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TASI 2025Trust and Safety India Festival

A landmark two-day convening in New Delhi that brought together government leaders, global technology platforms, diplomats, researchers, and civil society to reimagine safer digital ecosystems.

October 7-8, 2025The Ambassador Hotel, New Delhi500+ Participants

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About the Festival

A First for India, A Milestone for the Global South

TASI 2025 created a multi-stakeholder platform for digital safety dialogue in India, bringing together government, international diplomats, technology companies, academics, and civil society under a shared responsibility framework.

The festival established a serious, practice-oriented space where Indian realities and Global South perspectives could shape the future of trust, safety, and AI governance.

Perspective

"For the first time, voices from the Global South are shaping the future of digital trust with Indian insights and global relevance."

Caroline Humer, Co-Founder, Trust and Safety Festival

TASI 2025 audience gathering during the festival in New Delhi

Festival Journey

The edition in one connected arc

TASI 2025 unfolded as a connected progression, from convening the right room in New Delhi to turning shared urgency into recommendations, institutional momentum, and the next chapter for TASI 2026.

Arc 01

A compact map of how TASI 2025 moved from convening to policy direction.

Arc 02

Each stop links the edition's momentum to the wider TASI 2026 conversation.

Connected Nodes

Opening Convening

Keynote Moments

Six Key Tracks

Core Takeaways

TASI 2026

Festival Highlights

Two Days That Started India's Trust and Safety Conversation

On 7-8 October 2025, the first Trust and Safety India Festival brought 500+ participants from 15 countries to The Ambassador Hotel, New Delhi.

Across 30+ sessions on AI governance, child safety, policy and digital wellbeing, government, platforms, researchers and civil society worked through the problems together. The highlights reel captures the keynotes, panels and conversations from the two days.

TASI 2025 Highlights

See What Happened at India's First Trust & Safety Festival

Featured Session

Keynote Addresses

Two landmark keynotes from TASI 2025 that shaped the global conversation on online safety and gender-based harm.

eSafety Commissioner, Australia

Safety by Design in the Age of AI

Julie Inman Grant

Ambassador-at-Large, Generation Equality Forum

Combating Tech-Facilitated Gender-Based Violence

Delphine O

Thematic Focus

Six Key Tracks

The inaugural edition spanned core trust and safety concerns across governance, product design, online harms, and institutional response.

AI Governance and Safety

Building ethical, accountable, and inclusive AI frameworks rooted in transparency and global cooperation.

Child Protection

Designing safer digital environments with privacy-first defaults, age-appropriate design, and abuse prevention.

Gendered and Sexualized Harms

Addressing TFGBV, image-based abuse, and emerging AI-enabled exploitation.

Trust and Safety Workforce

Recognizing emotional labor in moderation and advancing care-by-design practices.

Safety by Design

Embedding safety, transparency, and accountability from product and model inception.

Platform Responsibility and Collaboration

Cross-sector cooperation among government, industry, and civil society to address online harms.

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Inaugural Keynote

India's Foreign Minister Opened the Festival

Dr. S. Jaishankar framed trust and safety as a strategic policy priority and emphasized human-guided AI governance with robust safeguards for digital citizens.

Key Message

"Technology is a force for good, but only if humanity guides it."

Dr. S. Jaishankar, quoting PM Narendra Modi

Research and Data Spotlights

The Numbers Behind the Urgency

The festival surfaced the scale of online harms and the need for faster, more accountable response systems.

90%+

TFGBV Data Unreported

30%

Children Talking with Strangers Online

25%

LGBTQ+ TFGBV Survivors at Risk

10 Days+

Platform Response Times for Child Safety

1,500+

Content Takedowns via Meri Trust Line

$20B+

Meta's Investment in Online Safety

Recommendations

Key Recommendations for India's Digital Future

Strategic Direction

From dialogue to implementation

TASI 2025 surfaced a clear mandate: build stronger year-round collaboration, develop more practical governance frameworks, and center survivor-led, India-grounded trust and safety solutions.

Priority 01

Deepen civil society-led collaboration as a catalyst for innovation.

Priority 02

Move from compliance to co-design through structured working forums.

Priority 03

Expand participation beyond traditional platforms into telecom, fintech, gaming, and edtech.

Priority 04

Prioritize India-first innovation for global relevance.

Priority 05

Develop coordinated AI governance frameworks with practical implementation tracks.

Priority 06

Establish year-round engagement structures, not just annual conversations.

Priority 07

Embed survivor-centered design in reporting and redress architecture.

Priority 08

Institutionalize care by design for trust and safety workers.

Voices from TASI

What Leaders Said

Perspectives from senior leaders, practitioners, and global experts who helped shape the first edition.

S. Krishnan
Secretary, MeitY, Government of India
The Trust and Safety India Festival is important because it brings diverse stakeholders onto a common ground. The real task is to engage in sustained, meaningful dialogue.
S. Krishnan, Secretary, MeitY, Government of India

Kanta Singh
Country Representative, UN Women India
To address Technology Facilitated Gender Based Violence, there is a need for a multipronged approach by improving digital literacy and security, content moderation, and law enforcement capacities.
Kanta Singh, Country Representative, UN Women India

Sophie Mortimer
Manager, UK Revenge Porn Helpline, SWGfL
As one of the largest and fastest-growing digital populations, India is a natural centre for this gathering of key stakeholders and leading trust and safety experts.
Sophie Mortimer, Manager, UK Revenge Porn Helpline, SWGfL