“Tech Against Modern Slavery” was an event in aid of World Day Against Trafficking in Persons, ran in partnership between Free_D and the London Tech for Good Meetup to raise the profile of human trafficking and explore tech's role in addressing it.

The event explored tech's role and responsibility in the prevention, prosecution, rescue, and reintegration of human trafficking and modern slavery, from the perspectives of charities, startups and big tech companies.

According to the UN, human trafficking is a crime that exploits women, children and men for numerous purposes including forced labour and sex.

The International Labour Organization estimates that 21 million people are victims of forced labour globally.

While it is not known how many of these victims were trafficked, most agree that a large portion of this number are victims of trafficking.

During the event, we heard talks from Siavash Mahdavi, co-founder of Free_D, and Phil Bennett, Program Architect at Salesforce.org.

There was also a panel discussion featuring:

Here are our notes from the talks.