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Eilís Ní Fhlannagáin

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Eilís Ní Fhlannagáin has been active in both the technology sector and radical trans women’s circles for the past two decades. Her activism focuses on trans women, their access to quality health care, employment rights, poverty, and transmisogyny within feminist and queer communities. Her work focuses on Linux for embedded devices.

She has spoken on topics as diverse as IoT security, body autonomy and the intersection of trans women's healthcare with other women's struggles. She was one of the performers for the Topside Press "Nevermind the Hormones" tour. Her work has been mentioned in Mimi Marinucci’s “Feminism is Queer: The Intimate Connection between Queer and Feminist Theory”, as well as Sybil Lamb’s “How Not To Have A Sex Change”. She currently lives in Dublin where she is writing a book about an underground orchiectomy clinic.

Dublin, Ireland August 6, 2016
The Robotic CEO: Class at the Intersection of Technology and a Modest Proposal.
Class warfare, poverty, money, the state, capitalism, unemployment, trade union strikes.

Class is often overlooked when it applies to the technology sector. While the tech sector can help provide economic empowerment for working class people who are able to navigate that world, the ability to reap the benefits of it is at best, mixed. This talk will delve into the relationship working class people have had with emerging technology, from the oft misunderstood Luddites, to the current embedded market. Taking a bit of a Swiftian modest proposal, some hard questions will be asked about the focus on employment replacement ROI within the embedded sector, i.e. Why do we want to replace low wage truck drivers with self driving trucks when the ROI for replacing a CEO with an automated system would be much higher?