Speakers 2024.2 – Pirate Security Conference

Märt Põder

Märt Põder (born 11 September 1979) is an Estonian philosopher, freedom of information activist, presenter, publicist and translator. He is known as a promoter of free software and one of the initiators of crypto parties in Estonia.He has been the porter and publisher of Estobuntu,led various projects in the Ubuntu and Debian ecosystems, and coordinated the translation of software for these operating systems. He maintained an upgraded version of the ID card software for Ubuntu in 2010, in 2012 he led the freeware community’s negotiations with the Ministry of Economy and Communications to package the ID software according to the requirements of Linux ecosystems, and has highlighted …

Alexander Kohler

Alexander Kohler is responsible for foreign and security policy at the Pirate Party Germany. Organizing the yearly Pirate Security Conference in Munich. Doing Research on Hybrid warfare, especially Information warfare. He works on resilience issues and is a cybersecurity consultant.

Sara“Beau” Hjalmarsson

Sara “Beau” Hjalmarsson is a polymath, entrepreneur and martial artist with a degree in counterterrorism security and intelligence from Edith Co- wan University in Perth, West Australia.During the COVID pandemic, Sara worked as an anti-money-laundering professional at financial institutions in Sweden and Malta. More recently, Sara has been writing a book about violence and practical self-defense.

Schoresch Davoodi

Schoresch Davoodi Schoresch Davoodi studied Political Science and History in Bochum, publications for the EPU in Stadtschlaining (Austria). He is a member of the Foreign Policy Working Group of the Pirate Party, Middle East Division and gives a lecture on the situation in Iran and the Middle East. Lecture at #PSC19

10 Years of Pirate Secon

Ten years of the Pirate Security Conference

A milestone at the intersection of technology, geopolitics and resilience. For a decade, the Pirate Security Conference has served as a groundbreaking platform exploring the interplay of technology, geopolitical challenges and essential resilience in our world.

This conference has not only set trends, but also pioneered them by always being ahead of its time. The increasing fusion of technology and security has created new dimensions of challenges and opportunities.

Over these ten years, we have seen how the digital and geopolitical landscape has fundamentally changed and how these changes influence each other.

The Pirate Security Conference has recognized this interplay and explored how technology is redefining not only security, but also power structures in the world.