Erik is an advocate for user's and software freedom and a defender of the commons. He is the FSFE's community-builder who loves to help our friends and supporters all over Europe to engage for Free Software. As a part thereof, Erik also organizes the FSFE community events and our internal and external community communication. If you have a question or you are looking for help for your FSFE activity, Erik is the one to contact (OpenPGP).

Elena Poughia is Managing Director of Dataconomy Media GmbH and the Founder & Head Curator of Data Natives, Europe's largest data science conference. She has curated and organized events all over Europe, before launching Data Natives Conference in 2015. Elena studied economics at Durham University in the UK and afterwards earned a degree in modern and contemporary art from Glasgow University. She has worked for internationally renowned art institutions such as the Gagosian Gallery and the Athens Biennale. During this time she also co-founded the Fasma Festival of Arts and successfully launched her independent art publication Dialogos. Continuing with this entrepreneurial spirit, together with her team, she developed Data Natives into an important meeting point for experts from the fields of data science, data analytics and machine learning. In addition, Elena is particularly committed to supporting women by helping them become established in tech professions.

Tilman Santarius is professor at the Technical University of Berlin and the Institute for Ecological Economy Research (IÖW) and writes on topics such as climate policy, world trade, sustainable economics, global justice and digital transformation. Apart from numerous articles, Tilman co-authored the books “Fair Future. Limited Ressources, Security, and Global Justice” (zed books, 2007); “Slow Trade – Sound Farming. A Multilateral Framework for Sustainable Markets in Agriculture” (www.ecofair-trade.org, 2007); “Rethinking Climate and Energy Policies” (Springer, 2016); and “Smarte grüne Welt. Digitalisierung zwischen Überwachung, Konsum und Nachhaltigkeit (Oekom, 2018). www.santarius.de

I studied philosophy and historical linguistics at the Humboldt University of Berlin and picked up programming afterwards. In 2016 I became a member of the Rails Girls Berlin and contributet as an organizer. During the Summer 2017 I participated the Rails Girls Summer of Code (scholarship program) and afterwards started working as a web developer at Absolventa.