Talks

Selected conference presentations Link to heading

Baack, S. & Odrozek, K. (October 2025). What should open source AI aspire to be? Keynote for the Deep Dive: Data Governance conference, Open Source Initiative.

Baack, S. (September 2025). Driving European AI. Panel of the 2025 European regional Artificial Intelligence for Information Accessibility (AI4IA) conference, UNESCO. Recording.

Baack, S. (June 2025). Leveraging Generative AI’s Open Source Communities. Presented at the AoIR Flashpoint Symposium 2025, University of Bremen.

Baack, S. (June 2024). A Critical Analysis of the Largest Source for Generative AI Training Data: Common Crawl. 2024 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency, Rio de Janeiro.

Baack, S., & Lämmerhirt, D. (June 2023). Alternative data governance projects: Pioneers of collective data practices? Third Data Justice conference, Cardiff University.

Baack, S., Cheruiyot, D., & Ferrer-Conill, R. (2022). Interdependent and entangled. The case of journalism’s influence on Mozilla. ECREA conference 2022, Aarhus.

Baack, S. (2019). ‘Global, Networked and Collaborative’. How the normalization of leaking shaped the identity and practice of investigative journalism. AOIR 2019 conference, Brisbane.

Selected workshops and guest lectures Link to heading

Fourth Wave of Open Data Seminar: Future-Proofing Open Data: Making Data AI-Ready. Seminar organized by The GovLab. May 2025. Summary and recording available at https://medium.com/data-stewards-network/fourth-wave-of-open-data-seminar-future-proofing-open-data-making-data-ai-ready-52aade000158

Data Trusts: What could go wrong?. Online workshop ‘Understanding data intermediaries for more inclusive data governance’ organized by the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission. March 2023.

Is My Phone Listening to Me? A chat on privacy with NWC and Mozilla. Twitter Space chat organized by the National Whistleblower Center, March 2023. Recording

Qualitative Data Analysis. A crash course in qualitative coding. Online course at Mozilla. September 2021.

Civic data: From civic tech to alternative data governance. Online guest lecture at the University of Groningen. March 2020.

Mozilla‘s New Mission – New Chances for Internet Research?. Online lunch lecture at the Leibniz Institute for Media Research | Hans-Bredow-Institut (HBI). September 2020. https://leibniz-hbi.de/en/events/mozilla-s-new-mission-new-chances-for-internet-research

I gave several guest lectures on Working at Mozilla (on how I started and what my work looks like), e.g. for Queensland University of Technology (October 2020) or Karlstad University (October 2020).

Leaking: Nur Strohfeuer, oder Ausdruck einer nachhaltigen Veränderung im Journalismus? (~Leaking: One hit wonders or expression of enduring changes in journalism?). “#krassmedial: Gute Daten, schlechte Daten”. Presentation at the workshop “#krassmedial: Gute Daten, schlechte Daten” organized by the German trade union ver.di, Berlin June 2018. Slides available at https://dju.verdi.de/++file++5b35efda56c12f583d38474f/download/Pr%C3%A4sentation%20Dr.%20Stefan%20Baack.pdf