Dietmar Pichler – Pirate Security Conference

Dietmar Pichler is a freelance media literacy trainer and disinformation analyst from Vienna, Austria. He is Vice President of the Vienna-based NGO “Vienna Goes Europe” and founder of the initiative “Disinfo Resilience Network”, which aims to connect experts from different fields to analyze, expose and uncover disinformation and propaganda activities. His work focuses on foreign interference by autocratic regimes, in particular the Russian Federation.

Since 2011, he has regularly traveled to Ukraine to monitor Russian propaganda targeting Western societies, especially since the annexation of Crimea and the covert invasion of Donbass in 2014. In 2024, he published the policy paper “Disinformation and Foreign Interference: A Challenge for the EU and Its Member States” with the Austrian Society for European Politics, in which he makes several recommendations to address this challenge for European democracies.

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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.