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Prof. Dr. José A. García-Avilés, PhD, is professor at the University Miguel Hernández (UMH) in Spain, where he teaches Media and Communication. There he is also the director of the Department for Social and Human Sciences. He holds a BA from the University of Ireland and a PhD in Journalism from the University of Navarre. José García has been researching on media change since 2002 and has published extensively on newsroom convergence and innovation in the European media. He was visiting scholar at the Columbia
University Journalism School (New York). He was a co-founder of „Innovamedia.net“, an international network of media-researchers and -practicioners and currently lectures in the Master’s programme on Journalism Innovation at the UMH. Previously, he worked as a TV news reporter and video producer.
@jagaraviles
Born 1956; studied law and economics (1975-1979), Doctor of Law; assistant and lecturer at the Institute for Public Law and Political Science, University of Innsbruck (1979-1984); Federal Ministry of Science and Research, most recently Deputy Head of Department (1984-1988); EU affairs officer in the Federal Chancellery (1988-1989); Head of the Integration Policy Coordination Department in the Federal Chancellery (preparation for Austria's accession to the European Union) (1989-1992); Director at the EFTA Surveillance Authority in Geneva and Brussels (1993-1994); Vice-President of Danube University Krems (1995-1996); Member of the European Parliament (November 1996 - January 2007 and December 2008 - July 2009) and member of the Committee on Legal Affairs; Substitute member of the European Convention on the Future of Europe (February 2002 - July 2003); Member of Perg Municipal Council (September 1997 - September 2009); Federal Minister of Justice (January 2007 - December 2008); Judge at the ECJ (2009-2019).
Publications on various European law topics; Honorary Professor of European Law at the University of Vienna; Honorary Senator of the University of Innsbruck
Journalist, Adviser, Senior Research Associate reuters Institute
Alexandra Borchardt is a senior journalist, book author, university lecturer, keynote speaker and media adviser. She works as a consultant for the World Association of News Publishers (WAN-IFRA) and Hamburg Media School, where she heads the Digital Journalism Fellowship. She is also a Senior Research Associate at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at the University of Oxford, where she served as Director of Leadership Programmes before. Prior to this she was managing editor of Süddeutsche Zeitung (SZ), Germany’s leading quality daily.
Alexandra teaches “Leadership and Strategy in the 21st Century” at TU Munich and “Journalism” at the University of the Arts in Berlin, gives lectures and keynotes on digitalisation and the media and regularly publishes commentaries and essays, for example with Project Syndicate, European Journalism Observatory and ada, a German magazine for digital life. She is the author of Mehr Wahrheit wagen – Warum die Demokratie einen starken Journalismus braucht (Dare more truth – Why democracy needs strong journalism), Duden Verlag, 2020, and Mensch 4.0 – Frei bleiben in einer digitalen Welt (Freedom in a digital world), Random House, 2018. She served as vice chair on the Council of Europe Committee of Experts on Quality Journalism in the Digital Age.
At SZ she held several functions in the politics and business sections. She was also founding editor of Süddeutsche’s ‘Plan W’, an award-winning quarterly magazine for women and business. In her reporting she has focused on internet and democracy and the future of work. In 2015 she published Das Internet zwischen Diktatur und Anarchie: Zehn Thesen zur Demokratisierung der digitalen Welt (The Internet between Dictatorship and Anarchy: Ten Assertions about Democracy in the Digital World), Süddeutsche Zeitung Edition Streitschrift. Before joining SZ she worked for Financial Times Deutschland and Deutsche Presse-Agentur.
Alexandra holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from Tulane University, New Orleans (1994), and in 2013 completed a Programme for Management Development at IESE Business School, Barcelona. She lives outside of Munich with her husband and two teenage children.
Sonja Dürager is partner with bpv Hügel Rechtsanwälte, Vienna and heads the IP/IT/Data protection team. She specialises in advising on intellectual property law (especially copyright and trademark law), IT law and data protection law. Her main focus is the drafting of contracts for IT projects and those related to intellectual property law, the advice in implementing measures under the GDPR and the development of compliance organisations.
She is author of several articles, inter alia Künstliche Intelligenz – eine besondere Art des Profiling nach der DSGVO in Jahnel (Hrsg) Jahrbuch Datenschutzrecht (2019) 375; Co-Autor in ITechLaw, Responsible Artificial Intelligence – A Global Policy Framwork (2019); Copyright in Austria, Copyright 2019, Getting the Deal Through, London 2019; Sind Daten ein schutzfähiges Gut?, ÖBl 2018/80, 260.
Lukas Feiler is a Partner at Baker McKenzie in Vienna where he heads the IP/IT team. He is the author of four books on the EU General Data Protection Regulation, holds a fellowship at the Stanford-Vienna Transatlantic Technology Law Forum (TTLF), has teaching positions for “European and International Privacy Law” and for “Smart Contracts” at the University of Vienna Law School and holds certifications as a Systems Security Certified Practitioner (SSCP) as well as a Certified Information Privacy Professional/Europe (CIPP/E). Prior to his legal career, he worked as a software developer and system administrator in Vienna Leeds and New York.
Nikolaus Forgó was born 1968 in Vienna and studied law in Vienna and Paris. Between 1990 and 2000 he worked as assistant professor and delegate for information technology at the University of Vienna's Law school.
1998 he founded the LLM-programme for Information Law and Media Law at the University of Vienna (www.informationsrecht.at) and has been serving as the programme's academic director since then.
From 2000 to 2017 he was Professor of IT Law and Legal Informatics at Leibniz University of Hannover and in this function, among others, head of the Institute for Legal Informatics (IRI) and the University's Data Protection Officer (DPO) and Chief Information Officer (CIO).
Since October 2017 he has been Professor for IT- and IP Law and head of of the newly founded Department of Innovation and Digitisation in Law at the University of Vienna (id.univie.ac.at).
He publishes, teaches and consults in all fields of IP/IT-Law, legal informatics, civil law and legal theory, has been responsible for more than 50 research projects including more than 20 EU-research projects and has served as advisor/evaluator/reviewer to different bodies such as the European Commission, the UN Special Rapporteur for the Right to Privacy, the Austrian Government, the German Ethics Council and several German and Austrian ministries.
Mark Frankel is an experienced digital media and communications professional. He has more than two decades of experience in journalism and content creation (in TV, radio and digital news). From 2015 to 2018 Mark was the social media editor for BBC News, responsible for BBC News social media strategy and line management. From 2003 to 2009 he worked as a producer and then commissioning editor for BBC Radio Four news programmes before taking on the role of assistant editor for the BBC UGC (User Generated Content) Hub and Social News. In his current role as head of social media at Philip Morris International, Mark is helping to develop a new social media vision and strategy for a multinational company undergoing radical transformation. This is an extensive digital change management project across the entire global company. Mark Frankel was a visiting professor of digital media at London’s City University until January 2019 and was a visiting Knight Nieman Harvard Fellow in May 2018. His research on closed and semi-closed social media was published in Nieman Lab. Mark holds an M.Sc in political theory and a BA in history and politics.
Hon. Prof. Dr. Andy Kaltenbrunner, political scientist, co-founded and directs the research institute Medienhaus Wien. Since 2016, he is also in charge of the project “Journalism in Transition” at the Austrian Academy of Sciences. He is an honorary professor at the Universidad Miguel Hernández in Spain and has been teaching as a guest professor at various universities and journalism academies, such as the universities of Vienna and Klagenfurt (Austria), Poynter Institute (USA), Akademie für Publizistik (Hamburg). He was the director of the executive MA program, “International Media Innovation Management” (2011 - 2016), at Berlin University for Professional Studies/Steinbeis Hochschule. Kaltenbrunner has developed several new academic programmes, e.g. Vienna´s “Journalism and Media Management” (which started in 2002), and “Film-, TV- and Media Production” (2011) and designed the journalism training academy forum journalism and media (fjum wien).
Before his work in R&D he was a political journalist (Austrian Journalism State Prize winner 1982 and 1985) and an editor for major print and online media in Austria, e.g. until 2000 for the magazines profil and trend.
@KaltenbrunnerA
Univ. Prof. DDr. Matthias Karmasin received his degrees in philosophy and in business administration. He is director of the Institute for Comparative Media and Communication studies (CMC) of the Austrian Academy of Sciences and the Alpen Adria University Klagenfurt, where he is holding the chair for media and communications sciences.
Karmasin is corresponding member of the philosophic-historic class of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. He is an expert for media accountability and has published extensively on media ethics and media management, political communication and communication theory.
His professional experiences include business and media consultancy as founding member of Medienhaus Wien as well as several stations in universities abroad e.g. as chair for media management at the TU Ilmenau, as visiting professor at the the University of Tampa (FL/USA) and the TU Karlsruhe. Currently his research focuses on media change and media development and he teaches both areas in international MA programs.
matthias.karmasin@aau.at
Mag.art. David Kleinl has been working as a cameraman, editor and director since the mid-1990s, including in the art and TV sector, mainly for ORF. He attended the HTBLA Graz for film, photography and video and studied media art at the University of Applied Arts Vienna. He became known to a wider public as the singer and director of the band Tanz Baby! He is also active as a music video director and made his debut as a theatre director in autumn 2019. As a smartphone video trainer he works for fjum - forum Journalismus und Medien Wien at the FH Joanneum Graz, FH Burgenland, Werbeakademie Wien and for marketing departments of large companies.
Dr. Peter Köppl M.A. is Managing Director of Mastermind Public Affairs Consulting and one of Austria’s leading public affairs experts. He has worked as a journalist, PR-consultant, spokesperson and lobbying-manager in companies, trade associations and consulting firms. Peter Köppl graduated from the University of Vienna with a Ph.D. in mass communication and political sciences as well as from the Graduate School of Political Management in Washington, D.C. specializing in lobbying & public affairs. He also visited the Executive Program “Strategy Beyond Markets” at Stanford University Business School. Peter Köppl is President of the Austrian Public Affairs Association, member of the ”Strategic Community Austria” and is lecturing at universities and conferences. His latest book “Advanced Power Lobbying (Linde international) was published in 2017.
Dr. Daniela Kraus is the General Secretary of „Presseclub Concordia“, the oldest press club in the world which serves as an advocate for the professional interests of journalists.
Before she has built up and served from 2011 to 2018 as the managing director of „fjum_forum journalismus und medien“, Vienna´s training-academy for journalists. She studied history at the University of Vienna and worked as a journalism freelancer and media developer until 2005. In 2005 she co-founded Medienhaus Wien, a research institution for journalism and media, where she acted as director from 2005 to 2011. Her research focuses on media innovation, on the change and development of journalism and of media qualification needs.
Kraus has worked on the development of several curricula for academic courses
and teaches at universities and journalism schools. She is co-editor of the series Journalisten-Report/Journalism Report.
@Frau_Kraus
Viktor Kreuschitz is Judge at the General Court of the European Union in Luxembourg since September 2013.
He studied law at the University of Vienna and was senior lecturer at the Faculty of Law, Institute for Public and Constitutional law, University of Vienna.
As from 1981, he was civil servant at the Constitutional Service of the Federal Chancellery in Vienna, where he became Head of Unit in 1988.
From April 1997 to September 2013 he was Legal Advisor at the Legal Service of the EuropeanCommission. He worked in the field of anti-dumping and anti-subsidies proceedings, monitoring State aid, social security coordination, free movement of workers, anti-discrimination directives, EU labour law, access to documents etc. and was agent of the Commission in more than 300 Cases before the Court of Justice, the General Court and the EFTA Court in virtually all fields of Union law.
Hans Peter Lehofer is a Judge at the Austrian Supreme Administrative Court and Honorary Professor for Austrian and European Public Law at the Vienna University of Economics and Business. Before being appointed to the Supreme Administrative Court he was Chairman of the Austrian Regulatory Authority for Broadcasting and head of the legal division of the Austrian Telecommunications Regulatory Authority. He also served as head of division for consumer policy and consumer protection in the Federal Chancellery.
He is editor for public law of the Österreichische Juristenzeitung (Austrian legal biweekly) and has lectured and published widely in the fields of telecommunications, broadcasting and media law and in media and communications policy.
Sophie is the epitome of the Austrian "Ms Legal Tech": After an international career, she founded "Future-Law" in 2016. Future-Law is an independent platform for legal tech dealing with innovation and digitization in law. Sophie is a trained lawyer with additional training in business administration. After her international corporate (banking) management career in London and Berlin, she founded Future-Law. The independent platform for digitalization & law in Austria. Future-Law operates the Legal Tech Hub Vienna and provides innovation management and advisory to legal departments of corporations, law firms, publishers and public institutes. She is also the founder and editor of the Magazine Legal Trigger. She is also an Austrian European Legal Tech Association Ambassador, Advisory Board Member of the Law-Talks of the European Forum Alpbach and founder of Women in Law.
Prof. Dr. Klaus Meier has been Professor of Journalism at the Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt since 2011. From 2009 to 2010 he held the chair for cross-media developments in journalism at the TU Dortmund. From 2001 to 2009 he was Professor of Journalism at the Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences, where he founded Germans first academic programs for online-journalism. His research focuses on the ethics and quality of journalism, cross-media and digital journalism and journalism training in the digital age.
Klaus Meier is the author of several textbooks and regularly publishes research results in international journals and anthologies. Prior to his academic career, he worked as a newspaper and TV journalist. He was awarded the German Ars legendi Prize for Excellence in Higher Education in 2017.
Alfred J. Noll, born 1960 in Salzburg. He studied law in Salzburg and Vienna, then studied sociology at the Institute for Advanced Studies (IHS) in Vienna from 1983 to 1985. Since 1992 independent attorney in Vienna, specializing in copyright, media, art and restitution law. Habilitation for public law and legal doctrine in 1998.
Noll is a member of the Austrian Lawyers' Commission, has been a member of the committee of the Vienna Bar Association since 2004 and was a member of the Austrian National Council from November 2017 to 2019.
Among his most important publications are "Objectivity instead of equality? Eine Rechtspolitische Studie über Gesetz und Gleichheit vor dem österreichischen Verfassungsgerichtshof" (Vienna / New York 1996); "Rechtslagen. Kleines Panoptikum fraglicher Rechtszustände" (Vienna 2004); "Österreichisches Verlagsrecht" (Vienna 2005); "Praxiskommentar zum Mediengesetz" (3rd ed., Vienna 2012 - with W. Berka / L. Heindl / Th. Höhne); "Der rechte Werkmeister. Martin Heidegger after the Black Booklets" (Cologne 2016); "John Locke and Property" (Vienna 2016), and the novel "Kannitz" (Vienna 2014); "Thomas Hobbes. An Introduction" (Cologne 2019).
Noll is the founder and (co-)editor of the journal "Journal für Rechtspolitik" and a member of the scientific advisory board of the journals "Medien und Recht" and "Juridikum". - In 2016 he was awarded the "Austrian State Prize for Cultural Journalism".
Dr Rozgonyi is a senior international media, telecommunication and IP legal and policy expert. She is currently Assistant Professor at the Department of Communication of the University of Vienna.
She works with international and European organizations (such as ITU/UN, UNESCO, Council of Europe, European Commission, World Bank InfoDev, OSCE and BBC MA), with national governments, regulators, and companies as a senior adviser on media freedom, spectrum policy and copyright legal frameworks with regards to digital audiovisual archives. Between 2004-2010 she served as the Chairperson (Deputy Chairperson) of the Telecoms Authority in Hungary. Her expertise lies in media and telecommunications policy-making and regulation with extensive experience in legal reform work.
Her research interests are specific aspects of media governance, especially the governance of spectrum and copyright, the representation of public interest, of democratic values and fundamental rights within complex and highly 'technocratized' policy and regulatory processes.
She holds a PhD in Communication Sciences (University of Vienna); a Doctor Juris in Law and State Sciences (Eötvös Loránd University, Faculty of Law, Budapest); an MA in Communication Sciences (Eötvös Loránd University, Faculty of Liberal Arts, Budapest); and an MBA (Central European University).
Dr Rozgonyi is a regular speaker at the Annenberg-Oxford Media Policy Summer Institute at Oxford University and has taught at ELTE University, Budapest; Janus Pannonius University, Faculty of Law, Department of Public Law, Pécs. She is a member of the advisory board of the Journal of Digital Media and Policy and the chair of the Media and Advertising Division of the Hungarian Lawyers Association.
She speaks English, German and Hungarian.
Nana Siebert is the deputy editor-in chief at „Der Standard“ . She started her journalistic career at the early age of 17 in a training program of the Austrian weekly NEWS, directed by the legendary investigative journalist Alfred Worm. Siebert was integrated into the NEWS team, and soon after was involved in the development of „tv-media“. At the start of the groups next magazine-publication „e-media“, she headed its internet team. With the development of several early iPad journalistic appearances for magazines she attracted a lot of attention. From 2013, Siebert headed the online portal of Austria´s magazine „Woman“, and from February 2015 she was also a member of the chief editorial team. Nana Siebert has appointed Deputy Editor-in-Chief of the daily newspaper Der Standard in 2018 and is now primarily responsible for developing the magazine portfolio of the daily and its new crossmedia- and online formats.
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