Jillian C. York is the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s director for international freedom of expression. Her work examines state and corporate censorship and its impact on culture and human rights, with a focus on historically marginalised communities. At EFF, she leads the platform censorship working group and also works on European policy, the impact of sanctions on the use of technology, and occasionally, digital security. York is the author of Silicon Values: The Future of Free Speech Under Surveillance Capitalism (2021) and has written for Vice, Buzzfeed, The Guardian, and the New York Times, among others. She teaches at the College of Europe Natolin in Warsaw. She is also a regular speaker at global events.

An expert in youth and internet culture, London-based writer, researcher, and critic Günseli Yalçinkaya is the features editor at Dazed and the host of Logged On, a podcast series that puts online trends under the microscope. She’s written extensively about AI, VR, and psychedelia, and as an artist, she studies the relationship between ecology, magic, and machine learning.

Thom Waite is a London-based writer and researcher. He is a senior staff writer at Dazed Digital, and has written for publications including AnOther, Nasty Magazine, and Whitelies. He’s mainly interested in science and technology, with a focus on space, artificial intelligence, and how emerging technologies intersect with contemporary art and culture. In his creative work, he explores human relationships with creativity, technology, and nature.