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.

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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