Claudia van Veen

Event Moderator

Claudia van Veen is a German TV anchor and event host and draws on a wealth of experience of over 15 years and hundreds of live moderations, nationally and internationally.

Lutz Güllner

Head of Strategic Communications

European External Action Service

Lutz Güllner is the head of strategic communications at the European External Action Service (EEAS), where he focuses on disinformation, foreign information manipulation and interference.

Odanga Madung

Data Journalist and Mozilla Research Fellow

Independent

Odanga Madung is an independent data journalist and entrepreneur based in Nairobi. He is a Mozilla Fellow and pushed social media platforms to expose a flourishing disinformation industry in Kenya.

Wafaa Heikal

Social Media Analyst

Democracy Reporting International

Wafaa Heikal is a social media analyst with DRI. An Egyptian journalist whose work has covered the intersection of social media and human rights since the Arab Spring, her current focus is tackling online mis/disinformation on a regional and global level.

Thiago Rondon

Digital Coordinator for Combating Disinformation

Brazilian Superior Electoral Court

Thiago Rondon is the Digital Coordinator of the Programme to Combat Disinformation, developed by the Superior Electoral Court to tackle disinformation during elections.

Rita Jonušaitė

Advocacy Coordinator

EU DisinfoLab

Rita Jonušaitė works at EU DisinfoLab as Advocacy Coordinator. Previously Rita worked at the European Youth Forum as Policy and Advocacy Manager and prior to that at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania.

Marta Peirano

Spanish Journalist and Researcher

Marta Peirano is a Spanish journalist and researcher whose work focuses on the relationship between technology and power. Her 2019 book “El enemigo conoce el sistema” (“The Enemy Knows the System”) details the rise and strategies of surveillance capitalism.

Dr. Guido Brinkel

Head of Regulatory Policy

Microsoft Germany

Dr. Guido Brinkel is a lawyer and Head of Regulatory Policy at Microsoft Germany. His competency areas include government and public affairs, in addition to IT security, cybersecurity and telecoms regulation.

Stefanie Valdes-Scott

EMEA – Head of Policy and Government Relations

Adobe

Stefanie Valdés-Scott joined Adobe in April 2020. She has been Head of Policy and Government Relations in EMEA since September 2022. In this position, she is responsible for all contacts with politics and administration in the region and takes the lead in legislative processes that are relevant for Adobe.

Alexandra Ebert

Chief Trust Officer

Mostly AI

Alexandra Ebert is a Responsible AI, synthetic data & privacy expert and serves as Chief Trust Officer at MOSTLY AI. As a member of the company’s executive leadership team, she is engaged in public policy issues in the emerging field of synthetic data and Ethical AI.

Claes de Vreese

Professor of Artificial Intelligence and Society

University of Amsterdam

Claes H. de Vreese is University Professor of Artificial Intelligence and Society, with a special focus on media and democracy at the University of Amsterdam. He holds the Chair in political communication at the Amsterdam School of Communication Research ASCoR.

Prof. Dr. Sahana Udupa

Professor of Media Anthropology

Ludwig-Maximilians University of Munich

Sahana Udupa teaches and researches online extreme speech, politics of artificial intelligence, critical digital studies, news and journalism, and media policy. She has founded the For Digital Dignity programme.

Ties Dams

Research Fellow

Clingendael Institute

Ties Dams is a research fellow at the Clingendael Institute. His focus is on Europe’s great power competition. Educated as a political theorist in Utrecht, Xiamen, Hongkong and London, Ties has a particular interest in the power of narrative.