Event
FOSI 2025
Join Modulate at the Family Online Safety Institute! CEO & Co-founder Mike Pappas is joining a panel on chatbot safety, plus join Modulate and Resolver for a pre-conference networking dinner.
November 10, 2025
8:00 am - 6:30 pm ET
InterContinental DC
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Panel Discussion
Chatbots and Childhood: Risks & Opportunities
As AI-powered chatbots become an everyday presence in homes, schools, and online spaces, families and policymakers are grappling with how these tools shape young people’s lives. This discussion explores both the promise and the pitfalls of chatbots in childhood, from enhancing learning and creativity to managing misinformation, privacy, and emotional well-being.
Join leading experts in technology, policy, and child safety as they examine how we can build a future where AI supports, rather than endangers, healthy development. The conversation will spotlight responsible innovation, digital literacy, and the shared responsibility of industry and society to protect and empower the next generation.
Join leading experts in technology, policy, and child safety as they examine how we can build a future where AI supports, rather than endangers, healthy development. The conversation will spotlight responsible innovation, digital literacy, and the shared responsibility of industry and society to protect and empower the next generation.
Session Speakers:
- Danielle A. Davis, Esq., Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies
- Stephanie LeBlanc-Godfrey, Mother AI
- Allison Mishkin, OpenAI
- Mike Pappas, Modulate
- Liz Thomas, Microsoft
Pre-conference Networking
Digital Safety Leadership Dinner with Modulate & Resolver @ FOSI
Join Modulate and Resolver for an exclusive executive dinner the evening before the FOSI 2025 Annual Conference. This gathering brings together senior leaders in online safety, technology, policy and research for candid conversation, strategic networking, and a setting conducive to forging partnerships that drive real-world impact.
Amid the backdrop of the conference’s “Online Safety in Tumultuous Times” theme, this dinner affords a relaxed, off-the-record environment to explore emerging challenges and opportunities in content moderation, child safety, generative AI, trust & safety, and regulatory policy.
Amid the backdrop of the conference’s “Online Safety in Tumultuous Times” theme, this dinner affords a relaxed, off-the-record environment to explore emerging challenges and opportunities in content moderation, child safety, generative AI, trust & safety, and regulatory policy.
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Meet the Team
Mike Pappas
CEO & Co-founder
Mike leads Modulate, which builds voice-native conversational intelligence for content moderation, online safety, and fraud detection.
Mike leads Modulate’s commercial segment, advises customers on best practices for online social safety. He sits on a number of boards and working groups related to compliance and online safety, including a board seat with the Family Online Safety Institute in D.C.
Mike leads Modulate, which builds voice-native conversational intelligence for content moderation, online safety, and fraud detection.
Mike leads Modulate’s commercial segment, advises customers on best practices for online social safety. He sits on a number of boards and working groups related to compliance and online safety, including a board seat with the Family Online Safety Institute in D.C.
Mark Nolan
Marketing Director
Mark Nolan leads the Marketing team at Modulate, the prosocial voice intelligence company that’s helping build safer online communities. Mark’s work in marketing and communications spans more than a decade and a half and includes experience in games, entertainment, consumer technology, SaaS, and more.
He is passionate about building communities, telling compelling stories, fostering engagement, and promoting positive social impact through technology. Mark also sits on the board and serves as volunteer Marketing Director for BostonFIG, a nonprofit organization that celebrates independent games in New England and around the globe.
Mark Nolan leads the Marketing team at Modulate, the prosocial voice intelligence company that’s helping build safer online communities. Mark’s work in marketing and communications spans more than a decade and a half and includes experience in games, entertainment, consumer technology, SaaS, and more.
He is passionate about building communities, telling compelling stories, fostering engagement, and promoting positive social impact through technology. Mark also sits on the board and serves as volunteer Marketing Director for BostonFIG, a nonprofit organization that celebrates independent games in New England and around the globe.
Ken Morino
Director of Product
Ken is Modulate’s Director of Product, focusing on the product vision and strategy for the Modulate platform. Ken regularly works with clients, academics, and industry groups to explore and advise on ethical applications Modulate’s products and technologies.
Ken offers decades of experience working with governments, academics, NGOs, and private companies on security, safety and compliance concerns. He can provide cross industry insights to ensure solutions are tailored to meet clients individual needs.
Ken is Modulate’s Director of Product, focusing on the product vision and strategy for the Modulate platform. Ken regularly works with clients, academics, and industry groups to explore and advise on ethical applications Modulate’s products and technologies.
Ken offers decades of experience working with governments, academics, NGOs, and private companies on security, safety and compliance concerns. He can provide cross industry insights to ensure solutions are tailored to meet clients individual needs.
About Modulate
Modulate builds conversational voice intelligence technology that combats online toxicity, fraud, and digital harms, elevating the health, safety, and trust of online communications. Its proactive voice moderation platform, ToxMod, empowers community teams at leading organizations like Activision, Riot Games, Rockstar, and Rec Room, protecting tens of millions of users from harassment and toxicity. With the launch of VoiceVault, Modulate now extends the capabilities of its Voice Intelligence Platform to proactively safeguard enterprises from fraud, creating safer, more trustworthy interactions across every voice channel.