Hackers Congress Paralelni Polis 2020

Speakers

Confirmed speakers for HCPP20: Digital Totality.

Riccardo Spagni (remote talk)
Co-founder at Tari Labs & maintainer at the Monero project

Riccardo Spagni (remote talk)

Douglas Rushkoff (remote talk)
Media theorist, author

Douglas Rushkoff (remote talk)

Named one of the “world’s ten most influential intellectuals” by MIT, Douglas Rushkoff is an author and documentarian who studies human autonomy in a digital age. His twenty books include the just-published Team Human, based on his podcast, as well as the bestsellers Present Shock, Throwing Rocks and the Google Bus, Program or Be Programmed, Life Inc, and Media Virus. He also made the PBS Frontline documentaries Generation Like, The Persuaders, and Merchants of Cool. His book Coercion won the Marshall McLuhan Award, and the Media Ecology Association honored him with the first Neil Postman Award for Career Achievement in Public Intellectual Activity.

Rushkoff’s work explores how different technological environments change our relationship to narrative, money, power, and one another. He coined such concepts as “viral media,” “screenagers,” and “social currency,” and has been a leading voice for applying digital media toward social and economic justice. He 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. He is a columnist for Medium, and his novels and comics, Ecstasy Club, A.D.D, and Aleister & Adolf, are all being developed for the screen.

Alexander Bard
Cyberphilosopher

Alexander Bard

Alexander Bard is a philosopher, futurologist, and political and spiritual activist, based in Stockholm, Sweden. He is the author of five books: "The Netocrats, "The Global Empire", "The Body Machines", "Syntheism - Creating God in The Internet Age" and "Digital Libido - Sex, Power and Violence in The Network Society" with his co-writer Jan Söderqvist. Bard is a radical process philosopher, merging Hegel and Nietzsche with Whitehead and Deleuze, using humanity as the constant and technology as the variable while working toward the deepest possible understanding of human history, contemporary society, and the intensely technology-driven future that humanity is facing. Bard has also enjoyed a highly successful 25-year-career as a producer and artist in the international music industry, followed by ten years as a tough love, reality-checking judge on TV shows "Swedish Idol" and "Sweden's Got Talent", and is an outspoken and provocative You Tube and Twitter celebrity.

Alena Vránová
Author of The Little Bitcoin Book, Founder of Trezor

Alena Vránová

Chad and Nadia
The first seasteaders

Chad and Nadia

Chad and Nadia became the world’s first seasteaders when they began living in a floating home 13 nautical miles from the coast of Thailand in the open ocean. That is, until the Thai navy decided that their floating home was a threat to Thailand’s national sovereignty and threatened Chad and Nadia with a death sentence if caught.

After escaping Thailand and moving to Panama they are moving forward with plans to build floating homes off of the Caribbean coast of Panama, in a country that actually understands the economic benefits of having a completely new industry.

Paul Rosenberg
Co-founder of Cryptohippie and author of the Freeman’s Perspective newsletter

Paul Rosenberg

Paul Rosenberg is the author of the Free-Man's Perspective newsletter and the co-founder of Cryptohippie. He is also the author of A Lodging of Wayfaring Men, Production Versus Plunder and The Breaking Dawn. He is a co-author of The New Age of Intelligence.

Smuggler
Cryptoanarchist and cypherpunk

Smuggler

Cryptoanarchist for 20 years. An operator of anonymous remailers and darknet hangouts. Author (Second Realm - Book on Strategy, The Treasure that is Privacy, Aristocracy of Action). Privacy extremist and crypto absolutist. Coder, admin, network cuddler. Covert communications specialist.

Frank Braun
Cryptoanarchist and cypherpunk

Frank Braun

Cypherpunk, cryptoanarchist, co-host of Cypherpunk Bitstream, co-founder of TAZ 0 in Berlin. He is interested in technologies that can lead to more personal freedoms in our lifetimes.

Olga Ukolova
Co-Founder at Pandora Core and Co-creator of The FreeAI Manifesto

Olga Ukolova

Olga Ukolova, MD, is a Co-Founder and COO at Pandora Core, the company building privacy-focused Layer 2 and 3 technologies on top of Bitcoin, and is one of the creators of the FreeAI Manifesto. Combining the development of censorship-resistant technologies (RGB, Prometheus) with biohacking and neuroscientific activities, Olga has spent last 8+ years working with academia, geeks, cypherpunks and developers in order to bring privacy, self-sovereignty and decentralisation to the highest priority of today and tomorrow.

Silur
Hacker and Cryptoanarchist

Silur

Silur started as a pentester and malware analyst. He got biased towards cryptography later and joined Ethereum Foundation as a researcher and developer (no longer a member). Since then he is contributing to various blockchain research labs (MRL, Casper labs, QAN research among others) where he implements PoCs of ideas they come up with.

Silur opened a consulting company where he advises many projects on blockchains and cryptography.

Later he joined the Wigner Research Center of Physics as a cryptographer.

Dankrad Feist
Researcher at Ethereum Foundation

Dankrad Feist

Dankrad Feist finished his PhD in Theoretical Physics in 2019. Since then, he has been working in the technology sector. He co-founded the startup Cara Care in 2016. Currently he is working as a Researcher for the Ethereum Foundation, focusing on Applied Cryptography.

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Juraj Bednár
Hacker and entrepreneur

Juraj Bednár

Juraj Bednár is a co-founder of Paralelní Polis and Paralelná Polis Bratislava. He is interested in hacking everything. He founded several companies, mainly in IT security. He hacks his brain, biology and the world by creating parallel societies.

Pavol Lupták
Cryptoanarchist, CEO of Nethemba and Certified IT Security Professional

Pavol Lupták

Cryptoanarchist & voluntaryist focused on technology and society hacking.

IT security guy, founder of IT security hacking companies (Nethemba, Hacktrophy) & contemporary art (Satori).

Co-founder of Bratislava's and Prague's hackerspaces (Progressbar & Paralelni Polis).

Member of Czech contemporary anti-government artistic group Ztohoven.

Responsible for many anti-government & digital privacy projects www.nepracujemeprestat.sk, www.internetbezcenzury.sk

Amin Rafiee
Founder of Bittopia University. Lover of privacy and decentralization.

Amin Rafiee

Netexplo UNESCO Grand Prix award winner, Amin Rafiee, a regular speaker at Bitcoin and decentralization conferences throughout Europe, including The UNESCO House in Paris, The European Commission in Brussels, The Swiss Re Centre for Global Dialogue, The Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs, Paralelni Polis in Prague, as well as other locations throughout America and Australia.

Amin is currently building the world's first Decentralized Autonomous University: Bittopia University. You can learn more about this project at: https://bittopia.org

Travin Keith
Freedom and Open Source Advocate

Travin Keith

Travin Keith is a former digital nomad who has lived in 8 countries across 4 continents, often with many troubles dealing with immigration issues and other areas of undue control set by governments around the world. Since shifting from a primarily digital marketing background in 2016, he has worked in the cryptocurrency space in a wide range of roles and is still today an advisor and consultant for a wide range of projects, as well as an entrepreneur with his ventures BitStory, a design agency, Consortio Group, a consulting company, Altrean, a now-defunct wallet focused on user freedom, and STOKR, an STO platform of which he is a current Advising Co-Founder, to name just a few. He has also been involved in the Open Source Software space as an Advocate Circle member of the Open Source Initiative, and many other open source projects. In addition to these, he has spoken widely around topics involving individual liberties and freedom, including at HCPP19.

Sodomak
Cryptoanarchist & whatever

Sodomak

HCPP co-organizer, Paralelni Polis core member, motorbike traveller, death metal singer, AC Sparta Prague Ultras member, hacker, Muay Thai serial beginner, author of digitalselfdefense.cz, host of cryptoanarchy talks Whispers and co-host of kofein.tech podcast.

Max Hillebrand
Open Source Entrepreneur

Max Hillebrand

Cryptoanarchist building Bitcoin weapons. With an understanding of the importance of sound monetary principles, he is contributing to several free open source tools to defend individual property rights. Researching and designing advanced privacy techniques and maintaining the documentation of Wasabi Wallet.

Martin Leskovjan
Paralelní Polis co-founder, InfoSec professional, and lawyer

Martin Leskovjan

Paralelní Polis co-founder, InfoSec professional, lawyer, literature geek, and wild water lover.

Jason Evans
Training Engineer / Co-Chairperson Big-8 Management Board

Jason Evans

Jason is a training engineer with SUSE Linux in Prague. He specializes in writing training materials for container-based applications including Docker, Kubernetes, and Cloud Foundry. He is also deeply interested in keeping speech free even in places where it is illegal and providing de-centralizing communications to those who are need it.

We have already confirmed the following speakers:

Eric S. Raymond (remote talk), Alexandra Moxin, David Friedman (remote talk), Viktor Tron, Ketominer, JStark 1809, Pavla Holcová, Thomas Nägele, Harry Halpin, Alexis Roussel, Svarny Petr, David Brin (remote talk), Frank Rieger, Christiane Huetter, Jimmy Stice, Jan Urban, Travin Keith, Moritz Wietersheim, Michael Schloh von Bennewitz, Mario Havel and Julia Tourianski.

More information coming soon!

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