Speakers
Virgilio Almeida is Professor Emeritus of Computer Science at the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG) and a Faculty Associate at the Berkman Klein Center at Harvard University. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Vanderbilt University, a master’s from PUC-Rio, and a bachelor’s in Electrical Engineering from UFMG.
Dr. Kris Shrishak is a public interest technologist and a Senior Fellow at Enforce.
He advises legislators on emerging technologies and global AI governance. He is regularly invited to speak at the European Parliament and has testified at the Irish Parliament.
His work focusses on privacy tech, anti-surveillance, emerging technologies, and algorithmic decision making.
His expert commentary appear in The New York Times, The Washington Post, the BBC, the LA Times, Süddeutsche Zeitung, Politico, The Irish Times and other leading media. He has been interviewed on TV, including on CNN, the BBC, Euronews and France24. He has written for Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, Nikkei Asia and Euronews, among others.
He works on the kind of cryptography that allows computing on encrypted data and proving existence of information without revealing them. These technologies, broadly known as privacy enhancing technologies (PETs), could be beneficial. However, there are risks that have not been sufficiently researched.
Previously Kris was a researcher at Technical University Darmstadt in Germany where he worked on applied cryptography, PETs and Internet infrastructure security.
Hamed Haddadi is the Professor of Human-Centred Systems at the Department of Computing at Imperial College London. He also serves as a Security Science Fellow of the Institute for Security Science and Technology. In his industrial role, he is the Chief Scientist at Brave Software where he works on developing privacy-preserving analytics protocols. He is interested in User-Centred Systems, IoT, Applied Machine Learning, and Data Security & Privacy. He enjoys designing and building systems that enable better use of our digital footprint, while respecting users' privacy.
He studied for BEng/MSc/PhD at University College London and the University of Cambridge. He was a postdoctoral researcher at Max Planck Institute for Software Systems in Germany, and a postdoctoral research fellow at Department of Pharmacology, University of Cambridge and The Royal Veterinary College, University of London, followed by few years as a Lecturer and consequently Senior Lecturer in Digital Media at Queen Mary University of London. He has spent time working and collaborating with Brave Software, Intel Research, Microsoft Research, AT&T Research, Telefonica, and Sony Europe. When not in the lab, he prefers to be on a ski slope or in a kayak.
Nicole Krämer is Full Professor of Social Psychology, Media and Communication at the University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany, and co-speaker of the Research Center “Trustworthy Data Science and Security”. She completed her PhD in Psychology at the University of Cologne in 2001. Dr. Krämer’s research focuses on human-technology-interaction and computer-mediated-communication. She investigates processes of information selection, opinion building, and privacy regarding social media as well as human-AI-interaction. She served as Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Media Psychology and currently is Associate Editor of the Journal of Computer Mediated Communication.
Kirsten Martin is the William P. and Hazel B. White Professor of Technology Ethics and is Professor of IT, Analytics, and Operations in the Mendoza College of Business at the University of Notre Dame. She was also the Director of the Notre Dame Technology Ethics Center (ND-TEC) from 2021-2023.
She researches privacy, technology ethics, and corporate responsibility. She has written about privacy and the ethics of technology in leading academic journals across disciplines (Journal of Business Ethics, BEQ, Harvard Journal of Law and Technology, Journal of Legal Studies, Washington University Law Review, Journal of Business Research, etc) as well as practitioner publications such as MISQ Executive. She is the Technology and Business Ethics editor for the Journal of Business Ethics and the recipient of three NSF grants for her work on privacy, technology, and ethics. Dr. Martin is also an affiliate of Northeastern University’s Center for Law, Innovation and Creativity and a member of the advisory board for the Future Privacy Forum.
She is regularly asked to speak on privacy and the ethics of big data, including her Tedx talk. In addition to academic invited talks, Dr. Martin has had invited talks or been an expert witness for government agencies such as the Federal Trade Commission (FTC); Government Accountability Office (GAO); U.S. Treasury Department; U.S. Census Bureau; National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine; National Academy of Engineering; National Academy of Education; German Federal Ministry for the Environment and Consumer Protection; U.S. Deptartment of Justice.
She earned her B.S. Industrial and Operations Engineering from the University of Michigan and her MBA and Ph.D from the University of Virginia’s Darden Graduate School of Business.
Dr. Sauvik Das is an Associate Professor (without tenure) at CMU's Human-Computer Interaction Institute. He works on human-centered AI, security, and privacy. His work has been recognized with over 10 awards (including best papers at CHI, USENIX Security, and SOUPS), and has been widely featured in the popular press, including features on The Atlantic, Slate, ABC, and others. He is also co-founder and CTO of fuguUX: a company that seeks to make the web more usable through responsible automation.
Dr Michael Veale is Associate Professor in digital rights and regulation, and Vice-Dean (Education Innovation) at the Faculty of Laws, University College London. His research focusses on how to understand and address challenges of power and justice that digital technologies and their users create and exacerbate, in areas such as privacy-enhancing technologies and machine learning. This work is regularly cited by legislators, regulators and governments, and Dr Veale has consulted for a range of policy organisations including the Royal Society and British Academy, the Law Society of England and Wales, the European Commission, the Commonwealth Secretariat. Dr Veale holds a PhD from UCL and degrees from U Maastricht and LSE. He tweets at @mikarv.
Sue Moon received her B.S. and M.S. from Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea, in 1988 and 1990, respectively, all in computer engineering. She received Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst in 2000. From 1999 to 2003, she worked in the IPMON project at Sprint ATL in Burlingame, California. In August of 2003, she joined KAIST and now teaches in Daejeon, Korea. Her research interests lie in datacenter networking and online social networks. She has served in numerous technical committees of prestigious conferences and served as chairs for WWW 2013 and ACM CoNEXT 2017, just to name a few. She was named a N2Women Star in Computer Networking and Communications by IEEE ComSoc in 2021. Her Best Paper of ACM IMC 2007 won the Test of Time Award in 2022. In 2021 she served as a deliberative member in the Presidential Advisory Council on Science and Technology in 2021 and currently sits on the board for KB Kookmin Bank. She will serve as president for KIISE, the largest CS academic association in Korea, in 2026.