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Christina Elmer is Professor of Digital Journalism and Data Journalism at TU Dortmund University. Previously, she worked in various positions in the editorial department of SPIEGEL, most recently as deputy head of development. From 2017 to 2019, she was part of the editorial team of SPIEGEL ONLINE. She is the second chairwoman of the association "Netzwerk Recherche" and was named "Science Journalist of the Year 2016" by "medium magazin." She also worked as a data journalist in the Investigative Research team at Stern magazine and at the Deutsche Presse-Agentur, and as a trainee at Westdeutscher Rundfunk in Cologne and Münster. Studied journalism and biology at TU in Dortmund.

Angela is Executive Director of AlgorithmWatch CH in Zurich and Executive Board Member of AlgorithmWatch in Berlin. She is responsible for the strategy of the organization and especially for its work in the fields of policy and investigations. Angela focuses on the intersection of AI with fundamental rights, society, and democracy – and on their governance. She has served as an expert witness in hearings before the Swiss Parliament, the Council of Europe, and the German Bundestag; she is a member of expert groups within the Swiss Federal Administration; and in 2024, she was recognized as one of the “100 Women in AI Ethics” worldwide. In addition to her work at AlgorithmWatch, she is a member of the Federal Media Commission (EMEK) and a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Zurich. Angela studied political philosophy and ethics (MA) and holds a PhD in Law (Dr.iur.) from the University of Zurich, where her research focused on international human rights law. She was a visiting researcher at Columbia University in New York and the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. Before joining AlgorithmWatch, Angela worked at universities, for an innovation platform, a civil society think tank, and the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs.

Matthias Spielkamp is founder and executive director of AlgorithmWatch (German Award for Consumer Protection 2024, Brandenburg Freedom Award 2023, shortlist Grimme Online Award 2019, Theodor Heuss Medal 2018) and founder and president of AlgorithmWatch CH. He testified before committees of the Council of Europe, the European Parliament, the German Bundestag and other institutions on automation and AI and was a member of the advisory council to the German Digital Services Coordinator (DSC), elected by the German Bundestag, from 2024-2026, and the Global Partnership on AI (GPAI) from 2020-2022. Matthias serves on the governing boards of the German section of Reporters Without Borders and Stiftung Warentest, the advisory councils of Freudenberg Stiftung and the Whistleblower Network and the Expert Committee on Communication/Information of Germany’s UNESCO Commission. He was a fellow of ZEIT Stiftung, Stiftung Mercator and the American Council on Germany. Matthias is editor of the Automating Society reports and has written and edited books on the automation of society, digital journalism and Internet governance. He holds master’s degrees in Journalism from the University of Colorado in Boulder and in Philosophy from the Free University of Berlin.