Rebekka Endler (*1984) is a freelance journalist, podcaster and book author from Cologne, Germany. Her first book, Das Patriarchat der Dinge (The Patriarchy of Things), about patriarchal everyday design, was published in Germany in 2021. It shows how so many aspects of our lives revolve around design made to fit men - or more specifically the average cis white male - with consequences encompassing everything from mild discomfort to death. The book was critically well received and is now being translated and published in several other countries.

Showing how systems of oppression affect the lives of people in regards to gender, class, race, sexuality is one of the main focal points of her work. She aims to make academic knowledge and expertise accessible to all people and to find ways to connect their experiences to research. Rebekka Endler currently holds a scholarship as a resident of the Tarabya Culture Academy in Istanbul, Turkey where she is researching and writing a book about the social mechanisms of patriarchy as well as a novel about a generally insecure woman.

Rod is an experienced Product Safety Lawyer, with more than 20 years’ experience working with the world's leading and most innovative companies to help them deal with their international issues. He is routinely ranked as a leader in the major legal directories, where he is described as “the outstanding go-to specialist for product liability matters”, "one of the top product liability and product regulatory experts worldwide", “the lawyer of choice for leading tech giants”, and “without a shadow of a doubt the most knowledgeable product liability lawyer in the European space”.  Rod holds multiple leadership positions in the international product law community and frequently works with policy-makers to help shape the future of product liability and product regulation.

He was appointed by the European Commission to its Expert Group on Liability and New Technologies, and currently is a member of the European Commission’s Sub-Group on Artificial Intelligence, Connected Products, and Other New Challenges in Product Safety. He is currently serving his third term on the Board of Directors of the International Consumer Products Health and Safety Organization (ICPHSO), where he is leads its International Programs.

  In that capacity he is Chair of this year’s ICPHSO International Symposium which is part of the European Commission’s International Product Safety Week. He sits as an industry representative on the OECD Working Party on Product Safety, is Vice Chair of the Consumer Policy Committee at Business@OECD, and he authored the OECD publication “Product Safety in the Internet of Things”.