Speakers
Speakers

L0la L33tz

L0la L33tz is an independent journalist. Her work appears in Bitcoin Magazine, Coindesk, and Forbes. L0la L33tz does not actually exist. You can reach her at the end of surveillance capitalism, PoBox 77, C72B 398B 7C04 8F04.

Dr. Ronen Eidelman

    Dr. Ronen Eidelman       Dr. Ronen Eidelman is an artist, designer, and researcher from Jerusalem. His research focuses on surveillance, technology and society, public spaces, digital culture, contemporary art, and the relationship between them. As the founder and director of the Institute for Positive Technology, an independent activist research institute, Ronen critically examines the role and applications of surveillance and digital technology in society. He is also the co-founder and chief editor of Erev Rav, a media platform focusing on art and culture. With a rich background in publishing and editing various periodicals, magazines, and political and artistic books, Ronen actively bridges culture, technology, and politics. He holds …

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.  

Grit Friedrich

Grit Friedrich (GDR civil rights activist) is born 1969 in the GDR. She studied philosophy. Since 1987, active member of the resistance in the GDR and the fall of communism, dealing with propaganda, subversion and infiltration of society. Involved in democratic processes in the student movement of the 1990s, elected representative of the first Coordinating Council of Student Councils, Co-initiator of the round table from below. Activist of the NAFO.

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.

Dr. Ronen Eidelman

Dr. Ronen Eidelman is an artist, designer, and researcher from Jerusalem. His research focuses on surveillance, technology and society, public spaces, digital culture, contemporary art, and the relationship between them. As the founder and director of the Institute for Positive Technology, an independent activist research institute, Ronen critically examines the role and applications of surveillance and digital technology in society. He is also the co-founder and chief editor of Erev Rav, a media platform focusing on art and culture. With a rich background in publishing and editing various periodicals, magazines, and political and artistic books, Ronen actively bridges culture, technology, and politics. He holds a Ph.D. from the Faculty of Architecture and …

Anastasiya Shapochkina

F Anastasiya Shapochkina is founder and president of Eastern Circles. Anastasiya has 14 years of experience in consulting and energy industry, where she worked on companies, technologies and market analysis in the renewable energy, utilities, nuclear energy, and e-mobility. She led development of international cross-industry partnership research projects on these subjects and represented business in European industrial and research associations. Anastasiya is a lecturer on geopolitics in Sciences Po Paris since 2012, focusing on the role of business in the EU-Russia relations. Author of articles on the geopolitics and geoeconomics in the Former Soviet Union, she has regular TV and radio appearances. Anastasiya graduated from Georgetown University School of Foreign …

Dr. Alessandro Guarino

  Dr.-Ing. Alessandro Guarino is a senior Information Security professional and independent researcher. He is the founder and principal consultant of StudioAG, a consultancy firm based in Italy and active since 2000, serving clients both in the private and public sector and providing cybersecurity, privacy, and data protection consulting services.     He is also a digital forensics analyst and consultant, as well as expert witness in Court and holds an M.Sc. in Industrial Engineering and a B.Sc. in economics, with a focus on Information Security Economics. He is an ISO active expert in JTC 1/SC 27 (IT Security Techniques committee) and contributed in particular to the development of cybersecurity …