Douwe Schmidt is a Public Tech Project Manager at the City of Amsterdam. Prior to this, he served on the board of a data-ethics investigation bureau, worked as a privacy officer at Fairphone, and as a security trainer at Greenhost. In addition, I enjoy collaborating frequently with De Waag and Bots of Freedom and have participated in their Fabacademy, among other programs.

He is the founder of the Privacy Café for Bits of Freedom, has organized numerous other events on the internet and politics, and has researched privacy-enhancing technologies for online newspaper De Correspondent.