
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9:00 AM — The State of Digital Trust Dominique Shelton Leipzig, CEO Global Data
Innovation Remarks: Aline Muylaert, VP ACTE
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9:15 AM — RSL Media Standard — Global Launch Cate Blanchett, actress, producer & RSL Media co-founder
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9:20 AM — Fireside: Media, Storytelling & Trust in the AI Era Cate Blanchett · Nikki Hexum (RSL Media) Moderated by Dominique Shelton Leipzig
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9:45 AM — Readout From Parliament MEP Eva Maydell
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9:55 AM — Europe & the Future of AI Governance Erika Staël von Holstein (Re-Imagine Europa) Christopher Weissberg (French National Assembly) Moderated by Amaia Echevarria (Euronews)
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10:15 AM — Morning Networking Break
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10:45 AM — When the Policy and the Breach Happen at the Same Time, Kavitha Mariappan, Chief Transformation Officer, Rubrik
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11:10 AM — Fireside: Cyber & Agentic AI
Despina Spanou, DDG DG CNECT, European Commission
Kavitha Mariappan, Rubrik
Moderated by Gian Volpicelli, Bloomberg
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11:25 AM — Geopolitical Strategy & AI Damien Bruckard, former Head of Global Engagement, ICC
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11:40 AM — Trust: A CEO Blueprint Stijn Christiaens, co-founder, Collibra
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12:00 PM — Executive Leader Remarks Christine Durinx, Managing Director, VIB
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12:15 PM — How Teams Can Rapidly & Effectively Adopt AI
Guylaine Saint Juste (CEO NABA)
Rand Morimoto (Convergent Computing)
David Timis (AI & Future of Work)
Moderated by Raksha Muthukumar
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12:45 PM — Executive Lunch
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1:40 PM — Fragomen: Fireside Chat :Proving You Are Real: Verified Identity in the Age of Deepfakes
Jo Antoons, Senior Counsel
Amit Sharma, Head of Global and Digital Strategy & Ecosystem Growth, Idemia
Vladimir Jankovic, Managing Director Fragomen
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2:00 PM — Diligent AI Board Member — Innovation Demonstration
Dottie Schindlinger, Executive Director, Diligent Institute
Kira Ciccarelli, Head of Research, Diligent Institute
Katarina Wallin Bureau, General Manager, Strategic Relations European Government Affairs
Siddika Demir, Corporate director,
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2:20 PM — Crisis of Trust Simulation: The Agentic Age Cal Al-Dhubaib, Principal Technologist, Rubrik
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3:05 PM — Afternoon Networking Break
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3:35 PM — The EU Omnibus: How to facilitate EU Act and digital laws Implementation and Innovation for business
MEP Brando Benifei
MEP Sergey Lagodinsky
Renate Nikolay, DDG DG CNECT, European Commission
Moderated by Gian Volpicelli, Bloomberg
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4:00 PM — Digital Rights, Child Protection & AI Safety MEP Veronika Cifrová Ostrihoňová
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4:10 PM Storytelling, Power & Trust in the Digital Age
Darren Aronofsky, filmmaker
Moderated by Adam Leipzig
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4:45 PM — Read out of the day
Doug Leeds, co-founder of RSL Standard, RSL Collective, and RSL Media
Dominique Shelton Leipzig
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5:00 PM — Closing Reflections Dominique Shelton Leipzig
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5:15 PM — Cocktails

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