Lecture and Colloquium Tech & Society with Mikko Hipponnen

28 January 2025

7:00 pm

Conference

Auditorio Espacio Fundación Telefónica

Lecture and Colloquium Tech & Society with Mikko Hipponnen

Tuesday, January 28th
from 7.00 to 8.30pm
Auditorio Espacio Fundación Telefónica

Aspen Institute España, in collaboration with Fundación Telefónica, will hold the fourth conference of the VIII Edition of the Tech & Society Program next Tuesday, January 28th with Mikko Hypponen, Chief Research Officer at WithSecure and Principal Research Advisor at F-Secure. The colloquium will be moderated by Jonathan Nelson, Director of Risk Intelligence at Alto Intelligence.

Mikko Hypponen

Mikko Hypponen is a global security expert, speaker and author. He works as the Chief Research Officer at WithSecure and as the Principal Research Advisor at F-Secure. Mr. Hypponen has written on his research for the New York Times, Wired and Scientific American and he appears frequently on international TV. He has lectured at the universities of Stanford, Oxford and Cambridge. He was selected among the 50 most important people on the web by the PC World magazine and was included in the FP Global 100 Thinkers list. Mr. Hypponen sits in the advisory boards of t2 and Safeguard Cyber.

Jonathan Nelson

He is a U.S. Fulbright Scholar with several years of experience driving multi-sector collaborations at the intersection of emerging digital technologies and their impact on sociopolitical dynamics. Jonathan specializes in Media, Partnerships, and Digital Intelligence at Constella Intelligence (formerly Alto Analytics), where he works towards developing and managing partnerships with some of the world’s largest multilateral, philanthropic, and media organizations. Jonathan collaborates alongside an international team of analysts to lead numerous research projects that help better understand digital information ecosystems within the context of the phenomenon of disinformation and malign influence campaigns, supporting the production and dissemination of unique intelligence to a broad community of stakeholders on issues as varied as public health and vaccines, climate change, education, sociopolitical polarization, and electoral integrity, among others. Before his work in digital intelligence, Jonathan supported the commercial launch and development of several programs at the IE School of Human Sciences and Technology while Associate Director of Admissions at IE University. Jonathan holds a double BA in International Studies and Spanish, and graduate degrees in International Management (MSc) and Visual & Digital Media (MA).

VIII Edition of the Tech & Society Program

As pen Institute España and Fundación Telefónica launched the VIII Edition of the Tech & Society Program.

Tech & Society Program has become the main forum in Spain for reflection on the major issues raised by advances in digital technologies. The fifth edition will gather different leaders from all sectors of civil society to discuss the new technological challenges and their influence in areas as diverse as human relations, politics, education, culture, economics and medicine.

Leigh Hafrey, Professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management, Sandy Parakilas, Chief Strategy Officer for the Center for Humane Technology, who recently appeared in the Netflix documentary “The Social Media Dilemma”, Cathy O’Neil, author of Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy, Beth Noveck, director of The Gov Lab and professor in the Technology, Culture, and Society department at New York University’s Tandon School of Engineering, and who led the Obama Administration’s Open Government Initiative, are some of the speakers who have participated as speakers through the Tech & Society Program throughout its different editions.

You can access former interviews and conferences of the Program on our YouTube channel.

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Organizers

With

Mikko Hypponen
Jonathan Nelson

Location

Auditorio Espacio Fundación Telefónica