DISCO Slovenia – Digital Sovereignty Conference

Igor Bijuklič

Research associate at the Educational Research Institute in Ljubljana. His main field of research is critical media studies and philosophy of technology.

Jan Ainali

Codebase steward at the Foundation for Public Code. Helps public organizations collaborate on open source software.

Sanne Stevens

Table Co-Director, Justice, Equity and Technology Project, Dept. of Media and Communications at The London School of Economics and Political Science.

Esra Ozkan

Table Co-Director, Justice, Equity and Technology Project, Dept. of Media and Communications at The London School of Economics and Political Science.

Žana Erznožnik

Journalist and Deputy Editor at Oštro. Currently focusing on fact-checking disinformation and research for data projects.

Liljana Pecova Ilieska

Founder of IMPETUS: Expertise in Data Protection, Digital Rights & Good Governance issues. Lecturer and Researcher.

Kris Shrishak

Senior Fellow at the Irish Council for Civil Liberties working on AI regulation, surveillance, cryptography, data rights, and privacy.

Aïcha Chaghouani

Relations and Advocacy Officer of the Netherlands Helsinki Committee, working on advocacy, strategy and partnership development for civil society.

Mila Josifovska Danilovska

Programme Manager for Social Accountability and Human Rights Online at Metamorphosis Foundation for Internet and Society.

Alia ElKattan

NYU Politics PhD student and Mozilla Creative Media Awardee building educational interactive experiences about the sociopolitical impacts of technology.

Eleanor Drage

Senior Research Fellow, Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence, University of Cambridge, and Co-host of The Good Robot Podcast.

Cullen Miller

VP of Product at Spawning.ai. Spawning is building the consent layer for AI.

Maja Čakarić

Journalist and Editor at Oštro with an interest in digital security. Also a podcast Co-host.

Anuška Delić

Founder and Editor in Chief at Oštro.

Joshua Franco

Senior Research Advisor, Amnesty Tech at Amnesty International

Luke Murphy

Libre software hacker and member of the Co-op Cloud federation, an alternative to corporate clouds built by tech co-ops.

Hynek Trojánek

Spokesperson of the Czech organisation Iuridicum Remedium (IuRe), which deals with privacy protection, but also digital exclusion and the right to analogue.

Sander van der Waal

As Waag's research director, Sander van der Waal is responsible for its research agenda, working towards an open, fair & inclusive future.

Danilo Ćurčić

Programme coordinator of the A 11 – Initiative for Economic and Social Rights, currently dealing with digital exclusion services in social protection in Serbia.

Maria Mingo

Policy and Advocacy Manager at Mnemonic. Works on atrocity crime content preservation for accountability.

Mariana da Cunha

Programme Officer at the Netherlands Helsinki Committee – Human Rights Defence Team. Project Coordinator of the EU project, ‘Catalyst of Change’.

Dorota Anna Głowacka

Lawyer at Panoptykon Foundation (Poland), responsible for strategic litigation and advocacy in the area of online platform regulation.

Mitar Milutinović

Director of Layer8 institute and an open source developer. His work centers around building tools and systems for better collaboration.

Klara Škrinjar

Journalist and Editor at Oštro. Currently focusing on data projects and networks of politicians.

Neža Grasselli

Data Protection Lawyer at noyb – European Center for Digital Rights and the president of Transparency International Slovenia.

Nataša Pirc Musar

The President of the Republic of Slovenia, a former data protection attorney and Slovenia's Information Commissioner.

Matej Zwitter

Journalist and Editor at Oštro. Enjoys working with data.

Domen Savič

Director of digital rights at NGO Citizen D and a freelance journalist. He is exploring the interconnected world of human rights and digital technologies.

George Katz

An open-source investigator within the Justice & Accountability Unit at a Netherlands-based investigative journalism group Bellingcat.

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