Speakers

Amelia Andersdotter has worked on the intersection of technology and policy over 10 years. She is currently oriented towards hardware standards, privacy and security, but has in the past been an MEP representing the Swedish Pirate Party and a popular lecturer on data protection in Sweden. Her educational background is in mathematical statistics and law, and she uses free software since 2003 (including on her phone!).

Andres Arauz is a former Minister of Knowledge of Ecuador and a former Central Bank Director during Rafael Correa's administration. While at the Central Bank, he worked with cooperatives to democratize the national payment system and designed the first Central Bank issued digital currency.

He was one of the founding directors of the Bank of the South and led the citizens' audit of the international investor-state arbitration system. Currently, he leads the Dollarization Observatory, about money and technology, government procurement, development planning macroeconomics, illicit financial flows and the hegemony of financial capital. He is currently based in Mexico City, working on his PhD in Financial Economics at UNAM.

Pablo Aragón is a research scientist at the Data Science & Big Data Analytics unit in Eurecat and an adjunct professor at Universitat Pompeu Fabra.

His research focuses on understanding social and political phenomena through the analysis of data from the Internet. He is particularly interested in characterizing online participation in civic technologies, the online network structures of grassroots movements and political parties, and the technopolitical dimension of networked democracy.

Pablo is also a board member of Decidim and contributes to the DECODE project within the BarcelonaNow pilot that focuses on empowering citizens with interactive dashboards for urban data exploration.

Marco Bellezza is the Counsellor on Blockchain Strategy to the Minister for Economic Development of Italy and Legal Counsel on Communication and Digital Innovation to the Deputy Prime Minister Luigi Di Maio. As a Digital and Fintech lawyer, Mr. Bellezza’s experience ranges from providing legal assistance to Italian and foreign clients in matters relating to media law and new technologies.

Marco is the author of numerous scientific publications in national and international journals. He is founder and president of “Osservatorio Pugliese della Proprietà Intellettuale Concorrenza e Consumo digitale” (www.oppic.it). In 2011 he obtained a PhD in “Private law and new technologies” at the University of Bari, defending a thesis on the topic of the relationship between the protection of intellectual property rights and the respect of fundamental rights of users of the network in the community and national disciplinary perspective. 

Larisa Blazic is a London-based artist focusing on critical examination of digital technology, its impact on power relations, dominant narratives surrounding it and consequences of lack of ethical consideration and/or framework in the world of digital innovation. Over the past 20 years, Larisa has been combining hybrid interests ranging from creative use of the Internet to intersections of video art and architecture and has initiated, collaborated and participated internationally in projects ranging from net.art to FLOSS art and design.

Francesca Bria is leading the DECODE project on data sovereignty in Europe. She is a Senior Adviser to the United Nation on digital cities and digital rights, and she is Assistant Professor in the Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose at UCL in London. She is an adviser for the European Commission on Future Internet and Innovation Policy, and she is the former Chief Digital Technology and Innovation for the City of Barcelona in Spain.

Francesca has a PhD in Innovation and Entrepreneurship from Imperial College, London and MSc on Digital Economy from University of London, Birbeck. As Senior Programme Lead at Nesta, the UK Innovation Agency, she has led the EU D-CENT project, the biggest European Project on digital democracy and digital currencies. She also led the DSI project on Digital Social Innovation in Europe, advising the EU on digital social innovation policies. She has been teaching in several universities in the UK and Italy and she has advised Governments, public and private organizations and movements on Technology and Innovation policy, and its socio-economic impact.

Francesca's work focuses on one of the key issues of our time: how can we give people the ownership of their data? In her recent report (co-authored with Evgeny Morozov), she explores how can societies regain control not only over digital technology, data, and infrastructure, but also over the services that are mediated by smart technologies—such as utilities, transportation, education, and health

She has been listed in the Top 50 Women in Tech by the Forbes Magazine, and in the World's top 20 most influential people in digital government by Apolitical. She has also been featured in the Italian Magazine Repubblica "D", amongst the 100 Women Changing the World.

Antonio is coordinator of Tecnopolitica.net at the Internet Interdisciplinary Institute of the Open University of Catalonia. He holds a Phd in Sociology, a D.E.A. in Philosophy, and a M.A. in Political Science. He carries on applied, action-research on the relations between science, technology, and society. Two of his current projects are Decidim and Decode. He has been a Fulbright fellow and is co-founder of Heuristica.barcelona and the Laboratory of Democratic Innovation.

Ben Cerveny has served for over 25 years as a founder, strategist, and designer in the context of operating systems, media applications, web services, products, the built environment, and digital games. Currently, he is the President of the Foundation for Public Code, where he is working to help cities and other public organizations develop and share software and policy that is open, legible, and useful at the civic scale. Before this, he was a Design Fellow at Samsung, leading a project on room-scale programmable environments. Previously, he designed the massively multiplayer game that became Flickr [and also named it], founded the Experience Design Lab at Frogdesign, and was CEO of Bloom Studios, whose data visualization iPad app Planetary was acquired by the Smithsonian Institution.

Régis Chatellier is the Innovation & Foresight Project Manager at Department of Technologies and Innovation - CNIL (French Data Protection Authority).

He is a member of LINC (Laboratoire d'Innovation Numérique de la CNIL), the innovation and foresight laboratory of the CNIL, a triple project based on an online media (https://linc.cnil.fr  / @LINCnil), a physical space, and a research and experimentation platform. In 2019, LINC publish its 6th Innovation and Foresight Report (Shaping Choices in the Digital World, From dark patterns to data protection: the influence of UX/UI design on user empowerment) which explores challenges related to the design of digital services.

In 2017, LINC published a report on smart city and the need to restore the balance between public and private sphere, while respecting data protection.

Pol Colomer is a PhD in Physics focused on Network science. He studied the robustness of infrastructural networks, and how the topology of social networks affects their capacity to spread diseases or rumours. Experience in C for running simulations, Python for analysing and plotting the data and SQL and mongo databases.

Pol is Co-founder of Dribia, a consultancy working in fun projects solving business problems through data analysis. Besides, he is a data scientist at the University of Barcelona modelling player retention and progression in casual mobile games for King Digital Entertainment plc. Interested in adding value to the huge amount of data that our society is generating to change and optimize our everyday lives. 

Geoffroy de Lagasnerie is a philosopher and sociologist, and professor at the École Nationale Supérieure d’Arts de Paris-Cergy. He is the author of several books, articles pertaining to social and political philosophy and critical theory. He published The Art of Revolt. Snowden, Assange, Manning (Stanford University Press, 2017) and Judge and Punish (Stanford University Press, 2018°).

Juan Carlos De Martin is full professor of the Polytechnic of Turin (Italy) where he teaches computer science and digital culture and where, since March 2018, he serves as Rector's Delegate for Culture and Communication. Since 2011 he has also been associated with the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University, first as Faculty Fellow and now as Faculty Associate. Between 2007 and 2011 Juan Carlos De Martin was the coordinator of COMMUNIA, the European thematic network on the digital public domain, with 50 members from Europe and overseas.

In 2012 he edited, together with Melanie Dulong de Rosnay, the book The Digital Public Domain: Foundations for an Open Culture (OpenBookPublishers, UK), while in 2017 he published a book on the future of university in the Internet age, Università Futura - Tra Democrazia e Bit (Codice Edizioni, 2017). Between 2014 and 2018 De Martin served as an expert member of the Study Commission on Internet Rights established by the President of Italy's Chamber of Deputies. Juan Carlos De Martin also serves as member of the Scientific Board of the Institute of the Italian Encyclopedia Treccani. He is an op-ed contributor to the national newspaper "la Repubblica" and he often acts as a commentator in Italian media.

Andrea D'Intino is a technology enthusiast with experience in software and video-game development, has held sales and marketing management positions with industrial 3D Scanners (at 3Shape) and 3D Printers (at 3D Systems) and has solid track with enterpreneurship and hypergrowth. Andrea is currently member of ISO TC/307 (blockchain standardizartion) and helping Dyne.org with management and expansion.

Brian Eno is a musician, producer, composer, thinker, multimedia artist, technologist and essayist. Eno changed the course of the history of sound over the last four decades with his visionary talent and amazing creative abilities.

The list of artists Eno has collaborated with throughout his long career is simply mind-blowing: from Robert Fripp or Laurie Anderson to U2, Coldplay and even legends such as David Bowie or Talking Heads. There are very few music genres in which his imprint is not reflected, but he particularly contributed to shape a new genre that is still alive and constantly morphing: ambient music.

Throughout his inspiring career, Eno bolstered his ideas in multiple directions in art. In particular, he has worked in the field of sound and audiovisual installations, anticipating trends such as vertical video and generative sound and image. His huge contribution to the reflection and cultural analysis of our time –in terms of science, technology, art and culture– in conferences, essays, articles and interviews, eventually converge in a question he has been asking himself for years: ‘What difference does it make to the world?’. 

Joseph Farrell is a British journalist and editor who has worked for the Centre for Investigative Journalism (where he currently serves as a board member), the Bureau of Investigative Journalism and WikiLeaks where he has been since 2010. He has been a section editor for many important WikiLeaks' publications including the Iraq and Afghan War Logs and Cablegate to name but a few.

He was a member of the Civil Society Coalition at the United Nations’ World Intellectual Property Organisation’s diplomatic conference on a treaty for copyright exceptions for persons with disabilities in Marrakesh, Morocco. Farrell regularly appears on TV networks analysing the week's news headlines.

I work on re-identification attacks of anonymous data and on the design of systems for privacy-preserving data analysis. I advocate for privacy and digital rights. I love Free Software.

Seda is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Multi-Actor Systems at TU Delft at the Faculty of Technology Policy and Management, and an affiliate at the COSIC Group at the Department of Electrical Engineering (ESAT), KU Leuven. Previously she was an FWO post-doctoral fellow at COSIC/ESAT, a research associate at the Center for Information Technology and Policy at Princeton University, and a fellow at the Media, Culture and Communications Department at NYU Steinhardt as well as the Information Law Institute at NYU Law School.
Her work focuses on privacy enhancing and protective optimization technologies (PETs and POTs), privacy engineering, as well as questions around software infrastructures, social justice and political economy as they intersect with computer science.

Robert Hockett joined the Cornell Law Faculty in 2004. His principal teaching, research, and writing interests lie in the fields of organizational, financial, and monetary law and economics in both their positive and normative, as well as their national and transnational, dimensions. His guiding concern in these fields is with the legal and institutional prerequisites to a just, prosperous, and sustainable economic order.

A Fellow of the Century Foundation and regular commissioned author for the New America Foundation, Hockett also does regular consulting work for the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, the International Monetary Fund, Americans for Financial Reform, the 'Occupy' Cooperative, and a number of federal and state legislators and local governments.

Prior to doing his doctoral work and entering academe, he worked for the International Monetary Fund and clerked for the Honorable Deanell Reece Tacha, Chief Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit.

Lorena Jaume-Palasí is the founder of The Ethical Tech Society, a fact- and theory based non-profit organization focused on automation and digitization processes with regards to their social relevance.

Lorena’s work centers on ethics and legal philosophy. 2017 she was appointed by the Spanish government to the High Level Expert Council on Artificial Intelligence and Big Data and is a former member of the EU High Level Expert Group on Artificial Intelligence. She is one of the 100 experts of the Cotec Foundation for her work on ethics in AI and digitization. 2018 she was awarded the Theodor Heuss Medal "for her contribution to a differentiated view of algorithms and their mechanisms of action" with the Algorithm Watch initiative.

Julia Kloiber is the Founder of Superrr Lab – a research and advocacy organization and a partner at Ashoka Germany. She develops strategies and concepts for the digital world. Julia has put her expertise in technology, design and media studies to use for the Mozilla Foundation, the Open Knowledge Foundation and The Engine Room. She has been running multiple projects that foster the reuse of open data and promote transparency – such as Germany’s first Civic Tech Incubator ‘Stadt Land Code’. She enjoys speaking at international conferences, such as TED, the Personal Democracy Forum or the World Design Conference. As digital strategy advisor she is working with government institutions and businesses alike.

Born in Milan in 1966, married, two children. After a scientific training at the Faculty of Physics in Milan, he began his experience in the world of IT consulting as a freelancer. In the following years he was a founding member of two technology consulting firms in the Groupware and Enterprise Web Development fields. After an experience in DedaGroup as Solution Manager, he started as CTO a new company, Klever, building a strong expertise in regulated ECM solutions. After Klever acquisition by InfoCert, he become Enterprise Solutions Marketing Manager. Currently, he is Head of Product Innovation at InfoCert (Tinexta group), the largest European  certification authority.

Roberto Mangabeira Unger is is one of the leading philosophers and political thinkers in the world today.

He is a Brazilian philosopher and politician who is Professor at Harvard Law School. He was the Brazilian Minister of Strategic Affairs under Presidents Lula and Dilma Roussef. He has developed his views and positions across many fields including legal theory, philosophy and religion, social and political theory, progressive alternatives, and economics.

In The Knowledge Economy he applies to the analysis of our economic present and future a way of thinking prefigured in his earlier book, Free Trade Reimagined: The World Division of Labor and the Method of Economics, as well as in his central work in social theory, False Necessity.

Stefania Maurizi works for the Italian daily la Repubblica as an investigative journalist, after ten years working for the Italian newsmagazine l'Espresso.

She has worked on all WikiLeaks releases of secret documents, and partnered with Glenn Greenwald to reveal the Snowden files about Italy. She has also interviewed A.Q. Khan, the father of the Pakistani atomic bomb, revealed the condolence payment agreement between the US government and the family of the Italian aid worker Giovanni Lo Porto killed in a US drone strike, and investigated the harsh working conditions of Pakistani workers in a major Italian garment factory in Karachi. She has started a multijurisdictional FOIA litigation effort to defend the right of the press to access the full set of documents on the Julian Assange and WikiLeaks case. She authored two books: Dossier WikiLeaks. Segreti Italiani and Una Bomba, Dieci Storie,the latter translated into Japanese.

Evgeny Morozov is the author of The Net Delusion and To Save Everything, Click Here. Morozov’s monthly column on technology and politics appears in The Observer (UK), Süddeutsche Zeitung (Germany), Internazionale (Italy), Le monde diplomatique (France) and several other newspapers. His writings have appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, and other publications.

Previously a senior editor at The New Republic, he has been a fellow at Georgetown University, Stanford University, Open Society Foundations, NewAmerica Foundation, and the American Academy in Berlin.

Puria Nafisi Azizi's interests lie between design and technology, paired with work ethics and for social impact. A Free Software Hacktivist (netstudent, hiptia, solos ...), he is currently working with one of the largest and most politically exposed free software foundations in Europe (Dyne.org), for the European DECODE project where he is a technology expert focusing on distributed ledgers and Interaction Design for cryptography. In the past to years Puria has been responsible for the maintenance of the KSWEB, a tool aimed at generating, spreading and managing structured knowledge.

Caroline Nevejan is Chief Scientic Officer of Amsterdam. She is a researcher and designer who has been involved with the emerging network society and digital culture since the 1980's.

Nevejan is a regular presenter at national and international fora. She is an advisor to national and European policy makers.

Valentina Pavel is a legal adviser and a digital rights advocate. As 2018–2019 Mozilla Fellow at Privacy International, she investigated different data governance models and looked at the implications of concentrated corporate power on privacy and data protection. Her main fellowship output is Our Data Future, a set of future scenarios describing how the world might look like depending on the different data models we might choose. For over 6 years, Valentina has been one of the core members of ApTI Romania (the Association for Technology and Internet), a digital rights NGO part of the EDRi (European Digital Rights) network.

Paola Pisano has been recently nominated the Minister of technological innovation and digitization of the Italian Government. She is the former Councillor for innovation and digitization of the City of Torino. She holds a PhD in Business Administration and she is Professor of Innovation Management at the University of Torino.

She founded and directs the ICxT's innovation laboratory at the University of Turin and participates to the startup of ESCP Europe Business School in Torino. She has been visiting lecturer at GCU (Glasgow Caledonian University) London and at the University of Westminster, she published more than 80 papers on innovation and innovative business models.

Alexandre joined the EU Policy Lab in 2016. His current work is centred on participatory and distributed science and technology models, and collaborative and transdisciplinary frameworks for policy advice. His main research and publication fields range from everyday life studies and qualitative social analysis to action research and co-creation in technological contexts. He was previously Researcher at CETCOPRA of Université Paris 1 / Panthéon-Sorbonne; Associate Researcher at Vitruvius Fab Lab, and at the Centre for Research and Studies in Sociology as MC of COST Action ‘Investigating Cultural Sustainability’, both at ISCTE-IUL / University Institute of Lisbon; Visiting Researcher at the Department of STS of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; and Associate Researcher and Consultant in participatory and community-based CSO/NGO projects at national and international levels. He holds a BA (Hons) in Sociology from ISCTE-IUL and a DEA/Master in Philosophy from Université Paris 1.

Edoardo Reviglio is Head of International and European Projects at Cassa depositi e prestiti (CDP), Rome. He is professor of economics at LUISS Guido Carli in Rome and President and faculty member of International University College of Turin.

He has been a member of the Council of Economic Advisers of the Italian Ministry of Economy and Finance. He is one of the co-authors and chairman of the WG on finance of the Prodi report on investing in social infrastructure. He has a considerable and recognised experience in research and external relations representing CDP in international institutions (UN, G20, G7, OECD, EU) and worked extensively with them. He is in the Board and Scientific Committee of several Think Tanks at national and international level.

Edoardo received his BA, Summa Cum Laude, from Yale College; was Senior Fellow at Department of Mathematics of Yale University; and Research Associate at the Department of Mathematics of Imperial College, University of London. He is the author of many scientific and policy publications. His field of interest include: public finance, banking and finance, law and economics, and economic history.

Denis Roio, also known as Jaromil, is an activist, artist and software developer, founder of Dyne.org and creator of various free and open source software and operating systems. He is an early contributor to Bitcoin core, technical coordinator of DECODE and author of the crypto VM Zenroom.org

Javier Ruiz leads on policy at the UK based advocacy organisation Open Rights Group. His work covers a broad range of digital rights in areas such as transparency, privacy, state surveillance and intellectual property. He is also part of the VIRT-EU consortium, where he is helping create a privacy and ethical impact assessment toolkit for IoT designers and developers.

Mar Santamaria Varas is a co-founder of 300.000 Km/s, an urban innovation office based in Barcelona that explores the potential of data and new computation paradigms to extract relevant information with the aim to improve urban planning and decision-making.  

300.000 Km/s' interdisciplinary team works across the fields of urban analysis, cartography, strategic planning, development of digital tools, and digital humanities. In the last five years, they have collaborated with public entities, international firms, cultural and scientific institutions and non-profit organisations. 3000.000 Km/s projects have been recognized with various awards and mentions – among others BBVA-Civio Data Visualisation Award (2014), Open Data Institute Awards (2016), CityVis Prize (2017), Biennial Española de Urbanismo y Arquitectura (2018), LLuís Carulla Award (2018) and S+T+ARTS Prize (2019)- and have been exhibited at Ars Electronica, the Biennale of Venice, the Chicago Arts Institute, the Center of Contemporary Culture of Barcelona and Madrid CentroCentro, among others.

Brett Scott is an author, journalist and financial campaigner. He is the author of The Heretic’s Guide to Global Finance: Hacking the Future of Money (2013), and collaborates with a wide range of groups on monetary systems, banking reform, alternative currencies, financial activism, digital finance, blockchain technology, hacker culture, and technology politics.

Bruce Sterling is an author, journalist, editor, and critic.  Best known for his ten science fiction novels, he also writes short stories, book reviews, design criticism,  opinion columns, and introductions for books ranging from Ernst Juenger to Jules Verne. His nonfiction works include The hacker crackdown: law and disorder on the electronic frontier (1992),

Tomorrow now: envisioning the next fifty years (2003), Shaping things (2005), and The epic struggle of the internet of things (2014).

Antonio Tenorio-Fornés is a free software developer and researcher. He holds a 5 years CS/Eng degree and a Master in Research in Computer Science. He is currently the principal investigator of Decentralized Science, funded by LEDGER European Project. He is also developing his PhD at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, for which he received funding by an institutional scholarship. His research aims to provide decentralized governance tools for Commons-Based Peer Production communities. He has also participated in the European Projects P2P P2P Models and P2Pvalue. He has been visiting researcher at the University of Surrey, the University of Westminster and Kozminski University. His experience developing decentralized web tools includes Teem, SwellRT and Decentralized.science, using technologies such as Blockchain and IPFS.

Tommaso Valletti is Professor of Economics at Imperial College Business School and Professor of Economics at the University of Rome "Tor Vergata". Tommaso is currently the Head of the Department of Economics & Public Policy at Imperial College Business School.

He was the Chief Competition Economist of the European Commission (Directorate General for Competition) between September 2016 and August 2019. Tommaso's main research interests are in industrial economics, regulation, and telecommunications economics. He is a Fellow of CEPR and of ENCORE. He is a member of the panel of academic advisors to Ofcom, the UK communications regulator. He was a member of the panel of academic advisors of the UK Competition Commission.

Tommaso was Academic Director of the Centre for Regulation in Europe in Brussels, in 2012-2016. He was a board director of Consip, the Italian Public Procurement Agency, in 2002-2005. He has advised numerous bodies, including the European Commission, OECD, and the World Bank on topics such as network interconnection, mobile telephony markets and spectrum auctions.

Sander van der Waal is the lead of the Future Internet Lab at Waag, working to ensure that human values are core to how technology and data are designed and deployed in society, based on Waag’s principles of openness, fairness, and inclusivity. Sander has an educational background in computer science and philosophy, and has solid expertise and experience in open source software development, open data and knowledge, and data infrastructures.

Rob van Kranenburg is the Founder of Council_IoT and #iotday and the co-founder of bricolabs. Rob is featured in the Top 100 #IOT Influencers list and is the author of The Internet of Things. A critique of ambient technology and the all-seeing network of RFID, Network Notebooks 02 and Institute of Network Cultures.

Together with Christian Nold he published Situated Technologies Pamphlets 8: The Internet of People for a Post-Oil World. He works in Next Generation Internet. He is a DeTao Master IoT.

Marco Zappalorto is the Chief Executive of Nesta Italia. Marco joined Nesta in 2011 and, before founding Nesta Italia, he headed the Foundation's European Development and contributed to the creation of the Challenge Prize Center, driving much of the Centre's European and international work.

Before Nesta, Marco worked for OmniComplete (now Innocentive), directing the execution of competitions in various sectors for both the public and private sectors. He worked for the Chamber of Commerce and Industry in London, where he worked to advise small and medium-sized companies on European issues and opportunities.Marco is a specialist in European Political Economy at the London School of Economics and Political Science.