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Adéṣínà Ayẹni (Ọmọ Yoòbá) is a language rights activist, digital rights defender, cultural heritage advocate, and the founder of Yobamoodua Cultural Heritage, a cottage language and information services organization.

He has facilitated various online workshops and participated in many digital activism initiatives that aim to give a voice to minority and low-resourced languages on digital landscape.

Ọmọ Yoòbá has contributed to language research and documentation projects, as well as worked with other community members to localise tools and resources from English into low-resourced languages. He is open to collaborative efforts that minimises linguistic barriers and facilitate digital inclusion.

Ahmed X. Medien is a systems engineer, a data scientist, and a global convener on the subjects of credibility online/information integrity, looking for empathy, common sense, and middle ways to the challenges of misinformation and citizens input into the behind platform and content governance online. In the past 5 years, he led several symposia, public fora, and conferences with hundreds of academic researchers on trustworthiness and credibility of information online, civil society organizations, practitioners amongst platforms workers and analysts. You can observe his work via the MisinfoCon global summit series, the Conference for Truth and Trust Online, the Misinformation Village series and the Wikicredibility demo hours series as well as the WikiCred funded research projects.

In 2024, Ahmed is focusing on the intersection of community, design and computational technologies including AI to build new digital pathways towards peace online and in the real tangible world, free democratic debate, and transformational change in society; in arts, governing and online expression. You can follow Ahmed’s work on his website: https://axm.events.

Alia is a PhD student at NYU researching the impact of technology on politics with a particular focus on political communication through online platforms. As co-founder of Decifer Studio, she works on public-facing critical AI literacy projects. Past examples include Survival of the Best Fit, an educational game on AI bias, and The Algorithm, an interactive explainer on recommender systems. Both projects were funded by Mozilla Creative Media Awards, and Alia has been a part of the MozFest community for 5 years as a wrangler, facilitator, wrangler mentor, and ambassador.

Defend Democracy's Founder and Executive Director Alice Stollmeyer has a solid background in science, technology, and society. After her PhD research, Stollmeyer specialised in EU public affairs, strategic communications, and digital advocacy. She now leads Defend Democracy and works on issues related to democracy, security, technology, and geopolitics. She is a leading voice on defending democracy in an age of sharp power and is a trailblazer for societal resilience to hybrid and technological threats to democracy.

Amir is a Computational Linguist with a background in Computer Science, currently dazzling as a Solution Architect at TAUS. With a passion for language and technology, Amir is at the forefront of developing innovative Natural Language Processing (NLP) solutions for TAUS. His work focuses on enhancing translation automation, language data management, and AI-driven language solutions.

Andrea is a consultant providing strategy and coaching for social justice organizations and leaders, focusing on labor, tech, and economic justice.

Andrea has three decades of experience as a labor organizer and campaign strategist. She has worked at Unite-HERE, SEIU, and UFCW. She co-founded and led United for Respect, a national organization building power for people working in retail jobs by centering their voices, experiences, and solutions in the national movement fighting for the future of work, our economy, and corporate regulation. Andrea has played a leadership role in campaigns that have won major victories with people working in the most unstable and precarious low-wage service jobs, from janitors to hotel and retail workers. Andrea leverages these critical advances and learnings for organizing and campaigning that challenge concentrated corporate power and leverages technology and internet-based activation to support working people build power and voice.

Andrea Ixchíu is a Maya K'iche woman from Totonicapán, Guatemala. Land protector and storyteller. For more than 20 years she has been working in community communication processes to care for the life and territories of indigenous peoples. She is co-founder of the initiatives: Hackeo Cultural, Futuros Indígenas, Festivales Solidarios. Cultural manager, producer and audiovisual director. Consultant at Culture Hack Labs to create narratives for systems change. Andrea is a Nobel Women’s Initiative Fellow, Ford Global Fellow, Bertha Foundation Fellow, was awarded with the Sakharov Prize Fellowship which honours individuals and groups who defend human rights and freedom of expression.

Andrea is co-founder of FAIR Girls and Karana Rising, and she has led national and international efforts to develop services, housing, and policies to advance the rights and healing of survivors of human trafficking, sexual exploitation, and sexual abuse. Andrea has served and interfaced with over 2,000 survivors of trafficking and gender-based violence in the United States, the Balkans, Russia, Bangladesh, India, and Uganda. Andrea worked alongside survivor leaders to advance recommendations to address image based sexual violence, including synthetic sexual forgeries, to the White House as well as global and US policy and technology arenas. Andrea has her graduate degree in European Law and Economics from the University of Bonn, Germany. Andrea is an advisory board member to the Joyful Heart Foundation, founded by actress Mariska Hargitay and is The Reclaim Coalition’s representative to the French Laboratory on Women’s Rights Online. Andrea’s first book, Believe Me, publishes in July 2024.

Andreea is a Romanian digital rights campaigner. She is a Green Web Fellow, looking at the "twin transition" narrative. In parallel, she leads the Communications and Campaigns team at Europe’s largest network of digital rights organisations – EDRi. She is particularly interested in the way social values are embedded in narratives we collectively face in our work.

Andres Colmenares (CO/ES) is the co-founder of IAM, the creative research lab helping citizens and organisations to anticipate, understand and address the socioecological challenges and opportunities emerging from the coevolution of digital technologies and internet cultures. He is also strategic advisor for WeTransfer’s Supporting Act Foundation and director of the Master in Design for Responsible AI at Elisava, Barcelona School of Design and Engineering.

 Andy Sanchez, Ph.D. is a postdoctoral researcher working at the intersection of ethics, policy, and human-centric digitalization. Using his background in chemical engineering and creative writing, he consistently applies cross-disciplinary methods and analyses in his work, most recently in his role as Senior Researcher in Media, Technology, and Society for the Sustainable Media Lab at Inholland University of Applied Sciences. He is also the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Science Policy & Governance, where he supports early career researchers writing at the intersection of science, technology, and policy. He has a commitment to making digital challenges more tangible, and is excited to manifest this goal through the traveling research exhibition, Fabricated: Unravel Fact from Fiction in Your Digital World.

For the last ten years Anna has incubated and developed the 100% Human at Work Initiative and
Network.   

This global Network of 500 organisations (and growing) focuses on driving positive change in the
world of work and driving the agenda and thought leadership to build the future of work that we
want. With a key focus on collaboration and co-creation of solutions, the Network spans four
continents, engaging CEO’s, Founders and HRD’s to drive change within their own organisations and
to begin to develop a business voice at a policy level.  

Anna is a passionate believer that work and business can and must have a positive impact in shaping
our world, our communities and our future. As such, she has a keen focus on future of work trends
and actionable ways in which to innovate and shape that future.  

With a senior background in international People roles, alongside Board and Trustee roles with two
charities, Anna has developed the 100% Human at Work Network from an idea to a global initiative,
working closely with some of the best known brands in the world.

Anna Spinardi is the Program Director for Data Feminism at Data-Pop Alliance. She holds a MSc in Global Development from the University of Copenhagen, Denmark, and a BA in International Relations from the Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo, Brazil. Within the development arena, Anna has focused her work and attention on topics related to gender inequality, gender-based violence, and Data4Development. Under Anna's leadership, the Program has completed more than 17 gender-related projects, including gender assessments, capacity-building activities, and GBV modeling and visualization. Prior to working at DPA, Anna developed research on conditional cash transfers and women’s empowerment in Colombia, and on systemic corruption and white collar crimes in Brazil. She also worked as a Gender Advisor at the Permanent Mission of Brazil to the United Nations in New York, providing guidance and support to the Brazilian delegation on the adoption of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.

Becky Chao is the Research Director for the Build the Field team at Economic Security Project. In this role, she leads research that creates the conditions for policy change and paradigm shift in guaranteed income and marketshaping. Previously, she was the Director of Antimonopoly at ESP, where she organized resources, ideas, and people across policy, grassroots, academic, and philanthropic spaces to build a sustained, robust antimonopoly movement.

Her work has been driven by an interest in exploring how corporate power, law, and policy structure people’s lives and society at large and building a fair, democratic, and egalitarian political economy. She was previously a fellow and policy analyst at New America’s Open Technology Institute, where her research and advocacy focused on antitrust and tech/telecom issues, privacy, and broadband competition. Prior to joining New America, she worked on antitrust cases and merger review across a variety of sectors as an honors paralegal at the Federal Trade Commission.

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Benoît is a member of the Tech Team of Data For Good France, where he discovered CodeCarbon in 2020, and became one of its main contributors. Last year, with other french contributors, he founded a non-profit to support CodeCarbon and has been elected as its President. He works as a data scientist at the French National Assembly.

Benoît Courty is a data scientist with over 20 years of experience in the tech industry. He began his career as an inside subcontractor at a large French company, where he worked on a variety of projects. In 2015, he co-founded a UAV startup that developed technology to automatically fly around buildings to detect cracks. He then worked as a freelance data scientist for banking and TV companies. Three years ago, he became an internal data scientist at the French National Assembly. He is also a member of Data For Good France, where he discovered CodeCarbon in 2020 and became its main contributor.

Bradley Myles serves as Senior Advisor - Innovation at Panorama Global where he stewards external partnerships, works with a global network of social entrepreneurs, supports program implementation, and develops creative strategies and solutions in support of Panorama’s social impact goals as a platform for social change. During his time at Panorama, he has supported the creation and development of multiple new program areas, including The Reclaim Coalition focused on addressing image-based sexual violence, the Accelerating Social Change Leadership Initiative (ACSLI), and the Collaborative Learning for Impact Philanthropy (CLIP) initiative. Bradley also plays a key advisory role for To Zero, a global initiative to end childhood sexual violence in a generation. Prior to joining Panorama, Bradley served on the founding team and then as CEO as Polaris, building, growing, and leading one of the prominent anti-trafficking organizations in the United States for 15 years. Bradley helped envision and launched the U.S. National Human Trafficking Hotline at Polaris, a 24/7 live operation that has now identified and responded to more than 70,000 cases of human trafficking nationwide. He currently serves on the Board of Directors of Sandy Hook Promise in the gun violence prevention field. He is a 2017 recipient of the Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship.

Branka Panic, Founding Director, AI for Peace

Branka Panic is the Founding Director of AI for Peace, a US based think tank ensuring artificial intelligence benefits peace, security, and sustainable development and where diverse voices influence the development of AI and related technologies.

Branka is also a Non-Resident Fellow at the Center on International Cooperation at New York University, where she focuses on researching the utilization of data-driven approaches to conflict prevention and peacebuilding. She is the host of “Data for Peace” online series. Branka is also a Stimson-Microsoft Responsible AI Fellow, a member of UNESCO Women4Ethical AI, and a member of IEEE Global Initiative on Ethics of Autonomous and Intelligent Systems. A passionate advocate for positive peace with 15 years of global experience in the humanitarian, peace, and development fields, Branka’s current emphasis is researching the benefits, risks, and ethical implications of emerging technologies. Her insights and expertise in this field have earned her recognition as one of the 100 Brilliant Women in AI Ethics in 2022.

Branka holds a M.A. in International Development Policy from Duke University, Sanford School of Public Policy, USA and a M.S. in International Security from the University of Belgrade, Serbia. She is a Rotary Peace Fellow Alumna, Paul Harris Fellow, and ambassador at the Institute for Economics and Peace. Currently, she works as a Professor of Practice at the University of North Carolina, USA. She is a co-author of the book “AI for Peace”, published in April 2024, by Routledge.

Breeze is a survivor of online image abuse and Deepfake generated Pornography attacks. In her darkest hour, she couldn’t find any reliable technology to resolve her issue, knowing there are millions in the world suffering from the same problem, she decided to create her own solution: Alecto AI, an online identity infrastructure

Brigitte is Creative Commons' Director of policy and open culture, where she drives policy reform and transforms the cultural sector in support of better sharing of knowledge and culture.

Before joining CC, she worked for a decade as a legal officer at WIPO and then ran her own consultancy, advising Europeana, SPARC Europe and others on copyright matters.

Currently located in the Netherlands where she lives with her husband and two kids, Brigitte grew up living in eight different countries across North America, Africa and Europe but Montréal is where she proudly comes from.

Brigitte is a fellow at the Canadian think tank Centre for International Governance Innovation. She holds a bachelor’s degree in law from the Université de Montréal and a master’s in law from Georgetown University. She has been a member of the Bar of Quebec since 2003.

Carly Sheridan is a writer, editor, and strategist.

Just call me trouble... that should about cover it. ;)

Carol (she/her) is a Global Health professional and sexual and reproductive health and rights advocate. With a background in SRHR and immunization supply chain, Carol works at the intersection of health, equity, and technology. Carol has been with Center for Intimacy Justice (CIJ) since 2019, and prior to her work with CIJ she was supporting UNICEF’s immunization supply chain team in Copenhagen.

Chaeyoung(Chae) Kim is a cultural worker based in the Netherlands with an interest in bringing people together. Trained as a painter, her artistic practice is materialised by the use of illustration, physical props, self-publishing, and hosting. More recently, she has been researching the subjects of humour, intimacy, and community building. Her research is supported by a series of publishing acts, which she conceptualizes as 'intimate publishing'.

Charlotte Freihse is a project manager in the Bertelsmann Stiftung’s Upgrade Democracy project, where she focuses primarily on platform governance and disinformation, as well as the impact of digital technologies on public opinion-forming and discourse. Before joining the foundation, she was a freelancer in the newsroom of Norddeutscher Rundfunk (NDR). In parallel, she was a research assistant in the European research project NETHATE and developed a categorization system for intervention measures against online hate speech with the University of Jena and Das NETTZ. Charlotte holds a Master’s degree in Peace and Conflict Studies with a focus on digital technologies in conflicts as well as peace processes.

Corinne serves as the CEO/CTO of Emakia and Emakia Tech, boasting a multifaceted career as an inventor, engineer, and data scientist with a keen focus on AI innovation. With over twenty-six years of experience in engineering across diverse technologies, she consistently demonstrates expertise and innovation.

Over the last five years, Corinne has spearheaded Emakia Tech's growth, notably contributing to their flagship application, Enaëlle. Leveraging advanced Machine Learning tools like Vertex AI and Core ML, she engineered a system adept at filtering harassment from social media content, showcasing her ability to address pressing societal issues through AI.

Corinne's impact extends beyond Emakia Tech. Previously, she developed AI software predicting solar power production capacity and contributed to protein identification prediction from electrophoresis images, bridging AI with life sciences. At Molecular Devices, she enhanced the Softmaxpro software, showcasing her meticulous attention to detail and problem-solving skills.

Her innovative solutions led to two patent applications for the Emakia system, highlighting her ability to pioneer groundbreaking AI technologies. Armed with a Bachelor of Science in computer science from San Francisco State University, Corinne combines academic prowess with industry expertise.

Her dedication to advancing AI, coupled with her knack for tackling challenges and devising practical solutions, positions her as a thought leader in the field. Corinne's talk promises to offer valuable insights into the societal impact of AI, making her a compelling speaker with a wealth of knowledge and hands-on experience.

Daniela Weber is the Deputy Director for NetHope’s Center of the Digital Nonprofit where she researches emerging technologies and trends and their relevance for the nonprofit sector, and supports nonprofits in their digital transformation through assessments, tools, and consultations. She leads NetHope’s AI program which looks to enable nonprofits to utilize AI to amplify their efforts to support vulnerable communities in the face of multi-crisis, and to make sure they can do so in a safe, ethical, and equitable way.

In his professional life, Daniel Brumund (he/him) works as technical advisor on AI and digital public goods with GIZ's initiative "FAIR Forward - Artificial Intelligence for All". Recently, he has been focusing on community-driven data collection, NLP in low-resource languages, open-source business models as well as equitable data governance and licensing towards more inclusive, open and sustainable AI.

Privately, Daniel loves the outdoors, sitting under a tree with a thought-provoking book, attempts to be a photographer during travels, and generally operates better with a good flat white and sufficient food.

@teasetheclouds

Dirk has nearly thirty years of experience facilitating collective power strategies with systemic change actors in more than forty countries. Through his consultancy, FabRiders, he builds facilitation expertise in the charity sector and develops network-centric resources such as IFRC's Data Playbook. He is currently developing and editing The Collective Power Playbook.

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Edward Boyda is a physicist, teacher, data scientist, and satellite journalist. He works with the non-profit Earth Genome, where he runs satellite+AI-driven investigations for environmental and human rights reporting. Before joining Earth Genome, he was an Associate Professor of Physics at Saint Mary's College of California, with interests in particle physics and quantum computing. He is writing a book about years living with his family in a small town in arctic Sápmi / Norway.

Designer & Developer

Elizabeth Woodward is a producer of documentary and narrative films, and founder of WILLA.
She was selected for Forbes 30 Under 30, DOC NYC 40 Under 40, Berlinale Talents, and is an Impact Partners Producers Fellow and a Sundance Catalyst Fellow. Her recent films include ANOTHER BODY (SXSW Special Jury Award, Sundance Catalyst), YOU RESEMBLE ME (Venice Film Festival, executive produced by Spike Lee, Spike Jonze, Alma Har’el, Riz Ahmed) and ON THE DIVIDE (Tribeca Film Festival, POV on PBS). Other notable projects include Netflix’s THE GREAT HACK (Academy Award shortlist, Emmy nominee, BAFTA nominee, Sundance Film Festival), HBO’s hit series THE VOW: A NXIVM STORY (New York Times Best TV Shows of 2020), a VR experience PERSUASION MACHINES (Sundance New Frontier, SXSW).

Her films have been supported by Sundance Institute, Impact Partners, Chicken and Egg, Film Independent, Field of Vision, The Gotham, New York Foundation for the Arts, the International Documentary Association, among others. She is a member of the Producers Guild of America, the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, the Council on Foreign Relations Young Professionals Group, the Documentary Producers Alliance, and the Frontline Club.
Elizabeth graduated magna cum laude and phi beta kappa from Brown University and received a masters with distinction from the University of Cambridge. She speaks fluent French and proficient Italian.

Emre Kazim is the co-founder and co-CEO of Holistic AI, a platform that empowers enterprises to adopt and scale AI confidently. He is an active member of the NIST AI Safety Institute, an expert on the UN Secretary General's High-Level Advisory Body on Artificial Intelligence, and a member of OECD's Network of Experts on AI.

Emre has a well-established track record publishing peer-reviewed articles on AI ethics, AI governance, and policy as well as facilitating conversations with state and industry leaders. An alumnus of UCL and King's College London, Emre holds an MSci in Chemistry and, MA, and Ph.D. in Philosophy.

Co-founder and Co-CEO, Holistic AI

Klarenbeek en Dros focus on eco-technology, circular design and closed cycle production. By studying, designing and remapping complex (bio)processes they create awareness for social, ethical and moral implications of production, from a holistic perspective. With the aim to reduce waste, materials and emissions, for restorative design infrastructures and processes.

The work of Klarenbeek & Dros is known for their pioneering and innovative projects on Mycelium and Algae. And currently exhibited at Hotel d'Arts (Mediterranean Center of Arts), Toulon (FR), MAAT Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology, Lissabon (PT), Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam, (NL) and Centraal Museum, Utrecht, (NL).

Esther Mwema is an award-winning artist and digital inequalities expert, working at the intersection of art and technology. She has over a decade of experience working at the high level, such as at the UN, and at the grassroots level with her organization Digital Grassroots which works to increase digital citizenship in underrepresented regions. She serves as an Advisory Board Member of the Digital Democracy Initiative. She recently co-authored the paper ‘Undersea Cables in Africa: New Frontiers for Digital Colonialism.’ Esther is an awardee of the Mozilla Creative Media and the Green Screen Coalition awards.

Facilitator, learning designer, artist, and researcher with a background in Latin American History, Culture, and Performance Studies. Radical Tenderness has been the drive of my research and practice, it is rooted in affect theory, cuir (queer), and decolonial dreamings and seeks to think/feel all our political and affective systems to imagine better ways of living. This tenderness started from movement practice and moved through performance research, cultural production, creative pedagogy, inclusive curriculum development, community organization, and knowledge management.

My work at RNW Media is entangled with learning co-creative processes related to media literacy, digital advocacy, Ai for Good, MEAL practices and content creation. At RNW Media our approach to learning is simple: learning is a collective process and a communal disposition. Our sessions offer space to listen to diverse voices, support each other in asking better questions, and offer practical insights to take and share.

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Galia Guajardo is a Digital Media Expert and Communications Consultant focusing on human rights and sustainable development. She has worked on developing regional, national, and global campaigns, managing outreach efforts, and creating communications strategies to raise awareness of pressing global issues and to advocate for human rights. During her career, Galia has worked for the Mexican Parliament, Greenpeace and international organizations such as the United Nations Copenhagen, UN Women Ecuador, and the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, including the Office of the Special Rapporteur for Freedom of Expression. Today, she works as a Digital Media Expert for RNW Media, providing coaching and training sessions to strengthen the digital media capacities of change-makers worldwide to empower young people to drive social change.

Georgia Langton works as a Junior Project Manager for the Bertelsmann Foundations Upgrade Democracy project in Berlin, Germany. She holds a bachelor’s degree in Media from Philipps University in Marburg and is completing her master’s degree in International Affairs with a specialisation in Human Rights and Global Governance. Georgia is voluntarily engaged with the Amnesty International Digital Verification Corps as a senior member of the Berlin chapter, conducting open source investigations into potential human rights abuses using open source investigation tools.

Guillen is a researcher and lecturer at the University of Amsterdam, specializing in Open Source Investigations, Digital Methods, and Data Journalism. His work explores how people use data (broadly defined), to become politically active.

Gurden is a design technologist at Dark Matter Labs and combines different crafts like systems thinking, rapid prototyping, speculative and critical design, data justice and tech materiality together in his practice. He has a background in Computer Science and New Media Design. Gurden has played multi-disciplinary roles in various industries and different sized companies across US, Europe and India.

Gustavo Nogueira de Menezes (he/they) is a Temporalist from the Amazon Rainforest and the founder of Temporality Lab. Based in Amsterdam, Gustavo collaborates globally, working with companies like Globo, Google, Natura, Netflix, Nubank, and Spotify. His research focuses on AI's impact on time perception and Ancestral AI, covering social change, ancestry, speculative design, and decoloniality. Gustavo's work is dedicated to enhancing our understanding of time's influence on the human experience and inspiring new perspectives on our interaction with technology.

Director, Fellowships and Awards
Mozilla Foundation

In 2022, Ilayda works at WBA as a Research Analyst for the Digital Inclusion Benchmark. She is passionate about the impact of digital companies and intersectional environmentalism. Ilayda is driven by making change and creating good impact on the world. She believes that closing the corporate accountability gap is key to achieve sustainable development. Before joining WBA, Ilayda worked for IDH Sustainable Trade Initiative as a gender intern in the Netherlands. She also has experience of work for business-oriented non-profit organizations and women-led start-ups based in Türkiye. Ilayda holds an LLM degree on International and European Law with a specialization on Global Sustainability and Environmental Law from the Tilburg University.

Itika Sharma Punit is a Deputy Editor for Rest of World. She oversees the publication's coverage from South Asia, Africa, and Latin America. Itika has reported and edited stories about the impact of technology on humans and culture for more than 15 years.

As producer in the RSC’s digital department, James leads productions and projects that transpose story and theatre methodologies to platforms beyond the traditional stage, bringing artists and technologists together to create new form media & ways to interact. As R&D facilitator, he leads a programme of research that test new tools and approaches across digital humanism, performance capture, virtual & hybrid production and audience experience in the context of remote performance.

As an independent producer for 20+ years, he has led theatre companies, venues, festivals and creative innovation projects collaborating with BBC Proms, South Bank Centre, The Old Market, Lyric Hammersmith, Edinburgh Fringe, Battersea Arts Centre as well as making work for theatres, village halls, schools, churches and festival tents.

Jan Krewer is a public policy and digital transformation advisor, with working experience in Europe and Africa. He is currently Senior Policy Analyst at the Open Future Foundation. Jan previously served as a Strategic Advisor at the Smart Africa Alliance and Deputy Secretary-General of the French Digital Council. As an independent consultant, Jan collaborated with various organizations, including the German development cooperation agency (GIZ), the Mozilla Foundation, the French Development Agency (AFD) and the World Bank Group, exploring how to mobilize communities and digital commons to achieve sustainable development goals. He has been a teacher at Sciences Po and is particularly interested in data regulation, knowledge commons and the intersections of digital technologies and the environment.

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J. Bob Alotta is a veteran movement builder and executive working at the intersection of technology and communities.

Prior to joining Mozilla, Bob led the Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Justice, a global foundation based in New York City that provides critical resources to LGBTQI+ activists and artists around the world. Over eight years, they quintupled the global footprint of the organization which makes more grants in the global majority than any other funder in their sector. Bob specifically strengthened movements by adding extra support for digital security, data use, and internet freedom to otherwise “non-tech” grants. As chair of the Global Philanthropy Project, Bob helped secure the largest bilateral and multilateral investments to date for LGBTQI+ communities worldwide. Bob was an early architect of the “feminist internet” and the creator of CommsLabs, bringing queer human rights defenders and technologists together. Bob builds bridges between the LGBTQI+ and digital rights worlds.

Now serving as Senior Vice President of Global Programs at Mozilla Foundation, Bob brings their experience as a movement strategist to leverage the organizations’ programs to shift power back to people instead of “big” tech. Through the lens of trustworthy AI, Bob has launched the African Innovation Mradi, the Data Futures Lab, the Mozilla Technology Fund, the Creative Media Awards, and a second phase of the Responsible Computing Challenge, as well as myriad fellowship and grant-making cycles. Bob helps Mozilla fellows and awardees become stronger community organizers and leaders; and grows the diversity and geographical scope across our programs, with an emphasis on expanding our work outside North America. Bob serves as the executive producer for both MozFest and of the award-winning podcast, IRL

Jessica Rose is a language obsessed, self taught technologist who is trying hard to dream of a better future. She's founded the Bad Website Club, a free online bootcamp that has supported 50,000 unique learners over 4 years. In her day job she works with the Mozilla Foundation on the Common Voice project, a multilingual donated speech corpus that aims to teach computers the way that real people speak. She always wants to see photos of your pets, to talk about your projects or try to convince people that Birmingham is the best city.

John Mack is an author, artist, speaker and founder of the nonprofit, Life Calling, whose mission is to preserve our humanity in the Digital Age. Over the past decade John has brought to the forefront deeper issues of our humanity in light of our increasing dependence on smart-devices and rising AI. In September 2022 Mack debuted Life Calling’s signature program A Species Between Worlds: Our Nature, Our Screens in New York City, a public educational forum and immersive exhibition which serves as an invitation to contemplate our relationship to our devices and the surrounding world while inciting the introspection needed to prevent the loss of our humanity. A boutique version of the exhibition represented the USA Pavilion at London Design Biennale 2023 at Somerset House, endorsed by the US Embassy and supported by Bloomberg Philanthropies. Mack was an honoree of The Explorer’s Club 50: Fifty people changing the world who the world needs to know about. Amongst other affiliations, Mack serves as a board member of Fairplay, an organization that strives to create a world where kids can be kids, free from the false promises of marketers and the manipulations of Big Tech. He is a member of Forward Global, Nexus Global and an advisor to the Be Kind Tech Fund by Globant Ventures.

Jonathan Chaim Reus is an internationally touring transmedia artist, musician and researcher working to bridge art, science and technology through music practices. His own artistic work explores the ways technologies of music-making transform and are transformed by cultural traditions and material values. Since 2018 he has focused on human voice, and how the transformations of voice in data-driven technologies also brings a reconsideration of bodies, identities and communities.

In 2022, he received a CTM Radiolab commission for the collective generative radio epic "In Search of Good Ancestors". And since 2024 he is creative lead on the S+T+ARTS EU funded research projects "DADAsets", exploring vocal values and how they can be realized through artistic data collection practices.

As a composer, musician and artist Jonathan has received commissions from the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Slagwerk Den Haag, and Asko-Schönberg Ensemble, including composing original music and creating a robotic tape machine orchestra for Brave New World 2.0, a nationally-touring ensemble production re-imagining Aldous Huxley's dystopia in an era of intelligent machines. Together with Sissel Marie Tonn he is one part of the artist duo Sensory Cartographies, whose work investigates ways intimate, sensorial technologies can bring us into closer connection to the earth and our fragile ecosystems.

Jonathan is a PhD candidate in Music at the University of Sussex. He is an affiliate of the Intelligent Instruments Lab in Reykjavik, and a co-founder of the Instrument Inventors Initiative in The Hague.

Firefox Product Manager - focusing on community engagement and user insights.

Josephine Zwaan is a multifaceted, creative thinker who is driving inclusivity and decolonisation in music. In addition to her work as an artist and music producer, she co-founded the platform rosetta. This initiative supports female and nonbinary music producers, with an emphasis on education and community building.

Through her various pursuits, Josephine uses research as a tool to challenge and rethink existing frameworks and practices. She is currently developing a decolonial framework for electronic music production based on African musical and philosophical principles.

Judith Veenkamp is the lead of Waag's Urban Ecology Lab and head of Life programme at Waag.

Judith has an interest in the power dynamics and the role technology plays in this. Her work starts with societal issues and strives to put humans and more-than-humans central in designing solutions. The research focuses on how technology can add value to society and be grounded in principles of regeneration, rather than extract from society and the planet.

Judith previously worked as advisor on the edge of governance, policy and citizenship at EMMA. She studied Politics, Conflict Studies and Human Rights at University of Amsterdam and Utrecht University.

Julia is an award-winning investigative journalist, founder of the nonprofit journalism studio Proof News, a
bestselling author, and a New York Times contributing Opinion Writer.
Sbe is a winner and two time finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Explanatory Reporting for her work at The Wall
Street Journal and ProPublica. She founded the nonprofit newsroom, The Markup. And she is the author of
the New York Times bestseller “Dragnet Nation: A Quest for Privacy, Security and Freedom in a World of
Relentless Surveillance” (Times Books, 2014) and “Stealing MySpace: The Battle to Control the Most Popular
Website in America” (Random House, March 2009).

She earned a B.A. in mathematics from the University of Chicago, and an M.B.A. from the Graduate School of
Business at Columbia University. She is currently a Walter Shorenstein Media and Democracy Fellow at
Harvard Kennedy School’s Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy and was previously
Entrepreneur in Residence at Columbia Journalism School’s Brown Institute for Media Innovation.

I am an assistant professor at the VU Amsterdam. I do research on digital politics, social movements and most recently cloud policy and politics.

Kambale Musavuli, originally from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), is a human rights activist, technologist and the founder of Aether Strategies. This tech consulting firm specializes in cybersecurity training for African institutions and offers additional services including digital infrastructure development, tailored software solutions for emerging markets, and data analytics consulting.

With an extensive background in technology, Kambale also serves as an analyst at the Center for Research on Congo, one of the oldest Congolese think tanks. He studies the impact of Kwame Nkrumah's legacy on Ghana’s development and the exploitation of DRC’s mineral resources—crucial for modern technologies like smartphones and electric vehicles— at the dawn of the 4th Industrial Revolution and their implications for modern technology, noting the impact this has had with the loss of life of millions of Congolese since 1996.

As a techno-activist, Kambale tackles key challenges within the tech sector, advocating for enhanced digital security and the empowerment of technological infrastructures across Africa. His efforts extend beyond technical proficiency, involving thought leadership and strategic consultations to foster technological innovations and solutions.

While Kambale is recognized for his human rights advocacy and social entrepreneurship, his primary focus is on advancing technological achievements and promoting a secure, progressive technological environment in Africa. His approach combines deep technological expertise with a commitment to using technology for societal improvement and justice. He emphasizes the strategic importance of DRC’s resources, advocating for responsible and equitable practices that benefit local communities and contribute positively to the global technological landscape.

Karen Palmer is the Storyteller from the Future, an award winning XR creator and futurist who explores the societal implications of A.I and technology and impact of in-equality.

She does this by enabling participants to experience the future today through her immersive experiences, which watch you back using artificial intelligence and facial recognition technologies.

In 2023 Karen won the coveted XR Experience Competition at SXSW 2023 with her film Consensus Gentium. The narrative branches in real time depending upon the participants eye gaze and emotions. Enabling participants to simultaneously experience AI bias, surveillance technologies and their potential integration into the everyday world around us and how that could impact societal structures, human rights and civil liberties. This immersive experience is designed to drive discussion about data privacy, unconscious biases and the power of technology.

Consensus Gentium has traveled to CHPDox in Copenhagen, London Roundhouse, London Film Festival , the Kaohsiung Film Festival Taiwan, Silbersalz Festival Germany, Geneva International Film Festival (GIFF), Munich Film Festival, and Ars Electronica in Austria to name a few.

There have been numerous interviews and articles on her work from Channel 4 News, BBC News, CBS News and press in Wired Magazine, Forbes, PC Mag, CBS TV , Fast Company , Engadget,The Guardian “ It leapfrogs over VR”..
Karen is a TED Speaker and been described as a Thought Leader in A.I, Immersive Storytelling for Impact, Futurism and Tech. Keynote speaker at AT&T Shape Conference, L.A, Wired for Wonder Festival Australia, Sydney & Melbourne, MIT and TEDx Australia Speaker at the Sydney Opera House. Delivered keynotes and workshops to corporate clients and Leadership Summits include Microsoft Seattle, Vertex Berlin, ThoughtWorks Toronto and Google Cultural Institute in Paris.
She has exhibited at The Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum NYC, the V&A London, PHI Centre Montreal, Sensory Stories Exhibition, Armoury Arts Week NYC, Museum of Modern Art Peru, International Film and Storytelling events include the SXSW, ARS Electronica, The V&A, the Netherlands Film Festival to the Future of Storytelling in NYC. She has worked closely with prestigious organizations such as the British Councils in Canada, Western Balkans, South Africa and Peru. Invited to speak, ZKM Living Amongst Intelligent Machines AI Conference in Germany. CPH:DOX, Art, Technology & Change etc.
2020 she received Honorary Mention for the STARTS Prize ARS Electronica for her A.I. experience Perception iO, the future of law enforcement. This is A.I. Law enforcement training simulation which will watch you back. Perception iO will enable participants to experience how easily human bias can be intergraded into networks by humans and therefore understand the necessity for Transparency and Regulation in AI.
In 2017 her installation RIOT was acknowledged as one of the Digital Dozen Award for break throughs in storytelling. RIOT makes the player aware of their subconscious behaviour and enables them to consciously build new neurological pathways in their brain. Her work is at the intersection of Neuroscience, Behavioural Psychology and the Parkour philosophy of moving through fear.
She has been a research based artist working with Artificial Intelligence since 2015. Her Hack the Future Labs created 2020 are Think & Action Tanks at the intersection of Art, Film, Neuroscience Technology, Activism, Social Justice, Spirituality and the Parkour Philosophy of moving through fear. Creating interdisciplinary conversation and discussions to enable explorations of solutions for urgent issues impacting this rapidly changing society.

Karlina (she/her) is a digital anthropologist and digital communication strategist with experience of more than fifteen years in journalism, digital media, knowledge management, and community-driven development. Currently, she works as an Adviser for Artificial Intelligence of FAIR Forward, GIZ Indonesia. She advises the implementation of global project FAIR Forward - “Artificial Intelligence for All – FAIR Forward”, an initiative dedicated to the open and sustainable development and application of Artificial Intelligence and particularly supports partnering countries in Africa and Asia on behalf of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development. She is a digital activist who supports safe access for women and vulnerable communities on the internet. Karlina holds a Master of Science in Digital Anthropology from University College London as a UK Government Chevening FCO scholar.

Kathryn is the Managing Director of Life Calling, a nonprofit founded by artist and author John Mack
that is dedicated to preserving our humanity in the Digital Age. She oversees Life Calling’s overarching
strategy and programming that is driven to envision a future where we remain grounded in our
humanity—no matter the technological environment—ensuring we thrive in all that makes us human
individually, collectively, and with nature. In partnership with Life Calling’s Founder and Board of
Directors, Kathryn is currently building a new impact model for the Digital Age, the organization’s most
recent signature initiative that ensures humanity always takes precedence over technology.

Kathryn’s 20+ year career in the nonprofit sector leading business development and strategic planning
initiatives on behalf of national and global movements has been rooted in a passion to bridge public
and private sectors in multi-faceted partnerships driven to create positive change and impact in society.
She launched her career at the early age of 16 while studying at the Fashion Institute of Technology
working with the Kennedy Shriver Family and Best Buddies International, an organization dedicated to
fostering inclusion and belonging for individuals with and without intellectual disabilities. Kathryn’s
dedication to public service spans from advocating for youth mental health with emphasis on breaking
down barriers to care and stigma to elevating a global dialogue around mental health issues to
championing individuals of all abilities. She has also served in senior leadership positions for
organizations including Special Olympics Northern California, Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship
(NFTE) and The Child Mind Institute.

Katy is a design researcher for positive and meaningful change at Stby in Amsterdam. They are passionate about understanding humans and working to create a more sustainable, ethical and empathetic world, with a particular interest in the (mental) health and environmental impacts of digital technologies. Their work is dedicated to connecting people, creating meaning and valuing well-being for people and planet alike.

Kelly is the Global Public Policy Lead at the World Benchmarking Alliance (WBA) and is part of the Ranking Digital Rights (RDR) team. Prior to RDR she worked at a lobbying firm that focused on information technology policy, where she served as a research and policy associate. Her past internships also include working as a public policy intern at the U.S. Association of Former Members of Congress and working in the Public Affairs office of the U.S. Embassy in Muscat, Oman. She holds a B.A in foreign affairs from the University of Virginia, where she mainly focused on Europe and the MENA region, studying global issues of security and justice, terrorism and political violence, and U.S. foreign policy.

Kersti Ruth Wissenbach
Kersti is the founder of Cultiva Lab, a socio-ecology driven consultancy and exploration space that is
rooted in the permaculture principles of People Care, Planet Care, Fair Share. Cultiva Lab works with
citizens, organisations and public sector institutions to embrace all-life-affirming understandings and
approaches in their work.
Kersti is a political sociologist with deep roots in the participatory communication and communication
rights movement. Prior to founding Cultiva Lab she has spent almost twenty years working on the
intersection of digital transformation, sustainability, and justice in the international development
cooperation sector. Kersti has extensively worked with activist groups, NGOs, and public institutions
leading strategic planning, policy advice, and implementation of civic participation processes around the
globe.
As a convinced hybrid, Kersti combined working in academia in practice for many years. In her role as
researcher, she has extensively explored power dynamics within transnational digital activist
communities, and how they translate into the tech we build. She is a vocal advocate for trans-disciplinary
collaborations in academia and practice, questioning dominant understandings of science in her work on
the shaping of Citizen Social Science.
Kersti earned her Bachelor ́s degree in Political Sciences, Sociology and Communication Sciences from
Heinrich-Heine University Düsseldorf and her Master ́s degree in International Development Studies from
University of Amsterdam. She has conducted postgraduate research at the New Media Department of
the University of Amsterdam and the Center on Social Movement Studies at the Scuola Normale
Superiore in Florence. Over the last years she trained in permaculture, systems thinking and feminist
leadership. Kersti operates from her off-grid home and community in rural Spain.

Member of European Parliament

Leandro is the Engagement Lead for Ranking Digital Rights (RDR) within the Digital Transformation of the World Benchmarking Alliance (WBA). He focuses on expanding collaboration with and support for civil society organizations around the world, leading efforts to adapt the RDR and Digital Inclusion’s benchmarking methodologies, and strengthening civil society coalitions built around the data produced by the benchmarks under the Digital Transformation.

Lea Wulf is a project manager at the Center for Digital Society at Stiftung Mercator, where she co-developed the foundation’s work on the intersection of digital transformation and climate action. Previously, she coordinated an AI network at a regional business association in northern Germany. Lea studied Political Science, Communication and Media Studies at the Universities of Bremen and Helsinki and holds a Master's degree in Political Management and Public Policy from the NRW School of Governance at the University of Duisburg-Essen

Līva is taking care of community building and communications for the European AI & Society Fund. Previously she worked on platform regulation, gender-based technology facilitated harms and EU digital policy.

I am a data scientist with extensive experience in applying machine learning across various industries. My expertise encompasses taking projects from conception to production, with a robust knowledge of data science's related fields, including data engineering, DevOps/MLOps, unit testing, containers, Git, CI/CD, and cloud technologies. Additionally, I have experience leading technical teams comprised of junior and diverse members. I am particularly interested in projects that are neutral or positively impact climate change and biodiversity.

Luna Maurer is a mixed media designer and artist, lecturer and author with a focus on digital technologies' impact on daily life. She explores human characteristics through installations, performances, web experiences, and films, often blending digital and physical elements. Co-founding studio Moniker in 2012 with a similar focus, her clients include cultural institutions like Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, M+ Museum Hong Kong and technology companies like Google and Mozilla Foundation.
Currently, she's redefining perspectives on digital technology, co-authoring the Designing Friction manifesto advocating friction in digital culture. Her Conditional Design Manifesto, authored in 2010, continues to have global influence. Originally from Stuttgart, Germany, she studied at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy and the Sandberg Institute in Amsterdam. Maurer has taught at various institutions internationally, including Yale University School of Art, and has won numerous awards, including Dutch Design Awards, a Webby, Golden Calf nomination and the Amsterdam Prize for the Arts.

Maggie is a non-binary actor, movement practitioner, collaborative theatre maker, voice actor and creative technology and performance consultant with over 18 years experience

In 2021 they performed the role of Cobweb 'DREAM', (RSC, Philharmona & Marshmallow Laser Feast) an online immersive theatre show using motion capture technology as part of UKRI's Audience of the Future programme. Since then their creative focus has broadened to include XR technologies and Virtual Production. As a Creative Consultant to the Royal Shakespeare Company’s Digital Department they have been invited to speak about the role of performers within XR technology and their interaction with it at numerous conferences including SXSW & BEYOND, as well as at the Houses of Parliament.

They are currently co-director and performer in SHAPESHIFTER, a new 40-minute location-based experience leveraging live motion capture and VR headsets to immerse audiences in new ways of seeing the natural world and the diversity within it as it seeks to break new ground in avatar design and audience integration into live immersion, currently in development.

Joined WBA in 2022 as a Research Analyst for the Digital Inclusion Benchmarks. She is passionate about the effects of digital technologies on people and society. Believes that companies should due their fair share to reduce the digital divide. Prior to joining WBA, she worked as a consultant for the research department at the Inter-American Development Bank researching topics related to the digitization of health care. Holds an MSc. in Economics and Public Policy from Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez in Santiago, Chile and a BA in Economics from the University of Rochester, NY. Born and raised in Nicaragua, she is currently based in The Netherlands.

Marta is a leader, product designer, and UX trainer with over 7 years of experience and a background in cognitive science.
She is currently a master’s student in Design for Responsible AI at the Elisava School of Design and Engineering in Barcelona.
Marta is also the founder and organizer of the first Polish meetup dedicated to the intersection of art, science, and technology.

Martijn Arets is an international independent platform expert and from his role as 'professional outsider' has been exploring the rise of the platform economy and its impact on society since 2012. He engages with all stakeholders involved, conducts research and takes an active role in the (public) debate. He shares his insights through presentations, advice, his biweekly newsletter and contributions in the (international) media.

He wrote the Dutch book 'Platform Revolution - From Amazon to Zalando, the impact of platforms on how we work and live'. Martijn is 'lead gig team' at the WageIndicator Foundation and here he contributed among other things to the development of the Living Tariff: a tool to help freelancers make better informed decisions regarding rates and income. He is also founder of KlusCV: a data sharing standard that allows 100,000 platform workers in 6 countries to access their data.

Marwa leads Access Now’s work on digital rights in the Middle East and North Africa region as the MENA Policy and Advocacy Director. Her work spans a number of issues at the nexus of human rights and technology including content governance and platform accountability, online censorship, digital surveillance, and transnational repression. She has written extensively on the digital occupation in Palestine and focuses on the role of new technologies in armed conflicts and humanitarian contexts, and their impact on historically marginalised and oppressed communities. Marwa is a Policy Analyst at Al-Shabaka: The Palestinian Policy Network, an advisory board member of the Tahrir Institute for Middle East Policy, and advisory committee member for Bread&Net. Marwa was a Fulbright scholar to the US, and holds an MA in International Relations from Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University. She holds a second MA in Development and Governance from University of Duisburg-Essen.

Belarus born, Berlin based certified privacy professional (FIP, CIPP/E, CIPM, TÜV DPO, DPO-HA), with a strong focus in digital ethics and privacy awareness.
Author and co-host of a privacy podcast Nothing to Hide (RU).
Currently Privacy Manager at Vinted.

We are the MDRAI Lab, a creative research collective emerging from the first edition of the Master in Design for Responsible AI created by the design and engineering school of Barcelona, Elisava and IAM.

AI & LGBTQ+ rights researcher (Erasmus School of Law, The Netherlands) with a background in international and European Union law.

Max is the Mozilla Foundation's AI Policy Lead.

Maya is a jack-of-all trades who has spent the last ten years listening and learning about the plurality of struggles for technological justice across the world, and supporting activists and organizations to untangle technologies’ hold on our lives and reclaim its power to bring about social and political transformation. She is currently the co-lead of the Green Screen Coalition. She has previously worked with The Engine Room, as a Mozilla Fellow (2018 - 2019) with Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Justice, and as consultant with Ariadne Network leading the Digital Power Programme.

Program Officer, Data Futures Lab, Mozilla Foundation

Barcelona-based tech writer.

Kyiv-native and Berlin-based, Misha is an independent technology researcher. Misha's main interest is investigative storytelling to uncover harms in technologies. In 2021-2024, Misha was a researcher at *Privacy Not Included.

Mona Chalabi is an award-winning writer and illustrator. Using words, color
and sound, Mona rehumanizes data to help us understand our world and the
way we live in it.
Mona once worked directly with the type of data that dictates so much in
our lives in both the private and nonprofit industry before crafting her own
approach in journalism. Over the past decade she has researched genetics,
police violence, viral transmission, the cost of dying and so, so much more
(including average testicle size).
Using bold colorful drawings, viewers are invited to think about the limits and
possibilities of what we can and cannot know. By rehumanizing data that
feels distant and resensitizing us to data that feels close, Mona provides you
with a vocabulary to express that thing you’re experiencing while also letting
you know you’re not alone. Hopefully, that’s an empowering thing.
Mona works beside windows, sometimes in her hometown, London but
usually in Brooklyn where she is writing a book about the ways we talk about
money. She is also the executive producer and creative director of an
upcoming animated TV show with Ramy Youssef, A24, and Amazon Studios.
Her writing and illustrations have been featured in The New York Times, The
New Yorker, and The Guardian, where she is currently the data editor. Her
video, audio, and production work has been featured on Netflix, NPR, the
BBC, and National Geographic.

Anthropologist, researcher, creative strategist, responsible AI strategist consultant and founder of @topofutures, a plural futures lab. Digital nomad as a means of embodying a commitment to continuously learning and adapting to global trends, ensuring that her work remains at the cutting edge of innovation.

She has experience in creative production and strategy, holds degrees in Cinema, Sociology and Politics, Digital Anthropology, and a Master's in Responsible Artificial Intelligence Design at Elisava, School of Design and Engineering in Barcelona.

She is also a researcher at GAIA, a group of researchers in art and artificial intelligence at the Innovation Center of USP (C4AI/INOVA-USP), where she researches the future of human-machine relations and necropolitics.

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🎉🌟 Presenting at Mozfest 2024: "Synthetic Truths: Election Edition" 🌟🎉

Step into the captivating realm of digital storytelling and immersive experiences with Muskan Jain, a visionary UX designer based in the vibrant city of Amsterdam, Netherlands. With a rich tapestry of experiences, Muskan's journey from the hallowed halls of the National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad, India, to the cutting-edge corridors of the Digital Society School at the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences, has been nothing short of extraordinary.

As a proud graduate specializing in Animation Film Design, Muskan's passion for blending creativity with technology knows no bounds. Her recent triumph in completing a transformative Design Traineeship underscores her commitment to pushing the boundaries of innovation. Collaborating seamlessly with a diverse team of six, Muskan was instrumental in birthing "Synthetic Truths," an immersive exploration into the interplay of perception and reality in our digital age.

In the fast-evolving landscape of UX and Transformation Design, her expertise spans a spectrum of mediums, from captivating illustrations and dynamic 2D/3D animations to compelling films, images, icons, infographics, and micro-interactions. Each creation is meticulously crafted to not only resonate with brand values but also to serve as a catalyst for brand growth and audience engagement.

Join Muskan Jain at Mozfest 2024 as she delves deep into the labyrinth of Synthetic Truths: Election Edition. She will unravel the intricate threads of digital narratives and explore their impact on our collective consciousness. To connect with Muskan and embark on a journey of creativity and innovation, email her at muskanjain.nid@gmail.com.

Nadège leads the Alliance for Gender Equality in Europe, a donor’s collaborative created to support progress for gender equality and women’s rights in the region. As such, she co-designs the strategy of the fund, leads the team and oversees the grant making, capacity strengthening and communication activities. Before joining the Alliance in 2021, Nadège worked over a decade in non-profit organisations in France and at the European level. Her expertise lies in gender equality, gender-based violence, diversity and sustainable development. She notably co-created One in three women__, the first network of companies engaged against domestic violence and co-edited Why the European Green Deals needs ecofeminism the first report looking at gender in the European Union environmental policies.

Nicholas (Nick‘) Gates is a Policy Advisor at OpenForum Europe (OFE), where leads OFE’s work on the NGI Commons initiative and supports its research, policy, and advocacy efforts.

Nick has significant experience in digital government policy and research globally, particularly around open source, public goods, public financial management, and digital service delivery. Nick enjoys supporting development partners, governments, and international organisations to deliver on their research, advocacy and convening agendas by using applied research to support policy development around best practices in the use of technology for public good, particularly in the public sector.

Prior to joining OFE, Nick helped launch the Digital Public Finance Hub, a new learning initiative around the digital transformation of public finance, as a consultant at Public Digital. He began his career working on research, policy, and advocacy at the Digital Impact Alliance — conducting research on topics including national digital transformation processes, open-source in government, and digital transformation policy — and was a Fellow at the Portulans Institute.

Nick holds an undergraduate dual degree from the University of Massachusetts Lowell in Political Science and History, and graduated with an MSc in Global Development from the University of Copenhagen in 2018.

Nicholas is the director of campaigns for the Mozilla Foundation. He is a policy and advocacy expert who has led work for international organizations across the technology, education and human rights sectors. Today, he oversees Mozilla's public campaigns for open and transparent AI.

Nicholas previously led advocacy at the Varkey Foundation, a global education charity, and was a researcher for Amnesty International, the prominent human rights organization. He has worked as a researcher and analyst on a range of public policy issues, ranging from public education to human rights and humanitarian crises. As an policy and advocacy expert, he has led global summits which convened top policymakers and corporate leaders, chaired delegations that met with presidents, prime ministers and international governmental bodies, and overseen campaigns that coordinated activists in over 20 countries.

Nomshado Lubisi Nkosinkulu, an author, holds an Honours Degree in Media Studies and serves as the Head of Communications at Media Monitoring Africa. She also held the position of committee member at the South African Internet Governance Forum (ZAIGF).
Nomshado has been at the forefront of driving dialogues aimed at addressing critical issues and has delivered numerous lectures and training sessions, particularly on topics surrounding information disorder, disinformation, media and digital media.

Consultant at Syspons GmbH & Intersectional Feminist supporting FemAI.

Olga Tokariuk is a Chatham House OSUN Academy Fellow, Ukraine Forum. Her professional interests are international affairs and research on disinformation, especially in the context of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

She is a former fellow at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at Oxford University and CEPA non-resident fellow. Olga’s background is in journalism and she has vast experience in Ukrainian and international media. Her work was published by TIME, The Washington Post, NPR, BBC, Monocle, EFE (Spain), ANSA (Italy). She is a former head of foreign news desk at the independent Ukrainian Hromadske TV.

Olga worked on several disinformation research projects with Oxford Analytica, Zinc, Mythos Labs, etc. Mrs Tokariuk is a former scholar of the Digital Sherlocks program at the Atlantic Council’s DFR Lab.

Mrs Tokariuk is a frequent guest lecturer at academic institutions including University of Oxford, University of Miami, etc. She holds an MA in political science and international relations from the University of Bologna and an MA in journalism from the Taras Shevchenko University of Kyiv.

Onno Oostveen aka De Zucht Dokter is an experienced breathwork facilitator teaching in both business environments as well as via yoga and health studios in the Netherlands.

Journalist

Paul Keller (1974) is co-founder and Director of Policy at Open Future and President of the COMMUNIA Association for the Public Domain. Paul has over 20 years of experience as a media activist, open policy advocate, and systems architect for improving access to knowledge and culture. A political scientist by training, Paul has a deep understanding of the digital transformation’s political, social and legal implications. Prior to founding Open Future Paul was co-director of Kennisland, an Amsterdam-based think-tank working on issues related to the knowledge economy.

Paul is a research fellow at the Institute for Information Law of the University of Amsterdam and sits on the advisory boards of the Glushko & Samuelson Information Law and Policy Lab and the Europeana Foundation and on the board of Public Spaces, a coalition of Dutch civil society organizations working on public digital infrastructures.

I am on a professional mission to 'Cultivate Skilled Futures' in the Digital Economy. Currently, as an Advisor on Gig Economy at GIZ, I lead the design and implementation of capacity measures and tools incl. courses, eLearning and trainings that empower platform-based gig workers to thrive in the digital economy. I am implementing multi-stakeholder projects in 14 countries in Sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia, and Latin America. Through information sharing and capacity building, these projects aim to prepare workers in particular women, marginalised youth for digital work.

In the past two decades, I have gained valueable exerience experimenting with various approaches in skills development, vocational education and training, and the digital economy. I am a passionate advocate for human-centered approaches, and deeply committed to crafting equitable, inclusive, and sustainable solutions.

Prabhnoor has a background in Political Science, International Relations, and Responsible Artificial Intelligence. She has worked as a service designer and user researcher for governments, universities, and non profits. Her research practice is focused on building governance models for AI that can be easily translated from policy to product.

Rachel O’Leary Carmona is the Executive Director of Women’s March and Women’s March Network that form the backbone of the largest political home for women and most effective base building organization on the left.

Rachel served as the Chief Operating Officer of Women’s March from 2018, transitioning to the Executive Director role in 2019. She oversaw building the infrastructure of Women’s March as an organization from a series of record-breaking mobilizations. Rachel oversaw the incorporation of Women’s March Network, the sister organization of Women’s March, and founded Women’s March WIN, a Super PAC that builds and mobilizes the political power of women.

Under Rachel’s leadership, Women’s March drove record turnout in 2018, playing a key role in defeating Trump in 2020; anchored 4,500 nationwide actions in the United States, mobilizing tens of millions in 2022; and mobilized women in a pivotal 2023 Supreme Court race in Wisconsin, a race that was called the most important of the year by the New York Times.

Rachel has been quoted and featured in The New York Times, The Washington Post, USA Today, The Guardian, CNN online, Rewire, Fox Online, and the Journal of Transformational Work and many other national and local outlets. She is a frequent media contributor and is regularly featured on outlets including MSNBC, CNN, CBS, NBC, Reuters, NPR, and other broadcast news and radio stations.

Rachel earned her Associate’s degree from Madison Area Technical College. She went on to earn her Bachelor's degree in African American Studies from the University of Wisconsin and her Masters in Public Policy from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, where she focused on leadership development and non-profit management. She sits on the advisory boards of the Wisconsin Union, and the 22nd Century Initiative. She lives in Amarillo, Texas.

Dr. Pillai focuses on the adoption and implementation of artificial intelligence techniques, specifically natural language processing in the context of local/regional journalism. Her research interests are in analyzing text using natural language processing methods for a better understanding of behaviors and states of individuals and the society.

Previously, she was a Lecturer at the Informatics Institute, University of Amsterdam, assisting in the Master's program in Information Studies (Data Science track). She holds a PhD from the University of Wolverhampton for her thesis on the expressions of psychological stress in tweets.

Rhian Farnworth (they/them) is queer, non-binary advisor in KIT - Royal Tropical Research Institute's SRHR team, and the Digital Coordinator for Share-Net International, a global SRHR network. They are an intersectional feminist researcher specialising in mixed-methods research, systematic reviews, data analysis, and a digital rights specialist working at the intersections of SRHR and LGBTQIA+ rights. They possess 14 years experience in digital project management, and LGBTQIA+ rights, SRHR, gender advocacy, and knowledge management. Rhian holds an MA in Gender Studies from Utrecht University, The Netherlands, where their research focused on digital ethics and the impact of technology on society, specifically on women, LGBTQIA+, non-binary and gender-diverse people.

Ruthie Doyle currently serves with the Royal Shakespeare Company leading on Artists, Fellowships, and Research. Most recently she served as the Director of the Sundance Institute’s Interdisciplinary Program, and previously as the Director of the Sundance New Frontier Labs. Her graduate studies included ITP, within NYU Tisch School of the Arts’ Maurice Kanbar Institute of Film and Television; and an MFA in Film/Video from CalArts.

Ruth (she/they) serves as an Advisor for Artificial Intelligence and Climate at the "Fair Forward - AI for all" initiative within the German Corporation for International Cooperation (GIZ). This initiative focuses on c-creating AI projects in Africa and Asia, striving for a more open, inclusive, and sustainable approach to AI on a global scale.

With a background in ecology and data science, Ruth has been leading projects on finding sustainable solutions for agriculture, food security, and climate change challenges. They are an advocate for the inclusion of marginalized communities in tech and science and have a passion for social and climate justice. They hold a PhD in Ecology and Computational Biology from the University of Wageningen, the Netherlands.

CEO of DROG Group

Equinox Initiative for Racial Justice

Sarah Ellis is an award-winning producer currently working as Director of Digital Development for the world famous Royal Shakespeare Company in England to explore new artistic initiatives and partnerships.

In 2017, Sarah became a fellow of the University of Worcester for her work in the arts and technology. In 2016 she was awarded The Hospital Club & Creatives Industries award for cross industry collaboration for her work on the RSC’s The Tempest in collaboration with Intel and in association with The Imaginarium Studios. The most recent partnership for the RSC is the Audience of the Future Live Performance Demonstrator funded by Innovate UK – a consortium consisting of arts organisations, research partners and technology companies to explore the future of performances and real-time immersive experiences

In 2013 she was listed in the top 100 most influential people working in Gaming and Technology by The Hospital Club and Guardian Culture Professionals. In partnership with Google, she produced Midsummer Night’s Dreaming winning two Lovie Awards for Innovation and Experimentation.

Sarah is a regular speaker and commentator on digital arts practice, as well as an Industry Champion for the Creative Industries Policy and Evidence Centre, which helps inform academic research on the creative industries to lead to better policies for the sector. She has been appointed Chair of digital agency, The Space, established by Arts Council England and the BBC to help promote digital engagement across the arts.

Sarah Sakha is a Public Policy Manager with Meta’s Community Engagement and Advocacy team for the Africa, Middle East, and Turkey region. She focuses on the responsiveness of AI-powered systems to the needs of high-risk communities in the MENA region, as well as the impacts of digital surveillance. Previously, she worked on the localization and decolonization of humanitarian policy at the International Rescue Committee, and on introducing a lens of equity and justice in “data for good” grantmaking at the Rockefeller Foundation. She brings extensive research and writing experience, from examining AI ethics, power, and “public interest” tech, to the histories of Iranian diaspora communities. She holds a BA in International Affairs from Princeton University and a MA in Human Rights Policy with a focus in tech and media from Columbia University and. She is currently on assignment with Meta as a contractor with Magnit.

EyeClimate CEO and Schmidt Science Fellow: Satish Kumar is a seasoned expert with 12 years of research experience, 7 of which lie at the intersection of climate and AI. About to graduate with a PhD in computer vision, he has conducted cutting-edge research, having taken on projects alongside NASA-JPL, the Smithsonian Institute, The Aerospace Corporation, Harvard University and more. He has successfully completed projects in GHG emissions, wildlife tracking in the Maasai Mara and Serengeti. He has published papers in premier conferences such as CVPR, NeurIPS, BMVC, WACV and delivered talks on AI for Climate Change and Wildlife at CVPR, NeurIPS, Mara Elephant Project in Kenya. His GHG detection work was given a special highlight at CVPR. Satish has five years of hands-on experience in OS development at Samsung R&D, both in South Korea and India.

Global Engagement Manager

Sheetal Vyas is Managing Director at Virgin Unite, the independent non-profit
foundation of the Virgin Group. She has held director roles focused on strategy,
innovation, and investment, including as the founding Executive Director of the
International Fund for Public Interest Media and a Director at the Larry Ellison
Foundation.

Sheetal began her career at PricewaterhouseCoopers where she spent over 20
years working in its private and public sector practices advising clients on:
innovation-led strategy; managing public-private partnerships; delivering
entrepreneurship programmes; and working in venture capital with technology start-
ups. Now based in the UK, Sheetal has lived and worked in India and Zimbabwe and
has delivered projects across 25 countries in Asia and Africa.

Shenja van der Graaf is a digital society scholar at the Department of Communication Science at the technical University of Twente. If there is one common thread joining her research activities together, it is an interest in moments of transition and the dynamics that accompany them arising from innovations associated with information and communication technologies. Interests and expertise focus on production and consumption cultures; media (histories) and everyday life; media infrastructures; media / ICT (responsible) innovation and regulation in the public interest; and, alternative economic and governance systems.

Van der Graaf has held several research, advisory and management positions, in particular in the Netherlands, Belgium, UK, Japan, and USA. In various positions she has served as a PI on major grants and consulted with public and private entities, such as OECD, European Commission, UN, Turner Networks, and Microsoft. Her expertise has also been shown and translated into various lectureships, (board) memberships and publications. In this capacity, she has been committed to exploring how greater understanding of media systems can inform and assist citizens, scholars and policymakers in Europe and abroad to advance campaigns for technological literacy, creative expression, social justice, and human rights.

Before joining the BMS faculty, van der Graaf was Principal Researcher at imec-SMIT, VUB leading the Unit ‘Data Governance & Communities’ (former ‘Smart Cities’), where she also served as a Board member.

Van der Graaf is a graduate of Utrecht University (MA, 1999), Leiden University (Postgrad, 2000) and the London School of Economics and Political Science (PhD, 2009). She has been an honorary fellow at MIT Media Lab (ID3 Hub), a fellow at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society (Harvard) and the Research Center for Information Law (University of St. Gallen), a consulting researcher at Convergence Culture Consortium (MIT), an alumna of the Oxford Internet Institute (Oxford), and worked as consultant for Hakuhodo Inc. in Tokyo.

Siddhant is a Policy & Governance Strategist with Holistic AI, where he helps integrate policy and regulatory requirements into proprietary AI Governance platform. Previously, Siddhant was Tiktok's first policy analyst in South Asia. More recently, Siddhant has served as an Advisor on AI Ethics and Disinformation to the Australian Government and the Centre for Data Ethics and Innovation (CDEI) on the algorithmic ethics of climate technologies. Additionally, Siddhant consults the Government of India on AI and Online Safety regulations. He is a member of the Internet Society's Working Groups on digital literacy and accessibility. Siddhant holds a Master's in Technology Policy from UCL and a Bachelor's in Economics.

Sissel Marie Tonn is a Danish artist based in The Hague. In her practice she explores the complex
ways humans perceive, act upon and are entangled with their environments. Her work centers
around moments of awareness and shifts in perception, where the boundaries between our bodies
and the surrounding environment begin to blur. Tracing and capturing these moments often result in
hybrid, interactive installations and objects, where audience is invited to engage in a sensory and
participatory way with the stories and data at hand. She imagine her work as “training grounds”
meant to challenge our pre-configured modes of perception, attention, and sense of self, and shed
light on how our biology as well as our cultural conditions influence the ways in which we perceive
and subsequently act upon our surroundings.

Co-founder and director of Summ( )n, Slava has 20+ years of experience of strategic innovation projects, for private enterprises and public/governmental organizations.

Together with his partners, he developed a range of novel methods and tools to conduct contextual research, future studies, cross-cultural and multi-stakeholder analysis, and to enable collaborative, participatory design.

Slava was one of the pioneers of using 3D virtual worlds and MMORPGs in research, and actively employs serious games, hybrid space and emerging digital tools for research, innovation and transformation.

Sofie is the Project Coordinator for all things HLP at TAUS. She holds a Master's degree in Linguistics from Leiden University, with a specialization in Language and Communication. She is passionate about language accessibility and gender-fair language (GFL), and brings several years of community management and localization experience to the table.

Hi Mozfest! I work on Mozilla's Insights team as Lead Editor of the podcast IRL: Online Life is Real Life and of the Internet Health Report. I'm based in Berlin.

Uruguayan sociologist dedicated to the intersections between digital tech, education and human rights. Director of JAAKLAC towards Critical Digital Education and youth participation.

Solid Ground Movement is an innovative and groundbreaking hip hop school based in the Tolhuistuin where we are hosting Mozfest House.
They believe that hiphop dance is not only cultural expressio, but also a powerful means of promoting social cohesion and involving young people in arts and culture. A perfect medium to make the arts field accessible to everyone, while originally remaining black culture

Sophie leads Commons Network, a think tank and collaboratory for the new economy. Advocating for digital commons is a key element of their work.

Sophie Compton is a documentary director and producer who tells women's stories of injustice and healing. Her work is impact-driven and she runs impact projects alongside each creative piece, amplifying survivor voices. Her projects have been supported by Sundance Institute, International Documentary Association, Impact Partners, Hot Docs, Arts Council England and others. Her debut feature ANOTHER BODY follows a student’s search for justice after discovering deepfake pornography of herself online. It premiered at SXSW 2023, winning the Special Jury Award for Innovation in Storytelling, and played at Hot Docs, Doc Edge, Champs Elysées, Munich, Aegean, DMZ, Woodstock, Mill Valley and New/Next Film Festivals among others, winning multiple Audience Awards. Her second feature HOLLOWAY (in post-production) follows six women returning to the abandoned prison where they were once incarcerated, produced by Girerson and BIFA-winning Beehive Films. Previously, she was Artistic Director of theatre company Power Play, producing/directing six plays including the Fringe First winning FUNERAL FLOWERS, and work at Tate Modern, V&A, Pleasance, Copeland Gallery. As an impact producer she has worked with grassroots organisations, NGOs, governments and press including The White House, World Economic Forum, and NOW THIS on viral content and new legislation and policy.

Sophie Tendai is a design researcher at Stby Amsterdam, but is originally from Zimbabwe. She has a background in circular design, where she developed educational programs for regenerative design that encouraged local knowledge exchange and traditional circular design practices across communities in the Southern African context. Sophie is passionate about creating sustainable solutions that are contextually nuanced and effective by centring local needs and narratives. She focuses on decolonising the design field in all parts of her work, aiming to expand toward broader perspectives on what design is in order to give a wider range of design practices more space and resources to innovate.

Sunjoo Lee is a media artist based in the Netherlands, working at the intersection of art, technology, and ecology. Her practice often delves into themes such as tools for more-than-human philosophy, emergence, biomimicry, future forms of symbiosis, and permacomputing. Lee frequently collaborates with biologists, ecologists, and engineers to explore and create multimedia installations promoting the hybridity of the biosphere and technosphere.

I work at the intersection of digital media, digital rights and wide-ranging social issues, including comprehensive sexuality education, countering disinformation, and advancing democratic and inclusive civic space online. I am originally from Mumbai, India, and now based in Amsterdam, where I work with RNW Media, an international digital media accelerator, as partnership lead, on fundraising, resource mobilisation, and strategic positioning.

Public Policy Manager for Community Engagement and Advocacy for the Middle East at Meta

Far from thrilled about where we're going with xenophobia, populism and whatnot. Into innovation around pro-rights and democracy messaging ... cos the same old ideas definitely aren't working. The question that keeps up at night is, how do we spread ideas that people need to hear but aren't really that motivated to engage with?

Background in factual content & advertising. Former end clients include Apple, Avaaz, The Danish Home Office, The Guardian, Novo Nordisk, LEO Pharma, GNResound, Channel 4, BBC, ABC, UNHCHR and other acronyms. 37 million organic social media video views for content I produced on human rights issues.

Veszna is a human rights researcher by training, and has special interest in building a just digital future. She earned her MA in Human Rights from Central European University in Hungary and has worked with various NGOs and think tanks across the globe, including Democracy Reporting International, Political Capital, Global Voices, EU-Russia Civil Society Forum.

Before joining Superbloom, Veszna worked for almost four years at Ranking Digital Rights as a program manager. She was responsible for the production of RDR Rankings and she also supported the process of developing new indicators addressing algorithmic systems and targeted advertising.

In her downtime, she is with her son, helps build the Hungarian solidarity economy movement, and creates mixtapes for friends under her not-so-serious DJ alias, Venuscontroller. She is also a festival coordinator at UH Fest, a small music festival focusing on adventurous music.

She is based in Budapest, Hungary.

Wiebke is a research scientist working on ethical and trustworthy AI at Sony AI. She holds a PhD (cum laude) from the faculty of Technology, Policy and Management at Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands. Wiebke completed her Masters in Computer Science at the University of Cape Town in South Africa, and worked as a data scientist and engineer in the energy sector. In 2022 Wiebke received a Mozilla Technology Fund Award to support her work on fairness in voice technologies. She is a fellow of the Heidelberg Laureate Forum Young Researchers, the Data Science for Social Good Initiative and the Diverse Intelligences Summer Institute.

Xavier Harding is a former journalist, current content producer and the host of this year’s MozFest climate justice panel: Revealing the Internet's Invisible Carbon Footprint. At Mozilla Foundation, Xavier writes about issues concerning tech’s effect on society and the people that live within it — from how test proctoring software struggles to see dark-skinned faces to the ways AI acts with the same biases humans do. More recently, Xavier has focused on the ways everything we do online emits carbon and the lack of transparency around exactly how much. Xavier spends an embarrassing amount of time on the puns and jokes in his writing. So far it hasn’t paid off.

Yan is a wrangler for Planetary Justice space of MozFest House Amsterdam 2024. A researcher based in Amsterdam, her research focuses on bottom-up digital activism, the environmental impact of digital technology and decentering western epistemology. She is program officer at Green Screen Climate Justice and Digital Rights Coalition.

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