Tijmen Wisman is a privacy-lawyer and mc. For the past few years he worked at ECP-EPN (formerly known as ECP.NL) and the RFID Platform the Netherlands. In May 2010 he started a PhD at VU University Amsterdam; Dept. Transnational Legal studies. He will be engaged in research on a right to silence in the internet of things. He spends his spare time publishing on privacy-related issues and writing about himself in third person.
Marleen Wynants (1958) is an independent journalist, publicist and consultant. She worked as music producer and content researcher for the official Belgian Radio and Television in its pre-commercial stage. She was the editor of the post-punt magazine Fabiola, leaving the scene in 1988, the year that Hillel Slovak, Chet Baker, Divine, Sylvester and Roy Orbison died. She published articles for the major media groups in Belgium, wrote books for children, organised educational workshops and published articles and columns on ICT, on interdisciplinary science projects and on the people behind them. At present she is the director of CROSSTALKS, the interdisciplinary university and industry network of VUB.
Founder of P1 Security and Senior Researcher for Telecom Security Task Force. Philippe Langlois has proven expertise in network security. He founded and led technical teams in several security companies Qualys, WaveSecurity, INTRINsec) as well as security research teams (Solsoft, TSTF). He founded Qualys and led the world-leading vulnerability assessment service. He founded a pioneering network security company Intrinsec in 1995 in France, as well as Worldnet, France's first public Internet service provider, in 1993. Philippe was also lead designer for Payline, one of the first e-commerce payment gateways. He has written and translated security books, including some of the earliest references in the field of computer security, and has been giving speeches on network security since 1995 (Interop, BlackHat, HITB Dubai, Hack.lu). He can be reached through his websit.
Chris Hand is an interaction designer specialising in physical computing, hacking and prototyping, and a co-founder and co-curator of This happened Edinburgh (Scotland). Chris lectures in design at Edinburgh Napier University, where he leads the MDes Interaction Design programme.