[Air-L] GIG-ARTS 2025: Keynote Speakers. Submissions deadline 31 January 2025

[Mauro SANTANIELLO]

Dear Colleagues,

We are delighted to announce the keynote speakers for the Ninth GIG-ARTS
Conference, taking place at the *University of Salerno on 26-27 May
2025*. *Frédérick
Douzet*, a leading scholar on the geopolitics of cyberspace and *Paul
Timmers*, renowned expert in cybersecurity and digital sovereignty, will
deliver keynote addresses during the event. Detailed biographies for both
speakers can be found at the end of this email.

This is also a friendly reminder that the deadline to submit extended
abstracts is *31 January 2025*. Submissions should be made via the
conference portal: https://conftool2025.gig-arts.eu/.

This edition's conference theme, *“The rise of digital sovereignty:
ambiguities and challenges,”* invites thought-provoking discussions and
research contributions. Participants are encouraged to submit abstracts of
no more than 500 words, outlining their research question(s), theoretical
framework, approach and methodology, and expected findings or empirical
outcomes. All abstracts will be evaluated through a peer-review process.
Additional information about the conference, including registration fees
and logistics, is available at: https://gig-arts.eu/salerno-2025/.

We warmly invite you to take part in this exciting event by submitting your
research and engaging in the discussions. Should you have any questions,
please feel free to reach out. Also, don’t hesitate to share this
information with colleagues who may be interested in participating.

*Keynote speakers biographies:*

*Frédérick Douzet *is Professor of Geopolitics at the University of Paris
8, director of the French Institute of Geopolitics research team (IFG Lab)
and director of the Center Geopolitics of the Datasphere (GEODE). She has
been appointed senior member of the Institut Universitaire de France in
2022 and is the Principal Investigator of the ERC Advanced Grant project
DATAROUTES.

Frédérick Douzet has been a Commissioner of the Global Commission on the
Stability of Cyberspace (2017-2020) and a member of the French Defense
Ethics Committee (2020-2023). In 2017, she was part of the drafting
committee for the French Strategic Review of Defense and National Security.
>From 2013 to 2018, she was the director of the Castex Chair of
Cyberstrategy at the Institute of Higher National Defense Studies (IHEDN).
In 2021, she was a member of the Bronner Commission on Disinformation
appointed by President Emmanuel Macron.

*Paul Timmers* is a  research associate at the University of Oxford, Oxford
Internet Institute, professor at the European University Cyprus, visiting
professor at KU Leuven, President of the Supervisory Board Estonian
eGovernance Academy, CEO of iivii and partner at WeltWert®.

He was a board member of the Digital Enlightenment Forum and visiting
professor at several universities and visiting fellow and research
associate at the Department of Politics and International Relations at the
University of Oxford.

Paul Timmers was Director at the European Commission where he was
responsible for legislation and funding programmes for cybersecurity, e-ID,
digital privacy, digital health, smart cities, e-government. At the EC he
was also a cabinet member of European Commissioner Liikanen. He worked as
manager of a software department in a large ICT company and co-founded an
ICT start-up. He holds a physics PhD from Radboud University (Nijmegen,
NL), MBA from Warwick University (UK), EU fellowship at UNC Chapel Hill
(US), and cybersecurity qualification from Harvard.

Best wishes,

The Organizing Committee

Prof. Mauro Santaniello (PhD)
Associate Professor in Political Science
ICPC <https://www.internetpolicyresearch.eu/> Director| GIG-ARTS
<https://gig-arts.eu/> Coordinator| SWING
<https://www.internetpolicyresearch.eu/swing-2025> Scientific Coordinator
UNU-CRIS <https://cris.unu.edu/people> Associate Research Fellow | PRIN on
Digital Sovereignty
<https://www.internetpolicyresearch.eu/internet-and-communication-policy-center-research-areas/digital-sovereignty-in-comparative-perspective-state-authority-corporate-power-and-fundamental-rights-in-cyberspace>
Principal
Investigator
Latest publications <https://docenti.unisa.it/023694/ricerca/pubblicazioni>