Plenary Session

Giacomo Di Capua, Executive Director & Founder at TNGO

Plenary Session
Disinformation in Global Affairs

Ahmed X. Medien, systems engineer & data scientist About the speaker Ahmed X. Medien is a systems engineer, a data scientist, and a global convener on the subjects of credibility and online/information integrity, looking for empathy, common sense, and middle ways to the challenges of misinformation and citizens input into the behind platform and content governance online. In the past 5 years, he led several symposia, public fora, and conferences with hundreds of academic researchers on trustworthiness and credibility of information online, civil society organizations, practitioners amongst platforms workers, and analysts. You can observe his work via the MisinfoCon global summit series, the Conference for Truth and Trust Online, the Misinformation Village series, and the Wikicredibility demo hours series as well as the WikiCred funded research projects. In 2024, Ahmed is focusing on the intersection between community, design and computational technologies, including AI, to build new digital pathways towards peace online and in the real tangible world, free democratic debate, and transformational change in society, in arts, governing, and online expression.

Live Presentations
Security Affairs

Chairs: Mr. Giacomo Di Capua, Executive Director at TNGO; Mr. Jonah Brody, Director of Security Affairs at TNGO

Live Presentations
Central and Southern African Affairs

Chair: Mr. Nodin Nganji, Director of Central and Southern African Affairs at TNGO

Plenary Session
Poster Presentation

Workshop
Security Affairs

Contemporary security and justice theory are useful tools for identifying key players, understanding their relative influence on decision making, and assessing their desired outcomes. This session will provide an overview of factors that help define the Arctic region, introduce security theory and the many dimensions of security that are applicable to the Arctic region, introduce justice theory and how it can be applied to Arctic security issues, and conclude with a case study to show how security and justice theories come together to better understand current events in the Arctic. About the speaker Judy Boyd is a Senior Fellow at The Arctic Institute. Her research interests include national security, geopolitics, international law, and Arctic governance. She is currently Senior Information Law Counsel for the United States Coast Guard and a Colonel and Judge Advocate in the United States Army Reserve. Judy has been working in the national security field for more than twenty years. Previous civilian positions include serving as a privacy officer and senior intelligence law attorney with the Department of Homeland Security and staff counsel for the United States House of Representatives Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. In her military capacity she has served as legal advisor for USSOCOM, USEUCOM, USARCYBERCOM, USINSCOM, and deployed for Operation Iraqi Freedom and NATO Operations Joint Forge (Bosnia) and Resolute Support (Afghanistan). Judy holds a Juris Doctor from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill School of Law, a Master of Arts in Security Studies (Homeland Security and Defense) from the Naval Postgraduate School Center for Homeland Defense and Security (NPS-CHDS) , a Master of Strategic Studies from the U.S. Army War College, and a Cybersecurity Graduate Certificate from Harvard University. Her NPS-CHDS thesis , “Introducing the Future Now: Using Memetics and Popular Culture to Identify the Post 9/11 Homeland Security Zeitgeist,” was awarded the Outstanding Thesis Award.

Panel Discussion
Latin American Affairs

Global policy has been deeply affected by inflation, especially in the Global South. Latin American governance today closely reflects such an impact. Join an international panel of political analysts, advisors and commenters to explore the outlook of global inflation in the post-COVID world and its implications for public policy. About the speakers Elin Roberts is a freelance consultant, advisor, and public speaker from Wales (UK) that specialises in geopolitics, risks, social impact, and Latin America. She is the founder of the newsletter, Latin America 101, as well as the founder of the Latin America Watch at London Politica. Alex Pietrantoni received a Master's Degree in History from Memorial University of Newfoundland with a thesis on Italian Neofascist Ideology from 1946 - 1991 in 2017 and has since worked for a variety of US Law Enforcement, Military, and Public Safety Organizations. Tobias Belgrano is a skilled political analyst with a diverse background in academia and business. Armed with a Bachelor's degree in Political Science and a Master's degree in Government, Tobias has honed his analytical prowess. Additionally, he has served as an Analyst at London Politica and Director of Latin American Affairs Department at The New Global Order. Rawlings Onserio is a Kenyan student, graduated from Universidade de Brasília in 2021. Currently, he serves as the Deputy Director for LATAM Affairs at TNGO. Originally from Mexico, Marco García holds an MA (Hons) in International Relations from The University of Edinburgh, and specializes in security, risk advisory, and intelligence tradecraft. He works as a Latin America Research Analyst at London Politica, examining and writing on developments across the region. Alejandra Palacios Jaramillo is a Fulbright Scholar from Ecuador. She holds a B.A in International Affairs and an M.A in Conflict Resolution. Alejandra currently serves as the head of outreach for StoryHeights in Boston, where she leads multiple grassroots programs focused on meeting the basic needs of the immigrant populations in the city.

Workshop
Disinformation in Global Affairs

As disinformation and AI become mare buzzwords in the international and local discourses, this workshop aims to establish a common ground in both demystifying and defining the processes of disinformation in the digital context. Through specific case studies, we will investigate three layers of disinformation: platform layer, algorithmic layer, and generative AI layer. We will also briefly discuss frameworks and tools that workshop’s participants can use as conceptual and methodological guides to track, identify, and study disinformation online. About the speaker In her research, Natalia Stanusch is interested in studying digital media artifacts by way of critical theory. Stanusch wrote and presented on topics such as memes, algorithmic imaginaries and AI counter-imaginaries, datafication practices, algorithmic auditing, digital alienation, and the ontology of digital images. She is an author of book chapters, articles, and video essays which range in scope from methodological interventions to autoethnographic experimental pieces . Stanusch’s research foci meet at a crossroad of critical data and algorithm studies, science and technology studies, digital visual culture, and art history. In her practice, Stanusch often brings together twentieth-century avant-garde legacies and media studies, as she did in e.g. her analysis of the Metaverse . Currently a PhD candidate at ASCA, University of Amsterdam, Stanusch has also been a research lead for Slow AI project at AIxDesign and an academic coordinator for a non-profit DataEthics.eu.

Workshop
Global Affairs

The workshop will delve into the topic of feminist foreign policy by exploring: - Definition(s) of Feminist Foreign Policy - Differences between Feminist Foreign Policy: particularities and similarities between countries - Focus on French Feminist Diplomacy - Feminist Foreign Policy to address global issues - Recommendations About the speaker Déborah Rouach is the co-founder and co-director of the Gender in Geopolitics Institute, leading the think tank's research department. Déborah has a master's degree in "International Strategy Analyst, Geopolitics and Future Studies" from IRIS Sup’. She is specialised in issues of Feminist Foreign Policy, the place and roles of women in conflicts and post-conflicts, "Women, Peace and Security" Agenda, women in Iran, and the instrumentalisation of gender in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Panel Discussion
Decolonization

The panel, including speakers from Africa, Latin America, and the Pacific, will utilize the decolonization lens to unpack climate change discourse from an indigenous perspective with a dynamic blend of food systems, the arts, and gender. About the speakers Rossy Antúnez is a sociologist and community member of the Ëyuujk nation. She collaborates at the Institute for Women in Migration, based in Mexico City, an organization of civil society that defends and promotes the rights of women in the context of migration. They are part of a network of civil society, Bloque Latinoamericano, that encompasses a regional work regarding migration and its multiple aspects. Pefi Kingi is the Executive Director of PacificWIN. Maureen Duru is the Founder and Director of The Food Bridge vzw, with projects focusing on indigenous food cultures and agrifood entrepreneurship in Africa and Europe. Ms Duru has developed initiatives and programs focusing on African Diasporas, food cultures, entrepreneurship and development; including the Food Bridge’s flagship annual event - African Diaspora Agrofood Forum. She is the author of the book - Diaspora, Food, and Identity. She has also written for peer reviewed journals and presented internationally, papers focusing on migrants, diaspora identity, food and related themes. She obtained her masters and doctorate degrees from the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, where she is also a researcher with FOST-the international social and cultural food studies research group. Banji Chona is an artist, researcher and curator. Chona’s artistic practice is expressed through earth-based alchemy, which involves using natural materials and elements to create artistic offerings that are grounded in the telluric and often spiritual practices of the Batonga of present-day Zambia. Chona combines this with research and curation which allow the exploration of themes of identity, memory, and history grounded in a sense of storytelling and healing.

Live Presentations
Global Affairs

Chairs: Mr. Ignacio Moreno, Director of Newsroom at TNGO; Ms. Soumya Sinha, Deputy Director of Newsroom at TNGO.

Live Presentations
European Union Affairs

Chair: Ms. Flora Marlene Willimek, Director of EU Affairs at TNGO

Live Presentations
Security Affairs

Chairs: Ms. Ariel Karn, Director of "D-ARMS" Observatory Research Team at TNGO; Mr. Jonah Brody, Director of Security Affairs at TNGO

Plenary Session

Giacomo Di Capua, Executive Director & Founder at TNGO