Speaker alert: 🇮🇳 Abhineet Nayyar x @ITforChange joins Cypherpunk Congress lineup with the take on AI regulation. Abhineet holds Senior Associate, Research and Policy Engagement position. An engineer by education, he focuses on surveillance, antitrust law, AI supply chains, and labour exploitation in the digital economy. IT for Change (@ITforChange) is a Bengaluru-based nonprofit advancing digital justice from a Global South perspective. Its impact: • 15,000+ people reached through community information centres across 60 villages • 1,500+ welfare claims processed, helping people access public entitlements • 25+ young women mentored as community media champions • Contributed to drafting provisions on algorithmic transparency in Karnataka’s proposed gig-worker legislation • Helped bring data justice and equitable digital governance into global policy debates. From grassroots empowerment to challenging Big Tech power, IT for Change puts democracy, equality and people’s rights at the heart of technology. Cypherpunk Congress, 2 nov, Mumbai: