[DATAGOV Core] [READ ME] [kick-off] tentative program, prospective invitees, tasks

[Jonas Breuer]

Hey,

Let’s not overload these two days. I think Stefania’s programme skeleton is very solid. We should also be able to enjoy this ourselves and learn for the project, not only running around organising stuff.

Day 1 invitations:

We have 25 places at IAS? We are 8 (if Meg is available), that leaves 18 places for invitees. We want this an ideation session plus fun/social/networking time. So let’s invite

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all keynote speakers
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the list below +
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people we know and like to work with, from UvA, Netherlands, Germany, UK…: Jo, Rocco, Seda, Gianclaudio Malgieri (Leiden, Legal, data protection, vulnerability, impact assessments), Eduard Fosch Villaronga (Leiden, Health, HCI), Mirko Schäfer (Utrecht), Rob Heyman (VUB), Aisha Kadiri (perspective on Africa), Rob Kitchin ...

They should then also stay for the second day of course

Day 2:
just contact all of the international ones from below and see what comes back, then we go to the more local contacts if necessary.

Best,
Jonas




From: Core <core-bounces at lists.datagovlab.net> on behalf of Sruthi Vanguri via Core <core at lists.datagovlab.net>
Date: Wednesday, 14 January 2026 at 18:04
To: Stefania Milan <S.Milan at uva.nl>, core at lists.datagovlab.net <core at lists.datagovlab.net>
Subject: Re: [DATAGOV Core] [READ ME] [kick-off] tentative program, prospective invitees, tasks

Hi Stefi,

Sorry for the delay! There was a massive power outage and no public transport, so I walked all the way home for more than an hour. All good now.

Re: Mansi Kedia - I think she is a super relevant voice representing Governance/Policy/Global South angle of regulatory data infrastructures. She’s currently part of the World Bank's South Asia Digital Development team and has been working on Digital IDs and other DPI systems across South Asia for the last three years. Also a frequent member of many government IT related committees and is often invited as a speaker to all the major panels in India on digital infrastructures.

Could we have her along with the Brazilian colleague  (+European scholars) in one of the panels - something along the lines of "Regulatory Data Infrastructures in the EU and Beyond”?

Or maybe only the workshop on Day 1 if that works better.

Bidisha is a good choice too, but I think there is merit in getting someone from India who can speak to the governance side of things from a non-academic POV.

What do you think?



From: Core <core-bounces at lists.datagovlab.net> on behalf of Stefania Milan via Core <core at lists.datagovlab.net>
Date: Wednesday, 14 January 2026 at 14:37
To: core at lists.datagovlab.net <core at lists.datagovlab.net>
Subject: [DATAGOV Core] [READ ME] [kick-off] tentative program, prospective invitees, tasks

Dear all
I need the green light to start contacting people, since time is running out and our efforts might soon look desperate 😉
Here some notes and tasks. In purple, what needs to be done

DAY 1 (invite only)
@IAS (confirmed)- 9-4pm (most likely starting with light lunch at 1130)
>> we need to define everything (programme, speakers, order catering)

5pm > public event + festive moment
@ LOCATION??
@Giulia Campaioli<mailto:g.campaioli at uva.nl>: what about Martin Tironi’s https://ecologiashibridas.cl/ (on our advisory board)?

DAY 2 (open)
09:30-10:00 - Arrival & Coffee
10:00–10:15 — Welcome & framing (Stefania)
10:15-11:00 — Introduction to the project (all)
11:00–12:15 — Keynote Block I (2 speakers)
12:15–13:15 — Networking lunch
13:15–14:15 — Keynote Block II (3-4 speakers)
14:15-14:45 - Lab demo
15:45-15:00 — Closing & borrel
@core at lists.datagovlab.net<mailto:core at lists.datagovlab.net>: what do you think of this skeleton programme? (After defining speakers, we can arrange the content/format)

@ LOCATION?? Is Framer Framed an option? I don’t know the space

Potential speakers to reach out to. We need a (also financially) healthy mix of EU and non-EU, and locals.


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Claudia Aradau<https://www.kcl.ac.uk/people/professor-claudia-aradau-1> (UK, IR) OR Louise Amore<https://www.durham.ac.uk/staff/louise-amoore/> (UK, pol geography) - probably not available due to health reasons

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Fernando Filgueiras (Brazil) - on advisory board; met recently in Brasilia, available to come (at least when we spoke in December), author of this<https://www.cambridge.org/core/elements/abs/artificial-intelligence-and-public-policy/B71FDB14B9DC572152DA23E7CCCC0AF7> and this<https://books.google.nl/books?hl=en&lr=&id=AHfkEAAAQBAJ&oi=fnd&pg=PP1&dq=Fernando+filgueira+algorithms+as+institutions&ots=l1H5-mQZ1L&sig=7YiHqCf3Ex2GebLxr8Uydd0HA7A#v=onepage&q=Fernando%20filgueira%20algorithms%20as%20institutions&f=false> and much more. Not sure how he is as a speaker, but a generous person and working with government now on health tech
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Evelyn Ruppert<https://www.gold.ac.uk/global-change/people/emeritus-staff/> (UK, sociology) - on our advisory board; great for many reasons and fun speaker
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Rocco Bellanova OR Mathias Leese (Zurich one or the other 😉) (we could also invite one of them for day 1, the other for day 2)
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Martin Tironi<https://diseno.uc.cl/persona/tironi-martin/> <https://diseno.uc.cl/persona/tironi-martin/> for the artist programme but also substantive contribution if needed
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Mariana Valente (two concerns: she does Internet governance more that governance by; would be a second Brazilian if Fernando joins us, too)

Locals, or almost locals:

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Seda Gurses<https://www.tudelft.nl/staff/f.s.gurses/> (Delft, security engineering) - awesome, and on our advisory board. Very political
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Marjolein Lanzig<https://www.uva.nl/profiel/l/a/m.lanzing/m.lanzing.html> (UvA, philosophy) - a great troublemaker, vocal, lively, fun
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Niels ten Oever<https://www.uva.nl/en/profile/o/e/n.tenoever/n.tenoever.html> (UvA, critical infrastructure studies) - also a vocal troublemaker, much on governance OF tech and standards, good for a more technically-inclined input; nice also for continuity with DATACTIVE and IN-SIGHT projects (my past endeavour)
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Marieke De Goede<https://www.uva.nl/en/profile/g/o/m.degoede/m.degoede.html> (UvA, pol sci) - might be too busy since still dean by then
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Bidisha Chaudhuri (UvA, media studies) - India perspective (@Sruthi Vanguri<mailto:s.vanguri at uva.nl> on topic or not?)

Sadly,

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Linnet Taylor is not available due to health reasons.

For DAY 1

  *   Mansi Kedia for workshop/panel - Governance/Policy/Global South/DPI (@Sruthi Vanguri<mailto:s.vanguri at uva.nl> please provide more info)
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Cecilia Passanti (STS, Paris) - just finished PhD on biometrics in Africa. She applied for a DATAGOV postdoc, but didn’t make the cut; might be interesting to invite for the workshop
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Maybe Mariana Valente or Fernando?
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For the EU: Rocco or Mathias
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+ maybe Niels and …?

Please answer to this thread, we need to make some urgent decisions.
Thanks a million, stefi



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