Meet our jury

Markus Drenger is an IT security expert and currently works as a consultant at HI Solutions AG. Previously, he worked as a consultant for network policy for the Bündnis 90/ Die Grünen parliamentary group in the German Bundestag. He is very active in various communities around the CCC, where he is an advocate for open data and has worked, among other things, to analyze the risks of the electronic lawyer’s mailbox and the electronic patient file.

Philipp Gawlik works as a computational linguist at Bayerischer Rundfunk's AI & Automation Lab. He is involved in both setting up infrastructure and developing tools for journalistic work. He is also co-organizer of Cultivation Space, a space in northern Berlin that facilitates work on projects for the common good.

Prof. Dr. Tobias Heer is Professor of IT Security and Dean at Esslingen University of Applied Sciences, as well as Associate Professor at the University of Tübingen. His research focuses on the security of industrial networks and critical infrastructures. He is a juror in the competition “Jugend forscht” (Youth Researches) and is actively engaged in research and teaching, as well as in collaboration with industry and science.

Jana Kludas is Lead Data Scientist at msg systems ag, where she works as a consultant on data science in the public sector. Previously, she conducted research on machine learning, artificial neural networks and artificial intelligence.

Markus Drenger (also known as Kantorkel) is an IT security expert and currently works as a consultant at HI Solutions AG. Previously, he worked as a consultant for network policy for the Bündnis 90/Die Grünen parliamentary group in the German Bundestag. He is very active in various communities around the CCC, where he is an advocate for open data and has worked, among other things, to analyze the risks of the electronic lawyer’s mailbox and the electronic patient file.

Leah Oswald works as Operations Team Lead at the hoster uberspace. She focuses on communication, feminism and queer rights. She is also part of the organizing team of the IT security conference MRMCD and runs the CCC Mastodon instance chaos.social.

Lydia Pintscher is Portfolio Lead for Wikidata at Wikimedia Deutschland and Deputy Chair of the Board of KDE e. V. She has previously led extensive mentoring programs and worked with numerous free and open source communities. Lydia studied computer science at the University of Karlsruhe.

Raphael Robert is an expert in security and cryptography and focuses on secure messaging in his work. He is the founder and managing director of Phoenix R&D. Among other things, he was Head of Security at Wire. He is co-author of the Messaging Layer Security (MLS) protocol and helped found the IETF More Instant Messaging Interoperability (MIMI) working group.

Dr. Irmhild Rogalla is a member of the leadership team of the Institute for Digital Participation (IDT) at Bremen University of Applied Sciences and head of the Institute for Practical Interdisciplinarity. Her main topics are “Digitalization and Work” and “Digital Accessibility.” By conviction, she has been a user of FOSS for decades and is particularly involved in the LibreOffice community.

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