Speakers

Somaya Ben Allouch is a PhD candidate at the New Media and Communication group at the University of Twente, the Netherlands. Her research focuses on the design and use of (new) media and ICT. In her PhD project she looks specifically at the design and use of ambient intelligent applications. > Homepage at University of Twente.

Michael Decker, PD Dr rer. nat., studied physics (minor subject economics) at the university of Heidelberg, 1992 diploma, 1995 doctorate with a dissertation on temperature measurements in high pressure combustion by laser-techniques at the university of Heidelberg, 1995-1997 scientist at the German Aerospace Center (DLR) in Stuttgart, 1997-2002 member of the scientific staff of the Europäische Akademie GmbH. He was manager of the project "Robotics. Options of the replaceability of human beings" and the study group "Miniaturization and Material Properties". He coordinated the EU-Project TAMI (Technology Assessment in Europe. Between Method and Impact). Since 2003 he is member of the scientific staff and since February 2004 vice-director of the Institute for Technology Assessment and System Analysis (ITAS) at the Research Centre Karlsruhe, 2006 habilitation at the faculty of applied sciences of the university of Freiburg with a study on interdisciplinary research for technology assessment. He chairs the coordination team of the German-speaking Network Technology Assessment. Main research areas: TA of robotics, pervasive computing and nanotechnology, comparison of TA-methods and interdisciplinary research for policy advice. > Homepage at ITAS.

Stephan J. Engberg is member of the Strategic Advisory Board of the EU ICT Security & Dependability Taskforce and as such involved in roadmapping and writting the Recommendations Report. He is founder of Priway and the spin-off company RFIDsec based on a private research project "Privacy Highway" focussing on ways to reconcile the security requirements in both ambient and integrated digital networks. Priway is partner in a IST IP project HYDRA on Networked Embedded Systems and has been involved in EU Security and Identity Roadmapping since pre-FP6 and a range of workshops and conferences such as Trust in the Net, SWAMI, Public Services Summit, NATO Advanced Research Workshop and the upcomming EU-US Cybertrust Workshop on System Dependability & Security. Engberg holds an M.Sc. in Business Adminstration and Computer Science at Copenhagen Business School together with studying International Strategy at Londong Business School. He has been lecturing at Copenhagen Business School and the IT University for a number of years on Trust Socio/Economics and Context Security especially in mobile environments. He is dedicated to the work of designing Empowerment & Dependability into ICT systems for the purpose of balanced trustworthiness. > Priway - Security in Context.

Ernst Andreas Hartmann, Prof. Dr., Head of Socio-Economic Section VDI/VDE Innovation + Technik GmbH. > VDI/VDE Innovation + Technik GmbH.

Leon Hempel, Dr., Centre for Technology and Society, Technical University Berlin.

Mireille Hildebrandt, Dr., teaches law and legal theory at Erasmus University Rotterdam. In 2002 she wrote her PhD thesis in the field of criminal procedure and legal philosophy, with special focus on issues of epistemology. From 2002 she has been seconded as senior researcher to the institute of Law Science Technology and Society at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel to participate in a multidisciplinary research project on the relationship between law, technology and democracy, supervised by Serge Gutwirth, Bruno Latour and Isabelle Stengers. She is involved in the European Network of Excellence on the Future of Identity in Information Society (FIDIS) as a coordinator for the subject of profiling technologies. From 2003-2006 she also taught comparative legal traditions of the world in the LLM Program on International Legal Cooperation at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel. > Homepage at Free University Brussels.

Lorenz Hilty, Prof. Dr. rer. nat., head of the Technology and Society Lab at the Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Testing and Research (Empa) and lecturer at the University of St.Gallen (HSG), studied Computer Science and Psychology at Hamburg University and received his Ph. D. in 1991. In 1998, he became a professor for Information Systems at the University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland. In 2000, he initiated the research program "Sustainability in the Information Society" (SIS) at Empa, co-funded by the ETH board (2001-2005), from which the Technology and Society Lab emerged in 2004. Lorenz Hilty is the vice chair of the Technical Committee "Computers and Society" of the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP TC 9) and member of the board of the Swiss Informatics Society (SI). He is the author of many influential publications in the field of environmental and social impacts of ICT, including the study "The Precautionary Principle in the Information Society", commissioned by the Swiss Center for Technology Assessment (TA-SWISS). > Homepage at EMPA.

Matt Jones, Dr., has recently moved from New Zealand to Wales where he is helping to set up the Future Interaction Technology Lab at Swansea University. He has worked on mobile interaction issues for the past ten years and has published a large number of articles in this area. He is the co-author (with Gary Marsden) of Mobile Interaction Design (John Wiley & Sons, 2006). He has had many collaborations and interactions with handset and service developers including Microsoft Research, Orange, Reuters, BT Cellnet, Nokia and Adaptive Info; and has one mobile patent pending. He is an editor of the "International Journal of Personal and Ubiquitous Computing" and on the steering committee for the "Mobile Human Computer Interaction" conference series.

Dorothea Kübler, Prof. Dr., is Chair in Microeconomics at the Faculty of Economics and Management of the Technical University Berlin. She studied Economics at the University of Konstanz and the Free University Berlin, and finished her PhD thesis at the Humboldt University Berlin in 1997. After fellowships and research visits in Berkeley, Bergen and Harvard she became Assistant at the Institute for Economic Theory of the Humboldt University Berlin where she submitted her habilitation in 2003. Her main research interests are game theory, information economics, and psychology and economics. She is currently leading the research project "Strategic uncertainty in experimental games" funded by the German Science Foundation DFG. > Homepage at TUB.

Albert Kündig, Prof. em. Dr., received MS degrees from Swiss Federal Institute of Technology ETH Zurich (Electrical Engineering) and Harvard University (Applied Physics) in 1961 and 1964 resp., and a PhD from ETH in 1974. At the former Swiss PTT research lab, he participated in an effort to build one of the first experimental digital switching systems. From 1972 to 1983, he took gradually more responsibilities in the Swiss PTT research division. Kündig joined the ETH Department of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering as Professor for Systems Engineering in 1983. His research interests centered on multimedia communication in high performance networks, and design and development methodology for real-time highly dependable systems. Albert Kündig retired from ETH in 2002, however continuing with research in the history of technology and studies regarding the impact of information technology on society, economy and culture. His association with the Technology Assessment board of the Swiss Council for Science and Technology reflects his keen interest in this field. > Homepage at ETH.

Ralf Lindner, Dr., joined the Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research (ISI) as a project manager and senior scientist at the department of Emerging Technologies in 2005. He received his degree in political science and economics from the University of Augsburg, completed graduate work at the University of British Columbia (Vancouver) and post-graduate studies at Carleton University (Ottawa). His doctoral dissertation, which he completed at the department of political science at the University of Augsburg, focuses on the application and integration of digital networks in the communication strategies of intermediary organisations in North America. He is particularly interested in the diffusion processes of ICTs, emerging and future trends of media convergence and ubiquitous networks. Additional research interests include cognitive policy analysis, epistemic communities and processes of policy learning. Among his projects at the Institute are SWAMI (Safeguards in a World of AMbient Intelligence) and FAZIT (Foresight for future media and ICT sector trends). > Homepage at ISI.

Martin Meints, Dr., studied chemistry and computer science at the University Kiel. He worked in various enterprises and public organisations as IT project manager and in technical management functions. Main focus of his latest work was preparation and implementation of security concepts for large private networks (LAN and WAN) and integrated mobile computing solutions basing on the methodology of the Baseline Protection Manual from BSI, the German Federal Office for Information Security. Since 2004 researcher for the Independent Centre for Privacy Protection Schleswig-Holstein (ICPP); he is mainly involved in the project "FIDIS - Future of Identity in the Information Society". > Independent Center for Privacy Protection Schleswig Holstein.

Marcelo Pias, Dr., has been a Research Associate in the Computer Laboratory at the University of Cambridge (UCL) since Sept. 2004. In his prior post doctoral position at Intel Research Laboratories Cambridge, he worked on decentralised P2P systems and wireless sensor networks. He obtained a BEng in Computer Engineering from FURG (Brazil) in 1999 and a PhD degree in Computer Science from UCL in February 2004. He is involved in two wireless sensor projects: SESAME - SEnsing for Sport And Managed Exercise is a UK EPSRC project that aims at tracking the performance of athletes in sports events, and the EU funded Embedded WiSeNts project is preparing a research roadmap in the area of wireless sensor systems for the EC. > Homepage at UCL.

Dan Shapiro is Professor of Sociology at Lancaster University in the United Kingdom. He is co-author of five books and many papers. He has a longstanding track record of research in the ethnographic study of social practice to inform the design of information systems, in participatory design and evaluation with end users, and in interdisciplinary theory for information system design and spatial computing. He has been a principal researcher on a succession of EU funded projects since 1995 on computer-supported cooperative work, collaborative working environments, spatial computing, and ambient computing. > Homepage at Lancaster University.

Werner Rammert, Prof. Dr., is Speaker of the Center for Technology and Society and Full Professor for Technology Studies at the Institute for Sociology of the Technical University Berlin (TUB). > Homepage at TUB.

Johannes Weyer, Prof. Dr., is professor for Sociology of Technology at the Department for Economics and Social Science of the University Dortmund. He studied at the University Marburg and made his doctorate in 1983 with a dissertation on the history of German sociology after 1945. From 1984 to 1999 he was assistant professor at the University of Bielefeld in the field of science and technology studies. In 1991 he completed his habilitation with a study on space policy in Germany from 1945 to 1965. After three years in a consultant firm for e-logistics he was appointed professor in Dortmund in 2002. His main research interests are: social shaping of technology, technology policy, network analysis, and innovation management in highly automated systems, especially in the field of transportation and aerospace. He also has written a biography of the German space pioneer Wernher von Braun. > Homepage at University Dortmund.

Adam Wolisz, Prof. Dr., (Diploma in engineering, 1972, Doctoral Degree, 1976, Habilitation 1983 - Silesian University of Technology, Gliwice) works since 1980 on computer networks and distributed systems. He has been with Polish Academy of Sciences (until 1990), and later with the Research Institute GMD-Fokus in Berlin (1990-1993). Since 1993 he has joined the Technische Universität Berlin (TUB) where he is chaired Professor for Telecommunication Networks and since 2001 Executive Director of the Institute for Telecommunication Systems. He has served as the Dean of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science in the period 2001- 2003. Since Summer 2005 he is also Adjunct Professor at the Dept. EE&CS, University of California, Berkeley. His research interests are in architectures and protocols of communication networks. Recently he is focusing mainly on wireless/mobile networking and sensor networks. > Homepage at TUB.