HumanTech Meetings: Technology Isn’t Everything. Digital Data Managment

Professor Andrea Renda – is a Senior Research Fellow and Head of Global Governance, Regulation, Innovation and the Digital Economy (GRID) at CEPS. He is currently a non-resident Senior Fellow at Duke University’s Kenan Institute for Ethics, and was Adjunct Professor of Law and Economics at Duke Law School (United States) for Academic Year 2016/2017. In September 2017, he was appointed the “Google Chair” for Digital Innovation at the College of Europe in Bruges (Belgium), where he has been teaching a course on “Regulatory Impact Assessment for Business” since 2007. His current research interests include regulation and policy evaluation, regulatory governance, private regulation, innovation and competition policies, Internet policy, and the alignment of policies for long-term impacts such as sustainability and decarbonization. He also specializes in EU law and policymaking, and in international regulatory cooperation. He is the author of many papers and books, including: Artificial Intelligence. Ethics, Governance and Policy Challenges(2019), Brussels.

Eline Chivot – is a senior adviser on digital policy at the European People’s Party (EPP), the centre-right, pro-European political party which gathers over 70 national parties from 40 countries. Her role includes consolidating and fostering the party’s knowledge and positions regarding the public policies that impact the technology sector, its actors, and the data economy. Throughout this experience and her previous positions, Eline covers European technology policies as diverse as those relating to content liability and moderation, disinformation, data protection and privacy, emerging technologies like AI, competition policy and antitrust. Prior to joining the EPP, Eline was a senior policy analyst at the Center for Data Innovation, a D.C. and Brussels-based research institute affiliated with the Innovation and Technology Information Foundation (ITIF). Eline also worked at DIGITALEUROPE, one of Brussels’ largest trade associations where she managed relations with representatives of the tech industry, and as policy analyst at the Hague Center for Strategic Studies (HCSS) in the Netherlands, developing research projects on defence, security, and economic policy issues.

Iverna Mc Gowen– is Director of CDT’s Europe Office, and an advocate for ensuring international human rights standards are at the core of law and policy related to technology. At CDT, Iverna leads the Brussels-based Europe team that works to put human rights and democracy at the center of the European Union and its member countries’ tech policy agendas. She holds a B.A. in European Studies from Trinity College Dublin and an LL.M from Maastricht University’s School of European Law, where she was awarded a scholarship for having graduated as a top three percent scholar. She is a frequent commentator on human rights, EU foreign policy, and gender equality, and has contributed to pieces by Euronews, CNN, BBC, RTE, and Reuters.

Alek Tarkowski – is a sociologist, digital rights activist and digital public policy maker. He is Director of strategy at the Open Future Foundation. In 2010, he cofounded the Digital Centre Foundation and was its President until 2020. He is a Member of the Board of Directors of the American Creative Commons Foundation and co-founder of Communia, the European association for the digital public domain and the Creative Commons Poland initiative. A graduate of the Leadership Academy for Poland (Class of 2017), Alek was named a New Europe 100 Challenger in 2016. In the past, he was a member of the Prime Minister's Team of Strategic Advisors (2008-2011), a member of the Information Technology Council and the Digitalization Council (2011-2016), and a Junior Fellow in the McLuhan Program on Culture and Technology at the University of Toronto. Alek is a member of the Steering Committee of the Internet Governance Forum Poland. He also sits on the Program Committee of the School of Ideas, an innovative study program offered by SWPS University, and on Advisory Board of the Commonwealth of Learning Center for Connected Learning. He regularly works on strategies and public policies that enable digital technologies conducive to openness, collaboration, and engagement.

Bartek Telejko – is the Policy Manager at Google. In this role, he has been working on a number of EU legislative proposals related to technology, including the Digital Markets Act, Digital Services Act, Artificial Intelligence, and the Data Governance Act. He is also a former European Parliament official and MEPs' adviser on industry, energy, environment, and trade. Before joining the European Parliament he completed a number of internships at international organizations, think-tanks and NGOs, including the European Commission and The German Marshall Fund of the United States in Brussels. He graduated with a degree in political science from the College of Europe, and holds a doctoral degree in political science from Jagiellonian University.

Anna Kalinowska, Ph.D. – is a cultural studies scholar and socio-cultural researcher. She is a member of the Polish Society of Market and Opinion Researchers, the Polish Society for Media Education and an active member of the Youth Research Center at the SWPS University. She has 10 years of research experience in the areas of cultural policies and digital culture, also in designing original research. In her projects, Anna focuses on issues related to sociology of networks and digital identity of users. She also works on adapting the concept of technologies of the self in the digital age. She is President of the BITECH Foundation for Science Support and Education Development, and owner of a creative hub #teamkalina. Moreover, Anna teaches at the Polish-Japanese Academy of Information Technology and collaborates with the Kozminski University as a digital ethnographer. She often speaks at conferences, such as the Media Education Congress, Tech/Spo, and the Internet Governance Forum 2020. Her articles appeard Popular Culture and State and Society.

Michał Boni, Ph.D. – holds a doctoral degree in humanities. From 1977 to 1989, he was assistant professor at the University of Warsaw. He was an activist of the underground "S" organization and Head of the Mazovia region of "Solidarity" (1989-1990). He held several governmental and other prominent positions, including: Minister in the Labor and Social Policy (1991), Secretary of State in the Ministry of Labor and Social Policy (1992 - 1993), and Member of the Sejm (1991-1993). He was also the founder and head of the Institute of Public Affairs (1996-1997), advisor in the government of Jerzy Buzek, advisor to "Lewiatan", a Polish business organization, for EU projects (2002-2007), Head of Strategic Advisers to the Prime Minister Donald Tusk and the Permanent Committee of the Council of Ministers (minister: 2008 - 2011). He was the first minister of digitization in Central and Eastern Europe (2011-2013) and author of the DIGITAL POLAND program. He was a Member of the European Parliament (2014-2019), actively working in the Freedom and Justice Committee and the Industry and Science Committee (digital affairs). His area of expertise includes: legislation on data protection and privacy, access and information data as open data, the development of gigabit-society and 5G, the functioning of Artificial Intelligence, the establishment of the European Open Data Cloud for Science and Supercomputers in the EU. He is the initiator of the establishment program and fund: Rights and Values addressed to civic organizations. He is also the author and coordinator of work on the POLSKA 2030 report and YOUTH 2011 and YOUTH 2018 reports. He has also written many articles and larger publications, including "Artificial Intelligence and Management Beyond Ethics" (Martens Center). Currently, he is Assistant Professor at SWPS University and Senior Researcher Associate at Martens Center (a think tank in Brussels). More information »

Konrad Maj, Ph.D. – Social psychologist, Head of the HumanTech Meetings project, initiator and Head of the HumanTech Center for Social and Technological Innovations. In his research and teaching he focuses on social influence, media psychology and innovations. Recently, he has been working on a Human-Robot-Interaction (HRI) project. From 2013 to 2016 he held the post of Rector’s Representative for Research, focusing on practical application of research results and social innovations. He visited numerous innovation centers, including the Institute for Social Innovation (ISI) at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA, the ID+ Research Institute for Design, Media and Culture at the University of Averio, Portugal, and Design Factory at Aalto University, in Finland. Full bio »