Laura Moy is a public interest tech policy lawyer and Associate Professor of Law at Georgetown Law. She is
also the Director of Georgetown Law’s Communications & Technology Law Clinic, and Associate Director of
the Centre on Privacy & Technology, a think-tank at the law school that does research and advocacy on issues
that intersect technology and civil rights. In her role as a policy expert, she has written, spoken, and advocated
before agencies and Congress on consumer privacy, law enforcement surveillance, data security, device
portability, copyright, and net neutrality
Bio: https://www.law.georgetown.edu/faculty/laura-moy/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/lauramoy
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lauramoy
Rashida Richardson is a law and technology policy expert that researches the social and legal implications of
“Big Data” and data-driven technologies with a racial justice focus. She is currently serving as the Senior Policy
Advisor for Data and Democracy at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. Her research
primarily looks at the social and civil rights implications of data driven technologies, including artificial
intelligence.
Site: https://www.rashidarichardson.com/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rashidarichardson
Alida Draudt is human-centered business strategist, applied futurist and author on strategic foresight.
Currently, she is the Strategy Director at AKQA, and is also an Adjunct Professor of Strategic Foresight at the
California College of Arts. Through her work with the Threatcasting Lab – a collaboration between the Army
Cyber Institute and Arizona State University – and numerous independent works, Alida has looked at futures
and implications that span societal, political, environmental, economic, and technological implications. She is
also the co-author of What the Foresight, a book that promotes accessible ways for everyone to think better
about their futures.
Site: https://www.alidadraudt.com/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/alida_p_d/
Tim Fernholz is an author and a Senior Reporter at Quartz, whose interests lie at the intersection of politics,
technology, and business. His coverage includes space, the economy, and geopolitics. He is also the founding
editor of Tomorrow magazine and is the author of Rocket Billionaires: Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and the New Space
Race (2018). He is from New Hampshire, currently living in San Fransisco.
Bio: https://qz.com/author/tfernholz/
Site: https://timfernholz.com/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/TimFernholz/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tim-fernholz-a17bb347/
Beau Woods is an author, media contributor, and presenter specializing in mobility security, hacktivism,
vulnerability, and threat management, among others. He is a Senior Advisor at the Cybersecurity &
Infrastructure Security Agency, a Cyber Safety Innovation Fellow with the Atlantic Council, and the Founding
CEO of Stratigos Security. He also leads the I Am The Cavalry and Public Ground tracks at BSides Las Vegas.
Recently he served as the Entrepreneur in Residence with the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and
was formerly Managing Principal Consultant and Solutions Architect for Dell SecureWorks.
Site: https://beauwoods.com/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/beauwoods/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/beauwoods
Cindy Cohn is the Executive Director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF). Before taking this role, she
has been the EFF’s Legal Director and its General Counsel. She was named to TheNonProfitTimes 2020 Power
& Influence TOP 50 list, honoring influential persons of 2020. She was named as one of America’s Top 50
Women in Tech by Forbes in 2018. Ms. Cohn is considered one of the experts handling legal issues arising from
the secretive government spying programs work.
Bio: https://www.eff.org/about/staff/cindy-cohn
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cindy-cohn-9325/
Andrew Dana Hudson is a speculative fiction writer and a Fellow at ASU’s Center for Science and the
Imagination. His works have been published in Slate Future Tense, Lightspeed Magazine, Vice Terraform, MIT
Technology Review, Grist, Little Blue Marble, The New Accelerator, StarShipSofa, etc. His story “Sunshine
State” won the first Everything Change Climate Fiction Contest in 2016 and his 2015 essay “On the Political
Dimensions of Solarpunk” helped define and advance the “solarpunk” subgenre of writing. He also serves as
editor-in-chief of Holum Press, publisher of Oasis, a Phoenix-based journal of anti-capitalist thought.
Site: https://andrewdanahudson.com
Twitter: https://twitter.com/AndrewDHudson/
Douglas Rushkoff is an author and documentarian who studies human autonomy in a digital age. Named as
one of the “world’s ten most influential intellectuals” by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, his work
explores how different technological environments change our relationship to narrative, money, power, and
one another. He has been a leading voice for applying digital media toward social and economic justice. He is
also a research fellow of the Institute for the Future, and founder of the Laboratory for Digital Humanism at
CUNY/Queens, where he is a Professor of Media Theory and Digital Economics. His recent book is Team
Human, based on his podcast of the same name.
Site: https://rushkoff.com/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/rushkoff
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rushkoff/
Malka Older is a science-fiction author, sociologist, academic, and humanitarian aid worker. Currently serving
as Faculty Associate at Arizona State University’s School for the Future of Innovation in Society, she teaches
on the humanitarian-development spectrum and on predictive fictions. She is also an Associate Researcher at
the Centre de Sociologie des Organisations, and a lecturer in the genre fiction MFA program at Western
Colorado University. Her Centenal Cycle trilogy has been nominated for a Hugo award, and the first book in
the trilogy, Infomocracy, was named one of the best books of 2016 by Kirkus, Book Riot and The Washington
Post.
Site: https://malkaolder.wordpress.com/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/m_older
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