Back to School With… Marina Otero Verzier - session #2 with Christopher Schlaeffer

THE TECHNOLOGY OF DATA STORAGE

In this second event, keynote speaker Christopher Schlaeffer discussed data storage technologies, their evolution, politics, and current trends and innovations, such as macro data centers ceding terrain to decentralized edge computing and micro centers. Schlaeffer is a technology executive with a record in leading innovations in telecommunications, digital services, and infrastructures with a focus on societal change. Tuesday 08 November, 19:00 - 21:00

About the Speakers

Christopher Schlaeffer
Christopher Schlaeffer is a European technology executive and serial entrepreneur. He is the Founder, Chairperson and CEO of London-based technology company NYOUM developing a contextual internet platform branded LOVE. He has previously served as Group Chief Commercial & Digital Officer of VEON (NASDAQ: VEON), Chief Product & Innovation Officer, Corporate Development Officer and Chief Strategy Officer of Deutsche Telekom (Xetra: DTE), Chief Marketing Officer of T-Mobile International and CEO of T-Online. Christopher is a Member of the Board at Amnesty International. Together with Andy Rubin, Larry Page, Sergey Brin, Peter Chou and Cole Brodman he unveiled the world's first mobile phone based on Android, T-Mobile G1. In 2007, he and Tim Cook closed Apple ́s first partnership on iPhone outside the US. Christopher has been recognized by the World Economic Forum as a Young Global Leader and ranked one of the Top50 Innovators To Watch. He is the Patron of iamtheCODE Foundation, dedicated to teach 1 million girls in marginalised communities how to code by 2030.

Marina Otero Verzier
Marina Otero Verzier is an architect based in Rotterdam and Head of the Social Design Masters at Design Academy Eindhoven. From 2015-2022 she was the Director of Research at Het Nieuwe Instituut (HNI), the Dutch institute for Architecture, Design and Digital Culture. At HNI she led initiatives such as “Automated Landscapes”, focusing on the emerging architectures of automated labour, and “BURN-OUT: Exhaustion on a planetary scale”, instigating forms of care for multispecies, collective bodies. Otero has been a co-curator at the Shanghai Art Biennial 2021, curator of the Dutch Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale in 2018, and chief curator of the 2016 Oslo Architecture Triennale. She has co-edited Lithium: States of Exhaustion (2021) More-than-Human (2020), Unmanned: Architecture and Security Series (2016-20), Architecture of Appropriation (2019), Work, Body, Leisure (2018), and After Belonging (2016), among others. Recently she won the prestigious GSD Wheelwright Prize with her proposal “Future Storage: Architectures to Host the Metaverse,” examining new architecture paradigms for storing data and how reimagining digital infrastructures could meet the unprecedented demands facing the world today.