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Conference Board

The Conference Board provides academic advice to the conference organisation. It holds responsible for the programme design, the selection of speakers, moderators, and the formats of the conference. The Conference Board consists of the Conference Chair, the Programme Committee, and the Senior Advisory Board.

Programme Chair

Programme Committee

Verena Fuchsberger-Staufer

University Lecturer at the Department of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), University of Salzburg.

Hannes Werthner

Former Dean of Informatics at TU Vienna, initiator of the Digital Humanism Initiative at TU Wien and the Manifest, Professor (em.) of the Faculty of Informatics, TU Wien

Stefan Woltran

Vice Dean of Academic Affairs, Professor of the Faculty of Informatics, TU Wien

Senior Advisory Board

Noshir Contractor

Jane S. & William J. White Professor of Behavioral Sciences, McCormick School of Engineering & Applied Science; Director of the Science of Networks in Communities (SONIC) Research Group at Northwestern University

Misha Glenny

Author, Broadcaster, Keynote speaker; former Digital Security Journalist of the Year; Rector of IWM

George Metakides

Digital Enlightenment Forum, member of the Chair of Logic at the University of Patras, former head of department for Basic Research and International Scientific Relations in Information Technologies at the European Commission, Honorary President of the Digital Enlightenment Forum

Beth Simone Noveck

Viola Schiaffonati

Professor of Logic and Philosophy of Science at the Department of Electronics, Information and Bioengineering of Politecnico di Milano

Moshe Vardi

University Professor and the George Distinguished Service Professor in Computational Engineering at Rice University

Conference organisation

Pit Frantzen

Sound & venue management

Sabine Melnicki

Programme operations & communications