June 10th 2026 | Deep Dive Session

Hosted by Unfurl Futures and Feminist AI Cluster, Inclusive AI Lab

Lead: Jensine Larsen, founder of World Pulse and Unfurl Futures

Convening leads: Weijie Huang, Feminist AI, Inclusive AI Lab; Kirthi Jayakumar, Head of community engagement, World Pulse, Research Affiliate, the Inclusive AI Lab (India)

As women’s rights and democracy face pushback around the world, feminist leaders are using technology in powerful new ways: to organise, protect communities, document abuses, mobilise resources, and build alternatives. Yet many of these digital efforts are underfunded, under threat, and working in isolation, when collective power could multiply their impact. This workshop builds upon a comprehensive mapping of the feminist digital ecosystem – and co-architects a blueprint for its future.

Goal: To inform research and investment strategies for scaling a connected, well-resourced feminist digital ecosystem.

Provocateurs:

Iffat Rose Gill Founder and CEO, The Code to Change (NL/Pakistan)

Eva Blum-Dumontet, Movement Building and Policy at Chayn (UK))

Dr. Roberta Calegari, Assistant professor, Department of Computer Science and at the Alma Mater Research Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence, University of Bologna (Italy)

Prof. Azadeh Akbari, Professor of Critical Data & Surveillance Studies, Founder and Director of Surveillance in the Majority World Research Network, Centre for Critical Computational Studies, Goethe University Frankfurt (Germany)

Melanie Rideout, Red Cross AI Strategist, Humanitarian Tech Environmental Scientist, MasterCard Lighthouse Advisor (Sweden)

Mia Shah-Dand, Founder – WAIE+, Founder – Women in AI Ethics, Creator – 100 Brilliant Women in AI Ethics list