Alexandra is a journalist specialising in Chinese politics and technology. A reporter for Business Insider, she’ll be giving us rare, behind the scenes access to China’s great social surveillance experiment. Expect insights from a nation piloting  the world’s first social credit ranking system for citizens (due to complete by 2020). She’ll explore Xinjiang and the tracking of millions of Uyghur Muslims and discuss how facial recognition and personal verification are redefining power dynamics between state and citizen and what this means for us.