Amazon worker and activist with No Tech for Apartheid

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.

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.
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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.

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.

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.

Andrea Vetter begleitet als Wandelforscherin, Journalistin und Sprecherin die gesellschaftliche Transformation. Sie promovierte an der Philosophischen Fakultät der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin und ist für das Konzeptwerk »Neue Ökonomie« (Leipzig), die Zeitschrift »Oya: enkeltauglich leben« und das Kulturzentrum »Haus des Wandels« (Ostbrandenburg) tätig.

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)

Daisy Tsang is a technologist and legal enthusiast based in Berlin. She has worked at companies 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.

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.

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

Hubi ist Mitarbeiter der Linken Medienakademie mit Aktivismus Vergangenheit. 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.

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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

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

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.

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 artist based in Basel, Switzerland. With a MA in Transversal Design from HGK, she practices collective conspiring against authoritarian and atomizing infrastructures. Maddalena works at the intersection of community-oriented projects and cultural organizations, she co-organized HackThePromise Festival: Hacking Systems, Hacking Futures! and the exhibition Careful vs Careless in Basel. Since 2025, she is part of the Unofficial Hiking Society.

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

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 Temporalität und der Herstellung von Sicherheit und Unsicherheit. Er promoviert an der Universität Halle-Wittenberg.

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.

Papertrail is an experimental publishing platform that engages in dialogue with hidden infrastructural systems and their effect on visual culture and discursive practices.

Papertrail is led by Apsara Flury and Livio Liechti. Apsara is a graphic designer who attracts attention to people, projects and organisations across varying scales, media and fields. Livio is a writer and researcher with a background in human rights and digital rights.

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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. With others he initiated the “Bits & Bäume” conference series for digitalisation and sustainability, and is co-chair of the FIfF.

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.

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.

Hi! After doing a masters in philosophy with a focus on feminist ontology I am currently doing a masters in cognitive science. My current interests include AI ethics in general and more specifically AI grading, writing assistance and feedback in educational contexts such as school and university. Beside this I currently write my thesis, which is a Lacanian critique of AI ideologies and narratives.

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

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).

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​.

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,