Speakers

Joan Subirats is a Professor of Political Science with a PhD in Economics. He founded and directed the Institute of Government and Public Policy at the Autonomous University of Barcelona. His research fields include policy analysis, democratic innovation and local and urban policies, having published many books on these subjects. His latest books include: The Power of Proximity. The Virtues of Municipalism (Catarata, 2016); Common Goods (Icaria, 2016); Ages in transition. Aging in the 21st Century (Ariel, 2016). Professor Subirats writes regularly for various media outlets. Since January 2018 he is the Commissioner of Culture of the Barcelona City Council. 

She is the current Director of Smart Citizenship Foundation, with offices in Rio and Sao Paulo. International human rights lawyer and digital rights advocate. In her practice, she represented indigenous victims of genocide and other human rights abuses, including the prominent indigenous leader and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Rigoberta Menchu Tum.

She also represented awarded journalist Julian Assange and Wikileaks since 2009.  Avila sits on the Board of Creative Commons and a Coordinating Collective member of Diem25, a movement to democratise Europe launched by Yanis Varoufakis. Her book Women, Whistleblowing, Wikileaks was published by OR Books. She is currently writing a book on Digital Colonialism and regularly writes for several international newspapers.  

Tulio Rosembuj is a former Professor of Financial and Tax Law at the University of Barcelona, currently guest professor at the Universitá LUISS, Rome, where he directs the course Diritto Fiscale Europeo. His most recent published book is Inteligencia Artificial e Impuesto (2018).

He is the author of several publications in his field of study. Among them: Intangibles. La fiscalidad del capital intelectual (2003); Intercambio internacional de información tributaria (2004); Medio Ambiente y Comercio Mundial. Los impuestos (2005); Los impuestos y la Organización Mundial del Comercio (2007); Minimización del impuesto y Responsabilidad Social Corporativa (2009); El impuesto ambiental (2009); El arbitraje fiscal internacional (2010); La crisis financiera y el arbitraje fiscal internacional (2011); Principios Globales de Fiscalidad Internacional (2012, 2013); El impuesto digital (2015), Digital Tax (2015), Bitcoin (2015), Tax Morale (2016), Tax Governance. Los principios de la Unión Europea y del G20 (2017), Inteligencia Artificial e Impuesto (2018).

Associate Fellow at International Center for Trade and Sustainable Development (ICTSD), contributor to research group on services and digital economy.  Economics PhD candidate at University Pompeu Fabra (UPF), Barcelona, Spain. Former delegate and member of inter-government policy research groups on issues related to international trade and investment (APEC, G-20, BRICS, OBOR).

Prof. dr. Caroline Nevejan is professor by special appointment with the Amsterdam School for Social Science Research, University of Amsterdam (2018-2023). Her research is focused on Designing Urban Experience and she supervises 5 PhD candidates in this context. As of 20th of March 2017 Caroline Nevejan has been appointed Chief Science Officer of the City of Amsterdam. The Chief Science Officer orchestrates research between the municipality of Amsterdam and the different scientific, academic and artistic universities in the city. With a small team she makes sure that civil servants and researchers can find each other and invent different new ways of working together. Last year she was part of the editorial board of the conference Flying Money, on Investigating illicit financial flows in the city.

Tony Norfield worked for nearly twenty years in dealing rooms in the City of London, and became Executive Director and Global Head of Foreign Exchange Strategy for a major European bank. He travelled widely in Europe, Asia and the US, visiting corporate, financial and government clients. He has a PhD in Economics from the School of Oriental and African Studies, London University.

His blog is EconomicsofImperialism, and in 2016 Verso published his book, The City: London and the Global Power of Finance.

After having taught at the Annenberg School for Communication at University of Southern California for six plus years, Yu Hong joined Zhejiang University as a "100-Talents Program" Young Professor in Fall 2017 and is vice director of the ZJU Research Center on Public Diplomacy and Strategic Communication.Yu Hong got her Ph.D. in Communication from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Her research focuses on ICT development, Internet and media policy, and digital capitalism, with a regional focus on China. Yu Hong serves as the Book Review Editor for Global Media and Communication and serves on the Editorial Advisory Board of the Chinese Journal of Communication. Yu Hong is the author of two books, including Networking China: The Digital Transformation of the Chinese Economy (U of I Press, 2017).

Fabrizio Sestini is Senior Expert in Digital Social Innovation with DG CONNECT of the European Commission, and responsible for the EIC Horizon Prize on “Blockchains for Social Good”. Within DG CONNECT, he is leading the multidisciplinary initiative CAPS “Collective Awareness Platforms for Sustainability and Social Innovation”. In the framework of the Next-Generation Internet initiative, he has launched a new area of techno-social research on distributed architectures for decentralised data governance, leveraging on peer-to-peer and blockchains/distributed ledger technologies.
He has a PhD in Information and Communication Engineering and has published some 30 scientific papers. As an IEEE Senior Member, he has often served on boards organising scientific conferences. Fabrizio is an Internet Policy Fellow of the University of Cambridge.

Marleen Stikker (1962) is founder of Waag and also founder of De Digitale Stad (The Digital City) in 1993, the first virtual community introducing free public access to the Internet. She leads Waag, a social enterprise that consists of a research institute for creative technologies and social innovation and Waag Products, which launched companies like Fairphone, the first fair smartphone in the world.

She is also member of the European H2020 Commission High-level Expert Group for SRIA on innovating Cities / DGResearch and the Dutch AcTI academy technology & innovation.

Denis Roio, better known as Jaromil, CTO and co-founder of the Dyne.org think&do tank. He received the Vilém Flusser Award at Transmediale (Berlin, 2009) while leading for 6 years the R&D department of the Netherlands Media art Institute (Montevideo/TBA).

He is a fellow of Waag (Amsterdam), included in the "Purpose Economy" list of top 100 social enterpreneurs in EU (2014) and the "40 under 40" European young leaders program. Jaromil is leading the design of DECODE's technical architecture.

Yun Wen has a PhD in Communication from Simon Fraser University in Canada. She is a senior economist at Infinite-sum Modeling Inc. Her research interests include information and communication technologies (ICTs), Chinese communication and social change, and technology and innovation policy.

She has taught a range of courses in the School of Communication at Simon Fraser University and at Columbia College in Vancouver. Yun Wen is the author of The Huawei Model: The Rise of China's ICT Giant in Global Digital Capitalism.

Arnau Monterde is responsible for Research, Development and Innovation in Participation at the Barcelona City Council. He is one of the cofounders of the Decidim.barcelona and the Decidim.org projects.

He studies emerging forms of political participation and democracy in the network society. He has also promoted the Laboratory of Democratic Innovation in Barcelona. He was the coordinator of the Tecnopolitica project at the Internet Interdisciplinary Institute (IN3-UOC). He holds a PhD in Information and Knowledge Society by the Open University of Catalunya.

Dan Hill is an Associate Director at Arup, and Head of Arup Digital Studio, a multidisciplinary strategic and service design team. He is a Visiting Professor at UCL Bartlett Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose in London and an Adjunct Professor at RMIT University in Melbourne and University of Technology Sydney.

Shoshana Zuboff is the author of the 2015 article that first theorized surveillance capitalism as a novel and extractive new economic order, "Big Other: Surveillance Capitalism and the Prospects of an Information Civilization." Her new book, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power, will be published in Germany (Campus: October 4, 2018) and in the US (Public Affairs: January 15, 2019).

The Age of Surveillance Capitalism offers a comprehensive analysis of the economic imperatives that drive this new economic order and its consequences for individuals, society, and democracy.