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Susan Ariel Aaronson is Research Professor of International Affairs and GWU Cross-Disciplinary Fellow at the George Washington University's Elliott School of International Affairs. She is also a Senior Fellow at the think tank Center for International Governance Innovation (CIGI) in Canada. I She is the former Minerva Chair at the National War College. Aaronson’s research examines the relationship between economic change and human rights. She is currently directing projects on digital trade and protectionism, labor rights provisions in trade agreements; and examining the effects of a decline in labor rights upon economic and political stability in the industrialized world. Her work has been funded by major international foundations including MacArthur, Ford, and Rockefeller. Her current research is on rethinking a new approach to cross-border data; AI and trade; and data realms.

Lillian Ablon is an information scientist at the RAND Corporation. She conducts technical and policy research on topics spanning cyber security, emerging technologies, privacy and security in the digital age, computer network operations, digital exhaust, and the human element. Recent research topics include longevity and collision rates of zero-day software vulnerabilities and their exploits; cyber risks to the supply chain; coverages and risks of cyber insurance; consumer attitudes towards data breach notifications; the intersection of commercial technology companies and public policy; black markets for cybercrime tools and stolen data as well as the white, grey, and black markets for zero-day exploits; social engineering and open source intelligence; methods for zero-day vulnerability detection; tools and technologies for greater cyber situational awareness; future and emerging technologies and the 2020-2040 operating environment; and privacy concerns with digital identity. Prior to joining RAND, Ablon worked with some of the most cutting edge technologies in cryptography, network exploitation and vulnerability analysis, and mathematics. She won an “uber” black badge at DEFCON21 and holds a B.A. in mathematics from the University of California, Berkeley, and an M.S. in mathematics from Johns Hopkins University.

I combine my mathematics and computer science background with a deep concern for security and privacy. I do research on secure coding and usable security and privacy for end users, developers and anyone in-between.

I’m a mother, wife, tech worker, and an activist/organizer. I’m a co-founder of the Lefferts Community Food Cooperative and the Collective for Liberation, Ecology, and Technology, both in Brooklyn, New York.

Sheana Ahlqvist, PhD is a User Reseacher and the Principal Consultant at PhD Insights. She has served as the head of product and user experience at Ford Digital where she gathered user feedback to set product priorities in alignment with broader corporate goals. While completing her PhD in Quantitative Social Psychology, Sheana gained 7 years of experience in advanced statistical methods and rigorous research design. Her work has been presented at conferences nationwide and published in the top peer-reviewed journal in her field.

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Recently completed my PhD in climate change and sustainability at Hong Kong University Law School. After receiving a First Class Honours Law Degree from the University of Birmingham, I worked for a top US law firm in London and gained experience at the European Court of Justice in Luxembourg. Next, I embarked on a start-up journey at Google Campus in London, where I developed a passion for innovation, technology and entrepreneurship. Drawn by the opportunity in Asia, I moved to Hong Kong in 2014 to pursue a PhD focusing on international climate change law and sustainability. Being passionate about social inclusion and development, my goal is to contribute towards shaping our ever-changing world, supercharging the GreenTech entrepreneurship ecosystem. I am fascinated by breakthrough innovations in the fields of technology, renewable energy and science.

Amelia Andersdotter was a member of the European Parliament between 2011 and 2014. She has worked with telecommunications policy, data protection, intellectual property rights and standardisation of technology. Since 2015, she has run the Swedish NGO Dataskydd.net, which focuses on making data protection easy in law and in practise. In 2016, Amelia was a guest researcher on cyber security and consumer rights at the Centre for Internet and Society in Bangalore, India. She currently contributes op-eds to three Swedish publications (Liberal debatt, Dalarnas tidningar and Smedjan) since 2017. Amelia Andersdotter is an experienced public speaker and holds a BSc in mathematics.

Lauren Andersen is the Executive Director of the NYC Tech Talent Pipeline, Mayor de Blasio's industry partnership designed to support the inclusive growth of the tech ecosystem by delivering quality talent for the city's businesses and quality jobs for New Yorkers. In this capacity, she works with the city's leading tech employers, academic institutions, and training providers to support new and expanded solutions for aligning workforce needs and educational opportunities. Prior to her current role, Lauren served as a Policy Advisor in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy where she worked on initiatives to broaden participation in STEM fields and served as liaison to the White House Council on Women and Girls. She previously worked at Citi Foundation, the Obama for America campaign in Florida, and a variety of digital and broadcast media outlets. Lauren received her undergraduate degree from Northwestern University and an MPA from Columbia University.

I have over 10 years of multimedia visual storytelling experience as a photojournalist, documentary film producer, creative advisor and team player working with various communication outlets in the States and abroad. I have worked and consulted on multiple tourism, film, hospitality, and non-profits projects. In fall 2017, I was awarded a full scholarship to General Assembly's User Experience Design Immersive. I am currently the UX/ Technical Lead at the Global Entrepreneurship Network.

Dr. Cecilia Aragon is Director of the Human Centered Data Science Lab, Professor in the Department of Human Centered Design & Engineering and Senior Data Science Fellow at the eScience Institute at the University of Washington (UW) in Seattle. In 2016, Aragon became the first Latina to be named to the rank of Full Professor in the College of Engineering at UW in its hundred-year history. She earned her PhD in Computer Science from UC Berkeley in 2004, and her BS in mathematics from the California Institute of Technology. Her research focuses on human-centered data science, an emerging field at the intersection of human-computer interaction (HCI) and data science. She has authored or co-authored over 230 publications, including the book Writers in the Secret Garden (MIT 2019). Aragon is a recipient of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), the highest honor bestowed by the US government on outstanding scientists in the early stages of their careers.

Nina Archie, Diversity and Tech Policy Advisor is a policy consultant and advocate for diversity and inclusion in the tech/telecom ecosystem, encompassing intellectual property, economic development, social justice, small business ownership, and access to resources for innovators within economically-disadvantaged and underrepresented groups. Ms. Archie is a member of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated. Currently, Ms. Archie is a candidate in the Master’s in Public Policy at George Mason University Schar School of Policy and Government and part of an innovative Master’s in Intellectual Property and Technology Law program at the George Mason University Antonin Scalia Law School. Ms. Archie has held positions as a Former Patent Examiner at the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) as well as a Technology Transfer Specialist at National Institute for Health’s Intellectual Property Office. Ms. Archie has served as a Legislative Fellow at the House of Representatives focusing on intellectual property and technology policy issues in Congressman Hakeem Jeffries Office as well as Congresswoman Yvette D. Clarke's office. Nina’s passion for breaking down the barriers to obtaining patents and commercialized technology have made her instrumental in creating intellectual property policy and technology policy that bridge the diversity gap for economically-disadvantaged groups. Ms. Archie recently joined consulting group The Commercializer®, LLC, a strategic firm that advocates for economically-disadvantaged groups that are underrepresented within the patent and commercialization system. In this capacity, Ms. Archie also provides policy and data analysis on access and equity issues that affect minority small business ownership innovators. Additionally, Ms. Archie is also an Internet Law and Foundry Fellow. In her spare time, Ms. Archie increases awareness by advocating for intellectual property and social justice and focusing on ways to help shape the development of technology law and policy through speaking engagements throughout the region.

Graduated from Istanbul University Faculty of Law and finished LLM and PhD on European Union law; now attending 2nd PhD on civil law while preparing thesis on personality of AI. At the same time member of Istanbul Bar in addition to Turkish and European patent office. Giving lectures on European law and AI/robot law at Ozyegin University Faculty of Law in Istanbul, Turkey. Attending conferences on ethics, regulating AI law via ethics, AI and robot law and also related areas. Preparing a book on self-driving cars.

Professor Alice Armitage is a member of the faculty at UC Hastings Law School. She is also Director of Applied Innovation at UC Hastings. In that role, she has supervised two innovative programs, the Startup Legal Garage for 6 years, and now LexLab. LexLab is an innovation hub for legal technology. She has published articles on the legal issues confronting startups in the US, and on the inherent tensions between regulation and innovation. Professor Armitage is a graduate of the Yale Law School where she was the first woman Editor-in-Chief of the Yale Law Journal. She also has an A.B. and an M.A. in British and American Literature from Brown University. Her pre- UC Hastings career includes practicing international tax law at a large firm, working as a regulator for the US Department of the Treasury, and founding two startups.

For over 25 years, Linnette Attai has been building organizational cultures of compliance and guiding clients through the complex obligations governing data privacy, user safety, and marketing. As founder of the global compliance consulting firm PlayWell, LLC, Linnette provides strategic advising, with a focus on privacy and marketing regulation and industry self-regulation, compliance capacity-building, monetization models, and policy development. She serves as virtual chief privacy officer and General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) data protection officer to select clients across all sectors, and speaks nationally on data privacy matters. Linnette is the author of the book, “Student Data Privacy: Building a School Compliance Program,” published by Rowman & Littlefield (2018), the forthcoming, “Protecting Student Data Privacy: Classroom Fundamentals” (2019), and is a TEDx speaker (April 2019).

Hi, there and thanks for visiting my Linkedin page! I am currently a doctoral candidate at UIC in the Department of Information & Decision Sciences and a National Science Foundation Research Fellow working as a member of UIC’s multidisciplinary electronic security and privacy program referred to as “IGERT”. During my time at UIC I have also been a Teaching Assistant/Instructor for 10 courses in the IDS Department, encompassing over 500 undergraduate and graduate students. I also have had the opportunity to work on a number of notable research projects where I was first author, including the development of a labor sourcing model which was recently used in a presentation to a group of renowned HR executives; a thought paper on “Analytics Governance” which has been downloaded over 850 times; and a research paper under 2nd round review in a top MIS journal, where my co-author and I utilize publicly available search engine data to measure social influence and the prevalence of homophily within 40 research communities, this study extends research on unconscious bias and the "formation, detection, and evolution" of communities within networks. My most important work is my dissertation, which is funded through UIC’s NSF IGERT program and focuses on understanding and quantifying, in very specific terms, the relationship among the various types of IT security breaches, organizational response tactics, and the ensuing negative outcomes organizations. The intent of the research is to help organizations develop managerial tactics to enhance organizational sustainability and resiliency not if but when a breach event strikes them. When I am not working on my dissertation or research projects, I am shoring up my tangible skillsets for an industry role and have an interest at the moment in data science and (secure) cloud architectures. Any questions, feel free to contact me, I would love to chat! Atiya

International Human Rights Lawyer, specialised in Freedom of Expression, Intellectual Property and Technology. She worked as one of the lawyers representing the Guatemalan Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Rigoberta Menchu Tum and litigated several cases involving digital rights in Latin America and Europe. Involved in Internet and Human Rights research since 2006, she works with the Web Inventor Sir Tim Berners - Lee in an effort to uphold human rights in the digital age. She serves as a Board Member of Creative Commons. She is also a member of Courage Foundation advisory board, assisting whistleblowers at risk and in the DECODE board, exploring the potential of decentralised technologies. She is currently exploring the concept of digital colonialism, the subject of her upcoming book.

Recognized as one of the "The Top 15 Women in Cybersecurity and InfoSec Today,"​ and ranked #18 on Thomson Reuters' List of Top 50 Influencers in Risk, Compliance and RegTech, Christina Ayiotis brings a truly unique strategic perspective, honed from years of building substantive (geopolitically contextualized) cyber expertise. She is a true "Cyber Connector"​ bringing together cross-functional (and international) constituencies to foster productive collaborative solutions. She combines extensive global business experience (whether as a corporate counsel or business leader) to assist entities specifically with cyber strategy, cyber risk management and preparedness, incident/breach response, information governance, data privacy, government and internal investigations, e-discovery, records and information management, ethics, and emerging technology/innovation. Her enormous, diverse network extends to social media where she is recognized as one of the "Top #InfoSec People to Follow on Twitter."​ She is a Continuous Learner that thrives at the intersection of disciplines—the place where she is convinced we will find solutions to our cyber challenges. Dedicated to her community, she has served on the Boards of Directors of the Fairfax Law Foundation, the Achievement Rewards for College Scientists Metro DC, the Hellenic American Women’s Council and the Women’s Bar Association of the District of Columbia. Her contributions to the larger Cyber and Tech Policy community include the following roles: Founder/Co-Chair, Georgetown Cybersecurity Law Institute (2012 – 2017); Member, AFCEA International Cyber Committee (2013 – 2017); Member, The Cybersecurity Canon (2015 – 2017); and Member, Education Advisory Committee, Cybersecurity, Digital Government Institute (2016 – 2017).

Dr. Terry Babcock-Lumish founded Islay, a mission-driven strategy consultancy, in 2005. Her research interests involve decision-making at the intersection of science, technology, and society. Terry served as the founding director of public policy at the Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute, dedicated to education, research, and civic engagement, in the Roosevelts’ historic NYC home. Recent years’ academic affiliations include CUNY, Oxford, Harvard, UArizona, UDelaware, and USMA, where she developed West Point’s first behavioral economics program and a partnership with the Culinary Institute of America. She has worked in local, state, and federal government. Upon leaving the President’s President’s Council of Economic Advisers in 2001, she served as a researcher for two books by former VP Al Gore. Terry completed her BS at Carnegie Mellon, and earned her MPA in environmental and technology policy as an IU SPEA Lilly Fellow. She read her DPhil at Oxford as a Truman and Clarendon Scholar.

Merritt is an expert in emerging technology and cybersecurity. As Principal Security Architect at Amazon Web Services, she does security for AWS' Global Accounts, such as the Fortune 200. Merritt has experience in all three branches of government and the private sector. Most recently, she served as Lead Cyber Advisor to the Federal Communications Commission. She has also served at the US Department of Homeland Security, the Office of US Senator Michael Bennet, and the US Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces. Before joining the government, Merritt started a business advisory / legal practice, working with emerging tech companies. Merritt speaks regularly on tech and cybersecurity, including the future of the Internet, artificial intelligence and robots, current cybersecurity issues in 5G, cloud, mobile, IoT and ICS, corporate interactions with government cyber, women in tech, entrepreneurism and innovation. Her insights on business strategy and tech have been published in Forbes, The Baltimore Sun, The Daily Beast, Talking Points Memo, and ThinkProgress. Her academic work has appeared in the journals of Temple, Georgetown, Santa Clara, UPenn, and UVA. Merritt is a graduate of Harvard Law School and Harvard College. She is admitted to the Bars of New York, the United States Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces, and the United States Supreme Court. Based in Washington, DC, she is a Fellow at the East-West Institute, founder of women’s tech expert network Tech & Roses, Adjunct Professor of Cybersecurity at the University of Maryland, and an amateur boxer.

Victoria Baines is a leading author and speaker in the field of cybersecurity. She regularly appears in major broadcast media as an authority on the misuse of emerging technologies. Until 2017 Victoria was Facebook’s Trust & Safety Manager for Europe, Middle East and Africa. Before this, Victoria led Strategy & Prevention at Europol’s European Cybercrime Centre (EC3), and was responsible for the European Union’s cyber threat analysis. Victoria is a graduate of Trinity College, Oxford and holds a doctorate in classical literature. She is a Visiting Associate of the Oxford Internet Institute, and a Visiting Fellow at Bournemouth University.

Ashley Baker is the director of public policy at the Committee for Justice. Her areas of expertise include technology policy, regulatory reform, the Supreme Court, online free speech, judicial nominations, and constitutional law. Her writing has appeared in Fox News, The Hill, RealClearPolitics, The Daily Caller, The American Spectator, Inside Sources, and elsewhere. She is a contributor at the Federalist Society and on several blogs. Ashley's major areas of focus during the past year have included data privacy regulations, European Union regulations, artificial intelligence, regulatory enforcement, the Brett Kavanaugh confirmation, lower court and agency nominations, and Supreme Court cases related to technology and administrative law. Ashley also serves as policy advisor to the Government Blockchain Association where she analyzes virtual currency regulations and legislation.

Vian investigates: surveillance of data; the security state and public accountability; and disinformation and deception in journalism. She has recently advised the UK Parliament’s Fake News & Disinformation Inquiry (2017-19); the UK House of Lords Data and Democracy Select Committee (2019); and the UK’s National Union of Journalists to prepare guidance for journalists seeking to avoid surveillance by the security state. Her monographs include: Intelligence Elites and Public Accountability (2018); Torture, Intelligence and Sousveillance in the War on Terror (2016); Sousveillance, Media and Strategic Political Communication: Iraq, USA, UK (2010). Her current funded research is on the implications of emotional AI (i.e. AI the pertains to read human emotions) for civic discourse. See: https://emotionalai.org/projects

Christine Bannan is EPIC's Administrative Law and Policy Fellow and and Internet Law and Policy Foundry Fellow. She works on various privacy and security issues before Congress and federal agencies. She is a 2017 graduate of Notre Dame Law School and a Certified Information Privacy Professional (CIPP/US). In law school she focused on privacy, innovation, and free speech issues, completing internships at the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), the Wikimedia Foundation, and the U.S. Copyright Office. Christine won first place in the Edelson PC Consumer Privacy Scholarship competition and her submission, discussing the privacy threats posed by the internet of things, was published in TechCrunch. She is a member of the Massachusetts bar.

Nicole is a Content Strategist at Red Hat, the Director ChickTech Austin, and an author. In her role at Red Hat, Nicole works with the documentation team as the voice of the customer, strategizing the best way to deliver quality documentation. In her role at ChickTech and as an author of 'Practical Open Source Software for Libraries' and on Opensource.com she spreads the word about the power of community and collaboration in open source.

Nayia Barmpaliou is a Policy Coordinator and Programme Manager for Cyber and Organised Crime at the European Commission’s Directorate General for International Cooperation and Development. Since 2013, she oversees the EU’s external cyber capacity building efforts from a strategic and operational perspective, including designing and managing a multi-million portfolio of global projects that address cybercrime and cybersecurity, as well as providing thematic expertise to EU services on external bilateral and regional cyber/digital projects. She is also the DG's focal person on hybrid threats and data protection, and liaises with other EU services to ensure policy coherence. She leads on the EU’s exchanges and coordination with other governments, organisations and industry active in international cyber capacity building, and represents the EU in relevant fora (for ex. Cybercrime Convention Committee; UN Intergovernmental Experts Group on Cybercrime; Global Forum on Cyber Expertise).

Lindsey Barrett is a staff attorney and teaching fellow at the Institute for Public Representation Communications & Technology Clinic. Before joining IPR, she was the Georgetown Policy Fellow at Future of Privacy Forum, where she worked closely with the Student Data Privacy Project. In law school, Lindsey served as a Research Assistant for the Center on Privacy and Technology, and worked for Facebook's Privacy & Public Policy group, the Senior Advisor for Privacy at the Office of Management and Budget, the Department of Justice, FPF and and the Electronic Privacy Information Center. Her work has been published in the NYU Review of Law & Social Change, the Georgetown Law Journal, and the Georgetown Law Technology Review, of which she was the Managing Editor and co-founder. She received her B.A. from Duke with honors, and her law degree from Georgetown.

Ann Barron-DiCamillo is Vice President of Cyber Intelligence and Incident Response at American Express where she is responsible for managing cyber security operations and directing cyber threat intelligence, information security monitoring and security incident response. As an experienced Information Security Executive with over 20 years of extensive experience in operations and in the delivery of information security services, Ann has gained an excellent grasp of the cyber threat environment and a respected track record of assisting organizations make balanced and informed risk decisions. Ann was previously Director US-CERT at the DHS. As Director, she headed DHS’s efforts to improve the Nation’s cybersecurity posture, coordinate cyber information sharing and proactively manage cyber risks. Her responsibilities included overseeing the 24×7 operations center, analyzing and reducing cyber threats and vulnerabilities, disseminating cyber-threat warning information.

Ivana Bartoletti heads up the privacy and data protection practise at Gemserv. She helps businesses harness the data they hold and advises on compliance with privacy legislation at UK, EU and global level. She works across all sectors and also focuses on the privacy challenges surrounding the Internet of Things and Artificial Intelligence. A keynote speaker at industry events in the UK and internationally, she is also Chair of the Fabian Women’s Network, helping women to achieve in public life as well as influencing policy on the economy, tech, healthcare and foreign affairs. She regularly writes and features in the media in both the UK and overseas, commenting on privacy, data ethics and innovation.

Lindsay Beck is the Open Technology Fund's Digital Safety Director, where she oversees OTF’s digital security assistance portfolio and funding opportunities. Prior to joining OTF, Lindsay worked for the National Democratic Institute, focusing on how NDI and its partners can safeguard their data and communications in their projects to ensure government accountability as well as monitor elections and other political processes. Lindsay also worked for Freedom House’s Internet Freedom program, where she worked with human rights activists on efforts to counteract censorship and surveillance as well as strengthen Internet governance and policy. Lindsay received her Master’s degree, focusing on Technology in International Affairs, from the George Washington University.

Ms. Beckwith is a former state police officer, and federally sworn U.S. Marshal. She worked as a fraud investigator and digital forensic examiner for the State of Ohio and a Task Force Officer for the United States Secret Service in their Financial and Electronic Crimes division. She is an international speaker recognized in the field of information security, policy, and cybercrime. Investigator Beckwith was trained by the United States Secret Service at the National Computer Forensics Institute in digital forensics, network investigations, network intrusion response and virtual currency investigations. She has worked with numerous local, state and federal law enforcement partners on criminal investigations including the FBI’s public corruption unit and Homeland Security Investigations. Recently Investigator Beckwith developed two cybersecurity training programs, teaching more than 1600 officers how to respond to cybercrime and over 4400 government employees on information security best practices. She is also Ohio’s first certified female police sniper.

Dr. Ana Beduschi is an Associate Professor in Law at the University of Exeter, United Kingdom. Her research and teaching focus on international human rights law, technology, and international migration and refugee law. Her publications cover several areas of international human rights law, technology and migration. Recently, she has written about big data and its implications for international migration and human rights law, the impact of digital identity and blockchain on human rights protection, and the protection of vulnerable migrant children’s rights by international human rights courts. She is the principal investigator on the ESRC-funded project Building digital identities, relating to the use of digital attributes and big data for digital identification and the implications this has for the protection of privacy, data protection, non-discrimination and due process.

Currently, Terena Bell manages global PR for localization and AI testing company Lionbridge. In the past, she was a startup founder, creating her own localization company as well as the first visual search engine to integrate with online streaming video. She has also worked as a reporter, covering tech, AI, and other topics for Washington Post, Boston Globe, Playboy, etc. Terena has a bachelors in English from Centre College and a masters in French from the University of Louisville. She is a former court qualified interpreter for the Commonwealth of Kentucky and served as a member of President Obama's White House Business Council.

As a team lead for USDS I ran adhoc engineering teams that mixed younger developers from the Valley with often older developers in charge of struggling legacy systems. For Auth0 I currently run Internal Services where I focus on resiliency and reliability of the software that backs our platform.

Olga Belogolova is a strategic intelligence analyst on the Community Threat Intel team at Facebook, with a focus on information operations and Central and Eastern Europe. She previously worked as a journalist covering Congress, energy policy, and defense policy, reporting from DC, Russia, Japan, and Jordan. Her work has appeared in The Atlantic, National Journal, Inside Defense, and The Globe and Mail, among others. Olga holds a Master’s degree in Strategic Studies and International Economics from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) and a Bachelor’s degree in Journalism and European Studies from Boston University. She is a security fellow with the Truman National Security Project.

Cathleen Berger is currently leading Mozilla's strategic engagement with Global Internet Fora. In this position, she is tasked with identifying emerging trends around privacy and security, digital inclusion and literacy, openness and decentralisation in order to remain aware and ahead of global tech policy developments. She is a political scientist by training and has always had a keen interest on the intersection of technological developments and human rights.

Allison Berke is the Executive Director of the Stanford Cyber Initiative, where she manages research, education, and outreach activities related to the secure integration of cyber technologies into society. She teaches CS181 at Stanford (Computers, Ethics, and Public Policy), chairs the Blockchain Protocol and Security Engineering conference, and writes on private blockchains and computer security in healthcare. She received her PhD in Bioengineering from UC Berkeley, and previously worked in biomedical- and security-focused consulting with McKinsey & Co.

Bernholz is a Senior Research Scholar at Stanford University’s Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society and Director of the Digital Civil Society Lab. She has been a Visiting Scholar at The David and Lucile Packard Foundation, and a Fellow at the Rockefeller Foundation’s Bellagio Center, the Hybrid Reality Institute, and the New America Foundation. She is the author of numerous articles and books, including the annual Blueprint Series on Philanthropy and the Social Economy, the 2010 publication Disrupting Philanthropy, and her 2004 book Creating Philanthropic Capital Markets: The Deliberate Evolution. She is co-editor of Philanthropy in Democratic Societies, published in 2016 by the University of Chicago Press. She writes on philanthropy, technology, and policy on her award winning blog, philanthropy2173.com. She studied history and has a B.A. from Yale University, where she played field hockey and captained the lacrosse team, and an M.A. and Ph.D. from Stanford University.

Jessica Beyer is a research scientist and lecturer at the University of Washington in the Jackson School of International Studies where she teaches cybersecurity policy related courses. She is also the co-lead of the Jackson School’s cybersecurity initiative and holds a PhD in political science. Her current research focuses on cybersecurity issues, particularly non-state actors and international security. Her past research explored political mobilization emerging from highly populated online communities and focused on actors such as Anonymous and other hacktivists, the Pirate Parties, and digital pirates. She wrote a book called Expect Us: Online Communities and Political Mobilization. Expect Us is published with Oxford University Press in the Digital Politics series. The book is based on her dissertation, which won an award in 2012 from the Association of Internet Researchers.

Diana Biggs is Head of Digital Innovation for HSBC Retail Banking and Wealth Management in UK & Europe, where she leads on areas including fintech partnerships, digital identity, and the use of emerging technologies. In addition to her role at HSBC, she is an SME for the Oxford Said Business School Blockchain Strategy Programme, a mentor at Gaza Sky Geeks, Katapult Impact, and Chain Accelerator, a member of the Use Cases Working Group of the EU Commission's European Blockchain Observatory and Forum, and a frequent speaker on digital finance, blockchain technology and financial inclusion.

Lindsay Blackwell is a researcher on Facebook’s Community Integrity team, who work to minimize bad experiences for people on Facebook. They conduct rigorous, ethical research on the definition and application of Facebook's community standards to build safe, inclusive experiences. Lindsay researches ways to detect, prevent, and sanction online harassment and hate speech using a variety of methods. She is particularly interested in what motivates people to engage in abusive behaviors online, as well as how technology can better support people who are vulnerable to online harm. She also supports Facebook's machine learning team by building research-based labeling taxonomies to generate training sets for supervised learning models. Lindsay is currently finishing her PhD at the University of Michigan School of Information. Her dissertation investigates ways to improve online moderation tools and practices using theories of criminal justice.

Candice Blain, Esq. is the founder and managing attorney of Blain LLC—an Atlanta-based law firm representing victims of cyberbullying, cyber harassment, and cyberstalking. At age 19, Ms. Blain was the victim of a violent sexual assault. She escaped her attacker by jumping through a closed second-story window, shattering the glass with her body. Ms. Blain later graduated from Spelman College, an historically-black all girls school in Atlanta, and the University of Georgia School of Law, where she served as Article Editor of the school's Journal of International and Comparative Law. Ms. Blain regularly writes and speaks about legal liability for gender-based and online abuse, with a focus on issues of cyberbullying and cyber harassment. Ms. Blain served as on-air Legal Expert/Consultant for a docu-series pilot (major network) centering on stories of revenge porn and she has been quoted in numerous publications including Spin, Vice, Mogul, Brit + Co

Laurie R. Blank is a Clinical Professor of Law and Director of the International Humanitarian Law Clinic at Emory University School of Law, where she teaches the law of armed conflict and works with students to provide assistance to international tribunals, NGOs and militaries on cutting edge issues in humanitarian law and human rights.   Professor Blank is the co-author of International Law and Armed Conflict: Fundamental Principles and Contemporary Challenges in the Law of War, a casebook on the law of war (with G. Noone, Aspen Publishing 2013; Concise Edition 2016). Professor Blank is a core expert on the Woomera Manual on International Law Applicable to Conflict in Outer Space and a member of the Air and Missile Project on Legal Education. In addition, she is the Chair of the American Society of International Law Lieber Prize Committee and was a term member of the American Bar Association’s Advisory Committee to the Standing Committee on Law and National Security (2011-2014).

Aline leads the project “Data Economy” at Stiftung Neue Verantwortung, an independent think tank at the intersection between technology and society. She currently assesses economic, technical and social issues in order to develop innovative data policy recommendations. Aline has been working on various topics related to the data economy for various years. Before joining Stiftung Neue Verantwortung, she managed analyses of the platform economy, data protection, algorithms, fairness in e-commerce and intermediary liability at the economic consultancy Oxera, for clients including Google, Skyscanner and the UK consumer association Which?. She also taught courses for EU judges on competition in digital markets.

Beth Blauer serves as Executive Director of the Center for Government Excellence at Johns Hopkins University (GovEx). As a public servant and international expert on government performance programs for the last fifteen years, Ms. Blauer spent her career working to improve people’s lives by bringing data into governments’ decision-making processes. She and her team successfully worked with over 100 mayors from around the globe and due to Ms. Blauer's leadership, GovEx has earned a reputation as the premier organization to advance the use of data and evidence in government. Ms. Blauer began her career a juvenile probation officer in Maryland and was quickly promoted to Chief of Staff. It was in this capacity she began working on the creation and implementation of Maryland’s “StateStat.” In 2008, then Governor O’Malley asked Ms. Blauer to lead his nationally recognized StateStat program. She graduated with a BA from the University of Maryland and holds a JD from New York Law School.

Dr. Nadya T. Bliss leads ASU's Global Security Initiative - the university's hub for interdisciplinary security research and primary interface with the defense, intelligence, and homeland security communities. She is also faculty in the School of Computing, Informatics, and Decision Systems Engineering and is a Senior Fellow at New America. Prior to leading GSI, Dr. Bliss served as the assistant vice president, research strategy in ASU's Knowledge Enterprise Development, and spent 10 years at MIT Lincoln Laboratory, most recently as the founding group leader of the Computing and Analytics Group. Dr. Bliss has served on the DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Project Agency) ISAT (Information Science and Technology) advisory board where she co-chaired studies on Macro-Economics and Cyber Security and Science and Engineering of Functional Networks and presently serves on the Computing Research Association's Computing Community Consortium (CCC) Council.

Highly esteemed, influential executive with over 20-years experience building, managing and motivating, robust technology departments that usher organizations through significant transformation and growth. Proven track record of successfully driving fiscal improvement, systematic growth and efficiency in highly-matrixed environments for both the private and public sectors. Capable of establishing and maintaining strong, effective lines of communication that spur cross-departmental collaboration. Demonstrated ability to create diverse, customer centric teams that deliver exceptional products and solutions. History as a change agent, capable of orchestrating data-driven strategies to reconstruct businesses into agile, scalable organizations. Exercises foresight when executing technological solutions. Acknowledged as an accomplished, valuable leader with strong business acumen who leverages diversity and individuality to revitalize teams, boast innovation and encourage employee growth.

Hannah Bloch-Wehba is an Assistant Professor of Law at Drexel University’s Thomas R. Kline School of Law and an Affiliated Fellow at Yale Law School’s Information Society Project. She teaches and writes on law and technology. Her scholarship explores the intersection of civil liberties and cyber issues in the law, focusing on free expression, privacy and government accountability. Her interests include transparency and accountability for law enforcement, public access to information, and the use of new technologies in government decisionmaking.

Shirley Bloomfield is chief executive officer of NTCA–The Rural Broadband Association. With 30 years of experience representing the country’s smallest independent telecom operators, Bloomfield is an expert on the role of federal communications policies in sustaining the vitality of rural and remote communities and the benefits rural broadband networks bring to the national economy. Visit us to learn more at www.ntca.org.

Kellyn Blossom leads Public Policy at Thumbtack, focusing on advocating for the interests of small business professionals across the country. Prior to joining Thumbtack, Kellyn worked on public policy for Uber, forging partnerships with cities to provide increased mobility options and economy opportunities. Previously. Kellyn served in the Obama White House as the Associate Director of Intergovernmental Affairs, where she served as liaison for local governments across the country, leading efforts to implement the Affordable Care Act and support comprehensive immigration reform. She also served at the Department of Homeland Security as the Director of Public Engagement and Special Assistant to the Director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. Before the Obama Administration, Kellyn worked on numerous political campaigns for governor, U.S. House of Representatives and U.S. Senate. Kellyn holds degrees from the Harvard Kennedy School and Brown University.

Marjory Blumenthal joined RAND as director of a new Science, Technology, and Policy program in spring 2016, including science and technology trends, societal impacts, and policy. As founding executive director of the Computer Science and Telecommunications Board at the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, she addressed the full range of information technologies and their impacts. In 2003, she took a leadership position at Georgetown University, developing academic strategy, promoting innovation, and fostering research; her personal research addressed cybersecurity in the cloud. In 2013-2016, Marjory was executive director of the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology within the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, addressing cybersecurity, big data and privacy, IT in health, technology and the future of cities, and many other issues. Marjory is the principal author and/or substantive editor of numerous books and articles.

Elizabeth Bodine-Baron is an information scientist specializing in complex networks and systems at the RAND Corporation. She is the associate director of the Force Modernization and Employment Program in Project Air Force and co-directs the RAND Center for Applied Network Analysis and System Science. Her research interests include network analysis and modeling for both domestic and national security issues. Her recent work for the United States Air Force includes analysis of cybersecurity, logistics, targeting and intelligence policy. She has used network analysis of social media data to study CVE messaging, Russian propaganda, ISIS support and opposition networks, CENTCOM information operations, and US Army recruiting efforts. Bodine-Baron received a B.S. in electrical engineering and a B.A. in liberal arts (Plan II Honors) from the University of Texas at Austin in 2006, and a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from California Institute of Technology in 2012.

Miranda Bogen is a Senior Policy Analyst at Upturn, where she focuses on the implications of machine learning and artificial intelligence on civil and human rights, and the evolving role of technology platforms in society. Miranda was a Google Policy Fellow at the Internet Education Foundation and the Congressional Internet Caucus Advisory Committee, and a Fellow at the Internet Law and Policy Foundry. Her academic research has focused on policy behavior of global technology companies and the evolution of corporate social responsibility in the digital age. Miranda holds a Masters degree from The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts, where she specialized in international technology policy. She graduated summa cum laude from UCLA with degrees in Political Science and Middle Eastern & North African Studies.

Allie Bohm is Policy Counsel at Public Knowledge, focusing on government affairs work in key issue areas including broadband policy, privacy, artificial intelligence, and other tech policy initiatives. Prior to law school, Allie was the Advocacy & Policy Strategist at the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) covering state policy nationwide related to speech, privacy, and technology, among other issues. During law school, she was a Legal Fellow for Senator Durbin on the Senate Judiciary Committee and worked for the Office of the White House Counsel during the Obama Administration, the Office of Equal Employment Opportunity Commissioner Charlotte Burrows, the National Women’s Law Center, and the National Partnership for Women and Families. She began her career as a Legislative Assistant at the ACLU. Allie earned her J.D., magna cum laude, from Georgetown University Law Center and her B.A., magna cum laude, from Tufts University. She is a member of the New York Bar.

I am the Vice President of Government Affairs for the Consumer Technology Association, serving as an advocate for the consumer technology industry on Capitol Hill. My core areas of policy expertise include self-driving vehicles and vehicle technology, privacy, and drones. I am a passionate thought leader on public policy for automated and connected vehicles, and have spoken at CES, SXSW, and on various policy panels across the DC area. I am an experienced legislative and policy professional, having previously served as a longtime aide for Congressman Bill Shuster, last acting as his deputy chief of staff. I also serve on the Board of Directors for the Women’s High Tech Coalition.

Mary Beth Borgwing serves as an Advisor to several groups involved in security, early stage investment and cyber risk. An advisor to MACH 37, Center for Innovation (CIT) and Bluewater International, Mary Beth serves her clients as a cybersecurity and board advisor; developing sales and investment strategy “go to market” for clients. She has served as executive leadership, CEO and board member of several technology and security companies: President, CEO and board member for LemonFish Technologies, a data breach monitoring company assets exposed on the open, deep and dark web, acquired in March 2017 and as President of Cyber Risk Practice, Advisen, Ltd, a cyber data analytics and technology company for the insurance industry and as Board Advisor, CFO at Vigilant (sold to Deloitte), a SEIM security company and as a Board member, CFO of Sentillion (sold to Microsoft), a single sign-on security technology company where she raised $50+M in a C round with Merrill Lynch Private Equity, Polaris Partners, InterSouth Partners, Dresdner Klein Worth. Mary Beth has extensive experience in equity funding, financing for technology companies, Enterprise Risk Management (GDPR & ERM) as well as leading teams and companies in the cybersecurity sector. She is the Co-Chair of Uniting Women in Cyber 2018, Co-Chair of Cyber Advisory Board, CompTIA, Advisor to ICMCP, International Minority Cyber Group and Eleven Canterbury, a technology international consultancy in NYC. Borgwing is a frequent speaker on cyber risk at global cyber conferences and contributing author to many national cyber publications.

BADASS is a movement created by Katelyn Bowden in August of 2017, working to provide revenge porn victims with the tools they need to become their own advocates, protect themselves, and fight back against the practice. We attack revenge porn and image abuse from all angles- education, legislation, and program development. We work with police to ensure they are up to date on the platforms used to share images without consent, and educators to help teach students about the legalities and trauma involved with sharing pictures. We are a completely intersectional volunteer organization, made up of revenge porn victims working together to support one another and ensure that no one has to experience the victimization that we went through.

Allie is Co-founder & CEO of TheBridge (www.TheBridgework.com), a company building a network of tech and political professionals from DC to SF focused on increasing collaboration between the two industries. Allie has worked with some of the most innovative tech companies on public affairs including SpaceX, Uber and Google, and she helped start the Retail Cyber Intelligence Sharing Center (R-CISC), where she is an Advisor currently. Allie was communications director for Congressman Jeff Denham (CA), worked at political committees (RNC) and trade associations (RILA) on e-commerce, cyber security, data privacy issues. Allie has extensive external affairs and strategic communications experience, having served as deputy communications director on Jeb Bush’s 2016 presidential campaign, worked on Romney’s 2012 presidential race and Meg Whitman’s run for CA Governor.

I work on a more inclusive use of data to enhance digital rights and data equity, through various research and policy projects. These include Women’s Rights Online, and the Open Data Barometer. I also work on data protection, artificial intelligence, and public procurement transparency.

Heather Braum, MLS, is a second-year PhD student in Library and Information Science at the University of South Carolina, where she is focusing on public libraries, policy, and twitter information usage at the state legislative level. In a previous career, Heather worked for the Northeast Kansas Library System (NEKLS) for nine years, where she held different positions in technology and systems support, including leading the NExpress library consortia project. She completed her Master's degree in Library Science (MLS) from Emporia State University in 2008, and received her B.A. in Political Science from Oklahoma Baptist University in 2005. Future career plans include lobbying and advocating for libraries of all sizes, especially to policy makers at all levels of government. Also, she is a 2018 Google Public Policy Fellow, where she placed with the American Library Association’s Washington Office and Office of Information Technology and Policy.

Tess Bridgeman is a Lecturer at Stanford University where she teaches on cyber law and policy, an Affiliate at Stanford’s Center for International Security and Cooperation, a Senior Fellow at NYU Law School's Center on Law and Security, and a frequent guest contributor for Just Security. She served as Special Assistant to President Obama, Associate Counsel to the President, & Deputy Legal Adviser to the National Security Council, where she advised on the full range of issues relating to the national security and foreign policy of the United States. She previously served in the U.S. Department of State’s Office of the Legal Adviser as Special Assistant to the Legal Adviser and, prior to that role, Attorney Adviser in the Office of Political-Military Affairs. A Rhodes Scholar and Truman Scholar, Bridgeman has a D.Phil. in International Relations from Oxford University; a J.D. from NYU Law School, magna cum laude and Order of the Coif; and a B.A. from Stanford University.

Annemarie Bridy is a Professor at the University of Idaho College of Law, an Affiliate Scholar at the Stanford Center for Internet & Society, and an Affiliated Fellow at the Yale Information Society Project. She specializes in intellectual property and information law, with specific attention to the impact of new technologies on existing legal frameworks for the protection of IP and the enforcement of IP rights. She has testified before Congress on the safe harbor provisions of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act and is widely published on the shifting landscape of online intermediary liability, content regulation, and anti-piracy/anti-counterfeiting enforcement. Professor Bridy holds a BA, summa cum laude and with distinction, from Boston University; an MA and a PhD from the University of California, Irvine; and a JD, magna cum laude, from the Temple University James E. Beasley School of Law.

Julie Brill leads Microsoft’s legal, regulatory and policy initiatives on privacy, data protection, internet governance, and much more. Julie spearheads Microsoft’s preparations for European General Data Protection Regulation, as well as other privacy and regulatory mandates around the globe. From 2016-2017, Julie was Partner and Co-Director of the Privacy and Cybersecurity practice at Hogan Lovells, a global law firm. Her privacy and cybersecurity team was named the top privacy practice in 2017 by Chambers. National Law Journal named Julie a “Cybersecurity Trailblazer” for her thought leadership on these issues. Nominated by President Obama and confirmed unanimously by the U.S. Senate, Julie served for six years as a Commissioner of the U.S. Federal Trade Commission. She was named the Commission’s most important voice on Internet privacy and data security issues, one of the top minds in online privacy, one of top four U.S. government players leading the data privacy debate, and a game-changer. Julie was also named Privacy Leader of the Year by the International Association of Privacy Professionals.

Data journalist Meredith Broussard is an assistant professor at the Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute of New York University, an affiliate faculty member at the Moore-Sloan Data Science Environment at the NYU Center for Data Science, and a 2019 fellow at the Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute. Her latest book is “Artificial Unintelligence: How Computers Misunderstand the World.” Broussard’s academic research focuses on artificial intelligence in investigative reporting, with a particular interest in using data analysis for social good. She is also interested in reproducible research issues and is developing methods for preserving innovative digital journalism projects in scholarly archives so that we can read today’s news on tomorrow’s computers. A former features editor at the Philadelphia Inquirer and fellow at the Tow Center for Digital Journalism at Columbia Journalism School, she has also worked a software developer at AT&T Bell Labs and the MIT Media Lab. She holds a BA from Harvard University and an MFA from Columbia University.

I advise on global technology and cyber challenges; manage government investigations, and help industries prepare for a connected future: 5G, Internet of Things. I am passionate about the role of government and helping companies shape the future of regulation. I am a former senior DOJ official, and have built a team of attorneys that help with policy formation, trade/export controls, incident response and disclosures, at agencies like DOJ, DHS, FTC, NIST, and in Congress. I serve on the Board of the Women's High Tech Coalition, a 501(c)(3) that brings women in tech together with policy makers. I serve on the Cybersecurity Leadership Council at the United States Chamber of Commerce. I regularly am invited to speak at global conferences, industry events, and policy forums in the U.S. and abroad, sponsored by the US Chamber, CTIA, ABA, RSA, Bloomberg, and others. I have appeared on CNN and other media and was recognized as a cyber "Trailblazer" by the National Law Journal.

IoT Geek & Advisor. Author, Working the Crowd: Social Media Marketing for Business. Socbiz @ZDNet. Liveryman @it_livery. +44 7764 359 905.

Briana Brownell is founder and CEO of Pure Strategy Inc., a technology company whose platform gives enterprises insight from data using AI so they can act faster on customer experience trends and emerging issues. She founded Pure Strategy after ten years as a data scientist in the marketing research and finance industries and is a frequent keynote speaker on both technical and business topics including AI, data science, and machine learning. She has lead advanced analytical data projects with top tier companies in pharmaceuticals, telecommunications, banking, insurance, utilities, and retail, among many others. Her specialty is in unsupervised learning where she has created methodology used globally by research teams and Fortune 500 companies, most notably methods to apply unsupervised learning methods to longitudinal data so that organizations can accurately track changes in data with minimal data collection costs.

Alison is a activist, scholar, and writer committed to feminist political economic analysis of the digital media landscape. As a Mellon/ACLS Public Fellow and Campaign Organizer at Free Press Alison collaborates with the communications, advocacy and policy staff to engage activists, connect community members, plan and execute campaign events and conduct campaign research. Her 17 years of expertise in media literacy, activism and advocacy work began when she was elected to the Action Coalition for Media Education Board of Directors; she subsequently served as the group’s vice president of media reform, communications director and vice president. Alison has a doctorate in communication from the University of Massachusetts and a master’s in social work from the University of Michigan. As an activist, researcher and educator she focuses on feminist cultural and political economic analysis to challenge systemic oppression and promote equality in the digital media landscape.

Georgia Bullen (@georgiamoon) is the Director of Technology Projects for New America's Open Technology Institute. She currently manages Measurement Lab, and the Public Interest Technology Baseline / Tech for Social Justice Project, and supports work on issues such as Broadband Adoption and Net Neutrality. Her work focuses on the intersection of human-centered design, urban space, and technology – specifically, how applied technologies can improve and facilitate the urban planning process, access to information, and the systems that people use to interact with the places in which they live. Bullen holds a Master of Science in Urban Planning from Columbia University's Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, and a Bachelor of Science in Psychology and Human-Computer Interaction from Carnegie Mellon.

Leslie grew up in a house of creatives and has worked in the creative industries since the 90s. She was a studio manager, rep, and producer before becoming a marketing consultant to photographers and lecturing across the USA. She’s even written a couple of books on the business of being a commercial photographer. Before all that she was an odd academic, getting her BA and MA in French (linguistics and film) and even completing her PhD coursework in medieval French lit and language before quitting the proverbial ivory tower. Geek, c’est elle. She attended law school after 40 and on a full scholarship, passed the California bar on the first try, and has been licensed and practicing in California since 2011. A staunch pro-copyright advocate for artists of all kinds, she also helps creatives with their contracts and other issues; generally, she does whatever she can to help artists survive in business today.

As a tech policy and regulation specialist, I research, write, publish, and speak extensively on internet laws and policies, most specifically those that affect the crafts of web design and development. Currently working as a Policy Fellow at COADEC, the UK's tech policy body for startups, I help to ensure that the voices of tech startups and scaleups are heard in the shaping of the legislation which will impact them. I also consult to policymakers, lawyers, and software development communities on the intersection between law and code. I have a focus on Brexit and its impact on the UK's tech sector, as it is withdrawn from the Digital Single Market framework as well as the freedoms of movement and employment which helped to create it. I am a longstanding speaker and writer on privacy, a contributor to several open source privacy teams, have delivered dozens of privacy talks in eight countries, and am the author of a forthcoming book on privacy for web professionals.

Paulina Bustos is a public interest technologist that has worked mainly in Mexico and Latin-America. She co-founded Cívica Digital, a company that enhances citizenship with technology and helped build the civic tech movement in Mexico, through her work in Codeando México. Recently, Paulina was part of the Tech Exchange Program from the Ford and Media Democracy Fund 2017 cohort working in Brazil with Article 19. Paulina has presented in several regional and international open data and tech for social good conferences. She holds a degree in Computer Science from the Monterrey Institute of Technology and teaches at the Autonomous Institute for Technology in Mexico (ITAM).

Dr. Jonniann Butterfield is an associate professor at Austin Peay State University, where she has been for the past 10 years; she also serves as the chair of the APSU Institutional Review Board. She was awarded a Ph.D. in Sociology from Florida State University in 2010 and her M.S. degree in Sociology in 2005. She graduated from the University of Pittsburg in 1999 with a B.S. in Sociology. Her focal areas include social inequality, gender, sexualities, environmental sociology, and family sociology. She is widely published, including three publications in Gender and Society, a top ranked journal in the discipline. She is currently authoring a textbook on gender and sexualities and completing publication of the study “LED lights and Student Outcomes in Murfreesboro City Schools.” Her invited corporate talks include “The Case for Inclusion and Diversity in the Workplace”, “Understanding the Shifting Cultural Landscape”, and “State of Gay in the U.S.A.”. She is available as a source for expertise on the subjects listed above.

Elisa Cafferata is a fourth-generation Nevadan and an unrepentant #nightowl. #inventingthefuturebystarlight She is currently owner of Cafferata & Co, a firm dedicated to inventing the future we want with government relations. #BuildNewNV #FutureOfNV In 2017, she teamed up with Clift & Co. to pass #SB398, the bill that put Nevada on the cutting edge of blockchain technology, the most transformational tech of our time. Organizing team lead for Blockchain: Building the New Nevada on Trust conference. She is the Chapter Leader for the Government Blockchain Association chapter in Reno. This year, she is organizing the Nevada Technology Association.

Kristine Campbell partners with executives and teams across all industries to protect company investments; grow and scale strategic, high-value technologies; lead and coach high-performing teams; run business planning; build and deliver products; and achieve business and digital transformation goals. Campbell has over 20 years of high-growth leadership experience as a triple-threat business, technology and product management leader. A well-trained leader and doer, she works with Fortune 500 executives and leadership teams to identify and lead complex technology and business initiatives that consistently create industry firsts. In her role as a trusted advisor to the C-suite, she has proven her ability to identify high value opportunities, to make sound decisions, and to provide steady delivery when faced with pressure-filled and ambiguous situations. Industries include Software, Information Technology, Retail/CPG, Hospitality, Financial Services, Aerospace, and Healthcare.

Senior political strategist vested in international peace & security, justice, democracy, and winning change. Former USAF Intelligence.

Krista Canellakis is Chief Innovation Officer in the San Francisco Mayor’s Office of Civic Innovation. In her five years in city government, Krista has sought to build a community of civic entrepreneurs inside and outside of local government to bring creativity to the way the city government solves problems.

Kathleen M. Carley's research combines cognitive science, social networks and computer science to address complex social and organizational problems. Her specific research areas are social network analysis, dynamic network analysis, agent-based modeling, computational social and organization theory, adaptation and evolution, social network text mining, cyber security and the impact of telecommunication technologies and policy on communication, information diffusion, disease contagion and response within and among groups particularly in disaster or crisis situations. She is a member of the IEEE, ACM, ASA, the Academy of Management and INSNA. She has served as a task force member of the Defense Science Board and committee member on the Department of Homeland Security Science and Technology. She is the developer of the ORA software for network analytics and visualization that is widely used in academics, organizations and government.

Dr. Reneé Carr is the trusted confidant to elected officials and CEOs. She provides strategy and support to high-profile leaders for political, business, and personal matters; and specializes in solutions for high stakes, high level, and high impact matters. With expertise in human thinking, behaviors, emotions, and communications, Dr. Carr advises political leaders on the solutions to improve their governments, economy, and impact on citizens. She provides insight on the likelihood of future events, how to prevent problems, and solutions for current problems or crises. Dr. Carr helps CEOs remove barriers to higher success; and rebuild or transform corporations. She is frequently consulted for expert opinion and understanding, and provides commentary for a variety of current events and topics including local and national tragedies; unfavorably publicized events of high-profile persons; and provides expert testimony in high-profile legal cases.

Kate Carruthers is Chief Data & Analytics Officer for UNSW Sydney, and is also an Adjunct Senior Lecturer in the School of Computer Science & Engineering at UNSW Sydney. She is a Certified Information Security Manager and is currently undertaking postgraduate studies in cybersecurity. She has extensive experience in senior roles in ICT, marketing and digital; and is a member of the NSW Government's Data Analytics Centre Advisory Board. Kate is co-founder of several startups, including IoTM, and currently advises a number of startups.

Creating the future user-centric digital products to drive subscription growth at The New York Times. As a product manager, I work to understand the vision, design and execution of a product throughout the entire product life-cycle. This includes devising analytical modeling to determine product market fit, delivering requirements and mocking up wireframes, working with the development teams and marketing teams to ship the product. I currently look at ways to improve our registration and account creation experience, our payflow experience, and our relationships with external partnerships.

Dr. A. Rosa Castillo was always interested in science and technology since early age. Thus she went first to the faculty of Physics in Seville. A year later she decided to become an engineer at the university of Malaga. After being graduated as a Telecommunications Engineer, she completed her PhD in Computer Science. She has a long experience in software analysis, design and development with different programming languages for both academia and industry. Dr. Castillo is also a certified professional in Requirements Engineering. Between her strengths it is worth to mention a strong analytical thinking with focus in algorithm-optimizations, research experience and motivation to solve difficult challenges. Besides she is a communicative, social and perfectionist person, both reliable and creative at the same time. Her current interests include Data Science, Cybersecurity and Artificial Intelligence.

Currently, Flo Castro is a co-founder and Principal at Sentiment Technologies where she developed a machine-learning product that can take in 'Big Data' to establish the predictive nature of certain social media on corporate and stock market performance (AlphaSignal). This product that is about to be licensed overseas, in London and Singapore. She has acted in an executive capacity in the Finance, Digital, and Broadcast space for over 15 years, where her focus has been the creation of large-scale products and services. Previously, Flo was VP of Advanced Analytics at Tegna for its Digital Marketing Ventures entity, she was also appointed as its Chair of the global Analytics Council. Prior to Tegna, Flo served as Chief Strategy Officer to Globonix, a Business Intelligence software firm where she focused activities on the clients that best matched capabilities of the firm.

Rosa Castro is a Postdoctoral associate and a researcher at the Science, Law and Policy Lab (SLAPLAB), directed by Dr. Nita Farahany at the Duke Science and Society. She is also Managing Editor of the Journal of Law and the Biosciences. Her research interests lie at the intersection of law, policy and bioethics. She has an LL.M. (Hamburg University and University of Bologna) and a Ph.D. in Law and Economics (Erasmus University Rotterdam and University of Bologna). In 2016, she obtained her MA degree in Bioethics and Science Policy at Duke University in 2016. She has lectured on Intellectual Property Law and International Health Law at LUISS University in Rome and at the University of Bologna. More details about her publications are available here.

Corinne Cath is an expert in the fields of technology, policy, business and human rights, with a passion for international relations and the Internet. Her doctoral research focused on the politics and ethics of Internet governance and new technologies, including artificial intelligence (AI). She was part of the inaugural cohort of students that received a doctoral studentship from the Alan Turing Institute, the UK’s national institute for data science.

Karen Cator is President and CEO of Digital Promise and a leading voice for transforming American education through technology, innovation and research. From 2009-2013, Karen was Director of the Office of Educational Technology at the U.S. Department of Education, where she led the development of the 2010 National Education Technology Plan and focused the Office’s efforts on teacher and leader support. Prior to joining the department, Cator directed Apple’s leadership and advocacy efforts in education. Cator holds a master’s in school administration from the University of Oregon, and a bachelor’s in early childhood education from Springfield College.

Naomi Ceder is the chair of the Python Software Foundation Board of Directors and the co-founder of Trans\*Code, a hackday focussed on the transgender community. She currently leads a competitive intelligence team for Dick Blick Art Supplies, one of the leading suppliers of artist supplies in the US. Naomi is also author of the Quick Python Book, 3rd Ed, and has taught Python to diverse audiences for many years. She has helped organize PyCon North America, PyCon UK and PyCon Charlas, originating the poster sessions, Education summit, and Intro to Sprinting Workshop. As a trans woman, Naomi has spoken internationally on the need for, and the pitfalls in the way of, greater diversity and inclusion of women and other marginalized groups.

Dr. Cerato is a Full Professor in the School of Civil Engineering and Environmental Science at the University of Oklahoma. Her expertise lies in the Geotechnical Engineering field, with research interests in unsaturated/expansive soil, soil stabilization and foundation design.

Passionate about technology humanization. +10 years of experience in IT applied to financial industry. I'm an artist in progress; travel, coffee and pilates lover.

Lisa M. Chambers has nearly 20 years of experience building cross-sector strategic alliances and developing nationally-recognized and award-winning, Computer Science (CS) and Information Technology (IT) programs for K-12 students and teachers.

My main activities as a Capacity Building Consultant, during the last fifteen years, have been with Technical Assistance projects which are financed and implemented by foreign countries either in the form of multilateral (e.g. United Nations and the European Commission) or bilateral (e.g. Germany) Aid. These projects have been attempting to assist the recipient countries (e.g. Lebanon and Iraq) to strengthen their capacities in managing the targeted sectors (e.g. Water and Environment). Working with different donors within varied projects’ structure in crisis and post conflict situations, resulted in wide exposure to adopted strategies at the design and implementation phases which allowed for comparison and therefore identification of eventual gaps that deserve attention.

Kate Chapman works at the intersection of technology and nonprofits. Kate co-founded the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team and served as the organization’s first Executive Director. She specializes in formalizing communities into organizational structures, product management, technical strategy and building open communities. Her mantra is “people before data”. Currently, Kate is a Managing Principal at Cascadia Technical Mentorship, Chairperson of the OpenStreetMap Foundation and serves on the Board of Directors at Software Freedom Conservancy.

Policy professional working at the intersection of business, technology, and international policy. I lead Google’s Data Governance Center of Excellence—a global team focused on privacy, government access, and cybersecurity. Former civil servant leading cyber policy in DoD. Published in Lawfare, WarOnTheRocks, Foreign Affairs (May/June 2018), and Harvard Belfer Center.

Effective Altruism + Tech for Good advocate. International Relations + AI Policy researcher. Global Public Relations Manager of AI in Baidu, China's Google.

I recently graduated from USC with a Master's in Product Development Engineering and Bachelor's in Mechanical Engineering. I found my love for Southern California and planted roots in Venice. I now act as the Startup Engagement Manager for Starburst Accelerator - an aerospace-focused early-stage startup accelerator. With a deep passion for engaging women in the STEM community, I hope to connect with other women to build a tribe to minimize the barrier to entry.

As a data scientist and social scientist, Rumman’s passion lies at the intersection of artificial intelligence and humanity. She is currently the Global Lead for Responsible AI on the Applied Intelligence team, creating responsible and ethical AI products for Accenture clients. She holds two undergraduate degrees from MIT, a masters from Columbia University, and a PhD from the University of California, San Diego. She has been honored as one of the BBC’s 100 Women, Silicon Valley’s 40 under 40, a TedX speaker, and is a fellow at the Royal Society for the Arts. She is the founder of Equals Academy – a skills training program that links Syrian refugees to the freelance economy, and the creator of Allai – an app to improve meeting dynamics. More information available on www.rummanchowdhury.com

As a Senior Associate for Glen Echo Group, Emma Christman provides clients with strategy development, content creation and media outreach. Prior to the Glen Echo Group, Emma served as a Senior Associate at Dewey Square Group on the State and Local and Multicultural Strategies team where she helped clients on executing public affairs programs, strategic partnerships and social media campaigns. She has previously served as the Community Outreach Director for Mobile Future, where she handled strategic partnerships, digital media, diversity and tech outreach, including the popular Mobileys App Competition, which awarded social entrepreneurs who created game changing innovations. Throughout her career, Emma has been deeply invested in efforts to close the digital divide and improve the diversity pipeline within the technology sector. Emma attended Howard University and is currently attending University of Maryland University College.

Phaedra Chrousos is the Chief Innovation Officer of Libra Group. Headquartered in New York and London, Libra Group is an international business group that owns and operates 31 companies in six sectors: aviation, energy, finance, hospitality, real estate, and shipping. Libra Group is also the founding sponsor of several nonprofits. As Libra Group’s Chief Innovation Officer, Phaedra’s role is to identify, pilot and help Libra Group companies adopt disruptive technology solutions. Prior to joining Libra Group, Phaedra served as an appointee for President Obama. In this capacity, she created and was the inaugural Commissioner of the Technology Transformation Service, an organization whose mission is to improve the public's experience with the government online. In this role, Phaedra was responsible for a 280 person digital services team (18F), a $60M portfolio of technology products (including data.gov, cloud.gov and login.gov), and the Presidential Innovation Fellowship program.

Danielle Citron is an internationally recognized expert in information privacy, free speech, and AI.

With a masters degree in Industrial and Management Systems Engineering from West Virginia University and a diploma of Digital Design from The Art Institute of Pittsburgh, I began my career as a consultant for the Center for Entrepreneurial Studies and Development (CESD) in Morgantown. In 2009, I relocated to Fayetteville, telecommuting with CESD before taking an Assistant Professor position with Bridgemont Community and Technical College (Bridgemont). In 2011, I became the Marketing Director for the Workforce Development Division at Bridgemont, also overseeing the development of Experience West Virginia and Telework West Virginia. In 2014, I left to take on a project management/creative director role for Boost Small Business in Charleston before moving on to launch Clark & Co., LLC (a marketing consultancy) and HERE, LLC (a sharing economy services business) in 2015.

Data protection and privacy via lots of InfoSec GRC and a fair amount of desktop and network IT. Prize-winning blogger, occasional speaker, hating FUD and "because it's always been this way"

Candace is the campaign director for Free Press, a national advocacy group fighting for everyone’s rights to connect and communicate. She leads the organization’s campaigns to save Net Neutrality, achieve affordable internet access for all, uplift the voices of people of color in the media, challenge old and new media gatekeepers to serve the public interest, end unwarranted surveillance, defend press freedom and reimagine local journalism. Candace is an expert in organizing and mobilizing grassroots support and is one of the leading organizers and strategists in the Net Neutrality sphere. She is the former board president of Girls Rock Campaign Boston. Candace holds a B.A. in American studies from Smith College, with a concentration in media and pop culture. She’s a firm believer in DIY music and art scenes.

Angela Cleveland is the Program Director for NCWIT’s Counselors for Computing (ncwit.org/c4c), which provides professional school counselors with information and resources they can use to support ALL students as they explore computer science education and careers. She has 15 years of experience as a school counselor and received the “2017 New Jersey School Counselor of the Year" award. She is an Executive Board Member and Webmaster for the New Jersey School Counselor Association (NJSCA). Angela co-founded ReigningIt, (www.reigningit.com) a non-profit dedicated to creating a STEM dialogue inclusive of every woman. In her free time, Angela enjoys writing and is the author of several therapeutic children’s books. Learn more about her: www.angelacleveland.com.

I am a researcher in the Compliant and Accountable Systems group in the Department of Computer Science and Technology (Computer Laboratory) at the University of Cambridge (through which I am affiliated with the Microsoft Cloud Computer Research Centre), and the Coordinator of Cambridge's Trustworthy Technologies research initiative. My interests are in the interface between law, society, and emerging technologies - legally compliant and accountable ML/AI and IoT systems; privacy and data protection; surveillance capitalism; state surveillance law and policy; trust as it relates to technology and trustworthy technologies; and legal responses to new technologies.

I'm a Youtuber and Distributed Systems-er. Day to day I work with tools like Kubernetes, Docker, and Go. I speak at conferences about distributed systems. I also make youtube videos. My channel name is Amy Codes.

Natasha Cohen is the director of compliance and information security risk at BlueVoyant and a fellow in New America’s Cybersecurity Initiative. In these two roles, she focuses on the cyber regulatory environment, risk management, and state and local cybersecurity issues. Before joining BTG, Natasha worked as a management consultant for PwC, the Rare Wine Co, and several other companies and nonprofits, advising clients on strategic solutions and operations. Her clients included government agencies, Fortune 100 companies, and small to midsize firms operating in the United States and international spheres. Natasha has also served in the Office of the Undersecretary of Defense for Policy and at the Combating Terrorism Center at West Point, where she worked on counter-terrorism, defense, and security issues. Natasha holds a master’s degree in public administration from Columbia University SIPA and graduated Summa Cum Laude with Distinction from Boston University.

Julie E. Cohen is the Mark Claster Mamolen Professor of Law and Technology at the Georgetown University Law Center. She teaches and writes about copyright, information privacy regulation, and the governance of information and communication networks and the networked information society. She is the author of Between Truth and Power: The Legal Construction of Informational Capitalism (Oxford University Press, forthcoming); Configuring the Networked Self: Law, Code, and the Play of Everyday Practice (Yale University Press, 2012) (2013 Association of Internet Researchers Book Award) and numerous articles and book chapters. She is also a co-author of Copyright in a Global Information Economy (Aspen Law & Business, 4th ed. 2015). Professor Cohen is a member of the Advisory Board of the Electronic Privacy Information Center. She clerked for Judge Stephen Reinhardt of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.

Michelle Cohen helps organizations reach customers and prospects while complying with the myriad of state, federal and international privacy and cybersecurity requirements. As Practice Group leader for Ifrah Law's Data Protection and Cyber Security group, she advises online companies, including gaming companies, on privacy matters such as the drafting of online terms and conditions, and the preparation of legal opinions and to support launching of services. Michelle handles enforcement matters with the Federal Trade Commission, Federal Communications Commission and state agencies where her deep knowledge in these areas and her strong footing in the privacy community help her to resolve issues in the most expedient manner possible. Michelle has extensive experience defending individual and class actions in the consumer protection context, including dozens of Telephone Consumer Protection Act cases. She obtained a rare rescission of an FCC citation in a TCPA enforcement matter.

Cindy Cohn is the Executive Director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation. From 2000-2015 she served as EFF’s Legal Director as well as its General Counsel. The National Law Journal named Ms. Cohn one of 100 most influential lawyers in America in 2013, noting: "[I]f Big Brother is watching, he better look out for Cindy Cohn." She was also named in 2006 for "rushing to the barricades wherever freedom and civil liberties are at stake online." In 2007 the National Law Journal named her one of the 50 most influential women lawyers in America. In 2010 the Intellectual Property Section of the State Bar of California awarded her its Intellectual Property Vanguard Award and in 2012 the Northern California Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists awarded her the James Madison Freedom of Information Award.

My practice focuses on tech law and policy, especially privacy and emerging tech, such as AI and robotics. I am particularly interested in the legal, ethical, and policy challenges arising from AI, AVs, and 'smart cities'. I'm currently working in Responsible AI and data trusts.

30-year professional with experience in technology, both information and education technology, Doctorate degree in Organizational Leadership, Masters degree in Education Technology. Experience managing large-scale, multi-enterprise networks, established 1st cybersecurity program in San Diego County for K-12 schools, firm focus on technology to support education and community.

Lauren Connolly is a Product Designer that cares about creating better experiences for humans. Currently at Yelp, her work is focused on connecting consumers with local businesses. Much of her professional history has been working in tech where she has led and grown design teams, including TripAdvisor and Mozilla Firefox. Prior to this, she worked independently with a number of clients including Adobe, EF Tours, Nike, Groupon and Scholastic. During this period, she wore the various hats of designer, user researcher, anthropologist and educator with the common goal of designing for innovation and change. She lives in Brooklyn with her son. When she’s not designing, you can find her walking through the city, drawing, or tackling the daily New York Times crossword with a coffee in hand.

Dr. Maura Conway is Professor of International Security in the School of Law and Government at Dublin City University (DCU) in Dublin, Ireland and Coordinator of VOX-Pol, a EU-funded project on violent online political extremism (voxpol.eu). Prof. Conway’s principal research interests are in the area of terrorism and the Internet, including cyberterrorism, the functioning and effectiveness of violent political extremist online content, and violent online radicalisation. She is the author of over 40 articles and chapters in her specialist area(s). Her research has appeared in, amongst others, Studies in Conflict & Terrorism, Media, War & Conflict, Parliamentary Affairs, and Social Science Computer Review. Prof. Conway has presented her findings before the United Nations in New York, the Commission of the European Union in Brussels, the Club de Madrid, and elsewhere, and is a member of the Academic Advisory Board of Europol’s Counter-terrorism Centre.

I help promote some of the most well-known and fastest-growing projects in the history of open source, including Linux, Kubernetes, Node.js and Hyperledger. After working with JBoss and companies like JasperSoft, Pentaho, Engine Yard, and Cleversafe, I joined the Linux Foundation five years ago. I enjoy creating high-impact marketing/communications programs for developers, entrepreneurs and business leaders passionate about open source software and community building.

Anna is a London-based IT lawyer, expert in dispute resolution, including litigation and international arbitration. Anna has focused on the IT sector since 1997, and has gained a strong experience in contractual disputes, IT projects, outsourcing and services, copyright and confidentiality. She regularly advises clients about commercial law and large-scale IT projects, including the management of risk in ongoing projects, termination and exit. Anna is a Trustee of the Society of Computers and Law and Vice Chair of International of the Cyber Security, Data Privacy and Technology Committee of the IADC.

I am an open-source intelligence analyst at the Centre for Science and Security Studies, London, with a focus on delving into the challenges and issues surrounding OSINT today. This includes privacy, ethics, policies & regulations, and emerging OS technologies. I also consult on OSINT-based projects, predominantly in regards to political and social instability in the Middle East. I have worked with multiple investigatory OS groups, as well as with groups in the private and public sectors. At the same time, I am pursuing my PhD in AI & Security, specifically looking at the intersection between web science, AI, and security. I am particularly interested in utilising the theoretical framework of science and technology studies on the dynamics we see between the technology sector and political arena today.

Betsy Cooper is a cybersecurity researcher at the University of California Berkeley (UC Berkeley). Cooper came to UC Berkeley from the Department of Homeland Security, where she served as an attorney advisor to the Deputy General Counsel and as a policy counselor in the Office of Policy. A graduate of Yale Law School, she previously clerked for Berkeley Law Professor and Judge William Fletcher on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. Cooper worked for a decade in homeland security consulting, managing projects for Atlantic Philanthropies, the Prime Minister’s Strategy Unit in London, the World Bank, and a number of other think tanks. Cooper is also the author of more than 20 manuscripts and articles on U.S. and European immigration and refugee policy. In addition to her law degree, Cooper holds a doctorate in politics from Oxford University, a master’s in forced migration from Oxford University, and a bachelor’s degree in industrial and labor relations from Cornell University.

Maura Colleton Corbett is the CEO and Founder of the Glen Echo Group where she leads the team’s award-winning work in telling the stories of the companies and organizations building the New Economy. With over two decades of communications, media, public affairs and coalition building experience, Corbett provides strategic counsel to clients faced with the complicated challenges surrounding the shift to a digital, Internet-enabled world, including innovation policy, wireless technologies, broadband deployment and applications, and content-related issues including privacy, security and copyright. Corbett helps clients translate new technologies and innovations into compelling communications vehicles that resonate with policymakers, the press and the public in order to inform forward-looking, successful policy outcomes. Corbett brings unique and deep-rooted experience in industry coalition building for a number of high-profile matters, most recently, Net Neutrality, SOPA-PIPA, music licensing, and Wi-Fi. She also has done significant work in mergers and acquisitions within the communications and digital media space.

Elizabeth “Betsy” Corcoran is co-founder and CEO of EdSurge, an award-winning news and information site on education technology. EdSurge delivers news for educators and entrepreneurs, maintains a detailed catalog of edtech product, lists top edtech jobs and runs a national conference for administrators called Fusion. Betsy has received national recognition for her work as a journalist. She’s been a staff writer and editor for Scientific American magazine, the Washington Post and Forbes Media. She has been a Fellow in the Knight Science Journalism program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and served as a featured commentator on television programs including NBC's "Press Here," Forbes on Fox, CNBC and other programs. She is a member of the strategic advisory board for the CPRE Knowledge Hub, at the University of Pennsylvania’s Consortium for Policy Research and a Fellow with the Pahara Institute. She has a BA in economics and math from Georgetown University.

Yaso is an awarded technologist from Brazil. She is one of the fellows of the Digital & Innovation program at the Harvard Kennedy School, where she investigates data and development. Yaso is an affiliate of the Berkman Klein Center at Harvard, position that she holds after being Fellow of the Harvard Center during the academic year of 2016-17. She was a Fellow of the Center for Technology and Society at FGV-Rio. She led the Serenata de Amor Operation, an anti-corruption project in Brazil. Her work is about Government & Digital Democracy, Data Governance, Digital identity, Blockchain and Artificial Intelligence. She co-chaired the W3C Working Group Data on the Web Best Practices from 2013 to 2017. As Web Specialist of the international consortium, she worked in several fields. Yaso has as core an in-depth knowledge about Internet, although the Industrial Design bachelor gave her the skills to understand the intersection of Human-Computer Interaction, software and social sciences.

Jennifer L. Costley, PhD is the Director of Physical Sciences, Sustainability & Engineering at the New York Academy of Sciences. She has more than 20 years of experience as a technology manager for firms including Credit Suisse, DoubleClick, and Bell Labs, and as principal of her own consultancy where she researched major technology trends and advised corporations on technology strategy and governance. She is the Chair of NSF 426, a standards body defining environmental and corporate social responsibility performance criteria for computer servers. She serves as the treasurer and member of the Executive Committee of the Waterfront Alliance of New York. She earned a PhD in Chemical Physics from Columbia University, an Advanced Certificate in Finance from New York University, and a Certificate in Conservation Biology from Columbia University's Center for Environmental Research and Conservation. She has been designated a "Thought Leader" by Wall Street & Technology.

Krista Cox is an experienced attorney and public policy professional with broad expertise in intellectual property (patents, copyright, enforcement), technology, privacy, trade, antitrust and telecommunications. She leads policy initiatives for the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) and performs in-house counsel duties. In addition to her work at ARL, her expertise is sought by UN organizations and international organizations to write in-depth reports and teach workshops. She is also an Adjunct Professor in Copyright Law at Georgetown University Law Center. Krista has numerous publications on the intersections of intellectual property, technology and trade and over 60 international speaking engagements. Krista received her JD with honors from the University of Notre Dame and her BA from the UC Santa Barbara. She is a member of the California Bar and is admitted to practice before the Supreme Court of the United States, Federal Circuit and DC Circuit.

Dianne Crampton is one of North America’s leading experts on corporate team culture and is a sought-after Workforce Development Consultant, Workforce Behavior Improvement Coach, Speaker and Author. While obtaining her advanced degree in Organizational Leadership from Gonzaga University, Crampton conducted comprehensive research on group dynamics, and discovered that the six TIGERS® principles (Trust, Interdependence, Genuineness, Empathy, Risk and Success) are necessary for building ethical, quality-focused, productive, motivated and successful groups of people. Her TIGERS system has been independently tested twice for its ability to predict and prescribe — with certainty — on-target and just-in-time team interventions and training. Crampton has presented to organizations like the National Institute of Applied Business Ethics and the United Nations Sponsored Inter-generational Conference. TIGERS was a finalist for Inc. Magazine’s Entrepreneur of the Year Awards.

Lorrie Faith Cranor is the Director and Bosch Distinguished Professor in Security and Privacy Technologies of CyLab and FORE Systems Professor of Computer Science and of Engineering and Public Policy. She also directs the CyLab Usable Privacy and Security Laboratory (CUPS) and co-directs the MSIT-Privacy Engineering masters program. In 2016 she served as Chief Technologist at the US Federal Trade Commission. She is also a co-founder of Wombat Security Technologies, Inc, a security awareness training company. She is a fellow of the ACM and IEEE and a member of the ACM CHI Academy.

Mary Alice sets national field strategy, runs campaigns, supervises organizers and participates in ongoing policy initiatives through organizing and public-education activities. Mary Alice has extensive experience running national conferences, local events, online trainings and webinars. She chairs the board of Northampton Community Television. When Mary Alice isn’t working she’s likely taking on one of her hobbies: softball, volleyball, playing with her dog, gardening, community herbalism and brewing.

Tianca Crocker is an Assistant Professor at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Her research focuses on technology-centered strategies to promote economic opportunity and social service modernization. She also explores critical data privacy for marginalized communities. Crocker is currently a Fellow with the National Digital Inclusion Alliance and has previously served in roles as a NTEN|Google Fiber Digital Inclusion Fellow and as a Mozilla Open Leader. She holds degrees in African American Studies and Social Work. She earned a PhD from the University of Texas at Austin with a Graduate Portfolio distinction in Communication, Information and Cultural Policy.

Dr. Crootof's primary areas of research include torts, international law, and technology law; her written work explores questions stemming from the iterative relationship between law and technology, often in light of social changes sparked by increasingly autonomous systems, artificial intelligence, cyberspace, robotics, and the Internet of Things. She teaches Technology Law, a course that identifies the various ways both domestic and international legal regimes respond to and shape technological development, and the Law and Artificial Intelligence reading group. Dr. Crootof earned a B.A. cum laude in English with a minor in Mathematics at Pomona College; a J.D. at Yale Law School; and a PhD at Yale Law School, where she graduated as a member of the first class of PhDs in law awarded in the United States. She is a member of the New York Bar and is a member of the Center for New American Security's Task Force on Artificial Intelligence and National Security.

Lindsay Crudele is a digital strategist focused on community impact; she founded and directed the City of Boston’s first digital engagement program, driving citywide digital engagement culture change and leading the program through major events including the Boston Marathon. A former journalist, she brings her storytelling abilities together with civic technology solutions to help design communication strategies that engage constituencies with policy-makers across sectors; she is the recipient of GovTech's Top 25 Doers, Dreamers & Drivers award, a James Beard Award (and second nomination) for her public radio work, and frequent keynote speaker. Today, she serves as Principal of Crudele Digital, a digital strategy consultancy.

Catherine Crump is an Assistant Clinical Professor of Law and Director of the Samuelson Law, Technology & Public Policy Clinic. An experienced litigator specializing in constitutional matters, she has represented a broad range of clients seeking to vindicate their First and Fourth Amendment rights. She also has extensive experience litigating to compel the disclosure of government records under the Freedom of Information Act. Professor Crump’s primary interest is the impact of new technologies on civil liberties. Representative matters include serving as counsel in the ACLU’s challenge to the National Security Agency’s mass collection of Americans’ call records; representing artists, media outlets and others challenging a federal internet censorship law, and representing a variety of clients seeking to invalidate the government’s policy of conducting suspicionless searches of laptops and other electronic devices at the international border.

Professor Mary (Missy) Cummings received her B.S. in Mathematics from the US Naval Academy in 1988, her M.S. in Space Systems Engineering from the Naval Postgraduate School in 1994, and her Ph.D. in Systems Engineering from the University of Virginia in 2004. A naval officer and military pilot from 1988-1999, she was one of the U.S. Navy's first female fighter pilots. She is currently a Professor in the Duke University Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, and the Director of the Humans and Autonomy Laboratory. She is an American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Fellow, and a member of the Defense Innovation Board. Her research interests include human supervisory control, explainable artificial intelligence, human-autonomous system collaboration, human-robot interaction, human-systems engineering, and the ethical and social impact of technology.

Katie often speaks on the topics of teaching in tech, accessibility, and writing. She has been published under O'Reilly and Pearson (The Accessibility Handbook and Teach Yourself Python in 24 Hours, respectively). She also contributed to the book Women in Tech, writing about the complicated nature of being a parent within the tech community. She also spends a fair amount of time creating teaching material to help beginners get started with coding, both in person and on your YouTube channel. She lives just outside of DC with her husband, two kids, and two poorly behaved dogs.

Experienced technologist and visionary whose sweet spot lives at the intersection of innovation, entrepreneurship, goodwill and girl power. Principal of Signature RED and founder of the Tech Women Network.

Leslie Daigle leads global Internet actions to achieve significant innovations. She is a globally-recognized writer and speaker.

Genya developed international partnerships to support scientific research on brain science and biological engineering. She served as a negotiator on science, technology and innovation in multi-lateral organizations such as the UN. She spent 5.5 years at the U.S. Department of State working at the nexus of science and foreign policy in the Office of the Science and Technology Adviser to the Secretary of State. Genya has a PhD in Environmental Risk Analysis on genetically modified organisms in South Africa.

Dr. Kate Darling is an expert in Human-Robot Interaction and Robot Ethics. She’s a researcher at MIT’s Media Lab and a Fellow at the Harvard Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society.

Jennifer Daskal is an Associate Professor at American University Washington College of Law, where she writes and teaches in national security, criminal, and constitutional law. From 2009-2011, she was counsel to the Assistant Attorney General for National Security at the Dept. of Justice. From 2016-2017, she was an Open Society Institute Fellow working on issues related to privacy and law enforcement access to data across borders. Daskal is a graduate of Brown University, Harvard Law School, and Cambridge University, where she was a Marshall Scholar. Her work has appeared in the Yale Law Journal, Harvard National Security Journal, Journal of National Security Policy and the Law, Stanford Law Review Online, and University of Pennsylvania Law Review, among other places. She has published op-eds in the New York Times, Washington Post, and Int'l Herald Tribune and she has appeared on MSNBC, NPR, and C-Span among other media outlets. She is an Executive Editor of the Just Security blog.

I am an executive coach that helps female leaders in STEM become the best versions of themselves and the most inspiring and activist role models for future generations of women in STEM. Trained in a number of psychology of coaching fields I am particularly interested in the argument of neurodiversity - especially the female mind. I am a champion of emotional intelligence and believe that we must invest in embedding more oxytocin and serotonin into our leadership teams, to ensure that our workplace cultures are fuelled with courage, curiosity, camaraderie and compassion, in order for businesses - and their employees - to thrive.

Carrie DeCell is a staff attorney at the Knight First Amendment Institute. Prior to joining the Institute, she was a senior associate at Jenner & Block LLP. As a member of the firm’s Media & First Amendment practice group, she handled a variety of matters involving constitutional and statutory speech protections and public access to information. She defended TheHuffingtonPost.com against defamation claims, advised a non-profit organization regarding the protections afforded online publishers under the Communications Decency Act, and co-taught a CLE seminar on freedom of speech limits in social media. Additionally, as a member of the firm’s Appellate and Supreme Court practice group, she drafted numerous merits and amicus briefs in cases before the Supreme Court and other courts of appeals. DeCell graduated from the University of Pennsylvania and Harvard Law School, where she served as the Essays & Book Reviews editor of the Harvard Law Review. Following law school, she clerked for the Honorable Judith W. Rogers on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit.

Dr. Laura DeNardis is a scholar of Internet architecture and governance and a tenured Professor and Director of the Internet Governance Lab at American University in Washington, D.C. Dr. DeNardis , an information engineer with a PhD in Science and Technology Studies, is the author of The Global War for Internet Governance (Yale 2013) and many other books. She is an affiliated fellow of the Yale Information Society Project at Yale Law School and served as its Executive Director from 2008-2011. Laura DeNardis holds an A.B. in Engineering Science from Dartmouth College; a Master of Engineering from Cornell University; a Ph.D. in Science and Technology Studies from Virginia Tech; and was awarded a Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Information Society Project at Yale Law School. She resides in Washington, D.C

Selena Deckelmann is senior director of engineering for Firefox and was a major contributor to PostgreSQL. She’s been involved with free and open source software since 1995 and began running conferences for PostgreSQL in 2007. In 2012, she founded PyLadiesPDX, a portland chapter of PyLadies. She founded Open Source Bridge, Postgres Open and speaks internationally about open source, databases and community. You can find her on twitter (@selenamarie) and on her blog.

Dr. Anastasia Dedyukhina is a coach, TEDx and public speaker, Huffington Post blogger and author of Homo Distractus. She got rid of her smartphone as well as her senior international career in digital marketing, when she realised how dependent she had become on her gadget. She eventually set up Consciously Digital, a consultancy that helps people and organizations develop a healthier relationship with technology. She is frequently quoted in the press (BBC, The Guardian, Metro etc) talking about tech-life balance and the importance of ethical technology. She is also an organizer of the UK's first mindful tech, art and digital detox festival Focus Inside. In her talks, Anastasia discusses how technology changes our behaviour and affects our health, thinking, decision-making and creativity if we don’t manage it properly. She shares practical tips on how to take charge of technology, and not allow it drive your agenda or thinking, how to build up your focus and attention in spite of digital distraction, understand why you want to reach out for your phone every 5 minutes, learn how to train your brain think creatively in the internet age.

Frances Dewing is the CEO and co-founder of Rubica - a venture-backed cybersecurity start-up specializing in advanced digital protections for private individuals and families. Since the company’s inception, Frances built and directed Rubica’s core operations teams, including cyber operations, customer support, finance, legal and human resources. Formerly COO of Concentric Advisors, a consultancy specializing in cyber and physical security for some of the world’s most high-profile figures, Frances was instrumental in developing Concentric’s business in Seattle and Silicon Valley. Frances is a Washington State attorney with a JD from the University of Washington.

I have been in the IT and security field for around 10 years and specialising in open source threat intelligence currently.

Joann DiGennaro established the Center for Excellence in Education (CEE) (www.cee.org) with the late Admiral H.G. Rickover in 1983 to nurture high school and university scholars to careers of excellence and leadership in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM), and to promote collaboration among scientific and technological leaders in the global community. DiGennaro is responsible for all international and cultural exchanges of talented math and science students between the Center and other nations. She was named by U.S. News and STEMConnector as one of 100 Top U.S. Women Leaders in STEM. DiGennaro received her BS Degree from Purdue University, an MS from the University of Maryland. She read the law at Oxford University and received a law degree from George Mason University. She is the author of Scholarships and Fellowships for Math and Science Students and "Science Literacy: Essential for Decision Making" (Harvard University’s Program for Information Policy Studies).

Renee DiResta is the Director of Research at New Knowledge, and Head of Policy at nonprofit Data for Democracy. Renee investigates the spread of disinformation across social networks, and helps policymakers understand the problem. She has advised Congress, the State Dept., and other academic, civic, and business leaders. In 2017, Renee was a Presidential Leadership Scholar. In 2018, she became a Mozilla Fellow in Media, Misinformation, and Trust. She is a Founding Adviser to the Center for Humane Technology, and a Staff Associate at Columbia University Data Science Institute. Previously, Renee was a co-founder of Vaccinate California, and on the founding team of logistics tech platform Haven. Renee has been a VC at OATV, and a derivatives trader at Jane Street. Her work & writing have been featured in the NYT, Washington Post, Politico, Slate, Wired, Fast Company, and the Economist. She is the author of O’Reilly book “The Hardware Startup: Building Your Product, Business, and Brand”.

Marianne Diaz is a Venezuelan lawyer, digital rights activist and fiction writer, currently based in Santiago, Chile. Her work focuses mainly on issues regarding online freedom of speech, web filtering, internet infrastructure and digital security. She founded the digital rights NGO Acceso Libre, a volunteer-based organization that documents threats to human rights in the online environment in Venezuela. She's also a volunteer for Creative Commons, having served as Legal Lead of the Venezuelan chapter for the last three years. Marianne currently works as a public policy analyst for the Latin American NGO Derechos Digitales. She's volunteered for Global Voices, and particularly for the Advox project, since 2010, and currently serves on the board of Global Voices as a volunteer representative. She has also published several fiction books.

I do research on social , ethical and legal impact of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics. Developed design for values methodology ART (Accountability Responsibility Transparency) and formal verification. Leader of several national and international research projects and (co-)authored over 200 publications on the field. Expert advisor to European Commission, national governments and organisations. Upcoming book "Responsible Artificial Intelligence".

Shauna Dillavou is a security innovator, weaving together her experiences in intelligence, free speech, technology, and trauma. She is the founding principal of Security Positive, the only woman-led security coaching company. In 2013, she founded CommunityRED to support free speech in closed societies in the Former Soviet Union, South Asia, and Latin America. There, she integrated participatory methods, trauma sensitive systems, and human behavior change tactics into digital security training and strategy. Shauna's work in security began in 2008 as an open source intelligence analyst, and has continued as a 2009 National Security Education Program Boren Fellow, a 2016 Truman National Security Political Partner, and a 500-hour RYT trained in trauma sensitive yoga. She writes on security in governance, trauma and technology, and regularly comments on security practices.

Professor of Law, Georgetown Law; Director, Center on National Security & the Law; Director, Center on Privacy & Technology. Writes on constitutional law, legal history, emerging technologies, and national security. Most recent book, The Future of Foreign Intelligence: Privacy and Surveillance in a Digital Age (OUP 2016), won the 2016 Roy C. Palmer Civil Liberties Prize. Articles published by Cal. Law Rev., Univ. of Chicago Law Rev., Stanford Law Rev., University of Penn. Law Rev., Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy, others. In 2015, the U.S. Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court appointed her as one of 5 amici curiae under the 2015 USA FREEDOM Act. Life Member, Council on Foreign Relations; Advisory Board Member, Electronic Privacy Information Center; Reporter for the American Bar Association’s Task Force on Border Searches of Electronic Devices. AB, Philosophy (Hons.), Dartmouth College; MA (Dist.), Univ. of Ulster; JD (Dist.) Stanford Law; PhD, History Univ. of Cambridge.

Nicole DuPuis is the Manager for Urban Innovations in the Center for City Solutions at the National League of Cities. Her areas of expertise include infrastructure, transportation, technology, telecommunications and urban innovation. Throughout her career in urban policy she has published several articles in both peer reviewed and policy oriented outlets and contributed to numerous research reports on these topics. She is also a regular contributor to NLC’s blog, CitiesSpeak, on a variety of infrastructure and urban innovation topics. Follow Nicole on Twitter @nicolemdupuis The National League of Cities (NLC) is the nation’s leading advocacy organization devoted to strengthening and promoting cities as centers of opportunity, leadership and governance.

Máirín is a principal interaction designer at Red Hat as well as the team lead for Fedora’s community design team. A recipient of the O’Reilly Open Source Award, she has over a decade of expertise in user experience and design in open source communities. Her portfolio includes a wide range of designs for FLOSS including Mailman/Hyperkitty, Anaconda, the Fedora project infrastructure, Spacewalk, virt-manager, the GNOME desktop, as well as other projects such as the SELinux and Container Coloring Books. Máirín is a passionate advocate for software freedom, particularly in the creative domain. Her design workflow is 100% FLOSS, involving tools such as Inkscape, Gimp, and Scribus. She uses open formats and licensing for her design work. She’s also created and taught STEM classes in open source and design through a number of schools and community programs in the greater Boston area, and has mentored numerous Outreachy interns over the years.

Susan Dworak is the CEO of Real Identities, LLC. Susan is a regulatory analyst and legal compliance expert based in Silicon Valley. As a corporate specialist and legal instructor, Susan has taught legal compliance to officers, directors, managers, attorneys and staff for over 50 of the nation’s largest law firms and their clients for more than 25 years. Susan has coordinated and provided instruction for law firm and company training programs in multiple industries from startups and emerging brands to the largest public companies. Together with the Real Identities team, Susan teaches executives, management, and frontline staff how to avoid legal and financial consequences associated with the use of fake IDs and also how to navigate and comply with the complex legal landscapes that require companies to check IDs and confirm identities. Susan has a BA in Political Science from UCLA and a JD from Santa Clara University School of Law.

Morgan Dwyer is a fellow in the International Security Program and deputy director for policy analysis in the Defense-Industrial Initiatives Group at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). At CSIS, Dr. Dwyer focuses on issues at the intersection of technology and policy, including defense acquisition, organizational reform, space, and cyber. Prior to CSIS, Dr. Dwyer worked as an analyst in the Office of the Secretary of Defense, Cost Assessment & Program Evaluation, where she guided cyber investments through the programming process and led strategic portfolio reviews to address cross-domain problems with significant operational, programmatic, and policy implications. Previously, Dr. Dwyer served as a technical advisor at The Aerospace Corporation and as an engineer at Boeing. She holds a Ph.D. in technology, management, and policy from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, an M.S. in aeronautics and astronautics from Stanford, and a B.S. in astronomy and physics from Yale.

Specialist in Customer Centric Transformation and Business Architecture. 18 years working in Digital Strategy, and passionate about Voice of the Customer, Channel Strategy and User Centred Design. Expertise in Transformation Business Cases based on Outcomes, ebitda or Net Present Value. Currently exploring the business application of disruptive technologies such as BlockChain, AI and Big Data. Interests in Knowledge Management, Gaming and Internet of Things.

I believe we must harness connected, automated and emerging mobility platforms plus the digitization of infrastructure to radically re-envision our streets. With safety as the #1 priority, my work is informed by Universal Basic Mobility, which accelerates economic growth, providing everyone with access to employment and the means to improve their quality of life. My expertise sits at the intersection of connected/automated vehicles, robotics, smart cities, human-centered design, entrepreneurship, economic development, land-use planning & public policy and is underscored by my personal experiences as a bicycle courier then cycling commuter & single-mother. Learn more about the social implications of mobility tech in my Tedx Talk: Autonomous Vehicles for the Rest of US. I'm always open to discuss new projects or partnerships. Let's connect!

Kristen Eichensehr is an Assistant Professor at UCLA School of Law. She writes about cybersecurity, foreign relations, separation of powers, and national security law. Before joining the UCLA faculty, Eichensehr clerked for Justices Sandra Day O’Connor and Sonia Sotomayor of the Supreme Court of the United States and for Chief Judge Merrick B. Garland of the D.C. Circuit. Eichensehr also served as Special Assistant to the Legal Adviser of the U.S. Department of State and practiced at Covington & Burling LLP. She holds a J.D. from Yale Law School, an A.B. in Government from Harvard University, and an M.Phil. in International Relations from the University of Cambridge. She is a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations, a former visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution, and an affiliate at the Stanford Center for International Security and Cooperation and the Center for Internet and Society at Stanford Law School. She is a member of the editorial board of Just Security.

Software developer with 4-5 years of experience in web development, mostly server development.

Amit is a doctoral law candidate at UC Berkeley School of Law and a Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity Grantee. She graduated Summa Cum Laude from her LL.M. (Master of Laws) in IDC, Israel following the submission of a research thesis in the field of intellectual property law and standard-form contracts and she holds an LL.B. and a B.A. in Business Administration (Summa Cum Laude) from IDC, Israel. Her research work on technology law has been published in leading legal and privacy journals, presented in conferences such as RSA, USENIX Enigma, IPSC, PLSC, ESCAR, BsidesLV, BsidesSF, DEF CON-Skytalks and Women in Cybersecurity, and featured in popular news sites such as the Vice (Motherboard), the Washington Post, The Guardian and the Verge. Additionally, Amit teaches at Berkeley’s Legal Studies program and serves as the submissions editor of BTLJ, the world’s leading Tech Law Journal. On 2018, Amit was granted a CLTC grant for her work on private ordering regulating cybersecurity.

Madeleine Clare Elish is a cultural anthropologist whose work examines the social impacts of AI and automation on society. She leads the Intelligence & Autonomy Initiative at Data & Society, a non-profit research institute in New York focused on the cultural dimensions of data-driven technology. Her work aims to reframe debates about the rise of AI and reposition the value of human intelligence in the design and evaluation of AI-driven systems. Her work has investigated how AI affects understandings of values and ethical norms and how professional work lives change in response. She has conducted field work across varied industries and communities, ranging from the Air Force, civilian drone regulation, and commercial aviation to precision agriculture and emergency clinical care. Her research has been published and cited in scholarly journals as well as publications including the New York Times, Slate, Vice, and USA Today. She holds a PhD from Columbia University and an S.M. from MIT.

Heather Engel is Chief Strategy Officer at Sera-Brynn, a globally ranked cyber risk management firm headquartered in Suffolk, Virginia. She has over 17 years of experience in risk management, business continuity planning, and security program development; and in 2017 oversaw Sera-Brynn's designation as a FedRAMP 3PAO. Prior to Sera-Brynn, Ms. Engel assisted government agencies and the Department of Defense in securing advanced information systems and coordinating cyber warfare exercises. Ms. Engel holds a BA from the Pennsylvania State Universit, an MBA from Florida Institute of Technology, a CISSP, and a PCI-QSA. She is a 2015 Inside Business Women in Business Honoree and sits on the board of Virginia Economic Development Partnership. In the past year, she has been a featured or keynote speaker at numerous conferences across the country, served on cybersecurity panels with former VP Joe Biden and former Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe, authored several journal articles, and frequently appears in the media providing commentary on cyber security.

Rebecca Enonchong is founder and CEO of AppsTech, a leading global provider of enterprise application solutions. She is also co-founder of I/O Spaces, an inclusive coworking space in the Washington DC metro area. She is Board Chair of Afrilabs, a panafrican network of over 100 innovation centers and Board Chair of ActivSpaces tech hubs in Cameroon. She sits on the board of VC4Africa, Salesforce.org, African Media Initiative, iamTheCode, Eneza Education. She is cofounder of Cameroon Angels Network and cofounder and VP of African Business Angels Network. A recipient of numerous awards, Ms. Enonchong was named a Global Leader for Tomorrow by the World Economic Forum of Davos, Switzerland. Forbes listed Ms. Enonchong as a top female tech founder in Africa. NewAfrican magazine named her one of most influential Africans in 2014, 2016 and 2017. Jeune Afrique magazine listed her as one of Africa's 50 most influential women of 2017 and one of 50 most influential Africans in 2018

Roya Ensafi is a faculty member in computer science and engineering at the University of Michigan, where her research focuses on computer networking and security. She designs techniques and systems to safeguard users in the face of increasingly hostile networks. She pioneered the use of side-channels to remotely measure adversarial manipulation of Internet traffic, such as attempts to censor, tamper with, and monitor users’ online activities. Her work on studying how the Great Firewall of China discovers hidden circumvention servers received an IRTF Applied Networking Research Prize (ANRP) in 2016. Prior to joining Michigan, she was a postdoc and fellow at Princeton University’s Center for Information Technology Policy (CITP).

Melanie Ensign is a security communications advisor, currently leading security, privacy, and risk communications at Uber. Previously, she was a security communications manger at Facebook. Melanie also leads the press department for DEF CON, the world’s largest hacker conference.

Mieke runs the National Security Program at Third Way with focus on cybersecurity, intelligence, surveillance, and politics. She is a former congressional staff on the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, and House Armed Services Committees where she handled a variety of issues including cybersecurity, electronic surveillance, budgets, and personnel policy. She also served as the Chief of Staff to Rep. Anna G. Eshoo (D-Palo Alto), and as Defense Policy Advisor to Senator Edward M. Kennedy. She appears frequently on MSNBC and has been cited in the Washington Post, Politico, Vox, NPR, and other publications.

Victoria A. Espinel is President and CEO of BSA | The Software Alliance and President of Software.org: the BSA Foundation. She is a respected authority on the intersection of technology innovation, global markets, and public policy. Victoria often speaks before audiences around the world to build visibility for the amazing things people can do with software, and encourages businesses, governments, and the public to support a policy environment that will enable even more software breakthroughs. Previously, she was an adviser to former President Barack Obama on intellectual property and a chief trade negotiator under former President George W. Bush.

Tavonia Evans is the Founder of $Guap Coin, a platform built to support the black ecosystem (black owned businesses and institutions. She is a technology veteran with nearly 20 years of experience in Development, Design, Business Intelligence & Data, and Marketing. She is a Certified Bitcoin Professional & Cryptocurrency Evangelist. She is the mother of 8 wonderful children and an avid investor in women owned and black owned businesses.

Karen S. Evans is serving as the National Director for the US Cyber Challenge (USCC). The USCC is the nationwide talent search and skills development program focused specifically on the cyber workforce. She serves as an independent director and outside manager for publicly traded companies. She is also an independent consultant in the areas of leadership, management and the strategic use of information technology. She retired after nearly 28 years of federal government service, responsibilities ranged from a GS-2 to Presidential Appointee as the Administrator for E-Government and Information Technology at the Office of Management and Budget within the Executive Office of the President. Before becoming the Administrator, Ms. Evans was the Chief Information Officer for the Department of Energy, and before Energy, she was Director of Information Resources Management Division, Office of Justice Programs, U.S. Department of Justice. She currently serves as a Director on the boards of the NIC, Inc; Center for Internet Security; The Department of Veterans Affairs Acquisition Academy and an outside manager for Accenture Federal Services.

Katie Fallow, a senior attorney at the Knight First Amendment Institute, has over 15 years of experience litigating First Amendment and media cases. Until 2013, she was a partner at Jenner & Block, where she represented video game makers in a long line of challenges to government restrictions on video games, culminating in the Supreme Court’s landmark case of EMA v. Brown, holding that violent video games are protected speech. She also defended The Huffington Post and other news outlets against defamation claims, and filed numerous merits and amicus briefs in the Supreme Court on free speech issues, including sexually explicit speech, offensive speech, fighting words, and libel. After leaving Jenner & Block, Fallow was deputy director of the Bureau of Consumer Protection at the Federal Trade Commission. She graduated from the University of California at Berkeley and Harvard Law School. After law school, she clerked for Judge Robert E. Keeton of the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts and Judge Rosemary Barkett of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit.

A senior user experience professional, having worked with startups, innovation labs and agency.

Nita A. Farahany is a Professor of Law & Philosophy, Director of Duke Science & Society, and Chair of the Duke MA in Bioethics and Science Policy. From 2010-2017, she served on the U.S. Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues. She is a widely published scholar on the ethical, legal, and social implications of the biosciences and emerging technologies, and a frequent commentator for national media and radio shows. Farahany is an elected member of the American Law Institute, a member of the World Economic Forum Global Agenda Council on Privacy, Technology & Values, a Board member of the International Neuroethics Society, serves on scientific advisory boards, the Neuroethics Division of the BRAIN Initiative for NIH, and is a co-editor-in-chief and a founding editor of the Journal of Law and the Biosciences. Farahany holds an AB (Genetics) from Dartmouth College, an ALM (Biology) from Harvard University, and a JD, MA, and Ph.D. (Philosophy) from Duke University.

Debra J. Farber is the Sr. Director of Privacy Strategy at BigID, where she leads initiatives related to privacy evangelism, industry collaboration, product innovation, and channel partnerships. She has over 14 years of experience with privacy and security strategy, operations, product development, public policy, and compliance efforts across industries and frameworks. A leader in her field, Debra co-founded Women in Security and Privacy (WISP), a non-profit project based in San Francisco, and currently serves on several advisory boards. She is a member of the IEEE Data Privacy Process Standards Working Group and IAPP CIPT Exam Development Advisory Board. In addition, she serves on the Editorial Board for Cyber Security: A Peer-Reviewed Journal and as an IAPP Denver KnowledgeNet Co-Chair. Until recently, Debra served as Executive Consultant & Chief Privacy Officer at Cranium USA, a privacy and security consulting firm with a strong focus on GDPR implementation. Prior to launching Cranium's U.S. presence, Debra served as Sr. Director, Global Public Policy (Security & Privacy) at Visa where she oversaw a portfolio of issues, including data privacy, cybercrime, cybersecurity, product security, risk, authentication, IoT, blockchain, and payment risk. In this role, she represented Visa on the World Economic Forum’s Advancing Cyber Resilience Working Group, which published a toolkit for global boards of directors at the 2017 WEF Annual Meeting in Davos, Switzerland. Before her role at Visa, Debra held privacy and security leadership roles at IBM, American Express, TrustArc, IANS, The Advisory Board Company, and Farber Strategies. She has earned several designations, including the CISSP-ISSMP, CIPP/US, CIPP/E, CIPP/G, CIPT, and CIPM, and has been named a Fellow of Information Privacy by the IAPP. Debra holds a BA in English from Binghamton University and a JD from Brooklyn Law School. She’s currently completing her Executive Certificate of Business Excellence from UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business. When not working in her day job, Debra remains a life-long learner. She enjoys bing-watching sci-fi, reading about other cultures, researching etymology, educating others on privacy and security issues, and improving her budding web hacking skills.

Senior security executive with a foundation of industry, government and military experience. Expert at distilling complex programs into prioritized objectives, identifying common ground in groups of various interest and priorities, and rallying support for key objectives. Founded Zofia Consulting, LLC, a global strategy, and security services firm. Trusted executive with a current and active DoD Top Secret Clearance.

Feldman's work focuses on the role of intellectual property law in technology and innovation, drug pricing and health care, and artificial intelligence and data. She has published four books: Drugs, Money, & Secret Handshakes; Drug Wars, Rethinking Patent Law, and The Role of Science in Law. She has published more than 50 articles in law journals, including Harvard, Yale, and Stanford, in The New England Journal of Medicine, and in American Economic Review. Her op-eds have appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post, Boston Globe, The Hill, and others. Feldman has been cited extensively by the White House, federal and state agencies, and members of Congress. Both sides of a recent Supreme Court case cited her IP/Antitrust work. She has appeared frequently before committees of the US House & Senate, Cal. legislature, and federal agencies such as the FTC, DOJ, and USPTO. She participated in the GAO’s AI report to Congress and the Army Cyber Institute’s weaponization of data exercise.

Rebecca is a leading voice on workplace culture, diversity and inclusion, and transparent, inclusive leadership principles. I’ve heard her speak on multiple occasions, and her insights, balanced perspective, knowledge of research, and sense of humor are invaluable additions to the conversation.

Lindsay Ferris is a researcher whose interests and expertise includes gender and LGBTQ+ communities and technology. Her Master's thesis from the Oxford Internet Institute focused on the experience of LGBTQ+ women online. She also has experience conducting research for NGOs and funders within the Tech for International Development space, including the Sunlight Foundation, Cadasta Foundation, The Engine Room, Open Knowledge Foundation, Global Open Data for Agriculture and Nutrition, WorldPact and Open Society Foundations. She is currently a researcher at Ad Hoc, LLC. and a member of the Responsible Data Forum community. Lindsay's work on Responsible Data in Agriculture (GODAN, The Engine Room) was cited at the U.N. General Assembly in September, 2016. Her recent and forthcoming academic papers include: The digital lesbian imaginary: Investigating (im)permeable boundaries of sexual identity on Tinder (Association of Internet Researchers, 2018); Can I get a witness? The limits of evidence in healthcare quality evaluation systems in American hospitals (Ethnography Praxis in Industry Conference, 2018); I’m queer - don’t fuck with me if you’re not (Theorizing the Web, 2018).

Mailyn Fidler works on issues relating to the exercise of power in the Internet society. Her research focuses on First and Fourth Amendment issues related to technology, Internet legislation in developing countries, and international politics and law relating to surveillance.

A data protection/privacy practitioner who emerged butterfly-like from the cocoon of the server room and embraced the world outside information security. Always enthusiastic, sometimes even funny. Public speaker, consultant and polymath, never encountered a useless piece of information.

Computational geophysics PhD. Programmed Linux servers in NZ for nearly 10 years, then Texas for over 10. Bought a dairy farm in upstate NY, built a creamery. Program IoT for yogurt plant operations.

Kelsey Finch, CIPP/US, is Policy Counsel at the Future of Privacy Forum, focusing on smart cities and communities, de-identification, big data, research ethics, wearables, and other select projects. Kelsey leads FPF's Smart Cities and Communities Working Group, and serves as an expert and thought leader helping individuals, local communities, and technology providers leverage the benefits of a data-rich society while minimizing threats to individual privacy and civil liberties. Her work has been published in the Cambridge Handbook of Consumer Privacy, the Fordham Urban Law Journal, and the Santa Clara Law Review. Before coming to FPF, Kelsey was an inaugural Westin Fellow at the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP), where she produced practical research on a range of privacy topics and edited the FTC Privacy Casebook. She is a graduate of Smith College and the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, with a concentration in Intellectual Property & Information Law.

Kay is a Barrister-at-Law and part-time Judge in the United Kingdom and Professor of Law. She is an Associate Fellow of the Centre for the Future of Intelligence at the University of Cambridge and Fellow of the Robert E. Strauss Center on international Security and Law at the University of Texas. She is Vice-Chair of the IEEE Initiative on Ethical Considerations in AI and Autonomous Systems. She is one of Robohub’s top 25 Women in Robotics in 2017 and co-founded AI-Austin, AI-Global and the Consortium for Law and Policy of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics.

Camille Fischer is currently a free speech litigation fellow at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, focusing on government censorship of online speech and international law enforcement cooperation. Previously, she was a Tech Policy Fellow with the Mozilla Foundation, where she hosted a closed-door Crypto Colloquium on the problems surrounding exceptional access, attended by former Obama Administration policy experts. In the Obama White House, Camille led tech policy initiatives for the National Economic Council to increase the security in consumer technologies as well as represent the consumer voice in issues of national security. Camille was a Presidential Management Fellow with the National Telecommunications and Information Administration and graduated from Georgetown Law.

Lara Flint is Associate Director of the Governance Program at Democracy Fund, a bipartisan foundation working to strengthen American democracy. She has worked on technology, national security, and privacy for more than 15 years in legal, policy and government roles, including a decade on Capitol Hill. Most recently she served as chief counsel for national security to then-Chairman Patrick Leahy of the Senate Judiciary Committee, where she was instrumental to enactment of the USA FREEDOM Act of 2015 — the first major surveillance reform legislation in decades. She also has served as senior counsel to Senator Russ Feingold, and as an attorney in the State Department Office of the Legal Adviser, where she advised senior officials on cutting-edge counterterrorism, law of war, and use of force issues. Prior to her government service, Lara worked at the Center for Democracy & Technology, and at the law firm of Jenner & Block. She is a graduate of the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University, and Harvard Law School.

Policy analyst focusing on a wide range of media and telecommunications issues, including Net Neutrality, media consolidation, and broadband affordability.

Camille Francois is an Affiliate at the Harvard Berkman Center for Internet & Society, and is the Research & Analysis Director at Graphika, where she leads a data science and analysis team focused on investigating and analyzing social media manipulations. Prior to this, Francois was Principal Researcher at Google Jigsaw, Google's incubator dedicated to building technology to tackle tough global security challenges (disinformation, censorship, harassment, violent extremism). Previously, Camille served as a Special Advisor to the CTO of France within the Prime Minister's Office and its Open Data & Open Government unit ; led research projects on cybersecurity and human rights for the Mozilla Foundation ; and worked for Google’s Market Insights team. A Fulbright Fellow and a New America Cybersecurity Fellow, Camille holds a Masters Degree in Human Rights from the French Institute of Political Sciences (Sciences-Po) & a Masters Degree in International Security from the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University. Camille developed her research on State-sponsored threats against civil society at the Harvard Berkman Center for Internet & Society, and was visiting scholar at the Columbia Arnold A. Saltzman Institute for War and Peace Studies, and at King’s College War Studies Department.

Ulrike Franke is a Policy Fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR). She is part of ECFR’s ‘New European Security Initiative’, working on German and European security and defence, the future of warfare, and the impact of new technologies, such as drones and artificial intelligence on conflict. She has published widely on these and other topics, among others in Die ZEIT, FAZ, RUSI Whitehall Papers, Comparative Strategy, War on the Rocks, Zeitschrift für Außen- und Sicherheitspolitik, and regularly appears as commentator in the media. Ulrike joined ECFR in 2015 as Research Assistant to the Director, working part time while finishing her PhD in International Relations at the University of Oxford. She holds a BA from Sciences Po Paris and a double summa cum laude MA degree from Sciences Po Paris (Affaires internationales/Sécurité internationale) and the University of St. Gallen (International Affairs and Governance).

Jane is a best-selling author, speaker and award-winning entrepreneur. She is the founder of a private membership and training firm, which specialises in soft skills and entrepreneurism for cybersecurity leaders at all levels. She is named as the 3rd most influential person in cyber security in the UK, and the Cyber Security Awards Diversity Champion. With 20-years' industry experience, she has built and sold her own global hacking firm and held executive positions at renowned consultancies. Over the years she has launched, created and been actively involved in leading accreditations, forums, and schemes. She currently serves as a C-level advisor and awards judge in Europe and the USA. She has a large following, authors many articles, is regularly featured in industry and iconic British media, and is sought after as an international keynote speaker. She is now on tour with her book, IN Security: How a failure to attract and retain women in cyber security is making us all less safe.

Sharon Bradford Franklin is Director of Surveillance & Cybersecurity Policy at New America’s Open Technology Institute (OTI). She leads OTI’s work on issues involving government surveillance, encryption, cybersecurity, government access to data, and transparency. From 2013 to 2017, she served as Executive Director of the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board (PCLOB), an independent federal agency that reviews counterterrorism programs to ensure that they include appropriate safeguards for privacy and civil liberties. Previously, she served as Senior Counsel at the Constitution Project, a nonprofit legal watchdog group, working on a range of issues involving national security and privacy and civil liberties. Franklin is a graduate of Harvard College and Yale Law School.

Attorney and Lawntrepreneur by day. Adjunct Professor by night. Practicing law at the intersection of media, technology and innovation. Recognized by the Daily Journal as one of the Top Cyber/Artificial Intelligence Lawyers out of 20 practicing in California in 2018.

As Redfin’s Chief Technology Officer, Bridget leads the software engineering team, which she has grown to more than 150 engineers in Seattle and San Francisco. Her mission is to build technology that makes the process of buying and selling a home less complicated and less stressful. She started coding when she was five on an Apple IIe, and has built software and led teams at high-growth tech companies for almost twenty years. Bridget specializes in big data, analytics engineering, and systems architecture. She is a thought leader on engineering culture and issues facing women in technology, and nearly 32% of Redfin’s technology team are women. She holds a bachelor’s degree in computer science from Harvard University, where she graduated magna cum laude.

Anna Fridley is a Senior Cyber Risk Analyst with experience in both the public and private sectors. At Fortalice Solutions, she supports the risk analysis needs of commercial clients by performing cyber risk assessments, ranking risks and developing mitigation options specific to client environments, developing policies and procedures, assisting non-technical staff in the implementation or optimization of new security capabilities, performing cost/benefit analysis, and providing clear recommendations. Prior to joining Fortalice, Fridley delivered cyber threat intelligence to a wide variety of clients, including organizations in the Retail, Financial, Energy and Government sectors. She also worked as a Library and Archives Conservator where she had the privilege of restoring thousands of books and documents from the Baghdadi Jewish Community. The digitized material from the collection and museum exhibit are available on the IJA website, ija.archives.gov .

As Senior Director of Global Policy at ITI, Ashley leads ITI’s engagement in Latin America and works on a wide range of trade and innovation issues, including those related to online platforms and internet-based “over-the-top / OTT” services. She also plays an integral role in ITI’s Europe work, including on issues related to the Digital Single Market and platforms regulations, as well as working closely with individual member states. Ashley also coordinates ITI Decodes, ITI’s collaborative initiative to make complex tech policy concepts more accessible. Ashley has led ITI’s efforts to provide practical, actionable guidance to governments around the world on advancing digital trade issues in trade agreements and through multilateral organizations, and she has deepened relationships between policymakers and tech leaders in order to advance globally interoperable, meaningful solutions to policy challenges.

Suki is an Analytical Storyteller is a globally recognized speaker, advisor, mentor and analytical storyteller. From national security to non-profit; China to the Middle East, Suki is sought for her experience in the early adoption of emergent technologies and ability to translate the quantitative into qualitative insights. She is the CEO of Salaam Ventures; Founder of Miribure; a Strategic & Competitive Intelligence company and Head of International Strategic Projects for DC Analytics. She is also an advisor, board member and NED to several startups. An Advocate for Tech, she is the Mentor Ambassador for Tech London Advocates (TLA) - Women in Tech Group; Suki was recently named one of the 30 Change Makers for London Tech Week 2018. Suki loves Penguins.

Deana Fuller is a health information security subject matter expert with a passion for growing tomatoes & assisting organizations in strengthening their compliance programs through her real-world experience. After graduating from law school, she worked in the community health center space, providing training & implementation expertise in the areas of Meaningful Use & HIPAA/HITECH Deana has shared her experience as a speaker & teacher in healthcare law & privacy, where she supports the industry through knowledge transfer. Deana has led HITRUST certification projects to HIPAA & GDPR initiatives for provider organizations, technology firms, & law firms to achieve their compliance goals. To health organizations, her skills in managing health information systems are instrumental in providing program guidance across multiple specialties, such as healthcare, mental health, tribal, higher education, & academic health systems, in the strategy & implementation of compliance programs.

Head of connected and automated vehicles. Program Manager for vehicle usability testing. Consumer advocate with expertise in automated vehicles, advanced driver assistance systems, usability, human factors, UX/UI, distracted driving, infotainment systems, connected vehicles, DSRC, V2X, safety.

Kate Gage spent eight years working in the Obama Administration on the intersection of technology and global challenges, both in the White House Office of Science & Technology Policy and at the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). At USAID she was a founder of the U.S. Global Development Lab, which leads the USG's work to develop and scale global development and humanitarian technologies. She is Co-founder and Executive Director of Lab 736, which embeds experienced engineers and designers in state level Democratic political organizations, modeled on the U.S. Digital Service. Kate was the COO of the March for Science in 2017, and in the Spring of 2018, was the Chief of Staff for the March for Our Lives, working with the students from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. Kate recently joined The Movement Cooperative as a Founding Partner, working across progressive non-profits to ensure that they have access to critical data and technology resources.

A leading authority on state cyber operations, Laura founded Galante Strategies to equip governments and corporations to respond effectively to cyber and information threats. Her work includes directing analysis for the 2019 Ukrainian Election Task Force, developing a security framework for the Ukrainian government, and serving as an expert witness for cyber warfare claims. A Senior Fellow in the Atlantic Council’s Eurasia Center, Galante previously served as the Director of Global Intelligence at FireEye Inc. Her teams exposed military operations and authored numerous intelligence reports. Prior to FireEye, she led a team at the Defense Intelligence Agency. Galante has testified before the UN Security Council and regularly comments in global media. She speaks frequently about the future of state conflict and security and gave a TED talk at TED2017. Galante holds a B.A. in Foreign Affairs and Italian from the University of Virginia and a J.D. from the Catholic University of America.

Rose Galloway Green is a Senior Policy Advisor at the UK's Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy where she leads on strategic barriers to deployment for offshore wind - of which issues around aviation/radar and cumulative impacts are a major part. Rose previously worked on wholesale electricity markets, cross-border gas trading in the event of a no-deal Brexit, energy codes, and at the national energy regulator - Ofgem. Rose studied oil and gas in Russia on a BP scholarship, and holds a master's degree in Energy. Her dissertation was on the development of liquidity in European gas markets, and outlined a model of gas hub development that would lead to more liquid and efficient wholesale gas markets. Rose was previously Editor-in-Chief of a journal covering Energy Politics.

Maya Indira Ganesh is a freelance researcher and scholar working on machine learning, ethics and accountability. She has two Masters degrees and is a doctoral candidate at Leuphana University, Lüneburg, Germany, where she is also a 2018 Fellow at the Media Cultures of Computer Simulation (MECS) Lab. Maya has spent the last two decades as a researcher and activist working at the intersection of information security, privacy, gender, and human rights conducting research and developing projects about supporting human rights defenders to be secure online and offf. From 2009 to 2017 she worked at Tactical Technology Collective in a variety of organisational and line management, grant-reporting, communications and networking roles in addition to being a researcher, writer and manager. She has spoken widely at technology and media events in Europe, Asia and North America. Maya is a contributor to the tech-theory blog, Cyborgology.

Gerenciamiento de Proyectos de alto impacto, logrando su implementación y éxito con recursos y tiempo limitados. Fortalezas: Capacidad de adaptación a diferentes situaciones y entornos culturales. Culminación exitosa de objetivos, habilidad para el análisis de situaciones complejas, toma de decisiones y excelente disposición para el trabajo en equipo. Experiencia: Más de 15 años de experiencia en Proyectos de tecnología. Más de 7 años de experiencia en proyectos de corte social y con fondos internacionales. Specialties: Negociación y Manejo de Contratos, Administración de Proyectos, Manejo de riesgos, Compras y Adquisiciones, vinculación gubernamental, Organizaciones No gubernamentales

The Foundation for Digital Creativity is a not-for-profit organisation with a mission to remove barriers and ignite inspiration to enable everyone to bring about social good through the use of digital technologies. Claire has over 20 years of extensive experience as a senior teacher and creative technologist and is a strong advocate of improving girls’ and women’s opportunities in STEM. She was part of the team to launch the 'Internet of Curious Things' IOT programme to remove barriers by developing engaging project-based activities that more people can access. Since 2017 these educational activities have been a catalyst for new inventions created by 4 - 73 year olds; many of whom had no previous digital making or coding experiences. Claire published a peer reviewed paper with Leeds University, exploring the impact of maker education on the formal curriculum in secondary schools, and has since embarked on their Doctorate of Education programme. This latest research centres around digital making and wellbeing. Areas of Expertise: Working with adults and children, public and private sector organisations, to democratise the internet of things Initiator of The Things Network in Hull and Connected Hull smart citizen project Educational Research - Digital Making STEM to STEAM Curriculum Design Educational Technology Professional Development Community Learning Programmes

Clare Garvie is an associate with the Center on Privacy & Technology at Georgetown Law. She was a co-author and the lead researcher on The Perpetual Line-Up: Unregulated Police Face Recognition in America, a report that examines the widespread use of face recognition systems by state and local police and the privacy, civil rights, and civil liberties consequences of this new technology. Her current research focuses on the use of face recognition-derived evidence in criminal cases, and she serves as an informational resource to public defenders, advocates, and journalists. Previously, she worked on human rights and international criminal law with the International Center for Transitional Justice. She received her J.D. from Georgetown Law and her B.A. from Barnard College in political science, human rights, and psychology. You can follow her on Twitter at @ClareAngelyn. She can be reached at cag104@georgetown.edu.

Genevieve Gaudet is an NYC-based designer with expertise in applying design to civic and social challenges. Her work focuses on the ways that design and technology facilitate more equitable access to public services and community resources. Under NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio, she served as founding Deputy Director of an innovation team charged with improving economic opportunity for low-income New Yorkers. In that role, she co-founded the first dedicated service design studio in an American government and led the people-centered redesign of ACCESS NYC, which helps New Yorkers access the full set of social services for which they qualify. At Nava PBC, Genevieve has lead design work for two of Nava's social safety net projects with Medicaid and Medicare and now manages the organization's program to dramatically improve benefits delivery at the state level. In 2012, Genevieve received a Master of Public Health degree from Tulane School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine.

Cathy Gellis is a lawyer with a practice focused on free speech, intellectual property, intermediary liability, privacy, and other innovation policy matters affecting technology use and development. She regularly writes, speaks, counsels, and litigates on these and other related topics, including in appellate and regulatory proceedings and particularly with respect to how these issues relate to Internet platforms and civil liberties. Her writing on the policy implications of technology regulation has appeared in various widely-read publications, including the Daily Beast, Law.com, and the technology news site Techdirt.com, where she is a regular contributor. Prior to becoming a lawyer she was an aspiring journalist-turned-Internet professional who developed and managed websites for enterprises in Silicon Valley and Europe. She has a B.A. from the University of California at Berkeley in Mass Communications and Sociology and a J.D. from Boston University.

Judith Germano is a Distinguished Fellow at NYU's Center for Cybersecurity, a Professor in NYU's Masters Degree in Cybersecurity Risk & Strategy program and an Adjunct Professor at NYU School ofLaw. Judith also is the founder of GermanoLaw LLC, a boutique woman owned and operated law firm providing client-focused counsel on cybersecurity, data privacy and complex fraud matters. Judith was a federal prosecutor for 11 years and former Chief of Economic Crimes at the US Attorney's Office, District of New Jersey. She spearheads the Women Leaders in Cybersecurity annual conference at NYU and successfully completed five IronMan (140.6 mile) triathlons.

Lebanese human right defender, a digital communication strategist, and a digital security trainer. Abir is currently the communications and outreach director for Raseef22 a PAN Arab independent media platform and also the outreach director for Majal, a network of digital platforms centered on securing freedom of expression and access to information. Abir’s work focuses on women rights, free speech and the intersection of gender and tech.

Toni Gidwani is the Director of Research Operations at ThreatConnect and leads ThreatConnect’s research team, an elite group of globally-acknowledged cybersecurity experts dedicated to tracking down existing and emerging cyber threats. Her team routinely publishes research pertaining to cybercrime and nation-state attacks and actors, including a body of work surrounding Russian efforts to hack the 2016 U.S. presidential election. Toni has presented at security conferences worldwide and has appeared in many top journalistic outlets including The Economist, CNN, the Financial Times, and the New Yorker. Prior to joining ThreatConnect, Toni led analytic teams in the U.S. Department of Defense. She also teaches a graduate course in cybersecurity strategy at Georgetown University.

Lex Gill is a Research Fellow at The Citizen Lab (Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto), an interdisciplinary laboratory focused on research, development, and high-level strategic policy and legal engagement at the intersection of technology, human rights, and global security. She has written and spoken internationally on issues ranging from privacy, freedom of expression, and equality rights to cybersecurity policy, national security law, and the regulation of censorship and surveillance technology. Lex holds a B.C.L./LL.B. from McGill University’s Faculty of Law. Lex previously worked on the National Security Program at the Canadian Civil Liberties Association. She is also a former Google Policy Fellow to the Canadian Internet Policy and Public Interest Clinic and former researcher and affiliate to the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University. (valid as of Spring 2018)

Lisa Gilley is General Counsel for Phase2 Technology, an open source technology company. As a member of the executive leadership team, she leads all corporate transactions and contract negotiations, oversees compliance issues, and advises on issues of data privacy, security, corporate strategy, and company culture. Lisa previously held senior business and legal positions at AOL and Discovery Channel.

Dr. Rachel Gillum is a Senior Director at RiceHadleyGates LLC (RHG), the strategic consulting firm led by former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, former National Security Advisor Stephen Hadley and former Secretary of Defense Robert Gates. At the firm, Dr. Gillum and her team assists CEOs and senior executives at major companies to expand their businesses and meet challenges in key international markets. She manages the company's technology portfolio. Dr. Gillum is also a visiting scholar at Stanford University. Before joining RHG in 2014, Dr. Gillum served as a researcher at the RAND Corporation’s International Policy Center and was formerly a research assistant at the Department of Defense’s Near East South Asia Center for Strategic Studies. She received her doctorate and master’s degrees from Stanford University.

Carrie Goldberg is a victims’ rights attorney based in New York City. She founded C.A. Goldberg, PLLC in 2014 to provide cutting-edge legal help for victims of sexual assault, stalking, and blackmail - online and off. The civil litigation firm represent clients under attack by assholes, psychos, pervs and trolls who think they can get away with it. The team also holds institutions and companies accountable for neglect that facilitated harm against their clients. C.A. Goldberg, PLLC is done living in a world of abuse and we are not afraid to sue the *&%$ out of schools, tech companies, and employers who tolerate it. There are many ways to get justice for our clients - economic justice, restraining orders, advocacy in Campus Disciplinary proceedings, exposing a predator, or getting the piece-of-shit thrown in jail.

Amy Gonzales is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Her work examines the effects of social interaction via communication technologies on individual identity, social support, and well-being and the consequences of disrupted access to communication technology. She is especially interested in these phenomena for people from disadvantaged communities (e.g., racial/ethnic minorities, low-income populations, LGBTQ individuals, etc.). Her work aims to advance theoretical understanding and real-world solutions that may help mitigate the long-term consequences of new digital infrastructures that may otherwise exacerbate social inequalities.

Jessica is an attorney and advocate working at the intersection of racial justice, media and technology. She has been a consistent voice for net neutrality, affordable internet access and media diversity, and has challenged white supremacy in the media. Previously, she was the executive vice president and general counsel at National Hispanic Media Coalition, where she led the policy shop and helped coordinate campaigns against racist and xenophobic media programming. Prior to that she was a staff attorney and teaching fellow at Georgetown Law’s Institute for Public Representation, where she represented public interest and civil rights groups before the FCC, NTIA and in the courts of appeal. Jessica has testified before Congress multiple times, including once before the House to support Net Neutrality while suffering from acute morning sickness, and another before the Senate while eight months pregnant to support affordable internet access for low-income people.

Lori Gordon is a Senior Strategist in homeland security, cybersecurity, and infrastructure protection and resilience. Spanning 20 years of experience in the Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC) and private sector communities, she has supported a range of government and nonprofit organizations. She serves as an advisor to several technical advisory groups including ISO’s Sustainable Development in Communities, ANSI’s Unmanned Aerial Systems Standardization Consortium, and NIST’s National Initiative for Cybersecurity Education (NICE) Working Group on Cyber Workforce Management. She is a member of the Federal Futures Community of Interest (FFCOI) and serves on several Curriculum Advisory Boards including Resilient Design, Information Technology and Cybersecurity, and Law and Government. Ms. Gordon has a Masters in Public Administration from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and is a Project Management Professional (PMP).

A quantum physicist and machine learning developer, Lindsay is the Emerging Technology Fellow at GMF's Alliance for Securing Democracy. She researches how authoritarian regimes use, abuse, and derive competitive advantages from emerging technologies -- including AI, quantum computing, FinTech, IoT, and the tech platforms--and what democracies can do about it. She is the founder of tech and policy consulting firm Politech Advisory, working with start-ups and venture capital firms in AI and FinTech, and a former adjunct fellow in CSIS's Technology Policy Program. Lindsay's government experience includes the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and advising Senator Mark Warner on AI, FinTech, cyber warfare, 21st century capitalism, and the future of work. She cut her technical chops programming machine learning systems for the 2007 DARPA Urban Challenge and published a foundational Nature Physics paper on topological insulators. Lindsay holds an A.B in physics from Princeton and an M.S. in applied physics from Stanford.

I am a government policy attorney specializing in competition law, with a focus on issues in the tech space. Before working for the government, I practiced at a law firm, both in the United States and in Europe.

Jennifer Granick fights for civil liberties in an age of massive surveillance and powerful digital technology. As the surveillance and cybersecurity counsel with the ACLU Speech, Privacy, and Technology Project, she litigates, speaks, and writes about privacy, security, technology, and constitutional rights. Granick is the author of the book American Spies: Modern Surveillance, Why You Should Care, and What To Do About It, published by Cambridge Press and winner of the 2016 Palmer Civil Liberties Prize.

tech policy & internet things @nycmayorsoffice @nyc_cto. Previously @thegovlab, @google, @AAPD, @ColumbiaSIPA. Opinions are my own.

Lucy has been working in access technology for over 30 years and is passionate about helping people understand the impacts of inaccessibility to people with disabilities. Lucy works for the University of California Berkeley and leads the accessibility initiative for the University of California system. She is an expert in creating accessibility policies and purchasing policies.

Vivian Greentree, Ph.D., is a Senior Vice President and Head of Global Corporate Citizenship at First Data Corporation, where she is oversees the strategy and implementation of First Data’s philanthropic, diversity and inclusion, social responsibility, responsible sourcing, and sustainability efforts. Before assuming this role, Vivian joined First Data as the Head of Military and Veteran Affairs in February 2014. In that role Vivian created First Data Salutes, a company-wide military engagement strategy to provide the military community with access to career opportunities and best-in-class education resources, while offering premier business solutions to veteran-owned businesses. In recognition of First Data’s success under Vivian’s leadership, in 2017 and again in 2018, First Data was ranked #1 on Military Times’ Best for Vets: Employers. A U.S. Navy veteran and military spouse, Dr. Greentree helped found Blue Star Families, the largest chapter-based military support organization in the country, where she served as director of research and policy.

Laura Grego, a senior scientist in the Union of Concerned Scientists’ Global Security Program, focuses her analysis and advocacy on the technology and security dimensions of ballistic missile defense and of outer space security. She has authored or co-authored numerous papers on a range of topics, including cosmology, space security, and missile defense, and is a technical advisor for the Woomera Manual on the International Law of Military Space Operations project. She has testified before Congress and addressed the United Nations General Assembly and the United Nations Conference on Disarmament on space security issues and serves as an expert source for print, radio, and television news. Before joining UCS, Grego was a postdoctoral researcher at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. She earned a doctorate degree in experimental physics at the California Institute of Technology and a bachelor of science degree in physics and astronomy at the University of Michigan.

Ms. Gregory is an experienced tech, telecom, and transportation attorney, and a leader in solving complex problems at the intersection of business, technology, policy, politics, and the law.

Samantha Gross is a fellow in the Cross-Brookings Initiative on Energy and Climate. Her work focuses on the intersection of energy, environment, and policy, including climate policy and international cooperation, energy efficiency, unconventional oil and gas development, regional and global natural gas trade, and the energy-water nexus. Gross has more than 20 years of experience in energy and environmental affairs. She has been a visiting fellow at the King Abdullah Petroleum Studies and Research Center. She was director of the Office of International Climate and Clean Energy at the U.S. Department of Energy, where she directed U.S. activities under the Clean Energy Ministerial. Prior to her time at the Department of Energy, Gross was director of integrated research at IHS CERA, where she managed the IHS CERA Climate Change and Clean Energy forum and the IHS relationship with the World Economic Forum. Gross holds a Bachelor of Science in chemical engineering from the University of Illinois, a Master of Science in environmental engineering from Stanford, and a Master of Business Administration from the University of California at Berkeley.

Kristine is a former CEO, business owner and wireless executive who headed up Strategic Alliances and Partnerships for AT&T Wireless prior to setting up her own shop. She has start-up, corporate, academic, government and agency experience and actively seeks out commercialization opportunities for new technologies. She is an accomplished speaker, mentor to female business owners and BusinessWeek named her "One of Nine Women to Watch". Current technology interests include drone delivery systems, blockchain and cyber-security

Adaptive Community Leader & founder of Befriending Dragons: She nurtures equitable cultures where all women+ thrive & belong, creating healing paths for women+ who face workplace bullies & harassers. Cindy has met many scary dragons in her life – breast cancer, divorce, a layoff, changing roles & technologies, workplace harassment at Microsoft, constant striving to meet an impossible bar for success, & the idea that we always have to put work first. Most recently she left the corporate world for a rich community filled with people who create justice, meaning, allies, & dreams. Each time she steps back and looks at the situation from different angles. She befriends each dragon, learns how to make it a part of her past, and takes only the parts she wants forward to the next stage of her life. That’s what befriending dragons is all about – take those scary things & blend the best parts into our lives. Then we respond in the way we each need, the way that takes us down the path we want.

Ana Grouverman is a researcher at the University of Oxford, where she is working on the Computational Propaganda Project and pursuing a degree at the Oxford Internet Institute. Her current research focuses on modeling the diffusion of ideas across online social networks. Prior to the UK she spent six years at Google, conducting user research and leading a data security program for Google Apps. She has also spent time as a policy researcher and lead writer at Jigsaw (formerly Google Ideas), a technology incubator under Alphabet Inc. She began her career in management consulting, and holds a BSc in international politics and security from Georgetown University. Her interests include issues of media manipulation, digital privacy, user-centered design, and diversity and inclusion in the technology industry.

My name is Laura Grunzinger, and I am a registered attorney in Ohio, USA and a registered US patent attorney. I have 18 years of experience supporting global companies as in-house counsel specializing in intellectual property.

State-federal policy expert in cybersecurity, technology, privacy, telecommunications, and digital government.

Dr. Rosanna Guadagno is a Researcher with the Peace Innovation Lab at Stanford University. She received her Ph.D. in Social Psychology from Arizona State University and completed her postdoctoral work at the Research Center for Virtual Environments and Behavior at the University of California at Santa Barbara. She has been on the faculties of the University of Alabama and the University of Texas at Dallas, has been visiting faculty at the University of California at Berkeley, and previously served as a Program Director at the National Science Foundation managing three programs: Social Psychology; the Science of Learning Centers; and Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace (SaTC). Her research interests focus on the confluence of three main areas: Social Influence and Persuasion, Mediated-Communication, and Gender Roles. Dr. Guadagno is the Editor of the International Journal of Interactive Communication Systems and Technologies. Her work is supported by the National Science Foundation.

Post-doctoral researcher on Privacy, Surveillance, Security and Software Engineering

Change maker & Engineer. Leader in open innovation, designing for positive jobs of the future, tech policy, public private partnerships & engagement. Current @NASA program executive, running a $200M annual R&D program for small businesses. Former assistant director for open innovation at @WHOSTP44. Board member of the @van_alen institute in NYC, a non-profit focused on how design transforms cities. Current @HKS_digital academic fellow researching the #futureofwork. @MIT & @UF alum. Aerospace engineer.

Kerstin Günther is a former board chairperson and global digitalization, ICT and transformation executive with 26 years' experience. A German national, she has held a variety of leadership roles in Central and Eastern Europe with Deutsche Telekom, Slovak Telecom and Magyar Telekom. Kerstin Günther has earned the reputation of being an agile hands-on manager with a successful track record in large-scale transformations in complex multinational publicly listed organizations. As a non-executive director serving on corporate and non-profit boards, she contributes knowledge of German and European corporate governance, international accounting, risk management and compliance. Today Kerstin Günther is a member of various corporate and non-profit boards.

Software Development Manager and Agile Coach at Thomson Reuters with a wealth of experience as Agile Project Manager in various industries. I'm extremely passionate about delivering successful results as well as coaching teams to help improve the way they work. Currently, I'm the Vice Chair of the Agile Business Consortium and the PMI UK Agile Forum; primarily working on a partnership between both organisations to boost awareness of the benefits of Agile Project Management across industries and sectors.

Rebecca Hamilton is an Assistant Professor of Law at American University. Her research and teaching focus on national security law, international law, and criminal law. Her scholarship draws on her experience prosecuting genocide and war crimes, as well as her work in conflict zones as a foreign correspondent. She is the author of Fighting for Darfur, which analyzes citizen activism and the effort to stop mass atrocities. Hamilton previously served as a lawyer in the prosecutorial division of the International Criminal Court and has worked in the Appeals Chamber of the ICTY. Prior to entering academia Hamilton worked as a journalist for the Washington Post and Reuters. A Pulitzer Center grantee, and former fellow at New America and at Open Society, she has written for outlets including Foreign Affairs, The New Yorker, Foreign Policy, The Atlantic, and The New Republic, and has appeared on PBS Newshour, NPR, and the BBC.

Liz Hardwick is Co-Founder of DigiEnable, an award-winning bespoke Digital Training & SEO Services Company. She designs and delivers tech-based and online marketing workshops, and is a professional speaker at conferences and events across the UK, recently being listed in the Techworld's 111 UK Tech Women Speakers and Business Cloud's 101 Female Founders in Tech. Liz’s career started in broadcasting working for some of the big names as well as spending a number of years creating media for charities, before starting her own business. She is also a published author on Digital Storytelling, sits on a number of non-profit boards and is listed on the UK's Digital Leaders 100. She's a self-confessed productivity and SEO geek, loves tweeting as @Tech_Geek_Girl and supporting other women in(to) Tech. Previous talks have covered a variety of subjects around Digital Inclusion, Search Engine Optimisation and Utilising technologies for business alongside an ethos of promoting Women in Tech.

Researcher, BBC Expert Women, Foreign Policy Interrupted Fellow

Arya Hariharan is a Democratic Counsel for the House Committee on the Judiciary, where she handles oversight, election security, cybersecurity, national security, espionage, privacy, and surveillance issues. Previously, she was the Legislative Director and Senior Counsel for Congressman Hank Johnson, where she managed his legislative portfolio and supervised his legislative team. There she also covered the defense, judiciary, technology, environment, energy, and foreign affairs portfolio. Before working on the Hill, Arya was a lobbyist for the environmental law firm Earthjustice and for the American Association for Justice. She graduated from American University with a BA in 2007. She received her JD from the William & Mary School of Law in 2012 and is licensed to practice law in the state of Virginia. She is from Philadelphia but currently lives in Washington DC with her rescued Great Dane Apollo.

Dominique Harrison is a Project Manager at the Aspen Institute Communications and Society Program; a program that promotes integrated, thoughtful, values-based decision making in the fields of communications, media, and information policy. She is passionate about working to make high-speed Internet accessible to low-income and rural populations both in the U.S. and internationally, and creating opportunities for youth to be involved in S.T.E.A.M programs. At the Institute Dominique manages the Conference on Communications Policy, the Dialogue on Public Libraries, and directs the Aspen Institute Guest Scholar Program, a scholarship initiative meant to give students of color the opportunity to foster their professional and academic career in the field of telecommunications policy and artificial intelligence. Dominique also teaches Media and Social Change and Multiculral Media History at Trinity Washington University as an Adjunct Professor. Dominique holds a B.S. in Advertising from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, a M.A. in Media Studies from the University of Texas at Austin, and a Ph.D. in Communication Technology Policy from Howard University. Her dissertation examines gender awareness among stakeholders of Jamaica’s ICT policy. The study uses interviews with individuals from civil society, government, and private sector organizations in Jamaica’s ICT field in order to determine whether the needs and interests of Jamaican women are being taken into account.

Oona A. Hathaway is the Gerard C. and Bernice Latrobe Smith Professor of International Law at Yale Law School, Professor of International Law and Area Studies at the Yale University MacMillan Center, and Professor of the Yale University Department of Political Science. She is Vice President of the American Society of International Law and member of the Advisory Committee on International Law for the Legal Adviser at the United States Department of State. In 2014-15, she took leave to serve as Special Counsel to the General Counsel at the U.S. Department of Defense, where she was awarded the Office of the Secretary of Defense Award for Excellence. She is a principal investigator on a Hewlett Foundation grant to study cyber conflict. She has published more than twenty-five law review articles, and The Internationalists: How a Radical Plan to Outlaw War Remade the World (with Scott Shapiro, 2017).

MELISSA HATHAWAY  is a leading expert in cyberspace policy and cybersecurity.  She served in two U.S. presidential administrations, spearheading the Cyberspace Policy Review for President Barack Obama and leading the Comprehensive National Cybersecurity Initiative (CNCI) for President George W. Bush. As President of Hathaway Global Strategies LLC, she advises public and private sector clients and brings a unique combination of policy and technical expertise, as well as board room experience to help others better understand the intersection of government policy, developing technological and industry trends, and economic drivers that impact acquisition and business development strategy in this field.  She publishes regularly on cybersecurity matters affecting companies and countries.  Most of her articles can be found at the following website:  http://belfercenter.ksg.harvard.edu/experts/2132/melissa_hathaway.html

Lisa Hawke leads leads the security, privacy and compliance program at Everlaw, a legal technology company based in Berkeley, CA. She has spent over 12 years in regulatory compliance program development, documentation, and implementation, including all aspects of information security and user privacy. Lisa is currently serving as a Board Member of Women in Security and Privacy (https://www.wisporg.com/wisp-leadership/). She is admitted to the bar in NY and MA and has a B.S. in Environmental Science. Her work has been featured on the a16z Podcast ("What to know about GDPR") and ITSP Magazine SMB Webinar Series, and published by Legaltech News, Bloomberg Law, the Ethikos Journal of Practical Business Ethics, and the Society of Corporate Compliance and Ethics (SCCE) Magazine.

An internationally known developer relations strategist and community management expert, Leslie Hawthorn has spent the past decade creating, cultivating, and enabling open source communities. She’s best known for creating the world’s first initiative to involve pre-university students in open source software development, launching Google’s #2 developer blog, and receiving an O’Reilly Open Source Award in 2010. Her career has provided her with the opportunity to develop, hone, and share open source expertise spanning enterprise to NGOs, including senior roles at Red Hat, Google, the Open Source Initiative, and Elastic. If you cheer during movies when you hear the words “I fight for the users” or “Get your head out of your cockpit,” the two of you will likely get along famously. Follow her on Twitter @lhawthorn or read her blog at https://hawthornlandings.org/

Lisa A. Hayes is Vice President, Strategy & General Counsel at the Center for Democracy & Technology, working to champion individual rights and liberties in the digital age. Lisa leads CDT’s litigation practice, which focuses on educating courts about issues where technological advances are outpacing the law, such as issues involving privacy & data, security & surveillance, and free expression online. She also works to ensure access to the internet and protect net neutrality. Earlier in her career, Lisa was a litigation partner in a Seattle law firm and general counsel to a start-up company during the 1990s internet boom.

Katherine is an Assistant Professor at Duke University, in the Department of Statistical Science and at the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience. Prior to joining Duke she was an NSF Postdoctoral Fellow, in the Computational Cognitive Science group at MIT, and an EPSRC Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Cambridge. Her Ph.D. is from the Gatsby Unit, where her advisor was Zoubin Ghahramani. Katherine's research interests lie in the fields of machine learning and Bayesian statistics. Specifically, she develops new methods and models to discover latent structure in data, including cluster structure, using Bayesian nonparametrics, hierarchical Bayes, techniques for Bayesian model comparison, and other Bayesian statistical methods. She applies these methods to problems in the brain and cognitive sciences, where she strives to model human behavior, including human categorization and human social interactions.

Brittan Heller heads ADL’s Center for Technology and Society, based in Silicon Valley, to bring civil rights into the digital age. She works on the toughest issues of today -- hate speech, hate crimes, online extremism, and misuse/abuse of online platforms. She's applied data visualization, artificial intelligence, virtual reality, and other exponential technologies for social good. Brittan formerly served in the Department of Justice, Human Rights and Special Prosecutions section, where she specialized in the intersection of human rights and technology. Before government service, Brittan practiced international human rights law, where she built a law school in Kabul, Afghanistan, assisted North Korean refugees, and prosecuted the first cases at the International Criminal Court. During law school, Brittan spearheaded groundbreaking impact litigation to combat cyber-harassment and advocated for cyber civil rights. She is a graduate of Stanford University and Yale Law School.

Dr. Kathryn (Kate) Henne holds the Canada Research Chair (Tier 2) in Biogovernance, Law and Society at the University of Waterloo. She is also a fellow of the Balsillie School of International Affairs and an associate professor at RegNet, the School of Regulation and Global Governance at the Australian National University. Her research interests are concerned with how biogovernance—that is, the governance of populations and individual humans through science and technology—informs everyday life. Most of her work focuses on intersections between social control, science, technology, and inequality, examining how they contribute to understandings of human bodies and their regulation. Her particular area of expertise is biometric surveillance.

Susan Hennessey is Fellow in National Security in Governance Studies at the Brookings Institution. She is the Managing Editor of the Lawfare blog, which is devoted to sober and serious discussion of "Hard National Security Choices.” She focuses on national security issues surrounding cybersecurity, surveillance, federal terrorism prosecutions, and congressional oversight of the intelligence community.

Rebecca Herold, CEO & Founder (2004) The Privacy Professor (consultancy) AND President & Co-Founder (2014), SIMBUS, LLC (cloud services). Rebecca has authored 19 books and contributed to dozens of other books & hundreds of articles. Rebecca led the US NIST Smart Grid Privacy Subgroup for 7 years, performed the first electric grid cybersecurity OpenFMB testing for NIST, was Adjunct Professor for the Norwich MSISA program for 9 years, has received numerous awards & has keynoted on 5 continents up to this time; targeting all 7! Rebecca hosts the Voice America radio show “Data Security & Privacy with the Privacy Professor.” Rebecca has degrees in Mathematics, Computer Science and Education and the following certifications: CISM, CISA, FIP, CIPT, CIPM, CIPP/US, CISSP, FLMI. Rebecca also provides keynotes & expert witness services and is based in Des Moines, Iowa. privacyprofessor.org, privacyguidance.com, SIMBUS360.com, www.voiceamerica.com/show/2733 rebeccaherold@rebeccaherold.com

Erin is a senior analyst with ALM Legal Intelligence, covering legal technology and trends. She has extensive experience researching IT, technology and related services. Before joining the Legal Intelligence team, Erin was a senior analyst with ALM Consulting Intelligence, where she led IT consulting research, covering topics such as cybersecurity, cloud tech and analytics. In addition, Erin has experience as an analyst with Technology Business Research, covering IT and consulting firms, as well as with Deloitte as a consultant focusing on IT process improvement and business analysis projects to increase efficiency. Erin holds both a B.S. in Industrial Engineering and an M.S. in Industrial Engineering with a concentration in Integrated Technology Management from California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo.

I am a professor who studies the history of gender and technology, as well as a former IT professional. I specialize in the history of computing and digital labor. My work explains why gender inequalities emerged, why they persist in high tech, and what the broader social and technical ramifications of this imbalance are. My award-winning book, Programmed Inequality, looks in depth at the negative effects discrimination has on high tech.

Hildebrandt is a tenured Research Professor on 'Interfacing Law and Technology' at Vrije Universiteit Brussels (VUB), appointed by the VUB Research Council. She works with the research group on Law Science Technology and Society studies (LSTS) at the Faculty of Law and Criminology. She also holds the part-time Chair of Smart Environments, Data Protection and the Rule of Law at the Science Faculty, at the Institute for Computing and Information Sciences (iCIS) at Radboud University Nijmegen. Her research interests concern the implications of automated decisions, machine learning and mindless artificial agency for law and the rule of law in constitutional democracies. She has published 4 scientific monographs, 21 edited volumes or special issues, and over 100 chapters and articles in scientific journals and volumes. She has received an ERC Advanced Grant for her project on ‘Counting as a Human Being in the era of Computational Law’ (2019-2024). Personal website: https://works.bepress.com/mireille_hildebrandt

Kashmir Hill writes about privacy and technology.