WHY2025

Amelia Andersdotter

Amelia has an eclectic career mostly at the intersection of technology, politics and Europe. When backed into a corner, she doubles down. Recently she's been managing risks at a Swedish sovereign cloud service provider, and before that she was moving capital in the chip industry by reorienting standards work to privacy and power save modes. When Amelia was a Member of the European Parliament she got accused of being a communist by a large French telecoms provider, since she has the firm belief that structural separation and vertically disintegrated markets are beneficial for market entry and consumer choice.


Session

08-10
10:00
50min
Green WiFi: how regulation sort of works
Amelia Andersdotter

This talk is based on my experience working for Comcast/Sky Group in WLAN (802.11) standardisation. It follows the trajectory from environmental laws through to technical regulations and finally in to technical standards, patents and technologies. The talk argues that well-enforced norms and regulations remain a good way of incentivising socially and globally desirable outcomes, while explaining how technical regulations and standardisation work in practice from the industry insider perspective.

Yearn for a better future
Andromeda