People

Project Leads & Presenters

Aayush Gupta
Steward, ZK Email

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 Abu Samra
Founder, Urban Innovation @ Eudaform Labs

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

Alex Zhang
Researcher, GFW Report

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 Dalessio
ED, eQualitie

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
University of Washington, PhD student

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/)

Alli Magidsohn
Meaning Maker

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.

Ana Pura
attentē, Coolab

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!

Andor Kesselman
Andor Labs

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 Dzialocha
p2panda

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.

Ankita Raturi
Asst. Prof., Agricultural Informatics Lab, Purdue University

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 Bonesteel
Editorial Director, Fight for the Future

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 Raskin
Co-founder & President - Earth Species Project, Co-founder - Center for Humane Technology

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.

 

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B Cavello
Aspen Institute, Director of Emerging Technologies

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
Research Project Manager, Alan Turing Institute | University of Liverpool

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
Technical Lead, Digital Grassroots

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 Lee
Co-founder, Cofacts

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
Founder, Researcher & Designer, Reality Design Lab

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
EISPP / The MatchMaking Wayfarer

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

Chad Ostrowski
Editor & Lead Author, Scientific Animism

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.

Chris Lewis
President and CEO, Public Knowledge

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.

 

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Christian Tschudin
University of Basel, Switzerland

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 Anthony Capilongo
Software Developer, Hypha Co-op | Starling Lab

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
Founder, Market.Organic

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.

Dana Perls
Program manager (AgTech), Friends of the Earth

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
Founder/Visionkeeper, and Author, Bridgit DAO

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.

Doc Searls
Indiana University, Ostrom Workshop

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

 

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Eric Sydell
Cofounder & CEO, Vero AI

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-Founder, Holochain

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
Head of Ecosystem, Project Liberty

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 Moeller
VP Engineering, Freedomof the Press

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
Senior Backend Developer, Awana Digital

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 Miyazono
Founder, Atlas Computing

​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.

Fauno .
Cooperativa de Trabajo Sutty Ltda.

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.

Frankie Pangilinan
Engineering Integration Lead (entropyxyz), Entropy Cryptography Inc

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 Chartier
Software Developer and Designer @ Orcfax | Co-Founder @ Seption

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 Poppe
Co-founder, catalog.fyi

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
President, okTurtles Foundation

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.

Greg Austic
Cofounder, Our Sci LLC

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.

Handuo Zhang
Founder, S31 Labs

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
Research Manager, Gray Area

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 Headley
Poa - Perpetual Organization Architect

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
Data Scientist, Guardian Project

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.

 

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Jarod Holtz
Holochain and Holo

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
Cofounder & CEO, Entidad

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 Ryan
Co-founder, Sustainable Development Initiative

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.

 

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Juan Cruz
Colnodo

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
Social Impact Program Manager, Filecoin Foundation and Filecoin Foundation for the Decentralized Web

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
Identity Woman, Public Interest Technologist, Open Space Facilitator

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).

Keith Weng
Freelance product and innovation consultant, for health equity and climate

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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
Intadel, Surco Oaxaca

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
Co-founder, Radiant IRIS

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
Campaigns & Communications Director, Fight for the Future

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 Walker
Product Lead, Starling Lab for Data Integrity

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.

Louis Fendji
The University of Ngaoundere / Afroleadership CSO

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
Research Engineer, Metagov, BlockScience

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
Director of Policy and Outreach, Foundation for American Innovation

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.

Marie Kochsiek
Co-founder, drip. period & fertility app

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
President, Filecoin Foundation and Filecoin Foundation for the Decentralized Web

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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Mary Lou Jepsen
CEO, Founder & Chair, Openwater.health

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 Schutte
Co-founder and Director of Business Development, Holochain

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
CoChair, People Centered Internet

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 Finkelstein
Herbalist, Technologist

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
Co Founder, Rohingya Project

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.

Nádia Coelho
Tekoporã

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
Founder, Accessibility Lab

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 Irwin
Senior Program Manager, OpenTEAM

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
Independent

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.

Nick Garcia
Senior Policy Counsel, Public Knowledge

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.

 

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Noah Chon Lee
Founder, viaPrize

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.

 

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Nori Zkitty
Founder, SpaceCowboy
Primavera De Filippi
Faculty Associate, Research Director, Harvard/CNRS

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.

Rabble Henshaw-Plath
CEO and Founder, Nos

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.

 

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Raymond Cheng
Co-Founder, Open Source Observer

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 Bodo
Co-Founder, The Social Network Health Project

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.

 

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Ronen Tamari
Co-founder @ Common SenseMakers, Entrepreneur in Residence @ Astera

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
Writer and researcher, Holochain

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
Creative Producer Gray Area | Co-Founder + Ecosystem Director at Design Science Studio | Founder + CEO habRitual

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 macarthur
Privacy Scaling Explorations, Ethereum Foundation

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
Independent

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 Morton
pediatrician at Boston Children's Hospital, assistant professor at Harvard Medical School

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. 

Sawood Alam
Research Lead, Wayback Machine, Internet Archive

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
Independent

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
Founder & Executive Director, Connect Rurals

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 Rao
Founder, TFI Hub

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
Co-founder, DisCO.coop

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 Francis
Project Director, Tech Matters

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
Founder, Mondro Bangladesh Queer Archive, Bangladesh Feminist Archives

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
Janastu

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
Technical Lead, Terran Collective, Hylo

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
R&D Platform Producer, Serpentine Arts Technologies

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
independant artist, co-owner at Autonomic Cooperative

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 Vachon
Engineering Manager @ Storacha | Co-Founder @ Mysilio

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
Freelance Researcher, Project Manager, Co-design Facilitator, Center for Cultural Innovation

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.

Vivek Bhupatiraju
Co-founder & cryptography lead, Cursive
Wassim Z. Alsindi, PhD
Founder & Creative Director, 0xSalon

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

Wesley Finck
Founding Engineer, SenseNets

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 Wyndham
Cofounder, Aha Labs

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
Information Architect, .

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
Senior Fellow, The Future US

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
Game Designer, Multimedia artist

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 Moore
Independent

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.

DWeb Team

Akhilesh Thite
Content Support

Akhilesh is a hacker and artist who enjoys building decentralized tools that contribute to a more resilient, accessible, and user-empowered internet.

He is the founder of P2P Labs, an open-source organization focused on building software that leverages various p2p protocols. One of the main projects is Peersky, a minimal p2p web browser.

He is working with the Distributed Press team as a software developer on Social Inbox, a tool that integrates social interaction capabilities into websites on the decentralized web, and Social Reader, a P2P and offline ActivityPub client for reading and following microblogs on the Fediverse.

He was a DWeb Fellow in 2023.

He will be starting his Master’s in Computer Science degree this fall at UC Santa Cruz.

 

Videos from the summit:

Alaï Landa
Space Steward, Tea Tent

Alaï is a 24-year-old Panamanian/Venezuelan artist and event organizer based in California. She is the founder of the SuperPlay gathering, author of 'That's Just Reality,' and host of the Spiral Revival podcast. Her work is inspired by the concept of the archaic revival, blending mythic understanding with the modern world. Through her diverse projects, she invites others to explore where cultural influences converge, tradition meets innovation, and art becomes a timeless exploration of the human experience.

Andi Wong
Space Steward, Art Barn

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.

Arkadiy Kukarkin
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.

B Cavello
AI Track, Curator

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.

Ben Hanna
Production Lead & Space Steward, 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.

Benjamin Life
Space Steward, Impact Island

I seem to be a verb... Benjamin Life is a civic innovator, community organizer, and artist focused on anti-rivalrous decentralized organizations as a mechanism for systemic and cultural adaptation. His work weaves together both the mythos and practical actualization of a more beautiful world, a world in which all human beings are empowered as agents to co-steward communities, cultures, and ecologies that are thriving, resilient, and participatory.

Boris Mann
Facilitator, Emergent Day

Boris is a technologist, company founder, and community builder. He helped organize the second Barcamp in Amsterdam, right after the first one in the Bay Area, and has since helped spark unconference experiences in different communities and around the world.

Boris is based in Vancouver, Canada, and is currently exploring DWeb, open social protocols, and local first movements. You can browse his digital garden at https://bmannconsulting.com to find out more.

Caitlin Olson
Stage Manager

Caitlin joined the Archive as Brewster's Executive Assistant in 2016. Her role at the Archive includes wearing many hats -- from scheduling Brewster's travel, to organizing event logistics, to refining processes and procedures. Prior to the Archive, Caitlin worked in publishing, but wanted to work for an organization that was less clickbait-y and ad-driven and instead passionate about providing access to knowledge. When she's not working, Caitlin is likely reading zines, attending concerts, or unplugging her devices and backpacking in the woods. 

Cami Willis
Space Steward, Tea Tent

+--<//Temporary Autonomous Zone helper since 2008//>--o

Cent Hosten
Curator, Migration Station

Cent Hosten is a researcher and community manager at Metagov.

Charles (Cel) Lehner
Space Steward, Migration 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

Personal Website

W3C Wiki User Page

Drew MacDonald
Space Steward, Filecoin Forest Hangout

A real "Man of Excellence," Drew is the Operations and Events Manager at the IAC headquarters in Vancouver. Known as The Permanent, the building is a beautiful heritage space that is rented for private events and mission-related IAC initiatives. Drew comes with almost 2 decades of work in the events industry, and you can expect him to solve some problems and make folks laugh.

Drew will be shepherding the Filecoin Forest Hangout for the 2024 DWEB camp. Come say hi!

Eric Bear

I grew up playing in the Ocean in South Florida. I’m a generalist with some study+experience in art, design, environmental horticulture, holistic education, distributed governance, and ecologically oriented communities. I’ve spent 15 years growing communities and networks around meaningful projects and ideas; 10 years in self-directed education and 5+ in open source distributed tech.

But whatever. Talk to me about microalgae.

 

Videos from the summit:

Eseohe Ojo
Associate Producer & Space Steward, 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 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.

Eugene Leventhal
Curator, Public Goods
Eugene Leventhal is currently the Executive Director of Metagov, a governance research nonprofit, where he leads a group researching grant processes, capital allocation mechanisms, and impact measurement. He has been working around public goods and research funding in web3 for 4 years, after having spent time working in academia, with nonprofits, and in the corporate world. He is an enthusiastic beginner at climbing and always wishes he had more time to read. 
Ian Davis
D-Web MC // Organizer
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. He 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 on contract with the Filecoin Foundation, where he works with social impact projects like DWeb Camp, Starling Lab, Guardian Project, and many others.
Ira Nezhynska
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.

John Gonzalez
Code of Conduct Team

John is head of Candid’s (https://candid.org) Product Management division and leads overall product vision, product strategy, and product development at Candid. As a key member of the executive leadership team, he works to develop and deliver Candid's products and services and ensure Candid's offerings are widely adopted and aligned with trends throughout the philanthropic sector.

John brings over twenty years of leadership experience across the commercial and social sectors, as well as over 30 years of experience in facilitation, co-counseling and business & technology management. He started his career at Intel and throughout his career held leadership positions in product management and strategy, business development, and operations at Now Software, Getty Images, Webware, Xerox, and Internet Archive. He has also been providing consulting advisory services for philanthropic and early-stage organizations, such as the MacArthur Foundation Lever for Change and Content Circles.

John earned his Bachelors in Computer Science & Electrical Engineering from MIT, and MBA from Stanford. He is the former board chair for the Buck Institute for Education and the San Francisco Children’s Creativity Museum.

Joshua Tan
AI Track, Curator

Josh is executive director of Metagov, and a computer scientist and mathematician at Oxford and Stanford.

kev nguyễn
Associate Producer

void temporarily made human

Louisa Cohen
Space Steward, Filecoin Forest Hangout

Louisa wears many hats as a communications manager, and engagement catalyst for Internet Archive
Canada and is the lead steward of the IAC Headquarters in Vancouver, Canada – a beautiful heritage
space called The Permanent. Louisa is also General Manager of The Permanent Library Limited which
runs the space as an event venue in the heart of downtown Vancouver. www.internetarchivecanada.org
www.thepermanent.ca

LX Cast
Space Steward, Access to Knowledge Amphitheather

"LX Cast is mostly water and collections of bacteria and bone and stardust. An emergent invention. Canadian West Coast island-born former New Yorker current Portlander curiouser researcher reader leader shape shifter code switcher beginner elder young a flash of light technologist social engineer experimental questioning contradictory vegan (except for brownies) consultant recoverer contributor community practitioner strategist poet weirdo professional queer non-binary neurodivergent raised-Quaker seemer listener fox cook step-parent partner collaborator co-keeper teacher coach flaneur aesthete hiker hard to locate reliable emerging being who practices synthesis learning listening walking investigating supporting reflecting confusing growing perplexing and occasionally punctuating.

LX has been a product leader working on communication and collaboration tech for over a decade. They are currently a founder of a group app in development called Fractal and a student and practitioner of patterns of collective practice. They. They're a board member at Prosocial Design Network and Tech Fleet, a past Resident Fellow at the Integrity Institute, a steering committee member of the Council on Tech and Social Cohesion, a member of Aspen Institute's Virtually Human working group, a mentor with PDX Women in Tech, All Tech is Human, and Mentor Me Collective, and a consultant at Changemaker PM helping nonprofits develop product discovery practices."

Madisen Taylor
Space Steward, Access to Knowledge Amphitheatre

Madisen is a passionate supporter of all things open and decentralized. Currently, she runs a consultancy helping dynamic startups connect with & build communities. Before that, she was Chief of Staff & Director of Strategy at Hugging Face. You may know Madisen from “AI Woodstock,” the massive gathering of more than 5000 open source AI community members in San Francisco. Above all, she is a believer in humans – and the journey of figuring out what the heck it means to be one!

mai ishikawa sutton
Senior Organizer

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.

 

Videos from the summit:

Meredith Finkelstein
Space Steward, Cultivation Station

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.

Naomi 'noms' Joy Smith
Associate Coordinator
noms AKA Naomi Joy Smith (they/them) is a process and systems designer from Aotearoa (New Zealand) who is driven by the enquiries of "how to live in kinship", and "how do culture norms come to be". Nested in a belief that people deserve the right to dialogue with, and impact, systems which affects them, their practices forage from hospitality, social work, permaculture, group facilitation, network weaving, social practice art, and full stack web development. Their explicitly animist tendencies constantly challenge them to widen their scope and approach their ambitious prototopia with humility.
 
Building community in everything they do, their sense of belonging (in the underground music scene of Wellington & Oceania), of purpose (in the generative critique of internet systems and culture), and of potential (as a multi-faceted believer in the power of groups-of-groups) is culminating in a desire to produce events which enable people-led interventions to counter monoculture. Although their dog will miss them very much, they will journey to Turtle Island for the first time this year, following a somatic conviction that serving the DWeb community is the most mutually beneficial next step for the nested, trans-local, pluralistic movement they are helping to grow.
Nathan Hewitt
Space Steward, Cultivation Station

Nathan Hewitt (he/him) is a nonprofit and community-tech operations, strategy, and programs professional, currently focused on several personal and consulting projects. He most recently led the operations of Open Collective. Nathan's writing has been featured in Nonprofit Quarterly and WIRED, and he presents and panels on topics such as the future of fiscal sponsorship, the solidarity economy, financial transparency, community engagement, nonprofit management, digital security basics, and DIY zine-making. On his blog, he has written about prison abolition, settler colonialism, and security culture, and he enjoys producing ambient and noise music.

ngọc triệu
Fellowship Director

ngọc is a design researcher, potter, and learner.

She works closely with free, open-source, decentralized and distributed project teams and their communities to tackle challenges such as digital safety and security, neo-colonialism, and Internet censorship.

ngọc initially joined the DWeb movement in 2019 as a maintainer of Decent Patterns. She was a DWeb Fellow in 2022 and a Curator of the Design Track in 2023.

This year, she leads the DWeb Fellowship, bringing her experiences in community organizing and decolonial practices to amplify and expand the program's impact.

Talk to her about: de/colonial tactics, design epistemology, kendo, and glaze chemistry☺  

 

Nigini Oliveira
Space Steward, Hackers Hall

Nigini is a Brazilian geek who immigrated to the Cascadian PNW to research cross-cultural design at UW and build a cabin at the top of a tiny mountain where he lives. He has dedicated much of his brain to learning to include diversity as a core value of technology design. He is very excited about using this knowledge, especially while engaging in the broad DWeb and Decolonial Design communities. Learn more about him at nigini.me and one of his main projects at labinthewild.org.

Priya Kuber
Steward, Lightning Salon

Priya Kuber is an engineer and social worker in progress studying at Walden University. She is studying to be a therapist and aspires to be a politician. After starting the maker movement in India with her role as Director in Arduino she was the CMO of the Dweb startup GUN. She fell in love with the Dweb community and is volunteering at Lighting talk #1 at the Commissioners cabin.

Raphael Gonzales
Space Steward, AI Think tank

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

Rex Riepe
Space Steward, Migration Library
Rex is a philosopher and technologist based in San Francisco. His philosophy, Eristics, explains how emotions function as survival arguments. His personality test, the Eristics Test, first debuted at Dwebcamp 2019 in a composition notebook.
 
Rex also works on no-build solutions for frontend tech on the web, giving small content creators alternatives to entrenched corporate solutions.
Rob Keizer
Space Steward, Hackers Hall

Rob lives on a forested property outside of Winnipeg MB Canada with his wife, his dog, and many musical instruments. He has a background in computer science, and dabbles in almost everything from chemistry to metalworking. He runs a public network (AS62752), has an interest in reconfigurable computing, privacy, and security.

Ryan Taylor
Curator, Migration Station

Ryan is an experienced livestreamer (https://www.youtube.com/adjyleak) who has been actively covering grassroots and underground tech events since 2014. Alongside his livestreaming endeavors, he has worked as a web developer for prominent cryptocurrency projects, including BitcoinMagazine.com, Ethereum.org, and Z.cash. In the beginning of this year, he introduced the ZF A/V Club, an initiative aimed at fostering a community of privacy-focused audio/visual content creators. The club's primary goal is to provide opportunities for individuals interested in learning and experimenting with media production equipment, platforms, and tools.

Shwetha Rao
Space Steward, AI Think tank

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.

Steven Elleman
Space Steward, Lightning Salon

Steven Elleman is a former software engineer who worked at the intersection of cloud and identity (Okta, ScaleFT). In January he quit his job to “deinstitutionalize”, to learn how to “lay track” on his own, and see what would arise. DWeb has the highest density of people Steven admires, so it seemed logical to volunteer to put himself in the middle of the action. Steven’s other interests includes starting grouphouses and reading books on history and social sciences.

Tony Lai
AI Track, Curator

Hi, I'm Tony, and I grow projects and communities around agency, belonging, and purpose. I tune into resonances of collective potential in small groups and local solidarities that can gesture beyond themselves toward broader horizons of moral concern. I research, build, and bridge between the worlds of Computational Law, Commons Interoperability, and the Governance of Collective Goods.

In my researcher role, I founded a Blockchain lab at CodeX, the Stanford Center for Legal Informatics, and co-steward related projects, including the Stanford Journal on Blockchain Law and Policy, the MIT Computational Law Report, and the Stanford Climate Data Policy Initiative. I also held a Visiting Professorship at the University of Hawaii Law School, teaching a course on Legal Engineering for the Biosphere.

In my professional/builder/hacker roles, I advise on decentralized systems based solutions to climate change and biodiversity loss; I work with various DAOs and decentralized collectives, often advising on governance; I co-founded a legal-tech venture, Legal.io; and helped build a startup accelerator, StartX.com. Before heading to Stanford and Silicon Valley, I clocked 10,000 hours as a tech, data, and IP lawyer, and read history at Oxford, thinking mostly about belief systems and rituals.

I resonate with the notion that we might nurture DAOs better as Decentralized Autonomous Organisms, more ecological, less institutional, weaving us, by choice into nurturing environments where we find permission to grow; that NFTs represent a new way of seeing, a method for institutional recognition, and also a way of nurturing and recognizing the intimacy between ourselves and the beings and happenings we hold meaningful; and that intimacy to nature will be foundational to the change our world needs to feel and act on for humanity to survive and thrive.

I'm working through various collectives to build evolving and freely usable technical and legal templates, tools, and infrastructure to enable any artist to collaborate with a nature-serving project, to help institutions recognize the value of nature, and to support relationships, activism, and an extitutional flow of resources and awareness into a commons of value for these projects.

Born in England, of Chinese ancestry, and now growing rhizomes in California, France, Singapore, and New Zealand, I nomad through The Embassy Network, experimenting with identity, governance and commoning in autonomous communities, spaces, and projects, seeking jam partners with my violin and whiteboard.

Tyler Childs
Jam Counselor

Ty Childs is a multi-disciplinary creative technologist that plays in paper, media, comedy, and computers. As a story teller, he's able to start from the current room and walk backwards or forwards in time to smaller and smaller places in space, like Tron or Alice.

 

Videos from the summit:

Wendy Hanamura
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. 

 

Videos from the summit:

Will Howes
Space Steward, 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.

Yar Cohen
Space Steward, Redwood Cathedral
she/her, arriving from huichin/oakland
after decades immersed in the worlds of unix, web services and free software, yar now wonders how our technology can support the resistance without also helping build the death star
Ying Tong Lai
Space Steward, Hackers Hall

Ying Tong is an applied cryptographer specialising in zero-knowledge proofs. She works on building secure and joyful systems for private communication and finance. She is also interested in poetics, history, and critical theory of cryptography.

Young Wong
Space Steward, Art Barn

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.

Attendees coming to DWeb Camp

 
Dan Finlay
MetaMask

Brian Behlendorf
Linux Foundation et al

Kate Miller

Brewster Kahle
Internet Archive
Holmes Wilson
Quiet (tryquiet.org)
Randy Farmer
Social Design Catalyst
Josh Tan
Metagov
Eugene Leventhal
Metagov
Elizabeth Engelman
Aha Labs
Chad O
Aha Labs
Willem Wyndham
Aha Labs
Adam Souzis
OneCommons.org
Aza Raskin
Earth Species Project & Center for Humane Technology
Dr. Mary Lou Jepsen
CEO, Founder and Chair of www.openwater.health
Dr John Ryan
Deep Futures
Richard Puckett
Technology Director, OpenArchive
Timid Robot
Creative Commons
Bruce Baumgart
retired, Internet Archive
kumavis
founder metamask
Henry Wilkinson
Webrecorder
Lindsay Walker
Starling Lab
Matthew Schutte
Holochain
Mix
Matou Collective (Ahau), Scuttlebutt, Entropy
Duke Jones
IdentiKey
Rich Bodo
Social Network Health Project
Patrick Ball
HRDAG
Vincent Charlebois
Hypha Worker Co-operative
mai ishikawa sutton Ese Ojo
DWeb / Fight for the Future
Wendy Hanamura
DWeb Camp Producer
Eric Bear
Dweb Camp, darksoil studio
Arkadiy Kukarkin
Decentralized Tech Lead, Internet Archive
Ian Davis
Mysilio Co
kev phước nguyễn
DWeb / Potluck Hoài Nam
Alan Ransil
Filecoin Green / Devonian Systems
Jason Morton
EZKL
B Cavello
Aspen Digital, a program of The Aspen Institute
Steven Elleman Rob Lach
Love Computing
University of Advancing Technology- The Blockchain Club
Christian Koch
Orcfax Ltd.
Echo Duemig Peter Van Garderen
Nigini
University of Washington
Theodore Keloglou
Newspeak House
Emma Nasseri
President of University of Kansas Blockchain Institute
Hudson Headley
KU Blockchain Institute
Robert
WebQ
Jeremy Paradie
Seption.org
Gabriel Chartier
Iona Systems | GnoSys
Nick Sweeting
ArchiveBox.io Founder
Botao Amber Hu
Reality Design Lab
Marta Chierego
Director
Maxwell McIntosh Ty Sullberg
Ize 👀
trina reynolds-tyler
Invisible Institute
Alicia Guo Nathan Hewitt
Gimmy Chang
Independent Researcher
Trav Fryer Mike Hourigan
George"geoah" Antoniadis Greg Slepak
okturtles.org
Noah Chon Lee
viaPrize.org, Founder
Yas Etessam Brent Shambaugh
EISPP
Enzo Soyer
Limus Vita
Nanomonkey
Scuttlebutt
Kirt Walker Liz Sweigart
Holochain / Nos.Social / Vanderbilt University
Ryan Sternlicht
Noisebridge hackerspace, Aaron swartz day
Lisa Rein
Co-founder Aaron Swartz Day
DeGraf
Justin F. Knoll Audrey Sonntag Henry
Mark Carranza
Internet Archive
Isa Herico Velasco
Internet Archive
Christine Lemmer-Webber
Spritely Institute (Executive Director)
Morgan Lemmer-Webber Carl Gorringe Vivek Bhupatiraju
Cursive + EF PSE
Erica Frank, MD, MPH
Inventor/Founder NextGenU.org; Professor UBC
Dr. Sawood Alam
Research Lead, Wayback Machine
Mark Graham
Internet Archive
Ruben Rodriguez Perez
IA Staff
Megan Shaw Prelinger
Prelinger Archives
Adrianne Finelli
Prelinger Archives
Brian Eggert
Prelinger Archives
Chris Lombardi
Reference Explorer
Meredith Finkelstein
Foundation for Open Source Ecosystem Technology Ben Muthalaly
ArchiveBox
Will Howes
Wayback Machine Engineer
Robin Woolner Nathalia Scherer
SFIW
Sung Hong
Addjoy.in
Pam Selle Sean Hong ajay tallam
steward of the bay area permaculture guild and regeneration pollination
Mina C.
Internet Archive
Jenni Ottilie Keppler Shwetha Rao
Milo Kim Antoine McGrath Liz Steininger
Least Authority
Golda Velez
Ceramic Network
Christian Tschudin
U of Basel, Switzerland
Grace Ishadai Jones
Peter 'ribasushi' Rabbitson Amy Jones Rob Keizer
Internet Archive
Mark Nadal Derek Sheen
DeepAI
Lizz Thabet
Kevin Baragona
Founder at DeepAI
Gitonga Miriam Norika Kizawa
Founder of SpaceCowboy.so 🤠
JP Gagne
DeepAI
Anthony Baez
DeepAI
Eric Harris-Braun
Holochain
Lia Holland (they/she)
Campaigns & Communications Director at Fight for the Future
Shannon Hong jia jiang
Webscape Wanderer Cody Harris Keith Weng
Alli Magidsohn
Meaning Maker
Andor Kesselman
Andor's Lab
Chris Lewis
Public Knowledge
Nick Garcia
Public Knowledge
Boris Mann
DWebYVR, https://dwebyvr.org
David Luecke
Feathers, DWebYVR
Wesley Finck
Astera
Jasmine Zou
Urban Logiq
Anish Lakhwara
DWebYVR
Juliet Oberding
Lexy Lab
Norderhaug
LexyLab
Alex Dalessio
eQualitie
Kaliya Young
Identity Woman
Coelti
Poet
Glenn Poppe
catalog.fyi
Arthur Brock
Holochain
Johannes Ernst
The Fediverse
Josh Simmons
The Matrix.org Foundation
Mek Karpeles
Internet Archive, Open Library
Anna Bonesteel
Fight for the Future
Marnie Webb
Tech Soup
BZ Petroff
Internet Archive
Lee Azzarello
GNAR
Tony Lai
Mothertree Labs
Jack Fox Keen
Guardian Project
Cent Hosten
Metagov
Luke Miller
Koi Pond Project
Tracey Jaquith
Internet Archive, Founding Coder
Paul d'Aoust
Holochain Foundation
Rosalind Marino
Holochain
Jarod Holtz
Holochain
Travis Vachon
Mysilio
Jaycen Horton
Aleksandar Abu Samra
Urban Innovator
Jennelyn Tumalad Bailon
Center for Cultural Innovation
Angie Kim
Center for Cultural Innovation
Brian Dang
Center for Cultural Innovation
Val Elefante
Center for Cultural Innovation, Metagov, & Reliabl.ai
Anavictoria Avila
Center for Cultural Innovation
Laura Poppiti
Center for Cultural Innovation
Christina Bowen
Socialroots
Dmitri Z.
DID.coop
Termie Evan Miyazono
Atlas Computing
Michael Toomim
Braid, Invisible College
Priya Kuber Steven Morris
Holochain & Regenerate Cascadia supporter
Timo Carlin-Burns
Holochain
John C. Gonzalez
Candid.org; DWeb Conduct Team
Luke Hogg
Foundation for American Innovation
Lawrence Wang
Thyself.ai, Coordinape, Hylo
Tyler Childs
Sillyz.Computer; Plan98; Braid
Bobi Rakova
Data & Society Research Institute Affiliate
Will Wright
Frankie

Oscar Meléndez Colón
Founder, Cíclica

Billion Lee
2024 Fellow
Cofacts
Evan Hahn
2024 Fellow
Digital Democracy
Paul Weidner
FarmOS, Cambium, Regen Network
Muhammad Noor
2024 Fellow
Rohingya Project
Andreas Dzialocha (adz)
2024 Fellow
p2panda
Justus Perlwitz
JWP Consulting GK
Ying Tong
Geometry Research
Laja Olaiya
microfauna, sLcKrVsn
Jonathan Abbott Dinesh
janastu
Andrea Mills
Executive Director, Internet Archive Canada
Kiado Cruz
2024 Fellow
Surco Oaxaca
Diego Gonzalez-Medina
Liminal-Works
Shadrach Ankrah
2024 Fellow
Connect Rurals
Ziye Zhang
2024 Fellow
Tanveer Anoy
2024 Fellow
Founder- Mondro, Bangladesh Feminist Archives
Zoe Moore
2024 Fellow
Wassim Z. Alsindi
2024 Fellow
0xSalon
Senka Hadzic
2024 Fellow
Juan Cruz
2024 Fellow
Colnodo - Colombia
Akhilesh Thite
p2plabs.xyz Founder, distributed.press Software Engineer
Joy Chesbrough
Director of Philanthropy, Internet Archive
Janet Glaze
Internet Archive
Kathryn Bates
Del Sol Quartet
Charlton Lee
Del Sol Quartet
Michelle Aerov
Internet Archive
Raymond Cheng
Kariba Labs Inc.
Sarah Grant
2024 Fellow
Radical Networks
Zacchae.us      James Baicoianu
Independent Researcher
Michael Emel
StreetwearDAO
Rex Riepe Hobbes Goering
Sailor’s Union of the Pacific
Gaby Moran
Amina V.
Plurality Institute
Krishnan Unnikrishnan
Radiant IRIS
Norm O'Hagan
USB Club
Nat Decker
2024 Fellow
Frankie Spencer Cavanaugh
OpenCivics
Drew MacDonald
PLL Events Manager (IAC), Wine Guy
Bendjedid Rachad Sanoussi
2024 Fellow
Digital Grassroots and Internet Society Benin
Jay Carpenter
Universal, Unified Identity & State Initiative, Braid
Kaitlin Donovan
Filecoin Foundation & Filecoin Foundation for the Decentralized Web
David Casey
Funding the Commons
Esther Jang
University of Washington, Local Connectivity Lab
Marie Kochsiek
2024 Fellow
drip. period & fertility tracking app, Heart of Code
Nádia Coelho
2024 Fellow
Tekoporã
Batool Almarzouq
2024 Fellow
The Alan Turing Institute/Open Science Community Saudi Arabia
Ankita Raturi
Ag Informatics Lab @ Purdue Univ.
Sunny Karnani Asif Bhatti
OpenAI
Ben Kreith
Del Sol Quartet
Ronen Tamari
Astera Institute / Common SenseMakers
Matt Lorentz
Nos.social
Stacco Troncoso
2024 Fellow
DisCO.coop
Roxi Shohadaee
Gray Area
Greg Austic
Our Sci
Speaker John Ash
Cognicism
Aryabhatta
Chandler Sister City Ambassador
Erik Moeller
Freedom of the Press Foundation
Barry Threw
Gray Area
Hannah Scott
Gray Area
Galina Fendikevich
Filecoin Orbit Ambassador
Amie Corso althea allen
Privacy and Scaling Explorations, Ethereum Foundation
Hodlon // PSE // [email protected]
Ravi Velineni Darrell Duane Andre Vacha
Doc Searls
Customer Commons, Ostrom Workshop, Indiana University
Jefferson Sankara
Filecoin Foundation (TPM, Data Onboarding and Integration)
Krystal Lauk
Illustrator & Artist
Stefan Magdalinski
Filecoin Foundation
Clare Politano
Hylo & Terran Collective
Rabble Henshaw-Plath
Nos.social, Causes
Susan Koch
Founder 3xethical, Brand Partner PersonalAI. Legacy project: PeaceMakerAI.net
Marshall Thompson
Feathers Cloud

noms / clay
fka Naomi Joy Smith
DWeb Camp organizers, Socialroots.io, etc

Svitlana Midianko
Curious Being
Ross Settles
Ladder Studios
Ben Green
Circuitscan.org
John Bruhling Kate Hollenbach
Gray Area
Yar Cohen
Tyler AtHeartEngineer
Privacy and Scaling Explorations
Erik Suhonen
Head of Ecosystem at Project Liberty
Ian Davis
Filecoin Foundation // Mysilio
Carla Ostmann Aaron Brodeur
Terran Collective / Hylo / Holochain
Gonzalez
David Thomas
Executive Director, Open Food Network Canada
LX Cast
Fractal Spaces
Rudo Kemper
Conservation Metrics / Terrastories
Alaï
Space Steward
Eugene Leventhal
Metagov
Cent Hosten
Metagov
Nick Tucker Andi Wong
ArtsEd4All
Young Wong
ArtsEd4All
Benjamin Life
Co-Founder, OpenCivics
Amanda Hickman
MuckRock, DocumentCloud
Sean Kvingedal
FuseChange.org
Alli Magidsohn
Meaning Maker
Sharon Albuerne Dorn Cox
OpenTEAM
Ryan Taylor
Zero-knowledge Audiovisual Club
Kris Kowal
Agoric
Rachel Akerley
PSE
Nico Shi
     Social Layer | Animated Reality | Mars College | Agartha.One
Megan Klimen
Founding Officer of Filecoin Foundation & Filecoin Foundation for the Decentralized Web
Brynn O'Donnell
Filecoin Foundation for the Decentralized Web
Hunter Treseder
Filecoin Foundation, Head of Social Impact Program
Drew Zabrocki
Totem, Ltd
Rithikha Rajamohan
V6A Labs
Marta Belcher
President of Filecoin Foundation & Filecoin Foundation for the Decentralized Web
Day Waterbury
Long ARC Foundation / Planetary Pluralist Party (P3) / CTA
Ihsan Waterbury
Edna Brewer Middle School (OUSD)
Daveed Benjamin
Bridgit DAO, Pachaverse, Overweb
Tibet Sprague
Terran Collective & Hylo
Rick Shinozaki
Del Sol Quartet
Viktor Zaunders
darksoil studio
Milo Kim

     Sarah Fortune

Linda S.
Nos Social
Tommie Introna
Serpentine Arts Technologies
Danny O'Brien
FFDW
Echo Duemig Ana Pura
coolab & attentē
Victor
Coolab/Fractopia
Sue Valentine
Open Society Foundations, UK
Josh Ford
NEAR
fauno
2024 Fellow
Sutty
Alex Zhang
2024 Fellow
DWebYVR
Matt Prewitt
RadicalxChange Foundation
Caroline Stokes
FORWARD
Nat Irwin
OpenTEAM
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Accessibility Lab
Aaron Gendrop
Accessibility Lab
Barbara Ntambirweki
ETC Group/ AfriTAP
Natalia Dashan
Metagov
Adrian Lanzafame
Filecoin Foundation
Brian Rayburn Andre Kudra
esatus AG
Ilan Ben-Meir
BlockScience/Metagov
Memetic Activation Platform (MAP) Amanda
Ravel Ecology
Runrig, farmOS, Gathering for Open Agricultural Technology (GOAT)
Mishaal Lakhani
Atlas Computing
Rylan Peery Nicholas Hu
GCC Community
Szavio Petrus-Raaum Joe Thornton
Filecoin Foundation
Institute for Local Self-Reliance
Tanner
PSE
Jenny Ryan
eQualitie
Peter Allen
Steve Francis
Tech Matters
Alex Feerst
Filecoin Foundation
Noah Thorp
Upside
downlink
eQualitie
Aza Raskin
Earth Species Project & Center for Humane Technology
Jann Ronis
Buddhist DIgital Resource Center
Jon Wilson
Solid
Jesus Torres
Entidad
Paul Lindner
Matthew Geddes
Holo
Drummond Reed
Gen, Trust Over IP (ToIP) Foundation, OpenWallet Foundation, DIF, W3C
Anna Lynton
OpenTEAM
Eric Sydell
Cofounder & CEO
Adele Louise Shaw Julian sutter
Moloch Recovery Squad
Primavera De Filippi
Harvard/CNRS
Vic Spindler-Fox
OpenTEAM
Mei Lin Fung
People Centered Internet
Staff Sargent McDonald
Outer Haven/Big Green DAO
Stephen Lucke
Gardopia Gardens/Big Green DAO
Jay Graber
CEO of Bluesky
Handuo Zhang
Founder of S31 Labs
John Bruhling Clif Cox
Wireless Day!
Chris Birke
The Ecological Archive
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Caslon Kahle
Internet Archive
david van duzer
tennica light industries
Mike Kuniavsky
ML Commons
Arun Mannuru Wesley Merkel Katie Schilling
Laura Poppiti
Center for Cultural Innovation
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Indian Canyon Nation & Kanyon Konsulting LLC
Mark Beasley
rhizome.org
Oscar Arteta
Internet Archive
Chao Chao
S31 Labs
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Futurewei Technologies, Inc.
Matt Siegel
Landbridge Design
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CMC
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John N. Kelly
Writer
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naia y chahou
founder, recurrent labs (recurrent.org)
Deepti Doshi
Co-Director @ New_ Public
Ishan Shapiro
Future Fields
Michael Grossman
Collaborative.tech, Factr.com, ESC.fyi, Magazeum.org
Tom Abate
Writer, Grandfather, Veteran
Zach Schlosser
The Future US
Daniel Bonneville Danilo Bernardineli
BlockScience
Liam Eagen
Neilson Koerner-Safrata
OPEN SOULS
Mike Hourigan Natalie Cadranel
Founder and Executive Director, OpenArchive
Tim Bishop
Hudson Sonoma
Kelly Neuner
Design Futures Initiative
     Jordan Nicholas Sukut
LIONSBERG
Lawrence Axil Comras Melanie McDougall
Co-Founder, Goodly Labs