Agenda

Samit D’Cunha is a Legal Adviser at the International Committee of the Red Cross’s headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, where he leads the legal and policy aspects of the Digital Emblem Project. has also worked as an Operational Legal Adviser covering Africa and, before that, the Americas, as well as a Protection Delegate in Colombia and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Prior to joining the ICRC, Samit worked at the Canadian Red Cross as well as at the Geneva International Centre for Humanitarian Demining. He holds an LL.M. from the Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights.

Mauro Vignati is an advisor on digital technologies of warfare at the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), focusing on aspects such as the militarisation of digital space and AI, the exploitation of the cognitive domain as a means of confrontation, and the impact of digital technologies in armed conflicts on civilians, civilian critical infrastructure, and society as a whole.

Mauro gained 20 years of experience in various cybersecurity positions.

Tommy Jensen has actively participated in the IETF since 2019, mostly on discovery and usage of encrypted DNS, deployment of IPv6, and advocacy for Digital Emblems. He previously worked for eight years at Microsoft, six of those on the Windows Core Networking team as a PM for the DNS and DHCP client, HTTP client and server, and IPv6 stack. His work focused on OS support for DoH and DoT, CLAT, expansion of HTTP capabilities, and OS integration of "Protective DNS" (ZTDNS). Since then, he has been working at Cloudflare on networking security provided by the WARP client.

Tommy has a Computer Science undergraduate degree and is continuing to work on a Masters of Legal Studies focused on cybersecurity and digital privacy. He was added to the IPv6 Hall of Fame in 2025. 

Emma Cunliffe is the Head of Operations for Blue Shield International, where she supports the Blue Shield Movement, an association of NGOs dedicated to protecting cultural heritage in conflict and disaster. In this role, she manages the project portfolio for Blue Shield International’s operations, with responsibility for grants, operations, and financial management. She also serves as international coordinator of the worldwide movement, supports civil-military cooperation, and provides subject-matter expertise for military training, with a focus on cultural property protection, human security, and the protection of civilians. In addition, she advocates for improvements in the policy and implementation of heritage protection law. She previously served as Secretary of UK Blue Shield and now chairs the Blue Shield UK Conflict and Military Activity Working Group.

Joelle Rizk is the Protection Division Lead on New Technologies and Digital Risks at the International Committee of the Red Cross. She works on risks to civilian populations and services, emanating from the use of digital and new technology in armed conflict settings. She has worked in conflict affected contexts since 2009, and has been deployed with the ICRC since 2014 in Afghanistan, Libya, Tunisia, the Sahel region of Africa, Iraq, Senegal and Jordan. Prior to the ICRC her work evolved around Track II diplomacy and Mediation in Afghanistan and Central Asia. She holds an M.A. in Peace and Conflict Studies and an M.A. in International Relations.  Her academic work includes research on harmful information on social media in armed conflict (2024), on non-state armed groups and Trafficking in Persons (2020, 2021), and on the geopolitical dimensions of Islamic militancy in Afghanistan (2010).