Keynote speakers

Anna Berti Suman is Research Fellow at Luiss School of Law, Rome, with the mission to explore the law as an enabling tool for accelerating responses to climate change, biodiversity loss and water scarcity. Earlier, she was Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship grantee at the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre, Ispra, Italy. There, she founded and still curates the ‘Sensing for Justice’ project aimed at exploring the potential of civic monitoring (including VGI) as a source of evidence for environmental law enforcement. She is also Qualified Barrister, admitted to the Bar of Rome, following climate and environmental law cases at ‘Systasis - Centre for the Prevention and Management of Environmental Conflicts’, Milan. Anna obtained her PhD in 2020 after a four-year trajectory at the Tilburg Institute for Law, Technology, and Society, The Netherlands. Her PhD project aimed at investigating how civic monitoring influences the governance of environmental health. Anna has a background in Law from the University of Bologna and Transnational Law from the University of Geneva. She has work and research experience in environmental litigation (Italy, The Netherlands, Ecuador) and water law (Chile).

Christopher Beddow is a geospatial data engineer who focuses on building tools, datasets, and communities around the concept of improving maps of the world. He works as an analyst on the maps team at Meta, with a focus on practical applications of crowdsourced map data for consumer apps and augmented reality, especially sidewalks and pedestrian networks. Christopher is an avid contributor to OpenStreetMap and Mapillary, and serves on the Developer Advocacy Working Group of Overture Maps Foundation. He grew up in Montana, USA and has settled in Switzerland since 2021.