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    Katharina Meyer

    Keynote Speaker
    Katharina is an ecosystem analyst and the founding Director of the Digital Infrastructure Insights Fund, a multi-funder initiative that sustains a platform to better understand how open digital infrastructure is built and deployed.
    Her independent research investigates open technologies and their production, governance, and application across various domains and localities.
    Central to her work is exploring the interplay between immaterial goods (f.i. digital commons) and their supply chains – social groups, external forces (like markets or law), practices, and tools/technologies that shape, break, or reinforce them; as well as further ontologies of technical systems and innovation landscapes under capitalism, where knowledge, infrastructures, and (technical, social and economic) protocols converge.

    She has conceived and implemented pioneering programs, including fellowships, funding mechanisms and (legal) procurement tools, while establishing a track record in curating conferences and shaping policies, strategies, and processes at the intersection of science, society, and code.

    In previous roles, she served as Head of Research at Germany’s federal Sovereign Tech Fund and Prototype Fund, head curator for the invited program at re:publica conference Berlin, and research associate at the Centre for Digital Cultures at Leuphana University. She co-founded the Polynocular Tech Lab , a project that applies transdisciplinary approaches to hardware and software development, supported by the Center for Advanced Internet Studies, and has surveyed implicit norms in open-source infrastructure communities with support from Ford Foundation.

    Katharina advises the NGI Commons project and is a regular reviewer for entities like the Sovereign Tech Fund, Invest in Open Infrastructure, OFE Academy and the German Ministry of Research and Education. She frequently collaborates with visual and conceptual artists, as well as filmmakers, on mediation projects and exhibitions addressing Machine Learning, Surveillance, and other discontents in the digital realm.