Malka Older is an author, academic, aid worker, and a special guest of DisCon III. Her first novel, Infomocracy (2016), is the first in the series The Centenal Cycle, which also includes Null States (2017) and State Tectonics (2018), which won the Prometheus Award in 2019. Malka is interviewed by Nicholas Whyte, a former Hugo Award administrator and advisor on ally development and coalition building for APCO International, and introduced by DisCon III chair, Mary Robinette Kowal.