Safer Internet Day 2025

Sacramento

Safer Internet Day 2025: Empowering Youth as Stakeholders

Date: Tuesday, February 11, 2025
Time: 10 AM – 2:20 PM
Location: California Endowment Center, Sacramento, CA

Safer Internet Day 2025 aims to bring together diverse stakeholders—students, parents, educators, policymakers and tech industry leaders—for a dynamic leadership summit to discuss internet safety issues and policies. The event will focus on empowering youth by including their voices in critical conversations about online safety, digital wellbeing and the ethical use of technology. Attendees will collaborate on pressing topics like social media regulation, school phone policies, cyberbullying prevention and generative AI.

This multi-stakeholder event will emphasize actionable solutions and foster an environment where young people are not just participants but essential stakeholders in shaping a better online world.

Event Goals

  • Elevate Youth Perspectives: Give students a platform to share their ideas and opinions on policies and issues that impact their lives.
  • Foster Multi-Stakeholder Collaboration: Facilitate meaningful dialogue among students, parents, educators, industry leaders, and legislative policymakers.
  • Generate Actionable Solutions: Develop tangible recommendations and strategies for addressing internet safety challenges through a “white paper” that ConnectSafely will publish after the event.

PROGRAM AGENDA

(Subject to change)

Welcome and Opening Remarks

Ice Breaker: “Two Truths and a Lie”

  • A fun activity incorporating research insights from FOSI, Common Sense Media, Pew Research Center, and Thorn.

Breakout Session 1: Brainstorming Solutions

  • Small groups (balanced with students, parents, educators, policymakers, and tech industry leaders) work together to brainstorm 3-5 solutions to assigned internet safety topics.

Keynote Speaker

Breakout Session 2: Refining Solutions

  • Groups finalize a single detailed solution, including funding, staffing, and marketing considerations. Presentations will be prepared using a provided template.

Lunch Break

Multi-Stakeholder Panel: How Tech Companies Design with Youth in Mind

  • Students, industry leaders, parents and policymakers discuss how digital platforms can better reflect and address the needs of young users. Panelists will explore how youth experiences influence product design, the decision-making processes behind these platforms and strategies for fostering safer online environments.

Thriving Online: Promoting Resilience and Mental Health in a Connected World

  • Panelists will focus on the intersection of internet safety and youth mental health.

Breakout Session 3: Finalizing Solutions

  • Groups finalize their presentations.

Wrap-Up

Free Safer Internet Day Resources

We also have lots of free Safer Internet Day resources for families and schools:

Lesson plans
Smart Digital Parenting program with National PTA
Family program
Student program