Kiwako Sakamoto (Opening Speaker)
Kiwako is a data scientist who was part of the World Bank’s first data scientist team and later served as the first data scientist at the World Bank’s research department in Washington, DC. She was more recently the data science lead for the ambitious and controversial art project, DAU. She taught herself programming while working for a particle astrophysics project, IceCube, after dropping out of economics graduate school. She is happy about her choice and hasn’t looked back since.
Adam Borowski
Writing code at the speed of thought! Or voice! Or dance?
Adam graduated from an art school, but then turned to programming because it was more standardised. He writes front-ends for web applications for a living.
Agustin Ramos Anzorena
So, you have decided to become a Creative Technologist..!
Agustín Ramos Anzorena is an electronic artist, currently working on his Master thesis at the Master of Technology and Aesthetics of Electronic Arts, at UNTREF University, where he also dictates subjects on Creative Programming techniques and computationla thinking. In parallel, he teaches at other culturally important institutions, such as Centro Cultural San Martin, Centro Cultural de España en Buenos Aires, and the ORT Asociation.
His work explores light, shape and abstraction in visual composition. He is interested in the creation of small to medium spatial immersive experiences, as well as in the nature of computational procedures. His work has been exhibited in electronic art festivals in Buenos Aires, New York, France, Mexico and Brazil.
His residencies and artistic development programmes include: School for Poetic Computation (New York, USA), Center for Digital Arts and Experimental Media (University of Washington, Seattle, USA), The Recurse Center (New York, USA), Centre Intermondes “Espace International de Résidence Artistique” within Festival Zero1 (La Rochelle, France), the Understanding Visual Music International Conference for FullDome Projections, and he was also selected for the 2018/2019 INNOVART French/Argentinian Programme for artistic and scientific innovation research grant.
Anna Kapuścińska
Cause, trouble and fun of time
Software developer at Genomics England, previously at Clearcode. Working mostly with Python, always striving to learn more. Every day tries to make people lives a bit better. Loves astrophysics, traveling, books and coffee, sometimes in different order.
Carolyn Stransky
How AI is enhancing journalism
Carolyn is a frontend developer and former journalist based in Berlin. She’s a Mozilla Tech Speaker, co-organizer of BerlinJS and web chick at Blacklane.
Diego Valverde Garro
How I re-discovered my joy for programming through creative computing
Diego is a computer scientist from Costa Rica, currently based in Munich. He loves art, computers and is curious about many other topics. He strongly believes in the power learning by doing, and by sharing experiences with others.
Gargi Sharma
ptrace: The Sherlock Holmes of syscalls!
Gargi is a Software Engineer who recently attended the Recurse Center. Gargi loves everything about Systems Programming, shady syscalls and Modern Art.
Isabel Paehr
Isabel Paehr works as a media artist, game developer and researcher in Berlin. Paehr’s research interest in both her written and material work focuses on the relation between virtuality and concepts of the nonhuman. Her modes of presentation are exhibitions, city walks, online spaces, games and publications. She is 1/2 of the experimental game studio Topicbird. (http://isabelpaehr.com)
Jan-Erik Rediger
Jan-Erik is a Firefox Engineer at Mozilla and an active member of the Rust community since 2014. He coached at Rust workshops & runs conferences in Europe. To get away from computers he recently picked up scuba diving to see the world under water.
Knut Hühne
The Wikidata Query Interface: The world’s knowledge at your fingertips
Knut is a Berlin based software developer who loves all things open. As one of the organisers of the Berlin Open Knowledge Lab, he got to know the Wikidata project and continues to find more and more use-cases for it. He loves sharing his knowledge and thinks that Wikidata and Open Data in general can be a very empowering tool for everyone.
Lucas Werkmeister
LilyPond: programming beautiful musical scores
Lucas is a software developer at Wikimedia Deutschland, where he works on the software for Wikidata, a free knowledge database. In his spare time, he works on some projects (mostly Wikimedia-related), neglects too many others, plays the piano, and transcribes public-domain scores for LilyPond as a way to relax.
Max Hallinan
Max Hallinan wanted to be Philip Guston when he grew up. Now he’d rather grow up to be John McCarthy.
phoebe jenkins
phoebe has bounced around a number of different software engineering jobs, and is now currently working in security research. she is fascinated by all forms of esoteric computing, and would love to hear about whatever weird thing you’ve been working with lately.
Tamas Kadar
💩.la?!? the fascinating history and current state of IDNs!!
Tamas is a generalist working as a freelance consultant, automating all the things. He’s really into writing lately, and loves the world’s most pointless drink, a decaf latte.
Veit Heller
Veit is a jack of all trades, but a master of none. He frequently oscillates between compiler development, writing, creating generative art, and trying to get work done at his day job.