Peter likes to point out that he's of Finnish and Norwegian heritage. He works mostly with projects that can change society and he has done so for a couple of years. The most famous project he participated in is probably The Pirate Bay, because of which Fredrik Neij i Gottfrid Svartholm and he were convicted of contributory copyright infringement in 2009.
Quinn Norton is a writer who likes to hang out in the dead end alleys and rough neighborhood of the internet, where bad things can happen to defensless little packets. They are also places were new freedoms and poetries are born, and run riot over the network. She started studying hackers in 1995, after a wasted youth of Usenet and BBSing.
Expert on public policy issues around information and the Internet, Ian has been quoted by major media outlets such as BBC, CNN and CBC, while his articles are published by Financial Times, Daily Telegraph and Guardian.
Interr-ference is an entirely honest lad, which is seen in everything he deals with. The club scene sees him as the leader of italo-disco revival at the end of 1990s, but also as someone very important for the development of electro considering the fact that his song 'Space Invaders Are Smoking Grass' practically established electroclash.
Since 2008, Dave Huismans has been uncompromising, persistent and successfull in developing new space of alternative sound which welcomes both the devotees of intelligent techno and the followers of future dubstep.
Priceless gem of world electro scene, for almost two decades he has been giving shine to new music inspired by root genres such as electropop and breakdance. One of the first to recognize his talent for club music was Aphex Twin, whose label Rephlex released 6 of DMX Crew albums.
Grew up in Kuwait with parents educated in Russia, and then changed eight cities before coming to New York where she currently lives and works, Fatima Al Qadiri is a phenomenon without limits. She engaged in music at an early age, and as a teenager she spent summers in London where she discovered euphoric synth eurodance music, as well as vibrant subcultures of the city.
In digital era, natural flow of information cannot be controlled by laws or technologies without compromising civil liberties, economic and social development. For that reason, Jérémie Zimmermann and his associates founded an organization four years ago, and called it LaQuadrature du Net - after an unresolvable mathematical problem ‘squaring the circle‘.
Apart from being a conceptual artist, an independent blogger, a futurist and a hobbyist-philosopher, Khannea Suntzu is a genderqueer transhumanist yet a critic of "US silicon valley techno-optimism" school of Kurzweilian Singularitarianism.
Brooklyn-based Kingdom is one of the most prominent artists of the growing Bass Music scene and is one of the few outside London that involved in the movement in its earliest phase. Although he comes from United States, he is creditable for global expansion of one the most interesting UK imprints - Night Slugs.
A variety of public and private organizations are now taking steps toward a wider access to data in many countries across the globe. Automated tools and customization to local standards are essential for realizing the full potential of the new information resources.
Asma Maroof and Daniel Pineda are a team that has been for years producing atypical dance music influenced by Chicago house, Footwork and hybrid bass music that comes from London. Although you might not have heard Nguznguzu songs, it is quite possible that you’ve heard their work through mixtape M.I.A - Vicki Leekx, or you may have heard Asma who is DJ on M.I.A. tours
When you watch live electronic music, the experience wouldn’t feel complete without the accompanying visuals. And it’s thanks to designers like Berlin-based Pfadfinderei that such a symbiotic relationship has developed.
Ashland Mines, AKA Total Freedom is a conceptual artist from Los Angeles. His project Wildness with exotic artists was attended mostly by gay/transgender immigrants and college students.
Photographers had Flickr, video authors had Vimeo, and only musicians were doomed to use Myspace, a failed hybrid of a social and professional network. For that reason Soundcloud exploded and now everything new and exciting in contemporary music can be find there.
Pescanik is the only remaining media outlet in Serbia with unbiased and critical reporting and political analysis. Pescanik started as a radio show in 2000, and also launched website in 2007 which became an online political magazine with daily comments and analysis.
In the year 2004, Rodoljub was elected the first Commissioner for the Information of Public Importance in the Republic of Serbia. He was re-elected in 2011. He is a lawyer, a former deputy, the Vice President of the National Assembly of Serbia, and the Minister of State Administration and Local Self-Government of Serbia.
Slobodan Marković, expert adviser to the Secretary for Digital Agenda at Serbian Ministry of Culture, Media and Information Society.
This year, Free Software Macedonia is turning 10 years, and hacklab KIKA is turning 2 years.
R&S is a cult independent label, founded by Renaat and his wife Sabrina in Belgium in 1984. The label signed and published some of the crucial pieces in the history of electronic music by authors like Aphex Twin, Derrick May, Carl Craig, C.J. Bolland, Model 500 (Juan Atkins), Dave Angel, Ken Ishii and others.
Hacker superstar. Twenty two years old. He 'invented' Jailbreak for iPhone and iPad. Hotz was the only person to hack Playstation 3, which resulted in months-long lawsuit against him by Sony.
When this year’s SHARE conference was announced on February 1, moot was following only two Twitter accounts. So far, he has posted 21 tweets, and his account is verified.
'Aging should be treated as an illness and there actually might be a cure for it', is something you may hear while attending Doctor Aubrey de Grey’s lectures. Doctor Aubrey is a biomedical gerontologist based in Cambridge, UK and he claims that a person who will live more than 150 years has already been born.
Prominent American magazine Foreign Policy named him among top global thinkers of 2011 for his influence in shaping new strategies to expand government transparency.
At some point in the past a thought came to Eben's mind. A thought that is most certainly a revolutionary trigger in today's online world of social networking.
Because of his outspoken writings on gay issues in Russia, which led to anonymous death threats and made him a favourite media target, Slava Mogutin was forced to leave his native country and go to New York in 1995, where he was granted political asylum as a result of queer activism. Upon his arrival in New York, Slava shifts his focus on visual arts even though he is primarily a writer.
Elizabeth is influential open internet advocate that was deeply involved in stopping SOPA, and that's what she'll be talking about on this year's SHARE Conference. Graduated law from Harvard, she is a visiting fellow at Yale and a lecturer at Stanford (where she started the 'Ideas for a better internet' program), and above all, she is a leader in the global free culture movement.
Peter Kuschnereit is a landmark of electronic music and has been active since the beginning of clubbing in the 1990s. He grew up in Kreuzberg and started to work at the famous record store Hard Wax. Inspired by the first generation of artists in Chicago and Detroit, as well as by Berlin-based dub-techno label Basic Channel, he had a strong foundation to seriously focus on his music career.
Let's face it: there are more DJs in the world than basil leaves in Liguria and they come in all sizes, shapes and colours. Despite the latest developments and modern hotchpotch like laptop-deejaying there still is this almost metaphysical little extra pinch that's so hard to describe and that separates the wheat from the chaff. And for that Ata is a prime example.
Bruce Sterling is a leading science fiction writer, one of the founders of cyberpunk and the unofficial spokesperson for the genre. He is the creator of Dead Media project, an online archive to forgotten, or dead, media technologies.
As many kids who have grown up in the early 90s in the South West of Germany, Gerd Janson was a regular guest at Mannheim's legendary Milk Club.
Guillaume is from Montreal and now lives in Berlin, which is enough to conclude that he is successful in some sort of sophisticated house.
Lea Baroudi is an activist, a member of MARCH, a civic rights awareness group, and a passionate fighter against cultural terrorism in Lebanon. She supports the abolition of censorship and advocates transparency.
If you ever wondered how to turn a webcam into a microscope, safely cultivate bacteria, hack DVD burners to make your own nano and bio experiments, or how to use other cheap, available material in order to build a hydrometer, or even an incubator and a bat detector, Hackteria is the right thing for you.
Rasmus Fleischer is a writer and historian based in Stockholm. In 2003, he was one of the founders of Piratbyrån, the anti-copyright organization that, in turn, once founded BitTorrent tracker The Pirate Bay.
Cities across the world are about to enter the next phase of their development. A near invisible network of radio frequency identification tags (RFID) is being deployed on almost every type of consumer item.
Tony is an international agitator for mysociety.org. His role is to stimulate groups and individuals to start similar transparency projects in their own countries. He’s been working as a mentor on technology and democracy projects, especially across Central and Eastern Europe. He’s been building websites since before Netscape existed, and founded several of Northern Ireland’s leading internet companies before relocating to Estonia in 2006.
Dušani are referring to those who would like to change the society they live in for the best, and especially to those who have never tried it.
His name is Sawor Mon and he belongs to the Mons, an ethnic group from Southeast Asia. He lives in Burma, a country that was under military dictatorship until recently and that is currently led by a military-backed government. The most common term for this government among activists is “the hybrid regime”.
Vukosava Crnjanski Šabovic is the founder and director of the NGO CRTA – Center for Research, Transparency and Accountability. She has also worked as a regional trainer of the National Democratic Institute since 2004, providing capacity building trainings for members of political parties, non-governmental organizations, government officials and institutions.
Jonty is a mystical personality of global club music, known for his influence on either business, media or art.
Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is probably the most influental world organization to deal with digital rights and it's also a symbol of Internet freedom fight. Katitza Rodriguez is International Rights Director concentrated on comparative policy of international privacy issues, with special emphasis on law enforcement, government surveillance, and cross border data flows.
Musical genius, geek and entertainer at the same time. A violinist with a degree in philosophy and master’s degree in electro-acoustic composition. He started on legendary drum and bass label Moving Shadow, before moving on to more intelligent dance genres on Planet Mu, with his last album released by the most influential label of contemporary music - Warp.
Remarkably popular speaker, TED class. He is nicknamed Antichrist of the Silicon Valley, a fearsome critic of the contemporary music industry.
Music of this enigmatic London-based producer is pretty much based on lo-fi esthetics and its elements, errors in encoding, compression and anomalies during music recording, but to the extent that it gains substantial artistic value.
A Russian provocative street-art group known for its politically charged performance art.
Vuk belongs to a small group of great pioneers of Internet art who have been actively shaping and afterwards establishing 'net art' since the beginning of the 90’s.
He started as a UK Garage MC under the name Mentor around 1998 when he was 15. As scene and sounds change, Mentor slowly changed to Mentor Roska to Roska and slowly moved from MC to Producer/ DJ.
ANTIVJ is a visual label initiated by a group of European artists whose work is focused on the use of projected light and its influence on our perception. Clearly stepping away from standard setups & techniques, AntiVJ presents live performances and installations, providing to the audience a senses challenging experience.
This is the second time Desire Željka Milošević is participating at Share Conference. Internet public policy and making sure that the Internet stays open and accessible to all users around the world; exploring new models of intellectual property; digital rights and online education are just some of the interests of this lady.
The disempowerment of veiled women in Lebanon and everyday encounters with stereotypes and discrimination motivated Esraa to try and change something by taking initiative and talking about the problems she has had as a veiled woman.
A little more than a month has passed since service Readmill was launched, and it is already widely recognized as the future Last.fm for books.
This 19-year-old philosophy student from Stockholm had a couple of issues while attempting to get his church, the Church of Kopimism, recognized by the Swedish authorities.
Fundacja supports them in new technology usage by providing non-profits with software, as well as in creating a global on-/off-line community of change makers on the NetSquared platform. The presentation will speak about social innovation catalyzed by new technologies created within the international network, and focus on how Fundacja Techsoup can help Balkan civil society grow.
The co-founder of Multimedia Institute (or [mi2] for short), freefloating researcher and innovator, focused on producing self-sustainable systems. [mi2]is an NGO established in 1999 in Zagreb, as a spin-off of the Soros internet program.
Redshape is a pseudonym of Sebastian Kramer (b. East Germany), who’s sound is hard to describe, sitting somewhere between everything in dance music and his own imagination.
As he states in his Twitter bio, Smari is an information freedom activist, he writes codes, essays & articles, gives talks, wrestles with governments and builds technical, political and social infrastructure.
Audiovisual artist crew formed in 2003, SoSo Limited is an entourage of geeks at MIT. Their projects are somewhere between design, art and international technologies.
London-based duo makes dark music with extremely strong atmosphere, free from intensive tempo, but somehow they manage to make people dance.
Even though eRepublik is just an online game, one can say it’s also a great tool for learning strategic planning and organizational skills not only in virtual world, but in real life as well. One of the creators of this video game is George Lemnaru.
East German socialised feminist, former manager in IT companies, transparency and open government advocate, activist defending freedom of the internet and fighting corruption.
Their fighting mechanisms are transparency, availability of public information, reformation of (self)education, receptivity with citizens, respecting privacy (in every way), and stopping the interest of monopolists to defeat human rights.
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