Ela Kagel is a digital strategist and board member of Platform Coops eG, a Berlin-based organisation that supports the digital-cooperative economy across various sectors.

Ela has been instrumental in developing networks and platforms that challenge extractive models of technology and economics. In 2010, she co-founded SUPERMARKT, an independent hub for digital culture and collaborative economy in Berlin. There, she has spent over a decade curating conferences, workshops & research projects that explore cooperative practices and equitable digital infrastructures.

Ela is also co-founder of Poetic Technologies, a collective enterprise dedicated to reimagining digital infrastructures beyond bureaucratic constraints.