Digital Legacy Conference News

Thank you to all who spoke and attended this year’s conference. We look forward to welcoming you back again in 2020.

The Digital Legacy Conference 2019 took place on Friday 24th May at the ESTREL, in Berlin, Germany. This year’s Digital Legacy Conference was programmed as part of The 16th World Congress of the European Association of Palliative Care. *If you would the Digital Legacy Conference 2020 to take place in your hospice, hospital or country contact us via: https://digitallegacyassociation.org/about/contact

All the best,

James, Ros & the team

The Digital Legacy Conference will return to Europe for this year’s event. Last year the conference was hosted by Siena College in New York and we welcomed a diverse range of speakers ranging from a funeral director to those within the Policy and Legacy team at Facebook.

For our 5th, annual conference we will explore and help define the role of the palliative care professional in relation to the digital asset planning, online support and digital legacy. This year’s conference will take place at the 16th World Congress of the European Association of Palliative Care in Berlin on the 24th May. The Digital Legacy Conference will welcome 200 attendees on Friday night for a evening of innovation and discussion. The conference is free for all those who have purchased EAPC badges. Tickets will also be made available (for free) for those who wish to attend the Digital Legacy Conference but are unable to attend EAPC 2019.

We sincerely hope that you can join us.

We are currently updating this website. The Digital Legacy Conference programme will be announced in full in the coming weeks.

We have agreed a time, place and venue for next year’s conference…. We will have a call for speakers and announce more details in early 2019.

Thank you for all those who spoke, supported and attended this year’s Digital Legacy Conference. More details, photos and videos will be published in late November.

This year The Digital Legacy Conference will welcome a diverse range of speakers from a multitude of different professions. The objective of the Digital Legacy Conference is to improve conversations and to both inspire and support professionals to better serve the needs of their clients, users, patients, loved ones and the bereaved.

“Please join us to learn about how technology is changing the way our society deals with impending death, loss, and grief from legal, funeral-related, psychological, and social perspectives”.

– Dr Carla Carla Sofka, Ph.D., MSW Professor of Social Work, Siena College

We are delighted to announce that this year’s keynote will be delivered by Shelby Lindblad (Product Designer at Facebook) and Kim Malfacini (Associate Manager of Product Policy at Facebook).  Together they will explore the policy and product design behind Facebook’s Memorialization and Legacy Contact capabilities.

Shelby Lindblad is a Product Designer at Facebook working on issues related to memorialization. Prior to joining Facebook, she worked at Method, a global design firm with clients such as Google, HP, and the San Francisco Ballet. Her work has been recognized by Fast Company and the A’ Design Awards. Shelby graduated with a BFA in Communication Design from Washington University in St. Louis. 

Kim Malfacini is Associate Manager of Product Policy at Facebook, the team responsible for developing Facebook’s Community Standards governing what is and is not allowed on the site. Kim focuses on stakeholder engagement, ensuring Facebook’s policies are informed by experts across the globe. Prior to joining Facebook, Kim served as Director of Public Policy for Sunrun Inc., the largest residential solar energy provider in the US, where she advocated for the rights of residential energy producers with state legislators and regulators. She spent two years in Benin with the United States Peace Corps, leading projects in environmental health and young women’s empowerment. Kim graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the University of California Los Angeles with a Bachelor of Arts in Global Studies.

“We look forward to welcoming Shelby, Kim and all of this year’s speakers, sponsors and guests to Siena College on Saturday. This is the first time that the Digital Legacy Conference will take place out of Europe and are expecting it to be the best one to date”.

– James Norris, Founder Digital Legacy Association, DeadSocial & The Digital Legacy Conference. 

To view the full agenda and reserve a free ticket visit https://DigitalLegacyConference.com/speakers

20 years ago the Institute of Medicine stated that a good death is one that is “free from avoidable distress and suffering for patient, family, and caregivers, in general accord with the patient’s and family’s wishes, and reasonably consistent with clinical, cultural, and ethical standards.”

At this year’s Digital Legacy Conference we will examine how this statement can tranced across the technological divide as professionals, technologists and academics explore these areas within a digital context.

We are delighted to welcome Shelby Lindblad (Product Designer at Facebook) and Kim Malfacini (Associate Manager of Product Policy at Facebook) as this year’s keynote speakers. To read the full agenda click here

The Digital Legacy Conference is an international, not for profit conference ran by the Digital Legacy Association.  The conference brings together professionals, educators, patients, researchers and those with working within relevant fields in a melting pot of creativity, science and social care. The Digital Legacy Conference celebrates innovation, best practice, research and thought leadership within digital assets, digital estates and digital legacy.

We are delighted to announce that this year’s Digital Legacy Conference will take place at Siena College in Albany New York. The conference is also featured as one of the many ‘Reimagine End Of Life.  Reimagine End of Life explores big questions about life and death between the 27th – 3rd November.

We have put together a press release for this year’s Digital Legacy Conference. Feel free to copy and paste the copy onto your website. Alternatively download the text (as a .doc) and use the images provided when referencing the Digital Legacy Conference. If you download the press release it will save as a .ZIP file. simply open it and use the media provided. To download the press release click here.

The Digital Legacy Conference 2018

Press Release (August 2018)

We are spending an increasing amount of our lives online. The sentimental and monetary value of the content we upload, share and purchase is increasing year on year….But what happens to our online world when we die?

The Digital Legacy Conference explores societies attitudes and behaviours around death, dying, bereavement and the internet. This annual conference is ran by the Digital Legacy Association who operate from London. This year’s conference will examine how a variety of professions such as the legal, social care, healthcare and funeral care are changing their practice in order to better support the general public. This year’s conference will share best practice and recent research whilst asking questions about how these areas can improve and evolve.

On the 27th October 2018 the Digital Legacy Conference will take place at Siena College, Albany New York. This will be the first time that the conference has taken place outside of Europe and the Digital Legacy Association are looking forward to working with Siena College’s social care department to address this increasingly important area.

Siena College is a private, co-educational liberal arts college in the Franciscan and Catholic tradition. Siena is committed to offering the Education for a Lifetime for a new generation of leaders eager to create a more just, peaceful and humane world.

The Digital Legacy Conference call for speakers is now open. Those with relevant professional experience, case studies, research or stories should apply to participate at: http://www.digitallegacyconference.com/speakers

We also encourage policy makers, technologists, the legal sector and all those who support the general public with estate planning, palliative care, bereavement and end of life to attend.

More information and free tickets to attend the conference can be reserved at: www.DigitalLegacyConference.com  

Click here to download The Digital Legacy Conference Press Release for your website or blog – October 2018

The call for speakers and papers is now open for academics and professionals working and innovating within relevant fields. If you would like to submit a paper and speak at this year’s Digital Legacy Conference please fill in the form below.

Some of the subject matters you may want to address?

⇝ Digital death and it’s impact on society
⇝ Digital legacy, digital assets and digital estates
⇝ Grieving online
⇝ Digital graveyards,
⇝ Utilising technology to deal with death
⇝ Digital memory loss
⇝ Death in today’s digital world
⇝ Funeral streaming
⇝ Laws and terms of service around digital assets and digital legacy
⇝ Preparing for our own digital death
⇝ Artificial Intelligence and death
⇝ Robotics and death
⇝ Death, Cryptocurrency and other digital financial assets
⇝ Death and Virtual Reality
⇝ Whats next?
⇝ Best practice
⇝ Diffusion of information and adoption
⇝ The patients perspective
⇝ The role of the professional

Do you have another idea? Inspire us!

Applicants will be informed by email whether or not their application has been successful in September.

About the Digital Legacy Conference

The Digital Legacy Conference is an International Conference by the Digital Legacy Association. The objective of the Digital Legacy Conference is for professionals and academics working with in the field to share knowledge, best practice, case studies and stories. The conference is free for attendees due to the support provided by the sponsors: www.DigitalLegacyConference.com

About the Digital Legacy Association

thee Digital Legacy Association is the professional body dedicated to raising the quality of end of life care in all areas relating to digital assets, digital estates and digital legacy. Our mission is to help ensure that everyone’s end of life wishes are met both in the real world and the digital realm. We do this by supporting the general public, by developing standards, frameworks and toolkits with charities and third party organisations.

Get in touch and let us know your thoughts! https://digitallegacyassociation.org/contact