Speakers

Enno Lenze Enno Lenze is a blogger and managing partner of the publisher “Berlin Story”. Born in Bochum, he grew up in Rwanda and later made himself again and again a picture of crisis regions. Enno is also familiar with digital topics and advised companies in IT and marketing matters in an international consulting firm.

  Patrick Breyer (* 1977) is a civil rights activist and a German politician and lawyer of the Pirate Party Germany. From 2012 to 2017 he was a member of parliament in Schleswig-Holstein and from April 2016 until the end of the legislature also chairman of the faction of the Pirate faction. In the 2019 European elections Breyer is the top candidate of the Pirate Party Germany. His theme for the PSC 2019 is the safety awareness in Europe: “Feeling safe is an important prerequisite for our personal well-being. Research results show, however, that the high level of safety in Europe is widely unknown and that the risk of crime …

Birgitta Jónsdóttir Birgitta Jónsdóttir (is an Icelandic politician, anarchist, poet, and activist. She was a Member of the Althing (MP) for the Southwest Constituency from 2013 to 2017, representing the Pirate Party, having been elected at the 2013 election. She was previously an MP for Reykjavík Constituency South from 2009 to 2013. In November 2017, she has announced to retire from politics “for now”. She published her first book of poetry at the age of 22, and later became a web developer. She was a noted Icelandic activist, and took on a number of roles during the protests following the 2007-2008 financial crisis. She was first elected as an MP …

Mikuláš Peksa born 1986 in Prague is a Czech biophysicist and politician of Česká pirátská strana. From 2017 to 2019 Peksa was a Member of the Czech House of Commons, since 2019 he is a Member of the Ninth European Parliament as part of the Green/EFA Group. Youth and education Mikuláš Peksa was born and grew up in Prague on 18 June 1986. After his school education at the Christian Doppler Grammar School, he studied biophysics at the Charles University in Prague. In the course of his studies he specialized in nuclear magnetic resonance, afterwards Peksa completed a post-graduate program in the framework of a cooperation between the Charles University …

Alexander Isavnin Alexander studied mathematics at Moscow State University. He started working with the Internet in the 90s, later working in Internet providers, he was responsible for establishing inter-operator relations and communication with law enforcement agencies. Alexander now works at the informal Free Moscow University, teaching Internet governance and researching Internet infrastructure and rules, collaborating with Internet rights and freedom NGOs. Alexander speaks openly on the issues of freedom of the Russian Internet, as well as on issues of electronic voting in Russia. Alexander is a member of the Council of the Russian Pirate Party.

Paula Cipierre Paula Cipierre is head of EU Privacy and Public Policy at Palantir Technologies. She works at the intersection of privacy engineering, legal compliance and public affairs. Paula holds a Bachelor of Arts summa cum laude in French, European Cultural Studies, and Near Eastern Studies from Princeton University, a Master of Public Policy from the Hertie School of Governance in Berlin, and a Master of Arts in Media, Culture, and Communication from New York University. She is currently pursuing an Master of Law in Information Technology Law from the University of Edinburgh part time.

Fritz Felgentreu Fritz Felgentreu, born in 1968, teacher, married, 3 children, evangelic. Studied classical philology of slavic studies at Freie Universität Berlin. 1998 doctorate, 2008 habilitation. SPD member since 1992. 2001 – 2011: Member of the Berlin House of Representatives. 2013 – 2021: Member of the German Bundestag (election district Berlin-Neukölln). 2017 – 2020: Defence Spokesperson of the SPD-fraction. Since 2021: Chairperson Reichsbanner Schwarz Rot Gold.

Paul C. Strobel is an expert on social media, political and strategic communications and an army officer ( Major / OF3) with the German Federal Armed Forces. As such he is currently Director of Digital Communications for the Invictus Games 2023 and a frequent commentator on the military use of social media, information warfare and propaganda.