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.
Speakers 2024
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 …
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Florian Gallwitz
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Florian Gallwitz Professor of computer science and media – pattern recognition, computer vision, speech recognition, deep learning, robotics.
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 …
Anja Hirschel
Anja Hirschel writes about herself: Professional activities After graduating from high school, I completed basic general training with the German Armed Forces. This was followed by studies in medical documentation and information technology at the University of Applied Sciences in Ulm (now University of Applied Science), where I graduated as a “Diplom Dokumentar (FH)”. In addition, I passed the exam to become a state-certified data protection officer. The topic of my diploma thesis was the validation of a globally implemented computer system in the field of pharmaceutical manufacturing in cooperation with Canada, India and Switzerland. (“Validation of a globally implemented computerized system”). After my studies I worked at the Institute …
Theresa Fallon
Theresa Fallon is the founder and director of the Centre for Russia Europe Asia Studies (CREAS) in Brussels. She is concurrently a member of the Council for Security Cooperation in the Asia-Pacific, a Nonresident Senior Fellow of the Chicago Council on Global Affairs, Adjunct Professor at the George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies, a member of the CEPS Task Force on AI and Cybersecurity, a member of the Loisach Group on transatlantic relations, and a member of the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations. Theresa’s current research is on EU-Asia relations, maritime security, global governance, China’s Belt and Road Initiative, and great power competition. She has testified …