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Keynote speakers

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Jacob Appelbaum

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Richard Stallman, Free Software Foundation

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Jacob Appelbaum is an independent computer security researcher and hacker. He was employed by the University of Washington, and is a core member of the Tor project, a free software network designed to provide online anonymity. Appelbaum is known for representing Wikileaks at the 2010 HOPE conference. He has subsequently been repeatedly targeted by US law enforcement agencies, who obtained a court order for his Twitter account data, detained him twelve times at the US border after trips abroad, and seized a laptop and several mobile phones.

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Appelbaum, under the handle "ioerror", has been an active member of the Cult of the Dead Cow hacker collective since 2008, and is the co-founder of the San Francisco hackerspace Noisebridge with Mitch Altman. He has worked for Kink.com and Greenpeace, and has volunteered for the Ruckus Society and the Rainforest Action Network. He is also an ambassador for the art group monochrom.

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As a trusted confidant of the former NSA contractor Edward Snowden, Appelbaum was among several people who gained access to Snowden's top secret documents that were released during the 2013 global surveillance disclosure.

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Biography from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_Appelbaum (CC BY-SA)

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Miriyam Aouragh, Westminster University

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Nicole Allen, SPARC

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Ellen Ball, Partners in Health

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Sue Gardner, Wikimedia Foundation

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Since 2007, Sue Gardner has served as the Executive Director of the Wikimedia Foundation, the global non-profit that operates Wikipedia. Wikipedia is the world's largest and most popular encyclopedia, which is free to use and free of advertising. Wikipedia contains more than 30 million volunteer-authored articles in over 280 languages, and is visited by more than 516 million people every month, making it the fifth most popular website in the world.

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Ms. Gardner, a seasoned journalist, was formerly head of CBC.ca, the website for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, one of Canada's most prominent and best-loved cultural institutions. Under her leadership, CBC.ca won many international awards for excellence, and grew to become Canada's most popular news site. She started her career in 1990 as a producer with CBC's "As It Happens," an internationally-recognized groundbreaking news and current events radio program. She has worked in radio, television, newspapers, magazines and online.

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Marianne Corvellec, April

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Sue Gardner has been described as the librarian to the world and the Mother Teresa of the Internet. In 2009, she was voted by Huffington Post readers as their media game-changer of the year and in 2012, Forbes magazine named her the world's 70th most powerful woman. Her work is motivated by the desire to ensure that everyone in the world has free and easy access to the information they want and need.

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Dave Crossland, Crafting Type

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Molly de Blanc, MollyGive

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Richard Stallman, Free Software Foundation

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Richard is a software developer and software freedom activist. In 1983 he announced the project to develop the GNU operating system, a Unix-like operating system meant to be entirely free software, and has been the project's leader ever since. With that announcement Richard also launched the Free Software Movement. In October 1985 he started the Free Software Foundation.

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Since the mid-1990s, Richard has spent most of his time in political advocacy for free software, and spreading the ethical ideas of the movement, as well as campaigning against both software patents and dangerous extension of copyright laws. Before that, Richard developed a number of widely used software components of GNU, including the original Emacs, the GNU Compiler Collection, the GNU symbolic debugger (gdb), GNU Emacs, and various other programs for the GNU operating system.

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Remy DeCausemaker, Hacks/HackersROC

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Richard pioneered the concept of copyleft, and is the main author of the GNU General Public License, the most widely used free software license.

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Richard graduated from Harvard in 1974 with a BA in physics. During his college years, he also worked as a staff hacker at the MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab, learning operating system development by doing it. He wrote the first extensible Emacs text editor there in 1975. He also developed the AI technique of dependency-directed backtracking, also known as truth maintenance. In January 1984 he resigned from MIT to start the GNU project.

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Martin Dluhoš, Charles University

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Luis Falcon, GNU Health

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Lionel Allorge, April

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Lionel Allorge has been involved with the free software movement since 2000, when he joined April, the French free software advocacy association. After several years as board member, he was elected president in 2012.

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Sucheta Ghoshal, Wikimedia Foundation

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Carolyn Anhalt, Thechno-Activism Third Mondays (TA3M)

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Carolyn's work in technology focuses on cross-cultural communications and multi-lingual applications. She currently contributes to research with Internews on a project documenting techniques and effects of online censorship and surveillance in various countries. In addition to this, she also advises and trains organizations and individuals on information security practices.

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Shauna Gordon-McKeon, OpenHatch

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Seda Gurses, New York University

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Madeleine Ball, PersonalGenomes.org

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Madeleine Ball is director of research at the Harvard Personal Genome Project and co-founder of the Open Humans Network at PersonalGenomes.org. As a scientist, programmer, and writer, Madeleine believes policy changes and open tools are vital for enabling open data and methods for understanding human biology.

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Jennie Rose Halperin, Mozilla

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Walter Bender, Sugar Labs

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Sara Nephew Hassani, Carmel Institute

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Walter Bender is founder of Sugar Labs, a member project of the non-profit foundation Software Freedom Conservancy. Sugar Labs develops educational software used by more than three million children in more than forty countries. As director of the MIT Media Laboratory, Bender led a team of researchers in fields as varied as tangible media to affective computing to lifelong kindergarten.

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Frank Karlitschek, ownCloud

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Frédéric Couchet, April

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Frédéric Couchet is a free software activist, founder and executive director of April, an association which has been promoting and defending free software in France and Europe since 1996.

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Bradley Kuhn, Software Freedom Conservancy

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Bassam Kurdali, Urchin

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Jonathan Le Lou, April

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Dezso Leposa, ORGANIZATION

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Alison Macrina, The Library Freedom Project

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Sanjoy Mahajan, MIT

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Deb Nicholson, OpenHatch

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Jonas Öberg, Commons Machinery

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Erika Owens, Knight-Mozilla OpenNews

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Paige Peterson, MaidSafe

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Laura Quilter, UMass Amherst

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Jara Rocha, UMass Amherst

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Ruben Rodriguez Perez, GNU, Trisquel

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Francis Rowe, Libreboot

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Seth Schoen, Electronic Frontier Foundation

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Michael Seaton, Partners In Health

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Brett Smith, Curoverse/Arvados

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Femke Snelting, ORGANIZATION

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Maira Sutton, Electronic Frontier Foundation

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Christopher Webber, GNU MediaGoblin

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Stefano Zacchiroli, Debian, IRILL

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