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key: aral
name: Aral Balkan
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company: 'Small Tech Foundation'
city: 'Cork, Ireland'
photoURL: /images/speakers/aral.jpeg
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[Aral Balkan](https://ar.al) is a designer and developer who has been making things with computers for over 35 years. He has spent the last six of those at [Small Technology Foundation](https://small-tech.org), working on Small Tech as an antidote to Big Tech.