political tech summit.

politics ✕ technology.

Europe‘s first Political Tech Summit is where politics meets technology. It is the first attempt to bridge expertise between democracies on the European continent and beyond. We will bring together political professionals, consultants, academics, start-ups, and technologists. The Summit will physically bring together the political tech ecosystem across countries and political parties in one place. It will act as a forum to match the growing need for training with the innovation of technological solutions. With more than 40 presentations and workshops and around 90 speakers from Europe and beyond, the Summit will be a European political tech melting pot. Be part of our journey and a distinguished network of experts.

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A Brussels-based political strategist and award-winning campaigner, Jerry is the founder and CEO of Campaign Lab, a boutique consulting firm. Jerry has been awarded as a “Rising Star” by the US publication Campaigns and Elections, while his work with Campaign Lab has been nominated for a number of international political communication awards.

Jerry Zagoritis

Campaign Lab

Sebastián is the founder of the European Campaign Playbook, the go-to community for Pro-European campaign professionals looking to connect, grow their skills, and advance their careers. Together, they work to counter authoritarianism and populism at the ballot box.

Sebastian Rodriguez

European Campaign Playbook

Adrien is a proven civic tech entrepreneur, co-founder of the mobilization platform Citipo. Since 2022, he is the President of the Association Civic Tech Europe (ACTE), which brings together civic tech startups and organizations across the EU

Adrien Duguet

ACTE

Lisa Witter is co-founder and board member, Apolitical.co, a serial entrepreneur and former public servant. Lisa has co-founded several political training and leadership institutes over the last 25 years. She has worked on numerous campaigns and counselled CEOs, Nobel Peace Prize winners, politicians and philanthropists. She was a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader.

Lisa Witter

Apolitical Foundation

Daniela Schwarzer is an expert and advisor specializing in European and international affairs with a particular focus on geopolitical and geoeconomic developments.

Daniela Schwarzer

Bertelsmann Foundation

Alexis Crews works at Accenture as AI in Practice Lead. She is also a Senior Fellow for All Tech Is Human (ATIH) at Information Integrity. She is also the founder of ENOUGH Consulting at the technology and geopolitics intersection. Her global impact was prominent at Meta, where she was a Strategic Advisor for Governance. Her strategic prowess was evident in the 2020 US Elections War room, where she directed over 200 specialists globally to devise an electoral integrity strategy.

Alexis Crews

Accenture

Enhancing the synergy between policy and technology by fostering connections between civil society, business and policy actors, Nicolas Lembeck has brought together an interdisciplinary team of policy experts, data analysts and AI developers to drive innovation and collaboration. He founded inQ in 2023 and co-founded the Political Tech Summit as part of this innovation circle for Political Tech.

Nicolas Lembeck

inQ

Alena Buyx has expertise in theoretical ethical analysis as well as in empirical, mixed-methods studies and policy development. She has been a member of the German Ethics Council since 2016 and was chairwoman of the body between 2020 and 2024.

Alena Buyx

Technical University Munich

From photojournalist to activist, from politics to community manager. Got fed up with hate and co-founded TrollWall AI to use AI against online hate.

Tomáš Halász

Trollwall AI

Christoph Schleifer is the inventor of Cambuildr and an expert in the use of the latest technologies in digital campaigns. He and his team were named ‘Development Team of the Year’ by the renowned magazine Campaigns and Elections.

Christoph Schleifer

Cambuildr

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Joahnnes Vogel is a member of the 20th German Bundestag. He has been Deputy Federal Chairman of the FDP since May 2021 and First Parliamentary Secretary of the FDP parliamentary group since December 2021.

Johannes Vogel

First Parliamentary Secretary, FDP group in Bundestag

Edward Saperia is Dean of Newspeak House at the London College of Political Technology. It is an independent residential college that supports and nurtures emerging communities of practice across UK public sector and civil society.

Edward Saperia

Newspeak House

Janina Mütze is an entrepreneur, TV analyst, columnist and founder/CEO of Civey, the Berlin-based technology company for digital market and opinion research.

Janina Mütze

Civey

Ricardo Marvão is Co-founder of Beta-i, a collaborative innovation agency and a main driver of the startup ecosystem in Lisbon. Marvão has more than ten years of international experience in the space industry and founded the Singularity University Portugal.

Ricardo Marvao

beta-i

Damian Boeselager is one of three founders of the pan-European party Volt and has been a Member of the European Parliament since 2019. Since this legislative period, he has also been Vice-Chairman of the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs.

Damian Boeselager

Member of the European Parliament

Sarah Delahaye is make.org's Managing Director for Germany. Founded in France, Make.org has become an essential civic tech player across borders, between civil society, central or local political power and company's whose social responsibility is more than ever engaged.

Sarah Delahaye

make.org

Brent Buchanan is an international pollster and messaging strategist based in Washington, DC. Buchanan, who was recognized by the American Association of Political Consultants as a “40 Under 40” and by Campaigns & Elections as a “Rising Star". Brent is founder of Cygnal, an award-winning international polling, public opinion, and predictive analytics firm.

Brent Buchanan

Cygnal

Lars Zimmermann is co-founder and board member of GovTech Campus Deutschland e.V. Previously, he was managing director of PUBLIC, a venture firm for government technology (GovTech). From 2014 to 2018, he was CEO of Axel Springer hy GmbH. From 2007 to 2013, he was founder and spokesman of the board of the Stiftung Neue Verantwortung, a think tank for society in technological change based in Berlin.

Lars Zimmermann

GovTechCampus

Andrea Liebman is a Senior Analyst and Lead of the Digital Hub at Swedish Psychological Defence Agency.

Andrea Liebman

Swedish Psychological Defence Agency

Tareq Alani is a product leader who operates at the intersection of media, technology, and civic engagement. He is a Co-Founder at Chorus AI, where he leads product and growth.Chorus AI was designed to transform the way nonprofits and campaigns engage with media and content creation.

Tareq Alani

ChorusAI

Garvan Walshe is co-founder of electoral integrity NGO Unhack Democracy and founder of democratic tech startup Article7. He is also a research associate at the Wilfred Martens Centre for European Studies in Brussels and associated with the ARENA programme at the Agora Center at John’s Hopkins University. He is a regular contributor to Foreign Policy and was a Max Weber Fellow at the European University Institute.

Garvan Walshe

Coalition for Responsible Evolution of AI

Florian Eder is the Executive Editor at Süddeutsche Zeitung Dossier and leads a new editorial unit on digital political journalism. He previously worked as a senior editor at POLITICO - and member of the founding team - and was the author of Brussels Playbook, the publication's flagship morning briefing on all things Brussels and EU.

Florian Eder

SZ Dossier

Valerie Scholz is one of the two founders of 'Facts for Friends'. The aim of the Hamburg-based social start-up is to become the nationally and internationally recognised platform that makes fact-checking accessible, user-friendly and attractive for all social media users with the help of innovative formats. A trained journalist, Valerie is responsible for the editorial side of 'Facts for Friends'.

Valerie Scholz

Facts For Friends

Nico Lange is Senior Fellow at the Munich Security Conference, Senior Fellow, Transatlantic Defence and Security at the Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA) in Washington D.C., and Senior Advisor at GLOBSEC. He served as Head of the Management Staff at the Federal Ministry of Defence from 2019 to 2022. From 2018 to 2019, Lange was Deputy Federal Managing Director of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU).

Nico Lange

Munich Security Conference

Tim Gordon is a founding partner at Best Practice AI, the AI consulting firm, and a trustee at FullFact. He was chief executive of the Liberal Democrats from 2012 to 2017.

Tim Gordon

Best Practice AI

Philipp Burkert is CEO of Universum AG, which specialises in political data management, from CRM to campaigning. He is a FDP party district member of Berlin Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg, the so-called liberal party's innovation lab in Germany and an expert on political data management of German versus international regulation and in which way the use of AI can help.

Philipp Burkert

Universum AG

Florent Barre is the Chief Executive Officer of Qomon, a French-American certified B-Corp that provides mobilisation technology to help nonprofits, campaigns and advocacy groups in 70 countries strengthen their efforts through a data-driven, highly user-friendly platform and app that empowers them and their volunteers.

Florent Barre

Qomon

Max Pfeuffer is Head of Technology at Infodatacom and a board member of netzbegrünung, an non-profit organisation that promotes engagement in the sense of participation in the 'green' party environment through technology, using open source software wherever possible.

Max Pfeuffer

Netzbegrünung

Simon Kruschinski is a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Journalism Studies at the University of Mainz. Since 2015, he has been researching and advising on the use and impact of strategic communication in political campaigns. In publications, lectures and media contributions, he provides insights into how campaigns work with media, technology and data to influence people.

Simon Kruschinski

Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz

Necati Özkan worked as a consultant for politicians, candidates and political parties. He managed the IBB candidacy campaign of Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu in 2009, the local election campaigns of CHP in 2014 and the election campaigns of Ekrem İmamoğlu in 2014 and 2019. In 2010, he was elected to the 10-member ‘World Dream Team’. In the same year, he won the Aristotle International Political Communication Grand Prize.

Necati Özkan

OYKU / Dialogue International

Peter Wolff is one of the heads of the consulting firm polithos. He has extensive management experience in the evaluation and support of technology start-ups. After thirteen years in various positions within the Siemens Group in the areas of power generation, Siemens Nixdorf and Siemens Business Consulting, he uses his knowledge and experience as Managing Director of EnjoyVenture Management.

Peter Wolff

Polithos

Lukas Ottermann is the founder and CEO of lomavis. With his company, he offers a special service for the social media management of political parties via the company's platform.

Lukas Ottermann

Lomavis

Marcus Bösch is a researcher in the BMBF project HybriD - Real-time detection and verification of hybrid disinformation campaigns in online media; information triangulation by experts from journalism and business. He publishes the weekly newsletter Understanding TikTok.

Marcus Bösch

HAW Hamburg

Alex Moltzau serves as a Policy Officer at the European AI Office at the European Commission. He is sent from the Norwegian Ministry of Digitalisation and Governance, under the special agreement for foreign service, and through the agreement with the European Free Trade Association (EFTA) with the EU.

Alex Moltzau

European AI Office

Sagar is working currently on the intersection of AI & Politics. He has been part of various political war rooms since 2013 where he has helped political parties & politicians in forming communication strategies, from local candidates to Presidential Elections across regional/national political parties. Sagar has been awarded by United Nations and honored by Indian Youth Forum for his efforts in Social Sector.

Sagar Vishnoi

Future Shift Labs

Daniel Boppert is the Deputy Director of Data and Analytics for the 2024 US Presidential Election for the Democratic Party in Ohio. His responsibilities include direct voter targeting and volunteer analytics.

Daniel Boppert

Democratic Party

Christina Helf is Head of the Media and Campaigning Centre at the social-liberal party, NEOS, Austria.

Christina Helf

NEOS

Juri Schnöller is one of Germany's leading political entrepreneurs and campaign experts. With his companies Cosmonauts & Kings and Mutrepublik, he advises numerous leading politicians, ministries, parties and companies and is co-initiator of the non-profit impact alliance AI4Democracy. Juri has previously held various positions in the campaigns of Barack Obama, Angela Merkel and most recently Ursula von der Leyen.

Juri Schnöller

C&K

Nandor Toth is the co-founder of stateless. He is a political technology expert focusing on poltech software and data-driven campaigning. He was the Head of Digital and Data at Momentum.

Nándor Tóth

Stateless

Felix Kartte is a policy entrepreneur, journalist and expert on technology and European policy. During his time at the European Commission and the European External Action Service, he was responsible for developing the EU's strategy to combat disinformation and digital threats.

Felix Kartte

Mercator Foundation

Lennart Wetzel is Head of DACH Public Policy at Snap Inc. He previously worked as Manager Government Affairs in the Berlin office of Microsoft from 2018 to 2021.

Lennart Wetzel

Snapchat

Max Wolf is Head of Business Development at Enkime. He was previously a content strategist at TikTok.

Max Wolf

ENKIME

Cornelius Hirsch, PhD, is Reset Tech's Head of Research Products & Strategy, EU. Throughout his career, Hirsch has bridged data and politics to inform and support evidence-based decision-making. Before joining Reset Tech, he co-founded pollofpolls.eu, which became POLITICO's polling data service, while working at the Austrian Institute of Economic Research (WIFO). He later led POLITICO's Research & Analysis Division as Director of Research and Analysis.

Cornelius Hirsch

reset.tech

Jasmin Riedl is Professor at the University of the Federal Armed Forces in Munich. She is the project manager of SPARTA and responsible for the content and technical realisation of the project. Her research interests lie in particular in the temporality of political processes, party politics, institutional and policy analyses, federalism, security and data protection.

Jasmin Riedl

SPARTA

Henry Donovan worked as a political journalist for ‘Bild’ and ‘Welt’ as well as ‘Politico’. In 2023, he was one of two founders of Ampyre.

Henry Donovan

Ampyre

Viktor Kristof the co-founder and CEO of DemoSquare, an online platform for automating the monitoring and the analysis of legal and political data with machine learning.

Viktor Kristof

Demosquare

Omri Preiss is a co-founder and managing director of Alliance4Europe, working to activate citizens towards a more democratic and sustainable Europe.

Omri Preiss

Alliance4Europe

Ivan Ivanov is a political tech consultant and advisor with experience in strategizing and implementing digital campaigns for national and local entities. Currently, Ivan works as an advisor for digital transformation to the Mayor of Sofia, having previously managed his campaign. His background includes a role in the election team that helped a newly founded political party unseat the former governing party after 15 years in power.

Ivan Ivanov

Advisor Digital Transformation

our partners.

Connecting an emerging cross-border political tech ecosystem at Europe's first political tech summit. This community of professionals has not been addressed as such before, bringing them together in one place. We're excited to witness the founding moments of a cross-border political tech market, and to see what's in store for a landmark political year in 2025. Check out our dedicated partners and supporters from the emerging political tech ecosystem and beyond.

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Discussing ideas and solutions, matching supply and demand. The summit is your opportunity to showcase practical solutions and expertise in political tech. The Summit presents hands-on solutions and connects products and experts with political professionals and organisations. Garnished with data intelligence it offers a valuable knowledge base to make quality content and products visible. Are you or your organisation considering a partnership? Book your slot with us.

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“The Political Tech Summit is unlike what I’ve seen before.”

Anonymous, Tech Consultancy

“I researched every person on the launch call, and they are exactly the crowd we are looking for.”

Anonymous, Exhibitor

“As a way to validate the market, 3k is a small spend.”

Anonymous, Foundation

“It is the right time for such an event - the market is becoming cross-border.”

Anonymous, Participant

“Often at those conferences, we providers are talking amongst ourselves - it will be great to be able to talk to a diverse group of political professionals.”

Anonymous, Exhibitor

“The one conference I am genuinely looking forward to.”

Anonymous, Exhibitor

“The Political Tech Summit is exactly what was missing - I am looking forward to attending!”

Anonymous, Political Party

“You are right on time - we have been expanding internationally since the beginning of the year.”

Anonymous, Participant

“All these random AI conferences … formalising the sector [of political tech] is the real task.”

Anonymous, Tech Consultancy

Political Tech in the EU Quarter

9 December, 2024 at 17:00
Microsoft Innovation Center, Brussels
Experts: Jeremy Rollison, Senior Director & Head of EU Policy Microsoft, Henrik Nahr, Head of EU Affairs Make.org, tba

In the heart of Europe, we present the Political Tech Summit and its goals together with our cooperation partners in Brussels. At a time when the EU is also setting a new course and the innovative strength of the community is at the top of the agenda.

politics ✕ technology.

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cross-border.
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programme.

The Future of Political Tech: The good, the bad, and the unknown?

Social Media Strategies of European Political Parties: Insights from the European Elections

The Power of Newsletters - Lessons from Journalism for Political Parties in the Anti-Social Media Age

Political Tech in repressive regimes

Old Tech is the best Tech? Insights from the Labour Campaign and the UK general elections

Fighting misinformation with Political Tech

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faq.

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community.

“The Political Tech Summit is unlike what I’ve seen before.”

“I researched every person on the launch call, and they are exactly the crowd we are looking for.”

“As a way to validate the market, 3k is a small spend.”

“It is the right time for such an event - the market is becoming cross-border.”

“Often at those conferences, we providers are talking amongst ourselves - it will be great to be able to talk to a diverse group of political professionals.”

“The one conference I am genuinely looking forward to.”

“The Political Tech Summit is exactly what was missing - I am looking forward to attending!”

“You are right on time - we have been expanding internationally since the beginning of the year.”

“All these random AI conferences … formalising the sector [of political tech] is the real task.”

pre-events.

Political Tech in the EU Quarter

P:Pub - Political Bar

politics ✕ technology.

cross-party.cross-border.best practice.

programme.

The Future of Political Tech: The good, the bad, and the unknown?

Social Media Strategies of European Political Parties: Insights from the European Elections

The Power of Newsletters - Lessons from Journalism for Political Parties in the Anti-Social Media Age

Political Tech in repressive regimes

Old Tech is the best Tech? Insights from the Labour Campaign and the UK general elections

Fighting misinformation with Political Tech

line-up.

Stay up to date.

media partner.

faq.

summit.

our partners.

become a partner.

community.

“The Political Tech Summit is unlike what I’ve seen before.”

“I researched every person on the launch call, and they are exactly the crowd we are looking for.”

“As a way to validate the market, 3k is a small spend.”

“It is the right time for such an event - the market is becoming cross-border.”

“Often at those conferences, we providers are talking amongst ourselves - it will be great to be able to talk to a diverse group of political professionals.”

“The one conference I am genuinely looking forward to.”

“The Political Tech Summit is exactly what was missing - I am looking forward to attending!”

“You are right on time - we have been expanding internationally since the beginning of the year.”

“All these random AI conferences … formalising the sector [of political tech] is the real task.”

pre-events.

Political Tech in the EU Quarter

P:Pub - Political Bar

cross-party.
cross-border.
best practice.