Aug 7-11, 2024 ✵ Camp Navarro, CA

People

Project Leads & Presenters

Adam Souzis
Founder, OneCommons

Adam is founder of OneCommmons.org. He has long had an interest in decentralized and participatory systems: In 2003 he released Rhizome, the first open source semantic wiki; he cofounded Kinecta, a leading provider of syndication and aggregation solutions; and built Glam/Mode Media's OpenSocial-based distributed apps platform. 

Adam likes to balance his research projects with a practical business side. He has launched a variety of companies, including a street fashion social network (stylemob.com), a cannabis tech platform (Octavia Wellness), one in ad-tech (Graphite) and one blocking ads (FairBlocker).

He is thrilled to finally bring these two sides together with OneCommons: a decentralized, non-proprietary platform with a viable business plan.

 

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Ael .
Speaker, Fellow, g0v contributor

Ael is an active g0v contributor that wants to co-create open and collaborative civic participation with the open source community. She was a co-organiser of g0v.london Civic Hacknight and the product manager in “Disfactory”, a report platform on illegal factories on the farmlands in Taiwan.

Ael was the project manager of g0v Civic Tech Prototype Grant working with g0v Hackathon Organizer (Jothon) team, the product manager of sense.tw, an issue-policy mapping tool, a coordinator of “Herstory in East Asia”, and vaxx.tw to assist citizens finding vaccination registration information. She was also the PR lead of g0v Summit 2018.

 

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Akhilesh Thite
Fellow and Speaker, Founder, p2plabs.xyz; Creator, Peersky Browser

Akhilesh is an Indian tech enthusiast with a passion for decentralization. He is the founder of P2P Labs, an open-source organization with a focus on building curated web3 infrastructure tools for the decentralized internet, leveraging the IPFS protocol. He is currently developing a minimal p2p web browser named Peersky. Akhilesh is often found participating in Hackathons or working on devgrants, he has won 8 web3 hackathons till now. His goal is to to develop decentralized tools that significantly contribute to the betterment of humanity.

 

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Alan Ransil
Protocol Labs, Filecoin Foundation

Alan leads the Filecoin Green initiative at Protocol Labs which builds web3 tools to fight climate change. He studied energy storage materials at MIT where he received his PhD in 2018, and has worked on projects for the MIT Energy Initiative, ARPA-E, and DARPA. He is an advisor to the Global Carbon Reward project, and an organizer for the Sustainable Blockchain Summit.

 

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Allison Duettmann
Incoming President, Foresight Institute

Allison Duettmann is the President of Foresight Institute, a nonprofit focused on advancing beneficial technologies. She started the project ExistentialHope.com to inspire a memetic shift toward positive futures and is co-authoring a book on strategies to strengthen civilization. She directs all programs at Foresight Institute and researches how to accelerate the benefits of crucial technologies with a primary focus on AI. She speaks regularly at conferences (e.g. SXSW, Effective Altruism Summit, Wall Street Journal), on podcasts (e.g. FLI’s Podcast), moderates monthly speaker salons and Foresight’s annual conference. She holds an MS in Philosophy & Public Policy from the London School of Economics, with a dissertation focus on AI Ethics.

 

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Andrew Chou
Software Developer, Digital Democracy + Manyverse

Andrew is a software developer, open web enthusiast, and digital explorer currently based in New York City. He loves to venture into the various corners of the internet and the diversity of programming always captures his curiosity. Most of his experience is in web development - primarily with front-end technologies - but other technological interests include geospatial applications, local-first technologies, and programming language theory. He currently spends his days building technology founded on decentralized principles with Digital Democracy and Manyverse. You can further explore his digital presence at his personal website.

Anh Lê
Independent Researcher, The New School, Community Tech NY

Anh is a transdisciplinary researcher and artist based in Lenapehoking/NYC. Recently, they’ve built community-owned internet infrastructure with Community Tech NY/Community Technology Collective and designed advocacy campaigns to support Southeast Asian movement building in NYC. They are currently pursuing their Masters in International Affairs at The New School, where their research focuses on border technologies, migration, and digital rights.

Arkadiy Kukarkin
Decentralized Tech Lead, Internet Archive

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.

Arky .
Open Source Technologist

Arky is a technologist and a visual storyteller based in Southeast Asia. Arky has contributed to open source projects aimed at providing equitable access to digital tools and an open web. Over the past decade, Arky has been involved with Free/Libre and Open Source communities and has worked with organizations such as Braille Without Borders (BWB), NGO Resource Center and Mozilla in Asia and Africa.

Art Brock
Co-founder, Holochain

Arthur Brock designs targeted currencies which shape flows of information, participation and resources, and builds the peer-to-peer technology infrastructure to ensure they remain unenclosable (immune to centralized control or corruption). He has founded many mind-bending projects such as Holochain, Ceptr, and Agile Learning Centers.
 

 

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Aza Raskin
Cofounder, Center for Humane Technology

Aza Raskin helped build the web at Mozilla as head of user experience, was named to Inc and Forbes 30-under-30 and became the Fast Company Master of Design for his work founding Massive Health, a consumer health and big data company. The company was acquired by Jawbone, where he was VP of Innovation. Before that, he founded Songza.com (acquired by Google). For Aza, the problem is especially personal: his father, Jef Raskin, created the Macintosh project at Apple with the vision that technology should help, not harm, humans.

He is a co-founder of the Center for Humane Technology with Tristan Harris.

With co-founder Britt Selvitelle, Aza is leading the Earth Species Project, capturing, preserving and mapping animal language to human language with AI tools.

 

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Barbara Gonzalez Segovia
Fellow, Digital Democracy / Programs

Barbara Gonzalez Segovia (she/they) is a BIPOC, queer, feminist who sees herself as a social activist. She is passionate about amplifying people's voices from anti-racist and anti-oppressive lenses, both in her professional and personal life. She values kindness and vulnerability, and is fully committed to infuse the world with joy.

She has over a decade of experience in community development, indigenous rights and gender equality. Her work has been focusing on program planning, community outreach and organizational development, particularly within grassroot organizations and indigenous nations from different countries in South America.

Barry Threw
Gray Area

Barry Threw (barrythrew.com) is the Executive and Artistic Director of Gray Area, a San Francisco non-profit cultural incubator applying antidisciplinary collaboration towards an equitable and regenerative future. He drifts fluidly between roles, collaborating as an executive, curator, technologist, cultural producer, and strategist to cultivate forward-looking, boundary-blurring projects integrating culture and technology. His previous leadership positions have generated innovative & influential platforms, products, teams, and businesses spanning art, music, internet, built environment, and experiential & immersive media: as Software Director with Keith McMillen Instruments, developing advanced technology to bridge traditional string instruments with computers to spark a Western new classical music movement based on the technologies and aesthetics of the 21st century; as Technical Director with Recombinant Media Labs, presenting surround cinema at installations and festivals around the world; as a founding Partner at Fabricatorz, a distributed technology studio for cultural projects with nodes in Hong Kong, St. Louis, San Francisco, and Lisbon; and as Director of Software with Obscura Digital, a San Francisco-based creative technology studio specializing in the design and execution of immersive and interactive experiences worldwide, and the first company to do architectural projection mapping. He is convinced that integrated approaches combining art, technology, science, and the humanities are necessary for economic, social, and ecological regeneration.

 

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Benson Tilya
Save Africa's Nature

Benson Tilya was born and raised in the northern part of Tanzania at Arusha, of the Chagga people, a prominent tribe in the Kilimanjaro region. Since early childhood Benson has been fascinated with plant-life, thus, spending his time in conservation activities of the fauna of his homeland comes naturally. His commitment to the living environment and his expertise in botany makes him especially suited for conservation management at Save Africa’s Nature (SANA) in Tanzania. His assistance has been instrumental in the encouragement, support and monitoring of SANA projects in Saadani National Park villages; engaged in conservation activities such as seed banking, greenhouse management and restoration of the forest corridor via tree-planting projects. 

After graduating from the University of Dar-Es-Salaam with a bachelors in biology, he has been committing his time to Jane Goodall’s Roots & Shoots community action program, where, under his care, thousands of trees have been planted for reforestation in 50 hectares of land provided by the Tanzanian Forest Agency. Through Roots & Shoots, he promotes weekly activities where thousands of school clubs from all over Tanzania participate in rejuvenation and maintenance of the natural environment through tree-planting, clean-up events and community work. 

Benson stands on the thesis that technology and nature don’t have to act as antagonists; that the science behind digital technology can and should work in tandem with the respect for the natural world to subvert deforestation and promote long-term environmentally conscientious solutions. For instance, decentralized web technology can provide security while empowering local communities via unrestricted communication and free exchanges of ideas and information.  

He believes that building a generation of people who take pride in their natural and cultural resources, with practices built on participatory approaches to appraisals, training, research and planning, will provide the means for long-term sustainability in biodiversity and forest conservation.

Blake Stoner
Founder, Vngle Grassroots News Agency

Blake Stoner is the Founder & Chief Reporter of the Vngle Grassroots News Agency. He serves as a Journalism Fellow at Stanford & USC’s co-founded Starling Lab for Data Integrity, a Knight Foundation Fellow at the CUNY Craig Newmark Journalism School’s Executive Program for News Innovation and Leadership, and serves on the Advisory Council of the Solutions Journalism Network. Stoner holds an MS in Strategic Communication from Columbia University and a BA in Economics from Morehouse College. Previously, he's served as a Harvard Franklin Fellow for Social Impact x Tech, a Human-Centered Design Leader at the Columbia University Design Studio, an Oprah Winfrey International Leadership Fellow, and a Goldin Institute Global Fellow for international grassroots leadership.

Brandon King
Executive, Resonate Co-op

brandon king (all lower-case)* has years of experience and insight as a cultural creative (dj, multi-media, visual and sound artist), community organizer and cooperative developer. he is also a founding member of Cooperation Jackson, a cooperative network in Jackson Mississippi, as well as a Peer Advisor with the US Federation of Worker Coops.

brandon currently serves as Executive for Resonate Coop, an international, open-source, music streaming platform and cooperative that’s co-owned and democratically managed by the artists, developers, listeners and workers who build and use the platform. You can check out our Community Forum to have a sense of how our cooperative operates.

This summer, brandon will also be attending the School of Making and Thinking’s IMMERSION 4.0: VR 360° Video Creation Lab, Summer Residency Program, in partnership with Cucalorus Film Festival. through this residency, he’ll become more acquainted with virtual reality (VR) and have the opportunity to develop and execute an immersive media project with production support and technical assistance from collaborators and residency coordinators.

This fall, brandon is beginning a Masters in Fine Arts MFA Studio Art Graduate Program at CUNY Queens College focusing on Social Practice Art and Art Installation.

Brenton Cheng
Internet Archive

Talk to me about e-book formats, the future of accessibility, making OCR suck less, OPDS, agnostic e-book readers, the one universal source of book metadata, what to do about DRM, Open Library; also, performing arts, Russian verbs, Swift iOS development, and NaNoWriMo.

Brewster Kahle
Founder, Internet Archive

A passionate advocate for public Internet access and a successful entrepreneur, Brewster Kahle has spent his career intent on a singular focus: providing Universal Access to All Knowledge. He is the founder and Digital Librarian of the Internet Archive, one of the largest libraries in the world. Soon after graduating from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he studied artificial intelligence, Kahle helped found the company Thinking Machines, a parallel supercomputer maker. In 1989, Kahle created the Internet's first publishing system called Wide Area Information Server (WAIS), later selling the company to AOL. In 1996, Kahle co-founded Alexa Internet, which helps catalog the Web, selling it to Amazon.com in 1999. The Internet Archive, which he founded in 1996, now preserves 90+ petabytes of data - the books, Web pages, music, television, and software that form our cultural heritage, working with more than 1000 library and university partners to create a digital library, accessible to all.

He first called builders to "Lock the Web Open" using decentralized technologies in 2015, and continues to write about, experiment, cajole, and cheer on those creating decentralized systems we can trust.

 

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Brian Ginsburg
Software Engineer, Fission

Brian is a software engineer at Fission where he works on and documents the ODD SDK. He loves web and audio programming, the widest imaginations of music, and cycling through the woods.

Brynn O'Donnell
Social Impact Program Manager, Filecoin Foundation

Brynn O’Donnell is a Social Impact Program Manager at FF and FFDW. She manages the FFDW portfolio in the areas of human rights, environment, science, and journalism. She's also an MEL specialist and loves to nerd out about how to best measure impact and success.

Calum Bowden
Trust.support

Calum Bowden collaborates on stories, worlds, and platforms that reconnect the cultural with the technological, economical, political and ecological. He co-founded Trust and Black Swan.

Trust is a network of utopian conspirators, a sandbox for creative, technical and critical projects, and site of experimentation for new ways of learning together; a hybrid online (Discord) and physical space (Berlin) for inquiry into emerging social and political phenomena through the lenses of aesthetic, narrative, game, technical, climate and design research. Since 2018, Trust has developed a public programme that includes lectures, installations, residency programmes, reading groups, working groups, live-streamed participatory events, and online resources. Trust incubates projects that build a creative culture of the commons.

Black Swan is a Berlin-based collective pursuing horizontal and decentralized approaches to the traditional art world templates for art making.

Camille Nibungco
Fellow, Mapping Feminist LA

Camille Nibungco is a designer and researcher currently based in Los Angeles, CA. They are currently involved in the Angelena Atlas project, an crowd-sourced community resource for Angelenos. They are interested in decentralized technologies as a tool for working class sovereignty, labor and grassroots change.

 

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Carol Xu
Co-founding Steward, The Present of Work

Being a former academic researcher of management science, Carol has always been fascinated with new ways of organizing people and resources (such as self-organizing, Decentralized Autonomous Organization, sociocracy, Deliberately Developmental Organization) that empower creativity, resilience, and transparency. Carol designs and hosts social spaces and innovative "sandboxes" that integrate contemplative, creative, and strategic elements into learning for organizational leaders, community stewards, and purpose-driven individuals. Carol holds a Ph.D. in Management Science and Engineering from Stanford University. She loves going on (in-person or virtual) hikes and connecting with people from all walks of life. For more, please visit https://www.linkedin.com/in/jiacarolxu/

Cent Hosten
Researcher | Community, Metagov

Cent Hosten is a researcher and community manager at Metagov.

Chad Ostrowski
Speaker, Aha Labs

The thought experiment that motivated Chad to learn about decentralized tech was "how will we make an internet that works on Mars?" and his foot-in-the-door to working in this space was building software tools for Aragon (Ethereum DAO stuff), then NEAR Protocol, and now as one half of Aha Labs, a developer-experience consultancy focused on WebAssembly blockchains for now. The longer Chad has been in this space, the more he's started to doubt the validity of the narratives that drew him to it in the first place. Earlier this year he listened to The Overstory and now he just wants to think about trees.

Charles Lehner
Software Engineer, Spruce Systems, Inc.; Secure Scuttlebutt contributor

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

Charlton Lee
Del Sol Quartet

As the founding member of the Del Sol String Quartet, violist Charlton Lee has brought his colorful curiosity and infectious groove to the stage for almost three decades, contributing significantly to the development of the contemporary string quartet, its repertoire, and place in our community. He has premiered hundreds of new works at venues including the Library of Congress, the Kennedy Center, and the Santa Fe Opera. He has spearheaded the commissioning of major works from composers including Terry Riley, Frederic Rzewski, Chinary Ung, and Gabriela Lena Frank. As Artistic Director of the quartet’s non-profit organization (Del Sol Performing Arts Organization), Lee has led the group to become recognized as a “vigorous champion of living composers,” focusing on music that reflects our community. Major upcoming projects include “Your Wall is Our Canvas: The Angel Island Project,” a reflection on immigration and discrimination in the history of San Francisco’s Angel Island, and “Karuna Supreme,” an immersive collaboration with North Indian musicians.

A sought-after educator, chamber coach and jurist, he has also performed music for award winning feature and documentary films and collaborated with various dance companies, including Stephen Pelton, Benjamin Levy, and Garrett/Moulton. Especially passionate about just intonation, Charlton draws on his math & science background to popularize these concepts with new audiences, most recently through the first San Francisco just intonation festival and a TED-X talk.

Charlton received a Bachelor’s Degree in Applied Mathematics and Physics from the University of California, Berkeley and a Master’s Degree in Music from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. Consequently, he is likely the only person to have published articles in both Physics Review Letters and Strings Magazine. Outside the quartet, he is a 20th generation disciple of martial art Chen Taiji, an avid skier and chef.

 

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Chia Amisola
Founder Internet & Ambient Artist", "Developh & Philippine Internet Archive

Chia Amisola is an internet / ambient artist born & raised in the Philippines, based in San Francisco. Their (web)site-specific art is an act of worldmaking constructing spaces, systems, and tools that invent worlds where creation is synonymous with liberation. Ambience is political: their work tackles placemaking, poetics & visibilities of infrastructure, defaults, maintenance, & communication as technologies become environments that we construct and therefore construct us in return. Chia is the Founder of Developh, a critical technology institute in the Philippines since 2016, the Philippine Internet Archive, and teaches through the Ambient Institute.

Christian Memije
Speaker, Trapnstudio

Christian is a Cali born human that was attracted to computers and software from a young age. He went on to study computer science at UC San Diego and has worked at non-profits (https://learningequality.org), corporations (https://teradata.com), and start ups (https://vicarious.com and https://aurorasolar.com). He cares about creating practically useful tools that are pleasant to use. He also has a big passion for music. He has kicked off Trapnstudio (https://www.trapnstudio.dev), a dev studio that will bring his ideas to life. 

Christine Lemmer-Webber
Creative Commons

Christine Lemmer-Webber is a long-time user freedom advocate. She is mostly known for their work co-authoring and co-editing the ActivityPub distributed social network protocol.

In previous times of her life she worked as tech lead at Creative Commons, co-founded MediaGoblin, started and ran the Liberated Pixel Cup, and kicked off the work on CC BY-SA 4.0 and GPL compatibility.

These days her primary work is on Spritely, a project to improve the security of federated social networks and bridge them with virtual worlds.

When she isn't programming, she enjoys cooking, sketching, and making ascii art.

 

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Clara Tsao
Founding Officer, Filecoin Foundation & Filecoin Foundation for the Decentralized Web

Clara Tsao is the founding director of Filecoin Foundation and Filecoin Foundation for the Decentralized Web. She is also co-founder and on the board of the Trust & Safety Professional Association and the Trust & Safety Foundation. Clara previously was the Senior Advisor for Emerging Technology (IoT and Blockchain) at the Department of Homeland Security and a Chief Technology Officer focused on countering foreign influence, election security, and homegrown extremism. She has spent a decade working in the technology industry across global teams at Microsoft, Apple, Sony PlayStation, AT&T, and also as a Google and Mozilla Technology Policy Fellow. Clara is also the Board Chair and President of the White House Presidential Innovation Fellows Foundation and a Senior Advisor at Tech Against Terrorism.

 

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Cody Harris
Volunteer, Independent / Seattle Community Network

Cody lives in Seattle and likes networks and distributed systems. He volunteers with the Connections Museum in Seattle repairing antique telephone switches and giving tours to the public. He recently assisted Shadytel build an analog phone network serving campsites at ToorCamp 2022. He's also an active volunteer with Seattle Community Network.

 

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Coelti .
Poet, .

Coelti is (presently) a participatory poet, ritualist, artist, experiential designer, creative facilitator, consent educator/practitioner, and intuitive creator. Their (current) areas of practice include typewriter poetry, relational anarchy & intimate communication, fire dancing, advocacy, and 3D spatial audio for sexual healing. DWeb Camp 2022 was their introduction to decentralized web concepts, and revolutionized their priorities and interests. For DWeb 2023, they will be fulfilling the roles of Poet, Open Source Librarian, Weaver, Typewriter Enthusiast, and Consent Educator.

Collin McClain
Writer & Researcher, Holochain

Collin McClain is a systems thinker and facilitator interested in the ways that social and technical systems interact. Passionate about cooperative economics and governance they seek to foster alternatives to our communication and information systems which have historically developed from empire. Collin currently works for Holochain as a writer and researcher.

Danny O'Brien
Filecoin Foundation & Filecoin Foundation for the Decentralized Web

Danny O'Brien is Senior Fellow and DWeb Strategy at the Filecoin Foundation and the Filecoin Foundation for the Decentralized Web. He has been a tech journalist, developer, and activist for online free speech, privacy, and an open internet for over 20 years, including over a decade at the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF).

His work within the technology sector has included being a founding employee at the Virgin brand's ISP, Virgin Net. As a journalist, he served as Silicon Valley correspondent for the London Sunday Times and the Irish Times, and defended reporters globally from online harassment and cyber-attacks at the Committee to Protect Journalists.

David Farley
Web developer, noisebridge hackerspace & internet archive

Web developer, reader, thinker, altruistic technologies enthusiast

David Greenbaum
Singer/Educator/Director/Producer/Administrator, ASUWISHPRODUCTIONS

David Greenbaum (aka Mr G) is a San Francisco native who began performing professionally in the late 1900’s with San Francisco Opera’s production of Werther, featuring Alfredo Kraus and Renatta Scotto.

Performs locally and globally - all genres including: pop, rock, r&b, funk, musical theatre, jazz, operetta and opera.

Builds and supports community through the performing arts.

Produced, directed, and taught drama and music for schools and theatre companies throughout the Bay Area for 20+ years, including previously serving as Broadway by the Bay’s Youth Theatre Conservatory Director. Has taught 5,000+ students grades K through 12 and beyond.

Currently teaches music and drama and serves as the Principal for St. Thomas More School in San Francisco, CA.

Holds a Master of Arts in Teaching Theatre Arts and a Master of Arts in School Administration.

SFUSD's first VAPA MasterTeacher and is also a certified EQ Practitioner through Six Seconds Emotional Intelligence Network.

Arts activities and accolades include: 

presenter and educator, American Conservatory Theatre (ACT); Outstanding Achievement Administrative Services Credential, NDNU 2017; SFUSD VAPA Dreamcatcher Honoree 2018; 2020 Music Educator Innovation Award recipient; 2020-2021 American Federation Teachers (AFT) Teacher Leader; 2021-2023 KQED Media Literacy Innovator; Little Kids Rock Regional Program Specialist and Modern Band Summit presenter.

Denise Duncan
Head of Program Management, Amplica Labs

Denise leads program management and operations for Amplica Labs, and is a contributor to Frequency and the Decentralized Social Networking Protocol (DSNP). Her work helps put action-guiding principles into process, while driving project strategy and collaboration with cross-functional stakeholders. As an advocate of embedding ethics and values into organizational structure and blockchain-based software design and development, Denise prides herself on bringing humility and a passion to software design and process.


Previously, Denise played a number of roles at CrownPeak Technology—an early native SaaS platform—where she was a director of client implementation teams, as well as a builder of customer and partner enablement and education programs. Denise holds a BA in Physics from Hampshire College.

 

 

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Doc Searls
Speaker, Founder & board member, Customer Commons; Visiting scholar, Ostrom Workshop (Indiana University)

Author of The Intention Economy, co-author of The Cluetrain Manifesto, 24 years as an editor with Linux Journal, host of FLOSS Weekly and Reality 2.0 podcasts, leader of ProjectVRM hosted by the Berkman Klein Center at Harvard, visiting scholar with the Ostrom Workshop at Indiana University, research fellow with the Center for Information Technology and Society at UCSB, co-founder and co-organizer of the Internet identity Workshop at the Computer History Museum. He has also been blogging since the last millennium, and since 2007 at https://blogs.harvard.edu/doc/.

 

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Dominick Marino
Solutions architect, Storj.io

Technical creative focused on building decentralized storage. Child of the internet age with perpetual curiosity.

 

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Emaline Friedman
Neighbourhoods

Emaline Friedman, PhD became too interested in distributed networking while writing a book about Internet Addiction as a grad student in Psychology. In addition to part-time work as a psychotherapist, she has been exploring the potentials of DWeb to address the ills of the corporate web and to fulfill on the creative promises of the early internet in a more equitable way. Emaline has held a variety of positions in the Holochain ecosystem: writing, speaking, and organizing with Holochain, Holo, the Commons Engine, and currently leading communications in Neighbourhoods. 

 

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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.
 

Eric Bear
Holochain, darksoil studio, dWeb Labs

Hi.

I'm Bear. I am the director of ecosystem growth at
Holochain, do product and business stuff at darksoil studio, and serve as program lead at dWeb Labs. I love growing beutiful human systems around meaningful projects. I also love Microalgae. Talk to me about it. I'm hanging out around the Treehouse and the P2P tent. Barefoot.

 

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Esther Jang
Director (and University of Washington CSE, PhD student), Local Connectivity Lab

Esther is a PhD student in Computer Science at the University of Washington. Her research focuses on community networks in both rural remote and urban contexts, and especially how communities of practice can build and sustain technical infrastructures. She has helped install community networks in the Philippines, Mexico, Tanzania, and various states around the US. She is currently a lead organizer and installer for the Seattle Community Network, which seeks to build community-owned and maintained Internet access infrastructure to support digital equity in Seattle and Tacoma. She serves as a Director at the Local Connectivity Lab, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit focusing on technology research, deployment, and teaching in support of community networks around the world. In her free time, she is an avid jazz singer and plays with a band called Django Junction in Seattle.

 

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Gabriel Dunne
Artist

Gabriel Dunne gabrieldunne.com is an American interdisciplinary artist, designer, and software developer based in the Bay Area. With decades of experience spanning diverse mediums including parametric and computational design, software engineering, creative tooling, sound/spatial audio, installation, and fabrication, he has maintained a diverse artistic and innovative studio practice and holistic systems-thinking methodologies, resulting in work that represents his continuous exploration and interconnection of visual and audible, digital and material.

Gabriel Chartier
Developer and Researcher, Three Five Two

Gabriel is a web developer and researcher with interests surrounding the UX of the decentralized web, interest-based community formation, digital ethics, community resource sharing, mutual aid, and privacy.

Golda Velez
3Box, DevOps Engineer | Cooperation.org, Technical Advisor | dSocialCommons.org, Community lead

Golda is focused on the intersection of code and society, from tools for shared governance to linked trust claims to keep out bad actors. She has been a software engineer (or otherwise a hacker/debugger type) for over 30 years, with experience ranging from Assembly language NetBIOS layer at Artisoft to the Webglimpse search engine, from industrial stremgh Perl at Oracle to Python data pipelines at Factual, more recently fighting organized attackers on the Risk team at Postmates and keeping the pipes running on Uber platform. Now at home at 3box, she supports the infrastructure for Ceramic development. 

On the side Golda helps run the dSocialCommons.org community that emerged from the Bluesky launch, advises and supports the startup WhatsCookin.us for building community through realtime events, and contributes to projects at Cooperation.org for developing tech to fight bad actors and enable trust and cooperation. Decentralized Linked Trust to save us all!

 

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Greg Slepak
Chief Turtle, 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. His recent work has focused on addressing fundamental security flaws in how the Internet secures connections, Group Income, and the Shelter Protocol, which will be announced at this year's DWeb conference.

Guillem Córdoba
darksoil.studio, Lightning Rod Labs, Holochain

Guillem writes exquisite code for our darksoil applications. He has been foundational for teaching the growing Holochain dev community how to effectively code hApps and has built lots of beautiful core developer tools like the launcher, scaffolding and gym. Passionate about learning and teaching, Guillem is moved by a desire to support the creative and collaborative side of all people.
 

Hayley Anna
Speaker, Blockchain Law for Social Good Center

Hayley is the Program Assistant for the Blockchain Law for Social Good Center where she supports the first-of-its-kind blockchain law center that considers the challenges and opportunities of a blockchain-based future. Prior to her current role, Hayley led research at the World Economic Forum where she co-authored a report on blockchain for scaling climate action. With a background in international and economic development, Hayley is passionate about the potential for decentralized technologies to create a society where people and the planet can thrive and prosper.

 

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Henry Wang
Speaker, RSS3

Henry is the CTO of RSS3, an information dissemination protocol designed to achieve open, efficient, and secure flow of information on the Open Web. Co-Investigator for UK EPSRC; PhD in Computer Science from the University of Nottingham

 

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Hester Bruikman
Workshop facilitator, Product Manager at MetaMask, Organizer Offscript & Web3UX

Hester is a psychologist, turned designer, turned product manager. She recently joined MetaMask as a product manager focused on the core mobile wallet experience. Between 2018 and 2022 she contributed to Status, or what soon will be your Web3 Discord alternative. Hester is the founder and boardmember of Web3 Creatives. A foundation that connects and enables designers in Web3. Offscript and Web3UX panel are key initiatives.

Holmes Wilson
Founder, Quiet

Holmes Wilson is an Internet freedom activist whose work mixes mass mobilization and software tools. He is a co-founder and board member of Fight for the Future, the activism organization that was instrumental in defeating the infamous US site-blocking laws SOPA/PIPA, fighting for net neutrality rules in the US and Europe, opposing law enforcement crypto backdoors, and more recently challenging the use of face recognition tech by US law enforcement and products like Amazon Ring. He also previously co-founded Miro, a free software video player based on Bittorrent and RSS, and was a campaign manager at the Free Software Foundation. He’s currently building Quiet, a local-first, peer-to-peer team chat app. Quiet differs from Slack, Discord, Matrix, and Signal in that it does not require that users trust a third party server or run their own. Instead, data syncs directly between clients over the Tor network, with no server required.

 

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Ilya Kreymer
Webrecorder, Creator and Lead Developer, .
Ira Nezhynska
Creative Director, DWeb Camp

Ira is a designer with a focus on branding for emerging technologies.

Always being on a mission to “made new tech look beautiful and human” she made her way from traditional advertising for huge retail brands to software development for German and Nordic tech scenes, to — since early 2018 — designing for decentralized web.

These days she helps Web3 creators connect with their early adopters through the language of share and color. Additionally to her work on brand development at Jolocom and DWeb, she organizes (occasional) DWebDesign meetups in Berlin.

Jack Fox Keen
Data Empowerment Lead, The Guardian Project

Jack Fox Keen is the Data Empowerment Lead for the Guardian Project's ProofMode application, a cryptographically verifiable way of providing visual evidence of the world around us. Jack has been doing data analytics for non-profits for the last two years, after graduating from Florida State University with a degree in biomathematics and scientific computing. They will be starting a PhD program at UC Santa Cruz this September, where they will focus on explainable artificial intelligence. They are focused on ethical data aquisition and analysis, pulling inspiration and guidance from many realms of life, including intersectional feminism, queer theory, and decolonial studies.

 

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Jack Cushman
Harvard Library Innovation Lab

Jack Cushman is the director of the Harvard Library Innovation Lab, a software and design lab at the Harvard Law School Library building tools and communities for open knowledge. A software engineer and appellate attorney, he previously worked as lead developer of the Caselaw Access Project, and has served as a lecturer on computer programming at Harvard Law School, as a fellow of the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society, and as a board member of the American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts.

 

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Jackson Morgan
Founder, O.team

Jackson Morgan is the founder of O.team, a consulting firm focused on the decentralized storage network, Solid.

 

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Jacky Zhao
Independent Researcher, Hypha Workers Cooperative

Jacky Zhao is currently exploring what agentic, interoperable, and communal technology looks like in his independent research practice. He also spents a lot of time maintaining open source software and infrastructure to help people to sculpt their digital environments in ways that work for them.

James Baicoianu
Principal Engineer, JanusVR

James spends most of his time making the web do things it was never intended for. A professional web developer, search engineer, and amateur game developer for 20 years, he's finally found a job which lets him combine the three, building virtual worlds for JanusVR.

Currently, he's working on pushing the boundaries of what browsers are expected to do by combining WebVR, WASM, emulation, and photogrammetry to build worlds which seamlessly blend real, historical, and virtual realities into one.

Jay Carpenter
Founder, Desert Blockchain LLC

Jay Carpenter has been an active member of the Blockchain and Decentralized Web community since 2014.  His primary interest in this evolving space is in the realm of naming, numbering, addressing and identity.

Jay is the founder of Desert Blockchain which is the largest Blockchain meetup in Arizona.

He has taught as an Adjunct Professor at University of Advancing Technology (UAT.edu) a technical course on the intersection of Blockchain development, cybersecurity and the Internet of Things.  Jay is regularly invited as a guest lecturer on Blockchain and Web 3.0 topics at the Arizona State University, Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law.

He has an extensive background in technology, entrepreneurship and finance.  He is a graduate of Arizona State University with an undergraduate degree in business with emphasis in finance.  He obtained an MBA from the University of Southern California with an emphasis in finance.

Jay is passionate about the emerging new realms of communications, finance and the societal possibilities associated with a Blockchain and Decentralized Web centric future.


 

 

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Jean-François Noubel
Expert, Collective intelligence

As pessoas conhecem Jean-François Noubel como um dos líderes globais em inteligência coletiva, um novo campo de pesquisa que explora a consciência e evolução de sistemas vivos, na natureza e na humanidade. Vivendo uma vida experimental, ele treina "humanonautas" que exploram o que está na ponta da evolução social. Ele dá aulas ao redor do mundo e é coach de líderes globais. Jean-François trabalha com tecnologias pós-monetárias que em breve substituirão o dinheiro e suas limitações. Cinco anos atrás ele tornou-se o primeiro nômade digital a viver 100% da sua vida a partir da economia da dádiva.

jiangplus ‎
Speaker, DDNX, Distributed System Researcher

Jiang is a distributed system researcher building DDNX, the decentralized DNS resolution protocol, which use DNSSEC to generate cryptographic proof of domain ownership, and have it verified on blockchain system. So that we can have fully verified on-chain identity of domain names, and create proofs for the owner of the websites. Jiang is also interested in topics like peer-to-peer technology, distributed system, capability-based security and functional programming.

Jiang lives in Dali, China, where he is building organic communities. He organized Creator Basic Income (CBI), which is a basic income program to support creators or artists that can contribute to the community.

Jiang was also the organizer of Papers We Love Beijing Chapter.

 

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John Gleeson
Speaker, Storj Labs, COO

John Gleeson is Chief Operating Officer for Storj where he is responsible for the general operations of the company, customer success, and strategic innovation initiatives. He established and operates from the company’s international Cayman Islands office where he works to operationalize core processes to ensure the business scales as the company and network grow. Having started his career as an attorney, he is perfectly suited to lead the decentralized cloud vision at Storj. John has spent his career focused on enabling enterprise digital transformation, and prior to joining Storj Labs, John worked at Covisint, a company specializing in enterprise identity and access management and IoT. John has a BA from the University of Michigan and a JD from Wayne State University.

John Kunze
Speaker, ARK Alliance and Ronin Institute

John Kunze is a pioneer in the theory and practice of digital libraries. With a background in computer science and mathematics, he wrote BSD Unix tools that come pre-installed with Mac and Linux systems. He created the ARK identifier scheme (arks.org), the N2T.net scheme-agnostic resolver, and contributed heavily to the first standards for URLs (RFC1736, RFC1625, RFC2056), library search and retrieval (Z39.50), archival transfer (BagIt - RFC8493), web archiving (WARC), and metadata (RFC2413, RFC2731, ANSI/NISO Z39.85).

John Hess
Engineer, Guardian Project

John is an software engineer, data scientist and policy wonk. He's been a Berkman Klein Assembly Fellow (cyber security and mis- & disinformation), and has degrees in technology policy, aero-astro engineering, and mechanical engineering. In addition to working on a handful of fun and interesting things at the Guardian Project, he's worked on things ranging from educational technology to flight test to mental health systems of care.

John Ryan
co-steward of Dweb principles; CEO, Muinin

1. Co-founder, CEO Muinin pbc, which has a novel approach to software security (ask me), including use of distributed ledgers.
2. Co-steward, with Mai Ishikawa Sutton, of the creation of the Dweb principles; we're leading a session at DWeb camp discussing principle 5, the ecological / environmental principle, which may need to be updated, or made more robust.
3. Writer on macro-economics of the post-fossil fuel world. One challenge is how to make all organizations accountable for costs (and benefits!) that aren't on their books? I'll be asking for your thoughts on that and hosting a session on this gnarly topic at DWeb Camp. Writings at https://readtheimpact.com/ and https://www.johnconorryan.com/burning-oil-blog which is horribly out of date. 
4. Spouse of Mary Lou Jepsen; painter, rudimentary cellist, resident of Sausalito, California.

 

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Jordan Gray
Speaker, AstroDAO

Founding member of CODAME ART+TECH. Certified teacher of Wild Goose Qi Gong. Producer of electronic music and visuals as staRpauSe.

Joshua Tan
Executive Director, Metagov

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

Kathryn Bates
Del Sol Quartet

Cellist Kathryn Bates’ boundless energy for sharing musical experiences has shaped a career that continues to explore the intersections of tradition and innovation. Praised for her “beautifully rounded sound” by the New York Times, Kathryn’s performances are characterized by a dancer’s sense of rhythm and captivating theatricality. Projects range from her recent tongue-in-check solo cello recording of “Santa Claus is Coming to Town” (“Inspire Christmas” album on Sono Luminus) to performances during Elliott Carter 100th Birthday anniversary celebration at Tanglewood that were called the “revelation” of the concert (Sequenza 21) and “electrifying” (Boston Globe) to a Shostakovich piano quintet performance with Menahem Pressler that could not be halted even by an earthquake. Cellist of the San Francisco-based Del Sol String Quartet since 2010, Kathryn has established herself as an important voice in the contemporary music world, as musician, collaborator and curator.

In addition her contributions as cellist to Del Sol’s work, Kathryn co-curated the 2017 Tanglewood Festival of Contemporary Music to rave reviews and premiere performances. Her curation has shaped Del Sol’s local scene for five years with her series “Soundings” - a concert experience where audiences delve deeply into one work - played twice - amplified by the work of a local artist. Kathryn recently completed the second season of “The Golden Arts Society,” a membership-based house concert series that explores the audiences’ perceptions and curiosity of music. A native of historic Concord, Massachusetts, Kathryn graduated from Rice University’s Shepherd School of Music, under the tutelage of Norman Fischer, and the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. She serves on the Del Sol Performing Arts Organization’s Board of Directors, in addition to her roles as a programs manager and grant writer in the organization. Kathryn spends time away from the cello hiking outdoor trails, practicing Iyengar yoga, or roasting coffee.

 

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Kegan Dougal
Staff Software Engineer, Element

Kegan is one of the core developers behind Matrix, having worked on the protocol since the beginning. He enjoys deeply technical problems and the liberation of communication which Matrix provides to the wider world. In recent times he has focused on what the protocol will look like in the future including account portability, P2P, faster client syncing and low bandwidth protocols to name a few.

 

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Kelani Nichole
Founder, TRANSFER

Kelani Nichole is a technologist and founder of an experimental media art gallery called TRANSFER. She has been exploring decentralized networks and virtual worlds in contemporary art since 2013. Nichole's focus is supporting artists with critical technology practice, and exploring alternative models of cultural infrastructure. Currently she is building the TRANSFER Archive, a decentralized data trust and cooperative model for cultural value exchange, and producing a generative documentary film 'Almost in Real Time'.

Kelly Neuner
Chapter & Community Lead, Design Futures Initiative

Kelly (they/them) is a transdisciplinary designer who is passionate about exploring the intersections of people, systems, ecosystems, and technology. They center their design and futures practice around responsible design and participatory practices. They have completed dedicated training in equity-centered design and research and responsible tech development with organizations including Creative Reaction Lab, HmntyCntrd, and Gray Area. Kelly is currently the Global Chapter & Community Lead for the Design Futures Initiative and is a City Lead for SheFi.

Krista Spriggs
Director of Infrastructure, Storj

Krista is a DevOps and engineering professional with over 10 years experience in the industry. Her primary areas of focus are around that of building fault tolerant, highly available, and scalable systems/platforms with wide scale reach and traffic.

 

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Kurt Opsahl
Filecoin Foundation & Filecoin Foundation for the Decentralized Web

Kurt Opsahl is the Associate General Counsel for Cybersecurity and Civil Liberties Policy for the Filecoin Foundation. Formerly, Opsahl was the Deputy Executive Director and General Counsel of EFF. Opsahl was also the lead attorney on the Coders' Rights Project, and continues to assist EFF with that work. Before joining EFF, Opsahl worked at Perkins Coie, where he represented technology clients with respect to intellectual property, privacy, defamation, and other online liability matters, including working on Kelly v. Arribasoft, MGM v. Grokster and CoStar v. LoopNet. Prior to Perkins, Opsahl was a research fellow to Professor Pamela Samuelson at the U.C. Berkeley School of Information Management & Systems. Opsahl received his law degree from Boalt Hall, and undergraduate degree from U.C. Santa Cruz. Opsahl co-authored "Electronic Media and Privacy Law Handbook." In 2007, Opsahl was named as one of the "Attorneys of the Year" by California Lawyer magazine for his work on establishing the reporter’s privilege for online journalists. From 2014 to 2022, Opsahl served on the USENIX Board of Directors. Opsahl is a member of the CISA Cybersecurity Advisory Committee’s Technical Advisory Council.

Lia Holland
Campaigns & Communications Director

Lia is a social artist, writer, and activist in Portland, OR, USA. After 13 years of organizing in the music industry, she now focuses on copyleft, web3, and surveillance issues at Fight while keeping up a rigorous speculative fiction habit.

Limari Navarrete
Sr Dr of Community Engagement, Decentralized Identity Foundation
 

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Liz Steininger
CEO/Managing Director, Least Authority

Liz Steininger is an experienced entrepreneur with over 6 years as the CEO/Managing Director of Least Authority, where she has grown the company to be a leading Security Auditing firm and builder of privacy enhancing technology products, including PrivateStorage, in the Web3 space. Prior, Liz managed financing for Internet freedom projects at the Open Technology Fund. She has over 22 years of experience in the tech industry working as a Project Manager, Program Manager and Analyst on numerous open source projects in both private companies and public organizations. She holds an M.S. in Management & Technology from Carlow University and B.S. in Digital Media from Drexel University in the United States of America.

 

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Louisa Cohen
Community Engagement & Partnerships Manager, Internet Archive Canada

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

Luisa Bagope
Afluentes Association

Luisa Bagope is a documentary director interested in cyber as well as natural and human technology. With support from APC she has been documenting community network activities in the global south. An active participant of PSP Community Network (Portal sem Porteiras) for 3 years, Luisa coordinated the Nodes That Bond project: a collective learning process centered around technology that happened through circular encounters amongst women. Focusing on feminist methods of community-based organization she now continues to work with communication as a potency for social transformation in the Afluentes Association, in Monteiro Lobato, Brasil.

Luke Miller
Speaker, Space Steward, Metagov, Research Contributor

Luke Miller is a software engineer and researcher at Metagov and BlockScience. He is currently in his final year as an undergraduate at the University of Notre Dame studying 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.”

Marcela Guerra
Associação Portal sem Porteiras, Estúdio LuMar

Marcela Guerra is a craftswoman with a focus on technological
appropriation and object-making through workshops and immersive
experiences. She holds a bachelor's degree in social sciences from UNESP
in São Paulo, and is part of the collective Sítio do Astronauta, which
investigates and develops non-disciplinary technologies that amplify
learning skills and enable artistic expression.

She has experience in managing workshops throughout the state of São
Paulo, including spaces such as hacklabs, permaculture centres and
SESCs. In 2015 her project "Diversões eletrônicas na roça" led the
public to create electronic crafted toys in rural areas of Minas Gerais.
After this successful experience she was invited to participate in the
Lemann Institute of Creative Learning where she had the opportunity to
go through an intensive creative learning course with researchers from
the Lifelong Kindergarten research group at MIT MediaLab.

Since 2016 she has lived in the Souzas neighbourhood in Monteiro Lobato,
São Paulo, where she contributes to a number of local initiatives: the
"Cassava Festival", an independent festival organised by the Souzas
neighbourhood community; the "Espaço do Fazer", an open laboratory for
research, creation and development of projects, located inside the
Pandavas Institute, a rural school in the neighbourhood; and the
"Associação Portal sem Porteiras", a non-profit association that seeks
to develop alternative forms of accessing and producing information.

Currently, Marcela is the chairwoman of the Associação Portal sem
Porteiras and member of its communication council, where she explores
experimental methodologies to help enable the community to develop a
critical sense in the processing of information produced by new media.On
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Mariah Villarreal
Independent

Mariah is passionate about learning, free culture, and software freedom. Rooted in community and transformative justice, she wants to help foster a digital learning ecosystem which prioritizes our individual and collective agencies. They are dedicated to promoting lifelong learning, creative expression, and equitable access to information.

Mark Nadal
Founder, GUN

Mark is a mathematician turned programmer. He runs a VC backed Open Source company and has traveled to 30 countries. The diverse cultures he has experienced fuels his passion for learning, sharing, and creating open technology freely for all.

 

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Mark Anthony Hernandez Motaghy
Fellow, Artist and cultural worker

Mark Anthony Hernandez Motaghy is an artist and cultural worker of Mexican and Iranian descent. Operating with mediums such as experimental video, as well as installation, books, and oral histories, Mark's practice explores the digital commons, care-based economies, and sociotechnical imaginaries. They recently published the zine-book Rehearsing Solidarity: Learning from Mutual Aid with Thick Press. The book archives how mutual aid groups assembled solidarity digital infrastructures for the COVID-19 crisis and how they sustainably reassembled for sustaining communal care. Currently, they are a fellow at Ujima Boston Project, providing artistic and editorial direction for a new magazine on art, culture, and the solidarity economy.

Marta Belcher
President and Chair, Filecoin Foundation & 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 Camacho
Executive Director, Holochain

With Holochain, we are providing a neutral territory for coordination at scale, a technology needed for solving global problems and fostering thriving, regenerative, creative communities and economies. As Executive Director of Holochain & CEO at Holo, Mary drives innovation and delivery with a global and culturally diverse team.

Mary Lou Jepsen
Founder & CEO, Openwater

Dr. Mary Lou Jepsen is the founder and CEO of Openwater, (https://www.openwater.cc/). Previously, she was Co-founder and CTO of One Laptop per Child (OLPC) and a former executive at Facebook, Oculus, Google, and Intel.  Other highlights: former MIT Professor.  Founded 4 hardware companies. 250 published or issued patents.  TIME named her one of the hundred most influential people in the world. 

Her latest company, Openwater, aims to create an inexpensive, noninvasive, portable medical imaging device that rivals MRI quality imaging at a fraction of the price and size.

 

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Matt Wonlaw
vlcn.io

Matt has a passion for removing complexity from software development. He currently works on cr-sqlite & vlcn.io, building frameworks to tame dsitributed state and simplify collaborative and local-first applications.

Matt got his interest in collaborative and distributed applications while working at Lockheed Martin where he developed software to help submarine crews collaborate on tracking and navigation. After Lockheed, Matt spent 8 years at Meta working on privacy, security & abuse protection. The guiding principle behind all of Matt's work at Meta was to make product code "safe by default." This meant building frameworks that developers loved to use for their products and, by using them, made their products safe. Matt is currently bringing this same mindset to the problems of distributed state and collaboration to make software distributed and collaborative by default.

 

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Matthew Schutte
Partnerships, Holochain
Expert Surfer / Non-expert Musician / Facilitator / Speaker / Philosopher / Systems Design Consultant. 
 
In this Decentralized Web world, I have worked primarily on the communications side of things (with additional work on community / business models and high level application architecture) but am presently diving deeper into software development because I want to be a bit more hands on in exploring the new applications and patterns that are becoming possible with the maturation of Holochain and other p2p protocols/frameworks/applications.
Matthew Hodgson
Technical Lead, Matrix

Matthew Hodgson is technical co-founder of Matrix.org: a not-for-profit open source project focused on solving the problem of fragmentation in current Chat, VoIP and IoT technologies. By defining a new lightweight pragmatic open standard for federation/interoperability and releasing open source reference implementations, Matrix hopes to create a new ecosystem that makes open real-time-communication as universal and interoperable as email.

Matthew juggles Matrix with the roles of CEO and CTO of New Vector, the company behind Riot.im, the flagship collaboration app built on Matrix. Previously, as a technical lead at MX Telecom (acquired by Amdocs in 2010), Matthew designed & architected Amdocs’ next-generation Video/VoIP client and network infrastructure, and draws on his Internet background to rapidly deliver carrier-grade enhanced communication solutions to network operators. He has specialised in interactive video and telephony applications for over 16 years, including co-founding a digital marketing startup, and contracting roles at Accenture and the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory. He has a BA in Computer Science and Physics from the University of Cambridge, and has lectured on VoIP at Imperial College London.

Matthew believes in the virtues of open collaboration. We live in an era where we can benefit very easily from cross-industry inputs to foster innovation and we don't make enough out of it. He wants to change the world to give access to communication and privacy to everyone while keeping the user's experience at the heart of every new product and leaving everyone the choice of their provider.

Maurice Haedo Sanabria
Fellow, copincha

Maurice is an industrial designer passionate about technology and its impact on society. His work focuses on the circulation of information and the creation of goods through open collaboration, especially in Cuba, where material scarcity and limited Internet connectivity have forced society to seek creative alternatives. Five years ago, he transformed his own home in Downtown Havana into a hackerspace/laboratory called Copincha. (In Cuban slang, “pincha” means work, so “Copincha” can be understood as “collective work”.) Inspired by “DIY” and “do it together” philosophies, Copincha's members use collaborative, open-source methods to share knowledge and develop solutions to local challenges through transdisciplinary, resilient and ecological practices.

Megan Klimen
Founding Director, Filecoin Foundation & Filecoin Foundation for the Decentralized Web

Megan Klimen is the co-founding officer of Filecoin Foundation and Filecoin Foundation for the Decentralized Web. Previously, she was co-founder and Chief Operating Officer of 3Scan, a biotech startup that developed 3D robotic serial sectioning microscopes, with the mission of enabling big data analysis of human tissue for applications including clinical diagnostics, drug discovery, 3D organ printing, and brain mapping. In addition, Megan co-ran an open data project in Jalalabad, Afghanistan, that organized and made available academic and military research, co-organized the open-source “BIL” Conference, and is a founding member of Women in Hardware.

 

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Micah Fitch
Speaker

Micah is an open source technologist and curious creative. Some of his works include a distributed wiki application made with Hyper Hyper Space, the soundtrack for a browser-based videogame called Wilderplace and experimental visualizations of spherical non-Euclidean geometry and other mathematical stuff. In the past he contributed to the offline-first, open source education platform Kolibri.

At the moment Micah is especially excited about two new projects: a 3D network visualization tool he's been working on called
Webscape Wanderer and a Hyper Hyper Space application called Memoblocks.

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wondering.xyz
- @micahscopes on GitHub

 

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Morgan Lemmer-Webber
FOSS & Crafts, Podcaster

Morgan is the co-host and producer for FOSS and Crafts (https://fossandcrafts.org), a podcast about free software, free culture, and making things together. This podcast takes an interdisciplinary approach to these topics through the intersecting themes of user freedom and agency. She is a textile historian, a Digital Humanities enthusiast, and an advocate for Open Acces and Free and Open Source software in academia.

Muhammad Noor
Co Founder, Rohingya Project

A Rohingya himself, Noor is the Founder and Managing Director of the Rohingya Project, a Blockchain-based organization to bring social and financial inclusion to stateless people. Noor is also founder and director for several institutions and organizations such as the world first Rohingya TV broadcast station called Rohingya Vision (RVISION) watch by millions from all over the world. He is also Founder of Rohingya Archive preserving history and genocidal evidence. He is the Project manager of Rohingya Quran Translation the first Project of its kind. Noor Founded Rohingya Language Council and digitized Rohingya Alphabets developed the first Computer Font and one of the main contributors to the Rohingya Unicode which was released in 2018 and developed Unicode Font and Keyboard for different devices. Noor is also the author of “Born to Struggle: The Child of Rohingya Refugees and His Inspiring Journey” which was published in March 2019, based on his personal life experience.

ngọc triệu
Superbloom | Decentralization Off the Shelf

ngọc triệu practices design and research as an intervention to address and reform asymmetrical power relations through the lenses of decoloniality and decentralization. Her work focuses on the intersection of human-centred design, digital rights, and public-interest technology. ngọc is passionate about user advocacy, co-creation, and equal access to knowledge. Whether she is distilling data into insights that inform design decisions or developing a new UX pattern for distributed systems, ngọc collaborates closely with tech funders, designers, developers, and researchers to ensure usability, security, and safety for marginalised and vulnerable communities.

Currently, ngọc works as a design researcher at Superbloom (previously known as Simply Secure), a design non-profit that leverages design as a transformative practice to shift power in the tech ecosystem. She's also a maintainer of Decentralization, Off the Shelf, an initiative focused on creating resources and providing design support for practitioners in decentralization.

Nick Garcia
Public Knowledge

Nicholas P. Garcia is a Policy Counsel at Public Knowledge, focusing on net neutrality and broadband access and affordability. Before joining Public Knowledge, Nick served as an Assistant District Attorney in the Investigations Division of the Bronx County District Attorney’s Office, where he investigated and prosecuted cybercrime, fraud, grand larceny, and organized crime. He previously worked as a Legal Intern at Public Knowledge and as a Student Attorney for the Communications & Technology Law Clinic at Georgetown University Law Center’s Institute for Public Representation.

 

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Nicolás Pace
Association for Progressive Communications

Nicolás Pace is a member of AlterMundi A.C., a grassroots organization supporting rural underserved communities in their pursue for creating their own telecommunications infrastructure, their own piece of internet. In doing so, Nicolas has traveled to more than 15 countries, getting to know most of the community networks out there, and getting to understand the diversity and complexity of the matter. One of the latest actions he has been undertaking has been working together with REDES A.C., a grassroots organization from Mexico in supporting first nation communities. Within AlterMundi he has also been involved in the Decentralized Repository of Culture, a P2P project that tries to find a way around the digital culture distribution, involving everyone in the process: creators, curators, enthusiasts.

Nicolas "Fauno" Reynolds
Cooperativa de Trabajo Sutty Ltda.

My work and activism is focused on investigating, adapting and implementing ecological and resilient technologies, specially autonomous, collectivelly managed infrastructure.

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

Noah Chon Lee
Founder, viaPrize

Noah (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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Paul Krafel
Co-founder of Chrysalis Charter School, Author

Long-time student of flowing water. I try to help more of it soak in rather than run-off. Co-founder of Chrysalis Charter School. Author of Shifting and the on-line book, Roaming Upward.

Paul d'Aoust
Developer Mentor, Holochain

Ever since he was little, Paul has loved investigating the connections between seemingly unrelated topics. These days, he's especially interested in learning about the ways that technology can help or hinder our journey toward a regenerative future. He currently works with Holo as an explainy guy, creating resources to help creators and users understand the Holochain distributed app framework.

Paul Gadi
Co-Founder, OP Games

Paul has been developing games since 2004 (before app stores and metaverses!), and has always been interested in the intersection of game design and new tech. He is CTO / Co-Founder of OP Games, an open-source game platform company building tools to help game developers create sustainable economies in web3. Paul is also the co-founder of Altitude Games, a mobile and blockchain gaming company based in the Philippines. He currently leads the KERNEL Gaming Guild, a community of the most talented individuals in the blockchain space. He has been writing and coding on web3 since 2017, and most of his work can be found online at polats.com

Philip Rosedale
Founder, Second Life
Qianqian Ye
Adjunct Assistant Professor at USC, p5.js Lead at Processing Foundation

Qianqian (Q) Ye is a Chinese artist, creative technologist and educator based in Los Angeles. Trained as an architect, she creates digital, physical, and social spaces exploring issues around gender, immigrant, power, and technology. Their most recent collaborative project, The Future of Memory, was a recipient of the Mozilla Creative Media Award. At the Processing Foundation, Qianqian is the Lead of p5.js, an open-source art and education platform that prioritizes access and diversity in learning to code, with over 1.5 million users. She currently teaches creative coding as an Adjunct Assistant Professor at USC Media Arts + Practice and 3D Arts at Parsons School of Design. For 2022-2023, Qianqian is a NYU ITP/IMA Project fellow and Civic Media Fellow at USC Annenberg Innovation Lab.

Rabble .
nos.social

Rabble, aka Evan Henshaw-Plath, the visionary technologist and entrepreneur, is widely recognized for his groundbreaking contributions to the field of social media and online activism. As the founder of the secure Scuttlebutt app, planetary.social, and the innovative Nostr app, nos.social, Evan has demonstrated his exceptional ability to harness technology to empower individuals and promote digital privacy. With an unwavering commitment to open-source software, decentralized networks, and civic engagement, he continues to shape the digital landscape, earning him a well-deserved reputation as a respected leader in the realm of digital activism.

 

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Randy Farmer
Spritely Networked Communities Institute

Randy Farmer has been creating technical standards and community platforms for more than 40 years - learning the power of collaboration and overcoming the challenges of connecting people to each other online.

Along the way, it was necessary for him to co-invent many of the foundational patterns and technologies we see deployed today, such as the JSON message protocol, social newsfeeds, virtual worlds, and avatars (see his more than two dozen now expired patents). He has founded several startups, in senior executive roles, for the last two decades - most recently as the CEO of a multiplayer mobile gaming company.

In 1995 Randy co-founded Electric Communities, which prototyped and proved the design of smart contracts, capabilities, and distributed objects. Much of Spritely's architecture is inspired by publications about Electric Communities Habitat; this lead Christine Lemmer Webber and Randy to begin talking, leading to the decision to co-found the Spritely Networked Communities Institute together.

 

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Rich Bodo
Producer, Website Editor, NoS

Rich grew up around homebrew computers, became an IT guy for non-profits, built some decentralized systems for them, and then got involved with Networks of Support,who teach preventative mental health care programming that has been research-driven for over a decade. Rich's job with them is to produce free materials - videos, research summaries, and an online manual that anyone can use to learn how preventative mental health care programming can be implemented, and what the research says about implementation.

 

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riley wong
staff research scientist, metagov

riley wong researches distributed cooperatives and community governance models, with interests in public goods and the commons, solidarity economies, peer-to-peer systems, interdependence, and emergence. they’re also exploring applied cryptography and privacy preserving identity systems.

they have previous lives in machine learning at google, investigative journalism at propublica, and qtbipoc community organizing. they are based in nyc and enjoy painting, making music, building synthesizers, and writing. 

Risper Arose
Fellow, Gender and Community Engagement; TNET

Risper is a Gender and Community Engagement expert with ardent conviction about community
development through socio-economic empowerment. She is involved in digital outreach, understanding women and their usage of connectivity, amplifying meaningful usage and utilization of connectivity, and conducting impact assessment studies of connectivity in the community. She has handled tech-centered advisories and training on digital rights, digital inclusion, digital advocacy, and digital protection and privacy.

Her main focus is on Gender justice, community capacity development, community research using human-centered design, stakeholder engagement, and public participation in policymaking. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Gender and Development (with Honors) Degree from Kenyatta University.

Rithikha Rajamohan
Speaker, Applied Researcher, V6A Labs, Ethereum Summer of Protocols

Rithikha is an Applied Researcher and Principle of V6A Labs, a locally-embedded, coalition-based consultancy. V6A works to create more resilient and distributed civic infrastructure through project nodes in ecological restoration, plural economies/alternative finance and community technology. She has a background in computer science and urban geography, and is a writer and filmmaker with a love for experimental and documentary methods of storytelling.

Ronen Tamari
Co-founder, Common SenseMakers

Ronen is co-founder of Common SenseMakers, a distributed squad self-organizing around the science, tech, culture & practice of collective sensemaking. Ronen is also finishing his PhD at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem where he’s exploring intelligence in its myriad forms; artificial, natural and collective. He’s particularly interested in the profound role of environments (for example, the Semantic Web!) in augmenting cognition and scaffolding sensemaking by enabling certain kinds of interactions. Ronen is also passionate about human-centered tech, and translating scientific research into more impactful practical applications that fit real-world societal capacities and needs.

Roxi Shohadaee
Independent, Gray Area, habRitual, Design Science Studio

Roxi is a regenerative artivist, protopian futurist, ontological designer, experiential producer, transdisciplinary social sculptor and creative doula. She is a student of living systems, regenerative design and decolonial sustainability. She has over 15 years of experience working at the intersection of art, science, experience and technology. Her mission is to harness this intersectional approach to catalyze social and systemic change through inclusive, transdisciplinary collaborations for the regeneration of our planet and culture. Her path is grounded in a commitment to creating inspiring and embodied ways of learning together. As behavior is a function of culture - she supports and develops creative cultural interventions and co-learning evolutionary containers. Her thesis is rooted in a belief that as we perpetuate equitable and just cultures, societal behaviors participating in life affirming ways of being will emerge in that process. As we are facing a crisis of imagination, Roxi’s efforts encourage collective imagination beyond the limits of the plausible and probable into the possible in service to the potential of a world where all life thrives at the expense of none. She is a deep believer and practitioner in designing for states of being, having those states of being prime us for connection, reparations and regeneration with ourselves, each other and our beautiful living planet.

Ryan Sternlicht
Speaker, Aaron Swartz Day, Mindplex, Noisebridge

Ryan Sternlicht is a SF raised educator, researcher, advisor, maker, and hacker. He has advised a number of startups in the fields of AR, VR, self driving cars, flying cars, and 3D manufacturing. He is a writer for Mindplex Magazine, and a technical advisor to their podcast. he has been a speaker at Arron Swartz day since 2018. As a maker and hacker he volunteers and advises a number of makerspaces, hackerspaces, open source hardware and software projects, and tech nonprofits organizations around the world. While in the bay area he volunteers at a number of spaces, like Noisebridge Hackerspace, NeuroTechX SF, he also assists the game dev department at CCSF.

Ryan Taylor
Workshop Host, Zcash Foundation Audio/Visual Club

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.

Ryan Betts
Head of Design, Fission

Ryan is a designer who sweats the UX of data. He's working with the protocol engineer brains at Fission to enable usable local-first software that is a joy to implement & maintain — and strengthen the agency of communities that rely upon it. The cornerstone of Fission’s work is the decentralzied authZ protocol UCAN, which they’ve been collaborating on in the open with many other fantastic teams. The novel UX capabilities (pun intended) and challenges that come along with UCAN, and the other protocol innovations it has enabled, are what occupies most of Ryan’s days.

Sandro Hawke
Founder, Writable Site

Sandro is software engineer and tech lead who wants the internet to be a pure force for good. For almost 20 years, he worked at W3C/MIT developing and standarizing technologies for the Semantic Web, Social Web, and finally the Credible Web. He led the CredWeb group to produce a landmark report on how to use technology to address misinformation without censorship. The recommendations were not followed. Since then, he's been working solo to refine and implement his plan for practical trust-aware decentralization.

 

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Santiago Bazerque
Project Lead, Hyper Hyper Space

Santi Bazerque is working on the Hyper Hyper Space, an open source not-for-profit social platform that attempts to provide solutions to everyday life problems (communication, collaboration, commerce) while being fully decentralized, using people's web browsers and phones as its only infrastructure. He received a computer science degree from the University of Buenos Aires and has extensive experience on both technical and executive roles.

https://www.hyperhyperspace.org/

Saqib Sheikh
Project Director, Rohingya Project

Saqib Sheikh’s work centers on advocacy, social inclusion and educational access for refugees and stateless people. He serves as Project Director for the Rohingya Project, a grassroots initiative for the empowerment of the Rohingya diaspora using blockchain technology. He is also a cofounder and advisor for the Refugee Coalition of Malaysia (RCOM) where he focuses on creating formal pathways for refugee placement in higher education institutes in Malaysia. A journalist by training, Saqib received his Masters in Communication from Purdue University, and is currently a PhD researcher at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS), Singapore, researching the use of technology for legitimization of stateless communities.

Sarah Grant
Fellow, Weise7

Sarah Grant is an American artist and professor of media art based in Berlin at the Weise7 studio. Her teaching and art practice engages with the electromagnetic spectrum and computer networks as artistic material, social habitat, and political landscape. She holds a Bachelors of Arts in Fine Art from UC Davis and a Masters in Media Arts from New York University's Interactive Telecommunications Program. 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.

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 Web Archiving, Decentralized Systems, AI, and Research.

Seph Gentle
Independent researcher

I've been programming since I was little. Let me tell you, computers are designed in really silly ways. We can make them work way better using collaborative editing technology. I (Seph) am a technologist, researcher (in p2p realtime collaborative editing tech), blogger, performance artist and musician. I've worked at Google, and most recently been inventing new foundational CRDT tech to enable a new generation of software built on top of distributed principles.

Sheley Gomes
Intervozes

Sheley is a POC, queer feminist, researcher and activist for digital and human rights, as well as the right to communication, being part of non-profit organisations both in Brazil and Europe. Her research goes from contexts such as Latin America, western-European, and Sub-saharan African countries, investigating the role of media, the ownership, and freedom of expression in those different scenarios. Her focus goes especially to new media technologies and its impacts for marginalised communities.

Sid Sthalekar
Neighbourhoods

Sid’s experience spans both ends of the economic spectrum: from heading South Asia's largest trading desk, to exploring distributed economic paradigms in the Gandhi Ashram in India.  

As part of the Neighbourhoods project, he is interested in sense-making infrastructure for new kinds of social and economic coordination. Such systems enable the contextual articulation and porting of 'reputation currencies'.  

He believes this is the key to discovery, engagement and commercial interactions within the dimensions of culture and social fabric.

 

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Speaker John Ash
Cognicism

John Ash, an accomplished AI engineer turned innovative musician, harmoniously merges his deep technological expertise with a strong emphasis on regenerative AI and restorative systems. His roots in fintech serve as a foundation for his groundbreaking work in Cognicism, a revolutionary framework that harnesses the power of advanced AI models to build democratic, high-resolution representations of collective beliefs. These beliefs are shaped and weighted by Ŧrust, a mechanism mediated by Iris, a democratic, time, and source-aware language model, reflecting alignment with collective values and accurate future predictions. At DWEB, Ash will weave a captivating hour-long music set from his forthcoming album, Cryptographic Apophenia, with insights into his transformative work on Cognicism and FourThought. As a key instrument within the Cognicism toolbox, FourThought stands as an AI-enabled dialectic tool for staking beliefs about what is morally good (aligned) and objectively true. Through this, Ash challenges the shortcomings of traditional capitalist goals, advocating instead for a focus on collective well-being, creating a socio-economic system that nurtures and replenishes rather than depletes.

Stacco Troncoso
Co-founder, DisCO.coop

Stacco Troncoso is an avid synthesizer of information and a radical polymath working towards elemental, people-led change on a burning planet.

Stacco lives, breathes, teaches and writes on the Commons, P2P politics and economics, open culture, post-growth futures, Platform and Open Cooperativism, decentralised governance, blockchain and more as part of DisCO.coop, Commons Transition and Guerrilla Translation. More info at https://stacco.works/

Subhashish Panigrahi
Co-founder and Director, O Foundation

Documentary filmmaker and long-time Openness advocate; Produced films on indigenous rights and in endangered languages; active over a decade in building open internet communities across Asia-Pacific. Former community manager at Wikimedia, Centre for Internet and Society, Mozilla and Internet Society.

T B Dinesh
Tech Director, Janastu and Servelots

I am likely a community media activist. We wish for an Internet that is inclusive of those marginalised by literacy.

 

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Tim Berners-Lee
Founder & Project Director, Solid/W3C

Sir Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web in 1989. He wrote the first web client and server in 1990. His specifications of URIs, HTTP and HTML were refined as Web technology spread.

Sir Tim is the Director of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), which oversees the technical standards development of the Web. Sir Tim is the founder and a Director of the World Wide Web Foundation which was launched in 2009 to coordinate efforts to further the potential of the Web to benefit humanity. He is a Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the Computer Science and AI Lab (CSAIL). His research group, the Decentralized Information Group (DIG), works to re-decentralize the Web. He is also a Professor in the Computer Science Department at the University of Oxford, UK. He is President of and co-founded the Open Data Institute in London. In 2017 Sir Tim was awarded the ACM A.M. Turing Prize, called the "Nobel Prize of Computing” and considered one of the most prestigious awards in Computer Science. Tim is a long time defender of Net Neutrality and the openness of the Web.

 

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Tommi Marmo
co-founder and president; tommi.space, creator; quitsocialmedia.club,, Scambi Festival

Tommi is an enthusiastic and curious 22 years old weirdo from Italy. He is the co-founder Scambi Festival, a cultural event focused on interactive workshops which is organized exclusively by a staff of under 25 volunteers coming from all over Europe. He just graduated in Philosophy, International Studies, and Economics at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice. Tommi is a dreamer and an activist concerning the need of a deeper sociological and philosophical analysis of the Internet, at its essential core. In 2020 he deleted all of his mainstream social media accounts and created tommi.space, that he considers the virtual representation of his mind. He is the admin of Pan, a tiny but lovely Fediverse node.

 

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Tracey Jaquith
founding engineer and system architect, Internet Archive

Tracey Jaquith is a founding engineer and system architect for Internet Archive since 1996, writing multi-threaded servers, crawlers, and more. She wrote the “what’s related” services that ultimately led to Alexa Internet’s acquisition by Amazon. An inventor with two patents, she is the Archive’s longest tenured employee after founder, Brewster Kahle.

In 2000, Jaquith left for four years to be the technical lead and founding engineer at a financial startup focusing on more efficiently trading convertible bonds.

Recently, Jaquith rewrote Internet Archive’s TV recording system as an open source single server system, capable of preserving 75 simultaneous 24×7 channels, and developed the Television Archive’s “full stack” first and second versions. For more than a decade, Jaquith held primary responsibility for archive.org and its full stack infrastructure, later launching a fully responsive “Version 2” of the archive.org website —migrating to jQuery, bootstrap, LESS, modern faceting, ElasticSearch, postgreSQL and more. She is leading the core infrastructure migration to Docker for archive.org’s in-house AWS and S3-like system. Open Libraries services will rest upon the infrastructure Jaquith is designing.

Jaquith’s first job was at Xerox PARC, writing core low-level C-language image processing and comparison algorithms using novel computational geometry based on research from her Master’s degree. 

Jaquith holds a Master’s and Bachelor’s in Computer Science from Cornell University where she focused on machine vision, robotics and mathematics. Jaquith presents at conferences (Demuxed 2016, MozFest) and is a regular guest lecturer at colleges about news and broadcast technologies.

 

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Trav Fryer
independant artist and co-owner at Autonomic Cooperative

Trav Fryer is an independant artist and co-owner of Autonomic, an international technology worker cooperative. Autonomic designs and builds websites, infrastructure, and bespoke technology to support rad people doing good things in the world. Trav Fryer the artist creates interactive installations for fun and to reduce waste. A fun way to reduce waste is to mend your own clothes. It adds character. And things with character are more loved and thus less likely to be buried in a landfill. Mottainai is a Japanese word which roughly translates to "too good to waste". Trav thinks that's a pretty solid lens to look at the world.

Trav also runs a free store called Free Sha Voca Do, is on the board of the Vermont Real Estate Cooperative, and is a member of the Laboratory B cooperative hackerspace where he helps run a monthly Repair Cafe.

Trav's website is
https://teafry.me

Val Elefante
Co-founder / Head of Community, Reliabl, Lips

Val (she/they) is a writer, filmmaker, and Co-founder / Head of Community at Reliabl. Reliabl is a feminist technology company building more equitable and participatory data annotaion and content moderation systems for community platforms, which have been successfully implemented on live applications including Lips (lips.social). Lips is a social commerce platform for women, non-binary, & LGBTQIA+ creatives to share their work without biased censorship or harassment developed by the same team behind Reliabl.

Val is also a researcher at The Metagovernance Project and reState Foundation where she collects, studies, and builds tools and practices for community self-governance in online and offline realms. She also teaches yoga and lives in Brooklyn, New York.

Viktor Zaunders
darksoil.studio

Viktor works with all manners of technology in service to planetary regeneration. He runs a coop in his home village hosting a co-working space, doing events and running a mushroom farm. He's very excited to bring distributed techonologies and especially sovereign adaptable digital group spaces into the organisations he is working with. He has been active in the Holochain community for about 5 years and is currently developing software through darksoil.studio

 

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Wendy Seltzer
Principal Identity Architect, Tucows

Wendy is Principal Identity Architect at Tucows, and invites the dweb collective to help her imagine what that could mean. She mixes law, technology, and curiosity, coming from 10 years in web standards with W3C and previously founded the Lumen Database, a pioneering transparency report on Internet takedown demands.

Wes Biggs
Speaker, Amplica Labs, Principal Software Architect

Wes (he/him) is a software architect working on DSNP (Distributed Social Networking Protocol, dsnp.org), the Frequency blockchain (frequency.xyz), and other parts of a fully decentralized, open source system to enable a free and equitable Social Web. Prior to his Web3 work, Wes was chief architect of Infospace Mobile, and CTO and founder of UK mobile advertising startup Adfonic as well as US mobile wallet marketing platform Popwallet, later a part of Snap, Inc. He is currently based in St. Louis, Missouri.

 

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Wesley Finck
Holochain App Developer, Neighbourhoods

Wesley is a software developer, passionate life-long learner, and recently a digital nomad. He works mostly as a Holochain app developer for Neighbourhoods, exploring novel application patterns for a distributed web. He is deeply motivated to contribute to projects that support the continued evolution of open societies through decentralized technologies and collective intelligence & sense-making systems, especially as they relate to energy blindness, the carbon pulse, and ecological economics.

Xin Xin
Critical Coding Cookbook, TogetherNet, Offline.Wiki

Xin Xin is an artist and organizer currently making socially-engaged software that explores the possibilities of reshaping language and power relations. Through mediating, subverting, and innovating modes of social interaction in the digital space, Xin invites participants to relate to one another and experience togetherness in new and unfamiliar ways.

As an artist, their work has been exhibited internationally at Ars Electronica, Eyebeam, DIS, Kunstverein Wolfsburg, and the Gene Siskel Film Center. They were an Eyebeam Rapid Response for a Better Digital Future Fellow and an Sundance Art of Practice Fellow. As an organizer, Xin co-founded voidLab, a LA-based intersectional feminist collective dedicated to women, trans, and queer folks. They were the Director for Processing Community Day 2019 and they serve on the Processing Foundation Board.

Yavuz Selim Kıyak
Gazi University Faculty of Medicine

Hello! I'm a medical doctor and a researcher at Gazi University Faculty of Medicine in Ankara, Turkey. I hold a PhD in medical education. One of my passions is witnessing the progress of our medical students as they develop under my guidance.
I am proud to be a member of the Holochain community because it aligns with my core values and perspectives on life. I seek out technological solutions that offer accountability, scalability, and decentralization in addressing the challenges faced in medical education. There is a lack of awareness among medical education researchers and policy makers regarding the decentralized tools that are ideal for solving numerous problems. It is my personal mission to proactively raise awareness within my field and help the adoption of these tools.

 

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DWeb 2023 Team

ajay tallam
Video Team, Curator

Oakland, CA based Permaculturalist. former professional SysAdmin at Earth activist Training and KPFA radio. looking for my next career and vocation in the intersection of technology and ecology.

Alexis Rossi
Code of Conduct Team Leader;

Alexis Rossi manages all aspects of Internet Archive collections work for movies, audio, software, and books, as well as the archive.org web site and social media presences. From 2006-2008, Rossi managed the audio and video collections and Open Library, as well as working on the Open Content Alliance, and the Zotero/IA project. From 2009-2015 Rossi managed internal web crawling projects and the Wayback Machine.

Rossi has been working with Internet content since 1996 when she discovered that being picky about words in books was good training for being picky about data on computers. She spent several years managing news content at ClariNet (the first online news aggregator), worked as the Editorial Director at Alexa Internet, and as Product Manager at Mixercast.

Rossi has an Masters of Library and Information Science, concentrating on web technologies and interfaces, and enjoys making jewelry, dancing, and baking Cookie Smackdown-winning cookies.

Allison Duettmann
AI Track, Curator

Allison Duettmann is the President of Foresight Institute, a nonprofit focused on advancing beneficial technologies. She started the project ExistentialHope.com to inspire a memetic shift toward positive futures and is co-authoring a book on strategies to strengthen civilization. She directs all programs at Foresight Institute and researches how to accelerate the benefits of crucial technologies with a primary focus on AI. She speaks regularly at conferences (e.g. SXSW, Effective Altruism Summit, Wall Street Journal), on podcasts (e.g. FLI’s Podcast), moderates monthly speaker salons and Foresight’s annual conference. She holds an MS in Philosophy & Public Policy from the London School of Economics, with a dissertation focus on AI Ethics.

 

Videos from the summit:

Amir Saber
Lead Craftsman

Amir received his MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute and is a practicing Bay Area artist and educator. Amir's role at the Internet Archive is to connect artist with the collections and to show what is possible when open access to information meets the arts. He is also the founder and director of the Artist in Residence Program at the Internet Archive.

Andi Wong
Space Steward of Bluelight Barn

Andi Wong is excited to steward the “BE WATER” Way Station at DWeb Camp, a welcoming place for learners of all ages to create, collaborate, and go with the flow. Andi served as teaching artist and site arts coordinator in San Francisco public schools for over two decades. As project coordinator for ArtsEd4All, she creates curriculum, conducts workshops, hosts film screenings, and organizes participatory community events such as the annual Blake Mini Library book drive for Hamilton Families, Civic Season with Made By Us, and open-ended play with The Blue Marbles Project. Her creative partners include composer/musician Marcus Shelby, First Voice led by artistic directors Brenda Wong Aoki and Mark Izu, The Last Hoisan Poets (poets Genny Lim, Flo Oy Wong and Nellie Wong), Del Sol String Quartet, and the Internet Archive.

Antonia Bustamante
Content Moderator; Space Steward

Audio engineer and coder working around the creative possibilities of programming in artistic and experimental projects. Antonia works as a developer and researcher in EnFlujo,  a lab based in Los Andes University (Bogotá, Colombia), and volunteers remotely at DWeb.

She is interested in power and the ways of exerting it, technological appropriation, and digital culture and media, and enjoys error, replica, margin, and doubt.

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.

Barry Threw
Art Track, Curator

Barry Threw (barrythrew.com) is the Executive and Artistic Director of Gray Area, a San Francisco non-profit cultural incubator applying antidisciplinary collaboration towards an equitable and regenerative future. He drifts fluidly between roles, collaborating as an executive, curator, technologist, cultural producer, and strategist to cultivate forward-looking, boundary-blurring projects integrating culture and technology. His previous leadership positions have generated innovative & influential platforms, products, teams, and businesses spanning art, music, internet, built environment, and experiential & immersive media: as Software Director with Keith McMillen Instruments, developing advanced technology to bridge traditional string instruments with computers to spark a Western new classical music movement based on the technologies and aesthetics of the 21st century; as Technical Director with Recombinant Media Labs, presenting surround cinema at installations and festivals around the world; as a founding Partner at Fabricatorz, a distributed technology studio for cultural projects with nodes in Hong Kong, St. Louis, San Francisco, and Lisbon; and as Director of Software with Obscura Digital, a San Francisco-based creative technology studio specializing in the design and execution of immersive and interactive experiences worldwide, and the first company to do architectural projection mapping. He is convinced that integrated approaches combining art, technology, science, and the humanities are necessary for economic, social, and ecological regeneration.

 

Videos from the summit:

Ben Hanna
Space Steward of Giant Sequoia Stage/Sapling Stage

Ben cultivates connection with Custom Camps, bringing play and nature to corporate teams. He is excited to lead production at Dweb for the third year.

Brady Gill (Honey Bear)
D-Web MC // Organizer; Space Steward of Giant Sequoia Stage/Sapling Stage

Brady is the Co-Founder and Camp Director of Custom Camps. All of Brady's professional and personal endeavors center around his belief that we should be playing more and worrying less. An artist specializing in community gathering and the spoken word, Brady delights in experiences like D-Web Camp where many different people come together to share and play with each other.

 

Videos from the summit:

Brian Eggert
Space Steward of Hackers Hall

Brian left a data analyst position at an adtech startup to brush up on his coding skills. He has previously done web design in the non-profit space and a lot of SQL in the healthcare space. He has an MSIS and an MA in Latin American Studies from UT Austin and held graduate research positions at the Benson Latin American Collection and the Social Justice Institute. Brian attended the DWeb Summit: Global Vision / Working Code in 2018 and has followed DWeb’s evolution with interest.

Bryan Newbold
Code of Conduct Team

Bryan works at Bluesky, a startup company building a federated social media protocol called "atproto". Until a few months ago he worked at the Internet Archive collecting scientific research datasets and publications, and created scholar.archive.org. And before that he worked on infrastructure at Stripe, attended the Recurse Center in New York City, and built Atomic Magnetometers for a small New Jersey company called Twinleaf.

Over that same time period he climbed up and down the ladder of abstraction, obtaining an undergraduate degree in physics (at MIT), operating under-ice robots in Antarctica, developing open hardware lab instrumentation for large-scale brain probing (at LeafLabs), cataloging hundreds of millions of electronics components (at Octopart), and improved production service reliability at Stripe (a financial infrastructure start-up).

Bryan is a transplant from the East Coast and enjoys the road biking, large trees, generous salads, used book stores, and world-class tech non-profits found all around the Bay Area.

 

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BZ Petroff
Space Steward -- Hospitality & Procurement

BZ joined the Internet Archive in October 2016. A veteran of the Animation industry; Lucasfilm, Wild Brain, Pixar and Colossal Pictures, it was her love of books that drove her to work for the Internet Archive. As a life long "people person" she is well suited for her responsibilities in events and people operations for the Archive. When not working, BZ likes to watch baseball, listen to jazz and go running on her beloved Mt. Tamalpais.

Cent Hosten
Governance Track, Curator

Cent Hosten is a researcher and community manager at Metagov.

Charles Lehner
Space Steward of Open Source Library

Charles E. Lehner (~cel) works on free/libre/open-source decentralization technology.

As a software engineer at Spruce, Charles is working on DIDKit, a cross-platform decentralized identity toolkit with a core library written in Rust.

Charles participates in standardization at the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) - in the Verifiable Credentials Working Group (VCWG), Decentralized Identifiers Working Group (DID WG), and Credentials Community Group (CCG). He also participates in the Decentralized Identity Foundation (DIF) and Internet Identity Workshop (IIW). Charles is a Associate Member of the Free Software Foundation, Associate Member of IEEE (Northeastern USA / Long Island section), and Individual Member of IDPro.

Charles is active on the Secure Scuttlebutt (SSB) network as a contributor and community member. He developed and maintains SSB applications such as git-ssb, ssb-npm and patchfoo.

Charles is excited to be able to help out at this DWeb Camp. He was extremely fortunate to have attended the previous DWeb Camp (2019) and Decentralized Web Summits (2016, 2018). He also attended Funding the Commons Summit (June 2022 / New York, NY).

Charles graduated from University of Rochester (Rochester, NY) with a BSc. in Computer Science, Class of 2015. In 2013 he was a hackNY fellow at ChatID (New York, NY).

Charles also participates in community theatre, at North Fork Community Theatre (Mattituck, NY) and Northeast Stage (Greenport, NY).

SSB ID: @f/6sQ6d2CMxRUhLpspgGIulDxDCwYD7DzFzPNr7u5AU=.ed25519

Personal Website

W3C Wiki User Page

Cody Harris
Steward, Networking Team

Cody lives in Seattle and likes networks and distributed systems. He volunteers with the Connections Museum in Seattle repairing antique telephone switches and giving tours to the public. He recently assisted Shadytel build an analog phone network serving campsites at ToorCamp 2022. He's also an active volunteer with Seattle Community Network.

 

Videos from the summit:

Collin McClain
Space Steward, Universal Access Amphitheater

Collin McClain is a systems thinker and facilitator interested in the ways that social and technical systems interact. Passionate about cooperative economics and governance they seek to foster alternatives to our communication and information systems which have historically developed from empire. Collin currently works for Holochain as a writer and researcher.

Cristan Gutierrez
Summer Intern, Stewards Assistant

Cristán is currently a full-time student at Austin College, where I am actively involved in the Swimming and Diving team, while pursuing a Bachelor's degree in Arts with a minor in Education.

With a strong interest in social media marketing, I am driven to make a meaningful impact in this field. Outside of my academic pursuits, I have also been honing my photography skills, specializing in sports photography and portraiture.
 

David Greenbaum
Space Steward of Bluelight Barn

David Greenbaum (aka Mr G) is a San Francisco native who began performing professionally in the late 1900’s with San Francisco Opera’s production of Werther, featuring Alfredo Kraus and Renatta Scotto.

Performs locally and globally - all genres including: pop, rock, r&b, funk, musical theatre, jazz, operetta and opera.

Builds and supports community through the performing arts.

Produced, directed, and taught drama and music for schools and theatre companies throughout the Bay Area for 20+ years, including previously serving as Broadway by the Bay’s Youth Theatre Conservatory Director. Has taught 5,000+ students grades K through 12 and beyond.

Currently teaches music and drama and serves as the Principal for St. Thomas More School in San Francisco, CA.

Holds a Master of Arts in Teaching Theatre Arts and a Master of Arts in School Administration.

SFUSD's first VAPA MasterTeacher and is also a certified EQ Practitioner through Six Seconds Emotional Intelligence Network.

Arts activities and accolades include: 

presenter and educator, American Conservatory Theatre (ACT); Outstanding Achievement Administrative Services Credential, NDNU 2017; SFUSD VAPA Dreamcatcher Honoree 2018; 2020 Music Educator Innovation Award recipient; 2020-2021 American Federation Teachers (AFT) Teacher Leader; 2021-2023 KQED Media Literacy Innovator; Little Kids Rock Regional Program Specialist and Modern Band Summit presenter.

Deborah Tien
Space Steward of Mycelium Pavilion

Curious on how to unlock more democratic potential in (physical) neighborhoods in the USA. Currently co-creating digital Neighborhood Networks that aim to surface small groups of neighbors with similar ideas and interests.

Eric Bear
Space Steward of Treehouse, Dweb Labs Organizer

Hi.

I'm Bear. I am the director of ecosystem growth at
Holochain, do product and business stuff at darksoil studio, and serve as program lead at dWeb Labs. I love growing beutiful human systems around meaningful projects. I also love Microalgae. Talk to me about it. I'm hanging out around the Treehouse and the P2P tent. Barefoot.

 

Videos from the summit:

Eseohe Ojo
Associate Producer; Space Steward of Redwood Cathedral

Eseohe Ojo (Ese) is Policy and Campaign Manager at Fight for the Future as well as Projects Organizer with DWeb. She is an Associate Producer of 2022 DWeb Camp. She’s worked on various projects involving policy, writing, research and communications with nonprofits on a range of issues including digital rights, the environment, freedom of expression, access to information, academic freedom, gender, democracy, and open government.

Esther Jang
Lead, Networking Team

Esther is a PhD student in Computer Science at the University of Washington. Her research focuses on community networks in both rural remote and urban contexts, and especially how communities of practice can build and sustain technical infrastructures. She has helped install community networks in the Philippines, Mexico, Tanzania, and various states around the US. She is currently a lead organizer and installer for the Seattle Community Network, which seeks to build community-owned and maintained Internet access infrastructure to support digital equity in Seattle and Tacoma. She serves as a Director at the Local Connectivity Lab, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit focusing on technology research, deployment, and teaching in support of community networks around the world. In her free time, she is an avid jazz singer and plays with a band called Django Junction in Seattle.

 

Videos from the summit:

Heather Hurford
Stage Manager

Heather Hurford is an advocate for diverse and inclusive workplaces where people have equal access to opportunities and can feel a sense of belonging. She is learning about allyship and how to embody it and enable it in others. She recently started the Inclusion Book Club to take a step in that direction. Her rich and complex experience; from small startups to the giants like Google, LinkedIn and Apple, points to a common need for tools and practices that foster compassion and psychological safety at work. By normalizing and rewarding these values in business, we may unlock potential to tackle some of humanity’s greatest challenges. Heather has a regular meditation and mindfulness practice and prioritizes time in nature, community and contemplation.

Ian Davis
Space Steward, Unconference Sessions

Ian is a platform / protocol engineer with over a decade of experience building and managing distributed infrastructure. He takes a particular focus on the ethical and social aspects of what he is building, and is an expert in new decentralized, privacy preserving identity and data storage solutions like Decentralized Identifiers, Verifiable Credentials, and Social Linked Data. He participates in the Secure Data Storage working group of the Decentralized Identity foundation, and is passionate about building technical tools and standards that help communities and individuals manage and share their data in a way that promotes consent and autonomy. He is currently building a more cooperative web Mysilio Co.

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.

Jackson Morgan
Space Steward of Universal Access Amphitheater

Jackson Morgan is the founder of O.team, a consulting firm focused on the decentralized storage network, Solid.

 

Videos from the summit:

John N. Kelly
Space Steward of AI Thinktank

John Kelly has facilitated hundreds of workshops and meetings to help clients understand and make decisions about complex issues.  Recently he has been an advisor to CivicMakers.com and Topicquests.org.  He worked as a trainer/consultant for Global Business Network, teaching and curating content for their Asking Better Questions course.  He adapts and applies methods from Future Mapping, Metaplanning, Liberating Structures,  deliberative juries and budget games to help teams collaborate on difficult issues. 

Joshua Tan
AI Track, Curator, Metagov

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

Joy Q Zhang
Space Steward of Hackers hall

Joy is a cross-cultural designer, engineer, and entrepreneur whose latest work of passion is BLOOP - the decentralized social search engine. Her background is in mechanical engineering, industiral design, and cross disciplinary design from Georgia Tech, Royal College of Art, and Imperial College London. More about her previous projects and art here: https://joyqzhang.com

Kelsey Breseman
Head Weaver

Tlingit, forest person, engineer, and activist. Working on environmental data justice and communities' right to know about and be protected from toxics in their environment. Moonlighting as data director for a universal healthcare ballot initiative. Always interested in how tech tools shift the balance of power.

Kev Nguyen
Associate Producer

void temporarily made human

Mai Ishikawa Sutton
Director of Fellowships

Mai Ishikawa Sutton is founder of COMPOST magazine, contributor at Hypha Worker Co-operative, and an organizer and writer focused on the intersections of human rights, solidarity economics, and digital commons. They were a steward/community organizer with the People's Open Network, DWeb Camp 2019 Associate Producer, and Digital Commons Fellow with Commons Network. Formerly, they were the Community Engagement Manager at Shareable. Before that they were with the Electronic Frontier Foundation advocating for the public interest in international intellectual property policy.

 

Videos from the summit:

Mariah Villarreal
Space Steward of Redwood Cathedral

Mariah is passionate about learning, free culture, and software freedom. Rooted in community and transformative justice, she wants to help foster a digital learning ecosystem which prioritizes our individual and collective agencies. They are dedicated to promoting lifelong learning, creative expression, and equitable access to information.

Matt Jurenka
Space Steward of Thunder Salon

I am a freelancer that specializes in fullstack Rust and TypeScript blockchain development. Looking for projects at the moment, please contact me through my website. www.matthewjurenka.com

Matthew Schutte
Space Steward of Thunder Salon
Expert Surfer / Non-expert Musician / Facilitator / Speaker / Philosopher / Systems Design Consultant. 
 
In this Decentralized Web world, I have worked primarily on the communications side of things (with additional work on community / business models and high level application architecture) but am presently diving deeper into software development because I want to be a bit more hands on in exploring the new applications and patterns that are becoming possible with the maturation of Holochain and other p2p protocols/frameworks/applications.
ngọc triệu
Steward, Design Track Organiser

ngọc triệu practices design and research as an intervention to address and reform asymmetrical power relations through the lenses of decoloniality and decentralization. Her work focuses on the intersection of human-centred design, digital rights, and public-interest technology. ngọc is passionate about user advocacy, co-creation, and equal access to knowledge. Whether she is distilling data into insights that inform design decisions or developing a new UX pattern for distributed systems, ngọc collaborates closely with tech funders, designers, developers, and researchers to ensure usability, security, and safety for marginalised and vulnerable communities.

Currently, ngọc works as a design researcher at Superbloom (previously known as Simply Secure), a design non-profit that leverages design as a transformative practice to shift power in the tech ecosystem. She's also a maintainer of Decentralization, Off the Shelf, an initiative focused on creating resources and providing design support for practitioners in decentralization.

Raphael Gonzales
Space Steward of People-2-People Tent, Software Engineer

Raphael Gonzalez is a software engineer, researcher, artist, and AI enthusiast. He likes to look at the intersection of subjects and see what can be done there to improve technology for everyone. As an artist and AI enthusiast, he’s interested in how generative AI and artists will develop together, and thinks about ways to trace generated output to source material in the training data

riley wong
Space Steward of Overflow Stack, metagov

riley wong researches distributed cooperatives and community governance models, with interests in public goods and the commons, solidarity economies, peer-to-peer systems, interdependence, and emergence. they’re also exploring applied cryptography and privacy preserving identity systems.

they have previous lives in machine learning at google, investigative journalism at propublica, and qtbipoc community organizing. they are based in nyc and enjoy painting, making music, building synthesizers, and writing. 

Roxi Shohadaee
Artists Track, Curator

Roxi is a regenerative artivist, protopian futurist, ontological designer, experiential producer, transdisciplinary social sculptor and creative doula. She is a student of living systems, regenerative design and decolonial sustainability. She has over 15 years of experience working at the intersection of art, science, experience and technology. Her mission is to harness this intersectional approach to catalyze social and systemic change through inclusive, transdisciplinary collaborations for the regeneration of our planet and culture. Her path is grounded in a commitment to creating inspiring and embodied ways of learning together. As behavior is a function of culture - she supports and develops creative cultural interventions and co-learning evolutionary containers. Her thesis is rooted in a belief that as we perpetuate equitable and just cultures, societal behaviors participating in life affirming ways of being will emerge in that process. As we are facing a crisis of imagination, Roxi’s efforts encourage collective imagination beyond the limits of the plausible and probable into the possible in service to the potential of a world where all life thrives at the expense of none. She is a deep believer and practitioner in designing for states of being, having those states of being prime us for connection, reparations and regeneration with ourselves, each other and our beautiful living planet.

Tracey Jaquith
Code of Conduct Team & Website Engineer

Tracey Jaquith is a founding engineer and system architect for Internet Archive since 1996, writing multi-threaded servers, crawlers, and more. She wrote the “what’s related” services that ultimately led to Alexa Internet’s acquisition by Amazon. An inventor with two patents, she is the Archive’s longest tenured employee after founder, Brewster Kahle.

In 2000, Jaquith left for four years to be the technical lead and founding engineer at a financial startup focusing on more efficiently trading convertible bonds.

Recently, Jaquith rewrote Internet Archive’s TV recording system as an open source single server system, capable of preserving 75 simultaneous 24×7 channels, and developed the Television Archive’s “full stack” first and second versions. For more than a decade, Jaquith held primary responsibility for archive.org and its full stack infrastructure, later launching a fully responsive “Version 2” of the archive.org website —migrating to jQuery, bootstrap, LESS, modern faceting, ElasticSearch, postgreSQL and more. She is leading the core infrastructure migration to Docker for archive.org’s in-house AWS and S3-like system. Open Libraries services will rest upon the infrastructure Jaquith is designing.

Jaquith’s first job was at Xerox PARC, writing core low-level C-language image processing and comparison algorithms using novel computational geometry based on research from her Master’s degree. 

Jaquith holds a Master’s and Bachelor’s in Computer Science from Cornell University where she focused on machine vision, robotics and mathematics. Jaquith presents at conferences (Demuxed 2016, MozFest) and is a regular guest lecturer at colleges about news and broadcast technologies.

 

Videos from the summit:

Tyler Childs
Space Steward of Mycelium Pavilion, Sillyz.Computer

TyChi is an internet artist. Like Spider-Man, he slings web stuff.

His in progress work is best compared to the film Monsters, Inc.. A bit spoilery, but the flick charts the progression of two societies living in a dystopia and their path towards a utopia. The monsters use the fear of the innocent to power their burgeoning, swanky society. In the end, it turned out that laughter was the best medicine and the humans no longer needed to be afraid of the artificially scary monsters.

The current state of this work is a blog that outlines what it is like living in a society fueled by fear-induced machines powered by greed. The ending is being written in real-time, but it should be all of us laughing the "Metaverse" into the ground if these clowns want to seriously take the world wide web on for a second round.

 

Videos from the summit:

Viktor Zaunders
Space Steward of Treehouse

Viktor works with all manners of technology in service to planetary regeneration. He runs a coop in his home village hosting a co-working space, doing events and running a mushroom farm. He's very excited to bring distributed techonologies and especially sovereign adaptable digital group spaces into the organisations he is working with. He has been active in the Holochain community for about 5 years and is currently developing software through darksoil.studio

 

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 of Hackers Hall

Will Howes is a Computer Science major at Reed College. He is a recurring volunteer at the Aaron Swartz Day International Hackathon and presented his experience with high school activism at the 2021 event. Will is excited to facilitate participation and engagement in the DWeb community and to make more friends in along the way. In his free time, Will likes to go for runs and read, among other things, the plot summaries of movies on Wikipedia.

Young Wong
Space Steward of Bluelight Barn, ArtsEd4All

Sifu Young Wong is a disciple of Hung Sing Style Choy Lee Fut. Choy Lee Fut, one of the most popular styles among full contact fighters throughout Asia, was founded over 150 years ago by Chan Heung in Gung Mui, China. Hung Sing Choy Lee Fut practitioners were instructed in the skills of defensive warfare and spiritual discipline.

Young studied both Wing Chun, (direct lineage from Ip Man, reknowned Chinese martial artist and grandmaster of the martial art Wing Chun), as well as Choy Lee Fut (under Sifu E.Y. Lee, direct lineage from Grand Master Lau Bun, who is credited with bringing Choy Li Fut to America) Sifu Young's name has been entered in the Shaolin Temple and in the Choy Lee Fut origination temple in China. Young is also a retired architect and enjoys woodworking now.

Coming

 
Wendy Hanamura
Internet Archive
Bryn Bellomy Jay Carpenter
Desert Blockchain LLC
Joseph Lacey Kate Sills
Software Engineer
Michael Dougherty
Holochain core developer
Nigini Oliveira Carl Gorringe Michael Emel
StreetwearDAO | RegensDAO
Gabriel Chartier Jackson Morgan
O.team
Rob Morris
funDAOmental
Seph Gentle
Replica
Steven Elleman Christine Lemmer-Webber
Spritely Institute, CTO
Morgan Lemmer-Webber
Digital Bazaar
Ese
DWeb Team
Jonathan Bryant
Noah Chon Lee Michael Toomin
Invisible College
Christy
Rich Bodo Cindy Chu Guo Liu
Matters Lab
Sandro Hawke
Joy Zhang
BLOOP, backed by Filecoin Techstars

Theodore Keloglou

Chaitin School
Hackerm0m / aleatoric_ops (Meredith)

Limari Navarrete

Decentralized Identity Foundation
Xiaowei Wang
Logic School
Golda Velez
3Box/Ceramic, Cooperation.org
Steven McKie
Managing Director/Researcher at Amentum Capital
Byoengjun Moon
Mainstream Labs
jiangplus
Alexis Rossi
Code of Conduct Team and Director at Internet Archive
Jason Kwon
 OpenAI
Iota Chan
Jordan Gray
@starpause
Georgie
Replica
Nguyen Van lam
Ty
Sillyz.Computer
Ira Nezhynska
Protocol Labs
Oren Robinson
Member, May First Movement Technology Cooperative
Mary Camacho
Holochain
Tibet Sprague
Hylo & the Collaborative Technology Alliance
mariah villarreal
Erik Duemig
Sarah Ingle
phước hữu nguyễn (kev)
Potluck - Hoài Nam, Relinquish
mark seiden
Internet Archive, Columbia University
Trav Fryer
Autonomic Cooperative
May Wang
John N. Kelly
Deliberative Design
Nicholas Brigham Adams
Goodly Labs, Public Editor, Atlanta HEARTH
Stephanie Asmar
Clovyr
Wesley Merkel
Clovyr
Rishi Balakrishnan
Software Engineer at Oasis Labs
Holmes Wilson
Quiet (tryquiet.org)
mai ishikawa sutton
Antonia Bustamante
enflujo.com
Brynn O'Donnell
Filecoin Foundation for the Decentralized Web
Kaitlin Donovan
Filecoin Foundation for the Decentralized Web
Harlan Wood
TrustGraph / CoreNexus / Holochain
Arkadiy Kukarkin
Internet Archive
Megan Prelinger
Prelinger Archives
Rick Prelinger
Prelinger Archives
Bruce Baumgart
Retired; former Internet Archive Employee; Stanford A.I.Lab 1970s archivisit
John Ryan
Mary Lou Jepsen
CEO & Founder of Openwater (www.openwater.cc)
Brewster Kahle
Internet Archive
Mary Austin
SF Center for the Book
ngọc triệu
Superbloom | Decentralization, Off the Shelf
Chad O
Aha Labs
Danny O'Brien
FFDW
Jean-François Noubel
HOLO
Peter Van Garderen
Orcfax
Lia Holland
Campaigns and Communications Director at Fight for the Future
Willem Wyndham
Co-founder Aha Labs
Greg Slepak
okTurtles Foundation Inc.
Stefan Magdalinski
Senior Tech Lead, Filecoin Foundation
Kelsey Breseman
Environmental Data & Governance Initiative
F. Randall Farmer
ED, Spritely Networked Communities Institute
Silona Bonewald
Brian Behlendorf
Kurt Opsahl
Filecoin Foundation
Clara Tsao
Filecoin Foundation
Olivia Sigler
Filecoin Foundation
Meghan Gavis
Filecoin Foundation
Jia (Carol) Xu
Co-founder of The Present Of Work
Mark Hechim
Megan Klimen
Filecoin Foundation and Filecoin Foundation for the Decentralized Web
Marta Belcher
Filecoin Foundation and Filecoin Foundation for the Decentralized Web
Rock Zhan
Founder of VPN3.io
Ian Davis
Filecoin Foundation, Mysilio
Hunter Treseder
Head of Social Impact Programs, Filecoin Foundation
Christian M. Koch
Landano
Eric Harris Braun
Holochain/Holo
Catherine Stihler
Creative Commons CEO
Matthew Jurenka
Freelance Blockchain Developer at www.matthewjurenka.com
John Kunze
ARK Alliance
Santiago Bazerque
Hyper Hyper Space
Marlene Ronstedt
Hyper Oracle
Julio Monteiro
Neighbourhoods
Emaline Friedman
Neighbourhoods
Wesley Finck
Neighbourhoods
Farley
Noisebridge, Open Knowledge Map
Coelti (Poet)
Xin Liu
Builder at Planetable.xyz
Yi Han
Designer at Planetable.xyz
Sid Sthalekar
Neighbourhoods
BZ Petroff
Internet Archive
Matt Zumwalt
Tergar Institute
Josh Ford
NEAR Protocol
Benedict Lau
Hypha Worker Co-operative
Yurko Jaremko
Hypha Worker Co-operative
Andi Argast
Hypha Worker Co-operative
Cameron Fyfe
Hypha Worker Cooperative
Kathryn Bates
Del Sol Quartet
Charlton Lee
Del Sol Quartet
Hyeyung Sol Yoon
Del Sol Quartet
Benjamin Kreith
Del Sol Quartet
Ryan Betts
Fission
Carrie
Okthanks
John
Guardian Project
Tiff
Guardian Project
Chris Lewis
Public Knowledge
Jenny Fan
Metagov
Mark Graham
Travis Vachon
Mysilio + web3.storage
Tani Olhanoski
Mysilio
Laurie Penny
Chaotic Good
Tom Voltz
UsefulBots
Spencer Chang Independent Researcher
Ronen Tamari
Common SenseMakers | Hebrew University of Jerusalem
bengo
Gia Luna Goering-Moran
Kelly Neuner
Design Futures Initiative & SheFi
Kathy Ketman
James Baicoianu
Stability.ai
Cent Hosten
Metagov
Trevor Grant
Read Write Own
Nathan Ray
Read Write Own
Renate Hennig
Luke Miller
Metagov
Jamie Joyce
Internet Archive / Society Library
Dazza Greenwood
Civics.com & law.MIT.edu
Will Howes
Reed College '23
Tim Glorioso
Mark Nadal
https://gun.eco
Aslan Nadal
Rocklin Nadal
Henry
CTO of RSS3
Anni
Cofounder of RSS3
Atlas
Cofounder of Crossbell
Humphrey Obuobi
LETS Studio
Antoine McGrath
Denise Duncan
Amplica Labs. Contributors to DSNP and Frequency.
Wes Biggs
Amplica Labs. Contributors to DSNP and Frequency.
Alice Scope
Vellum LA
Nick Sweeting
ArchiveBox.io founder
Rithikha Rajamohan
V6A Collaborative
Dan Finlay
MetaMask
Tomasz Kolinko
Joyce Searls
Ostrom Workshop, Indiana University
Doc Searls
Ostrom Workshop, Indiana University
Jack Cushman
Harvard Library Innovation Lab
Sawood Alam
Research Lead, Wayback Machine, Internet Archive
Val (she/they)
Metagov, Lips/Reliabl
riley wong
staff research scientist at metagov
Vlad Grichina
web4 hacker
Guillem Córdoba
darksoil studio
Heather Hurford
Ajay tallam, regeneration pollination
Brenton Cheng
Internet Archive
Teo Cheng
University of Washington
Joshua Tan
Metagov
David Thompson
Spritely Institute
Krista
Storj
Kevin
Storj
Dominick
Storj
John
Storj
Barry Threw
Gray Area
Christina Bowen
Socialroots
Nicole Klau Ibarra
The IKIGAI Project
Garrett Young
The IKIGAI Project
Roxi Shohadaee
Gray Area, habRitual, Design Science Studio
Zacchae
Synaptics
Alex Toutant
Matthew Schutte
Holochain
Tatiana Tarasova
Matt
Verse Communications : Nos.Social / Planetary
Shaina
Verse Communications : Planetary / Nos.Social
Duke Jones
Holochain DPKI (Deepkey)
Meredith Pallante
Filecoin Foundation
Philliph Drummond
Superbloom Design
Kegan Dougal
Matrix.org
Yilan Huang
Travis F W
BaseParadigm.com
Ilya Kreymer
Webrecorder
Tessa Walsh
Webrecorder
Ed Summers
Webrecorder
Henry Wilkinson
Webrecorder
Sua Yoo
Webrecorder
Lorena Ramirez-Lopez
Webrecorder
Collin McClain
Writer and Researcher - Holo / Holochain
Paul d'Aoust
Writer and Developer - Holo / Holochain
Mark Franks
Head of Developer Relations - Holo / Holochain
Cody Harris
Seattle Community Network
Allison Duettmann
Foresight Institute
Eugene Leventhal
Metagov
Matt
vlcn.io
Esther Jang
University of Washington / Seattle Community Network / Local Connectivity Lab
Parker McCurley
Co-Founder, Decent
Nicolaus Sherrill
Design Workstream Leader, Decent
Chris Dancy
Software Engineer, Decent
Ashley Caines
 Contributor, Decent
Sam Liebeskind
 New Public
Joe Thornton
Dmitri Zagidulin,
DecentSocial Conference, MIT DCC, W3C SWICG
Sergio Valdes Garcia
Copincha co-founder
Jim Fournier
JLINC Labs
Surya Kramer
Tru
Ryan Taylor
Zachary Larson
Janna Frenzel
Timid Robot
Creative Commons
Hayley Anna
 Blockchain Law for Social Good Center
Carmen Liang
VPN3.io
Mikayla Maki
Zed
Ross Schulman
Electronic Frontier Foundation
Tim Glorioso
Kumavis
metamask
Adit Dhanushkodi
Andi Wong
ArtsEd4All
Young Wong
ArtsEd4All
Hester Bruikman
Colten Jackson
Lookalive Software
Bryan Newbold
 Bluesky
Cooperative Security
Ravon ruffin
 Head of community initiatives new public
Aza Raskin
 Co-Founder, Earth Species Project & Center for Humane Technology
Justin F. Knoll
Neighbourhoods
Philip Rosedale
 Second Life
Aldo Kempen
Arun Mannuru
Jonny Howle 
Sarah Philips
 Fight for the Future
Andrea Mills
Executive Director, Internet Archive Canada
Louisa Cohen
Communications and Partnerships Coordinator, Internet Archive Canada
Aaron Brodeur
 Holochain, Hylo
Verse Communications PBC: Nos Social + Planetary
Viktor Zaunders
 darksoil.studio
Val S. K.
Future Proof
Ferananda Ibarra
Director Commons Engine 
https://bio.link/ferananda
Rob Christopher
Ali Nazari
Rand Marsh
Founder, GoldAR
Liz Sweigart
Andrew Chou
Digital Democracy + Manyverse
Anh Le
Seph Gentle
Subhashish Panigrahi
 O Foundation
Amber Gallant
 iSchool at the University of British Columbia
Alexander Green
 Persona
Sarah Grant
 Radical Networks, Weise7 Berlin
Kanyon CoyoteWoman
Indian Canyon Nation + KKLLC
Tatsuya Sato
Tommi
Josh Stroud
 Software Engineer, Code for America
Bret Warshawsky
Alan Ransil
Yavuz Selim Kıyak
 Gazi University Faculty of Medicine
Gonzalez
Jacky Zhao
 Independent Researcher
Mix - Āhau
 Scuttlebutt
fauno (he/him, Sutty)
Alex (they/she)
 Holochain community member
Liz Steininger
 Least Authority
Qianqian Ye
Ael
g0v contributor
Jason Morton
 Zkonduit
Camille Nibungco
James Gondwe
 Centre for Youth and Development
Nicolás Pace
 Association for Progressive Communications
Luisa Bagope
MarLu Creations
Brad DeGraf
 Nao.is
Saqib Sheikh
 Project Director, Rohingya Project
Rez Khan
Eric Bear
Holochain, darksoil studio, dWeb Labs
Barbara Gonzalez Segovia
 Digital Democracy
Leo Glisic
 Founder & CEO, Maitri Network
Lawrence Wang
Scott Garrison
Paul Krafel
Benson Tilya
 Saving Africa's Nature
Peersky Browser
Sheley Gomes
 Intervozes
Glenn Poppe
meem
Wendy Seltzer
 Tucows
Norbu Snow Shiva
Shiyi Mu
Maurice Haedo Sanabria
 Co-founder of Copincha
David Phillips
Stacco Troncoso.
DisCO.coop. Co-founder, worker-owner
Blake Stoner
Founder of the Vngle Grassroots News Agency & Fellow at Stanford & USC's Starling Lab for Data Integrity
Anna Yelizarova
 Future of Life Institute
Rebecca Ackerman
Charles E. Lehner
Long Island - New York
Peter 'ribasushi' Rabbitson
Yilan Huang
Grant Gallo
eQaulitie
Limari Navarrete
 Sr. Director of Community Engagement - Decentralized Identity Foundation
Nicolas Luck
 co-founder of AD4M & Coasys
Josh Parkin
 co-founder AD4M & Flux & Coasys
B Cavello
 Aspen Digital
Rob Lach
Love Computing
Ali Nolin
Christian Tschudin
 University of Basel, Switzerland
Homin Luo
Arthur Brock
 Holochain
Timo Carlin-Burns
 Holochain
Robert WebQ
Marcela Guerra
 PSP and AudioNovella community studio
Risper Arose
Lindsay Walker
Brandon King
Isa Herico-Velasco
Christopher Velasco
Dinesh
 janastu bangalore
Xin Xin
Chia Amisola
Developh / Philippine Internet Archive
Regina Harsanyi
(Associate Curator of Media Arts, Museum of the Moving Image)
Rob Keizer
Christian Tschudin
 University of Basel, Switzerland
Muhammad Noor
 Rohingya Project
Wade Wallerstein
 Gray Area
Calum Bowden
 Trust
Mark Hernandez Motaghy
Kelani Nichole Founder
 TRANSFER
Lia Holland
Eleanor "Ell" Grano
Gabrielle Mullins
Hannah Parkin
Mara Abrams
 Social Innovation
Oscar Sharp
Speaker John Ash (Cognicism)
Benjamin Life
 OpenCivics and Design Science Studio
Yisi Liu
Amanda Gregory
SBCAST and META Lab
Billy Bicket
TechSoup
Jonathan Schooler
Meta Lab at UCSB
Deborah Tien
 Common Agency
Mei Lin Fung
People Centered Internet
Christian Founder
Trapnstudio
Fargol Falahi
Shane Sandler
BlockShangerous
Victor
 coolab
Peter Wang
Anaconda
Tim Courtney
Anshul Mathew
 Northeastern University
Leilani R
 🛠️ Builder at The New Computer Corporation (ncc.la)
Ruben Rodriguez
 GNU / Trisquel
David Greenbaum (Mr G)
 Singer & Educator
Adam Souzis
 onecommons.org
Noah Chon Lee
 viaprize.org
Jack Fox Keen
 Data Empowerment Lead, The Guardian Project
Deger Turan
AI Objectives Institute
Stephen Hood
 Mozilla
Sara Keen
 Senior Research Scientist, Earth Species Project
Elissa Roy
 Earth Species Project
Tracey Jaquith
Internet Archive, Founding Coder
Stefan Brown
Lydia La Roux
 Foresight Institute
Liz Sweigart
Arun Mannuru
Andrew Naglestad
TR2000
Mek
 Open Library @ Internet Archive
Althea Allen
 Privacy and Scaling Explorations, Ethereum Foundation
Peter Allen
Caitlin Olson
Internet Archive
Renee Barton
Darrell Duane
Nate Warmann
Yilan Huang
CyberConnect & Bali Commune
Colin Brauns
Afra Wang
Michael Grossman
 Factr, Collaborative Technology Alliance, ESC.fyi
Samuel Oslund
Quinn Wilton
 Fission
Adazz
dDAO
Ferananda Ibarra
 
 Day Waterbury
Consensual Ventures, Collaborative Technology Alliance, ARC Regenerative Communities
Jessica Taylor
 Researcher at Median Group
Marta Chierego
Filmmaker
CEO
Orcfax Ltd | Landano International
 MobileCoin
Julian Sutter
 Symbio
Rosie Campbell
 OpenAI
Ivan Morales
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