Featuring Cindy Cohn, former Executive Director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and Denise G. Tayloe, co-founder and CEO of PRIVO.
Renoly Santiago
The actor who played Phantom Phreak (“The King of NYNEX”) in Hackers will be part of a panel discussion on the 31st anniversary of the iconic movie.
Johannes Grenzfurthner (monochrom)
Austrian artist, filmmaker, writer, actor, curator, theatre director, performer, and lecturer, who is the founder, conceiver and artistic director of monochrom, an international art and theory group and film production company.
Electronic Frontier Foundation
An American international non-profit digital rights group based in San Francisco, founded in 1990 to promote Internet civil liberties.
Kel McClanahan, Esq.
Executive director of National Security Counselors, a Washington-area non-profit public interest law firm which specializes in national security law and information and privacy law.
Fight for the Future
A non-profit advocacy group in the area of digital rights founded in 2011 that aims to promote causes related to copyright legislation, as well as online privacy and censorship through the use of the Internet.
Jasmin Hagendorfer
Vienna-based contemporary artist, writer, filmmaker, curator, producer, and festival organizer whose work has been exhibited in Austria, Germany, Turkey, Serbia, and Greece.
Tiffany Strauchs Rad
CEO and founder of Anatrope, Inc., which develops wireless automotive technologies for the security and data analytics industries, and whose industrial control system research was featured on the series, Mr. Robot.
Freedom of the Press Foundation
A non-profit organization founded in 2012 to fund and support free speech and freedom of the press, pursuing technical projects to support journalists’ digital security and conducting legal advocacy for journalists.
Brandon Roberts
Investigative journalist specializing in applying computational techniques to watchdog and data-heavy journalism projects who currently works at ProPublica, a non-profit investigative journalism organization.
Featuring Cindy Cohn, former Executive Director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and Denise G. Tayloe, co-founder and CEO of PRIVO.
Renoly Santiago
The actor who played Phantom Phreak (“The King of NYNEX”) in Hackers will be part of a panel discussion on the 31st anniversary of the iconic movie.
Johannes Grenzfurthner (monochrom)
Austrian artist, filmmaker, writer, actor, curator, theatre director, performer, and lecturer, who is the founder, conceiver and artistic director of monochrom, an international art and theory group and film production company.
Electronic Frontier Foundation
An American international non-profit digital rights group based in San Francisco, founded in 1990 to promote Internet civil liberties.
Kel McClanahan, Esq.
Executive director of National Security Counselors, a Washington-area non-profit public interest law firm which specializes in national security law and information and privacy law.
Fight for the Future
A non-profit advocacy group in the area of digital rights founded in 2011 that aims to promote causes related to copyright legislation, as well as online privacy and censorship through the use of the Internet.
Jasmin Hagendorfer
Vienna-based contemporary artist, writer, filmmaker, curator, producer, and festival organizer whose work has been exhibited in Austria, Germany, Turkey, Serbia, and Greece.
Tiffany Strauchs Rad
CEO and founder of Anatrope, Inc., which develops wireless automotive technologies for the security and data analytics industries, and whose industrial control system research was featured on the series, Mr. Robot.
Freedom of the Press Foundation
A non-profit organization founded in 2012 to fund and support free speech and freedom of the press, pursuing technical projects to support journalists’ digital security and conducting legal advocacy for journalists.
Brandon Roberts
Investigative journalist specializing in applying computational techniques to watchdog and data-heavy journalism projects who currently works at ProPublica, a non-profit investigative journalism organization.
Renoly Santiago
The actor who played Phantom Phreak (“The King of NYNEX”) in Hackers will be part of a panel discussion on the 31st anniversary of the iconic movie.
Johannes Grenzfurthner (monochrom)
Austrian artist, filmmaker, writer, actor, curator, theatre director, performer, and lecturer, who is the founder, conceiver and artistic director of monochrom, an international art and theory group and film production company.
Electronic Frontier Foundation
An American international non-profit digital rights group based in San Francisco, founded in 1990 to promote Internet civil liberties.
Kel McClanahan, Esq.
Executive director of National Security Counselors, a Washington-area non-profit public interest law firm which specializes in national security law and information and privacy law.
Fight for the Future
A non-profit advocacy group in the area of digital rights founded in 2011 that aims to promote causes related to copyright legislation, as well as online privacy and censorship through the use of the Internet.
Jasmin Hagendorfer
Vienna-based contemporary artist, writer, filmmaker, curator, producer, and festival organizer whose work has been exhibited in Austria, Germany, Turkey, Serbia, and Greece.
Tiffany Strauchs Rad
CEO and founder of Anatrope, Inc., which develops wireless automotive technologies for the security and data analytics industries, and whose industrial control system research was featured on the series, Mr. Robot.
Freedom of the Press Foundation
A non-profit organization founded in 2012 to fund and support free speech and freedom of the press, pursuing technical projects to support journalists’ digital security and conducting legal advocacy for journalists.
Brandon Roberts
Investigative journalist specializing in applying computational techniques to watchdog and data-heavy journalism projects who currently works at ProPublica, a non-profit investigative journalism organization.
HOPE 26 Information
Early badge pickup is Thursday from 5-7pm on the second floor of the hotel.
There is now a HOPE 26 schedule app available at the Google Play Store and F-Droid.
HOPE 26 will be the seventeenth Hackers On Planet Earth event. It will take place from August 14-16, 2026, at the New Yorker Hotel in New York City.
This promises to be a memorable event. It is open to all hackers, makers, tinkerers, experimenters, artists, educators and anyone else with an interest in exploring and improving the world we live in, and sharing knowledge with others.
HOPE is an all-ages event with multiple simultaneous sessions and many other things to do throughout the weekend.
Some of what you can expect:
- Speaker sessions
- Workshops
- Entertainment
- Contests
- Vendors
- Space to socialize
- Hands-on learning opportunities
- Friendly and supportive conference attendees