People
Project Leads & Presenters
Allison Duettmann is the President of Foresight Institute, a nonprofit focused on advancing beneficial technologies. She started the project ExistentialHope.com to inspire a memetic shift toward positive futures and is co-authoring a book on strategies to strengthen civilization. She directs all programs at Foresight Institute and researches how to accelerate the benefits of crucial technologies with a primary focus on AI. She speaks regularly at conferences (e.g. SXSW, Effective Altruism Summit, Wall Street Journal), on podcasts (e.g. FLI’s Podcast), moderates monthly speaker salons and Foresight’s annual conference. She holds an MS in Philosophy & Public Policy from the London School of Economics, with a dissertation focus on AI Ethics.
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Arkadiy has worked on creating sustainable communities on the web for the past decade. He is currently the Decentralized Tech lead at the Internet Archive and has served as Collaborations Coordinator with Protocol Labs and advisor to Ampled, an artist support co-operative. Previously, he was the CTO at Mediachain Labs (acquired by Spotify in spring 2017) and worked on The Hype Machine, an influential music blog aggregator.
Aza Raskin helped build the web at Mozilla as head of user experience, was named to Inc and Forbes 30-under-30 and became the Fast Company Master of Design for his work founding Massive Health, a consumer health and big data company. The company was acquired by Jawbone, where he was VP of Innovation. Before that, he founded Songza.com (acquired by Google). For Aza, the problem is especially personal: his father, Jef Raskin, created the Macintosh project at Apple with the vision that technology should help, not harm, humans.
He is a co-founder of the Center for Humane Technology with Tristan Harris.
With co-founder Britt Selvitelle, Aza is leading the Earth Species Project, capturing, preserving and mapping animal language to human language with AI tools.
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Barry Threw (barrythrew.com) is the Executive and Artistic Director of Gray Area, a San Francisco non-profit cultural incubator applying antidisciplinary collaboration towards an equitable and regenerative future. He drifts fluidly between roles, collaborating as an executive, curator, technologist, cultural producer, and strategist to cultivate forward-looking, boundary-blurring projects integrating culture and technology. His previous leadership positions have generated innovative & influential platforms, products, teams, and businesses spanning art, music, internet, built environment, and experiential & immersive media: as Software Director with Keith McMillen Instruments, developing advanced technology to bridge traditional string instruments with computers to spark a Western new classical music movement based on the technologies and aesthetics of the 21st century; as Technical Director with Recombinant Media Labs, presenting surround cinema at installations and festivals around the world; as a founding Partner at Fabricatorz, a distributed technology studio for cultural projects with nodes in Hong Kong, St. Louis, San Francisco, and Lisbon; and as Director of Software with Obscura Digital, a San Francisco-based creative technology studio specializing in the design and execution of immersive and interactive experiences worldwide, and the first company to do architectural projection mapping. He is convinced that integrated approaches combining art, technology, science, and the humanities are necessary for economic, social, and ecological regeneration.
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Benson Tilya was born and raised in the northern part of Tanzania at Arusha, of the Chagga people, a prominent tribe in the Kilimanjaro region. Since early childhood Benson has been fascinated with plant-life, thus, spending his time in conservation activities of the fauna of his homeland comes naturally. His commitment to the living environment and his expertise in botany makes him especially suited for conservation management at Save Africa’s Nature (SANA) in Tanzania. His assistance has been instrumental in the encouragement, support and monitoring of SANA projects in Saadani National Park villages; engaged in conservation activities such as seed banking, greenhouse management and restoration of the forest corridor via tree-planting projects.
After graduating from the University of Dar-Es-Salaam with a bachelors in biology, he has been committing his time to Jane Goodall’s Roots & Shoots community action program, where, under his care, thousands of trees have been planted for reforestation in 50 hectares of land provided by the Tanzanian Forest Agency. Through Roots & Shoots, he promotes weekly activities where thousands of school clubs from all over Tanzania participate in rejuvenation and maintenance of the natural environment through tree-planting, clean-up events and community work.
Benson stands on the thesis that technology and nature don’t have to act as antagonists; that the science behind digital technology can and should work in tandem with the respect for the natural world to subvert deforestation and promote long-term environmentally conscientious solutions. For instance, decentralized web technology can provide security while empowering local communities via unrestricted communication and free exchanges of ideas and information.
He believes that building a generation of people who take pride in their natural and cultural resources, with practices built on participatory approaches to appraisals, training, research and planning, will provide the means for long-term sustainability in biodiversity and forest conservation.
brandon king (all lower-case)* has years of experience and insight as a cultural creative (dj, multi-media, visual and sound artist), community organizer and cooperative developer. he is also a founding member of Cooperation Jackson, a cooperative network in Jackson Mississippi, as well as a Peer Advisor with the US Federation of Worker Coops.
brandon currently serves as Executive for Resonate Coop, an international, open-source, music streaming platform and cooperative that’s co-owned and democratically managed by the artists, developers, listeners and workers who build and use the platform. You can check out our Community Forum to have a sense of how our cooperative operates.
This summer, brandon will also be attending the School of Making and Thinking’s IMMERSION 4.0: VR 360° Video Creation Lab, Summer Residency Program, in partnership with Cucalorus Film Festival. through this residency, he’ll become more acquainted with virtual reality (VR) and have the opportunity to develop and execute an immersive media project with production support and technical assistance from collaborators and residency coordinators.
This fall, brandon is beginning a Masters in Fine Arts MFA Studio Art Graduate Program at CUNY Queens College focusing on Social Practice Art and Art Installation.
A passionate advocate for public Internet access and a successful entrepreneur, Brewster Kahle has spent his career intent on a singular focus: providing Universal Access to All Knowledge. He is the founder and Digital Librarian of the Internet Archive, one of the largest libraries in the world. Soon after graduating from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he studied artificial intelligence, Kahle helped found the company Thinking Machines, a parallel supercomputer maker. In 1989, Kahle created the Internet's first publishing system called Wide Area Information Server (WAIS), later selling the company to AOL. In 1996, Kahle co-founded Alexa Internet, which helps catalog the Web, selling it to Amazon.com in 1999. The Internet Archive, which he founded in 1996, now preserves 90+ petabytes of data - the books, Web pages, music, television, and software that form our cultural heritage, working with more than 1000 library and university partners to create a digital library, accessible to all.
He first called builders to "Lock the Web Open" using decentralized technologies in 2015, and continues to write about, experiment, cajole, and cheer on those creating decentralized systems we can trust.
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Calum Bowden collaborates on stories, worlds, and platforms that reconnect the cultural with the technological, economical, political and ecological. He co-founded Trust and Black Swan.
Trust is a network of utopian conspirators, a sandbox for creative, technical and critical projects, and site of experimentation for new ways of learning together; a hybrid online (Discord) and physical space (Berlin) for inquiry into emerging social and political phenomena through the lenses of aesthetic, narrative, game, technical, climate and design research. Since 2018, Trust has developed a public programme that includes lectures, installations, residency programmes, reading groups, working groups, live-streamed participatory events, and online resources. Trust incubates projects that build a creative culture of the commons.
Black Swan is a Berlin-based collective pursuing horizontal and decentralized approaches to the traditional art world templates for art making.
Being a former academic researcher of management science, Carol has always been fascinated with new ways of organizing people and resources (such as self-organizing, Decentralized Autonomous Organization, sociocracy, Deliberately Developmental Organization) that empower creativity, resilience, and transparency. Carol designs and hosts social spaces and innovative "sandboxes" that integrate contemplative, creative, and strategic elements into learning for organizational leaders, community stewards, and purpose-driven individuals. Carol holds a Ph.D. in Management Science and Engineering from Stanford University. She loves going on (in-person or virtual) hikes and connecting with people from all walks of life. For more, please visit https://www.linkedin.com/in/jiacarolxu/
Cent Hosten is a researcher and community manager at Metagov.
Charles E. Lehner (~cel) works on free/libre/open-source decentralization technology.
As a software engineer at Spruce, Charles is working on DIDKit, a cross-platform decentralized identity toolkit with a core library written in Rust.
Charles participates in standardization at the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) - in the Verifiable Credentials Working Group (VCWG), Decentralized Identifiers Working Group (DID WG), and Credentials Community Group (CCG). He also participates in the Decentralized Identity Foundation (DIF) and Internet Identity Workshop (IIW). Charles is a Associate Member of the Free Software Foundation, Associate Member of IEEE (Northeastern USA / Long Island section), and Individual Member of IDPro.
Charles is active on the Secure Scuttlebutt (SSB) network as a contributor and community member. He developed and maintains SSB applications such as git-ssb, ssb-npm and patchfoo.
Charles is excited to be able to help out at this DWeb Camp. He was extremely fortunate to have attended the previous DWeb Camp (2019) and Decentralized Web Summits (2016, 2018). He also attended Funding the Commons Summit (June 2022 / New York, NY).
Charles graduated from University of Rochester (Rochester, NY) with a BSc. in Computer Science, Class of 2015. In 2013 he was a hackNY fellow at ChatID (New York, NY).
Charles also participates in community theatre, at North Fork Community Theatre (Mattituck, NY) and Northeast Stage (Greenport, NY).
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As the founding member of the Del Sol String Quartet, violist Charlton Lee has brought his colorful curiosity and infectious groove to the stage for almost three decades, contributing significantly to the development of the contemporary string quartet, its repertoire, and place in our community. He has premiered hundreds of new works at venues including the Library of Congress, the Kennedy Center, and the Santa Fe Opera. He has spearheaded the commissioning of major works from composers including Terry Riley, Frederic Rzewski, Chinary Ung, and Gabriela Lena Frank. As Artistic Director of the quartet’s non-profit organization (Del Sol Performing Arts Organization), Lee has led the group to become recognized as a “vigorous champion of living composers,” focusing on music that reflects our community. Major upcoming projects include “Your Wall is Our Canvas: The Angel Island Project,” a reflection on immigration and discrimination in the history of San Francisco’s Angel Island, and “Karuna Supreme,” an immersive collaboration with North Indian musicians.
A sought-after educator, chamber coach and jurist, he has also performed music for award winning feature and documentary films and collaborated with various dance companies, including Stephen Pelton, Benjamin Levy, and Garrett/Moulton. Especially passionate about just intonation, Charlton draws on his math & science background to popularize these concepts with new audiences, most recently through the first San Francisco just intonation festival and a TED-X talk.
Charlton received a Bachelor’s Degree in Applied Mathematics and Physics from the University of California, Berkeley and a Master’s Degree in Music from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. Consequently, he is likely the only person to have published articles in both Physics Review Letters and Strings Magazine. Outside the quartet, he is a 20th generation disciple of martial art Chen Taiji, an avid skier and chef.
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Cody lives in Seattle and likes networks and distributed systems. He volunteers with the Connections Museum in Seattle repairing antique telephone switches and giving tours to the public. He recently assisted Shadytel build an analog phone network serving campsites at ToorCamp 2022. He's also an active volunteer with Seattle Community Network.
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Danny O'Brien is Senior Fellow and DWeb Strategy at the Filecoin Foundation and the Filecoin Foundation for the Decentralized Web. He has been a tech journalist, developer, and activist for online free speech, privacy, and an open internet for over 20 years, including over a decade at the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF).
His work within the technology sector has included being a founding employee at the Virgin brand's ISP, Virgin Net. As a journalist, he served as Silicon Valley correspondent for the London Sunday Times and the Irish Times, and defended reporters globally from online harassment and cyber-attacks at the Committee to Protect Journalists.
Technical creative focused on building decentralized storage. Child of the internet age with perpetual curiosity.
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Emaline Friedman, PhD became too interested in distributed networking while writing a book about Internet Addiction as a grad student in Psychology. In addition to part-time work as a psychotherapist, she has been exploring the potentials of DWeb to address the ills of the corporate web and to fulfill on the creative promises of the early internet in a more equitable way. Emaline has held a variety of positions in the Holochain ecosystem: writing, speaking, and organizing with Holochain, Holo, the Commons Engine, and currently leading communications in Neighbourhoods.
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I'm Bear. I am the director of ecosystem growth at Holochain, do product and business stuff at darksoil studio, and serve as program lead at dWeb Labs. I love growing beutiful human systems around meaningful projects. I also love Microalgae. Talk to me about it. I'm hanging out around the Treehouse and the P2P tent. Barefoot.
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Golda is focused on the intersection of code and society, from tools for shared governance to linked trust claims to keep out bad actors. She has been a software engineer (or otherwise a hacker/debugger type) for over 30 years, with experience ranging from Assembly language NetBIOS layer at Artisoft to the Webglimpse search engine, from industrial stremgh Perl at Oracle to Python data pipelines at Factual, more recently fighting organized attackers on the Risk team at Postmates and keeping the pipes running on Uber platform. Now at home at 3box, she supports the infrastructure for Ceramic development.
On the side Golda helps run the dSocialCommons.org community that emerged from the Bluesky launch, advises and supports the startup WhatsCookin.us for building community through realtime events, and contributes to projects at Cooperation.org for developing tech to fight bad actors and enable trust and cooperation. Decentralized Linked Trust to save us all!
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Guillem writes exquisite code for our darksoil applications. He has been foundational for teaching the growing Holochain dev community how to effectively code hApps and has built lots of beautiful core developer tools like the launcher, scaffolding and gym. Passionate about learning and teaching, Guillem is moved by a desire to support the creative and collaborative side of all people.
Holmes Wilson is an Internet freedom activist whose work mixes mass mobilization and software tools. He is a co-founder and board member of Fight for the Future, the activism organization that was instrumental in defeating the infamous US site-blocking laws SOPA/PIPA, fighting for net neutrality rules in the US and Europe, opposing law enforcement crypto backdoors, and more recently challenging the use of face recognition tech by US law enforcement and products like Amazon Ring. He also previously co-founded Miro, a free software video player based on Bittorrent and RSS, and was a campaign manager at the Free Software Foundation. He’s currently building Quiet, a local-first, peer-to-peer team chat app. Quiet differs from Slack, Discord, Matrix, and Signal in that it does not require that users trust a third party server or run their own. Instead, data syncs directly between clients over the Tor network, with no server required.
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Ira is a designer with a focus on branding for emerging technologies.
Always being on a mission to “made new tech look beautiful and human” she made her way from traditional advertising for huge retail brands to software development for German and Nordic tech scenes, to — since early 2018 — designing for decentralized web.
These days she helps Web3 creators connect with their early adopters through the language of share and color. Additionally to her work on brand development at Jolocom and DWeb, she organizes (occasional) DWebDesign meetups in Berlin.
Jack Fox Keen is the Data Empowerment Lead for the Guardian Project's ProofMode application, a cryptographically verifiable way of providing visual evidence of the world around us. Jack has been doing data analytics for non-profits for the last two years, after graduating from Florida State University with a degree in biomathematics and scientific computing. They will be starting a PhD program at UC Santa Cruz this September, where they will focus on explainable artificial intelligence. They are focused on ethical data aquisition and analysis, pulling inspiration and guidance from many realms of life, including intersectional feminism, queer theory, and decolonial studies.
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Jackson Morgan is the founder of O.team, a consulting firm focused on the decentralized storage network, Solid.
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James spends most of his time making the web do things it was never intended for. A professional web developer, search engineer, and amateur game developer for 20 years, he's finally found a job which lets him combine the three, building virtual worlds for JanusVR.
Currently, he's working on pushing the boundaries of what browsers are expected to do by combining WebVR, WASM, emulation, and photogrammetry to build worlds which seamlessly blend real, historical, and virtual realities into one.
Jay Carpenter has been an active member of the Blockchain and Decentralized Web community since 2014. His primary interest in this evolving space is in the realm of naming, numbering, addressing and identity.
Jay is the founder of Desert Blockchain which is the largest Blockchain meetup in Arizona.
He has taught as an Adjunct Professor at University of Advancing Technology (UAT.edu) a technical course on the intersection of Blockchain development, cybersecurity and the Internet of Things. Jay is regularly invited as a guest lecturer on Blockchain and Web 3.0 topics at the Arizona State University, Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law.
He has an extensive background in technology, entrepreneurship and finance. He is a graduate of Arizona State University with an undergraduate degree in business with emphasis in finance. He obtained an MBA from the University of Southern California with an emphasis in finance.
Jay is passionate about the emerging new realms of communications, finance and the societal possibilities associated with a Blockchain and Decentralized Web centric future.
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1. Co-founder, CEO Muinin pbc, which has a novel approach to software security (ask me), including use of distributed ledgers.
2. Co-steward, with Mai Ishikawa Sutton, of the creation of the Dweb principles; we're leading a session at DWeb camp discussing principle 5, the ecological / environmental principle, which may need to be updated, or made more robust.
3. Writer on macro-economics of the post-fossil fuel world. One challenge is how to make all organizations accountable for costs (and benefits!) that aren't on their books? I'll be asking for your thoughts on that and hosting a session on this gnarly topic at DWeb Camp. Writings at https://readtheimpact.com/ and https://www.johnconorryan.com/burning-oil-blog which is horribly out of date.
4. Spouse of Mary Lou Jepsen; painter, rudimentary cellist, resident of Sausalito, California.
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John is an software engineer, data scientist and policy wonk. He's been a Berkman Klein Assembly Fellow (cyber security and mis- & disinformation), and has degrees in technology policy, aero-astro engineering, and mechanical engineering. In addition to working on a handful of fun and interesting things at the Guardian Project, he's worked on things ranging from educational technology to flight test to mental health systems of care.
Josh is executive director of Metagov, and a computer scientist and mathematician at Oxford and Stanford.
Cellist Kathryn Bates’ boundless energy for sharing musical experiences has shaped a career that continues to explore the intersections of tradition and innovation. Praised for her “beautifully rounded sound” by the New York Times, Kathryn’s performances are characterized by a dancer’s sense of rhythm and captivating theatricality. Projects range from her recent tongue-in-check solo cello recording of “Santa Claus is Coming to Town” (“Inspire Christmas” album on Sono Luminus) to performances during Elliott Carter 100th Birthday anniversary celebration at Tanglewood that were called the “revelation” of the concert (Sequenza 21) and “electrifying” (Boston Globe) to a Shostakovich piano quintet performance with Menahem Pressler that could not be halted even by an earthquake. Cellist of the San Francisco-based Del Sol String Quartet since 2010, Kathryn has established herself as an important voice in the contemporary music world, as musician, collaborator and curator.
In addition her contributions as cellist to Del Sol’s work, Kathryn co-curated the 2017 Tanglewood Festival of Contemporary Music to rave reviews and premiere performances. Her curation has shaped Del Sol’s local scene for five years with her series “Soundings” - a concert experience where audiences delve deeply into one work - played twice - amplified by the work of a local artist. Kathryn recently completed the second season of “The Golden Arts Society,” a membership-based house concert series that explores the audiences’ perceptions and curiosity of music. A native of historic Concord, Massachusetts, Kathryn graduated from Rice University’s Shepherd School of Music, under the tutelage of Norman Fischer, and the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. She serves on the Del Sol Performing Arts Organization’s Board of Directors, in addition to her roles as a programs manager and grant writer in the organization. Kathryn spends time away from the cello hiking outdoor trails, practicing Iyengar yoga, or roasting coffee.
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Krista is a DevOps and engineering professional with over 10 years experience in the industry. Her primary areas of focus are around that of building fault tolerant, highly available, and scalable systems/platforms with wide scale reach and traffic.
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Luisa Bagope is a documentary director interested in cyber as well as natural and human technology. With support from APC she has been documenting community network activities in the global south. An active participant of PSP Community Network (Portal sem Porteiras) for 3 years, Luisa coordinated the Nodes That Bond project: a collective learning process centered around technology that happened through circular encounters amongst women. Focusing on feminist methods of community-based organization she now continues to work with communication as a potency for social transformation in the Afluentes Association, in Monteiro Lobato, Brasil.
Marcela Guerra is a craftswoman with a focus on technological
appropriation and object-making through workshops and immersive
experiences. She holds a bachelor's degree in social sciences from UNESP
in São Paulo, and is part of the collective Sítio do Astronauta, which
investigates and develops non-disciplinary technologies that amplify
learning skills and enable artistic expression.
She has experience in managing workshops throughout the state of São
Paulo, including spaces such as hacklabs, permaculture centres and
SESCs. In 2015 her project "Diversões eletrônicas na roça" led the
public to create electronic crafted toys in rural areas of Minas Gerais.
After this successful experience she was invited to participate in the
Lemann Institute of Creative Learning where she had the opportunity to
go through an intensive creative learning course with researchers from
the Lifelong Kindergarten research group at MIT MediaLab.
Since 2016 she has lived in the Souzas neighbourhood in Monteiro Lobato,
São Paulo, where she contributes to a number of local initiatives: the
"Cassava Festival", an independent festival organised by the Souzas
neighbourhood community; the "Espaço do Fazer", an open laboratory for
research, creation and development of projects, located inside the
Pandavas Institute, a rural school in the neighbourhood; and the
"Associação Portal sem Porteiras", a non-profit association that seeks
to develop alternative forms of accessing and producing information.
Currently, Marcela is the chairwoman of the Associação Portal sem
Porteiras and member of its communication council, where she explores
experimental methodologies to help enable the community to develop a
critical sense in the processing of information produced by new media.On
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Mark is a mathematician turned programmer. He runs a VC backed Open Source company and has traveled to 30 countries. The diverse cultures he has experienced fuels his passion for learning, sharing, and creating open technology freely for all.
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Marta Belcher is president and chair of Filecoin Foundation as well as the Filecoin Foundation for the Decentralized Web, and general counsel and head of policy at Protocol Labs. She is also special counsel to the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Marta serves on the Boards of the Zcash Foundation and the Blockchain Association and is a member of Paradigm’s Crypto Policy Council. Marta is a pioneer in cryptocurrency law and policy and has testified in U.S. Congress and state legislatures as well as speaking in European Parliament. Marta has been recognized by the Financial Times Innovative Lawyer awards, by Law360’s list of Top Attorneys Under 40, by CryptoWeekly’s list of Most Influential Women in Crypto, and as Business Intelligence Group’s Woman of the Year.
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Dr. Mary Lou Jepsen is the founder and CEO of Openwater, (https://www.openwater.cc/). Previously, she was Co-founder and CTO of One Laptop per Child (OLPC) and a former executive at Facebook, Oculus, Google, and Intel. Other highlights: former MIT Professor. Founded 4 hardware companies. 250 published or issued patents. TIME named her one of the hundred most influential people in the world.
Her latest company, Openwater, aims to create an inexpensive, noninvasive, portable medical imaging device that rivals MRI quality imaging at a fraction of the price and size.
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Matthew Hodgson is technical co-founder of Matrix.org: a not-for-profit open source project focused on solving the problem of fragmentation in current Chat, VoIP and IoT technologies. By defining a new lightweight pragmatic open standard for federation/interoperability and releasing open source reference implementations, Matrix hopes to create a new ecosystem that makes open real-time-communication as universal and interoperable as email.
Matthew juggles Matrix with the roles of CEO and CTO of New Vector, the company behind Riot.im, the flagship collaboration app built on Matrix. Previously, as a technical lead at MX Telecom (acquired by Amdocs in 2010), Matthew designed & architected Amdocs’ next-generation Video/VoIP client and network infrastructure, and draws on his Internet background to rapidly deliver carrier-grade enhanced communication solutions to network operators. He has specialised in interactive video and telephony applications for over 16 years, including co-founding a digital marketing startup, and contracting roles at Accenture and the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory. He has a BA in Computer Science and Physics from the University of Cambridge, and has lectured on VoIP at Imperial College London.
Matthew believes in the virtues of open collaboration. We live in an era where we can benefit very easily from cross-industry inputs to foster innovation and we don't make enough out of it. He wants to change the world to give access to communication and privacy to everyone while keeping the user's experience at the heart of every new product and leaving everyone the choice of their provider.
Megan Klimen is the co-founding officer of Filecoin Foundation and Filecoin Foundation for the Decentralized Web. Previously, she was co-founder and Chief Operating Officer of 3Scan, a biotech startup that developed 3D robotic serial sectioning microscopes, with the mission of enabling big data analysis of human tissue for applications including clinical diagnostics, drug discovery, 3D organ printing, and brain mapping. In addition, Megan co-ran an open data project in Jalalabad, Afghanistan, that organized and made available academic and military research, co-organized the open-source “BIL” Conference, and is a founding member of Women in Hardware.
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ngọc triệu practices design and research as an intervention to address and reform asymmetrical power relations through the lenses of decoloniality and decentralization. Her work focuses on the intersection of human-centred design, digital rights, and public-interest technology. ngọc is passionate about user advocacy, co-creation, and equal access to knowledge. Whether she is distilling data into insights that inform design decisions or developing a new UX pattern for distributed systems, ngọc collaborates closely with tech funders, designers, developers, and researchers to ensure usability, security, and safety for marginalised and vulnerable communities.
Currently, ngọc works as a design researcher at Superbloom (previously known as Simply Secure), a design non-profit that leverages design as a transformative practice to shift power in the tech ecosystem. She's also a maintainer of Decentralization, Off the Shelf, an initiative focused on creating resources and providing design support for practitioners in decentralization.
Nicholas P. Garcia is a Policy Counsel at Public Knowledge, focusing on net neutrality and broadband access and affordability. Before joining Public Knowledge, Nick served as an Assistant District Attorney in the Investigations Division of the Bronx County District Attorney’s Office, where he investigated and prosecuted cybercrime, fraud, grand larceny, and organized crime. He previously worked as a Legal Intern at Public Knowledge and as a Student Attorney for the Communications & Technology Law Clinic at Georgetown University Law Center’s Institute for Public Representation.
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Nicolás Pace is a member of AlterMundi A.C., a grassroots organization supporting rural underserved communities in their pursue for creating their own telecommunications infrastructure, their own piece of internet. In doing so, Nicolas has traveled to more than 15 countries, getting to know most of the community networks out there, and getting to understand the diversity and complexity of the matter. One of the latest actions he has been undertaking has been working together with REDES A.C., a grassroots organization from Mexico in supporting first nation communities. Within AlterMundi he has also been involved in the Decentralized Repository of Culture, a P2P project that tries to find a way around the digital culture distribution, involving everyone in the process: creators, curators, enthusiasts.
Paul has been developing games since 2004 (before app stores and metaverses!), and has always been interested in the intersection of game design and new tech. He is CTO / Co-Founder of OP Games, an open-source game platform company building tools to help game developers create sustainable economies in web3. Paul is also the co-founder of Altitude Games, a mobile and blockchain gaming company based in the Philippines. He currently leads the KERNEL Gaming Guild, a community of the most talented individuals in the blockchain space. He has been writing and coding on web3 since 2017, and most of his work can be found online at polats.com
Ever since he was little, Paul has loved investigating the connections between seemingly unrelated topics. These days, he's especially interested in learning about the ways that technology can help or hinder our journey toward a regenerative future. He currently works with Holo as an explainy guy, creating resources to help creators and users understand the Holochain distributed app framework.
Randy Farmer has been creating technical standards and community platforms for more than 40 years - learning the power of collaboration and overcoming the challenges of connecting people to each other online.
Along the way, it was necessary for him to co-invent many of the foundational patterns and technologies we see deployed today, such as the JSON message protocol, social newsfeeds, virtual worlds, and avatars (see his more than two dozen now expired patents). He has founded several startups, in senior executive roles, for the last two decades - most recently as the CEO of a multiplayer mobile gaming company.
In 1995 Randy co-founded Electric Communities, which prototyped and proved the design of smart contracts, capabilities, and distributed objects. Much of Spritely's architecture is inspired by publications about Electric Communities Habitat; this lead Christine Lemmer Webber and Randy to begin talking, leading to the decision to co-found the Spritely Networked Communities Institute together.
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riley wong researches distributed cooperatives and community governance models, with interests in public goods and the commons, solidarity economies, peer-to-peer systems, interdependence, and emergence. they’re also exploring applied cryptography and privacy preserving identity systems.
they have previous lives in machine learning at google, investigative journalism at propublica, and qtbipoc community organizing. they are based in nyc and enjoy painting, making music, building synthesizers, and writing.
Ronen is co-founder of Common SenseMakers, a distributed squad self-organizing around the science, tech, culture & practice of collective sensemaking. Ronen is also finishing his PhD at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem where he’s exploring intelligence in its myriad forms; artificial, natural and collective. He’s particularly interested in the profound role of environments (for example, the Semantic Web!) in augmenting cognition and scaffolding sensemaking by enabling certain kinds of interactions. Ronen is also passionate about human-centered tech, and translating scientific research into more impactful practical applications that fit real-world societal capacities and needs.
Santi Bazerque is working on the Hyper Hyper Space, an open source not-for-profit social platform that attempts to provide solutions to everyday life problems (communication, collaboration, commerce) while being fully decentralized, using people's web browsers and phones as its only infrastructure. He received a computer science degree from the University of Buenos Aires and has extensive experience on both technical and executive roles.
Dr. Sawood Alam is the Research Lead of the Wayback Machine at the Internet Archive (IA). He pursued his Masters and PhD degrees from the Old Dominion University while working with the Web Science and Digital Libraries (WS-DL) Research Group. In recognition of his contributions to the digital preservation community, Dr. Alam received the NDSA 2020 Future Stewards Innovation Award. Part of his responsibilities at IA is to lead the research efforts of Wayback Machine to support both internal processes with data insights as well as external researchers from around the globe. In addition to working with IA, he collaborates on many research projects and standardization efforts. Moreover, he serves academic programs and grad students in various universities as an advisor. He is familiar with more than half a dozen natural languages with primary contributions in promoting Unicode Urdu on the Web, which is an under-resourced complex-script right-to-left language with many unique challenges. Dr. Alam is coming to the DWeb Camp with his expertise in Web Archiving, Decentralized Systems, AI, and Research.
I've been programming since I was little. Let me tell you, computers are designed in really silly ways. We can make them work way better using collaborative editing technology. I (Seph) am a technologist, researcher (in p2p realtime collaborative editing tech), blogger, performance artist and musician. I've worked at Google, and most recently been inventing new foundational CRDT tech to enable a new generation of software built on top of distributed principles.
Sid’s experience spans both ends of the economic spectrum: from heading South Asia's largest trading desk, to exploring distributed economic paradigms in the Gandhi Ashram in India.
As part of the Neighbourhoods project, he is interested in sense-making infrastructure for new kinds of social and economic coordination. Such systems enable the contextual articulation and porting of 'reputation currencies'.
He believes this is the key to discovery, engagement and commercial interactions within the dimensions of culture and social fabric.
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I am likely a community media activist. We wish for an Internet that is inclusive of those marginalised by literacy.
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Sir Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web in 1989. He wrote the first web client and server in 1990. His specifications of URIs, HTTP and HTML were refined as Web technology spread.
Sir Tim is the Director of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), which oversees the technical standards development of the Web. Sir Tim is the founder and a Director of the World Wide Web Foundation which was launched in 2009 to coordinate efforts to further the potential of the Web to benefit humanity. He is a Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the Computer Science and AI Lab (CSAIL). His research group, the Decentralized Information Group (DIG), works to re-decentralize the Web. He is also a Professor in the Computer Science Department at the University of Oxford, UK. He is President of and co-founded the Open Data Institute in London. In 2017 Sir Tim was awarded the ACM A.M. Turing Prize, called the "Nobel Prize of Computing” and considered one of the most prestigious awards in Computer Science. Tim is a long time defender of Net Neutrality and the openness of the Web.
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Tracey Jaquith is a founding engineer and system architect for Internet Archive since 1996, writing multi-threaded servers, crawlers, and more. She wrote the “what’s related” services that ultimately led to Alexa Internet’s acquisition by Amazon. An inventor with two patents, she is the Archive’s longest tenured employee after founder, Brewster Kahle.
In 2000, Jaquith left for four years to be the technical lead and founding engineer at a financial startup focusing on more efficiently trading convertible bonds.
Recently, Jaquith rewrote Internet Archive’s TV recording system as an open source single server system, capable of preserving 75 simultaneous 24×7 channels, and developed the Television Archive’s “full stack” first and second versions. For more than a decade, Jaquith held primary responsibility for archive.org and its full stack infrastructure, later launching a fully responsive “Version 2” of the archive.org website —migrating to jQuery, bootstrap, LESS, modern faceting, ElasticSearch, postgreSQL and more. She is leading the core infrastructure migration to Docker for archive.org’s in-house AWS and S3-like system. Open Libraries services will rest upon the infrastructure Jaquith is designing.
Jaquith’s first job was at Xerox PARC, writing core low-level C-language image processing and comparison algorithms using novel computational geometry based on research from her Master’s degree.
Jaquith holds a Master’s and Bachelor’s in Computer Science from Cornell University where she focused on machine vision, robotics and mathematics. Jaquith presents at conferences (Demuxed 2016, MozFest) and is a regular guest lecturer at colleges about news and broadcast technologies.
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Trav Fryer is an independant artist and co-owner of Autonomic, an international technology worker cooperative. Autonomic designs and builds websites, infrastructure, and bespoke technology to support rad people doing good things in the world. Trav Fryer the artist creates interactive installations for fun and to reduce waste. A fun way to reduce waste is to mend your own clothes. It adds character. And things with character are more loved and thus less likely to be buried in a landfill. Mottainai is a Japanese word which roughly translates to "too good to waste". Trav thinks that's a pretty solid lens to look at the world.
Trav also runs a free store called Free Sha Voca Do, is on the board of the Vermont Real Estate Cooperative, and is a member of the Laboratory B cooperative hackerspace where he helps run a monthly Repair Cafe.
Trav's website is https://teafry.me
Viktor works with all manners of technology in service to planetary regeneration. He runs a coop in his home village hosting a co-working space, doing events and running a mushroom farm. He's very excited to bring distributed techonologies and especially sovereign adaptable digital group spaces into the organisations he is working with. He has been active in the Holochain community for about 5 years and is currently developing software through darksoil.studio
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Wendy is Principal Identity Architect at Tucows, and invites the dweb collective to help her imagine what that could mean. She mixes law, technology, and curiosity, coming from 10 years in web standards with W3C and previously founded the Lumen Database, a pioneering transparency report on Internet takedown demands.
Wesley is a software developer, passionate life-long learner, and recently a digital nomad. He works mostly as a Holochain app developer for Neighbourhoods, exploring novel application patterns for a distributed web. He is deeply motivated to contribute to projects that support the continued evolution of open societies through decentralized technologies and collective intelligence & sense-making systems, especially as they relate to energy blindness, the carbon pulse, and ecological economics.
DWeb 2023 Team
Video Team, Curator
Oakland, CA based Permaculturalist. former professional SysAdmin at Earth activist Training and KPFA radio. looking for my next career and vocation in the intersection of technology and ecology.
Code of Conduct Team Leader;
Alexis Rossi manages all aspects of Internet Archive collections work for movies, audio, software, and books, as well as the archive.org web site and social media presences. From 2006-2008, Rossi managed the audio and video collections and Open Library, as well as working on the Open Content Alliance, and the Zotero/IA project. From 2009-2015 Rossi managed internal web crawling projects and the Wayback Machine.
Rossi has been working with Internet content since 1996 when she discovered that being picky about words in books was good training for being picky about data on computers. She spent several years managing news content at ClariNet (the first online news aggregator), worked as the Editorial Director at Alexa Internet, and as Product Manager at Mixercast.
Rossi has an Masters of Library and Information Science, concentrating on web technologies and interfaces, and enjoys making jewelry, dancing, and baking Cookie Smackdown-winning cookies.
AI Track, Curator
Allison Duettmann is the President of Foresight Institute, a nonprofit focused on advancing beneficial technologies. She started the project ExistentialHope.com to inspire a memetic shift toward positive futures and is co-authoring a book on strategies to strengthen civilization. She directs all programs at Foresight Institute and researches how to accelerate the benefits of crucial technologies with a primary focus on AI. She speaks regularly at conferences (e.g. SXSW, Effective Altruism Summit, Wall Street Journal), on podcasts (e.g. FLI’s Podcast), moderates monthly speaker salons and Foresight’s annual conference. She holds an MS in Philosophy & Public Policy from the London School of Economics, with a dissertation focus on AI Ethics.
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Lead Craftsman
Amir received his MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute and is a practicing Bay Area artist and educator. Amir's role at the Internet Archive is to connect artist with the collections and to show what is possible when open access to information meets the arts. He is also the founder and director of the Artist in Residence Program at the Internet Archive.
Space Steward of Bluelight Barn
Andi Wong is excited to steward the “BE WATER” Way Station at DWeb Camp, a welcoming place for learners of all ages to create, collaborate, and go with the flow. Andi served as teaching artist and site arts coordinator in San Francisco public schools for over two decades. As project coordinator for ArtsEd4All, she creates curriculum, conducts workshops, hosts film screenings, and organizes participatory community events such as the annual Blake Mini Library book drive for Hamilton Families, Civic Season with Made By Us, and open-ended play with The Blue Marbles Project. Her creative partners include composer/musician Marcus Shelby, First Voice led by artistic directors Brenda Wong Aoki and Mark Izu, The Last Hoisan Poets (poets Genny Lim, Flo Oy Wong and Nellie Wong), Del Sol String Quartet, and the Internet Archive.
Content Moderator; Space Steward
Audio engineer and coder working around the creative possibilities of programming in artistic and experimental projects. Antonia works as a developer and researcher in EnFlujo, a lab based in Los Andes University (Bogotá, Colombia), and volunteers remotely at DWeb.
She is interested in power and the ways of exerting it, technological appropriation, and digital culture and media, and enjoys error, replica, margin, and doubt.
Technical Director
Arkadiy has worked on creating sustainable communities on the web for the past decade. He is currently the Decentralized Tech lead at the Internet Archive and has served as Collaborations Coordinator with Protocol Labs and advisor to Ampled, an artist support co-operative. Previously, he was the CTO at Mediachain Labs (acquired by Spotify in spring 2017) and worked on The Hype Machine, an influential music blog aggregator.
Art Track, Curator
Barry Threw (barrythrew.com) is the Executive and Artistic Director of Gray Area, a San Francisco non-profit cultural incubator applying antidisciplinary collaboration towards an equitable and regenerative future. He drifts fluidly between roles, collaborating as an executive, curator, technologist, cultural producer, and strategist to cultivate forward-looking, boundary-blurring projects integrating culture and technology. His previous leadership positions have generated innovative & influential platforms, products, teams, and businesses spanning art, music, internet, built environment, and experiential & immersive media: as Software Director with Keith McMillen Instruments, developing advanced technology to bridge traditional string instruments with computers to spark a Western new classical music movement based on the technologies and aesthetics of the 21st century; as Technical Director with Recombinant Media Labs, presenting surround cinema at installations and festivals around the world; as a founding Partner at Fabricatorz, a distributed technology studio for cultural projects with nodes in Hong Kong, St. Louis, San Francisco, and Lisbon; and as Director of Software with Obscura Digital, a San Francisco-based creative technology studio specializing in the design and execution of immersive and interactive experiences worldwide, and the first company to do architectural projection mapping. He is convinced that integrated approaches combining art, technology, science, and the humanities are necessary for economic, social, and ecological regeneration.
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Space Steward of Giant Sequoia Stage/Sapling Stage
Ben cultivates connection with Custom Camps, bringing play and nature to corporate teams. He is excited to lead production at Dweb for the third year.
D-Web MC // Organizer; Space Steward of Giant Sequoia Stage/Sapling Stage
Brady is the Co-Founder and Camp Director of Custom Camps. All of Brady's professional and personal endeavors center around his belief that we should be playing more and worrying less. An artist specializing in community gathering and the spoken word, Brady delights in experiences like D-Web Camp where many different people come together to share and play with each other.
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Space Steward of Hackers Hall
Brian left a data analyst position at an adtech startup to brush up on his coding skills. He has previously done web design in the non-profit space and a lot of SQL in the healthcare space. He has an MSIS and an MA in Latin American Studies from UT Austin and held graduate research positions at the Benson Latin American Collection and the Social Justice Institute. Brian attended the DWeb Summit: Global Vision / Working Code in 2018 and has followed DWeb’s evolution with interest.
Code of Conduct Team
Bryan works at Bluesky, a startup company building a federated social media protocol called "atproto". Until a few months ago he worked at the Internet Archive collecting scientific research datasets and publications, and created scholar.archive.org. And before that he worked on infrastructure at Stripe, attended the Recurse Center in New York City, and built Atomic Magnetometers for a small New Jersey company called Twinleaf.
Over that same time period he climbed up and down the ladder of abstraction, obtaining an undergraduate degree in physics (at MIT), operating under-ice robots in Antarctica, developing open hardware lab instrumentation for large-scale brain probing (at LeafLabs), cataloging hundreds of millions of electronics components (at Octopart), and improved production service reliability at Stripe (a financial infrastructure start-up).
Bryan is a transplant from the East Coast and enjoys the road biking, large trees, generous salads, used book stores, and world-class tech non-profits found all around the Bay Area.
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Space Steward -- Hospitality & Procurement
BZ joined the Internet Archive in October 2016. A veteran of the Animation industry; Lucasfilm, Wild Brain, Pixar and Colossal Pictures, it was her love of books that drove her to work for the Internet Archive. As a life long "people person" she is well suited for her responsibilities in events and people operations for the Archive. When not working, BZ likes to watch baseball, listen to jazz and go running on her beloved Mt. Tamalpais.
Governance Track, Curator
Cent Hosten is a researcher and community manager at Metagov.
Space Steward of Open Source Library
Charles E. Lehner (~cel) works on free/libre/open-source decentralization technology.
As a software engineer at Spruce, Charles is working on DIDKit, a cross-platform decentralized identity toolkit with a core library written in Rust.
Charles participates in standardization at the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) - in the Verifiable Credentials Working Group (VCWG), Decentralized Identifiers Working Group (DID WG), and Credentials Community Group (CCG). He also participates in the Decentralized Identity Foundation (DIF) and Internet Identity Workshop (IIW). Charles is a Associate Member of the Free Software Foundation, Associate Member of IEEE (Northeastern USA / Long Island section), and Individual Member of IDPro.
Charles is active on the Secure Scuttlebutt (SSB) network as a contributor and community member. He developed and maintains SSB applications such as git-ssb, ssb-npm and patchfoo.
Charles is excited to be able to help out at this DWeb Camp. He was extremely fortunate to have attended the previous DWeb Camp (2019) and Decentralized Web Summits (2016, 2018). He also attended Funding the Commons Summit (June 2022 / New York, NY).
Charles graduated from University of Rochester (Rochester, NY) with a BSc. in Computer Science, Class of 2015. In 2013 he was a hackNY fellow at ChatID (New York, NY).
Charles also participates in community theatre, at North Fork Community Theatre (Mattituck, NY) and Northeast Stage (Greenport, NY).
SSB ID: @f/6sQ6d2CMxRUhLpspgGIulDxDCwYD7DzFzPNr7u5AU=.ed25519
Steward, Networking Team
Cody lives in Seattle and likes networks and distributed systems. He volunteers with the Connections Museum in Seattle repairing antique telephone switches and giving tours to the public. He recently assisted Shadytel build an analog phone network serving campsites at ToorCamp 2022. He's also an active volunteer with Seattle Community Network.
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Summer Intern, Stewards Assistant
Cristán is currently a full-time student at Austin College, where I am actively involved in the Swimming and Diving team, while pursuing a Bachelor's degree in Arts with a minor in Education.
With a strong interest in social media marketing, I am driven to make a meaningful impact in this field. Outside of my academic pursuits, I have also been honing my photography skills, specializing in sports photography and portraiture.
Space Steward of Mycelium Pavilion
Curious on how to unlock more democratic potential in (physical) neighborhoods in the USA. Currently co-creating digital Neighborhood Networks that aim to surface small groups of neighbors with similar ideas and interests.
Space Steward of Treehouse, Dweb Labs Organizer
Hi.
I'm Bear. I am the director of ecosystem growth at Holochain, do product and business stuff at darksoil studio, and serve as program lead at dWeb Labs. I love growing beutiful human systems around meaningful projects. I also love Microalgae. Talk to me about it. I'm hanging out around the Treehouse and the P2P tent. Barefoot.
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Associate Producer; Space Steward of Redwood Cathedral
Eseohe Ojo (Ese) is Policy and Campaign Manager at Fight for the Future as well as Projects Organizer with DWeb. She is an Associate Producer of 2022 DWeb Camp. She’s worked on various projects involving policy, writing, research and communications with nonprofits on a range of issues including digital rights, the environment, freedom of expression, access to information, academic freedom, gender, democracy, and open government.
Stage Manager
Heather Hurford is an advocate for diverse and inclusive workplaces where people have equal access to opportunities and can feel a sense of belonging. She is learning about allyship and how to embody it and enable it in others. She recently started the Inclusion Book Club to take a step in that direction. Her rich and complex experience; from small startups to the giants like Google, LinkedIn and Apple, points to a common need for tools and practices that foster compassion and psychological safety at work. By normalizing and rewarding these values in business, we may unlock potential to tackle some of humanity’s greatest challenges. Heather has a regular meditation and mindfulness practice and prioritizes time in nature, community and contemplation.
Space Steward, Unconference Sessions
Ian is a platform / protocol engineer with over a decade of experience building and managing distributed infrastructure. He takes a particular focus on the ethical and social aspects of what he is building, and is an expert in new decentralized, privacy preserving identity and data storage solutions like Decentralized Identifiers, Verifiable Credentials, and Social Linked Data. He participates in the Secure Data Storage working group of the Decentralized Identity foundation, and is passionate about building technical tools and standards that help communities and individuals manage and share their data in a way that promotes consent and autonomy. He is currently building a more cooperative web Mysilio Co.
Creative Director
Ira is a designer with a focus on branding for emerging technologies.
Always being on a mission to “made new tech look beautiful and human” she made her way from traditional advertising for huge retail brands to software development for German and Nordic tech scenes, to — since early 2018 — designing for decentralized web.
These days she helps Web3 creators connect with their early adopters through the language of share and color. Additionally to her work on brand development at Jolocom and DWeb, she organizes (occasional) DWebDesign meetups in Berlin.
Space Steward of Universal Access Amphitheater
Jackson Morgan is the founder of O.team, a consulting firm focused on the decentralized storage network, Solid.
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Space Steward of AI Thinktank
John Kelly has facilitated hundreds of workshops and meetings to help clients understand and make decisions about complex issues. Recently he has been an advisor to CivicMakers.com and Topicquests.org. He worked as a trainer/consultant for Global Business Network, teaching and curating content for their Asking Better Questions course. He adapts and applies methods from Future Mapping, Metaplanning, Liberating Structures, deliberative juries and budget games to help teams collaborate on difficult issues.
AI Track, Curator, Metagov
Josh is executive director of Metagov, and a computer scientist and mathematician at Oxford and Stanford.
Space Steward of Hackers hall
Joy is a cross-cultural designer, engineer, and entrepreneur whose latest work of passion is BLOOP - the decentralized social search engine. Her background is in mechanical engineering, industiral design, and cross disciplinary design from Georgia Tech, Royal College of Art, and Imperial College London. More about her previous projects and art here: https://joyqzhang.com
Head Weaver
Tlingit, forest person, engineer, and activist. Working on environmental data justice and communities' right to know about and be protected from toxics in their environment. Moonlighting as data director for a universal healthcare ballot initiative. Always interested in how tech tools shift the balance of power.
Associate Producer
void temporarily made human
Director of Fellowships
Mai Ishikawa Sutton is founder of COMPOST magazine, contributor at Hypha Worker Co-operative, and an organizer and writer focused on the intersections of human rights, solidarity economics, and digital commons. They were a steward/community organizer with the People's Open Network, DWeb Camp 2019 Associate Producer, and Digital Commons Fellow with Commons Network. Formerly, they were the Community Engagement Manager at Shareable. Before that they were with the Electronic Frontier Foundation advocating for the public interest in international intellectual property policy.
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Space Steward of Thunder Salon
I am a freelancer that specializes in fullstack Rust and TypeScript blockchain development. Looking for projects at the moment, please contact me through my website. www.matthewjurenka.com
Space Steward of Thunder Salon
Steward, Design Track Organiser
ngọc triệu practices design and research as an intervention to address and reform asymmetrical power relations through the lenses of decoloniality and decentralization. Her work focuses on the intersection of human-centred design, digital rights, and public-interest technology. ngọc is passionate about user advocacy, co-creation, and equal access to knowledge. Whether she is distilling data into insights that inform design decisions or developing a new UX pattern for distributed systems, ngọc collaborates closely with tech funders, designers, developers, and researchers to ensure usability, security, and safety for marginalised and vulnerable communities.
Currently, ngọc works as a design researcher at Superbloom (previously known as Simply Secure), a design non-profit that leverages design as a transformative practice to shift power in the tech ecosystem. She's also a maintainer of Decentralization, Off the Shelf, an initiative focused on creating resources and providing design support for practitioners in decentralization.
Space Steward of People-2-People Tent, Software Engineer
Raphael Gonzalez is a software engineer, researcher, artist, and AI enthusiast. He likes to look at the intersection of subjects and see what can be done there to improve technology for everyone. As an artist and AI enthusiast, he’s interested in how generative AI and artists will develop together, and thinks about ways to trace generated output to source material in the training data
Space Steward of Overflow Stack, metagov
riley wong researches distributed cooperatives and community governance models, with interests in public goods and the commons, solidarity economies, peer-to-peer systems, interdependence, and emergence. they’re also exploring applied cryptography and privacy preserving identity systems.
they have previous lives in machine learning at google, investigative journalism at propublica, and qtbipoc community organizing. they are based in nyc and enjoy painting, making music, building synthesizers, and writing.
Curator
Roxi is a regenerative artivist, protopian futurist, ontological designer, experiential producer, transdisciplinary social sculptor and creative doula. She is a student of living systems, regenerative design and decolonial sustainability. She has over 15 years of experience working at the intersection of art, science, experience and technology. Her mission is to harness this intersectional approach to catalyze social and systemic change through inclusive, transdisciplinary collaborations for the regeneration of our planet and culture. Her path is grounded in a commitment to creating inspiring and embodied ways of learning together. As behavior is a function of culture - she supports and develops creative cultural interventions and co-learning evolutionary containers. Her thesis is rooted in a belief that as we perpetuate equitable and just cultures, societal behaviors participating in life affirming ways of being will emerge in that process. As we are facing a crisis of imagination, Roxi’s efforts encourage collective imagination beyond the limits of the plausible and probable into the possible in service to the potential of a world where all life thrives at the expense of none. She is a deep believer and practitioner in designing for states of being, having those states of being prime us for connection, reparations and regeneration with ourselves, each other and our beautiful living planet.
Code of Conduct Team & Website Engineer
Tracey Jaquith is a founding engineer and system architect for Internet Archive since 1996, writing multi-threaded servers, crawlers, and more. She wrote the “what’s related” services that ultimately led to Alexa Internet’s acquisition by Amazon. An inventor with two patents, she is the Archive’s longest tenured employee after founder, Brewster Kahle.
In 2000, Jaquith left for four years to be the technical lead and founding engineer at a financial startup focusing on more efficiently trading convertible bonds.
Recently, Jaquith rewrote Internet Archive’s TV recording system as an open source single server system, capable of preserving 75 simultaneous 24×7 channels, and developed the Television Archive’s “full stack” first and second versions. For more than a decade, Jaquith held primary responsibility for archive.org and its full stack infrastructure, later launching a fully responsive “Version 2” of the archive.org website —migrating to jQuery, bootstrap, LESS, modern faceting, ElasticSearch, postgreSQL and more. She is leading the core infrastructure migration to Docker for archive.org’s in-house AWS and S3-like system. Open Libraries services will rest upon the infrastructure Jaquith is designing.
Jaquith’s first job was at Xerox PARC, writing core low-level C-language image processing and comparison algorithms using novel computational geometry based on research from her Master’s degree.
Jaquith holds a Master’s and Bachelor’s in Computer Science from Cornell University where she focused on machine vision, robotics and mathematics. Jaquith presents at conferences (Demuxed 2016, MozFest) and is a regular guest lecturer at colleges about news and broadcast technologies.
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Space Steward of Mycelium Pavilion, Sillyz.Computer
TyChi is an internet artist. Like Spider-Man, he slings web stuff.
His in progress work is best compared to the film Monsters, Inc.. A bit spoilery, but the flick charts the progression of two societies living in a dystopia and their path towards a utopia. The monsters use the fear of the innocent to power their burgeoning, swanky society. In the end, it turned out that laughter was the best medicine and the humans no longer needed to be afraid of the artificially scary monsters.
The current state of this work is a blog that outlines what it is like living in a society fueled by fear-induced machines powered by greed. The ending is being written in real-time, but it should be all of us laughing the "Metaverse" into the ground if these clowns want to seriously take the world wide web on for a second round.
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Space Steward of Treehouse
Viktor works with all manners of technology in service to planetary regeneration. He runs a coop in his home village hosting a co-working space, doing events and running a mushroom farm. He's very excited to bring distributed techonologies and especially sovereign adaptable digital group spaces into the organisations he is working with. He has been active in the Holochain community for about 5 years and is currently developing software through darksoil.studio
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DWeb Camp Event Producer
Wendy Hanamura is the producer of DWeb Camp. She was the master juggler of the DWeb Camp 2019, 2022, Decentralized Web Summits 2018 and 2016.
She is a storyteller for social change.
As Director of Partnerships at the Internet Archive, Hanamura uses her communication skills as a veteran journalist and leader in non-profit media to share the remarkable mission of the Internet Archive—providing people everywhere with unfettered access to knowledge.
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Space Steward of Hackers Hall
Will Howes is a Computer Science major at Reed College. He is a recurring volunteer at the Aaron Swartz Day International Hackathon and presented his experience with high school activism at the 2021 event. Will is excited to facilitate participation and engagement in the DWeb community and to make more friends in along the way. In his free time, Will likes to go for runs and read, among other things, the plot summaries of movies on Wikipedia.
Space Steward of Bluelight Barn, ArtsEd4All
Sifu Young Wong is a disciple of Hung Sing Style Choy Lee Fut. Choy Lee Fut, one of the most popular styles among full contact fighters throughout Asia, was founded over 150 years ago by Chan Heung in Gung Mui, China. Hung Sing Choy Lee Fut practitioners were instructed in the skills of defensive warfare and spiritual discipline.
Young studied both Wing Chun, (direct lineage from Ip Man, reknowned Chinese martial artist and grandmaster of the martial art Wing Chun), as well as Choy Lee Fut (under Sifu E.Y. Lee, direct lineage from Grand Master Lau Bun, who is credited with bringing Choy Li Fut to America) Sifu Young's name has been entered in the Shaolin Temple and in the Choy Lee Fut origination temple in China. Young is also a retired architect and enjoys woodworking now.
Coming
Wendy Hanamura Internet Archive |
Bryn Bellomy | Jay Carpenter Desert Blockchain LLC |
Joseph Lacey | Kate Sills Software Engineer |
Michael Dougherty Holochain core developer |
Nigini Oliveira | Carl Gorringe | Michael Emel StreetwearDAO | RegensDAO |
Gabriel Chartier | Jackson Morgan O.team |
Rob Morris funDAOmental |
Seph Gentle Replica |
Steven Elleman | Christine Lemmer-Webber Spritely Institute, CTO |
Morgan Lemmer-Webber Digital Bazaar |
Ese DWeb Team |
Jonathan Bryant |
Noah Chon Lee | Michael Toomin Invisible College |
Christy |
Rich Bodo | Cindy Chu | Guo Liu Matters Lab |
Sandro Hawke |
Joy Zhang
BLOOP, backed by Filecoin Techstars
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Theodore Keloglou Chaitin School
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Hackerm0m / aleatoric_ops (Meredith) |
Limari Navarrete Decentralized Identity Foundation
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Xiaowei Wang
Logic School
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Golda Velez
3Box/Ceramic, Cooperation.org
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Steven McKie
Managing Director/Researcher at Amentum Capital
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Byoengjun Moon
Mainstream Labs
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jiangplus
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Alexis Rossi
Code of Conduct Team and Director at Internet Archive
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Jason Kwon
OpenAI
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Iota Chan
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Jordan Gray
@starpause
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Georgie
Replica
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Nguyen Van lam
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Ty
Sillyz.Computer
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Ira Nezhynska
Protocol Labs
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Oren Robinson
Member, May First Movement Technology Cooperative
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Mary Camacho
Holochain
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Tibet Sprague
Hylo & the Collaborative Technology Alliance
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mariah villarreal
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Erik Duemig |
Sarah Ingle
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phước hữu nguyễn (kev)
Potluck - Hoài Nam, Relinquish
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mark seiden
Internet Archive, Columbia University
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Trav Fryer
Autonomic Cooperative
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May Wang |
John N. Kelly
Deliberative Design
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Nicholas Brigham Adams
Goodly Labs, Public Editor, Atlanta HEARTH
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Stephanie Asmar
Clovyr
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Wesley Merkel
Clovyr
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Rishi Balakrishnan
Software Engineer at Oasis Labs
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Holmes Wilson
Quiet (tryquiet.org)
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mai ishikawa sutton
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Antonia Bustamante
enflujo.com
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Brynn O'Donnell
Filecoin Foundation for the Decentralized Web
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Kaitlin Donovan
Filecoin Foundation for the Decentralized Web
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Harlan Wood
TrustGraph / CoreNexus / Holochain
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Arkadiy Kukarkin
Internet Archive
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Megan Prelinger
Prelinger Archives
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Rick Prelinger
Prelinger Archives
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Bruce Baumgart
Retired; former Internet Archive Employee; Stanford A.I.Lab 1970s archivisit
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John Ryan
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Mary Lou Jepsen
CEO & Founder of Openwater (www.openwater.cc)
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Brewster Kahle
Internet Archive
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Mary Austin
SF Center for the Book
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ngọc triệu
Superbloom | Decentralization, Off the Shelf
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Chad O
Aha Labs
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Danny O'Brien
FFDW
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Jean-François Noubel
HOLO
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Peter Van Garderen
Orcfax
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Lia Holland
Campaigns and Communications Director at Fight for the Future
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Willem Wyndham
Co-founder Aha Labs
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Greg Slepak
okTurtles Foundation Inc.
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Stefan Magdalinski
Senior Tech Lead, Filecoin Foundation
|
Kelsey Breseman
Environmental Data & Governance Initiative
|
F. Randall Farmer
ED, Spritely Networked Communities Institute
|
Silona Bonewald
|
Brian Behlendorf
|
Kurt Opsahl
Filecoin Foundation
|
Clara Tsao
Filecoin Foundation
|
Olivia Sigler
Filecoin Foundation
|
Meghan Gavis
Filecoin Foundation
|
Jia (Carol) Xu
Co-founder of The Present Of Work
|
Mark Hechim
|
Megan Klimen
Filecoin Foundation and Filecoin Foundation for the Decentralized Web
|
Marta Belcher
Filecoin Foundation and Filecoin Foundation for the Decentralized Web
|
Rock Zhan
Founder of VPN3.io
|
Ian Davis
Filecoin Foundation, Mysilio
|
Hunter Treseder
Head of Social Impact Programs, Filecoin Foundation
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Christian M. Koch
Landano
|
Eric Harris Braun
Holochain/Holo
|
Catherine Stihler
Creative Commons CEO
|
Matthew Jurenka
Freelance Blockchain Developer at www.matthewjurenka.com
|
John Kunze
ARK Alliance
|
Santiago Bazerque
Hyper Hyper Space
|
Marlene Ronstedt
Hyper Oracle
|
Julio Monteiro
Neighbourhoods
|
Emaline Friedman
Neighbourhoods
|
Wesley Finck
Neighbourhoods
|
Farley
Noisebridge, Open Knowledge Map
|
Coelti (Poet)
|
Xin Liu
Builder at Planetable.xyz
|
Yi Han
Designer at Planetable.xyz
|
Sid Sthalekar
Neighbourhoods
|
BZ Petroff
Internet Archive
|
Matt Zumwalt
Tergar Institute
|
Josh Ford
NEAR Protocol
|
Benedict Lau
Hypha Worker Co-operative
|
Yurko Jaremko
Hypha Worker Co-operative
|
Andi Argast
Hypha Worker Co-operative
|
Cameron Fyfe
Hypha Worker Cooperative
|
Kathryn Bates
Del Sol Quartet
|
Charlton Lee
Del Sol Quartet
|
Hyeyung Sol Yoon
Del Sol Quartet
|
Benjamin Kreith
Del Sol Quartet
|
Ryan Betts
Fission
|
Carrie
Okthanks
|
John
Guardian Project
|
Tiff
Guardian Project
|
Chris Lewis
Public Knowledge
|
Jenny Fan
Metagov
|
Mark Graham
|
Travis Vachon
Mysilio + web3.storage
|
Tani Olhanoski
Mysilio
|
Laurie Penny
Chaotic Good
|
Tom Voltz
UsefulBots
|
Spencer Chang Independent Researcher
|
Ronen Tamari
Common SenseMakers | Hebrew University of Jerusalem
|
bengo
|
Gia Luna Goering-Moran
|
Kelly Neuner
Design Futures Initiative & SheFi
|
Kathy Ketman
|
James Baicoianu
Stability.ai
|
Cent Hosten
Metagov
|
Trevor Grant
Read Write Own
|
Nathan Ray
Read Write Own
|
Renate Hennig
|
Luke Miller
Metagov
|
Jamie Joyce
Internet Archive / Society Library
|
Dazza Greenwood
Civics.com & law.MIT.edu
|
Will Howes
Reed College '23
|
Tim Glorioso
|
Mark Nadal
https://gun.eco
|
Aslan Nadal
|
Rocklin Nadal
|
Henry
CTO of RSS3
|
Anni
Cofounder of RSS3
|
Atlas
Cofounder of Crossbell
|
Humphrey Obuobi
LETS Studio
|
Antoine McGrath
|
Denise Duncan
Amplica Labs. Contributors to DSNP and Frequency.
|
Wes Biggs
Amplica Labs. Contributors to DSNP and Frequency.
|
Alice Scope
Vellum LA
|
Nick Sweeting
ArchiveBox.io founder
|
Rithikha Rajamohan
V6A Collaborative
|
Dan Finlay
MetaMask
|
Tomasz Kolinko
|
Joyce Searls
Ostrom Workshop, Indiana University
|
Doc Searls
Ostrom Workshop, Indiana University
|
Jack Cushman
Harvard Library Innovation Lab
|
Sawood Alam
Research Lead, Wayback Machine, Internet Archive
|
Val (she/they)
Metagov, Lips/Reliabl
|
riley wong
staff research scientist at metagov
|
Vlad Grichina
web4 hacker
|
Guillem Córdoba
darksoil studio
|
Heather Hurford
|
Ajay tallam, regeneration pollination
|
Brenton Cheng
Internet Archive
|
Teo Cheng
University of Washington
|
Joshua Tan
Metagov
|
David Thompson
Spritely Institute
|
Krista
Storj
|
Kevin
Storj
|
Dominick
Storj
|
John
Storj
|
Barry Threw
Gray Area
|
Christina Bowen
Socialroots
|
Nicole Klau Ibarra
The IKIGAI Project
|
Garrett Young
The IKIGAI Project
|
Roxi Shohadaee
Gray Area, habRitual, Design Science Studio
|
Zacchae
Synaptics
|
Alex Toutant
|
Matthew Schutte
Holochain
|
Tatiana Tarasova
|
Matt
Verse Communications : Nos.Social / Planetary
|
Shaina
Verse Communications : Planetary / Nos.Social
|
Duke Jones
Holochain DPKI (Deepkey)
|
Meredith Pallante
Filecoin Foundation
|
Philliph Drummond
Superbloom Design
|
Kegan Dougal
Matrix.org
|
Yilan Huang |
Travis F W
BaseParadigm.com
|
Ilya Kreymer
Webrecorder
|
Tessa Walsh
Webrecorder
|
Ed Summers
Webrecorder
|
Henry Wilkinson
Webrecorder
|
Sua Yoo
Webrecorder
|
Lorena Ramirez-Lopez
Webrecorder
|
Collin McClain
Writer and Researcher - Holo / Holochain
|
Paul d'Aoust
Writer and Developer - Holo / Holochain
|
Mark Franks
Head of Developer Relations - Holo / Holochain
|
Cody Harris
Seattle Community Network
|
Allison Duettmann
Foresight Institute
|
Eugene Leventhal
Metagov
|
Matt
vlcn.io
|
Esther Jang
University of Washington / Seattle Community Network / Local Connectivity Lab
|
Parker McCurley
Co-Founder, Decent
|
Nicolaus Sherrill
Design Workstream Leader, Decent
|
Chris Dancy
Software Engineer, Decent
|
Ashley Caines
Contributor, Decent
|
Sam Liebeskind
New Public
|
Joe Thornton
|
Dmitri Zagidulin,
DecentSocial Conference, MIT DCC, W3C SWICG
|
Sergio Valdes Garcia
Copincha co-founder
|
Jim Fournier
JLINC Labs
|
Surya Kramer
Tru
|
Ryan Taylor
|
Zachary Larson
|
Janna Frenzel
|
Timid Robot
Creative Commons
|
Hayley Anna
Blockchain Law for Social Good Center
|
Carmen Liang
VPN3.io
|
Mikayla Maki
Zed
|
Ross Schulman
Electronic Frontier Foundation
|
Tim Glorioso
|
Kumavis
metamask
|
Adit Dhanushkodi |
Andi Wong
ArtsEd4All
|
Young Wong
ArtsEd4All
|
Hester Bruikman
|
Colten Jackson
Lookalive Software
|
Bryan Newbold
Bluesky
|
Cooperative Security
|
Ravon ruffin
Head of community initiatives new public
|
Aza Raskin
Co-Founder, Earth Species Project & Center for Humane Technology
|
Justin F. Knoll
|
Neighbourhoods
|
Philip Rosedale
Second Life
|
Aldo Kempen
|
Arun Mannuru
|
Jonny Howle
|
Sarah Philips
Fight for the Future
|
Andrea Mills
Executive Director, Internet Archive Canada
|
Louisa Cohen
Communications and Partnerships Coordinator, Internet Archive Canada
|
Aaron Brodeur
Holochain, Hylo
|
Verse Communications PBC: Nos Social + Planetary
|
Viktor Zaunders
darksoil.studio
|
Val S. K.
Future Proof
|
Ferananda Ibarra
Director Commons Engine
https://bio.link/ferananda
|
Rob Christopher
|
Ali Nazari |
Rand Marsh
Founder, GoldAR
|
Liz Sweigart
|
Andrew Chou
Digital Democracy + Manyverse
|
Anh Le
|
Seph Gentle
|
Subhashish Panigrahi
O Foundation
|
Amber Gallant
iSchool at the University of British Columbia
|
Alexander Green
Persona
|
Sarah Grant
Radical Networks, Weise7 Berlin
|
Kanyon CoyoteWoman
Indian Canyon Nation + KKLLC
|
Tatsuya Sato
|
Tommi
|
Josh Stroud
Software Engineer, Code for America
|
Bret Warshawsky
|
Alan Ransil
|
Yavuz Selim Kıyak
Gazi University Faculty of Medicine
|
Gonzalez
|
Jacky Zhao
Independent Researcher |
Mix - Āhau
Scuttlebutt |
fauno (he/him, Sutty)
|
Alex (they/she)
Holochain community member
|
Liz Steininger
Least Authority
|
Qianqian Ye
|
Ael
g0v contributor
|
Jason Morton
Zkonduit
|
Camille Nibungco
|
James Gondwe
Centre for Youth and Development
|
Nicolás Pace
Association for Progressive Communications
|
Luisa Bagope
MarLu Creations
|
Brad DeGraf
Nao.is
|
Saqib Sheikh
Project Director, Rohingya Project
|
Rez Khan
|
Eric Bear
Holochain, darksoil studio, dWeb Labs
|
Barbara Gonzalez Segovia
Digital Democracy
|
Leo Glisic
Founder & CEO, Maitri Network
|
Lawrence Wang
|
Scott Garrison
|
Paul Krafel
|
Benson Tilya
Saving Africa's Nature
|
Peersky Browser
|
Sheley Gomes
Intervozes
|
Glenn Poppe
meem
|
Wendy Seltzer
Tucows
|
Norbu Snow Shiva
|
Shiyi Mu
|
Maurice Haedo Sanabria
Co-founder of Copincha
|
David Phillips
|
Stacco Troncoso.
DisCO.coop. Co-founder, worker-owner
|
Blake Stoner
Founder of the Vngle Grassroots News Agency & Fellow at Stanford & USC's Starling Lab for Data Integrity
|
Anna Yelizarova
Future of Life Institute
|
Rebecca Ackerman
|
Charles E. Lehner
Long Island - New York
|
Peter 'ribasushi' Rabbitson
|
Yilan Huang
|
Grant Gallo
eQaulitie
|
Limari Navarrete
Sr. Director of Community Engagement - Decentralized Identity Foundation
|
Nicolas Luck
co-founder of AD4M & Coasys
|
Josh Parkin
co-founder AD4M & Flux & Coasys
|
B Cavello
Aspen Digital
|
Rob Lach
Love Computing
|
Ali Nolin
|
Christian Tschudin
University of Basel, Switzerland
|
Homin Luo
|
Arthur Brock
Holochain
|
Timo Carlin-Burns
Holochain
|
Robert WebQ
|
Marcela Guerra
PSP and AudioNovella community studio
|
Risper Arose
|
Lindsay Walker
|
Brandon King
|
Isa Herico-Velasco
|
Christopher Velasco
|
Dinesh
janastu bangalore
|
Xin Xin
|
Chia Amisola
Developh / Philippine Internet Archive
|
Regina Harsanyi
(Associate Curator of Media Arts, Museum of the Moving Image)
|
Rob Keizer
|
Christian Tschudin
University of Basel, Switzerland
|
Muhammad Noor
Rohingya Project
|
Wade Wallerstein
Gray Area
|
Calum Bowden
Trust
|
Mark Hernandez Motaghy
|
Kelani Nichole Founder
TRANSFER
|
Lia Holland |
Eleanor "Ell" Grano
|
Gabrielle Mullins
|
Hannah Parkin
|
Mara Abrams
Social Innovation
|
Oscar Sharp
|
Speaker John Ash (Cognicism)
|
Benjamin Life
OpenCivics and Design Science Studio
|
Yisi Liu
|
Amanda Gregory
SBCAST and META Lab
|
Billy Bicket
TechSoup
|
Jonathan Schooler
Meta Lab at UCSB
|
Deborah Tien
Common Agency
|
Mei Lin Fung
People Centered Internet
|
Christian Founder
Trapnstudio
|
Fargol Falahi |
Shane Sandler
BlockShangerous
|
Victor
coolab
|
Peter Wang
Anaconda
|
Tim Courtney
|
Anshul Mathew
Northeastern University
|
Leilani R
🛠️ Builder at The New Computer Corporation (ncc.la)
|
Ruben Rodriguez
GNU / Trisquel
|
David Greenbaum (Mr G)
Singer & Educator
|
Adam Souzis
onecommons.org
|
Noah Chon Lee
viaprize.org
|
Jack Fox Keen
Data Empowerment Lead, The Guardian Project
|
Deger Turan
AI Objectives Institute
|
Stephen Hood
Mozilla
|
Sara Keen
Senior Research Scientist, Earth Species Project
|
Elissa Roy
Earth Species Project
|
Tracey Jaquith
Internet Archive, Founding Coder
|
Stefan Brown
|
Lydia La Roux
Foresight Institute
|
Liz Sweigart
|
Arun Mannuru
|
Andrew Naglestad
TR2000
|
Mek
Open Library @ Internet Archive
|
Althea Allen
Privacy and Scaling Explorations, Ethereum Foundation
|
Peter Allen
|
Caitlin Olson
Internet Archive
|
Renee Barton
|
Darrell Duane
|
Nate Warmann
|
Yilan Huang
CyberConnect & Bali Commune
|
Colin Brauns
|
Afra Wang
|
Michael Grossman
Factr, Collaborative Technology Alliance, ESC.fyi
|
Samuel Oslund
|
Quinn Wilton
Fission
|
Adazz
dDAO
|
Ferananda Ibarra |
Day Waterbury
Consensual Ventures, Collaborative Technology Alliance, ARC Regenerative Communities
|
Jessica Taylor
Researcher at Median Group
|
Marta Chierego
Filmmaker
|
CEO
Orcfax Ltd | Landano International
|
MobileCoin
|
Julian Sutter
Symbio
|
Rosie Campbell
OpenAI
|
Ivan Morales
Product Designer
|