Karl Hopwood is an independent esafety expert. He is a member of advisory boards of several organisations in Great Britain active in the field of Internet safety.

Karl has worked for a number of key players in the UK and abroad including CEOP (Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre), BECTA (British Educational and Communications Technology Agency), the European Commission and several Local Authorities within the UK. He recently worked with the ITU developing a toolkit to enable national strategy development in child online safety. As an ex primary headteacher, he continues to work closely with children, young people, parents and teachers to develop safer online behaviours and the promotion of digital literacy.

Karl has been employed for the last 4 years as an in-house consultant for INSAFE which is the coordinating node of the EU safer internet programme where he is responsible for the coordination of safer internet helplines across the EU.

Plenary talk: Making the Internet a safer place for children and young people