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The Disruption Network Lab is a Berlin-based non-profit organization.

Organization
Since its establishment in 2014, the Disruption Network Lab has organized more than 28 conferences, community meetups and workshops related to the conference program, and online series (“Disruptive Fridays” ) in cooperation with grassroots networks and organizations both in Berlin and abroad. Founder of the Disruption Network Lab is Tatiana Bazzichelli, currently board chair and artistic director, who envisioned the concept of a program of events and research in the framework of disruption.

Working Method
The term “disruption” is consciously moved from the business context referring to a radical change that triggers unexpected consequences within a system.

Whistleblowing, Surveillance and Digital Resistance
A series of events from 2015 to 2023 on drone warfare, issues of digital tracking, and whistleblowing. The events saw the participation of speakers as former US Air Force drone operator and first drone whistleblower Brandon Bryant, CIA whistleblower John Kiriakou , Drone Surveillance Program whistleblower and former technical sergeant Lisa Ling , and Syrian journalist, human rights defender activist and IT trainer Abdalaziz Alhamza. In November 2021, Disruption Network Lab’s anthology Whistleblowing for Change: Exposing Systems of Power and Injustice (authored by Tatiana Bazzichelli and published in 2021 by transcript Verlag ) put together the work made in the years by Disruption Network Lab and thirty whistleblowers, researchers, journalists, artists and activists. It examines the growing phenomenon of whistleblowing, investigating the act of blowing the whistle as a developing political practice that can provoke change from within.

Social Justice, AI and Human Rights
Since 2015, Disruption Network Lab held conferences and workshops addressing the issues of migration, the War on terror , AI driven discrimination , polarized narratives in China and human rights in mental health.

Misinformation, Hate Speech and Empowering Civil Society
Disruption Network Lab created spaces of discussion to reflect on free speech, hate speech and misinformation. INFILTRATION conference (September 2018) saw the participation of race relations expert and White supremacy and nationalism consultant Daryl Davis.

Identity, Critical Technology, and Artistic Practices
Disruption Network Lab created occasions of reflection on the international book launch of Sci-Fi theorist Antonio Caronia in 2015 inviting the cyberfeminist Australian art group VNS Matrix for the CYBORG conference Since then the topics of identity and artistic practices have been part of Disruption Network Lab activities.

Anti-Corruption and Transparency
In 2019 and 2020 Disruption Network Lab addressed the topic of corruption, power and financial system organizing conferences and online events in cooperation with Transparency International e.V. (TI) and in 2020-2021 supported by Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ).

External links section
Disruption Network Lab Website