Aayush builds a lot of open source software. He spends time building anonymous proof of email tech (https://prove.email), open source education materials (https://mitsoul.org and https://coursetexts.org), and perceptual hash based image provenance (https://proteus.photos). He also likes neurotech, physics, art tech, and whimsical pranks. He also has a smol blog at https://blog.aayushg.com, with fun cryptography breakdowns and movie/travel recs.

Aleksandar is working in the intersection of environmental psychology, urban planning, and web3 - by researching, building, and systematizing distributed collaboration

Alex Zhang is strongly passionate about research and activism in the areas of censorship measurement and circumvention. Over the past five years, the work he led has helped millions of users in China and Iran to bypass various emerging censorship challenges during politically sensitive periods of time. His work has thus received media coverage and several awards: the IMC 2020 Best Paper Runner-up, the 2023 Best Practical Paper Award from the FOCI community, First Place in the CSAW 2023 Applied Research Competition, and the IETF/IRTF Applied Networking Research Prize in 2024. Additionally, Zhang has been contributing to the GFW Report (website: https://gfw.report, twitter: https://twitter.com/gfw_report), an English and Chinese website focused on studying and understanding censorship incidents in China.

Alex is a multidisciplinary professional with over 20 years of experience working on six continents. Prior to eQualitie, Alex launched and led Amazon’s Worldwide Public Sector Innovation Studio and was a Senior Advisor in the White House, where he led national initiatives in sustainability, technology modernization and identity management. He is also a multiple-time founder of award-winning sustainable agriculture companies working to support food security around the world. His passion is using emerging technology to help make the world more equitable and sustainable for all living things.

Alicia Guo is an artist and poet based in Seattle, currently pursuing a PhD working on creativity support tools. She is interested in text as a medium, agentic interactions in a poetic web, and expanding human creativity. Her computational poems have appeared in Taper, The HTML Review, and Crawlspace. (https://www.aliciaguo.com/)

For the last 20 years Alli has helped technology companies get to the core of who they are, then designed thoughtful strategies for them to captivate both new and existing audiences. Her wide variety of creative skills and experience sing in the space where strategy, language, and product experience meet. At DWeb, she will be sharing a side project called The Present Moment Game, a social medication experience that asks people to shed the past and the future and relate to one another squarely in the here/now.

wanderer and apprentice since birth, ana is an attention artivist who holds space for regenerative experiences, or attention sanctuaries, in the thresholds between the critique of the current attention economy, design for regenerative cultures, self-directed learning communities and initiation towards adult responsibility.

their authoral project ‘attentē’ is a platform for the evolution of the Being, where they magnetize attentionauts around practices of selfless centering, relational sensitivity and archetypal literacy so that we can reclaim our attention as the powerful resource it is to catalyze our next step in bringing more conditions to life. they offer talks, facilitations and consultancy for social and corporate organizations that want to play a different game.

as part of the producing team for Dweb+CoolabCamp Brazil 2025, they’re applying their experience volunteering and running permaculture and agroecological farms to bring together a potent festival in Brazil that will unite decentralized tech developers for the uses of regenerative farmers and climate resilience activists.

anything regarding solarpunk sci-fi, hiking, futurism, spirituality, decolonialism, dancing and many more will be a thrill to talk and jam about!

I like building things with emergent properties. Decentralized Web Camp family. My wife Shwetha Rao is also a steward here and running a few events. Say hi to either of us and don't be shy! Chair of the Technical Steering Committee at Decentralized Identity; Foundation Chair of Decentralized Web Node Working Group at DIF; Lead of the Trust Registry Task Force at Trust Over IP; Founder of DIF Labs; Experienced Founder with multiple startup experiences; Fractional CTO @ Andor Labs.I initially got into the decentralized identity space to solve immigration visas. My work has expanded since then, but my mission to fix how data moves within the immigration process has stayed true.

Andreas is co-founder and core-contributor of the local-first protocol p2panda, member of the band Sun Kit, member of the berlin-based community computing space offline, co-founder of the music label Hyperdelia and the intermedial score platform Y-E-S.

Sometimes he teaches artistic computer practices, recently at UdK Berlin. He studied art history, musicology, media philosophy and computer science in Berlin where he also lives and works.

I’m Ankita (she/her) and I’m into food, farms, nature, design, and tech! I’m an assistant professor at Purdue University, where I’ve run the Agricultural Informatics Lab since 2019. We practice community-driven research, participatory design, and open-source software engineering to support increased resilience in food and farming systems. I grew up in Kenya, Papua New Guinea, Australia, and Fiji, and appreciate that resilient communities and ecologies are both local and interconnected. I came to the U.S. looking to learn more about human-computer interaction to support sustainable development and open knowledge. During graduate school in California and my time working at USDA’s Ag Research Service in Maryland, I found motivation and grounding for my work in agriculture. My areas of expertise now includes: digital tools for small farms, decision support tools for regenerative agriculture, human-centered and ecologically-oriented design, and community-led data+tech stewardship. I advocate for responsible, accessible, and inclusive digital tools in partnership with farmers, researchers, coders, and allies via the Gathering for Open Ag Tech.

Anna (they/them) is an artist and writer based in Tiohtià:ke/Montréal, and Editorial Director of the digital rights org Fight for the Future. They are an MA candidate at McGill University, where their research concerns insurance, risk, and climatic events and is basted (deliciously; too late) in infrastructure studies.

They are interested in dweb for organized and organizing social movements; rigorous accounting for tech's environmental impacts; lifting heavy weights.

Aza is a National Geographic Explorer and co-founder of Earth Species Project, an international nonprofit dedicated to using AI to decode animal communication and transforming how human beings relate to the rest of nature. He is also the co-founder of the Center for Humane Technology, was an architect and subject of the Emmy award winning documentary The Social Dilemma, and is the co-host for the popular podcast Your Undivided Attention. Trained as a mathematician and dark matter physicist, he has taken three companies from founding to acquisition, has been a co-chairing member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Future Council on  Al, briefs heads of state, and helped found Mozilla Labs, in addition to being named FastCompany’s Master of Design, and listed on Forbes and Inc Magazines 30-under-30.

B is an aspiring-polymath and problematic feminist working to better this world. B currently serves as Director of Emerging Technologies at the Aspen Institute where they lead meaningful conversations on responsible stewardship of technology including digital identity, artificial intelligence, decentralized tech, and more. Previously B held roles with the U.S. Senate. Partnership on Al. IBM Watson, and Exploding Kittens.

Batool Almarzouq is a Research Project Manager for AI for Multiple Long-Term Conditions: Research Support Facility (AIM RSF) at the Alan Turing Institute and honorary research fellow position at the University of Liverpool.

Batool advocates for transforming cultural norms to facilitate the adoption of open research practices, tools, and ethos, while addressing the existing power dynamics and inequalities in knowledge production. She believes that Open science is fundamentally about  decolonization by challenging the legacy of settler colonialism, which often marginalized indigenous knowledge systems, and by promoting the integration and respect of these diverse perspectives in the broader scientific discourse. She founded the Open Science community in Saudi Arabia (OSCSA), which introduces and contextualise Open Science practices in Arabic-speaking countries.

Batool is actively engaged as a mentor and governance committee member for  The Open Life Science program. She is also a core contributor to The Turing Way and a member of the Open Science expert group organised by the International Association of Universities (IAU) where she co-develop a new approaches to assessments of and incentives for researchers to engage in Open Science in the Universities.

When she's not coding, Batool loves going on spontaneous road trips to explore new places.

Bendjedid Rachad Sanoussi is a telecom engineer with a contagious enthusiasm for environmental protection. He has been working to provide innovative and sustainable solutions to socio-economic and environmental challenges. Currently, Rachad is pursuing a PhD in digital and artificial intelligence for management.

Rachad is the Technical Lead at Digital Grassroots, a youth-led organization working to increase digital citizenship at the local level. Their Digital Rights Monopoly project has been selected for C/Change's 2nd Creative Research & Development Lab. They developed a virtual platform modeling decentralized power distribution and amplifying marginalized youth voices https://monopoly.digitalgrassroots.org/. Indeed, Rachad has been interested in internet-related issues since 2016. His journey in this field began with a membership of the Internet Society Benin, where he currently serves as Secretary-General and has contributed to several projects https://isoc.bj/internetbj/get-book/, https://digitalgrassroots.org/25-years-of-internet-in-benin-and-its-future.html, https://www.internetsociety.org/blog/2021/06/keeping-the-internet-on-during-benins-presidential-elections/ etc..

At Digital Grassroots, Rachad curated the Community Leaders Program for Internet Advocacy which focuses on using the Internet for democratic participation http://digitalgrassroots.org/community-leaders-for-internet-advocacy.html. He coordinated the working group on universal access and meaningful connectivity for the Project Youth Summit. As an Open Internet Leader, he also collaborated with the AU-EU Digital for Development Hub (D4D Hub) to bring youth voices to the 17th Internet Governance Forum (IGF).
Rachad previously served as an ICT Engineering Support at the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), where he assisted in deploying digital solutions worldwide. He worked as a communication intern at the International Telecommunication Union (ITU). For four years, as a laboratory technician at the University of Abomey-Calavi, he taught and facilitated practical work for students in telecommunications engineering.
Moreover, Rachad is one of the recipients of the Youth Digital Champion (YDC) awards. He also earned the Inaugural Paul Muchene Fellow Award, a tribute to Paul Muchene, an ICANN staff member who dedicated his time and technical expertise to support local and regional projects aimed at enhancing the Internet’s resilience https://www.icann.org/en/announcements/details/icann-announces-recipients-of-the-icann76-fellowship-07-11-2022-en. Rachad strives to advocate for the inclusion of youth perspectives in environmental and digital policies. He aspires to become a policy analyst. He does agriculture, tourism, and plays football as hobbies.

Learn more here https://www.linkedin.com/in/rachadsanoussi/.

Billion is a Taiwanese. She is Cofacts cofounder. She started this project in 2016 and she has been advocating for marriage equality and open freedom, dedicating herself to connecting different communities and providing empowerment courses to combat disinformation. She has previously visited PolitiFact in the United States as a fellowship. She has exchanged and connected contributors from different countries, to collaborate on clarifying information. She manages a community working on OSINT fact-checking skills and media literacy. She likes cakes and cookies.

Botao Amber Hu is a researcher, designer, educator, and creative technologist. He founded and leads Reality Design Lab (https://reality.design), an interdisciplinary research and design lab that focuses on the intersection of philosophy of technology, speculative design, spatial computing, and programmable cryptography. He also serves as a visiting lecturer teaching "Mixed Reality Design" at the China Academy of Art (https://www.caa.edu.cn). His primary focus is on designing experiential futures within collocated mixed reality, democratizing education of mixed reality design, and exploring blockchain-based protocols for artificial life. His works have been featured at top conferences such as SIGGRAPH, CHI, UbiComp, WWW, ALIFE, CHI PLAY, CSCW, SXSW, and TEDx and have received accolades including the SIGGRAPH Best In Show, CHI Best Interactivity Award, Red Dot Design Award, iF Design Award, Webby Awards, A’ Design Awards, and Core77 Design Award. He holds a bachelor's degree in computer science from Tsinghua University and a master's degree in AI from Stanford University.

Brent Shambaugh is a tinkerer and traveller with interests in rocketry, ham radio, and utilizing knowledge management and peer-to-peer technology to enable peer production. More information about him can be found at https://bshambaugh.org

At 2023's DWeb Camp, Chad hosted a discussion called "Scientific Animism: Let's invent a religion!" and then went and created a substack and local meetup based on the ideas generated there. For money Chad helps run a developer experience consultancy called Aha Labs that focuses on WebAssembly blockchains and builds a "Ruby on Rails for decentralized apps" called Loam.

Christopher Lewis is President and CEO at Public Knowledge. Prior to being elevated to President and CEO, Chris served as Public Knowledge’s Vice President from 2012 to 2019 where he led the organization’s day-to-day advocacy and political strategy on Capitol Hill and at government agencies. During that time he also served as a local elected official, serving two terms on the Alexandria City Public School Board. Chris serves on the Board of Directors for the Institute for Local Self Reliance and represents Public Knowledge on the Board of the Broadband Internet Technical Advisory Group (BITAG).

Before joining Public Knowledge, Chris worked in the Federal Communications Commission Office of Legislative Affairs, including as its Deputy Director. He is a former U.S. Senate staffer for the late Sen. Edward M. Kennedy and has over 18 years of political organizing and advocacy experience, including serving as Virginia State Director at GenerationEngage, and working as the North Carolina Field Director for Barack Obama’s 2008 Presidential Campaign and other roles throughout the campaign. Chris graduated from Harvard University with a Bachelors degree in Government and lives in Alexandria, VA where he continues to volunteer and advocate on local civic issues.

Graduated in math, now a professor in Computer Science, especially computer networks. Initiator and developer of tinySSB, a redesign of Secure Scuttlebutt for smartphones and embedded devices with focus on low transmission footprint and working without Internet. His current research project is "Unstoppable computing - how to securely use your computer after it has been compromised, how to outrun the current trend towards device manufacturers being able to veto your code or data, and cloud providers deplatforming you".

Cole is a software developer interested in decentralization, networking, and protocols, currently employed at the Hypha Worker Co-operative.
In the past he has authored various open source projects, and worked on building a mesh network in Toronto.

Colin Rinta Stewart is an agriculturalist of Finnish, Karelian, Scottish, Irish, and English descent who grew up in the Salish Sea. After working for Washington State University as an agricultural extension agent, growing organic grains, and deep diving into Web3, he founded a farmer-owned marketplace for Certified Organic agriculture called Market.Organic. Colin now resides in the Bay Area, where he helps organizations and technology convert to be employee-and-community owned.

I work at Friends of the Earth, an environmental NGO.  Outside of work, you will find me outside hiking/biking/climbing, being active in local campaigns, and being with the intentional housing community I'm helping to start.

Dana Perls is a Senior Food & Agriculture Program Manager with Friends of the Earth, and leads the team’s international and national program on biotechnology and agriculture. She lobbies at the UN Convention on Biodiversity, coordinates a coalition of international leaders in agroecology, as well as a national coalition of scientists and policy experts in AgTech. She has been featured in various outlets, including New York Times, Gaurdian, Washington Post, NPR and Reuters. She has been featured in a Netflix documentary about new genetic technologies. Dana holds a Masters in City Planning from U.C. Berkeley in CA, and a B.A. from Cornell University. She is former Chair and longtime board member and collaborator of Urban Tilth based in Richmond, CA.

Daveed Benjamin is a technologist, patent holder, and author with a BS and MS in Engineering from Stanford. As a “Shift Shaper,” his work focuses on altering systems of consciousness to catalyze the deep shifts that humanity urgently needs. As a founder of Presence Browser and  Bridgit DAO and author of the forthcoming book “metawebbook.com/," Daveed's focus is decentralizing knowledge, protecting cognitive freedom, and building collective intelligence.

Author, The Intention Economy; co-author, The Cluetrain Manifesto • journalist (Linux Journal for 24 years, plus much else) * OG blogger • broadcasting veteran • founnder or co-founder of the Internet identity Workshop (IIW), ProjectVRM and Customer Commons • visiting scholar with the Ostrom Workshop at Indiana University • alumnus fellow of Harvard's Berkman Klein Center and UCSB's CITS • photographer with a massive online library for public use • humorist • just trying to make stuff happen

Eric is Cofounder and CEO of Vero AI, a firm dedicated to understanding and harnessing the power of AI and all algorithms for the benefit of human society. Eric has a Ph.D. in industrial-organizational psychology and is an entrepreneur and consultant with more than two decades of experience working in the technology and staffing industries. An expert in the practical application of artificial intelligence, machine and deep learning, and psychometrics, Eric regularly writes and speaks on these topics, both in the media and at academic and industry conferences, and is the co-author of the book Decoding Talent: How AI and Big Data Can Solve Your Company’s People Puzzle, from the Fast Company Press.

Eric Harris-Braun co-founded Holochain, Holo & the MetaCurrency project, each of which focus on a different layer of technical infrastructure for embodying a new economy. Holochain delivers a massively scalable framework for truly distributed web applications, which Holo uses to provide HoloFuel a value-stable currency backed by the productive capacity of web hosting, while the MetaCurrency project delves deep into the post-monetary currency designs to foster a more thrivable world.

Erik Suhonen is the Head of Ecosystem for Project Liberty Institute.

Project Liberty is creating a better internet. We are ushering in tech built to provide data agency, governance and economics to everyone. More at https://www.projectliberty.io

Core to this is the Decentralized Social Networking Protocol (DSNP). DSNP enables universal and interoperable social layers. It is free, open, permissionless and properly governed. Learn more: https://dsnp.org

Project Liberty was launched in 2021 with a $500 million commitment by founder and civic entrepreneur Frank McCourt, Jr.: https://www.mccourt.com

Erik is leading the ecosystem globally, including protocols, growth/grant programs and DSNP stewardship (ethics, spec, ecosystem, governance and standardization) with DSNP Advisors.

He is also a highly accomplished and growth-focused tech executive with global experience in partnerships, business development, ecosystem, operations, marketing, and product management. He has proven aptitude for blockchain / web3 / crypto / decentralization, identity, ecommerce, social, SaaS, and advertising, working in organizations ranging from startup to Fortune 500.
 

Erik is the vice president of engineering at Freedom of the Press Foundation. Prior to joining FPF, Erik worked on many free and open projects. Chief among them was the Wikimedia Foundation, where he was a volunteer, board member, and executive, and helped build the organization into the free culture powerhouse it is today.

Evan Hahn is a back-end developer at Awana Digital (FKA Digital Democracy), building the infrastructure powering CoMapeo. He's passionate about using software to shift the balance of power. Prior to his work at Awana Digital, Evan worked for Signal building free, private, and secure messaging software. Evan is originally from Silicon Valley and now lives in beautiful Chicago.

​Evan leads Atlas Computing, a nonprofit mapping and prototyping ways to scale human review and provable safety of advanced AI.  He previously venture studio designing and deploying new coordination systems for humanity, as well as the building the research grants and metascience team at Protocol Labs (the company that initially created IPFS and Filecoin).  He completed a PhD in Applied Physics at Caltech, developing hardware for a secure quantum internet, and a BS in Materials Engineering from Stanford.

My work and activism is focused on investigating, re-thinking, adapting, modifying and implementing resilient technologies, specially autonomous, collectivelly managed infrastructure.

I've been involved in free software and hacktivist communities since 2007, with a special interest in the intersection of technology and grassroots organization. This lead me to work on technology development from intersectional, trans-feminist, anti-opressive, decolonial, grassroots perspectives, along with many friends and folks.

In the last six years I've been working almost exclusively on resilient web sites using Jekyll and developing a platform for updating and hosting them called Sutty.

In 2016, Frankie plunged into software development,
discovering that key management could be the magic wand for login simplicity and
identity verification. While wandering through P2P protocol land, she attempts to master
the tech for the epic quest towards self-sovereign identity. Meanwhile, she
transformed from a cyber nomad to a mostly stationary solarpunk in the jungle.

Gabriel is a digital nomad web dev, UX designer, researcher, information architect, generalist, and nonstop learner hyperfocused on patterns, language, systems, information, and sensemaking.

Currently designing and building for Orcfax, and co-incepting Seption.

Glenn is co-founder of catalog.fyi, a professional network for book people built lovingly on top of the Open Library.  Previously he made collaborative publishing tools for DAOs, built labs products to combat screen time addiction, and worked in impact VC.  Glenn lives in Oakland with a critical theorist, a kiddo, and two land seals.  He loves book recommendations so tell him what you've loved reading recently when you see him.

Greg Slepak is the Chief Turtle at the okTurtles Foundation, a 501(c)(3) non-profit focused on supporting beneficial decentralization technologies. His focus is on helping ordinary individuals stay safe and secure, both digitally and financially. You can find him on the Fediverse and twitter.

I'm an open technology advocate and cofounder of Our Sci.  Our goal is to support community-driven science through software, hardware, and training.  I've worked on previous open science projects in both hardware (MultispeQ), software (PhotosynQ), and chemical engineering (in the DIY Biodiesel movement way back in the day).  I also help organize open source communities, like the Gathering for Open Science Hardware and the Gathering for Open Ag Tech.

Media artist, filmmaker, MA in Digital Narratives at Internationale Filmschule Köln.
I'm working on Fractopus to interconnect content on the Internet.
My works as a contemporary artist.

Hannah Scott is Research Manager of Gray Area. Scott’s research practice focuses on how artists have engaged with and helped shape the rise of computing. This work has found outlets in her Stanford University honors thesis on the 1960s environmental art group Pulsa and in her stewardship of media theorist Gene Youngblood’s archive. Scott has also led research projects for Transformations of the Human (ToftH) and managed exhibitions for Ars Electronica Festival.

Hudson is a Protocol Engineer passionate about decentralization, worker ownership, and governance design. He has been involved with developing many DAOs with various models and is currently developing Poa, a no code DAO builder geared towards orgs that are fully owned by the community and not by capital. Hudson hopes to build a space for founders interested in community ownership to experiment and innovate with new governance models.

Jack Fox Keen is a first year PhD student in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering and UC Santa Cruz, in the Artificial Intelligence Explainability and Accountability (AIEA) Lab under the tutelage of Dr. Leilani H. Gilpin. Their research focuses on explainable artificial intelligence for psychological and sociological applications, such as suicide prevention and human rights activism. They hold a bachelors of science from Florida Student University for both Scientific Computing and Biomathematics. As an activist, Jack Fox Keen has been involved with a variety of organizations, including Science for the People, Food Not Bombs, and the Tech Workers Coalition. They have also worked for the Guardian Project for 3 years as the data scientist for ProofMode, working with the Content Authenticity Initiative (CAI) and other organizations on verifiable photo provenance.

Jarod Holtz wears many hats. At Holochain he has been responsible for crowdfund campaigns, training initiatives, product delivery, team culture building, event curation, managing content creation, and more. After a decade analyzing open source intelligence data, he sees the need for profound systemic shifts in every sphere to empower and connect people in deeper collaboration. As a constantly self-integrating individual, he brings the breadth of his experience to group design, facilitation, and collective learning.

Jesus Torres brings decades of experience working at the intersection of entertainment, technology, and US Latino culture. He is the co-founder and CEO of Entidad, a social impact startup helping organizations scale their reach and impact with underserved communities.

John is a physicist-turned analyst, and entrepreneur who has focused on building solid quantitative analyses into useful and inspiring narratives. First, as a student/activist, this meant the first data for Anti-Apartheid Movement’s divestiture strategy. Subsequently, a career building long-term strategies for companies in telecom and semiconductor technologies.
The Sustainable Development Initiative, a project of theidi.org, aims to establish a credible basis for reflecting the true cost of capitalism for the planet and society by using emerging technology to allow for the construction of accurate narratives and the development of a “sandbox” where global citizens can collaborate, experiment, and iterate on solutions to humanity’s most pressing problems.

Juan Cruz is a Systems and Computer Engineering. His journey with community networks began over two years ago when he joined Red Fusa Libre (https://www.redfusalibre.org/). What started as a quest for knowledge and a desire to contribute has grown into a deep passion for connecting marginalized communities with the world.His dedication to community networks stems from having witnessed firsthand the transformative impact of Internet access in underserved areas. Through his work at Colnodo, he has participated in the implementation and support of various community-driven initiatives across Colombia. These experiences have not only strengthened his technical skills but have also taught him invaluable lessons in empathy, collaboration, and resilience.

Kaitlin Donovan is a dedicated Social Impact Program Manager, currently leading the cultural preservation, education, and policy award portfolios at the Filecoin Foundation for the Decentralized Web. With a passion for leveraging technology and deploying resources for positive change, Kaitlin brings a wealth of experience to her role, having previously served as a Grants Officer leading the Donor Services team at Silicon Valley Community Foundation.

Kaliya Young is a public interest technologist, widely known as Identity Woman. In 2017, she graduated from the first cohort of the Masters of Science in Identity Management and Security program at the University of Texas at Austin. Her masters report, Domains of Identity, became a book and is a comprehensive framework explaining all the domains of identity where individuals personal data ends up in databases. She co-authored the Comprehensive Guide to Self-Sovereign Identity. She has spent the last 20 years of her career focused on one thing: supporting the emergence of an identity layer of the internet that works for so they can build thriving communities. In 2005, Kaliya co-founded the Internet Identity Workshop (IIW) to bring together technologists working on making this vision a reality. In the 19 years the IIW community has been meeting, it created standards being used all over the internet, like OpenID Connect and OAuth and an initiation ground for collaborations that have led to multi-million dollar projects. The next generation of standards for decentralized identity is in the process of being adopted by institutions like the European Union via their eIDAS2 initiative, The Government of Bhutan and US Customs and Immigration Service. She spearheaded the use of Open Space Technology for unconferences in the tech industry and co-founded several besides IIW including, She’s Geeky (2007), The UnMoney Convergence (2008), the Thoughtful Biometrics Workshop (2021) and the FediForum (2023).

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Keith is a long-time startup product guy who has turned to health equity and climate concerns, emphasizing decentralization.    He loves discovering and validating opportunities for technology to solve problems, working with designers and engineers, and learning from the users.

He cut his teeth as co-founder or first product manager at several enterprise software startups for development tools, content distribution networks and VR, working with huge corporate and government customers. Some had exits some failed. He learned the consumer side through Palm webOS and LG smart TV, and helped open-source webOS. He partnered with venture studios while at SVB to launch non-banking startups like Bolster (talent) and StartupOS (founder tools) that can help democratize the startup ecosystem.

Most recently he has worked with startups touching health equity and climate.    
- NPS's ""The Family Checkup"" is the lightest-touch evidence-based program for kids mental health, achieved through giving tools and support to parents in vulnerable populations.     Keith drove research into overcoming adoption and deployment barriers in public school systems struggling after covid.   
- Cardiomatica that is bringing insights from long trajectory EHR data which help identify priorities  and measurements for health equity.
- An asia-based startup that is eliminating fraud in renewable energy production using blockchain to issue and track I-REC certification.
- Kids learning differences is a huge challenge for parents, and Keith will be presenting a talk at Dweb camp on a decentralized way to get better outcomes for both kids and parents.

Keith has a B.S.E. in computer science from Princeton and still loves shell scripting.

Kiado Cruz is a leading advocate for digital rights and a passionate promoter of access to information in indigenous languages. His leadership of the Indigital project is a testament to his dedication and vision for a more inclusive and equitable world, where all voices, regardless of language or culture, can be heard and respected.

Krishnan Unnikrishnan’s personal journey to remix oral storytelling tradition through modern technology has thrust him onto an uncharted path of interdisciplinary and emerging mediums including XR, live roleplaying, collaborative ritual-making and generative AI art. Crafting hi-tech make-believe with embodied stagecraft, Krishnan invites you to participate in emergent community experiments for personal and cultural transformation through the sacred power of play. The stories we see are the worlds we weave.

Lia Holland (they/she) is a social artist, writer, and activist in the Pacific Northwestern US. After 13 years in the music industry, Lia now focuses on emerging tech, artists’ rights, and surveillance issues at national digital rights nonprofit Fight for the Future while keeping up a rigorous speculative fiction habit.

Lindsay is the Product Lead at Starling Lab for Data Integrity. Her work at Starling Lab involves executing and implementing the capture, store, verify technology for authenticity and provenance prototypes. She works on product development and implementations with partners in history, law, and journalism. She has worked across a wide range of emerging technologies. She has a broad spectrum of expertise in platform development, programming languages, networks and operating systems, test automation, web3, and technical enablement and training, with a foundation in mathematics and computer education.

Fendji is an Associate Professor in Computer Science at the University of Ngaoundere, Cameroon, and Research Director at Afroleadership. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Bremen, Germany. Post-Ph.D., he collaborated with German cooperation initiatives in Cameroon to establish community networks in the northern regions of the country. With APC funding, he proposed a regulatory framework for community networks in Francophone African countries.
Fendji's recent research interests include artificial intelligence, particularly natural language processing, sustainable agriculture, education, and addressing bias and ethical issues. He collaborated with the Alan Turing Institute on the ADJRP project and held sessions at the Mozilla Festival. In 2021, he facilitated the UNESCO Forum on Youth and AI in Yaoundé.
He has been awarded fellowships at the Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study and the Hamburg Institute for Advanced Study. Fendji is a member of the ICT and AI Commission at the National Committee for Technology Development in Cameroon and mentors in the African track of the Scaling Responsible AI Solutions project led by CEIMIA and GPAI.

Luke Miller is a software engineer and researcher at Metagov and BlockScience currently working on KOI Pond, an infrastructure layer enabling knowledge management across organizations. He graduated from the University of Notre Dame in 2024 with dual degrees in computer science and Chinese. Luke's research focuses on systems design at the intersection of governance, identity, and decentralization. His past work and collaborations include “Building Net-Native Agreement Systems”, “BoxQuest: a decentralized interface for the physical world.”, “Modpol is a Self-Governance Toolkit for Communities in Online Worlds”, and “Towards a participatory digital ethnography of blockchain governance.”

Luke Hogg is the director of policy and outreach at the Foundation for American Innovation  where his work focuses on impact research, educational outreach, and seeding novel solutions in the weeds of policy formation. His research primarily focuses on public policy levers that can be used to encourage the development of a more open, fair, and decentralized digital environment. As the director of outreach, he also leads FAI's efforts to educate policymakers and their staff about a wide variety of issues related to technology and innovation.

As a software developer and sociologist, Marie Kochsiek (she/her) is particularly interested in the intersections between societies, technologies and sexual health. She is an active member of the Heart of Code, a feminist hackspace in Berlin. With a team of 3 she started the drip app, a free and open source period & fertility tracking app.

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.

Named to Time Magazine's 100 Most Influential People and CNN's Top 10 Thinkers; former executive leadership at Facebook, Oculus, Google and Intel. Founded 4 hardware companies including Co-founder and CTO of One Laptop per Child (OLPC). Has shipped many $B of products, Former MIT Professor. 250 published or issued patents. PhD Physics, BSEE Brown U & MSc MIT Media Lab.

Matthew works on Business Development for Holochain, where his team has created a new framework for building truly peer-to-peer applications. Holochain puts each user in control of their data, their applications, and the way those applications connect to one another. This new user centered approach to digital communication enables more innovative and adaptable organizations. Inspired by the design patterns of natural living systems, Holochain applications are faster, more scalable and 10,000 times cheaper than Blockchain approaches. Previously, Matthew served as Director of Communications and later as Applied Philosopher at Holochain.

Prior to Holochain, Matthew graduated from Berkeley Law School, served as the managing director of an angel investment firm, consulted with enterprise companies on creating cultures of innovation, helped design distributed digital identity infrastructures, and for 15 years surfed waves as high as 50 feet tall at the world famous Mavericks in Northern California.

Mei Lin Fung, Co Chair and Co-Founder of the People Centered Internet with Vint Cerf

Mei Lin Fung works on ensuring people and stewarding our planet are at the center of the Internet which is becoming ""the infrastructure that underlies all infrastructures."" As Co-Chair of the People Centered Internet which she co-founded with Vint Cerf in 2015, she calls for building digitally equipped resilient communities. 2024, the ITU invited Mei Lin to speak at the Global Symposium of Regulators in Uganda on “Safe and Inclusive Financial Services”.
With a master’s in management science from MIT, Mei Lin “god-mothered” the development Customer Relationship Management (CRM) at Oracle under Tom Siebel, later growing the CRM online community CRMTalk to 300,000 members in just one year. Her career spans roles as a Financial Analyst at Intel, an Operations Research programmer at Shell, and a socio-technical lead at the US Department of Defense, where she was introduced to Community Health Centers. She served as Chair of the Core Planning Committee for Douglas Engelbart, the inventor of the Computer Mouse. Mei Lin has applied her expertise in math, science, and economics to solve complex issues, such as improving customer satisfaction with Avaya Global Customer Care and reducing software piracy for Microsoft Telesales in China turnaround.
She is active as Co-Chair of the UN Science Summit Digital Governance Series and a Senior Member of IEEE, where she chairs the Technical Committee for Sustainability. Mei Lin also serves on the advisory council of Govstack and is a Hasso Plattner Institute Fellow. A Singapore citizen, she has lived in the US since 1982. list of publications.

Meredith is a clinical herbalist and a technologist.  She was a founder of the Botmatrix Hacktivism Collective, 13Bit Productions, tthe VR platform builder Kokowa, 811 press, and was a steward of Black Sky.  She teaches Cyberethics and Computers & Film at Fordham University, and sometimes in the prison system as part of the Bart Prision Initiative. In her herbalist practice she is part of the mugworts collective that operates a free herbal clinic in upstate New York and holds a discussion group on the great works of herbalism.

Muhammad Noor, a Rohingya visionary and the founder of the Rohingya Project, is a pioneer in blockchain for social and financial inclusion for stateless communities. His multifaceted role extends to founding and directing impactful institutions, including the globally acclaimed Rohingya Vision (RVISION) TV broadcast station, watched by millions worldwide. With vast expertise in journalism, humanitarian work, and corporate leadership, Noor actively uses technologies such as Blockchain, AI, Crypto, Metaverse, Data Science, security, and privacy to benefit marginalized people. He also mentors students and has given talks on refugee issues and technology at universities throughout the world.

Nadia (she/her) is an electrical engineer, who's been studying regenerative agriculture for the last 5 years. After spending 3 years visiting and researching alternative farming experiences throughout Brazil, she established in the Atlantic Rainforest, in the State of São Paulo. There, she co-founded Tekoporã, a project focused in building tailor-made digital systems for agroecological social organizations, using proper tools with free software and hardware.

Nancy Reyes Flores is a web accessibility evangelist in Latin America and a Certified Professional in Accessibility Core Competency. She has taken leadership in projects working to make websites and apps accessible.
In 2017 founded Accessibility Lab, an organization specialized in digital accessibility and social inclusion for people with disabilities, promoting a new ecosystem: internet for all.
She has collaborated with the Mexican government and other private sector companies.
She also works with non-profit organizations on behalf of the rights for people with disabilities.
She focuses on perspectives and challenges to accomplish digital inclusion.
Nancy is a member of Digital Accessibility Ambassadors, Mexican Council of Accessibility and Inclusion, and Mexican Society of Accessible Technologies and Universal Design.   

Nat is a community technologist, organizer, and open source activist. They bring experience in community facilitation, network building, and project management to OpenTEAM's distributed efforts focused on developing collaborative tools and protocols for a farmer-benefitting, open source agricultural tech ecosystem. As the OpenTEAM community and collaborative projects progress, Nat is focused on how to create community governance processes for scaling and sustaining our collective outputs.

Nat Decker (they/them) is a Chicago-born Los Angeles-based artist interrogating the politicality of the alienated body/mind networked within a call for collective care and liberation. Working critically with technology, they identify the computer :::as a portal::: as an assistive tool affording a more accessible and capacious practice. They reflect on the virtual as a space of potential requiring contestation for the ways it mirrors patterns of exploitation and exclusion. Their practice fundamentally integrates accessibility, collectivism, and friction as generative mediums.

Working with computational and sculptural processes, they trace serpentine connections between the body and modes of technology. They render the mobility device/disabled body as cultural expansion and agitation of conventional desirability politics, as formal object laden with stigma while freedom-giving, sterile and metallic while sensual and soft, (un)aestheticized while interacting with designations of usefulness, function, and capitalistic innovation.

Nat is a 2024 Eyebeam Democracy Machine Fellow with their collective Cripping_CG, a Y10 member of NEW INC and was a 2023 Processing Foundation Fellow. They are also a community organizer and access worker. In June 2022, they graduated from UCLA with a degree in Design|Media Arts and Disability Studies.

Nicholas P. Garcia is a Senior Policy Counsel at Public Knowledge, focusing on AI, the decentralized web, and other emerging technologies. He has an expertise in intellectual property and tech and telecom policy. Nick received his J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center, his M.A. in Ethics and Society from Fordham University’s Center for Ethics Education, and his B.A. in cursu honorum in Philosophy from Fordham University. Nick is a native New Yorker, and an unabashed nerd who loves video games, science fiction, and tabletop RPGs.

Noah Chon Lee (noahchonlee.com) is the founder of viaprize.org, a platform for crowdfunding public goods. He began his career at the age of ten as a third generation circus performer and since then has led nonprofit projects with indigenous communities in the Amazon jungle, trained with the Marine Corps as a midshipman, worked for an AI startup, and now focuses on projects that may make a world in which we turn to peer to peer collaboration rather than bureaucracy to solve collective problems.

Primavera De Filippi is a Research Director at the National Center of Scientific Research in Paris, and Faculty Associate at the Berkman-Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard. Her research focuses on the legal challenges and opportunities of the metaverse, web3, blockchain technology and artificial intelligence. She is the co-author of the book “Blockchain and the Law,” published in 2018 by Harvard University Press, and “Blockchain Governance” published in 2024 by MIT Press. She was recently awarded a €2M grant from the European Research Council (ERC) to investigate how blockchain technology can help improve institutional governance through greater confidence and trust.

Evan Henshaw-Plath, known as Rabble, is a pioneering technologist and activist renowned for their work in social media and decentralized technologies. As the first employee and lead developer at Odeo, where they helped create Twitter, Rabble has been at the forefront of digital communication innovation. Their commitment to user-centric, community-driven platforms is evident in their work with nos.social, a decentralized social media app using the Nostr protocol, and their role in relaunching Causes.com to empower grassroots activism. They also helped create the Indymedia.org tech team, advancing grassroots media. A former researcher at the MIT Media Lab’s Center for Civic Media and an Edmund Hillary Fellow, Rabble combines technical expertise with a passion for political organizing and social justice, envisioning a future where digital communities thrive independently of centralized control, focusing on building digital commons-based communities.

Raymond Cheng is a software engineer, entrepreneur, research scientist, open source contributor, and adjunct professor, who is passionate about building technology that improves the lives and freedoms of Internet users. He has made contributions in a wide range of areas in distributed systems and security, including data privacy, secure computing, blockchains, and scalable network systems.

Raymond has started multiple projects that are used by millions of people, including co-founding security company Oasis Labs, and creating a networking project that was productionized by Google in to Outline. His work has been recognized in top publications and conferences around the world, including Forbes, Wired, WSJ, Time, and NBC. Raymond obtained his PhD in Computer Science from the University of Washington, and graduated from MIT with degrees in Physics (Bachelor of Science), Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (Bachelor of Science and Master of Engineering).

Rich has been working since 2021 to make Social Network Health approaches to preventative mental health care easier to understand and implement. Social Network Health is the study of how relationships in communities effect everything from general mental health to productivity, to suicidal ideation. He is working specifically on the Social Network Health project as a video and content producer, which is launching coincident with dweb camp this year.

He is also a co-founder of spacebase.co, whose goal is to democratize access to space, and the Global Space Enablers Network. He has worked on decentralized software projects for Mozilla and the World Food Programme, and is looking forward to getting back into the study of decentralized tech this year so that he can apply it to space situational awareness problems.

Ronen Tamari is a researcher and entrepreneur-in-residence at the Astera Institute, where he’s developing new social knowledge sharing systems for researchers. Previously, Ronen completed his PhD in computer science (AI for natural language understanding) at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Ronen is a also the co-founder of Common SenseMakers, a community focused on research and development around distributed collective sensemaking. Ronen is passionate about human-centered tech, and translating scientific research into more impactful practical applications that fit real-world societal capacities and needs.

Rosalind Marino is a tech writer, qualitative researcher, speculative designer, and facilitator who’s academic background is based in science and technology studies. They bring a social science perspective to the interactions between technology and society, viewing narrative as one design entry point into changing the ways we develop technologies. From facilitating programing and speculative workshops at the Venice Architecture Biennale to writing for tech startups, they are committed to decolonial approaches to technology.

Roxi Shohadaee is the Creative Producer at Gray Area, producing the Decentralized Web Curriculum for Creators, the Criptech Metaverse Lab VR prototypes and other special projects. She also the Executive Director, Co-Founder and ARTchitect of the Design Science Studio, an educational incubator for artists founded to the build capacity of the creative community to propel the design science (r)Evolution and the Regenaissance. She is also the Founder + CEO of habRitual: an experiential production, interdisciplinary design and immersive art studio creating for 100% of life. Learn more about her past initiatives here.
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 quest 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.

ryan has a background in authorization and authentication across academia & industry. he's worn all the hats: black, white, jester, cto, etc. He cares about the next generation of jedis: making sure they can experience and build on platforms that are something like the web used to be 🆓

Sarah Grant is an American media artist and educator based in Berlin, Germany. She is a member of the Weise7 studio in Berlin and Lecturer in the Digital Arts program at Die Angewandte in Vienna, Austria. She holds a Bachelors of Arts in Fine Art from UC Davis and a Masters of Professional Studies in Media Arts from New York University’s Interactive Telecommunications Program. Her teaching and media art practice engages with the electromagnetic spectrum and computer networks as artistic material, social habitat, and political landscape. With a focus on radioart and computer networking, she researches and develops artworks as educational tools and workshops that demystify computer networking and radio technology. Since 2015, she has organized the Radical Networks conference in New York and Berlin, a community event and arts festival for critical investigations and creative experiments in telecommunications.

Sarah is a neonatologist and developmental biologist who studies how our genes shape our health across the lifespan, focused particularly on congenital heart disease. She is lucky to both care for patients and families, as well as run a research group. Outside of work she enjoys baking, running, and fowlery. 

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 Decentralized Web Archiving.

Senka Hadzic is a telecom engineer, researcher and public interest technologist working on affordable connectivity solutions for remote areas and disadvantaged populations. She is part of the iNethi (https://www.inethi.org.za/) team, a Cape Town based project enabling decentralized content distribution in community networks, and collaborating with Grassroots Economics (https://www.grassrootseconomics.org/) to bootstrap circular economy in the communities by using a locally-owned network and community inclusion token as a catalyst.

Currently, Senka is an Information Controls Fellow supported by the Open Technology Fund and hosted by the Critical Infrastructure Lab (https://www.criticalinfralab.net/), where she investigates digital security aspects and resilience of last mile solutions, such as community networks.

Shadrach Ankrah is an Information Technology (IT) Specialist and the Founder and Executive Director of Connect Rurals, a nonprofit organization focused on bridging the digital divide in rural and underserved communities in Ghana. The organization provides digital skills training including coding and graphic design, and is committed to connecting rural communities to the Internet to provide access to various opportunities. He advocates for Internet access and has actively participated in Internet governance discussions and initiatives since 2017. He has mentored and guided over 150 youths on Internet governance issues, helping them navigate the ecosystem and contribute to the development of the Internet. He is affiliated with various global Internet organizations, including the Internet Society (ISOC), the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the African Network Information Centre (AFRINIC), and the United Nations Internet Governance Forum (IGF). Shadrach has been a fellow at ICANN72 & ICANN77, AFRINIC-31, and the 2019 Hackathon@AIS (Africa Internet Summit). His vision is to see rural and underserved African communities have access to decentralized technologies and tools that provide them with Internet access, digital literacy, and job opportunities.

Shwetha (https://shwetharao.tech/) is driven by a passion to leverage technology for social impact and harness the power of communities to drive meaningful change. Born and raised in India, she has launched several Digital Public Goods that have touched the lives of millions. She's played a pivotal role in scaling decentralized networks (https://becknprotocol.io/) that level the playing field for service providers in digital ecosystems like e-commerce, mobility, and edtech. With Project Vaani (https://vaani.iisc.ac.in/), she laid the groundwork for capturing linguistic diversity, paving the way for a more inclusive digital India.

With a deep sense of purpose, she recognizes the need for products and communities that support like-minded individuals in navigating the intersection of technology and impact. Recently moved to California, Shwetha thrives on collaboration and is eager to connect with folks who share her mission.

Stacco Troncoso teaches and writes on the Commons, P2P politics and economics, open culture, post-growth futures, Platform and Open Cooperativism, decentralised governance, blockchain and more. He is the co-founder of DisCO.coop, project lead for Commons Transition and co-founder of the P2P translation collective Guerrilla Translation. His work in communicating commons culture extends to public speaking and relationship-building with prefigurative communities, policymakers and potential commoners.

Steve is an executive and experienced product strategist with a 30-year career ranging from hands-on software engineer to public company CEO. He has substantial experience in organizing teams and attacking new opportunities and markets while ensuring a balance between specific needs and the “bigger picture” of a successful outcome. He joined Tech Matters in 2019 and directs the Terraso project which creates open source software tools for small-holder agriculturalists and their communities.

Tanveer Anoy (They/Them) is a Bangladeshi queer author, academic, archivist, and human rights activist. Anoy has provided leadership and edited several queer print productions. As a writer, Anoy addresses critical sociopolitical issues such as the gender binary, bullying, and religious violence. Anoy is the founder of MONDRO, the first and largest Bangladeshi queer archive that collects and preserves the artistic and cultural history of communities of marginal gender and sexual diversities. Anoy also established Bangladesh Feminist Archives, a comprehensive digital platform dedicated to preserving, documenting, and promoting the intersectional feminist movement in Bangladesh.

TB Dinesh is a community media activist with a background in Computer Science. The recent focus of their work is on infrastructure for encouraging people from marginalised communities to document their ways of life to help tell their stories. This involves helping create a Community Owned Wifimesh (COWMesh) with Libre Routers, Bamboo towers, decentralised Web and other Internet independent services with Janastu (janastu.org). Services include audio-video fragment-annotating tools, voice communication and negotiation of traffic vouchers. Set in a remote rural hilly forest region, near Bangalore, India, their Lab is open for visitors and residents who wish to creatively engage in creating a replicable model of self-determined future Community Networks. Anthillhacks (anthillhacks.in) is their end of year annual event where everyone is invited to live with their community.

Tibet Sprague is a systems entrepreneur, communitarian technologist, and passionate evangelist of the more beautiful world our hearts know is possible. He is founder and core steward of the Terran Collective, which activates and amplifies cooperation among people working to regenerate our communities and our planet. Terran does this by building systems and tools that foster trust and collaboration, and weaving together the local regenerative community in their home Bay Area bioregion. Tibet is lead developer for Terran's main project Hylo - the prosocial coordination platform for purpose driven groups. He also co-stewards the Collaborative Technology Alliance, facilitating collaboration and interoperability among humane social technologists and platforms, works with OpenTEAM on creating a more open, responsible AgTech ecosystem, and is currently building his first P2P social apps with Holochain.

Tommie Introna is R&D Platform Producer within the Arts Technologies team at Serpentine working on prototypes for Future Art Ecosystems. He was co-founder and director of Black Shuck Co-operative, an artist-run production company. Tommie has a long history of involvement in educational and community-based projects, and his research interests include critical technical practice, sound studies, and sonic arts.

Trav Fryer creates interactive installations for fun and to reduce waste. His latest work, the Custodisco kiosk, is installed at camp, check it out.

Trav is an independant artist based in Vermont. He is a co-owner of the technology worker cooperative Autonomic, runs a free store called Free Sha Voca Do, and is a member of the Laboratory B cooperative hackerspace where he helps run a monthly Repair Cafe.

Travis is one of the co-founders of Mysilio, a research and development-oriented consulting firm focused on next generation tech that empowers users online. He currently works full time as an Engineering Manager for Storacha, a new take on community-driven decentralized datastorage.

Val Elefante (she/they) is a freelance researcher, project manager, and co-design facilitator specializing in community-led, responsible development of emerging technologies including AI and the decentralized web. With a background in feminist political theory and economics, Val has worked on a variety of projects building more equitable and participatory governance into technology. For TechSoup, Val helped design and build a curriculum about decentralized technology for nonprofits, collecting cutting edge social impact use cases of the tech. For Metagov, Val led user research and a pilot program for an open source tool called Collective Voice, adding interoperable collective decision-making features to Open Collective. Finally, Val is also a founding team member of Lips / Reliabl where she led the co-design of a social media alternative especially for women, non-binary, & LGBTQIA+ creators with innovative, participatory data labeling and content moderation systems.

Now, Val is contracted with the Center for Cultural Innovation, a California-based nonprofit and tech incubator, leading the collaborative design and development of a rotating savings club DAO for artists and gig workers.

The 0xSalon is a collaborative endeavour which critically interrogates digital culture through discourse events and residencies, producing scholarly and creative interventions in the process. We are conducting an ongoing, non-profit experiment in knowledge sharing and collective cultural production. Stewarded by 0xSalon team members, our community researches topics, organises events, and authors lore, critical theory, poetry, philosophy, games, theatre, and visual art. https://0xsalon.pubpub.org

Wassim is the founder and creative director of the 0xSalon, which conducts experiments in post-disciplinary collective knowledge practices. A veteran of the timechain, Wassim specialises in conceptual design and philosophy of peer-to-peer systems, on which he writes, speaks, teaches, and consults. He has an editorial column at the MIT Computational Law Report, and he co-founded MIT’s Cryptoeconomic Systems journal and conference series. Wassim has curated arts festivals, led a sculptural engineering laboratory and published experimental music, satirical theatre, fiction, games, poetry, and speculative scripture. Wassim holds a Ph.D. in ultrafast supramolecular photophysics from the University of Nottingham. https://wassim.pubpub.org

Ever since graduating university in 2020, Wesley has been on a wild journey of discovery, including a surprise career pivot into distributed application development (mostly with Holochain) and stumbling into the world of tools-for-thought and personal knowledge management. He is passionate about life-long learning and especially the tools that can make it more fun, engaging and effective. Wesley likes spending his time outdoors, playing sports, cooking, all in conviviality with great people. He also enjoys reading, writing, filmmaking, and communicating complex ideas in accessible ways. He is currently a founding engineer at SenseNets, a social media cross-posting apps for researchers to migrate their social media activity into a distributed and semantic open web.

Willem is a cofounder of Aha Labs, a technology company develops developer tooling to support blockchains which have rust based smart contract. This is  fifth trip to California and each time has been to attend a dweb event. He is passionate about the movement to empower people to be in control of their data and digital identity. Loves to learn what is new in the space and talking to all the amazing campers about what they are excited about.

Yas Etessam is an information architect and markup technologist. She’s been coding since the '80s but is best known for her expertise with enterprise content management and extensible markup languages
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Yas thrives when collaborating with world-class teams and has worked with various technology giants, including leaders in the semiconductor, enterprise software, cloud computing, networking and telecommunications, and artificial intelligence sectors.  Most recently, Yas served as a Product Owner on an enterprise Content Pipeline team and chaired the applicable product information governance board.

Yas notably contributed to the development of the first commercially available DITA editor. DITA, where ""D"" stands for Darwin, is the foundational standard for user-centric technical information, as it is flexible and adaptable to change.

She aligns with DWeb’s core values especially around inclusivity and human agency.   Yas is currently experimenting with incorporating decentralized technologies and AI into a DITA content life cycle.

Outside of markup, she loves travel, art, music, and dance, and frequently finds herself supporting social movements for communities in need.

Zach Schlosser is a Senior Fellow at The Future US, a D.C. policy accelerator, where he leads the Future of AI program bringing together industry and research leaders and policy makers for coeducation and design sprints ahead of current AI capabilities. He is also Managing Director of Prosperity of the Commons International, an international development firm advising developers, financers, and policy makers on implementing ownership, financing, and impact measurement for large scale development such that wealth stays in the hands of local communities and is directed to ongoing community benefit as much as possible. He consults with AI founders, think tanks, and foundations on product and policy strategy that enhance, rather than reduce, commons benefit and overall human agency.

Ziye Zhang is a multimedia artist and game designer in New York. He excels at creating electronic and installation art that engages audiences through game mechanics and interactive logic. He completed his undergraduate studies at SUNY Stony Brook and a master's degree in the Integrated Digital Media program from New York University.

As a Gen-Z artist, Ziye leverages diverse digital tools and mediums to delve into contemporary culture and the nuances of social life in the digital era, highlighting the unique challenges encountered by the Digital Native Community. Additionally, Ziye has a high level of expertise in emerging technologies in VR, virtual production, and motion capture.

Ziye also uses his game design knowledge to encourage people to solve social issues through games and hosts board game design workshops at MIT, NYU, etc. In addition, Ziye is an invited guest speaker by Hasbro China.

Now he is conducting field research and studies for his new works, which will discuss individual consciousness neglected on the internet through interactive installations, continuing to refine my theoretical research and artistic language.

Zoe is a software consultant, open source advocate, and conference organizer. Her work often focuses on underserved communities. She is currently working to re-start Oakland's Sudomesh network. Away from tech, her hobbies include photography, fixing bicycles, and flying and maintaining experimental aircraft.