Olivier Kamanda
Senior Product Manager at Google
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Olivier Kamanda is a Senior Product Manager at Google focusing content moderation for Google Shopping's global platform. His work applies large language models for harmful content detection across billions of products with designing risk mitigation frameworks for new Generative AI experiences. Prior to Google, Olivier held product management roles at Facebook and Instagram Shopping, and served as a White House Presidential Innovation Fellow where he founded Code.gov, the federal government's open-source software platform.
Earlier in his career, he served as a speechwriter to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and practiced law as an investment funds attorney at White & Case LLP. An entrepreneur at heart, he left law firm life to pursue a series of entrepreneurial ventures that almost didn't fail.
Based in Geneva, Switzerland, he hosts the 1648 Jeffersonian Dinner Series, which brings together accomplished professionals in international affairs to think critically, deeply, and expansively about global issues. He is currently chair of the board of directors for the Center for Public Integrity. He previously served on the boards of the Equal Rights Center and Princeton University, and was Vice Chair of the board of trustees of the Landon School. Olivier holds a bachelor's degree in Engineering from Princeton University and a law degree from the University of Pennsylvania Law School.
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The New Gatekeepers: How Content Moderators Shape What We See in the Digital Age
Every minute, we generate 16 million tweets, 1 million hours of streaming video, and 66,000 Instagram photos. With 5 billion people online creating unprecedented volumes of user-generated content, users globally now spend as much time consuming user-created videos as traditional TV. This explosion of content has created an invisible army of decision-makers wielding extraordinary power.
Content moderation PMs are quietly making product decisions that directly shape what billions see, buy, and believe: which dating profiles you can swipe, to what job listings appear, which products you can purchase, and what news reaches your feed. These are the new gatekeepers of acceptable human expression, defining the boundaries of free speech, commerce, and connection at global scale.
In this session, you'll learn strategic frameworks for wielding this influence thoughtfully, how to navigate the "Potter Stewart problem" across cultures, why precision vs. recall trade-offs determine societal impact, and how to position content moderation as strategic leadership.
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