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Tony Lai and Lauscher jam in the coffee cafe. Lauscherand Mandina are live musicians representing the URkollektiv. The "UR" stands for "roots," the primordial, connecting force and source of creative energy that brings all art forms together. At the DWeb Camp in the Alte Hölle, we connected the "URjahreszeiten" with this spirit of living, connected ecosystems and cooperation.

Roots Music Descendents built this sound wall for the Roots Music area.

Walking through the tree lined lane to shuttle buses.

One of the myriad moments of deep conversation at DWeb Camp 2026.

DWeb Pollinator and D:Food/Web presenter, Nadia, who lives in a small farm in southeast Brazil. In contact with organic farmers and Brazilian agro-ecological movement, she started to orient her perspective towards digital systems that support collective work, while diving in the hacker culture and politics.

The Artizen community came in force and hosted discussions in their own decorative tent.

DWeb Berlin Node leader and ZK Video Club founder, Ryan Taylor making announcemnts during a meal. At DWeb Camp, meals are eaten together, with 550 campers served by one common kitchen.

The Open Social Space hosted workshops and talks about decentralized social protocols, governance and more.

Getting hands on! At the Demo Night Market, more than 50 projects with user-ready tech presented their wares.

During the Demo Night Market, Daniel Shavit presented ”Paris Data”, to explore public data about the city of Paris.

Robyn Pan smiling in front of a computer monitor.

Climate GPT founder, Daniel Erasmus, shares the latest breakthroughs with his AI Platform. ClimateGPT is designed to enhance human decisionmaking by offering robust climate information to researchers, policymakers, and business leaders.

AT Protocol and Bluesky CTO, Paul Frazee, on building Bluesky with the idea of scale from Day One.

Taking a capoeira break at DWeb Camp. Capoeira is an Afro-Brazilian martial art that combines elements of fight, dance, acrobatics, and music.

Weaving Group time! Throughout the week, campers could opt-in to facilitated, small group discussions.

Tent magic.

Holochain's Matthew Schutte leading Demo Night Market. He spearheaded a team of four who organized this seminal showcase for public-ready tools.

Gainforest's Chief Scientist, David Dao, explains how to support nature projects worldwide with technology that makes stewardship verifiable.

Deep discussion moderated by SJ Klein and b. Cavello in the AI Barn.

Ksenia and her colleague from eQualitie present in the Anti-Authoritarian Stack.

Matrix/Element Co-founder, Matthew Hodgson, shares reflections on the last decade of decentralization, with blockchain legal expert, Primavera DeFilippi, and Internet Archive founder, Brewster Kahle.

Looking back, looking forward: five original participants in the 2016 Decentralized Web Summit reflect: Mathew Hodgson, Founder & CTO, Matrix Primavera DeFilippi, Distributed Governance; Blockchain & the Law Markus Sabadello, Decentralized Identity & DID architect Brewster Kahle, Founder, Internet Archive & Digital Librarian Paul Frazee, CTO, Bluesky

More than 550 technologists, activists, researchers, and educators joined DWeb Camp 2026 at Alte Hoelle, Germany.

Botao "Amber" Hu poses the question "what it would mean for every future commons to have its own AI steward?"

ZK Video Club founder, Ryan Taylor, interviews c-base member ePunk in the Video Station.

Unconference sessions drew large groups.

Matrix founder, Matthew Hodgson, presents the P2P Matrix in development.

David Luecke, one of the leaders of DWeb Camp Cascadia, shares his talents in the closing talent show.

Gilberto performs a moving rendition of "Change is Gonna Come"

Mai Ishikawa Sutton of DWeb and Franzi of DoD lead us in the closing ceremony.

Wendy Hanamura, Tony Lai, Ian Davis and Brewster Kahle enjoy a laugh at the Opening Ceremony of DWeb Camp 2026.

Wendy Hanamura kicking off the Opening Ceremony & Camp Orientation with a smile

Deep Appreciation to the donors Plaque on DWeb Camp Main stage at Linden Theater

Wendy Hanamura, Tony Lai, Brewster Kahle and other participants clapping and raising hands into the sky during Closing Cerimony at Linden Theater

Will Howes, of the Wayback Machine, crushing it at ping pong.

Eileen Wagner hosts an intimate tea tent with Zenna, Andre Garzia, and riley wong.

Ice cream distribution by Luca Bonissi and Marta Andreoli

DJs MF and Daniel Shavit in the dance barn.

Late night acoustic music jams in the Forest Pavillion, organized by Micah Fitch.