Nach dem Studium von Literatur, Philosophie und Geschichte hat Hendrik angefangen, in der Werbung zu arbeiten – und ist nun seit beinahe zwanzig Jahren dabei geblieben. Sein Job macht ihm immer noch Spaß, obwohl oder weil er dabei nicht müde wird, die negativen Auswüchse seiner Branche zu kritisieren. Hendrik lebt in Köln, arbeitet remote für eine Berliner Agentur und benutzt privat die alte Rechtschreibung.

Alex Durrant is a platform engineer, software developer, writer, and artist. They are interested in understanding the societal impact of the technology we use every day.

Contact me at: hello [at] alexdurrant.com

Amazon worker and activist with No Tech for Apartheid

Aline Blankertz ist angewandte Ökonomin und Teil des digitalpolitischen Kollektivs Structural Integrity.

Alistair writes, researches and engages different people on the ecological and social impact of technology, he works with activists and campaigners on reimagining our technology futures.
https://reclaimed.systems
newsletter: https://reclaimedsystems.substack.com/

Anna Kraher forscht zu Machtverhältnissen, Imaginationen und Infrastrukturen hinter Technologien. Sie ist in digitalpolitischen Kontexten aktiv.

Ich bin Referentin für Digitalpolitik der Linken im Bundestag und betreue für die Fraktion den Digitalausschuss des Bundestages. Als studierte Diplom-Politologin beschäftige ich mich seit 25 Jahren mit Netz und Politik, Grundrechten und Feminismus.

Seit 10 Jahren verfolge ich das Thema geschlechtsspezifische digitale Gewalt und dabei vor allem die technikbasierte digitale Gewalt im sozialen Nahraum, auch bekannt als 'häusliche Gewalt'.

Annie is an interdisciplinary researcher with a background in artificial intelligence, critical philosophy and political ecology. Grounded in these diverse perspectives, her work is committed to centering social and environmental justice in the debates on digital technologies.

Antony Loewenstein is an independent journalist, film-maker and best-selling author of The Palestine Laboratory.

• Web: https://antonyloewenstein.com/

Anne Pasek is an Associate Professor and Canada Research Chair in Media, Culture, and the Environment at Trent University. She studies the political ecology of the tech industry, the cultural politics of climate change, and low-tech experiments in sustainable networks.

Seit Sept. 23 haben wir die Häuser Lausitzer Str. 10/11 dem Markt entzogen und verwalten uns selbst. Der zähe jahrelange Kampf hat sich gelohnt! Der umliegende Kiez hat uns in unserem Widerstand tatkräftig unterstützt. Das schätzen wir sehr und wirken nach wie vor in und mit dem Kiez. Ein Ergebnis ist die LauseRia, die nun seit vier Jahren ein unabhängiger Raum für alle im Kiez ist. Kunst und Kultur im Kiez war uns immer wichtig. Wir fördern und wollen sie bereichern - daher jetzt der Art Space.

Wir sind eine basisdemokratische und revolutionäre Organisierung aus der Deutschschweiz. Wir haben einen taktischen Fokus auf direkte Aktion gegen Organisation, Logistik und Infrastruktur der Herrschenden einerseits - und dem Ausprobieren anderer, solidarischer Organisationsformen andererseits. Wir möchten unseren Teil zur globalen sozialrevolutionären Bewegung gegen Kapitalismus und Kolonialismus beitragen - denn die Erde und die Leben von uns allen hängen davon ab.

Auréliane Froehlich is active in the International Degrowth Network and local degrowth groups in Berlin, where she works to bring a degrowth perspective into different spaces and build bridges between struggles. With a background in human rights and a decade of experience in NGOs, she currently works on open data infrastructure and data collaboratives that support civil society in holding corporations to account.

Barbara is a researcher, exploring the intersections of migration and digital labour platforms, particularly in the realm of reproductive services. She was awarded her Phd from the Free University Berlin in 2024.

We are movements and anti-capitalist activists who practise various forms of resistance against big tech. We want to bring together interested people, activists and movements, network and connect local struggles. We want to deepen our understanding of the problem, exchange ideas about necessary forms of action, develop strategies together and advance the resistance.

Camilla is a political scientist and part of the organizing team of the Data Workers’ Inquiry, where she supports community driven research into the labor that fuels AI. In partnership with data workers, her work highlights the need for decent working conditions, documenting and analyzing exploitative labor practices, and supporting grassroots organization to influence public discourse and policy.

Candela is a PhD candidate researching women, technology, and power relations from a feminist perspective. She works on qualitative research and founded Son Todos Tipos, a feminist research platform that produces data, analysis, and public debate on structural gender inequalities in Argentina/Carmin is a sociologist trained at HU, a militant, and a feminist activist. Her work focuses on labor and political organization, with a strong commitment to grassroots struggles and anti-capitalist movemen

Carine Roos is a doctoral researcher at the University of Sheffield, working at the intersection of artificial intelligence, democracy, and human rights. She examines how digital infrastructures and Big Tech reshape participation, representation, and accountability. She holds an MSc in Gender Studies from the London School of Economics and a background in Sociology and Journalism.

Entwicklerin bei Local-IT, Teil der tech-coops. Interessiert an Barrierefreiheit und feministischer Netzpolitik. Mit Freude beim Start des queerfeministischen Techpodcasts mit dabei: Queere FeTe (https://www.queere-fete.de)

Caro Weber is active in the alliance Tesla den Hahn abdrehen. Since 2023 local citizens as well as activists organised demonstrations, talks and walks through the forest, camps, and festivities against the destruction of the Tesla Gigafactory in Grünheide. Their focus is the protection of water resources.

Dr. Cecilia Rikap is an Associate Professor in Economics and the Head of Research at the University College London’s Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose. She has authored Capitalism, Power and Innovation: Intellectual Monopoly Capitalism Uncovered, the recently published Teoría de la Dependencia Digital and co-authored the book The Digital Innovation Race. Her forthcoming book, “The Rulers: Corporate Power in the Age of AI and the Cloud” will be published by Verso Books in 2026.

Political scientist publishing since the 2000s about ideological phenomena of digitalisation (technolibertarianism, transhumanism, etc.), based on a long-standing interest in utopian thinking and anti-capitalist techno-futurism.

Claudia Seldin is an author, urban theorist, researcher and lecturer at the Center for Metropolitan Studies and Urban Management Program of the TU Berlin. She has a PhD in Urban Studies from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (Brazil). She works at the intersection of critical urban theory and decolonial perspectives, examining cultural urban policy, city marketing and branding, neoliberal placemaking strategies, the digitalization of urban space, gentrification, and resistance movements.

Coralie is a designer and a PhD student at the Free University of Bozen / Bolzano. Her work aim at understanding technical systems and making them intelligible. She tackles complexity through the process of deconstructing, simplifying and re-organizing. Her work investigates particularly the lifecycle of electronic and digital devices, from the inner workings of a component to the larger infrastructures and supply chains involved in their manufacturing.

Daisy is a technologist and legal enthusiast based in Berlin. She has worked in Canada and Germany and enjoys reflecting on the technological impacts of society, engaging with community spaces, and is particularly interested in open source systems. Her non-technical interests include knitting, baking, and learning new natural languages.

Ich bin Fachanwalt für Arbeitsrecht und Partner der Berliner Kanzlei dka Rechtsanwälte und seit 2007 schwerpunktmäßig als Betriebsratsanwalt tätig. Zusammen mit meinen Kanzleikolleg*innen habe ich in den vergangenen fünf Jahren weit über ein Dutzend der Betriebsratsgründungen anwaltlich begleitet, die den Gegenstand des Workshops bilden. Außerdem bin ich Ortsvorstand des Ortsverbands Ost der Kreuzberger Linken und im Kok-Kreis der Linkspartei-Bundesarbeitsgemeinschaft Bewegungslinke.

Aktivistin in Berlin Friedrichshain gegen Gentrifizierung, Umwandlung in Eigentumswohnungen, Zwangsräumungen und Hochhausprojekte.

Dylan Murphy is a Climate Activist and PhD Candidate at University College Dublin. Member of Not Here Not Anywhere, he has campaigned on the frontlines of Ireland's fragile 'de facto' data centre moratorium and has written research on the topic. Currently, his research is focused on how data centres manage wider waste economies, from e-waste, water, emissions, and the oft-overlooked data waste.

Edlira Nano / Eda is a hacktivist of digital rights, free software and technology as common digital goods. Member of La Quadrature du Net, in the Ecology and Technology team, analyzing socio-environmental problems related to Big Tech technologies, how to fight them and build alternatives.
Fighting surveillance technologies in the Technopolice campaign.
Currently finishing a PhD on digital obsolescence.

Elisa Flores Weiss is a Mexican-German director and digital editor based between Berlin and Mexico City. Raised across Latin America, her perspective was shaped early on by journalism, political storytelling, and social movements. Her work grows out of long-term engagement with queer and feminist struggles in Mexico and a critical interest in how digital platforms govern visibility, amplify violence, and how collective resistance emerges under algorithmic control.

Elmer works on mobility and (geo)tech, most recently on automated driving. He is active in the data task force of Deutsche Wohnen & Co enteignen and is excited about mobility social movements like Changing Cities, Berlin autofrei and VW enteignen. He strives for a future with public benefit tech, decommodified housing and mobility - particularly a free public mobility system and collectivised housing.

Emma beschäftigt sich gerne mit globalen Machtverhältnissen, will diese verstehen, benennen und auseinandernehmen. Als Politikwissenschaftlerin ist sie dabei auch immer am politischen Gerüst, das diese Strukturen stützt, interessiert. Am liebsten geht sie diesem Thema in gemeinschaftlichen Räumen nach, in denen alle voneinander lernen möchten.

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Das Aktionsbündnis Ende Gelände organisiert seit 2015 Aktionen massenhaften Zivilen Ungehorsams gegen fossile Energien. Aktuell ruft Ende Gelände zu Aktionstagen gegen fossiles Gas vom 28.-30.05.2026 im Ruhrgebiet auf.

Weitere Infos hier:
https://www.ende-gelaende.org/
https://www.instagram.com/ende__gelaende/
https://telegram.me/EndeGelaende

I am an urban planner and urban researcher. My research interests include digital infrastructures, digitalization in urban space and volumetric urbanism

Fred Heussner ist Politikwissenschaftler, Politischer Bildner und Publizist. Sein aktuelles Schwerpunkt-Thema ist das Verhältnis von Wirtschaft und Faschismus.

Lucas is an activist from Berlin whose work revolves around technological violence, corruption, whistleblowers, propaganda and facilitating collaboration across movements. He co-initiated the open source organizing platform activist.org.

Hubi ist Aktivist. Er wurde vom Internet politisiert und brennt für soziale Gerechtigkeit, mediale Repräsentation und städtische Utopien von unten.

Sarah ist Künstlerin und denkt viel über Technik nach.

Organiser in Brazil’s Movement of Workers Without Rights and in Brazil’s Homeless Workers’ Movement (MTST). Political and social media advisor to left-wing politicians, especially around struggles to shorten the working week and the future of labour.

AlgorithmWatch, MA Sociology, Communication- and Media Science.

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Janne Kummer is a transdisciplinary artist, researcher, and educator working at the intersection of performance, digital art, game design, and critical theory. Their practice combines critical technology research with a somatic understanding of body politics and power, examining how digital systems shape socio-political hierarchies. They are a trauma-informed community self-defense trainer.

Jara Nassar is a Lebanese-German artist and writer who has just returned from relief work in Lebanon during the ongoing war. Her focus lies on political violence, especially in Lebanon, Palestine, and Germany.

Artist and Researcher, Professor of Networks, Academy of Media Arts Cologne, ES/DE

Najjuko Joanita (Joey) is a Pan-African feminist activist and organiser focused on reimagining just futures. She examines how global power structures shape the lives of African women and marginalised communities, centering African feminist thought to challenge colonial legacies. Her work builds solidarity, care, and collective resistance, while embracing creativity, joy, and beautiful trouble as vital to everyday liberation.

Jonathan Eibisch ist als Lehrbeauftrager, Referent und Beobachter des Zeitgeschehens tätig. Er ist im Erzgebirge und Chemnitz aufgewachsen, studierte und promovierte in Jena und lebt in Leipzig. Der Mensch hangelt sich durch und versucht deutlich zu machen, das eine Beschäftigung mit anarchistischem Denken sehr gewinnbringen wäre.

Joschi Wolf is a photojournalist, education advisor and environmental engineer and have been active in the environmental and climate justice movement for over ten years.
Joschi did exhibtions about Lützerath, the resistance against Tesla, Lithium and is documenting forest occupations and protests in Berlin.

José Renato Laranjeira de Pereira is a PhD Researcher at the University of Bonn investigating AI's impacts on Indigenous territories in Brazil. He co-founded the Brazilian NGO Laboratory of Public Policy and Internet - LAPIN, and is a Full Member of Brazil's Central Committee on Data Governance as a civil society representative. Previously, José Renato was a UNESCO consultant for the 2024 G20. He is an alumnus of the Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung’s German Chancellor Fellowship.

Julia Albrecht works with the Berlin-based NGO WEED – World Economy, Ecology and Development on raw materials policy and global supply chains. Her work focuses on environmental destruction and human rights violations linked to the extraction and processing of metallic resources, as well as on European raw materials policy and corporate due diligence.

Julian Bothe ist bei der NGO AlgorithmWatch verantwortlich für das Themenfeld „KI und Klimaschutz“. An der Schnittstelle von Digital- und Energiepolitik arbeitet er daran, den Ressourcenverbrauch und den Klimaschaden des aktuellen KI-Booms in Grenzen zu halten.

feminist science & technology scholar

Jyn ist Teil von Selbstbestimmung Selbst Gemacht einer trans, inter, nonbinäre Aktionsgruppe welche für Geschlechtsmündigkeit und Queerokratie eintritt. They konzentriert sich vor allem auf Digitalrechts und Antiüberwachungs- Aspekte

Karl is a core team member of PurgePalantir

Als Kulturwissenschaftlerin und Theatermacherin setzt sich Kathe bei Local-IT e.V. für barrierefreie Bildung und nutzbare Open-Source-Tools ein. Ihr Fokus: Ressourcen gezielt stärken und BigTech schwächen. Im Digital Empowerment Project liegt ihr Schwerpunkt darauf, Vereine, Gruppen und Initativen aus der Zivilgesellschaft bei dem Wechsel zu Open Source zu unterstützen. Mit dem brandneuen Podcast "Queere FeTe" (QueerFeministischer Techpodcast) möchte sie die machtkritischen Perspektiven auf Tech

Katja Schwaller is an urban ethnographer exploring the interplay of space, labor, and digital capitalism. She is the editor of Technopolis, a volume on Big Tech and urban struggles in the San Francisco Bay Area (Seismo/Assoziation A 2019). She is currently completing a dissertation on Silicon Valley urban formations and everyday life.

Kira arbeitet als Senior Campaigns Managerin bei der gemeinnützigen Organisation AlgorithmWatch (www.algorithmwatch.org). Sie intensiviert die Zusammenarbeit der Organisation mit anderen politischen und zivilgesellschaftlichen Akteuren und ist für die Kampagnen mit dem Themenschwerpunkt KI & Nachhaltigkeit zuständig. Zudem arbeitete sie mehrere Jahre in der Demokratieförderung, als Wahlbeobachterin, und in den Bereichen Transparenz und politische Bildung.

Stadtpolitischer Aktivist

Lars Hirsekorn, seit 1994 bei Volkswagen in Braunschweig beschäftigt. Durch die Klimadebatte von 2019, angestoßen durch Greta Thünberg, hat er begonnen sich auch mit den ökologischen Auswirkungen der Produkte zu beschäftigen. Seit 2022 ist er Mitglied des Betriebsrates im braunschweiger VW Werk. Er veröffentlichte bisher mehrere Reden und Interviews. 2022 verfasste er einen Beitrag in Spurwechsel Studien zu Mobilitätsindustrien, Beschäftigungspotenzialen und alternativer Produktion VSA 2022.

Lena Rohrbach ist Referentin für Menschenrechte im digitalen Zeitalter und Rüstungsexportkontrolle bei Amnesty International. Sie ist Mitglied der Mitgliederversammlung von Campact e.V. Zuvor arbeitete sie als Campaignerin und Journalistin, war Sprecherin der Piratenpartei und im Vorstand der Humanistischen Union. Sie hat Philosophie, Kulturwissenschaft und Geschichte sowie International Human Rights Law studiert.

Research and activist collective that makes visible the materiality of digital infrastructures. They unmask the environmental and social impacts of data centers and other mega technological infrastructures, especially in France. They trace submarine cables, data centers and the complicity of public powers to understand what is mobilized when we touch our screens: what travels, pollutes, heats, digs and exploits.

Whistleblower, Technologist, former Technical Sergeant, US Air Force Drone Surveillance Programme, US.

Louisa Prause ist Vertretungsprofessorin für Soziale Konflikte in sozio-ökologischen Transformationen an der Universität Kassel. Sie forscht unter anderem zu Digitalisierung und Konzernmacht im Agrar-Ernährungssystem.

Luã Cruz is a lawyer, holds a master’s degree in Science Communication from the University of Campinas (Unicamp), and serves as Legal Director at CTRL+Z, a new Brazilian organization led by former Big Tech employees, journalists, and lawyers focused on confronting and holding technology companies accountable. His work sits at the intersection of internet policy and consumer rights, combining research, advocacy and participation in policy forums.

Luis García is a physicist specializing in sustainability and mathematical modeling. He is also an activist with the organization Ecologistas en Acción and has been studying the socio-environmental impact of the mining industry in southern Spain, as well as that of the internet and artificial intelligence, with a particular focus on data centers in Aragon.

Maja-Lee Voigt (sie/ ihr) ist Stadtforscherin an der Leuphana Universität Lüneburg und HafenCity Universität sowie Mitbegründerin des interdisziplinären Kollektivs Akteurinnen für urbanen Ungehorsam in Hamburg. Begleitet von einem ethnografischen Methodenkoffer und kritisch feministischem Denken forscht sie zu Amazons Bits, Bytes und Boxen. Ansonsten widmet sie sich Fragen zum Widerstand gegen Big Techs Architekturen der Unterdrückung und setzt sich für gerechtere urbane Zukünfte ein.

Mal is a regular cat person working in IT and community builder who cares about art, nature, politics and how technology intersects.

Malte Engeler ist Jurist und Mitbegründer von „Structural Integrity", einem radikal-bedürfnisorientierten digitalpolitischen Kollektivs. Er forscht, veröffentlicht und spricht zu Themen des Datenrechts, der postkapitalistischen Datenökonomie sowie der solidarischen Digitalpolitik.

Master’s student in the Graduate Program in Human and Social Sciences at the Federal University of ABC (UFABC). Works as an Arts and Technologies educator at SESC-SP and as a SysAdmin apprentice at the MariaLab Hackerspace. Holds a Bachelor’s degree in Information Systems (EACH-USP, 2021), a Full Teaching Degree in Social Sciences (FE-USP, 2016), and a Bachelor’s degree in Social Sciences (FFLCH-USP, 2013). Has experience in gender studies, social markers of difference, software development.

M. Maddalena Lenzi is an Italian designer and cultural mediator based in Basel, CH. With a BA in Advertising and an MA in Transversal Design, she works at the intersection of community-oriented projects, CIVIC spaces, and cultural organizing. In community, M.M. practices collective conspiring against authoritarian storytelling and atomizing infrastructures. Recently, she has co-organized HackThePromise Festival 2025, joined the Unofficial Hiking Society, and contributed to various happenings.

Marie-Luise ist die kommissarische Leiterin des Forum Umwelt und Entwicklung. Das Forum Umwelt und Entwicklung koordiniert die Aktivitäten deutscher Nichtregierungsorganisationen in internationalen Politikprozessen zu nachhaltiger Entwicklung. Marie-Luise arbeitet seit über 10 Jahren zur globaler Gerechtigkeit, seit einigen Jahren auch vermehrt zu Techofixes wie der Vermeidung von Krisenlösungen durch Technikideologien.

Marley is a Berlin-based activist, facilitator and ecologist. He has been working on the intersections of social and ecological movements, with particular focus on migrant justice, anti-colonial organising and the reclamation of urban spaces for civil society. Recently, he has been very active with the anti-militarist movement in Berlin and beyond.
He is the chairman of Bridges over Borders e.V., a community-based association fighting for marginalized refugees.

Masoumeh Iran Mansouri is an Associate Professor in the School of Computer Science at the University of Birmingham.

Arbeitet zu Polizeiarbeit in der Europäischen Union, Migrationskontrolle, Satellitenaufklärung, Drohnen, Internetüberwachung, Überwachungs- und Abhörtechnologien und anderen Polizeigadgets. Veröffentlichungen in linken Zeitungen und Online-Medien.

Maurilio is researcher in political philosophy at the University of Bologna, member of the militant research collective Into the Black Box, and social activist

I am a political economist working on socialisation of the energy sector with communia, a think tank for socialisation, public luxury and a democratic economy.

Milagros Miceli leads the research group ‘Data, Algorithmic Systems, and Ethics’ at Weizenbaum Institut and is a research fellow at the DAIR Institute. She is a sociologist and computer scientist investigating how ground-truth data for machine learning is produced. Her research focuses on labor conditions and power dynamics in data work. Since 2018, she has continuously engaged with communities of data workers globally. In 2025, she was among Time magazine’s 100 Most Influential People in AI.

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Hi, ich bin Moritz, Sozialwissenschaftler und organisiere bei dem Umwelt- und Menschrechtsverein urgewald e.V. Kampagnen zu deutschen Energie- und Finanzkonzernen. Auf urgewalds öffentlich zugänglicher Industriedatenbank „Global Oil and Gas Exit List“ spielen neue Gaskraftwerksprojekte für Datenzentren eine zunehmende Rolle.

Niels Schrader is an information designer and researcher. He founded the Amsterdam-based design studio Mind Design and is currently head of the Master Non Linear Narrative at the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague. Together with Jorinde Seijdel he published ‘Acid Clouds: Mapping Data Centre Topologies’ (nai010 publishers, 2024).

Niklas ist Stadtforscher und untersucht, wie die digitale Transformation unsere Städte verändert. Im Zentrum seiner Arbeit stehen Infrastrukturen des Internets, wie zB. Rechenzentren, sowie Fragen urbaner Zeitlichkeit und die Produktion von Sicherheit und Unsicherheit in Städten.

Nil Uzun is a postdoctoral research associate with the Technology and Diversity Research Group at the Institute of Sociology, RWTH Aachen University. She holds degrees in economics, cultural studies, and social anthropology and earned her Ph.D. in sociology from Rutgers University. Her current project examines international initiatives mobilizing against the militarization of computational technologies and the alternative technoscientific futures that emerge within these contestations.

Nina Scholz arbeitet als freie (Investigativ-)Journalistin zu den Themen Tech, Arbeit, Gewerkschaften für Print und Radio. Besonders die Auseinandersetzungen bei sowie die Entwicklungen von Amazon, Lieferando und Tesla verfolgt sie seit vielen Jahren. 2022 ist ihr zweites Buch “Die wunden Punkte von Google, Amazon, Deutsche Wohnen & Co“ im Bertz und Fischer Verlag erschienen.

Ola is a Researcher and Concept Developer working at Waag Futurelab in Amsterdam.

Her work explores alternatives to tech dystopia, seeking kinder, more sustainable practices for both people and the planet. Since joining the permacomputing community in 2021, she has been actively engaged in workshops and talks, introducing creative professionals and the public to the idea of regeneration and the skills needed to stay critical in times of technocracy.

Papertrail is an experimental publishing platform that engages in dialogue with hidden infrastructural systems and their effects on visual culture and discursive practices. In an environment dominated by ephemeral digital platforms, Papertrail embraces printed matter as a carrier of counter narratives and prefigurative imaginaries responding to the everydayness of infrastructure.

Papertrail is based in Den Haag (NL) and was founded in 2023 by Apsara Flury (TH/CH) and Livio Liechti (CH).

pasha is a creative technologist working on projects that deal with the politics of technology, its material/environmental costs, and resistance to the dominance of big platforms. they code apps, analyze data, design visuals, and organize moooore events.

Pia beschäftigt sich bei AlgorithmWatch mit den Auswirkungen von KI auf die Gesellschaft. Sie ist Ansprechpartnerin für die Themen KI-Einsatz durch den Staat, algorithmische Diskriminierung sowie KI- und Plattformregulierung.

Born in Brazil, Rafael Grohmann is an Assistant Professor of Media Studies at the University of Toronto. He leads DigiLabour and is Editor of the journal Platforms & Society.

Rainer Rehak studied computer science and philosophy in Berlin and Hong Kong and has been working on the implications of the computerization of society for over 15 years. His research fields include fictions of technology, digitization and sustainability, convivial and democratic digital technology, epistemics of automation, and digital (de-)colonialism. Rainer is co-chair of the Forum Computer Scientists for Peace and Societal Responsibiltiy (FIfF).

• https://www.fiff.de/personen/rainer-rehak/

Raksha Muthukumar is a queer Tamil techie, abolitionist organizer, and sex educator. She was a founding member & spokesperson for the Alphabet Workers Union before becoming an teen sex educator at Planned Parenthood in NYC. She combines her two fields of expertise now through freelance journalism on topics related to sex work, abortion, surveillance, and censorship. She recently moved to Paris and is looking forward to nurturing a cross-continental tech justice movement.

"Rheinmetall entwaffnen" (Disarm Rheinmetall) is an antimilitarist alliance founded in 2018.
Under the motto "War starts here", it unites various antiwar movements and groups that oppose militarization and the arms industry in Germany.

• Blog: https://rheinmetallentwaffnen.noblogs.org

Activist with Deutsche Wohnen & Co. Enteignen and part of the Cables of Resistance Organizing Team.
I write about socialization at communia.de and have a love for good food at political meetings.

Gewerkschaftssekretärin, IG Metall Berlin

I currently work as as a Senior Researcher at the Weizenbaum Institute in Berlin where I investigate the ethical adoption of AI within global value chains (GVCs) in the Global South. My research interests span employment relations, automation, AI, GVCs, and the global political economy, with an emphasis on interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary approaches. I am an active member of several academic and political networks and regularly share my research at academic and non-academic events.

Wir wollen eine digitale Plattform der Wohnungsvermittlung, die den Mietenden dient. Wir wollen gemeinsam mit euch darüber nachdenken, ob und wie wir Immoscout24 vergesellschaften können und wie eine bessere digitale Welt für alle aussieht.

Sarah is a software engineer and community organizer. She loves to bring people together and make everyone feel welcome and included. To deal with the state of the world, she sometimes needs to be offline and watch birds, hike up a mountain or start a crafting project.

I’m a member of the FreeCongo Collective and currently pursuing my MSc in Political Science at the University of Bonn. Within the collective, I carry out political educational work on the DRC where I focus on raising awareness of global interconnections. In addition, I am involved in other networks such as the DKI (Deutsch-kongolesisches Institut e.V.) and Team Congo Paris. In recognition of my academic and civil engagement I was awarded with the German-Congolese Education award in 2024.

Sebastián Uribe studied computer science and worked in and around software for over twenty years, including lecturing in software engineering and founding two companies. Since 2015 he has moved away from tech and focused on climate activism, global citizen education and anthropology. These days he uses his knowledge to support social organizations to fight for climate justice, against global inequalities, and to empower every person in the world to live a healthy, fulfilling life.

Silvia Weko is a postdoctoral researcher at the FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg.

Simone is part of Reversing.works since 2023 as a project coordinator. He has a background in Computer Science and has been active in tech labor organizing since 2018.

Sonja Lemke ist seit 2025 im Bundestag für die Linke und dort im Digital- und Forschungsausschuss. Vorher hat sie als Softwareentwicklerin gearbeitet und war 5 Jahre im Rat der Stadt Dortmund in der Kommunalpolitik aktiv.

Stephen Cornford is a media artist and researcher who investigates relationships between media systems and planetary systems to challenge the viability of addressing ecological collapse through extractive and economic logics. He is Senior Lecturer at Winchester School of Art and co-founder of the Critical Infrastructures and Image Politics research group. His international exhibitions include: ZKM (Karlsruhe), ICC (Tokyo), HeK (Basel), Borealis Festival (Bergen), and Mois Multi (Quebec).

Founder and Director, Disruption Network Lab, IT/DE

Tara Tarakiyee is a public interest technologist and a supporter of human rights, free and open internet, and open source software. I strive in my work to not only help protect those that need it the most from technological harms of pervasive surveillence and censorship, but as well to unlock the transformational potential of information technology as an enabler of human rights and as a tool to liberate societies from systemic oppression​.

Tommy works as a scholar-activist in Berlin on topics related to fossil extractivism, environmental politics, and just transitions. They also enjoy designing simulation exercises for movement building and for fun.

I'm a researcher at Humboldt Universität Berlin. I'm active with Payday e.V., a solidarity fund against wage theft in Berlin.

Vanessa Thompson is a distinguished Professor in Black Studies and Social Justice at Queen's University, Canada. She is an interdisciplinary social scientist and her research examines the relation between state violence, racism and capitalism, and how people struggle against interconnected forms of state violence and structural abandonment and build alternatives.

• Web: https://www.queensu.ca/gnds/people/vanessa-thompson

Vinit is an interdisciplinary researcher, writer and editor based between Copenhagen and Berlin; he is presently employed as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Copenhagen. His research focuses on Marxian analyses of the political economy of contemporary technology. He serves on the editorial board for The Left Berlin and the newly-launched Disjunctions Magazine.

Yonatan Miller is a tech worker and trade union organizer from New York who considers Berlin home. He graduated from a Master’s Programme in Labour Policies and Globalisation, where he furthered his knowledge of the organizing challenges of global solidarity in the tech sector.

He co-founded the Berlin Tech Workers Coalition. In his spare time he collects 🦝 memes,