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Susan Aaronson
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Research Professor, Cross Disciplinary Fellow and Senior Fellow
GWU and CIGI
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.
Expertise
Artificial Intelligence
International Policy
Journalism
National Security
Policy
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Lillian Ablon
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Cybersecurity and Emerging Technology Researcher
RAND
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.
Expertise
Cybersecurity
Government
Military
National Security
Policy
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Yasemin Acar
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Researcher
Leibniz University Hannover
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.
Expertise
Computer Science
Cybersecurity
Mathematics
Research
Software Development
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Camille Acey
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Vice President, Customer Success
Clubhouse
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.
Expertise
Consumer Technology
Open Source
Research
Software Development
Bukky Adebayo
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Congressional Innovation Fellow
TechCongress
Expertise
Artificial Intelligence
Consumer Technology
Policy
Sheana Ahlqvist
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User Researcher & Principal Consultant
PhD Insights Consulting
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.
Expertise
Consumer Technology
Research
UX/UI
Adesola Ajayi
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Software Developer
Expertise
Software Development
Azadeh Akbari
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Founder
azadehakba.com
Expertise
Graphic Design
Journalism
Research
Colleen Alaimo
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Excella
Expertise
Computer Science
Cybersecurity
Free Speech
Information Technology
International Policy
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Sana Ali
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Manager of Global Cybersecurity and Privacy Policy
Information Technology Industry Council
Expertise
Artificial Intelligence
Consumer Technology
Cybersecurity
Government
Information Technology
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Saba Ali
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Information Technology Project Manager
Expertise
Computer Science
Education
Free Speech
Government
Information Technology
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Mahsa Alimardani
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Researcher
University of Oxford/ARTICLE19
Expertise
Cybersecurity
Free Speech
Government
Information Technology
International Policy
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Dr. Inna Amesheva
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Project Officer - Solutions Initiative (Digital Ecosystem)
UNSDSN Youth
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.
Expertise
Free Speech
Government
International Policy
Law
Legislation
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Amelia Andersdotter
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Technical Consultant
Article 19
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.
Expertise
Cybersecurity
Free Speech
Government
Intellectual Property
International Policy
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Lauren Andersen
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Executive Director, NYC Tech Talent Pipeline
City of New York
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.
Expertise
Computer Science
Education
Government
Information Technology
Policy
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Marie Claire Andrea
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UX Design/Tech Lead
The Global Entrepreneurship Network
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.
Expertise
UX/UI
Cecilia Aragon
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Professor
University of Washington
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.
Expertise
Computer Science
Data
Education
Information Technology
Software Development
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Nina Archie
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Diversity and Tech Policy Advisor
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.
Expertise
Artificial Intelligence
Consumer Technology
Cybersecurity
Data
Government
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Ozlem Armagan
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Assistant Professor
Ozyegin University
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.
Expertise
Artificial Intelligence
Cybersecurity
Free Speech
Intellectual Property
Law
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Alice Armitage
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Professor & Director of Applied Innovation
University of California Hastings Law School
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.
Expertise
Education
Law
Service Design
Linnette Attai
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President
PlayWell, LLC
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).
Expertise
Consumer Technology
Education
Information Technology
International Policy
Legislation
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Atiya Avery
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NSF Research Fellow (Electronic Security and Privacy)
University of Illinois at Chicago
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
Expertise
Cybersecurity
Education
Information Technology
Policy
Privacy
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Renata Avila
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Senior Digital Rights Advisor
World Wide Web Foundation
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.
Expertise
Artificial Intelligence
Consumer Technology
Cryptography
Cybersecurity
Free Speech
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Christina Ayiotis
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Cybersecurity Strategist and Leadership Consultant
Cybersecurity Strategist and Leadership Consulting
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).
Expertise
Cybersecurity
Education
Information Technology
International Policy
Law
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Terry Babcock-Lumish
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President & Visiting Scholar
Islay & University of Delaware School of Public Policy & Administration
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.
Expertise
Consumer Technology
Education
Government
International Policy
Legislation
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Virginia Bacay Watson
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Professor
Daniel K Inouye Asia Pacific Center for Security Studies
Expertise
Government
International Policy
National Security
Policy
Research
Ginny Badanes
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Strategic Advisor, Cybersecurity & Democracy
Microsoft
Expertise
Cybersecurity
Policy
Jieun Baek
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Founder
Lumen
Expertise
Government
Human Rights
Policy
Public Interest Technology
Research
Merritt Baer
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Principal Security Architect for Global Accounts
Amazon Web Services
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.
Expertise
Artificial Intelligence
Computer Science
Consumer Technology
Cryptography
Cybersecurity
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Victoria Baines
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Principal
Cartimandua Insight
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.
Expertise
Artificial Intelligence
Cryptography
Cybersecurity
Government
International Policy
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Shelby Baker
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Help Desk Manager
Expertise
Computer Science
Information Technology
Ashley Baker
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Director of Public Policy
Committee for Justice
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.
Expertise
Artificial Intelligence
Free Speech
Government
Legislation
Policy
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Vian Bakir
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Professor in Journalism and Political Communication
Bangor University
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
Expertise
Artificial Intelligence
Journalism
National Security
Research
Diana Banks
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Senior Counsel
American Bankers Association
Expertise
Cybersecurity
Military
National Security
Christine Bannan
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Administrative Law and Policy Fellow
Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)
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.
Expertise
Consumer Technology
Cybersecurity
Government
Law
Legislation
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Victoria Baranetsky
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General Counsel
The Center for Investigative Reporting
Expertise
Free Speech
Information Technology
Journalism
Law
Litigation
Nicole Baratta
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Content Strategist
Red Hat
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.
Expertise
Education
Journalism
Open Source
Nayia Barmpaliou
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Policy Coordinator and Programme Manager on Cyber
European Commission
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).
Expertise
Cybersecurity
Government
International Policy
Law
National Security
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Lindsey Barrett
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Staff Attorney/Teaching Fellow
Communications & Technology Clinic, Institute for Public Representation, Georgetown University Law Center
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.
Expertise
Artificial Intelligence
Consumer Technology
Government
Law
Legislation
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Ann Barron-DiCamillo
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Vice President, Cyber Intel & Incident Response
American Express
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.
Expertise
Cybersecurity
Government
Ivana Bartoletti
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Head of Privacy and Data Protection
Gemserv
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.
Expertise
Artificial Intelligence
International Policy
Law
Privacy
Laura Bate
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Policy Analyst
New America
Expertise
Cybersecurity
Education
National Security
Policy
Lindsay Beck
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Digital Safety Director
Open Technology Fund
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.
Expertise
Cryptography
Cybersecurity
Free Speech
International Policy
Open Source
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Nicole Beckwith
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Sr. Cyber Intelligence Analyst
GE Aviation
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.
Expertise
Cybersecurity
Alexia Bedat
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Associate
Lawyer
Expertise
Free Speech
Intellectual Property
Journalism
Law
Privacy
Ana Beduschi
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Associate Professor
University of Exeter, Law School
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.
Expertise
Data
Free Speech
Human Rights
Law
Policy
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Genevieve Bell
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Distinguished Professor, VP/Sr Fellow
Australian National University and Intel Corp
Expertise
Artificial Intelligence
Computer Science
Consumer Technology
Education
Government
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Terena Bell
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Head of Global PR
Lionbridge
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.
Expertise
Artificial Intelligence
Ethics
Journalism
UX/UI
Marianne Bellotti
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Senior Engineering Manager
USDS
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.
Expertise
Cybersecurity
Government
Software Development
Olga Belogolova
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Strategic Intelligence Analyst
Facebook
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.
Expertise
Cybersecurity
Free Speech
Journalism
National Security
Open Source
Malek Ben Salem
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Senior Manager - Security R&D
Accenture
Expertise
Artificial Intelligence
Computer Science
Cybersecurity
Information Technology
National Security
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Cathleen Berger
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Global Engagement Lead
Mozilla
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.
Expertise
Cybersecurity
Free Speech
Government
Information Technology
International Policy
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Allison Berke
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Executive Director, Stanford Cyber Initiative
Stanford University
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.
Expertise
Cryptography
Cybersecurity
Education
Mathematics
National Security
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Sasha Bernhard
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Legislative Aide
Expertise
Artificial Intelligence
Computer Science
Consumer Technology
Cybersecurity
Education
plus 5 more
Lucy Bernholz
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Sr. Research Scholar, Director
Stanford University Digital Civil Society Lab
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.
Expertise
Government
Research
Jessica Beyer
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Research Scientist/Lecturer
University of Washington
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.
Expertise
Cybersecurity
Education
Government
Information Technology
International Policy
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Jess Bier
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Assistant Professor of Urban Sociology
Erasmus University Rotterdam
Expertise
Consumer Technology
Free Speech
Information Technology
Research
Diana Biggs
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Head of Digital Innovation, UK & Europe; Subject Matter Expert, Blockchain Strategy
HSBC; Oxford Said Business School; World Economic Forum - Digital Leaders Europe; The European Blockchain Observatory and Forum
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.
Expertise
Education
Information Technology
Open Source
Privacy
Research
Mary Ethna Black
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Dr (Medicine, Public Health and Data)
Pavilion Health, Paintings in Hospital, Independent Consultant
Expertise
Education
Free Speech
Government
Information Technology
International Policy
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Lindsay Blackwell
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Researcher
Facebook
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.
Expertise
Artificial Intelligence
Computer Science
Ethics
Free Speech
Policy
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Candice Blain
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Managing Attorney
Blain LLC | Law Firm
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
Expertise
Free Speech
Law
Litigation
Laurie Blank
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Clinical Professor of Law and Director, International Humanitarian Law Clinic
Emory Law School
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).
Expertise
Government
International Policy
Law
Military
National Security
Carolyn Blankenship
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SVP Associate General Counsel
Thomson Reuters
Expertise
Information Technology
Intellectual Property
Law
Legislation
Research
Aline Blankertz
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Project Director Data Economy
Stiftung Neue Verantwortung
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.
Expertise
Consumer Technology
Data
Ethics
Information Technology
Intellectual Property
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Beth Blauer
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Executive Director
Center for Government Excellence at Johns Hopkins University
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.
Expertise
Government
Information Technology
Policy
Nadya Bliss
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Director
Global Security Initiative, Arizona State University
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.
Expertise
Artificial Intelligence
Computer Science
Cybersecurity
Hardware Development
Information Technology
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Stacey Blissett
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Founder
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.
Expertise
Consumer Technology
Education
Ethics
Government
Graphic Design
plus 4 more
Hannah Bloch-Wehba
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Assistant Professor of Law
Drexel University Kline School of Law
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.
Expertise
Artificial Intelligence
Free Speech
Journalism
Law
Litigation
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Shirley Bloomfield
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Chief Executive Officer
NTCA-The Rural Broadband Association
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.
Expertise
Legislation
Policy
Kellyn Blossom
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Head of Public Policy
Thumbtack
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.
Expertise
Government
Law
Legislation
Policy
Marjory Blumenthal
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Director, Science, Technology, and Policy Program
RAND Corporation
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.
Expertise
Artificial Intelligence
Computer Science
Cybersecurity
Education
Government
plus 5 more
Elizabeth Bodine-Baron
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Senior Information Scientist
RAND Corporation
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.
Expertise
Computer Science
Cybersecurity
Data
Military
National Security
plus 4 more
Miranda Bogen
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Senior Policy Analyst
Upturn
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.
Expertise
Artificial Intelligence
Consumer Technology
International Policy
Policy
Allie Bohm
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Policy Counsel
Public Knowledge
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.
Expertise
Legislation
Policy
Privacy
Jamie Boone
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Vice President, Government Affairs
Consumer Technology Association
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.
Expertise
Consumer Technology
Government
Legislation
Policy
Privacy
Mary Beth Borgwing
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President
Standish Cyber
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.
Expertise
Artificial Intelligence
Computer Science
Cybersecurity
Information Technology
Intellectual Property
Nikki Bourassa
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Program & Policy Officer
Global Network Initiative
Expertise
Artificial Intelligence
Free Speech
Human Rights
International Policy
Policy
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Katelyn Bowden
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Founder and CEO
BADASS (Battling Against Demeaning and Abusive Selfie Sharing)
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.
Expertise
Consumer Technology
Cybersecurity
Education
Information Technology
Intellectual Property
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Allie Brandenburger
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Co-Founder & CEO
TheBridge
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.
Expertise
Consumer Technology
Cybersecurity
Information Technology
Policy
Privacy
Ana Brandusescu
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World Wide Web Foundation
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.
Expertise
Artificial Intelligence
Free Speech
Government
Policy
Privacy
plus 1 more
Heather Braum
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PhD Student
University of South Carolina, School of Library and Information Science
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.
Expertise
Consumer Technology
Education
Free Speech
Government
Information Technology
plus 5 more
Raquel Breternitz
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Senior Designer
Pivotal Labs D.C.
Expertise
Graphic Design
Research
Service Design
UX/UI
Tess Bridgeman
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Lecturer
Stanford University
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.
Expertise
International Policy
Law
National Security
Policy
Annemarie Bridy
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Professor
University of Idaho College of Law
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.
Expertise
Free Speech
Information Technology
Intellectual Property
Law
Legislation
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Julie Brill
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Corporate Vice President and Deputy General Counsel for Global Privacy and Regulatory Affairs
Microsoft
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.
Expertise
Artificial Intelligence
Consumer Technology
Government
Information Technology
International Policy
plus 4 more
Meredith Broussard
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Assistant Professor
New York University
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.
Expertise
Artificial Intelligence
Journalism
Megan Brown
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Partner
Wiley, Women's High Tech Coalition Board Member, National Security Institute at George Mason Univ.
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.
Expertise
Consumer Technology
Cybersecurity
Free Speech
Government
Legislation
plus 3 more
Eileen Brown
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Digital Consultant
IoT Geek & Advisor. Author, Working the Crowd: Social Media Marketing for Business. Socbiz @ZDNet. Liveryman @it_livery. +44 7764 359 905.
Expertise
Artificial Intelligence
Information Technology
Briana Brownell
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Founder and CEO
Pure Strategy Inc.
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.
Expertise
Artificial Intelligence
Computer Science
Intellectual Property
Mathematics
Research
Alison Brzenchek
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Campaign Organizer
Free Press
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.
Expertise
Education
Free Speech
Policy
Research
Georgia Bullen
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Director of Technology Projects
New America's Open Technology Institute
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.
Expertise
Artificial Intelligence
Computer Science
Information Technology
Open Source
Policy
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Leslie Burns
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Attorney
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.
Expertise
Graphic Design
Intellectual Property
Law
Heather Burns
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Policy Fellow
Coadec
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.
Expertise
International Policy
Open Source
Policy
Privacy
Software Development
Paulina Bustos Arellano
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Cívica Digital
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).
Expertise
Artificial Intelligence
Computer Science
Consumer Technology
Government
Information Technology
plus 5 more
Jonniann Butterfield
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Associate Professor of Sociology
Austin Peay State University
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.
Expertise
Education
Law
Legislation
Policy
Research
Elisa Cafferata
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Principal
Cafferata & Co Government Relations
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.
Expertise
Government
Legislation
Policy
Kristine Campbell
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CEO
Hailio
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.
Expertise
Artificial Intelligence
Data
Education
Ethics
Free Speech
plus 7 more
Eliza Campbell
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Associate Director for Cyber Program
Middle East Institute
Expertise
Consumer Technology
Cybersecurity
Disability
Education
Environment
plus 12 more
Pam Campos
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Senior Political Strategist
Beyond The Choir
Senior political strategist vested in international peace & security, justice, democracy, and winning change. Former USAF Intelligence.
Expertise
International Policy
Military
National Security
Krista Canellakis
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Chief Innovation Officer
City and County of San Francisco
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.
Expertise
Government
Information Technology
Kathleen Carley
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Professor Computer Science, Engineering and Public Policy, Social and Decision Sciences, The Heinz College, and Tepper School of Business
Carnegie Mellon University
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.
Expertise
Computer Science
Consumer Technology
Cybersecurity
National Security
Policy
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Dr. Renee Carr
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Political & Corporate Advisor, Psychologist
The Problem Solver, LLC
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.
Expertise
Ethics
Free Speech
Government
Human Rights
Policy
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Kate Carruthers
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Chief Data & Analytics Officer
University of New South Wales
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.
Expertise
Cybersecurity
Education
Government
Information Technology
Policy
plus 2 more
Hannah Cassius
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Product Manager
New York Times
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.
Expertise
Journalism
Ana Rosa Castillo
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PhD Computer Science, Data Scientist, R&D Engineer
WTM, R4DS and Py4DS
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.
Expertise
Computer Science
Information Technology
Research
Software Development
Florence Castro
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Co-Founder and Principal
Artificial Intelligence sand Machine Learning
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.
Expertise
Artificial Intelligence
Information Technology
Litigation
Software Development
Rosa Castro
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Postdoctoral researcher, editor
Duke University, Science & Society Initiative
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.
Expertise
Law
Policy
Corinne Cath
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PhD Candidate
Digital Ethics Lab, Oxford Internet Institute
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.
Expertise
Artificial Intelligence
Cybersecurity
International Policy
Policy
Karen Cator
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President and CEO
Digital Promise
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.
Expertise
Consumer Technology
Education
Government
Legislation
Policy
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Naomi Ceder
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Board Chair
Python Software Foundation
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.
Expertise
Computer Science
Education
Information Technology
Open Source
Software Development
Amy Cerato
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Professor
University of Oklahoma
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.
Expertise
Mathematics
Alicia Chacon
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Security Consultant
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.
Expertise
Cybersecurity
Free Speech
Lisa Chambers
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National Executive Director
TECH CORPS
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.
Expertise
Computer Science
Education
Amal Chammas
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Learning & Development & Researcher
York St John University
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.
Expertise
Education
Research
Kate Chapman
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Managing Principal
Cascadia Technical Mentorship
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.
Expertise
Open Source
Kate Charlet
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Director for Data Governance
Google
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.
Expertise
Artificial Intelligence
Cybersecurity
Government
Information Technology
International Policy
plus 3 more
Freyja Chen
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Global PR Manager, AI
Baidu
Effective Altruism + Tech for Good advocate. International Relations + AI Policy researcher. Global Public Relations Manager of AI in Baidu, China's Google.
Expertise
Artificial Intelligence
Consumer Technology
Free Speech
Government
Hardware Development
plus 4 more
Sarah Chiles
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Startup Engagement Manager
Starburst Accelerator
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.
Expertise
Artificial Intelligence
Cybersecurity
Military
UX/UI
Rumman Chowdhury
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Global Lead, Responsible AI
Accenture
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
Expertise
Artificial Intelligence
Computer Science
Consumer Technology
Education
Government
plus 5 more
Emma Christman
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Senior Associate
Glen Echo Group
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.
Expertise
Consumer Technology
Policy
Phaedra Chrousos
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Chief Innovation Officer
The Libra Group
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.
Expertise
Consumer Technology
Government
International Policy
Legislation
National Security
plus 1 more
Danielle Citron
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Professor of Law
University of Maryland Carey School of Law; Affiliate Fellow, Yale Information Society Project; Affiliate Scholar, Stanford Center of Internet and Society
Danielle Citron is an internationally recognized expert in information privacy, free speech, and AI.
Expertise
Artificial Intelligence
Consumer Technology
Cybersecurity
Free Speech
Law
plus 3 more
Holly Clark
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Communications Specialist
New River Community & Technical College
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.
Expertise
Graphic Design
UX/UI
Sarah Clarke
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Privacy and Information Security GRC Specialist
Infospectives Ltd / BH Consulting
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"
Expertise
Cybersecurity
Journalism
Policy
Privacy
Candace Clement
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Campaign Director
Free Press
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.
Expertise
Free Speech
Policy
Angela Cleveland
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Program Director
Counselors for Computing (NCWIT)
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.
Expertise
Computer Science
Education
Policy
Jennifer Cobbe
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Coordinator, Cambridge Trustworthy Technologies
University of Cambridge
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.
Expertise
Artificial Intelligence
Consumer Technology
Law
Legislation
Policy
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Amy Codes
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Systems Software Engineer
Heptio
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.
Expertise
Open Source
Software Development
Natasha Cohen
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Director, Compliance and Information Security Risk & Cybersecurity Policy Fellow
BlueVoyant & New America
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.
Expertise
Cybersecurity
Government
International Policy
National Security
Policy
plus 1 more
Julie Cohen
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Mark Claster Mamolen Professor of Law & Technology
Georgetown Law
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.
Expertise
Intellectual Property
Law
Privacy
Michelle Cohen
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Member & Chair Privacy and Data Security Practice; Certified Information Privacy Professional - U.S.
Ifrah PLLC; also VP Legal & Secretary, National Woman's Party (non-profit)
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.
Expertise
Artificial Intelligence
Consumer Technology
Cybersecurity
Education
Free Speech
plus 9 more
Cindy Cohn
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Executive Director
Electronic Frontier Foundation
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.
Expertise
Artificial Intelligence
Cryptography
Cybersecurity
Free Speech
Law
plus 3 more
Chelsey Colbert
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Privacy & AI lawyer
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.
Expertise
Artificial Intelligence
Law
Policy
Privacy
Lori Cole
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Cyber Threat Analyst
BB&T
Expertise
Computer Science
Cryptography
Cybersecurity
Education
Information Technology
plus 3 more
Karen Connaghan
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Chief Information Technology Officer / Assistant Superintendent
San Diego County Office of Education
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.
Expertise
Consumer Technology
Cybersecurity
Education
Information Technology
Policy
plus 4 more
Lauren Connolly
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Senior Product Designer
Yelp
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.
Expertise
Consumer Technology
Education
Open Source
Research
UX/UI
Maura Conway
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Professor of International Security and Coordinator of VOX-Pol
Dublin City University and VOX-Pol (Network of Excellence for Research on Violent Online Political Extremism)
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.
Expertise
Cybersecurity
International Policy
Sarah Conway
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Sr. Director PR Services
Linux Foundation
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.
Expertise
Open Source
Software Development
Anna Cook
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Solicitor
Bristows
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.
Expertise
Cybersecurity
Information Technology
Law
Legislation
Litigation
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Di Cooke
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OSINT Analyst, AI & Security PhD Candidate
Centre for Science and Security Studies
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.
Expertise
Artificial Intelligence
International Policy
Military
National Security
Open Source
Betsy Cooper
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UC Berkeley
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.
Expertise
Artificial Intelligence
Cybersecurity
Education
Government
International Policy
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Sophia Cope
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Senior Staff Attorney
Electronic Frontier Foundation
Expertise
Free Speech
Law
Legislation
Litigation
Policy
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Maura Corbett
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Founder and CEO
Glen Echo Group
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.
Expertise
Consumer Technology
Cybersecurity
Free Speech
Intellectual Property
Journalism
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Betsy Corcoran
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CEO
EdSurge
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.
Expertise
Education
Journalism
Yasodara Cordova
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Research Fellow
Harvard 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.
Expertise
Artificial Intelligence
Government
Information Technology
International Policy
Law
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Jennifer Costley
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Director of Physical Sciences, Sustainability & Engineering
The New York Academy of 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.
Expertise
Computer Science
Information Technology
Intellectual Property
Policy
Research
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Krista Cox
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Director of Public Policy Initiatives
Association of Research Libraries
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.
Expertise
Artificial Intelligence
Consumer Technology
Education
Free Speech
Intellectual Property
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Dianne Crampton
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Founder, CEO
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.
Expertise
Workforce
Lorrie Cranor
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Professor, Carnegie Mellon University
Director, Carnegie Mellon University's CyLab
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.
Expertise
Computer Science
Consumer Technology
Cybersecurity
Education
Information Technology
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Kate Crawford
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Co-founder, AI Now Institute; Distinguished Research Professor, NYU; Principal Researcher, Microsoft Research
The AI Now Institute at NYU; Microsoft Research
Expertise
Artificial Intelligence
Computer Science
Consumer Technology
Education
Government
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Mary Alice Crim
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Field Director
Free Press/Free Press Action Fund
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.
Expertise
Free Speech
Journalism
Policy
Privacy
Tianca Crocker
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Assistant Professor
University of North Carolina at Charlotte
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.
Expertise
Policy
Research
Service Design
Kade Crockford
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Director, Technology for Liberty Program
ACLU of Massachusetts
Expertise
Artificial Intelligence
National Security
Policy
Privacy
Research
Rebecca Crootof
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Research Scholar & Lecturer in Law
Yale Law School
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.
Expertise
Artificial Intelligence
Consumer Technology
Cybersecurity
International Policy
Law
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Lindsay Crudele
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Principal, Digital Strategist
Crudele Digital
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.
Expertise
Government
Graphic Design
Policy
Service Design
UX/UI
Catherine Crump
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Assistant Clinical Professor
UC Berkeley, School of Law
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.
Expertise
Free Speech
Law
National Security
Privacy
Mary (Missy) Cummings
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Professor
Duke University
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.
Expertise
Artificial Intelligence
Education
Military
Policy
Public Interest Technology
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Katie Cunningham
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CTO
Speak Agent
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.
Expertise
Education
Information Technology
Open Source
Software Development
Jumoke Dada
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Tech Consultant and Founder
Tech Women Network
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.
Expertise
Computer Science
Education
Government
Information Technology
Software Development
Leslie Daigle
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Principal
Thinking Cat Enterprises
Leslie Daigle leads global Internet actions to achieve significant innovations. She is a globally-recognized writer and speaker.
Expertise
Computer Science
Cybersecurity
International Policy
Genya Dana
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Head of Precision Medicine
World Economic Forum, Center for the Fourth Industrial Revolution
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.
Expertise
International Policy
Kate Darling
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Researcher
MIT and Harvard
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.
Expertise
Artificial Intelligence
Intellectual Property
Policy
Jennifer Daskal
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Associate Professor
American University Washington College of Law
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.
Expertise
Free Speech
Government
International Policy
Law
Legislation
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Amanda Davie
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Executive & Leadership Coach
Equal Talent Limited
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.
Expertise
Free Speech
Michelle De Mooy
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Director, Privacy and Data Project
Center for Democracy & Technology
Expertise
Consumer Technology
Information Technology
Policy
Privacy
UX/UI
Carrie DeCell
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Staff Attorney
Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University
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.
Expertise
Free Speech
Law
Litigation
Laura DeNardis
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Professor
American University Internet Governance Lab
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
Expertise
Cybersecurity
Information Technology
International Policy
Policy
Research
Mary DeRosa
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Professor from Practice
Georgetown University Law Center
Expertise
Cybersecurity
International Policy
Law
National Security
Selena Deckelmann
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Senior Director of Engineering
Mozilla
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.
Expertise
Information Technology
Open Source
Privacy
Software Development
Anastasia Dedyukhina
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TEDx speaker, book author, Huffington Post blogger, founder of Consciously Digital, organizer of the first mindful tech and art festival Focus Inside
Consciously Digital
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.
Expertise
Artificial Intelligence
Computer Science
Consumer Technology
Cybersecurity
Education
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Marcela Denniston
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VP of Field Engineering
ShieldX
Expertise
Cybersecurity
Information Technology
Military
National Security
Frances Dewing
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CEO
Rubica Inc.
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.
Expertise
Cybersecurity
Tara Dharnikota
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Open source intelligence and cyber security manager
I have been in the IT and security field for around 10 years and specialising in open source threat intelligence currently.
Expertise
Cybersecurity
Information Technology
Open Source
Research
Joann DiGennaro
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President
Center for Excellence in Education
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).
Expertise
Education
Policy
Renee DiResta
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Director of Research
New Knowledge, Data for Democracy
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”.
Expertise
Cybersecurity
Free Speech
Information Technology
Legislation
National Security
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Marianne Diaz
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Public Policy Officer for Latin America
Derechos Digitales
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.
Expertise
Cybersecurity
Free Speech
Information Technology
Intellectual Property
Law
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Virginia Dignum
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Professor
Delft University of Technology
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".
Expertise
Artificial Intelligence
Education
Information Technology
Shauna Dillavou
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Principal
Security Positive
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.
Expertise
Cryptography
Cybersecurity
Free Speech
Government
International Policy
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Pam Dixon
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Founder and Executive Director
World Privacy Forum
Expertise
Artificial Intelligence
Consumer Technology
Cybersecurity
Government
Information Technology
plus 4 more
Laura Donohue
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Professor of Law
Georgetown Law
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.
Expertise
Artificial Intelligence
Free Speech
Law
National Security
Privacy
April Doss
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Chair, Cybersecurity and Privacy
Saul Ewing Arnstein & Lehr
Expertise
Cybersecurity
Government
International Policy
Law
National Security
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Nicole DuPuis
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Manager-Urban Innovation
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.
Expertise
Government
Legislation
Policy
Research
Lina Duarte
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Life Science Solutions Consultant
Expertise
Consumer Technology
Cybersecurity
Government
Information Technology
Policy
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Máirín Duffy
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Principal UX Designer
Red Hat, Inc.
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.
Expertise
Education
Graphic Design
Information Technology
Open Source
UX/UI
Susan Dworak
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CEO
Real Identities, LLC
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.
Expertise
Law
Legislation
Morgan Dwyer
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Fellow, International Security Program and Deputy Director for Policy Analysis, Defense-Industrial Initiatives Group
Center for Strategic and International Studies
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.
Expertise
Cybersecurity
Government
Hardware Development
Military
National Security
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Sally Edgar
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Digital Transformation Consultant
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.
Expertise
Consumer Technology
Information Technology
Policy
Service Design
Software Development
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Lilian Edwards
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Professor of Law, Innovation and Society
Newcastle Law School, UK
Expertise
Artificial Intelligence
Free Speech
Law
Privacy
Courtney Ehrlichman
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Founder, Principal
Ehrlichman Group
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!
Expertise
Artificial Intelligence
Government
Information Technology
Legislation
Policy
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Kristen Eichensehr
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Assistant Professor
UCLA School of Law
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.
Expertise
Cybersecurity
Government
Information Technology
International Policy
Law
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Sonya Eick
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Software Developer
Software developer with 4-5 years of experience in web development, mostly server development.
Expertise
Software Development
Amit Elazari
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Doctoral Law Candidate, Grantee
UC Berkeley School of Law, The Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity
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.
Expertise
Artificial Intelligence
Cybersecurity
Intellectual Property
International Policy
Law
plus 3 more
Limor Elhayani
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Threat Engineering
Expertise
Computer Science
Cybersecurity
Information Technology
Research
Madeleine Clare Elish
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Research Lead
Data & Society Research Institute
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.
Expertise
Artificial Intelligence
Cybersecurity
Information Technology
Military
Policy
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Heather Engel
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Chief Strategy Officer
Sera-Brynn, LLC
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.
Expertise
Cybersecurity
Education
Government
Information Technology
Military
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Rebecca Enonchong
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CEO
APPSTECH
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
Expertise
Computer Science
Consumer Technology
Free Speech
Information Technology
International Policy
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Roya Ensafi
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Research Assistant Professor
Computer Science and Engineering, University of Michigan
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).
Expertise
Computer Science
Cybersecurity
Free Speech
Information Technology
International Policy
plus 3 more
Melanie Ensign
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Head of Security, Privacy, & Risk Communications
Uber / DEF CON
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.
Expertise
Consumer Technology
Cybersecurity
Journalism
Open Source
Privacy
Mieke Eoyang
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VP for National Security
Third Way
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.
Expertise
Cybersecurity
Government
Law
Legislation
National Security
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Hilary Escajeda
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Attorney/adjunct tax professor
Expertise
Law
Policy
Camila Escallon
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Personal & City Safety Policy
Uber
Expertise
Consumer Technology
Government
Journalism
National Security
Policy
Victoria Espinel
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President and CEO
BSA | The Software Alliance
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.
Expertise
Artificial Intelligence
Cybersecurity
Education
Government
Intellectual Property
plus 5 more
Tavonia Evans
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Founder/CEO
$GUAP Coin
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.
Expertise
Consumer Technology
Cryptography
Information Technology
Software Development
UX/UI
Karen S. Evans
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National Director
US Cyber Challenge
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.
Expertise
Cybersecurity
Government
Policy
Rachael Falk
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Cyber Security Advisor
Expertise
Cybersecurity
Law
Litigation
National Security
Policy
Katie Fallow
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Senior Staff Attorney
Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University
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.
Expertise
Free Speech
Law
Ash Fanning
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Lead UX Research and Design
www.counterculture.studio
A senior user experience professional, having worked with startups, innovation labs and agency.
Expertise
Consumer Technology
UX/UI
Nita Farahany
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Professor of Law & Philosophy; Director of Duke Initiative for Science & Society
Duke University
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.
Expertise
Artificial Intelligence
Consumer Technology
Education
Free Speech
Law
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Debra Farber
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Sr. Director, Privacy Strategy
BigID
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.
Expertise
Consumer Technology
Cybersecurity
International Policy
Legislation
Policy
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Michelle Farr
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Ceo
Zofia Consulting
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.
Expertise
Cryptography
Cybersecurity
Government
Military
National Security
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Robin Feldman
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Arthur J. Goldberg Distinguished Professor of Law
UC Hastings
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.
Expertise
Artificial Intelligence
Data
Intellectual Property
Law
Policy
Rebecca Fernandez
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Principal Program Manager, Open Organizational Culture
Red Hat
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.
Expertise
Free Speech
Open Source
Policy
Lindsay Ferris
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User Researcher
OkCupid
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).
Expertise
Consumer Technology
Government
Research
Service Design
UX/UI
Mailyn Fidler
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Cybersecurity Fellow
New America
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.
Expertise
Consumer Technology
Cybersecurity
Free Speech
International Policy
Law
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Rowenna Fielding
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Senior Data Protection Lead
Miss
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.
Expertise
Privacy
Cheryl Fillekes
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Systems Engineer
Mohawk Drumlin Creamery
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.
Expertise
Hardware Development
Information Technology
Mathematics
Open Source
Research
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Kelsey Finch
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Policy Counsel
Future of Privacy Forum
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.
Expertise
Consumer Technology
Government
Law
Policy
Privacy
Kay Firth-Butterfield
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Head of Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning
World Economic Forum, Center for the Fourth Industrial Revolution
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.
Expertise
Artificial Intelligence
Camille Fischer
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Frank Stanton Fellow
Electronic Frontier Foundation
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.
Expertise
Consumer Technology
Cryptography
Free Speech
Government
International Policy
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Sophie-Charlotte Fischer
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Doctoral Researcher
Center for Security Studies, ETH Zurich
Expertise
Artificial Intelligence
Military
National Security
Research
Lara Flint
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Associate Director, Governance Program
Democracy Fund
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.
Expertise
Legislation
National Security
Policy
Privacy
Dana Floberg
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Policy Analyst
Free Press
Policy analyst focusing on a wide range of media and telecommunications issues, including Net Neutrality, media consolidation, and broadband affordability.
Expertise
Law
Legislation
Policy
Research
Camille Francois
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Research & Analysis Director, Graphika
Affiliate, Harvard Berkman Center for Internet & Society
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.
Expertise
Artificial Intelligence
Cybersecurity
Free Speech
Information Technology
International Policy
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Ulrike Franke
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Policy Fellow
European Council on Foreign Relations
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).
Expertise
Artificial Intelligence
International Policy
Military
National Security
Research
Jane Frankland
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Managing Director
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.
Expertise
Cybersecurity
Sharon Bradford Franklin
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Director of Surveillance & Cybersecurity Policy
New America's Open Technology Institute
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.
Expertise
Cybersecurity
Free Speech
Government
Law
National Security
plus 2 more
Mary Anne Franks
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Law Professor; Legislative and Tech Policy Director
University of Miami School of Law; Cyber Civil Rights Initiative
Expertise
Free Speech
Law
Legislation
Privacy
Tracey Freed
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Attorney & Professor
Freed Law, P.C. and Loyola 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.
Expertise
Artificial Intelligence
Consumer Technology
Free Speech
Intellectual Property
International Policy
plus 4 more
Bridget Frey
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Chief Technology Officer
Redfin
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.
Expertise
Artificial Intelligence
Computer Science
Consumer Technology
Open Source
Software Development
plus 1 more
Anna Fridley
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Senior Cyber Risk Analyst
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 .
Expertise
Cybersecurity
Mathematics
Privacy
Batya Friedman
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Professor
University of Washington
Expertise
Artificial Intelligence
Information Technology
Policy
Privacy
Research
Ashley Friedman
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Senior Director, Global Policy
ITI - Information Technology Industry Council
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.
Expertise
Consumer Technology
Government
Information Technology
International Policy
Policy
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Suki Fuller
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Senior Analyst | Head of Strategic International Projects
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.
Expertise
Artificial Intelligence
Consumer Technology
Government
International Policy
National Security
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Deana Fuller
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Associate Director, Cybersecurity Complliance
Agio
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.
Expertise
Cybersecurity
Information Technology
Policy
Privacy
Kelly Funkhouser
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Head of Connected and Automated Vehicles
Consumer Reports
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.
Expertise
Consumer Technology
Information Technology
Infrastructure Policy
Public Interest Technology
Research
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Kate Gage
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Co-founder and Executive Director
Lab 736
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.
Expertise
Government
Hardware Development
International Policy
National Security
Policy
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Laura Galante
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Senior Fellow
Atlantic Council
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.
Expertise
Cybersecurity
Data
Government
International Policy
Military
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Rose Galloway Green
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Policy Advisor, Wholesale Energy Markets
British government
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.
Expertise
Policy
Research
Maya Indira Ganesh
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Researcher
Leuphana University/Independent
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.
Expertise
Artificial Intelligence
Cybersecurity
Education
Privacy
Research
Megan Garcia
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Senior Fellow
New America
Expertise
Artificial Intelligence
Cybersecurity
Policy
Maria Elena Garcia Segundo
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Head of Regional Software Hub
PMI
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
Expertise
Computer Science
Education
Government
Information Technology
Software Development
Claire Garside
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Co-founder
Foundation for Digital Creativity
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
Expertise
Computer Science
Education
Information Technology
Policy
Research
Clare Garvie
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Associate
Center on Privacy & Technology at Georgetown Law
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 [email protected]
Expertise
Government
Law
Policy
Privacy
Research
Genevieve Gaudet
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Design Lead & Program Manager
Nava PBC
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.
Expertise
Government
Research
Service Design
Cathy Gellis
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Attorney
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.
Expertise
Free Speech
Information Technology
Intellectual Property
Law
Policy
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Beth George
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Of Counsel
Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati,
Expertise
Cybersecurity
Government
Law
National Security
Privacy
Judith Germano
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Founder, Distinguished Fellow on Cybersecurity, Adjunct Professor
GermanoLaw LLC, NYU Center for Cybersecurity, NYU School of Law
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.
Expertise
Cybersecurity
Data
Ethics
Law
Legislation
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Racha Ghamlouch
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Senior Program Manager, Business Adviser
Expertise
Consumer Technology
Free Speech
Government
Information Technology
Abir Ghattas
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Raseef22, Open Knowledge International, Majal
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.
Expertise
Cybersecurity
Free Speech
Journalism
Privacy
Toni Gidwani
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Director of Research Operations
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.
Expertise
Cybersecurity
Education
Government
Military
National Security
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Lex Gill
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Research Fellow
Citizen Lab
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)
Expertise
Cryptography
Cybersecurity
Free Speech
International Policy
Law
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Lisa Gilley
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General Counsel
Phase2 Technology
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.
Expertise
Cybersecurity
Law
Open Source
Policy
Privacy
Rachel Gillum
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Senior Director
RiceHadleyGates
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.
Expertise
Government
International Policy
Legislation
National Security
Policy
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Carrie Goldberg, Esq.
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Owner, C.A. Goldberg, PLLC
Cyber Civil Rights Initiative, Brooklyn Law School, Vassar College
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.
Expertise
Law
Legislation
Litigation
Policy
Privacy
Amy Gonzales
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Assistant Professor
University of California, Santa Barbara
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.
Expertise
Education
Information Technology
Policy
Research
Jessica González
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Deputy Director & Senior Counsel
Free Press
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.
Expertise
Consumer Technology
Free Speech
Government
Journalism
Law
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Lauren Goodwin
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Digital Security and Risk Officer
Cyber
Expertise
Artificial Intelligence
Cybersecurity
Government
Information Technology
International Policy
Lori Gordon
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Senior Strategist, Cyber & Infrastructure Resilience
HWC
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).
Expertise
Artificial Intelligence
Cybersecurity
Government
Legislation
Policy
Lindsay Gorman
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Fellow for Emerging Technology
Alliance for Securing Democracy, The German Marshall Fund of the United States
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.
Expertise
Artificial Intelligence
Computer Science
Cryptography
Cybersecurity
Government
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Ashley Gorski
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Staff Attorney, National Security Project
American Civil Liberties Union
Expertise
Law
Litigation
National Security
Policy
Privacy
Julie Goshorn
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Attorney
Federal Trade Commission
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.
Expertise
Consumer Technology
Government
International Policy
Law
Legislation
plus 3 more
Jennifer Granick
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Surveillance and Cybersecurity Counsel
American Civil Liberties Union
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.
Expertise
Cryptography
Cybersecurity
Free Speech
Law
Legislation
plus 4 more
Samantha Grassle
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Senior Manager
City of New York
tech policy & internet things @nycmayorsoffice @nyc_cto. Previously @thegovlab, @google, @AAPD, @ColumbiaSIPA. Opinions are my own.
Expertise
Education
Government
Information Technology
International Policy
Policy
plus 1 more
Megan Gray
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Attorney
Stanford Center for Internet & Society
Expertise
Free Speech
Government
Intellectual Property
Journalism
Law
plus 4 more
Lucy Greco
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Access Technology Evangelist
UC Berkeley
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.
Expertise
Consumer Technology
Education
Hardware Development
Information Technology
Litigation
plus 3 more
Robyn Greene
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Policy Counsel and Government Affairs Lead
New America's Open Technology Institute
Expertise
Cryptography
Cybersecurity
Free Speech
Government
Law
plus 4 more
Dr. Vivian Greentree
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SVP, Head of Global Corporate Citizenship
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.
Expertise
Government
Journalism
Military
Policy
Research
Laura Grego
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Senior Scientist
Union of Concerned Scientists
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.
Expertise
International Policy
Military
National Security
Policy
Renee Gregory
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Counsel
Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP
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.
Expertise
Consumer Technology
Government
Law
Legislation
Policy
Samantha Gross
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Fellow, Energy Security and Climate
Brookings Institution
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.
Expertise
Government
International Policy
Policy
Kristine Gross
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President
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
Expertise
Consumer Technology
Cybersecurity
Cindy Gross
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Founder and Chief Anti-Harassment Officer
Befriending Dragons
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.
Expertise
Artificial Intelligence
Data
Ethics
Free Speech
Human Rights
plus 7 more
Ana Grouverman
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Researcher
Oxford Internet Institute
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.
Expertise
Artificial Intelligence
Consumer Technology
Cybersecurity
Free Speech
Government
plus 5 more
Laura Grunzinger
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Attorney
LRG Law Offices, LLC
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.
Expertise
Intellectual Property
Law
Abbie Gruwell
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Policy Director
National Conference of State Legislatures
State-federal policy expert in cybersecurity, technology, privacy, telecommunications, and digital government.
Expertise
Artificial Intelligence
Consumer Technology
Cybersecurity
Government
Information Technology
plus 6 more
Rosanna Guadagno
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Researcher
Peace Innovation Lab at Stanford University
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.
Expertise
Consumer Technology
Cybersecurity
Education
Government
Information Technology
plus 2 more
Seda Gurses
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Researcher
KU Leuven/Princeton University/TU Delft
Post-doctoral researcher on Privacy, Surveillance, Security and Software Engineering
Expertise
Artificial Intelligence
Computer Science
Consumer Technology
Cryptography
Cybersecurity
plus 4 more
Jenn Gustetic
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Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR/STTR) Program Executive
NASA
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.
Expertise
Government
Policy
Research
Kerstin Günther
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former CTIO Europe Deutsche Telekom AG
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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.
Expertise
Consumer Technology
Information Technology
Legislation
Myriam Hamed Torres
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Software Development Management
Agile Business Consortium, Project Management Institute (PMI), Scrum Alliance
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.
Expertise
Cybersecurity
Information Technology
Software Development
Rebecca Hamilton
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Assistant Professor of Law
American University, Washington College of Law
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.
Expertise
International Policy
Journalism
Law
Military
National Security
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Azadeh Haratiannezhadi
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IT Security operation manager
Expertise
Artificial Intelligence
Computer Science
Cybersecurity
Information Technology
Software Development
Liz Hardwick
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Co-Founder
PSA-UK (Professional Speakers Association)
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.
Expertise
Artificial Intelligence
Consumer Technology
Education
Free Speech
Information Technology
plus 3 more
Stephanie Hare
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researcher
Researcher, BBC Expert Women, Foreign Policy Interrupted Fellow
Expertise
Cybersecurity
International Policy
Privacy
Research
Arya Hariharan
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Democratic Counsel
U.S. House of Representatives, Committee on the Judiciary
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.
Expertise
Artificial Intelligence
Cybersecurity
Government
International Policy
Law
plus 4 more
Dominique Harrison
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Senior Project Manager
The Aspen Institute
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.
Expertise
Education
Information Technology
International Policy
Policy
Research
Shelly Harvill
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Business Development Executive, Cybersecurity, Healthcare
Agio
Expertise
Cybersecurity
Information Technology
Privacy
Oona Hathaway
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Professor of Law
Yale Law School
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).
Expertise
Government
International Policy
Law
National Security
Policy
Melissa Hathaway
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President
Hathaway Global Strategies LLC
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
Expertise
Consumer Technology
Cybersecurity
Government
Information Technology
International Policy
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Lisa Hawke
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VP Security and Compliance
Everlaw
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.
Expertise
Cybersecurity
Information Technology
Law
Policy
Privacy
Leslie Hawthorn
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Sr. Principal Technical Program Manager
Red Hat
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/
Expertise
Open Source
Lisa Hayes
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Vice President, Strategy & General Counsel
Center for Democracy & Technology (CDT)
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.
Expertise
Consumer Technology
Cybersecurity
Free Speech
Government
Law
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Emily Hayman
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Solutions Engineer
Algolia
Expertise
Computer Science
Consumer Technology
Education
Information Technology
Intellectual Property
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Katherine Heller
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Assistant Professor, Statistical Science
Duke University
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.
Expertise
Artificial Intelligence
Brittan Heller
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Director of Technology and Society
ADL's Center for Technology and Society
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.
Expertise
Artificial Intelligence
Free Speech
Government
International Policy
Law
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Kathryn Henne
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Canada Research Chair
University of Waterloo and Australian National University
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.
Expertise
International Policy
Law
Policy
Privacy
Research
Susan Hennessey
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Fellow, Governance Studies
Brookings Institution
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.
Expertise
Cybersecurity
Government
Law
Legislation
Military
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Rebecca Herold
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CEO
The Privacy Professor (consultancy)...and...SIMBUS, LLC (cloud services)
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 [email protected]
Expertise
Artificial Intelligence
Computer Science
Consumer Technology
Cryptography
Cybersecurity
plus 8 more
Erin Hichman
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Senior Analyst
ALM
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.
Expertise
Cybersecurity
Information Technology
Research
Mar Hicks
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Professor
Illinois Institute of Technology
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.
Expertise
Artificial Intelligence
Computer Science
Consumer Technology
Education
Information Technology
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Fanny Hidvegi
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European Policy Manager and Legal Counsel
Access Now
Expertise
Law
Legislation
Litigation
Policy
Privacy
Mireille Hildebrandt
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Professor
Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Radboud University Nijmegen
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
Expertise
Artificial Intelligence
Law
Legislation
Privacy
Kashmir Hill
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Senior reporter
Gizmodo Media Group
Kashmir Hill writes about privacy and technology.
Expertise
Journalism
Privacy
Amanda Hill
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Assistant Professor
St. Mary's University
Amanda Hill is an Assistant Professor of Communication Studies at St. Mary's University. She is an artist, scholar, and educator who studies the intersections of narrative, performance, ethics, and media. She is particularly interested in vernacular practices of storytelling and the ways everyday people tell and share stories through digital media to promote cultural heritage. She has published multiple articles including in journals such as Storytelling, Self, Society; Journal of Psychology & the Behavioural Sciences; Media Education Research Journal; and Visual Ethnography. She additionally has works forthcoming in Review of Communication and Community Literacy Journal.
Expertise
Education
Ethics
Graphic Design
Public Interest Technology
Research
Anne Hobson
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Program Manager
Mercatus Center at George Mason University
Anne Hobson is a Program Manager for Academic & Student Programs at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University; Prior to her current role, Anne was a Technology Policy Fellow at the R Street Institute and an External Affairs Associate at Facebook. She is currently pursuing a PhD in economics from George Mason University and is an alumna of the Mercatus Center MA Fellowship at George Mason University. She continues to focus on policy issues associated with emerging technologies, such as artificial intelligence, virtual reality, and the internet of things. She received her B.A. in International Studies from Johns Hopkins University.
Expertise
Consumer Technology
Cybersecurity
Policy
Sarah Holland
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Manager, Public Policy
Google (but also 2018 Harvard/Berkman Klein Center and MIT Media Lab Assembly)
Sarah Holland is a Public Policy Manager at Google, where she is responsible for leading policy analysis and strategy and program development for user privacy, artificial intelligence, and emerging technology issues in the U.S.
She is also a member of the 2018 Assembly cohort on AI and its governance at the Berkman Klein Center and MIT Media Lab, and contributes to the Dataset Nutrition Label project (http://datanutrition.media.mit.edu/index.html).
Sarah currently serves on the Boards of the Family Online Safety Institute (Chairwoman) and National Network to End Domestic Violence.
Immediately prior to joining Google she served for many years as a senior policy advisor to U.S. Senator Mark Pryor on technology, communications, consumer protection, and foreign policy issues before the Senate Commerce and Appropriations Committees. In that role, she served as lead negotiator on several internet accessibility and consumer protection bills, bringing three to enactment, including the landmark 21st Century Communications and Video Accessibility Act (CVAA).
Expertise
Artificial Intelligence
Legislation
Policy
Privacy
Susan Holmes
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Professor Statistics
Stanford University
Professor of Statistics at Stanford University.
Specialized in exploratory data analysis for biological applications. Teaches statistics and introduction to crypto at Stanford. Breiman lecturer at NIPS 2016. Most interested in open access data and reproducible research for biomedical applications. Moderator for the Statistics subject on the arXiv preprint server. Author of several books and web resources for data visualization and analyses using R and multivariate analyses. Specialized in analyses of heterogeneous data, ie networks, trees and multi-domain data.
Has written several R packages for visualization of combined data sets.
Expertise
Artificial Intelligence
Computer Science
Cryptography
Education
Mathematics
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Sara Holoubek
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Founder/CEO
Luminary Labs
Sara Holoubek is the CEO and founder of Luminary Labs, a consultancy that develops strategies and innovation systems to help Fortune 500, government, and nonprofit organizations thrive in the face of change. She is also an active early stage investor.
Sara has been widely quoted in publications such as Fast Company, The Washington Post and WSJ.com. She has been recognized by LinkedIn as a 2017 Top Voice in Technology, Mashable as a female founder to watch, SmartCEO magazine as a 2017 New York Brava award winner, and PepsiCo WIN for her contributions to women in technology. Her company has been profiled in business books, Geek Girl Rising, Here’s the Plan, The Big Enough Company, and Stiletto Network. She also serves as a frequent guest lecturer on the subjects of technology and innovation.
Expertise
Artificial Intelligence
Consumer Technology
Education
Government
Open Source
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Dian Holton
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Deputy Art Director
AARP
Expertise
Graphic Design
Leigh Honeywell
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CEO
Tall Poppy
Leigh is the founder and CEO of Tall Poppy. She was previously a Technology Fellow at the ACLU’s Project on Speech, Privacy, and Technology, and also worked at Slack, Salesforce.com, Microsoft, and Symantec. She co-founded hackerspaces in Toronto and Seattle, and is an advisor to several nonprofits and startups. Leigh has a Bachelors of Science from the University of Toronto where she majored in Computer Science and Equity Studies.
Expertise
Computer Science
Consumer Technology
Cryptography
Cybersecurity
Free Speech
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Gena Hong
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Senior Experience Designer
Moment
My curiosity for how different people shape the world around them and how I might impact their ability to do so has led me to create an unusual path as a designer. I've worked on projects for the National Institutes of Health, Bridj, Datawheel, Cognizant Digital, and Wellesley Centers for Women. But if you pressed me to pick a favorite, it would have to be my experience teaching for the Refugee Youth Enrichment program. My once high-school students have now graduated from college, gotten married, and had kids!
While the problems I've tackled have been in fields ranging from women's health to urban transit, I've approached each experience with a core value that we must always listen closely to those with the most lived experience and intimate knowledge of the problem.
I design for the moments when my team accomplishes something we could have never done individually, when we not only dream up, but also deliver experiences that surpass users' imaginations.
Expertise
Graphic Design
Research
Service Design
UX/UI
Angela Hooks
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Public Policy Manager
Dropbox
Angela Hooks is a public policy manager at Dropbox. As part of a small but mighty team, she works on issues like intermediary liability, privacy, and artificial intelligence. She is a DC core team member of Black Girls Code and a former fellow of the Internet Law & Policy Foundry. Angela graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with her degree in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics. Before Dropbox, she worked at Yelp and in public affairs and grassroots advocacy.
Expertise
Consumer Technology
Free Speech
Policy
Caitlin Howarth
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Researcher
Signal Program on Human Security + Technology, Harvard Humanitarian Initiative
Caitlin Howarth is a Researcher on early warning systems at the Signal Program on Human Security and Technology at Harvard Humanitarian Initiative (HHI). Howarth was formerly Reports Manager for the Satellite Sentinel Project at HHI from 2011-2012. She has served as Director of Leadership Development at the Truman National Security Project, Deputy Director of the Telecommunications Equality Project at the Roosevelt Institute, and COO and National Policy Director at the Roosevelt Institute Campus Network. Howarth’s consultant work includes the design of the award-winning MediCapt mobile forensic evidence collection app, created for Physicians for Human Rights. She is co-founder and CEO of Aulenor Consulting, a firm dedicated to supporting social impact startups. A Washington, DC native, she holds a BA in Political and Social Thought from the University of Virginia and an MPP in International & Global Affairs from the Harvard Kennedy School.
Expertise
Artificial Intelligence
Cryptography
Cybersecurity
Graphic Design
International Policy
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Deborah Howitt
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Director/Partner
Lewis Bess Williams & Weese
Deborah Shinbein Howitt is a partner with Lewis, Bess Williams & Weese. She has focused on privacy, internet, technology and media law since 1997, and she is a Certified Information Privacy Professional. Her practice includes development of privacy and security programs and policies, international privacy compliance and data transfers, data breach work, vendor privacy programs, privacy & security training, and compliance gap assessments. She also handles technology transactions, digital marketing, licensing, and other business agreements. She has been in-house counsel at the Anschutz Company and The Walt Disney Internet Group, and she previously taught privacy law at the University of Colorado Law School.
Expertise
Intellectual Property
Law
Privacy
Tina Huang
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Research Analyst
Center for Security and Emerging Technology
Tina Huang is a Research Analyst at Georgetown’s Center for Security and Emerging Technology (CSET), where she focuses on the U.S. AI workforce and the strategic implications of military use of AI. Previously, she worked on a variety of national security topics at the Government Accountability Office, the Council on Foreign Relations, International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation, and Georgetown University. Tina is also the curriculum development specialist for Girl Security, where she creates modules aimed at teaching young girls about national security topics and careers, and an Advisory Board Member of the DC Carnegie New Leaders with the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs. Tina holds an M.A. in Security Studies from Georgetown University and a BA in International Studies from Emory University.
Expertise
Artificial Intelligence
Ethics
National Security
Policy
Research
plus 1 more
Sally Hubbard
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Senior Editor, Tech Antitrust Enforcement
The Capitol Forum
Expertise
Government
International Policy
Journalism
Law
Legislation
plus 3 more
Jennifer Huddleston
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Research Fellow
Mercatus Center at George Mason University
Jennifer Huddleston is a Research Fellow at the Mercatus Center. Her research focuses on the intersection of emerging technology and law with a particular interest in the interactions between technology and the administrative state. Jennifer’s work covers topics including judicial deference, liability protection for Internet platforms, autonomous vehicles and micromobility, the regulation of data privacy, and the benefits of technology and innovation. Her work has appeared in Colorado Technology Law Journal, USA Today, the Chicago Tribune, The Hill, Real Clear Policy, and U.S. News and World Report. She has testified to Congress on harm in the context of data security and data privacy. Jennifer has a JD from the University Of Alabama School Of Law and a BA in political science at Wellesley College.
Expertise
Artificial Intelligence
Consumer Technology
Free Speech
Law
Policy
plus 1 more
Brooke Hunter
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Founder & Principal
Ethical Leadership Services
Brooke Hunter is an expert in nonprofit leadership, with a focus on increasing diversity in the workplace. Brooke has been working in nonprofit leadership, technology policy, and the arts for over twenty years. She brings her experience as a fundraiser, Executive Director, Chief Operating Officer, Chief of Staff, business advisor and project manager to her consulting practice. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Antioch University Los Angeles and a BFA from Loyola University New Orleans.
Expertise
Cybersecurity
Government
Information Technology
Intellectual Property
Policy
Susanne Husebø
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Delivery coach
Over a decade of experience in tech - specializing in how to deliver value early, getting things done, product strategy and coaching, workshops and team dynamics.
Expertise
Information Technology
Open Source
Service Design
Allison Hutchings
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Congressional Innovation Fellow
TechCongress
Currently serving as a Congressional Innovation Fellow for TechCongress focused on AI and privacy issues for the 116th Congress. Also working on congressional capacity improvements.
In the past I have worked as an aerospace engineer on many projects including the development of rockets, satellites, and mars rovers. I have also worked on projects for other industries for consumer electronics, roller coasters, and animatronic figures.
Expertise
Artificial Intelligence
Education
Government
Hardware Development
Legislation
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Rebecca Ingber
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Associate Professor of Law
Boston University School of Law
Rebecca Ingber is an Associate Professor of Law at BU Law. She previously served in the U.S. State Department Office of the Legal Adviser. She is a scholar of national security, international, and foreign affairs law, the laws of war, presidential power, and bureaucracy.
Expertise
Government
International Policy
Law
Legislation
Litigation
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Julie Inman Grant
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Australian ESafety Commissioner
Office of the ESafety Commissioner
Julie is eSafety Commissioner, overseeing the Online safety of all Australians.
She has extensive experience in the non-profit and government sectors, and spent two decades working in senior public policy and safety roles in the tech industry at Microsoft, Twitter, and Adobe.
Julie’s career began in Washington DC, working in the US Congress and the non-profit sector before taking on a role at Microsoft. Julie’s experience at Microsoft spanned 17 years, serving as one of the company’s first and longest-standing government relations professionals, ultimately in the role of Global Safety Director for safety policy and outreach.
At Twitter, Julie headed up Public Policy for Australia and South East Asia, managing a range of public policy issues, including online safety and countering violent extremism. Julie also built Twitter’s ‘Rules and Tools’ for safety, and conceptualised and piloted #PositionofStrength, which now serves as Twitter’s global female safety and empowerment program.
Expertise
Cybersecurity
International Policy
Jessy Irwin
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Head of Security
Tendermint
Expertise
Cryptography
Cybersecurity
Privacy
Emma Irwin
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Open Project & Communities Specialist
Mozilla
During successful career as a software developer and database analyst, Emma found Open Source, and was inspired by the potential of developing software, and participating in communities connected by common purpose and mission. Her experience as a contributor to many projects including Drupal, Wordpress and Firefox inspired her to help others get involved - and thus reshaped career focus to doing just that at Mozilla with a focus on diversity & inclusion.
Emma leads D&I strategy development for Mozilla's communities, this includes data, metrics, ethics, culture, values, accessibility design in projects and project workflows, inclusive leadership models, identity group design and more...
She lives in Sooke, BC with her three daughters.
Expertise
Computer Science
Open Source
Christine Izuakor
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Founder and CEO
Cyber Pop-up
Dr. Izuakor is the founder and CEO of Cyber Pop-Up. She has over a decade of experience managing various cyber security functions within the Fortune 100 arena. Christine earned a Ph.D. in Security Engineering at age 27, becoming the youngest and first African American woman to do so. Her research has been published in several international journals and her original contributions to the security industry presented in international conferences from South Korea to Italy. She is also a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP).
Her rapid growth within the technology industry landed her a spot on Chicago Business Crain's Tech 50 list, as well as Crain's 20 In Their 20's list. She's appeared in the Wall Street Journal, Cheddar News, CW, Hemispheres Magazine, and more.
An avid diversity and inclusion supporter, Christine is dedicated to increasing diversity within the cyber industry so that people from all walks of life can gain access to growing opportunities in tech.
Expertise
Artificial Intelligence
Computer Science
Cybersecurity
Education
Information Technology
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Rose Jackson
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Chief Executive Officer
RiseUp
Rose Jackson is the CEO of RiseUP, a U.S.-based civic tech platform that helps people find and connect to local political and civic action that matches their skills and interests. Jackson previously served as the chief of staff to the State Department's bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor, where she oversaw a number of technology related efforts, including policy and programs related to: internet freedom; artificial intelligence and automation in weapons systems; and technology for human rights documentation and investigation. Prior to the State Department Jackson worked with civil society, political parties, and parliaments in a number of sub-saharan African countries, using creative technology platforms to help people organize and governments to be more responsive.
Expertise
Artificial Intelligence
Free Speech
Government
International Policy
National Security
plus 3 more
Alice Jakobovits
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Data Engineer
ETH Zurich, Swiss National Supercomputing Centre
Expertise
Computer Science
Information Technology
Open Source
Software Development
UX/UI
Tanvi Jaluka
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Gender and Development Program Coordinator
Center for Global Development
Tanvi Jaluka is the Program Coordinator for the Gender and Development Team, specializing in women's economic empowerment. Tanvi earned her B.A. in International Studies and Economics from Vassar College.
Expertise
International Policy
Research
Laura James
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Entrepreneur in residence
University of Cambridge, Computer Lab
Dr Laura James is Entrepreneur in Residence at the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory, catalysing multidisciplinary research and activities around trust and technology, and also Technology Principal at Doteveryone. She has worked extensively in technology and leadership roles in many contexts, combining getting things done hands-on, and building experience in the different ways people, teams and organisations use emerging internet technologies. Laura holds Masters and PhD degrees in Engineering from the University of Cambridge. She has been the first employee at a connected home startup, on the management team of an AI startup, scaled a rapidly growing civic tech nonprofit, and cofounded a community workshop, a startup humanitarian NGO, and most recently a member owned co-operative.
Expertise
Artificial Intelligence
Computer Science
Consumer Technology
Hardware Development
Open Source
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Nina Jankowicz
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Global Fellow
Wilson Center, Kennan Institute
Nina Jankowicz is a Global Fellow at the Kennan Institute currently working on a book about the evolution of modern Russian influence campaigns in Eastern Europe. In 2016-2017, she advised the Ukrainian government on strategic communications under the auspices of a Fulbright-Clinton Public Policy Fellowship. While in Ukraine, she undertook a research project on the response to Russian disinformation in Europe. Her writing has been published by The New York Times, The Washington Post, Foreign Policy, Project Syndicate, The Wilson Quarterly, and others. She is a frequent commentator on disinformation, and Russian and Eastern European affairs, and has been interviewed by CNN's Christiane Amanpour and PBS's Judy Woodruff.
Prior to her Fulbright grant in Ukraine, Ms. Jankowicz managed democracy assistance programs to Russia and Belarus at the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs. She speaks fluent Russian and proficient Polish and Ukrainian.
Expertise
Cybersecurity
Government
International Policy
National Security
Research
Tania Jareen
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Teaching Faculty
Wichita State University
Tania Jareen is helping the community as a faculty at Wichita State University. As a leader in the classroom, she is teaching Cyber Security field. She is one of six women in the United States awarded to build the world’s fastest and most powerful network at the SuperComputing conference funded by the National Science Foundation and Department of Energy. She is a Computer Systems Engineering Committee Member for Grace Hopper conference and Technical Committee Member for PEARC conference. She is a reviewer for the National Center for Women & Information Technology (NCWIT) award application for Aspiration for Computing (AiC) as well as an application for Collegiate Award. She was a Network Engineer at Purdue University to manage high-speed networks that connect researchers and scientists across the world. She assisted the network migration team at Cox Communications. She is excited to work for the team and organization where she can help the community.
Expertise
Computer Science
Cybersecurity
Information Technology
Internet of Things (IoT)
Research
Laura Jehl
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Partner
BakerHostetler
Expertise
Artificial Intelligence
Cryptography
Cybersecurity
Free Speech
Law
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Shivvy Jervis
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Award-winning tech Futurist & Author
Voted one of Europe’s most trailblazing women in digital, Shivvy Jervis is a multi-award winning tech futurist, advisor and author.
She helps business, government and citizens discover the most powerful innovation that will transform our realities, setting out what needs to firmly be on our radar. She is particularly concerned about shaping tech policy. Shivvy is currently authoring an ambitious book on the same, scouring the world’s biggest labs and smallest startups alike.
Shivvy has been cited as having ‘the remarkable capacity to uncouple the relevant from mere buzz’ (TED Global), ‘expertise beyond compare’ (World Economic Forum) and ‘tremendous insights’ (Britain’s former Digital Minister).
Shivvy has received over 22 accolades for her work, including a national Outstanding Achiever award, public Woman of the Year nomination and being voted one of Europe’s most trailblazing women in tech. She has also been recognised for a prestigious Asian Women of Achievement award.
Expertise
Artificial Intelligence
Cybersecurity
Information Technology
International Policy
Marina Jirotka
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Professor of Human Centred Computing
University of Oxford
Marina Jirotka is Professor of Human Centred Computing in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Oxford. She leads an interdisciplinary research group developing research methods and approaches for building computing systems responsibly to support human, societal and environmental values. She has projects investigating bias in algorithms, developing trust in online platforms and is co-director of an Observatory for Responsible Research and Innovation in ICT (ORBIT) that will provide RI services to ICT researchers and practitioners. She has recently been awarded an EPSRC Established Career Fellowship – a five year investigation into Developing Responsible Robots for the Digital Economy. From her work on analysing the spread of hate speech and misinformation on social media, she was appointed specialist advisor to the House of Lords Select Committee on Communications for their inquiry into Children and the Internet. She has published widely in international journals and conferences on, Human Computer Interaction, Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Requirements Engineering.
Expertise
Artificial Intelligence
Education
Information Technology
Sheridan Johnson
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Data Privacy Attorney
Sheridan B. Johnson, Attorney at Law
Sheridan Johnson is an experienced data privacy attorney with a demonstrated history of flexibly serving clients as outside counsel, in-house counsel, general counsel, and compliance/security officer. An honors graduate from the Emory University School of Law and the University of Georgia, Ms. Johnson has extensive experience implementing and maintaining compliance with HIPAA and related data privacy laws. She has represented employers, health plans, and healthcare clearinghouses in all areas of privacy compliance, including establishing, auditing, and training for privacy programs, policies, and procedures. Ms. Johnson may be reached at (770) 685-1507 or [email protected]
Expertise
Cybersecurity
Law
Legislation
Privacy
Maritza Johnson
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Researcher
ICSI
Maritza Johnson is a researcher at ICSI. Her broad research interests are in human-centered security and privacy with a focus on how end-users think about personal data management. Prior to joining ICSI she was a user experience researcher on Google's Identity team. Before that she was a technical privacy manager on Facebook's public policy team where she worked as a liaison to the external community on privacy research, designed the first research review process, and contributed to the company’s privacy cross-functional team for new products.
Her academic experience includes a postdoc at UC Berkeley where she worked on mobile device permission systems with Professor David Wagner. She completed her PhD in computer science at Columbia University with Professor Steve Bellovin and wrote her dissertation on end-user access control management with a focus on Facebook privacy settings.
Expertise
Computer Science
Cybersecurity
Privacy
Research
UX/UI
Elizabeth Johnson
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Partner and Team Lead
Wyrick Robbins
I lead a team of attorneys who focus entirely on privacy, data security, and incident response. We advise clients on implementing compliance and managing risk through technical deployment. As a result, we have become very familiar with technology and data security measures. We also work with security experts on compliance and vulnerability assessments, forensic investigations, and data analytics. I have practiced exclusively in this area of law for 13 years and frequently speak on emerging issues in privacy and data security law.
Expertise
Cybersecurity
Law
Legislation
Privacy
Kaitlyn Johnson
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Associate Director, Aerospace Security Project
Center for Strategic and International Studies
Kaitlyn Johnson is the associate director of the CSIS Aerospace Security Project. Ms. Johnson manages the team’s strategic planning and research agenda. Her research specializes in topics such as space security, military space systems, commercial space policy, and U.S. air dominance.
Expertise
Military
National Security
Policy
Research
Mina Johnson-Glenberg
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President and research professor
Embodied Games and ASU
Expertise
Artificial Intelligence
Computer Science
Education
Software Development
UX/UI
Meg Leta Jones
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Assistant Professor
Georgetown University
Prof. Meg Leta (previously Ambrose) Jones is an Assistant Professor in the Communication, Culture & Technology program at Georgetown University where she researches rules and technological change with a focus on privacy, data protection, and automation in information and communication technologies. She is also an affiliate faculty member of the Science, Technology, and International Affairs program in Georgetown's School of Foreign Service, the Center for Privacy & Technology at Georgetown Law Center, and the Brussels Privacy Hub at Vrije Universiteit Brussel. Dr. Jones's research interests cover issues including comparative information and communication technology law, engineering and information ethics, critical information and data studies, robotics law and policy, and the legal history of technology.
Expertise
Artificial Intelligence
Consumer Technology
Information Technology
International Policy
Law
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Klara Jordan
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Director
Cyber Statecraft Initiative, Atlantic Council
Klara Jordan is the director of the Cyber Statecraft Initiative at the Atlantic Council’s Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security. She brings to the Council relevant experience from the private sector, where she supported a range of cybersecurity companies in policy and government affairs space. She also worked in policy and privacy division of FireEye, a global cybersecurity company, focusing on providing insight to FireEye on opportunities and risks that stem from emerging policy, laws, and regulation. Prior to her private sector experience, Klara spent two years at the Atlantic Council rising to the level of deputy director at the Cyber Statecraft Initiative. While at the Council, she supported the Atlantic Council’s programming on cybersecurity, focusing on cybercrime, cyberespionage, and cyberwarfare, and led the programming on NATO and EU cybersecurity issues. Her background also includes work on international law issues at the American Society of International Law and at NATO’s Allied Command Transformation.
Ms. Jordan earned her LL.M from the law school at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands. She also holds a masters in interdisciplinary European studies from the Institute of Advanced European Studies in Strasbourg, France and earned her law degree from Matej Bel University in her native Slovakia.
Expertise
Cybersecurity
International Policy
Policy
Kathleen Jungck
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Enterprise Cloud Security Architect
(ISC)2, ISSA, CSA
Expertise
Cryptography
Cybersecurity
Education
Maya Kaczorowski
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Product Manager
Google
Expertise
Computer Science
Cryptography
Free Speech
Information Technology
Mathematics
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Shanthi Kalathil
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Director
International Forum for Democratic Studies
Shanthi Kalathil is director of the International Forum for Democratic Studies at the National Endowment for Democracy. Previously a senior democracy fellow at USAID and a regular consultant for the World Bank, the Aspen Institute, and others, she has authored or edited numerous policy and scholarly publications, including Open Networks, Closed Regimes: The Impact of the Internet on Authoritarian Rule (with Taylor C. Boas); Diplomacy, Development and Security in the Information Age; and Building Independent Media for Accountable Governance. Previously a Hong Kong-based staff reporter for the Asian Wall Street Journal, Kalathil has taught courses on international relations in the information age at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey and Georgetown University. She holds degrees from the University of California at Berkeley and the London School of Economics and Political Science.
Expertise
Free Speech
Government
Information Technology
International Policy
Journalism
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Frederike Kaltheuner
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Policy Officer, Programme Lead
Privacy International
Hi! I’m a technology policy expert with a focus on privacy, security, emerging technology and human rights.
I currently lead Privacy International’s programmatic work on data exploitation and develop our policy positions. Privacy International is a global civil liberties organisation based on London that litigates to ensure that surveillance is consistent with the rule of law and advocates for strong regional, national and international laws that protect the right to privacy. As a representative of Privacy International, I’ve given expert evidence in the European Parliament and the UK House of Lords. I regularly speak at international conferences and comment on the privacy implications of emerging technology in the British and international press.
I hold an MSc in Internet Science the University of Oxford and a BA in Philosophy and Politics from Maastricht University and was a visiting scholar at the philosophy department of Bogazici University Istanbul
Expertise
Artificial Intelligence
Consumer Technology
International Policy
Legislation
Policy
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Hibah Kamal-Grayson
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Senior Policy Analyst, Human Rights and Internet Governance
Google
Hibah Kamal-Grayson is a senior policy analyst at Google, where she focuses on Internet governance and human rights. Previously, Hibah worked as a policy researcher at the New America Foundation’s Open Technology Institute and, prior to that, as an account optimizer at Google. Hibah has also spent time at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society and the BBC’s Washington Bureau.
She graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Carleton College. She also holds an M.Sc. with Distinction from the London School of Economics and Political Science, where she won the inaugural Interaction London/Polis prize for applied media research. Her research and publications on technology issues have been cited by FCC and White House reports and covered by the Washington Post, the New York Times, USA Today, Forbes, and more.
Expertise
Artificial Intelligence
Free Speech
Government
International Policy
Legislation
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Monica Kaminska
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Researcher
Centre for Technology and Global Affairs, University of Oxford
Monica Kaminska is a Research Affiliate at the Centre for Technology and Global Affairs and a PhD Candidate in Cyber Security at Oxford’s Centre for Doctoral Training in Cyber Security. Her doctoral research focuses on states' responses to cyber operations and the unintended effects of cyber attacks. Monica has previously investigated election interference through social media and the presence of misinformation and automated activity on technology platforms at the Oxford Internet Institute's Computational Propaganda Project.
Monica previously worked in the professional services sector in London and also has experience with the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office.
Monica holds an MPhil in Geographical Research from the University of Cambridge and a BSc in International Relations from the London School of Economics.
Expertise
Artificial Intelligence
Cybersecurity
Government
Information Technology
National Security
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Sunny Seon Kang
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Senior Privacy Counsel, Head of Policy
Inpher, Inc.
Sunny Seon Kang is Sr. Privacy Counsel and Head of Policy at Inpher, a privacy-enhancing cryptography and machine learning company. She advises on U.S. and international data privacy laws, regulatory and government affairs, and AI policy. Prior to joining Inpher, Sunny was International Consumer Counsel at the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) and a Fellow at Stanford Law School. She has testified before the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission on IoT data security, filed an FTC complaint against Facebook’s collection of biometric data, and advised regulatory agencies on GDPR implementation, algorithmic accountability, and privacy by design. Sunny has also worked on emerging technology and privacy matters at the Office of the California Attorney General Kamala Harris, and TechFreedom as a Legal Fellow. Sunny holds degrees from University College London (LL.B.), UC Berkeley School of Law (LL.M. in Technology and IP), and Stanford Law School (J.S.M. in Juridical Science). She is a member of the New York bar.
Expertise
Artificial Intelligence
Consumer Technology
International Policy
Law
Litigation
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Elsa Kania
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Adjunct Fellow
Center for a New American Security
Elsa B. Kania is an Adjunct Fellow with the Center for a New American Security’s Technology and National Security Program. Elsa focuses on Chinese defense innovation in emerging technologies, in support of the Artificial Intelligence and Global Security Initiative at CNAS. She also acts as a member of the research team for the new Task Force on Artificial Intelligence and National Security. Her research interests include Chinese military modernization, information warfare, and defense science and technology. Elsa is an independent analyst, consultant, and co-founder of the China Cyber and Intelligence Studies Institute (CCISI). She was a 2018 Fulbright Specialist with the Australian Strategic Policy Institute’s International Cyber Policy Centre. Elsa is a policy advisor for the non-profit Technology for Global Security. She has been named an official “Mad Scientist” by the U.S. Army’s Training and Doctrine Command. Elsa is a graduate of Harvard College and fluent in Mandarin Chinese.
Expertise
Artificial Intelligence
Cybersecurity
International Policy
Military
National Security
Anja Kaspersen
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Director of Disarmament Affairs
United Nations
Expertise
Artificial Intelligence
Cybersecurity
Government
Information Technology
International Policy
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Camino Kavanagh
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Senior Fellow
Dept. War Studies, King’s College London
Expertise
Artificial Intelligence
Cybersecurity
Government
Information Technology
International Policy
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Ashkhen Kazaryan
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Legal and Research Fellow
TechFreedom
Ashkhen Kazaryan is a Legal Fellow at TechFreedom. She manages and develops policy projects on free speech, artificial intelligence, surveillance reform and sharing economy. Ashkhen also handles outreach and coalition building for the organization. Ashkhen is an Internet Law and Policy Fellow and an expert at the Federalist Society’s Emerging Technology Working Group, part of the Regulatory Transparency Project. Ashkhen received her Specialist in Law degree summa cum laude from Lomonosov MSU in 2012, Masters of Law Degree from Yale Law School and is completing her PhD in Law at the Law School of Lomonosov Moscow State University. At Yale Law she served as an Articles Editor of the Yale Journal of Law and Feminism, Senior Editor of the Yale Law and Policy Review and Editor of the Yale Journal of Law and Technology while also being Co-Chair of the Public Interest Fellowship.
Expertise
Artificial Intelligence
Cybersecurity
Free Speech
Information Technology
Law
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Jacqueline Kazil
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Senior leader in data science, modeling, and engineering
Python Software Foundation
Jackie is a senior leader in data science, modeling, and technology. She is the creator of Mesa, an agent-based modeling library in Python, as well as the author of Data Wrangling with Python, published by O'Reilly. She is a former White House Presidential Innovation Fellow and co-founder of 18F. She sits on the Board of the Python Software Foundation & Byte Back. She is a leader in the Python community and uses her skills to lead teams and to use data to help people understand complex problems. She lives in Washington, DC with her husband and daughter.
Expertise
Artificial Intelligence
Data
Disability
Education
Government
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Julie Kearney
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Vice President, Regulatory Affairs
Consumer Technology Association (CTA)
Julie Kearney is vice president of regulatory affairs for the Consumer Technology Association (CTA)™, the technology trade association representing the U.S. consumer technology industry and owner and producer of CES®. Kearney represents CTA’s 2,200 member companies before the FCC, FTC and other government agencies. Prior to CTA, she held positions in government affairs at NPR, in MCI’s International Affairs group, and as an associate at Haley Bader & Potts (now Garvey Schubert Barer). Kearney currently serves as President of the Federal Communications Bar Association (FCBA) and is a past chair of the FCBA Foundation and a trustee of the CTA Foundation. Kearney is currently serving a seventh term as CTA’s representative on the Federal Communications Commission’s Consumer Advisory Committee. She earned her B.A. from Mount Holyoke College and a J.D. from Catholic University’s Columbus School of Law with a certificate from its Institute for Communications Law Studies.
Expertise
Consumer Technology
Cybersecurity
Information Technology
Law
Legislation
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Abby Kearns
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CEO/Executive Director
Cloud Foundry Foundation
Executive Director of the Cloud Foundry Foundation, the industry-leading open source Platform as a Service. With a technology career spanning operations, product marketing, product management and consulting at a mix of Fortune 500 and startup companies.
Expertise
Computer Science
Information Technology
Open Source
Software Development
Shauna Keating
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UX Designer
Moonfarmer
Shauna is a proud resident of New York's Hudson Valley. She studied graphic design at SUNY New Paltz, completing her undergraduate BFA thesis with a project focused on inclusive design. She carries that research and insight into her current position as a designer on the front end team at Moonfarmer, a creative digital studio based in the city of Kingston, NY. Her approach to design goes beyond basic web accessibility guidelines. She believes that by creating work that addresses the challenges faced by all kinds of different people, we can make higher quality work that more of us can appreciate and use. She and her team accomplish this through an agile and human-centered approach to building software. Shauna is also a leader in the design and tech communities in the Hudson Valley and Upstate New York. She currently serves on the board of directors for AIGA Upstate NY, and co-organizes the Hudson Valley Tech Meetup & Catskills Conf.
Expertise
Graphic Design
UX/UI
Chimene Keitner
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Alfred & Hanna Fromm Professor of International Law
University of California Hastings College of the Law
Professor Chimène Keitner is a leading authority on international law and civil litigation, and served as the 27th Counselor on International Law in the U.S. Department of State. She has authored two books and dozens of articles, essays, and book chapters on questions relating to international law, national self-determination, jurisdiction, extraterritoriality, and foreign sovereign and foreign official immunity. Professor Keitner holds a bachelor's degree in history and literature with high honors from Harvard, a JD from Yale, where she was a Paul & Daisy Soros Fellow, and a doctorate in international relations from Oxford, where she was a Rhodes Scholar. Among other roles, Professor Keitner has served on the Executive Council of the American Society of International Law and as Co-Chair of the ASIL International Law in Domestic Courts Interest Group. She is an Adviser on the American Law Institute's Fourth Restatement of the Foreign Relations Law of the United States.
Expertise
International Policy
Law
Litigation
National Security
Lorelei Kelly
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Senior Fellow
Beeck Center for Social Impact+Innovation at Georgetown University
Founder or director of six projects and organizations in Washington, D.C. with the purpose of building a more inclusive and informed democracy, starting with the US Congress.
Expertise
Government
Information Technology
International Policy
Legislation
Military
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La'Shawnda Kendall
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IT Project Manager
Duke University
Expertise
Information Technology
Software Development
Darshun Kendrick
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State Representative
Georgia House of Representatives
Expertise
Government
Information Technology
Law
Legislation
DeBrae Kennedy-Mayo
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Research Faculty Member
Georgia Institute of Technology
DeBrae Kennedy-Mayo is a Research Faculty Member at the Georgia Institute of Technology, where she engages in research on legal and policy issues concerning privacy and cybersecurity.
Peter Swire and Kennedy-Mayo are the co-authors of the 2018 edition of "U.S. Private Sector Privacy: Law and Practice for Information Privacy Professionals" - IAPP’s book used by those studying for privacy certification. With Swire, Kennedy-Mayo also co-authored the 2017 Emory Law Journal article entitled, “Why Both the EU and US are ‘Stricter’ than Each Other for the Privacy of Government Requests for Information.” This article examined privacy protections provided in EU law as well as those that exist in US law.
Kennedy-Mayo has been an attorney for 15 years. Kennedy-Mayo has spent most of her career working in government, acting as both an Assistant Attorney General for the State of Georgia and as an Assistant District Attorney in several Georgia counties.
Expertise
Cybersecurity
International Policy
Law
Policy
Privacy
Lina Khan
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Director of Legal Policy
Open Markets Institute
Lina Khan writes about antitrust and competition policy, with a particular focus on tech platforms. Khan’s work has been published by the Yale Law Journal and Harvard Law & Policy Review, as well as by the New York Times, Politico, and Washington Post. Her antitrust work has been cited by The Atlantic, Bloomberg, The Economist, Financial Times, and Wall Street Journal, and she has appeared on C-SPAN, NPR, and Fox Business News. She received a B.A. magna cum laude from Williams College and a J.D. from Yale Law School.
Expertise
Consumer Technology
Law
Policy
Fatemeh Khatibloo
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Principal Analyst
Forrester Research
I'm an analyst at Forrester Research where I lead research about personal data, privacy and identity. My current focus is on the emerging systems and processes that will put us -- individuals -- in charge of how we manage and share our personal data.
I'm fascinated with all things anthropological (from genetics to social organization to technological interaction), and sometimes daydream about getting a master's in HCI.
I'm sought after as a keynote speaker, panelist, and podcast guest, particularly on privacy, GDPR, consumer behavior, and the mechanics of trust.
Expertise
Consumer Technology
Privacy
Esther Kho
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MSP Partner Manager, EMEA
Expertise
Cybersecurity
Scarlet Kim
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Legal Officer
Privacy International
Scarlet Kim is a Legal Officer at Privacy International, a human rights NGO that defends the right to privacy around the world. Scarlet is responsible for litigating cases concerning mass surveillance, intelligence sharing, government hacking, and freedom of information in the courts of the U.K., the U.S. and Europe. Scarlet previously worked as an Associate Legal Adviser at the International Criminal Court and as a Gruber Fellow in Global Justice at the New York affiliate of the American Civil Liberties Union. She also clerked for the Honorable John Gleeson of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York. Scarlet received her J.D. from Yale Law School and her B.A. from Yale University. She is a dual-qualified (U.S. and England/Wales) lawyer.
Expertise
International Policy
Law
Legislation
Litigation
Policy
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Erin Kim
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Communications Director
New Harvest
Communications Director at New Harvest, the 501(c)(3) advancing open, collaborative research in cellular agriculture (eg. cultured meat)
Expertise
Open Source
Research
Sunmin Kim
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Technology Policy Advisor
U.S. Senator Brian Schatz
Tech policy, U.S. Senator Brian Schatz. Formerly TechCongress fellow and tech editor at The Economist Intelligence Unit. Also co-founded and ran Pro Journo, a journalism nonprofit. Academic background in bioengineering, mechanical engineering.
Expertise
Cybersecurity
Government
International Policy
Journalism
Legislation
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Dr Anna Marazuela Kim
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Cultural-creative consultant and critic, Associate Fellow
Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture (Univ. of Virginia); King's College London
My expertise in technology emerges from nearly a decade as a member of Institutes of Advanced Study and international, interdisciplinary research groups in the U.S. Europe and the U.K. advancing critical inquiry in this field. As an art historian with training in the history of ideas/innovation and philosophy, I am particularly interested in issues with deep histories which are currently deeply affecting society, such the ethical challenges of technology for human sociality and thriving, and the role of image wars and worlds in terrorism and international conflict. A published author, frequent public speaker and consultant, I bring academic expertise to bear on issues of critical, contemporary concern, and am committed to reaching a wide variety of audiences, beyond academia. I therefore welcome the opportunity to share my expertise on this platform and beyond.
Expertise
Consumer Technology
Education
Information Technology
International Policy
Military
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Jennifer King
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Director of Privacy
Center for Internet and Society, Stanford Law School
Dr. Jennifer King is the Director of Privacy at the Center for Internet and Society at Stanford University. She is a privacy researcher who uses human-computer interaction methods to examine the privacy “gap” between people’s expectations and how technological systems function. Her publications include privacy focused investigations of smartphones, online social networks, radio-frequency identification [RFID], and digital video surveillance. Dr. King holds a PhD in information science and a professional master’s degree in information management and systems from U.C. Berkeley’s School of Information. Prior to her research career, Ms. King worked in security and product management for several Internet companies, most recently Yahoo!.
Expertise
Artificial Intelligence
Consumer Technology
Cybersecurity
Privacy
Research
Michelle King
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President & CEO
King Consults
Michelle Sara King is President & CEO of King Consults, a global government affairs, external relations, communications and advocacy firm working with the global association and business community based in Washington, DC. King Consults is focused on intellectual property policy, cyber/data policy including GDPR, technology policy, health policy and trade. In her professional capacity, Michelle serves on the American Society of Association Executives (ASAE) International Section Council, as a Power of A (Association) Ambassador and as a member of the ASAE PAC Board. Additionally, Michelle is an active member and former chair of the Women in Government Relations (WGR) Telecommunications, Technology and Intellectual Property task force. Further, Michelle is a volunteer member of the DC Mayor's She Helps Engage DC (SHE-DC) leadership committee.
In Michelle's personal capacity, Michelle serves on the American Jewish Committee (AJC) Regional Board, the AJC ACCESS Board, the Women's Congressional Golf Association (WCGA) Board and the Bryn Mawr College Alum Committee on Leadership Development.
Michelle has a BA in biology from Bryn Mawr College and a JD from the American University-Washington College of Law.
Expertise
Artificial Intelligence
Consumer Technology
Cybersecurity
Education
Free Speech
plus 14 more
Jessica Kirkpatrick
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Data Scientist
Slack
Dr. Jessica Kirkpatrick is a data scientist at Slack where she helps the product team make Slack better for its users by using the power of data. She has previously worked as a data scientist at Hired, Chegg, Microsoft, and Yammer. Before making her transition to the private sector in 2012, Jessica earned a Ph.D. in Astrophysics from UC Berkeley, where she studied some of the most distant and brightest known objects in the universe, quasars, and worked with large and complex data sets. Today, instead of spending her days finding patterns in the structure of the universe, she spends them finding patterns in the behaviors of people in order to make technology work better for us all. In addition to her work in private industry, Jessica maintains an active role in giving back to the astrophysics community. She is on the Board of Trustees for the American Astronomical Society and served on their Committee for the Status of Women in Astronomy for four years.
Expertise
Artificial Intelligence
Consumer Technology
Mathematics
Research
Software Development
Lea Kissner
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Principal Engineer
Google
Lea Kissner leads Nightwatch, Google’s product-focused privacy team. She has spent the last 10 years designing and building security and privacy for Google projects from the grittiest layers of infrastructure to the shiniest user features — and cleaning up when something goes awry. She earned a Ph.D. doing cryptography at Carnegie Mellon and a B.S. in CS from UC Berkeley.
Expertise
Computer Science
Cryptography
Cybersecurity
Information Technology
Privacy
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Julia Klepner
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Product Manager
Stanford University
Product Manager, cyber insurance analytics.
Expertise
Cybersecurity
Information Technology
National Security
Privacy
Sara Kloek
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Director of Education Policy
Software & Information Industry Association
Sara Kloek is currently serving as the Director of Education Policy at the Software & Information Industry Association. She previously served as a fellow at the U.S. Department of Education. Prior to her fellowship, she led the development of privacy and transparency best practices at Know What’s Inside and served as an education policy advisor to a senior member of the U.S. House of Representatives. Sara is an International Association of Privacy Professionals Certified Information Privacy Professional/United States (CIPP/US) and is an enthusiastic advocate for education technology, clear privacy policies, and bees.
Expertise
Consumer Technology
Education
Policy
Privacy
Kate Klonick
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Professor/Fellow
St. John's Law School/Yale Information Society Project
Expertise
Artificial Intelligence
Free Speech
Government
Information Technology
Intellectual Property
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Mallory Knodel
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Head of Digital
Article 19
As the Head of Digital for Article 19, Mallory Knodel integrates a human rights, people-centered approach to communications and technology work for social justice movements, specializing in cybersecurity policy advocacy.
A member of May First/People Link's leadership committee, she previously served as the Senior Technical Coordinator for the Association of Progressive Communications.
Originally from the US and now living in Nairobi, Mallory has worked with grassroots organizations in Bolivia, France, Palestine and the UK. A radical technologist, she has utilized free, open-access software professionally for over 10 years.
Expertise
Cybersecurity
International Policy
Policy
Alexa Koenig
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Executive Director and Co-Founder, Technology and Human Rights Program; Co-Founder, Human Rights Investigations Lab
Human Rights Center, UC Berkeley School of Law
ALEXA KOENIG, Ph.D., J.D, is the Executive Director of the Human Rights Center (winner of the 2015 MacArthur Award for Creative and Effective Institutions) and a lecturer at UC Berkeley School of Law. She co-founded and advises the Human Rights Investigations Lab, which trains students to use online open source methods to support human rights advocacy and accountability. Alexa administers and is a member of the Technology Advisory Board of the Office of the Prosecutor at the International Criminal Court, an advisory member of FemTech, and a founding member of the board of advisors for ARCHER, a UC Berkeley-established nonprofit that leverages technology to make data-driven investigations accessible, smarter and more scalable. Alexa has won the Mark Bingham Award for Excellence and the Eleanor Swift Award for Public Service, among other honors. Her research and commentary have appeared in the Annual Review of Law and Social Science, Foreign Policy, Foreign Affairs, and elsewhere.
Expertise
Consumer Technology
Education
Intellectual Property
International Policy
Journalism
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Lauren Koenig
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CEO
TWIP
Lauren A. Koenig - Entrepreneur, Public Speaker in New York
Co-Founder and CEO of TWIP - Travel With Interesting People, Lauren is one of the emerging female stars of the travel-technology industry. Born and raised in the American Midwest, she moved to France to work for the Ministry of Education and subsequently honed her travel-tech skills at The International Kitchen, the world-renowned international culinary tour operator in Chicago.
Lauren founded TWIP to address key gaps in travel-tech, rooted in glaring deficiencies in personalization and customer experience. Today, TWIP's AI-driven, patent-pending technology empowers brands to engage with consumers at a meaningful, highly customized level. TWIP capitalizes on the uniquely insightful arena of travel psychology to uncover a consumer's deepest drivers and elucidate the most effective messaging for reaching them. The results are stronger, broader, more sustainable and more engaging brand-consumer relationships.
Lauren recruited TWIP Co-Founder & CTO Heather Wilde (eighth employee of Evernote, credited with taking that company to 100M users around the world), and together they assembled an impressive team of travel and media veterans. TWIP took People’s Choice accolades at 2017’s Phocuswright (the world’s largest travel-tech conference), first place 2018 Lufthansa Innovation, top-three 2017 Max's Penfolds, and has been featured by CBS, Fox and Inc. magazine.
Lauren is a distinguished alumna of the Women's StartUp Lab Accelerator in San Francisco, CA (class of Spring 2015) and the 20/20 Startups Accelerator in NYC (class of Fall 2016).
Expertise
Consumer Technology
Ethics
Graphic Design
Journalism
Software Development
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Susan Koeppen
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Sr. Director Legal
Expedia Group; Seattle University School of Law
Lawyer, adjunct law professor at Seattle University (Courses: "Foundations of Privacy Law"; "Cybercrime and Cyberwar"), in-house counsel to Fortune 500 technology companies. Former Cybersecurity Director, NSD, DOJ; Trial Attorney, Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section; Security Compliance Director, Microsoft; Senior Director, Expedia Legal Department. Expert in Privacy Law, National Security Law, and Information Security Law. Smith College; Georgetown University Law Center.
Expertise
Consumer Technology
Cryptography
Cybersecurity
Government
Information Technology
plus 3 more
Brittney Kohler
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Program Director
National League of Cities
Brittney Kohler is the Program Director of Transportation and Infrastructure for the National League of Cities, advocating on behalf of 19,000 cities, towns and villages across the U.S. With more than a decade of experience in infrastructure projects and policy, Ms. Kohler leads NLC’s federal advocacy efforts to strengthen and modernize our nation’s infrastructure in partnership with America’s cities. Her portfolio includes traditional transportation and emerging technology including autonomous vehicles, drones, shared transit, and micromobility. Prior to joining NLC, she worked at the U.S. Department of Transportation, Amtrak and the American Society of Civil Engineers, cultivating the widely cited Report Card for America’s Infrastructure as well as state, local and economic infrastructure reports. Ms. Kohler began her career working on strategic initiatives and public-private partnerships in the transportation, water and aviation industries as well as supported the launch of a Canadian-American private equity infrastructure investment fund.
Expertise
Consumer Technology
Government
Legislation
Policy
NIna Kollars
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Associate Professor SORD
Naval War College
Expertise
Consumer Technology
Cybersecurity
Government
Information Technology
International Policy
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Priyanka Komala
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Technology Director
A Rising Star finalist for the 18th Annual Women in Technology Leadership awards and DC Inno's 50 on Fire, at age five Priyanka gave an impromptu speech about an aeroplane which catapulted her into becoming the distinguished speaker she is today. Although she had followed the cultural expectation of getting a Masters to become an engineer and technologist, Priyanka knew she wanted to make a bigger impact. She wanted a seat at the table to help others, so she got her MBA. At the US National Academy of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, she is responsible for creating and delivering the web strategy and future technological direction for a $30M division. She is passionate about using technology as an enabler to help scientists communicate effectively to varied audiences. Priyanka enjoys sharing insights on happiness, personal growth, women’s issues, and the potential of STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Math) and is a an established speaker at national conferences.
Expertise
Artificial Intelligence
Computer Science
Consumer Technology
Cybersecurity
Information Technology
Sara Konrath
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Associate Professor
Indiana University, Lilly Family School of Philanthropy
Sara Konrath is an Associate Professor of Philanthropic Studies at the Indiana University Lilly Family School of Philanthropy. She received her PhD in Social Psychology from the University of Michigan. Konrath is the director of the Interdisciplinary Program on Empathy and Altruism Research (www.iPEARlab.org), a research lab with a primary focus on motivations, traits, and behaviors relevant to philanthropic giving, volunteering, and other prosocial behaviors. Her research examines how empathy and narcissism are associated with social media usage. She has also created two mobile phone programs to increase empathy: Text to Connect and Random App of Kindness. Her work has been published in top scientific journals and has been featured in national media outlets.
Expertise
Education
Research
Karen Kornbluh
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Senior Fellow for Digital Policy
Council on Foreign Relations
Ambassador Karen Kornbluh is Senior Fellow for Digital Policy at the Council on Foreign Relations. She served as U.S. Ambassador in Paris to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development where she negotiated the first global Internet Policymaking Principles. She was Policy Director for then-Senator Obama, deputy chief of staff at the U.S. Treasury Department, and director of the Office of Legislative & Intergovernmental Affairs at the Federal Communications Commission. Kornbluh was executive vice president of Nielsen, responsible for global public policy, privacy, and corporate social responsibility. She has written in the New York Times, Washington Post, Atlantic Monthly, and Harvard Journal of Law and Technology have concerned about topics including access to innovation and a “foreign policy of the Internet.” She founded the New America Foundation's Work and Family Program and was profiled in the NY Times, “Fighting for Economic Equality.”
Expertise
Consumer Technology
Government
International Policy
Policy
Privacy
Margaret Kosal
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Professor
Nunn School of International Affairs, Georgia Tech
Formally trained as physical scientist & tech entrepreneur working at the intersection of science, technology, & security. Understanding and making sense of politics with respect to Bio, Nano, Neuro, AI, space, & the military, including unconventional weapons, terrorism, & WMD. Previous experience in DOD (OSD & HQDA).
Expertise
Artificial Intelligence
Cybersecurity
Government
International Policy
Military
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Marina Krakovsky
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Author, THE MIDDLEMAN ECONOMY
A Silicon Valley-based social science and business journalist with a degree from Stanford University, Marina Krakovsky is the author of The Middleman Economy: How Brokers, Agents, Dealers, and Everyday Matchmakers Create Value and Profit (Palgrave Macmillan). She is also
co-author, with economist Kay-Yut Chen, of Secrets of the Moneylab: How Behavioral Economics Can Improve Your Business (Portfolio/Penguin). Her articles and essays have appeared in Discover, the New York Times Magazine, Scientific American and Scientific American Mind, O, The Oprah Magazine, Psychology Today, Slate, FastCompany, Stanford Magazine, the Washington Post, Wired, and more. She is an expert on intermediaries (including brokers, agents, dealers, matchmakers, two-sided platforms, and more), and writes about them through her LinkedIn blog, Power of Three.
Expertise
Consumer Technology
Ethics
Journalism
Public Interest Technology
Service Design
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Jen Kramer
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Lecturer, Freelance Web Developer
Harvard University Extension School
For more than eighteen years, Jen Kramer has been educating clients, colleagues, friends and graduate students about the meaning of a "quality website." Since 2000, she has built websites that are supportive of business and marketing goals in a freelance capacity and as part of an agency.
Jen is a Lecturer at Harvard University Extension School in the Master's of Liberal Arts in Digital Media Design, teaching at least five courses per year, advising students, and assisting in curriculum design.
Jen is also a prolific video author, creating over 30 training courses for Lynda.com (a division of LinkedIn Learning), O'Reilly Media, Aquent Gymnasium, and Frontend Masters.
She is also available for individual private tutoring, customized classroom training, and occasional freelance web design work.
Jen earned a BS in biology at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and an MS in Internet Strategy Management at the Marlboro College Graduate School.
Expertise
Education
UX/UI
Ramya Krishnan
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Legal Fellow
Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University
Ramya Krishnan is a staff attorney at the Knight First Amendment Institute, where she works on issues related to government transparency, surveillance, and social media. Ramya joined the Knight Institute as its inaugural legal fellow. She is a graduate of the University of Sydney and Columbia Law School. She previously worked on constitutional and administrative law matters in Australia’s Attorney-General’s Department. From 2013-2014, she served as law clerk for the Hon. Robert Beech Jones of the Supreme Court of New South Wales.
Expertise
Free Speech
Law
Legislation
Litigation
Policy
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Katarzyna Kubiak
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Policy Fellow
European Leadership Network (ELN)
Dr Katarzyna Kubiak is a Policy Fellow on nuclear and arms control policy at the European Leadership Network (ELN).
Previously, she was a Transatlantic Post-Doc Fellow for International Relations and Security at the Norwegian Institute for Defence Studies (IFS), an associate at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP), a research assistant at the Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy (IFSH), a field researcher for the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (START) and a fellow in the German Bundestag.
Following her PhD thesis on NATO nuclear extended deterrence her research areas include nuclear arms control and disarmament, nuclear non-proliferation as well as ballistic missile defense.
Expertise
International Policy
Research
Shilpi Kumar
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Head of Technology Commercialziation
Instrumental
Shilpi works on changing industrial systems with new technologies. As an employee and investor of technology startups, she has worked on product development, partnership design, business models, and financing strategy. Currently, Shilpi manages technology commercialization at Instrumental, a company that provides AI-driven defect detection for manufacturing lines. Previously, she led product marketing at Filament, which is bringing a decentralized networking and economic stack to construction, mining, and agriculture assets. She also invests in early stage founders through Village Global. Other interests include: open data projects, public service design, renewable infrastructure and financing, decentralized systems theory, and basic income/asset models, data privacy and governance models.
Expertise
Artificial Intelligence
Hardware Development
Information Technology
Open Source
Privacy
Rose Kuo
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Technical Project Manager
Strategic and creative thinker. Passionate about integrating creativity with innovation. Interested in creative ways to use technology to spark human connection and the future of work. I spend a lot of my time thinking about location-independent/remote work and distributed teams.
Fluent in Spanish, Mandarin Chinese, and English. I like making people laugh.
Experienced in integrating technical solutions to solve problems. I have used my detail-orientation, communication skills, and ability to work independently with little direction to make an impact at companies ranging from 8 to 400,000 people. Diverse background in both large corporate consulting firms and small tech startups.
Expertise
Consumer Technology
Information Technology
Research
Software Development
Alyssa Kwan
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CTO
Infallisys
CTO of Infallisys, launching Fidelis, "Data Team in a Box." Senior technologist in data and back-end distributed applications. Both big and fast. Passionate about software engineering best practices for teams.
Expertise
Computer Science
Information Technology
Software Development
Eleni Kyriakides
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International Counsel
Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)
Expertise
International Policy
Law
National Security
Privacy
Stephanie Lacambra
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Criminal Defense Staff Attorneu
Electronic Frontier Foundation
Expertise
Artificial Intelligence
Consumer Technology
Cryptography
Cybersecurity
Free Speech
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Geneviève Lajeunesse
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Director of Operations
Crypto.Québec
Geneviève Lajeunesse has been involved in the media and interactive industries for more than 12 years. She has been contributed to community WiFi projects and independent media as a technical resource, a strategic analyst and an administrator. Formerly a game producer and business analyst, she has a firm grasp of the statistical analysis of online behaviors. Her interests include information security, surveillance, intellectual property, IoT, Open Hardware initiatives, Big Data and biometric systems. She is also a commentator for Radio-Canada, with a weekly segment on technology in 10 cities across Canada, host and producer of Les Chiens de garde podcast, one of the foremost French-language infosec podcasts, and Director of Operations at Crypto.Québec, Geneviève wishes to foster a better understanding of good security practices and processes, defend the right to privacy at large and the right to use cryptographic systems in particular.
Expertise
Artificial Intelligence
Computer Science
Consumer Technology
Cryptography
Cybersecurity
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Rohini Lakshané
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Director (Emerging Research)
The Bachchao Project
Rohini Lakshané is Director, Emerging Research at The Bachchao Project, India and former Program Officer at the Centre for Internet and Society, India.
A technologist by training, Wikimedian, and public policy researcher, Rohini has worked on several research and advocacy projects on the intersection of technology, policy, and civil liberties. Her body of work encompasses diverse territories such as the application of technology and policy to solve issues of gender inequity, violence and discrimination; access to knowledge; openness; patent reform; making tech spaces diverse and inclusive; and the cross-hairs of gender, sexuality and the Internet.
Expertise
Information Technology
Intellectual Property
Policy
Research
Susan Landau
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Bridge Professor in Cyber Security and Policy
Tufts University
Susan Landau is Bridge Professor of Cyber Security and Policy in the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy and the School of Engineering, Department of Computer Science, Tufts University. Landau has recently published Listening In: Cybersecurity in an Insecure Age; she is also the author of Surveillance or Security? The Risks Posed by New Wiretapping Technologies and co-author, with Whitfield Diffie, of Privacy on the Line: The Politics of Wiretapping and Encryption. Landau has testified before Congress, written for the Washington Post, Science, and Scientific American, and frequently appears on NPR and BBC. Landau has been a senior staff Privacy Analyst at Google and a Distinguished Engineer at Sun Microsystems. She was inducted into the Cybersecurity Hall of Fame in 2015, was a 2012 Guggenheim fellow, a 2010-2011 fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, and received the 2008 Women of Vision Social Impact Award. She is a fellow of the AAAS and the ACM.
Expertise
Computer Science
Cryptography
Cybersecurity
Law
National Security
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Andrea Landwehr
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BI Manager
As an IT Management professional focused on all things Business Intelligence (BI) related, I started my career within Help Desk services and quickly moved into databases, and on to reporting & analytics. I enjoy working with all levels of the organization to establish a BI strategy that meets the needs of the business, and provides future scaling.
What draws me to BI is the reach within the organization and the ever-changing landscape. Data is used to make decisions related to finances, operations, process improvements, hiring and more. I find it exciting to work with many facets of the organization to bring together data and analytics to support them. I focus on the the needs of the organization first, and the technology to support second.
Outside of my passion for BI, I also am passionate about leadership and building my team. I enjoy working with my staff to provide them space and tools to grow their skills and move in their careers. Success to me comes from more than completed projects. It is about helping my team successfully move in their careers and continue to grow.
Expertise
Data
Information Technology
Francine Lane
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Vice President of Global Transparency
TrialScope
Francine Lane is Vice President of Global Transparency at TrialScope, the global leader in clinical trial transparency, disclosure compliance and patient engagement solutions. While her official title is VP, she is also serves as product director.
In this capacity, she oversees upgrades to existing solutions and the development of new technologies for TrialScope Disclose™, the central component of the TrialScope Transparency Cloud™. The trial disclosure management solution is used by 16 of the top 20 pharmaceutical companies.
Francine guided the launch of TrialScope Engage™. This platform enables clinical trial sponsors to engage with patients, healthcare professionals, researchers and the public via clinical trial websites automatically updated with trial data submitted to regulatory agencies. It was named one of the most innovative services of 2018 in life sciences.
Francine also serves as Chair of the Drug Information Association Clinical Trial Disclosure Community.
Expertise
Data
Software Development
Solana Larsen
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Editor, Internet Health Report
Mozilla
Solana Larsen is the editor of Mozilla's Internet Health Report, an annual compilation of research that examines the state of the global Internet. Previously she was managing editor of Global Voices a worldwide community of writers and translators who report on digital rights and activism.
Expertise
Free Speech
Information Technology
International Policy
Journalism
Open Source
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Theodora Lau
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Founder
Theodora (Theo) Lau is an innovator, technologist, and connector, whose work seeks to spark innovation to improve consumer financial well-being and health. She focuses on developing and growing an ecosystem of financial institutions, corporates, entrepreneurs, and venture capitalists to better address the unmet needs of consumers (e.g. older adults), with keen interests in women and minority founders. As part of her work, she regularly mentors FinTech and HealthTech startups and fosters a growing partnered portfolio. She is a contributing writer and speaker for top industry publications and conferences. Most recently recognized as LinkedIn Top Voice for Economy and Finance in 2017, top female fintech influencer, and top digital transformation and AI influencer by Onalytica.
Expertise
Artificial Intelligence
Consumer Technology
Information Technology
Sophie Lawrance
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Solicitor
Bristows LLP
Sophie is a London-based lawyer and specialises in EU and UK competition law. She has a particular interest in working with businesses in technology and pharmaceutical sectors, and in relation to the competition issues that arise in connection with standardised technology.
Sophie has significant experience of competition litigation in the UK courts, for example in cases involving standard essential patents and FRAND (fair, reasonable and non discriminatory terms for licensing patents). Sophie has also advised in the context of numerous cases before competition regulators at EU and national level, including in dawn raid situations.
Sophie is a regular contributor to Bristows blog on the competition/IP interface, the CLIP Board: http://www.bristowsclipboard.com/
Expertise
Information Technology
Intellectual Property
International Policy
Law
Legislation
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Victoria Lee
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Lead, Fourth Industrial Revolution for the Earth
World Economic Forum, Center for the Fourth Industrial Revolution
Dr. Victoria E. Lee currently leads the World Economic Forum’s ‘Fourth Industrial Revolution for the Earth’ project at the intersection of technology, environment, and governance. She is based at the Forum’s Center for the Fourth Industrial Revolution in San Francisco, CA.
Victoria is a scientist with experience in policy and international diplomacy around emerging technologies. She was previously Head of Science & Innovation for the British Consulate-General in San Francisco, leading work to build strategic relationships and inform UK policymaking. Victoria was a NOAA Climate & Global Change Fellow at Columbia University and an International Research Fellow at Oxford. She has a PhD from UC Berkeley in Earth and Planetary Science, and a Bachelor of Science from Yale.
Expertise
International Policy
Tina Lee
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Founder & CEO
MotherCoders
Tina is the Founder and CEO of MotherCoders, a non-profit that’s expanding the tech talent pool by helping women with kids gain the skills, knowledge, and connections they need to thrive in today's digital economy. Tina speaks and writes regularly on topics related to the digital economy, including diversity and inclusion, civic innovation, learning and talent development, workforce development, and the changing needs of women and families in a digital, globalized world. In 2016, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts named Tina to their YBCA 100 list -- an annual compilation of creative minds, makers, and pioneers that are shaping American culture. Tina holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political, Legal and Economic Analysis from Mills College, and an MBA from their Lorry I. Lokey Graduate School of Business. She also holds an M.A. in Learning, Design & Technology from the Stanford University Graduate School of Education, where her studies focused on using tech for civic engagement.
Expertise
Education
Government
Information Technology
Policy
Service Design
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Helena Leurent
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Head of Future of Production System Initiatives
World Economic Forum
Expertise
Government
International Policy
Policy
Yafit Lev-Aretz
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Research Fellow
Information Law Institute NYU
Yafit Lev-Aretz is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Information Law Institute and an adjunct professor at the Media, Culture, and Communications Department at New York University. Lev-Aretz studies self-regulatory regimes set by private entities and the legal vacuum they create. She is especially interested in the growing use of algorithmic decision-making, choice architecture in the age of big data, and the ethical challenges posed by machine learning and artificially intelligent systems. Her research also highlights the legal treatment of beneficial uses of data, such as data philanthropy and the data for good movement, striving to strike a delicate balance between privacy protection and competing values.
Expertise
Artificial Intelligence
Information Technology
Law
Legislation
Litigation
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Amanda Levendowski
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Associate Professor of Law
Georgetown Law
Amanda Levendowski is an Associate Professor at Georgetown Law, where she is the founding director of the Intellectual Property & Information Policy Clinic. Her clinical projects and scholarship focus on developing practical approaches to cutting-edge legal problems. Previously, she worked as an associate in the New York offices of Cooley and Kirkland & Ellis with a focus on copyright, trademark, and privacy law. She received her J.D. from New York University, where she received the Walter J. Derenberg Prize for copyright law, and her B.A. from New York University, where she developed a concentration in Publishing, Copyright and Technology.
Expertise
Artificial Intelligence
Intellectual Property
Law
Privacy
Karen Levy
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Assistant Professor
Cornell University Department of Information Science / Cornell Law School
Expertise
Artificial Intelligence
Consumer Technology
Information Technology
Law
Policy
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Rebekah Lewis
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Director, Kogod Cybersecurity Governance Center
American University, Kogod School of Business
Expertise
Cybersecurity
Education
Government
Law
National Security
plus 3 more
Tiffany Li
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Resident Fellow
Yale Law School - Information Society Project
Tiffany C. Li is an attorney and Resident Fellow at Yale Law School’s Information Society Project. She is an expert on privacy, intellectual property, and technology law and policy.
Li leads the Wikimedia/YLS Initiative on Intermediaries and Information and is an Affiliate Scholar at Princeton’s Center for Information Technology Policy. She frequently writes and speaks on law and policy related to artificial intelligence, virtual reality, the Internet, and more.
Li has been honored as a Transatlantic Digital Debates Fellow (Global Public Policy Institute/New America Foundation), a Fellow of Information Privacy (International Association of Privacy Professionals), and a Fellow of the Internet Law and Policy Foundry. She holds CIPP/US, CIPP/E, CIPT, and CIPM privacy certifications.
She has a J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center, where she was a Global Law Scholar, and a B.A. from University of California Los Angeles, where she was a Norma J. Ehrlich Alumni Scholar.
Expertise
Artificial Intelligence
Computer Science
Consumer Technology
Cryptography
Cybersecurity
plus 14 more
Wendy Li
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PhD Student
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Wendy Li is a Ph.D. student in sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she studies international trade, technology policy, and internet governance.
Her research traces the development of digital trade norms and standards over the past decade, with particular focus on how interest groups, civil society organizations, and the private sector employ expertise and influence to shape trade agreements. She draws upon ethnographic methods, including participant observation, analysis of official documents, and interviews with public officials, diplomats, lobbyists, activists, and trade experts.
Prior to academia, Li served in the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative and the U.S. Department of State. She holds an A.B. in Public and International Affairs and a Certificate in Visual Arts from Princeton University.
Expertise
Government
International Policy
Policy
Research
Nancy Libin
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Partner, Chair of Data Privacy and Cybersecurity Practice
Jenner & Block LLP
Nancy Libin is the Chair of the Data Privacy and Cybersecurity practice at Jenner & Block, where she counsels clients on a range of legal and policy issues related to privacy and cybersecurity. She previously served as the Chief Privacy and Civil Liberties Officer at the U.S. Department of Justice and as Counsel to then-Senator Joe Biden on the Senate Judiciary Committee, where she worked on national security, privacy, internet policy, and cybersecurity issues. She is a co-chair of the Advisory Council to the Center for Democracy & Technology, and she is a member of the Council of Advisors on Privacy and Civil Liberties to Palantir Technologies. She received her J.D. from Georgetown and her A.B. from Harvard.
Expertise
Consumer Technology
Cybersecurity
Information Technology
Law
Legislation
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Lyrissa Lidsky
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Dean
Univ. of Missouri School of Law
I research and write about First Amendment issues in social media and traditional mass media, including defamation, privacy, threats, public forum doctrine, anonymity, and intermediary liability.
Expertise
Education
Free Speech
Journalism
Law
Litigation
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Abby Liebeskind
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Legal Counsel
Twitter
Expertise
Consumer Technology
Cryptography
Law
National Security
Privacy
Gina Likins
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Technical Program Manager, University Outreach
Red Hat
Gina Likins worked in internet strategy for more than 20 years, has been an active participant in online communities for more than 25, and has been a part of the open source community for more than five. She's passionate about finding ways to help open source communities thrive and be more welcoming for everyone.
In addition to her interests in communication, conflict resolution and open source community dynamics, Gina also has a long history with and interest in education, having obtained her North Carolina teacher certification and taught both high school biology and environmental science.
Expertise
Education
Open Source
Elizabeth Lindsey
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Executive Director
Byte Back
Elizabeth Lindsey is the Executive Director of Byte Back, a Washington, DC based nonprofit providing free technology education and career training to unemployed adults. Under Elizabeth's leadership, Byte Back's innovative training is earning national attention for its success in helping people traditionally left out of the tech sector launch living-wage careers in tech. Elizabeth serves on the Federal Communications Commission’s Advisory Committee on Diversity and Digital Empowerment and on the Board of Directors of The Workplace DC, the Goodwill Excel Center, The Engine Room, and the National Digital Inclusion Alliance. She competed in two WeWork Creator Awards pitch competitions, winning a total of $720,000 for Byte Back. As a recognized leader in tech, Elizabeth was featured in the Washington Business Journal and named a Tech Titan by the Washingtonian. She led a panel at SXSW in 2018 and was named a top 100 leadership speaker for 2018 in Inc. magazine.
Expertise
Education
Erika Lindsey
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Designer and User Experience Researcher
Designer and user researcher with a background in advocacy, urban planning and social change initiatives.
Expertise
Government
Policy
Research
Service Design
Jill N. Link, J.D., Pharm.D.
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Intellectual Property Attorney, Member
Jill's practice includes all areas of IP, with an emphasis on drafting and prosecuting patent applications in the firm's Biotechnology and Chemical Practice Group. Jill has filed over 200 hundred U. S. patent applications in the chemical and life sciences areas, and her practice includes both U. S. and international patent management. Much of Jill's patent prosecution work is in the field of water, hygiene and energy technologies to provide chemical products for food service, food processing, healthcare, industrial, and oil and gas markets. Jill works with numerous universities throughout the country through their technology transfer programs to protect various chemical and life science technologies. Jill helps clients monetize intellectual property assets, including assisting the firm's clients with complex licensing, collaborations and other transfers and sales of property. Jill also works with clients in various aspects of due diligence and valuation of intellectual property assets.
Expertise
Intellectual Property
Law
Research
Rebecca Lipman
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Assistant Corporation Counsel
New York City Law Department
Rebecca Lipman is an attorney who specializes in privacy law. She has published pieces about the intersection of technology and privacy in the Harvard Law and Policy Review and in the Penn State Law Review, and she will publish a new article on the Fourth Amendment in the George Mason Law Review later in 2018.
Rebecca graduated cum laude from Harvard Law School. While in law school, Rebecca worked on privacy law issues with former Deputy U.S. Attorney General Philip Heymann, the General Counsel of a research laboratory that develops new surveillance technologies, and the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee.
Rebecca Lipman is currently an attorney with the New York City Law Department. She advises Mayor de Blasio's office and city agencies on a variety of policy areas, including the City's drone policy, the privacy policy for the City's wi-fi kiosks, and a first-in-the-nation law creating a task force to study the public impact of algorithmic decision-making.
Expertise
Artificial Intelligence
Consumer Technology
Government
Law
Legislation
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Andrea Little Limbago
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Chief Social Scientist
Endgame
Dr. Andrea Little Limbago is a cybersecurity researcher, quant analyst, and national security wonk. She is currently the Chief Social Scientist at Endgame, where she directs the company’s technical content and contributes independent research at the intersection of cybersecurity and geopolitics. Andrea’s writing has been featured in numerous outlets, including Politico, Dark Reading, Forbes, Business Insider, VentureBeat, and the Hill. She has presented at a range of conferences including SXSW, SOCOM’s Global Synch, DerbyCon, Enigma, and BSidesLV. Prior to Endgame, Andrea was a technical leader at the Joint Warfare Analysis Center, where she earned the Command’s top award for technical excellence for her analytic support across the Department of Defense. Andrea is a visiting fellow at the National Security Institute at George Mason University, a data analytics industry advisory board member at George Washington, and contributes to numerous infosec cons program review committees.
Expertise
Cybersecurity
Government
Information Technology
International Policy
Legislation
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Lauren Lockwood
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Independent Consultant
Bloom
Lauren Lockwood is a researcher and consultant helping cities work better in a digital age. She served as Boston's first Chief Digital Officer where she built an in-house digital team, led the redesign of Boston.gov, and worked to improve digital communications, engagement, and service delivery for the City of Boston. Lauren has experience in product management and digital transformation in both startups and multinational organizations. She received her MBA from Harvard Business School, where she focused on entrepreneurship and digital strategy. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from Vassar College.
Expertise
Consumer Technology
Government
Graphic Design
Information Technology
Open Source
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Catherine Lotrionte
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Scowcroft Scholar
Atlantic Council
Dr. Catherine Lotrionte is a Brent Scowcroft scholar at the Atlantic Council and the founder of the CyberProject at Georgetown University, where she has taught and written on international and national security law, international affairs and technology. At Georgetown she founded the CyberProject in 2008, focusing on the role of international and domestic law in recent and emerging developments in the proliferation of weapons, technology and threats. She previously served as Counsel to the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board, on the Joint Inquiry Committee of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, as an Assistant General Counsel at the CIA and in the U.S. DOJ. She is an internationally recognized expert on international law and cyber conflict and has testified before Congress and NATO on cyber issues. She has authored numerous publications on a broad array of topics, including espionage, information technology, international law, and deterrence.
Expertise
Cybersecurity
Government
International Policy
Law
National Security
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Kelly Lum
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Security Engineer
Expertise
Computer Science
Cybersecurity
Education
Jennifer Lynch
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Senior Staff Attorney
Electronic Frontier Foundation
Jennifer Lynch is a senior staff attorney with the Electronic Frontier Foundation where she works to protect your privacy and civil liberties. She challenges the abuse of government surveillance technologies through the courts and works to promote privacy-protective laws in state and federal legislatures. She founded EFF's Street Level Surveillance Project, which informs advocates, defense attorneys, and decisionmakers about new police tools. She speaks frequently at legal and technical conferences as well as to the general public on technologies like location tracking, biometrics, and algorithmic decisionmaking, and has testified on facial recognition before committees in the Senate and House of Representatives. She is regularly consulted as an expert on these subjects and others by major and technical news media.
Expertise
Artificial Intelligence
Consumer Technology
Free Speech
Government
Law
plus 4 more
Susan Lyon-Hintze
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Managing Partner
Hintze Law
Susan Lyon-Hintze has provided legal counsel to tech clients for 19+ years - 14 years of which have been focused exclusively on the area of privacy and security. She advises clients from start-ups to major technology, e-commerce, advertising, media, and mobile companies on a wide range of global data protection issues. Susan has extensive experience defending clients before data protection regulators, including the Federal Trade Commission and state Attorneys General. Ms. Lyon-Hintze formerly served as co-chair of Cooley LLP's privacy group and co-lead of Perkins Coie's privacy group. She also served as privacy counsel with Microsoft Corp., where she advised IT security, sales and marketing, X-Box, HR, and legislative policy teams. Prior to Microsoft she served as lead privacy counsel at Dell, Inc. Susan regularly speaks and writes on privacy issues and is an advisor to the American Law Institute’s project on Information Privacy Principles.
Expertise
Cybersecurity
Law
Legislation
Privacy
Raegan MacDonald
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Head of EU Public Policy
Mozilla
Raegan is a tech policy professional, with years of experience working as a manager, advocate, campaigner, and policy expert in the field of technology and human rights. Originally from Canada, she is based in Brussels, where she leads Mozilla's public policy work in the EU, and covers issues including privacy, data protection, copyright, net neutrality, and disinformation. Prior to joining Mozilla, Raegan established and led Access Now's Brussels office. Prior to that, she worked at European Digital Rights (EDRi). In 2014, she was named a Privacy by Design Ambassador by the Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario, Canada. Raegan serves on the board of the Digital Freedom Fund (DFF), and EDRi. She is a graduate of the University of Vienna and the University of Leipzig, where she received her Masters in Global Studies.
Expertise
Free Speech
Information Technology
Intellectual Property
International Policy
Legislation
plus 3 more
Selina MacLaren
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Associate Attorney
Davis Wright Tremaine LLP
Selina MacLaren is an associate attorney at Davis Wright Tremaine LLP. Previously, Selina was the Stanton Foundation Free Press/National Security Legal Fellow at the Reporters Committee, where she works on First Amendment, national security, and free expression issues. With Reporters Committee attorneys, she litigated access cases, including efforts to unseal electronic surveillance records related to criminal leak prosecutions to help the public better understand how the government obtains journalist-source communications. Her litigation work has also included a district-wide unsealing matter in the district court in D.C., which increased public access to information about law enforcement surveillance. Selina also supports the organization’s amicus brief practice, including on four briefs filed with the U.S. Supreme Court in cases affecting journalists' newsgathering rights. Previously, Selina was a litigation associate at Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP, where her practice focused on complex commercial litigation and white-collar defense.
Expertise
Free Speech
Government
Journalism
Law
Litigation
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Mary Madden
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Research Lead
Data & Society Research Institute
Mary Madden is a veteran technology researcher, writer and public speaker. She is currently a Research Lead at the Data & Society Research Institute in New York City, where she directs an initiative to explore the impact of data-centric systems on Americans’ health and well-being. Prior to her role at Data & Society, Mary was a Senior Researcher for the Pew Research Center in Washington, DC. She is a nationally-recognized expert on privacy and technology, trends in social media use, and the impact of digital media on teens and parents. Mary is also an Affiliate at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University and a member of the Data Privacy Day Advisory Committee for the National Cyber Security Alliance.
Expertise
Consumer Technology
Cybersecurity
Information Technology
Privacy
Research
Katherine Maher
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Executive Director
Wikimedia Foundation
Chief executive responsible for Wikipedia, the world's fifth most popular website. Executive director of the Wikimedia Foundation. Expert in freedom of expression, privacy, security, digital rights, tech policy, online communities, open source, platform development, diversity in technology.
Expertise
Artificial Intelligence
Consumer Technology
Education
Free Speech
Government
plus 7 more
Nashin Mahtani
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Project Co-Manager and Lead Designer
PetaBencana.id
As the Project Co-Manager and Lead Designer of PetaBencana.id (Disaster Map Indonesia), Nashin Mahtani leads a multidisciplinary design research team in developing real-time visualizations of disaster events to support practices of mutual aid for climate adaptation, and creates data visualization strategies and new representational forms to explain humanitarian information and communication technologies and systems. Powered by CogniCity Open Source Software, PetaBencana.id gathers, sorts, and visualizes situational updates of disasters using crowd-sourced reporting & government agency validations in real-time. Nashin is also the Research Director of anexact office in Jakarta, Indonesia, where she leads the office's exhibition-led inquiry The Architecture of the Brain. With a background in architecture, her research and design work investigates the relational complexities of urban infrastructural systems, political economies of computation, mutual aid for climate adaptation, visual and spatial cultures, and neuroscience.
Expertise
Artificial Intelligence
Education
Government
Graphic Design
Information Technology
plus 3 more
Merle Maigre
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EVP for Government Relations
CybExer Technologies OÜ
Merle Maigre is the Executive Vice President for Government Relations at CybExer Technologies, an Estonian firm that specializes in providing governments, international organizations and companies with cyber training environment and sophisticated, large-scale cyber security exercises. 2017- 2018 Merle Maigre served as the Director of the NATO Cooperative Cyber Defense Center of Excellence (CCDCOE) in Tallinn. During 2012 to 2017, she worked as the Security Policy Adviser to Estonian Presidents Kersti Kaljulaid and Toomas Hendrik Ilves. In this capacity, she was the President’s chief advisor on domestic and international security issues, including cyber defence developments and challenges. From 2010-2012 Merle Maigre served at NATO HQ in the Policy Planning Unit of the Private Office of NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen. Merle Maigre has also worked as a researcher at the International Centre for Defense and Security (ICDS) in Tallinn (2007-2010). She has served as the Deputy Head of the NATO Liaison Office in Kyiv and at the NATO Department in the Ministry of Defence, Estonia, in support of the country’s NATO accession.
Expertise
Cybersecurity
Government
International Policy
Military
Policy
Michelle Manafy
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Editorial Director
Digital Content Next
In her role as editorial director, Michelle is responsible for the Digital Content Next’s content-related initiatives including our inContext site as well as evangelizing industry best-practices in a wide range of venues. She has two decades of publishing experience, more than half of which has been focused squarely on the business of digital content. Her career has included leadership roles at the Media Industry Newsletter (min), where she concentrated on digital strategies and revenue channels for the magazine media; UK-based digital publisher FreePint Limited, where she focused on the enterprise information industry; and Information Today, Inc.’s Enterprise Group, where she provided content direction on publications and events in the areas of content creation, management and delivery strategies and tools, enterprise search, and the business of content.
Expertise
Artificial Intelligence
Journalism
Privacy
Mandy Mandelstein
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Co-Founder, Creative Director of Technology
Expertise
Consumer Technology
Graphic Design
Journalism
Open Source
Research
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Anisha Mangalick
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Legal Counsel
Anisha Mangalick is a technology attorney at Zendesk, focusing on privacy law and commercial transactions. She is also a Fellow with the Internet Law and Policy Foundry and a Certified Information Privacy Professional (CIPP/US). Anisha has previously worked in both public and private sectors, including organizations such as the Wikimedia Foundation, the fintech startup Tipalti, and the Minnesota Judicial Branch. In addition, she is a Director for the South Asian Bar Association of Northern California Foundation Board, and a Co-Founder and Director for Nachle SF Dance Company.
Expertise
Consumer Technology
Free Speech
Information Technology
Law
Policy
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Sandra Manigault
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Director of NFL IT Project Management Office
Certified Project Management Professional with more than 10 years technology industry experience that includes line management positions in infrastructure services delivery and support for major financial services firms; Experience in program managing the development and execution of successful projects that support and deliver tremendous value to clients; ITIL Certified Process Manager; Strong Vendor Management; Extensive Customer Service Background; Skilled in Gap Analysis and Vendor Analysis/Selection
Expertise
Information Technology
Service Design
Rita Mantler
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Director and Co-founder
We Are Telescopic Ltd
Creative technologist and founder of Telescopic, specialising in customised membership, subscription and loyalty schemes to help fast growing businesses connect with their clients.
With our equal gender policy and a diverse team of experts we pro-actively cooperate with our clients.
We listen to individual business requirements, support clients without the tech jargon and educate our clients on technical issues and possibilities.
Our services include data heavy and inter-connected websites, apps, e-commerce systems and digital installations.
Expertise
Computer Science
Consumer Technology
Information Technology
Research
Software Development
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Kayleen Manwaring
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Lecturer
UNSW Sydney
Kayleen is currrently a legal academic at Australia's leading business school, after many years working as a lawyer specialising in information technology, and in law firm knowledge management. Her research interests lie at the intersection between emerging technologies, particularly information technology, and the law of contract, consumer protection and competition law, intellectual property law and corporations law. She has published in national and international journal, and presented at national and international conferences, on the Internet of Things, ubiquitous/pervasive computing, ambient intelligence, online contracting, network neutrality, copyright and digital technologies, privacy, spam and communications law.
Expertise
Consumer Technology
Information Technology
Law
Policy
Research
Shaila Manyam
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Senior Director
Burson Cohn & Wolfe
Expertise
International Policy
National Security
Vidushi Marda
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Lawyer / Policy Advisor
Article 19
Vidushi Marda is a legal researcher interested in the interplay between emerging technologies, policy, and society. Currently working as a Policy Advisor with ARTICLE 19’s Team Digital, her primary focus is on the ethical, legal and regulatory issues that arise from algorithmic decision making. Vidushi also works on strengthening human rights considerations in internet infrastructure, particularly at internet governance bodies like ICANN and the IEEE.
Vidushi is a member of The Centre for Internet and Society, where she has worked on access to knowledge, network neutrality, big data, and strengthening freedom of expression and privacy in internet governance. Further, she was a Research Associate at DATACTIVE, University of Amsterdam, where she worked towards understanding content regulation vis-a-vis increased dominance of platforms on the Internet.
Expertise
Artificial Intelligence
Cybersecurity
International Policy
Policy
Privacy
Michele Markoff
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Acting Coordinator for Cyber Issues
US Department of State
Expertise
International Policy
National Security
Policy
Chanda Marlowe
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Christopher Wolf Policy Fellow
Future of Privacy Forum
Chanda Marlowe, CIPP/US, is the inaugural Christopher Wolf Diversity Law Fellow at the Future of Privacy Forum. Chanda focuses on consumer and commercial privacy issues, including general data management, ad tech, algorithms, and the Internet of Things.
During law school, Chanda worked as a legal intern for the Future of Privacy Forum, the ACLU of Northern California, the North Carolina Department of Justice, and the Honorable Judge Wanda Bryant at the North Carolina Court of Appeals. She also worked closely with the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill Center for Media Law and Policy as a Roy H. Park Fellow.
Chanda has a dual-degree (J.D./M.A.) from the UNC School of Law and the UNC School of Media and Journalism. Chanda also earned her M.A. in Teaching and her B.A. in English Language and Literature from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Expertise
Law
Policy
Privacy
Cakelin Marquardt
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Full Stack Software Engineer (Growth)
Polco
Cakelin is a scientist and a writer for machines and humans. Their focus is solving interesting, human-focused interdisciplinary problems by empowering individuals and communities with their own data. They are currently a Full Stack Software Engineer at Polco, a civic engagement platform for local government and advocacy groups. They specialize in data analytics, machine learning and visualization. Continuing 10 years of STEM outreach, teaching and inclusion advocacy, they are currently a co-organizer of Madison Women in Tech, a web development mentor for YWeb Bootcamp and a Doyenne member (marginalized entrepreneurs). Cakelin is a 2018 New Leader’s Council Fellow, a national training program for diverse progressive leaders. They are a passionate disability advocate. If they aren’t writing poetry or reading up on policy and science, they’re probably watching sci-fi or at a circus class.
Expertise
Artificial Intelligence
Computer Science
Data
Disability
Information Technology
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Carson Martinez
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Policy Fellow
Future of Privacy Forum
Carson Martinez, CIPP/US, is a Policy Fellow at the Future of Privacy Forum (FPF). Carson works on privacy issues surrounding health data, particularly where it is not covered by HIPAA, such as wearable devices, mobile health apps, real-world evidence, medical big data, and DTC genetics. Before joining FPF, Carson was an Intern at Intel Corporation with the Government and Policy Group. She has also worked as a Research Assistant for Data-Pop Alliance, a global coalition on big data and development created by the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative, MIT Media Lab, and Overseas Development Institute. Carson graduated from Duke University with a Master’s Degree in Bioethics and Science Policy, with a concentration in Technology and Data Policy. She earned her Bachelor’s Degree in Neuroscience, with minors in Philosophy and Psychology from New York University.
Expertise
Consumer Technology
Government
Policy
Privacy
Research
Alice Marwick
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Assistant Professor
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Alice E. Marwick (PhD, New York University) is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication and Faculty Advisor to the Media Manipulation Initiative at the Data & Society Research Institute. She researches the social, political, and cultural implications of popular social media technologies. In 2017, she co-authored Media Manipulation and Disinformation Online, a flagship report examining far-right online subcultures’ use of social media to spread disinformation, for which she was named one of 2017’s Global Thinkers by Foreign Policy magazine. She is the author of Status Update: Celebrity, Publicity and Branding in the Social Media Age (Yale 2013), which examines how people seek social status through online visibility, and co-editor of The Sage Handbook of Social Media (Sage 2017). Her current book project examines how the networked nature of online privacy disproportionately impacts marginalized individuals in terms of gender, race, and socio-economic status.
Expertise
Information Technology
Privacy
Research
Nathalie Maréchal
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PhD Candidate & Oakley Endowed Fellow
University of Southern California, Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism
Expertise
Consumer Technology
Free Speech
Government
Information Technology
International Policy
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Anna Massoglia
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Researcher
Center for Responsive Politics
Anna Massoglia is the Nonprofits and FARA Researcher at the Center for Responsive Politics. Anna first joined the Center for Responsive Politics in September 2015 and works with OpenSecrets data on politically active nonprofits, nondisclosing groups, and foreign influence.
With more than half a decade if experience as an editor, writer, and research analyst in Washington, D.C., Anna’s work has covered government accountability, election law, international payroll, ethics, tax law, and campaign finance data.
Anna holds a J.D. from the University of the District of Columbia School of Law and graduated magna cum laude from North Carolina State University, where she earned degrees in psychology with honors and political science with a concentration in American politics.
Expertise
Government
International Policy
Journalism
Law
Policy
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Melanie Masterson
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Sr. Threat Detection and Response Engineer
Expertise
Cybersecurity
Information Technology
Andrea Matwyshyn
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Professor of Law & Professor of Computer Science (courtesy)
Northeastern University
Expertise
Artificial Intelligence
Consumer Technology
Cybersecurity
Free Speech
Government
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Tekedra Mawakana
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Chief External Officer
Waymo
Expertise
Artificial Intelligence
Consumer Technology
Free Speech
Information Technology
Intellectual Property
plus 5 more
Charlotte Mays
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Software Engineer
Red Hat
Expertise
Education
Information Technology
Open Source
Software Development
Michelle Mazurek
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Assistant Professor
University of Maryland
Assistant professor researching human aspects of cybersecurity and privacy. I'm interested in understanding how people make security and privacy decisions, and how to make those decisions easier and better. PhD from Carnegie Mellon University, 2014.
Expertise
Computer Science
Cybersecurity
Privacy
Research
UX/UI
Jennifer McArdle
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Assistant Professor and Non-Resident Fellow
Salve Regina University; Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments
Jennifer McArdle is a Non-Resident Fellow at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments and an Assistant Professor of Cyber Defense at Salve Regina University. Her research interests include cyber power, military training and readiness, and military innovation. Her work has been featured in Real Clear World, The Cyber Defense Review, National Defense Magazine, and War on the Rocks, among others. She currently serves on Congressman James Langevin's Cyber Rhode Island Advisory Committee.
Jennifer previously worked at the Potomac Institute for Policy Studies, where she served as a contractor for the Department of Defense, Defense Microelectronics Activity on cyber hardware and supply chain security. She has also held positions at the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the U.S. National Defense University, in addition to working in New Delhi, India at two defense research institutions. She is currently a PhD candidate in War Studies at King's College London.
Expertise
Cybersecurity
Military
National Security
Policy
Aleecia McDonald
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Assistant Professor of the Practice, Information Networking Institute
Carnegie Mellon University
Aleecia M. McDonald, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor of the Practice, based at INI’s Silicon Valley campus. She focuses on the public policy issues of Internet privacy, including user expectations for privacy tools, behavioral economics and mental models of privacy, and the efficacy of industry self-regulation. She co-chaired the WC3’s Tracking Protection Working Group, which was an effort to establish international standards for a Do Not Track mechanism that users can enable to request enhanced privacy online. Aleecia’s decade of experience working in software startups adds a practical focus to her academic work, and she was a Senior Privacy Researcher for Mozilla prior to working as Director of Privacy at Stanford. Her findings have been featured in media outlets such as the Washington Post, Ars Technica, and NPR. She has presented findings in testimony to the California Assembly and contributed to testimony before the United States Senate and the Federal Trade Commission.
Expertise
Cybersecurity
National Security
Policy
Privacy
Research
Karen McGrane
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Managing Partner
Bond Art + Science
If the internet is more awesome than it was in 1995, Karen would like to claim a very tiny piece of the credit. For the past 20 years Karen has helped businesses create better digital products through the power of user experience design and content strategy. She is Managing Partner at Bond Art + Science, a UX consultancy she founded in 2006, and formerly VP and National Lead for User Experience at Razorfish. Karen teaches *Design Management* in the MFA in Interaction Design program at the School of Visual Arts in Manhattan. She co-hosts *A Responsive Web Design Podcast* with Ethan Marcotte, and is the author of *Going Responsive*, published in 2015 by A Book Apart. Her first book, *Content Strategy for Mobile*, was published in 2012.
Expertise
Graphic Design
Research
Service Design
UX/UI
Emma McGrattan
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SVP, Engineering
As SVP of Engineering at Actian, Emma leads research and development for the Actian Vector, Actian Vector in Hadoop, Actian X and Ingres teams. A recognized authority in DBMS and Big Data technologies, Emma is a sought-after speaker at industry conferences.
Expertise
Computer Science
Cybersecurity
Open Source
Software Development
Kathleen McGroddy-Goetz
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Vice President, Strategy & Innovation
IBM Watson Health
Kathy McGroddy Goetz is Vice President, Strategy & Innovation, IBM Watson Health. In this role, she is responsible for driving data and technology strategy and roadmaps to drive rapid growth and differentiation across the portfolio. This includes fostering relationships with external parties as well as partnering with IBM Research to drive ongoing innovation.
Prior to her current role, Kathy was Vice President, Partnerships & Solutions, where she led the formation of strategic collaborations with key industry leaders to address the world’s most pressing health challenges.
She is well known as a compelling story teller and is a frequent speaker at conferences and academic events.
Dr. McGroddy Goetz has spent much of her career fostering innovation across advanced technologies and new business models. In addition to managing a P&L over $1B, she has led teams in R&D spanning hardware and software, as well as business development organizations focused on research commercialization, strategic partnerships, and M&A. She has formed many deep collaborative relationships and business partnerships around the world as an IBM executive and played a critical role in the launch of Watson Health, called a “moon shot” by CEO Ginni Rometty.
Dr. McGroddy Goetz earned a B.S. in physics from SUNY Binghamton and a Ph.D. in molecular biophysics from Cornell University. She holds five patents and has authored multiple publications.
Expertise
Artificial Intelligence
Computer Science
Cybersecurity
Hardware Development
Information Technology
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Katie McInnis
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Policy Counsel
Consumer Reports
Katie McInnis is a policy counsel in Consumer Reports’ Washington, DC office. Her work focuses on technology and the consumer’s right to privacy, security, control, and transparency. Before joining CR in 2016, Katie served as a Privacy & Technology Fellow at the Center for Democracy & Technology and the Enforcement Bureau of the Federal Communications Commission. She attended Bard College where studied History and Sociology and earned her law degree from the Georgetown University Law Center, where she was the Editor-in-Chief of the Georgetown Journal of Law & Modern Critical Race Perspectives.
Expertise
Consumer Technology
Law
Legislation
Policy
Privacy
Melinda McLellan
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Partner, Privacy & Data Protection
Baker & Hostetler LLP
Experienced privacy and cybersecurity attorney currently focused primarily on cross-border data protection law and the regulation of emerging technologies. I regularly speak and write on issues relevant to my clients and practice including compliance with the new EU General Data Protection Regulation, securing the Internet of Things, implementation of blockchain technologies, cybersecurity threats to the financial services and energy sectors, biometrics, autonomous vehicles, genetic privacy, artificial intelligence, Big Data, managing information security incidents, and negotiating complex tech transactions.
Expertise
Artificial Intelligence
Consumer Technology
Cybersecurity
Information Technology
Legislation
plus 1 more
Jacqueline McNamara
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Head of Cyber Security Services
Jacqui is the Head of Cyber Security Services at Telstra, Chair of Females in IT and T (FITT) Australia, and passionate supporter of women in tech.
Expertise
Artificial Intelligence
Cryptography
Cybersecurity
Information Technology
Military
plus 2 more
Jasmine McNealy
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Associate Professor
University of Florida
Jasmine McNealy, JD, PhD is an associate professor at the University of Florida where she studies emerging technology with a view toward influencing law and policy. She is also a Faculty Associate at Harvard University's Berkman Klein Center for Internet and society and a Fellow at Stanford University's Digital Civil Society Lab. Her research has been published in both social science and law journals including, The First Amendment Law Review, Digital Journalism, and Communication Law & Policy. She is the current chair of the Communication Law & Policy Division of the International Communication Association.
Expertise
Artificial Intelligence
Free Speech
Journalism
Law
Policy
plus 2 more
Corynne McSherry
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Legal Director
Electronic Frontier Foundation
Expertise
Free Speech
International Policy
Law
Legislation
Litigation
plus 3 more
Melissa Medina
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Congressional Affairs Director
Internet Education Foundation
Melissa Medina spearheads congressional strategy and operations for the Congressional App Challenge, a nationwide bipartisan initiative that engages U.S. elected officials in technology and inspires U.S. students to learn Computer Science. In 2015, she was part of a two-person team that launched the Congressional App Challenge, a project of the Internet Education Foundation. She is also the co-founder of appmy, LLC, an organization that builds digital platforms to make elected officials' office operations more efficient; for example, tourtrackr.com which makes it easy for offices to schedule and process DC tours. Previously, Medina worked on Capitol Hill for nearly five years serving in the office of Rep. Ed Royce (CA) and the House Foreign Affairs Committee.
Expertise
Education
Government
International Policy
Policy
Rupal Mehta
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Assistant Professor
Department of Political Science, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. I am also an affiliated researcher and contributor to the Cross-Domain Deterrence Project at the University of California, San Diego. From 2014-2015, I was a Stanton Nuclear Security Postdoctoral Fellow in the International Security Program/Project on Managing the Atom at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. In July 2014, I received my Ph.D. in the Department of Political Science at the University of California, San Diego. My research interests lie in international security and conflict, with a specialization in nuclear nonproliferation/counter-proliferation, extended deterrence, nuclear latency, force structure, and deterrence and coercion strategy. My book, The Politics of Nuclear Reversal, explores the conditions under which states that have started nuclear weapons programs stop their pursuit.
Expertise
Government
International Policy
Military
National Security
Policy
Halak Mehta-Shrivastava
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International Public Policy Manager and Privacy Lead
Access Partnership
Halak Mehta, International Public Policy Manager, Access Partnership
Halak Mehta is an International Public Policy Manager at Access Partnership. Based in Washington, D.C., she consults private companies and governments on international issues on information and communications technology (ICT) policy. She works for a range of clients to develop ICT strategies, shape policy discussions, and access new markets. She has advised clients in matters related to cloud computing, Big Data, artificial intelligence, data protection, cybersecurity, and privacy regulations.
Halak also helps clients understand space, satellite, and spectrum rights in the United States and abroad. She effectively engages with domestic and international governments as well as private sector and non-governmental entities. A lawyer by training, Halak assists clients in accomplishing their objectives and obtaining spectrum rights (as defined by the International Telecommunications Union).
Prior to Access Partnership, Halak was a member of the Litigation and Investigations group at a global investigations and compliance firm, where she performed internal investigations on behalf of Tier 1 financial institutions in connection with litigation and regulatory events and counseled Tier 1 financial institutions on risk-management strategies. She has helped clients navigate the legal and cultural pitfalls inherent to internal and government investigations spanning many jurisdictions. She is an expert at deploying investigative and e-discovery technologies (such as data analytics and predictive coding) to perform effective and defensible investigations in an efficient and timely manner. She has significant global, on-the-ground experience working on behalf of clients, with specific expertise in the United Kingdom, Switzerland, and China.
Halak attended Widener School of Law in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. While a Juris Doctorate (JD) candidate, she worked at the United Nations in the Office of Millennium Development Goals in New York City. Before law school, Halak received her Master of Arts in Social Justice at Loyola University Chicago. Her master’s thesis addressed the healthcare disparities in rural/urban Kenya. Halak also has a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and Philosophy from Loyola University Chicago, where she was a Magis Scholar and graduated with honors.
Expertise
Artificial Intelligence
Cybersecurity
Government
International Policy
Law
plus 3 more
Shannon Togawa Mercer
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National Security and Law Associate
Hoover Institution
Shannon Togawa Mercer is a Senior Editor at Lawfare and the National Security and Law Associate at the Hoover Institution. She was previously Lawfare's Managing Editor. In 2017, she graduated from Georgetown Law cum laude, where she was the Editor-in-Chief of the Georgetown Journal of International Law. In 2011, she graduated cum laude from Princeton University with an A.B. in Politics and minors in Near Eastern Studies and Arabic Language. Her senior thesis “The Blockade of Gaza: Legal and Moral Implications of Political Control Without International Recognition,” was awarded the Near Eastern Studies Senior Thesis Prize. Prior to law school, Shannon spent two years at Bridgewater Associates and one year as a management consultant with Incandescent LLC. In 2017, Shannon authored a chapter on data security in "Legal Aspects of Brexit," a book published by the International Institute of Economic Law. She has spoken in various fora on Brexit, trade law, EU law and data regulation.
Expertise
Government
International Policy
Law
National Security
Policy
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Chloé Messdaghi
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VP of Strategy
Point3 Security
Chloé Messdaghi is the VP of Strategy at Point3 Security. She is a security researcher advocate who supports safe harbor and strongly believes that information security is a humanitarian issue. Besides her passion to keep people safe and empowered online & offline, she is driven to change the statistics of women in InfoSec. She cofounded Women of Security (WoSEC) and heads the SF Bay Area chapter. As well, she created WomenHackerz, a global online community that provides support and resources for hundreds of women hackers at all levels.
Expertise
Consumer Technology
Cybersecurity
Education
Government
Information Technology
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Vickie Miller
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VP Data Privacy
Expertise
Cybersecurity
Privacy