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Day 0 - April 13 - Singel Library, Singel 425, 1012 WP Amsterdam

09:00 Coffee + Registration
10:00 Welcome and opening
·	Marieke de Goede - Dean of the Faculty of Humanities
·	critical infrastructure lab
11:00 Morning Workshops: infrastructural futures
·	Sustainable Computing Infrastructures - Michelle Thorne
·	Identifying Infrastructure Gaps to Shift Power in the Data Economy -   
 	Lisa Gutermuth
·	Imagining the Future: What should the next European Commission do? - 
 	Alek Tarkowski, Zuzanna Warso and Paul Keller
12:30 Lunch
13:30 Afternoon Workshops: Maps and models 
·	Data centre walk: the materiality of connectivity, centralization, 
	data centers and data - Yan Cong
·	Mapping the Network; Critical Mapping and new perspectives on
	internet infrastructure and standards - Silke Steets, Nadine Schabét,
	René Tuma, Dinah van der Geest 
·	Semente - Co-Designing Community-Based Digital Policy - Felipe
	Schmidt Fonseca & Bernardo Schepop
·	Free Software User Unions? - decentral1se
·	Permacomputing: are you working in the dark? Introduction to 
	permacomputing through a guided visualization and interactive game - 
	Ola Bonati and Lukas Engelhardt
16:30 Documentation, continuation and report back
17:30 Surprise Appearance
18:15 Walk to Waag
18:30 Dinner and drinks (Waag)


Day 1 - April 14 - Oude Manhuispoort + Bushuis

11:00 - 17:00 DIY electronics jewelry workshop https://jewelryhacker.org/ 

09:30 Welcome and opening
·	critical infrastructure lab
10:00 Keynote 1 - Standards - Ksenia Ermoshina
11:00 Coffee break
11:15 Morning Panels
·	Geopolitics: Shifts, Conflicts, and Infrastructures
    ·	    Migration information infrastructures: power, control and 
            responsibility at a new frontier of migration research - Fran 
            Meissner & Linnet Taylor 
    ·	    “DongShuXiSuan” (east-to-west computing resource transfer           
            project) in China: An Evolutionary Reform on Data Infrastructure 
            Construction - Chengbao Jin
    ·	    The EU and Internet standards - Beyond the spin, a strategic 
            turn? - Clément Perarnaud
·	Standards: Norms and Methods
    ·	    Data Walking in the Unheard City: Sampling Infrastructured 
            Devices with Mobile Apps - Iain Emsley
    ·	    The good infrastructures lab: user agency within, through and               
            against infrastructures - Thomas Berker
    ·	    Standardization as ethico-political project. Dealing with the 
            Tension between the Value of Equal Quality of Standards and 
            Pluriversality - Paula Helm
·	Environment: Maintenance and Resistance
    ·	    Permitting/resisting the cloud: a comparative legal analysis of 
            community resistance to fossil fuel infrastructure and data 
            centers - Jenna Ruddock
    ·	    Reuse Commons: a toolkit to weave generous cities - Felipe 
            Schmidt Fonseca
    ·	    Washout! Environmental Synchronization and Infrastructural 
            Maintenance in the Northern Rocky Mountains - Sam P. Kellogg
12:30 Lunch
13:30 Keynote 2 - Environment - Svitlana Matviyenko
14:30 Coffee break
14:45 Report presentations
·	Exclusionary Cultures of Internet Governance - Corinne Cath
·	Open Source Software as Digital Infrastructure - Thomas Streinz
15:45 Keynote 3 - Geopolitics - Yu Hong
16:45 Coffee break
17:00 Afternoon Panels 
·	Geopolitics: European Infrastructure Politics
    ·	    EU Digital Diplomacy – Digital technologies, standards, and        
            regulation in times of geopolitical upheaval – Julian Ringhof
    ·	    Reaching European Stars with American Clouds: Rooting European 
            Digital Sovereignty in Gaia-X - Andreas Baur
    ·	    The Russian conflict and its impact on the Web PKI - Alexandra 
            Dirksen
·	Standards: Network Paradigms
    ·	    Rearticulating the Digital Public Good: Aesthetics and Technics 
            of the Fifth Internet - Mila Samdub
    ·	    Digital Technologies and Sustainable Development: The Missing 
            Link - Raúl Zambrano
    ·	    An overview of Internet censorship in EU - Vasilis Ververis
·	Infrastructural futures
    ·	    On-line federation as a sociotechnical architecture - Roel Roscam 
            Abbing 
    ·	    Towards a historical, multi-dimensional, relational model of 
            digital infrastructure - Lai Yi Ohlsen
18:15 Closing
20:30 Drinks (OT301)