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• 2026, September: Panelist at the Economic Forum, titled Democracy Under Siege: Disinformation, Deepfakes and Propaganda. Hosted by Lower Silesia and partners, Karpacz, Poland.
   

• 2026, July: Speaker of the 2026 Reykjavík SlutWalk protest. Hosted by the Druslugangan movement.
   

• 2025, September: Keynote speaker for the school principals and pedagogues of Örebro about the important of teaching consent to children. Hosted by the municipality of Örebro, Sweden.
   

• 2024, November: Keynote speaker at the World According to Heroine conference at the National Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic. Hosted by Heroine magazine and NextPageMedia.
   

• 2024, November: Expert speaker at the Europe As a Commitment conference, addressing sexual harassment and digital violence against women in the EU. Hosted by the European Youth Parliament CZ in Litoměřice, Czech Republic. 
   

• 2024, October: Host and organizer of the conference The Game Changer: Perpetrators of Gendered Online Abuse and the Innovative Ways to Make Them Stop at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. Hosted by NORDREF, the Game Changer project and the University of Gothenburg.
   

• 2024, August: Keynote speaker, delivering the address Con-Sensual: Using Theatre to Teach Consent at the Cultural Headquarters of Örebro, Sweden. Hosted by Örebro Culture School, Martin Mutter Theatre and the elementary schools of Örebro.
   

• 2023-2025: Speaking tour to 15 colleges around Iceland, delivering the Nudes, Deep-Fakes, Andrew Tate and the Hate lecture to a live audience of 7,000 students and staff. The colleges included Menntaskólinn í Reykjavík, Tækniskólinn, Menntaskólinn í Kópavogi, Menntaskólinn við Sund, Fjölbrautaskólinn í Ármúla, Kvennaskólinn, Framhaldsskólinn á Vesturlandi, Fjölbrautaskólinn í Breiðholti, í Garðabæ, á Suðurlandi and in Suðurnes, Menntaskólinn á Egilsstöðum, Keilir, Hringsjá, Verzlunarskóli Íslands and Flensborg college.
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• 2023, November: Speaker at the Reykjavik Global Forum, delivering the Power of Forgiveness address. Hosted by the Reykjavik Global Forum and Women Leaders, Reykjavík, Iceland.
   

• 2023, April: Speaker at the Ungdommens Folkemöde assembly, headlining the event The Andrew Tate Effect: Is Cyber-Violence Trending? Hosted by the Nordic Council of Ministers, Copenhagen, Denmark. 
   

• 2023, March: Speaker at a conference about gender-based violence in schools, delivering the speech Is Cyber Violence the Ultimate Silencing Method? (Er stafrænt ofbeldi hin fullkomna þöggun?) Hosted by the Stígamót counseling centre for victims of sexual violence, Reykjavík, Iceland. 
   

• 2023, January: Speaker in the Hidden Gems Behind Despair lecture series at SciencesPo University, marking the launch of the Black Elephant social network, Paris, France.
   

• 2022, October: Gender Equality Forum, speaker in the Countering Cyber Violence Against Women and Girls session, hosted by EIGE, the European Institute for Gender Equality, Brussels, Belgium.
   

• 2022, May: NoWoman Alone, keynote speaker at the Reykjavík Feminist Film Festival, Iceland.
   

• 2022, April: High-level launch of the Council of Europe's Strategy of the Rights of the Child, expert speaker on comprehensive sexuality education as violence-prevention, hosted by the Council of Europe, Rome, Italy.
   

• 2022, January: Host and moderator of Nordic Talks: When Gender-Equality Meets Sexual Privacy in a Digital World. Organised by the Nordic Digital Rights and Equality Foundation, Reykjavík, Iceland.
   

• 2021, November: High-level EU Webinar: Building Safe Digital Spaces for Women and Girls, keynote speaker, hosted by the Slovenian presidency of the EU.
   

• 2021, June: The Angry Internet: Knowledge and Tools for Professionals, closing speaker, hosted by the Danish government, Copenhagen, Denmark.
   

• 2021, June: Nordic Conference on Gender-based Hate, Threat and Harassment on the Internet, specialist commentator. Hosted by the Finnish government. 
   

• 2021, March: Addressed the Nordic Council's committee on social welfare, about the online abuse of politicians and journalists in the region.

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