I am a Tanzanian beekeeper, api-tourism guide, apitherapy practitioner, and community educator. I am the founder of African Bees Consultants, an organization dedicated to representing Africanized bees as a force for ecological resilience and economic justice. Our work is built on three pillars: conserving African forests through beekeeping, eliminating poverty in local communities through commercial beekeeping, and connecting African producers with international markets. I offer api-tourism experiences, apitherapy treatments, beehive air inhalation sessions, and bee consultation services — blending ancestral knowledge with modern ecological practice. I also serve as a board member of The Lulu Foundation, an international NGO based in California that supports community-led innovation across Africa. My work is grounded in the belief that African bees — and the communities who tend them — hold solutions the world urgently needs.

Core-maintainer of p2panda

❖ Fediverse: https://post.lurk.org/@adz
❖ Website: https://adz.garden
❖ GitHub: https://github.com/adzialocha
❖ Codeberg: https://codeberg.org/adz

Managing Director of the Department of Decentralization, host of the Berlin Chaos Mesh community, and co-organizer of the DWeb Camp Berlin 2026.

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I am an old (60+) hacker, having begun with taming mainframes for fun and money, working my way through the advent of the internet. I helped resistance in communist Poland, navigated the uncertain financial waters of German reunification and its fallout, helped address the Y2K-bug, seen the New Economy bubble burst, and so on. I am an economist and a philosopher in the field of cultural history of technology, currently CEO for a small entity that acquires and runs real estate for hacker purposes, from data centers to living communities of elderly hackers. I am member of c-base and have long been active in the CCC, and I’m a member of the German Gesellschaft für Freiheitsrechte GFF, doing things that are partially similar to what for example the EFF is doing in the US.
My nom de guerre ajuvo is easy to retrieve in hacker-related communications channels.

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Dr Anamika Dey is the CEO of GIAN (Gujarat Grassroots Innovation Augmentation Network) and a researcher working at the intersection of traditional knowledge sovereignty, community data governance, and grassroots innovation in India.
For over a decade, she has worked with the Honey Bee Network — one of the earliest models of community-owned knowledge documentation, built on principles of recognition, reciprocity, and benefit-sharing with knowledge holders. Long before "data commons" became a tech conversation, the Network was asking: who owns what a community knows, and who profits from it?
She brings this lens to questions of Community Data Sovereignty, ethical bio-entrepreneurship, and what decentralised governance of knowledge actually looks like on the ground — in villages, not whitepapers. She is also the founder of The Little Himalayan Co., a social enterprise that attempts to close the loop between knowledge holders and markets without extracting value from either.
She is interested in finding how decentralised architectures can serve communities that have the most to lose from centralised platforms — and the most to contribute to a more equitable web.

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.

Teaching artist and arts advocate Andi Wong serves as project coordinator for ArtsEd4All, an informal collective of educators, artists, scientists, civic institutions and community organizations, who work together to create participatory arts experiences. A fifth generation Chinese American, Andi researches and records history, helping to archive the important contributions of artists. Her creative partners include Del Sol Quartet; First Voice (Mark Izu and Brenda Wong Aoki); Internet Archive; The Last Hoisan Poets (Genny Lim, Flo Oy Wong and Nellie Wong); and composer/musician Marcus Shelby. She explores how technology can help to build connections with The Blue Marbles Project, ImageSnippets and Terrastories. She established the family program at DWeb Camp, where a global community gathers in nature, to learn, share and have fun building the decentralized web.

Agroecologist, specialized on agricultural policies and agroecology: over 20 years’ experience in international food and agriculture policy development and rural development.
Extensive experience in working with and supporting small-scale food producing organizations globally, including in policy processes at national, regional and international level
20 years’ experience in running a organic family farm and actually member of a Bio social coop running a farm in Viterbo province (Italy)
Coordinator of the Schola Campesina Aps, International agroecology school based in the Biodistretto della Via Amerina e delle Forre (Civita Castellana, Viterbo, Italy)
R&D coordinator of Fondazione Biodistretto della Via Amerina e delle Forre Ets
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Andre is a writer and software developer involved with the Secure Scuttlebutt community. He’s a hybrid author but favours self-publishing because owning your own platform is important and also because he secretly enjoys tinkering with ePubs. Andre published many non-fiction books focused on computer programming, and has been featured in a couple of Science Fiction and Horror short story anthologies.

Andre is originally from Brazil but now lives in Scotland with his cat.

Andreas Arnold is a Berlin-based social entrepreneur, cooperative strategist, and connector working at the intersection of the cooperative economy, Web3, and community-driven innovation. Trained as an Industrial Engineer and Management expert, he has spent the past 15 years exploring the transition from the sharing economy toward platform cooperatives and decentralized economic systems.

As co-founder and board member of Platform Coops eG, Andreas supports founders and organizations in building cooperative digital business models, governance structures, and alternative financing approaches. His work spans blockchain ecosystems, DAOs, DGOV, marketplaces, and cooperative finance — with a current focus on cooperative stablecoins and community-owned financial infrastructures.

Previously, Andreas led the digitalization and marketplace development for the freelancer cooperative SMartDe eG, coordinated marketplace strategy for the blockchain-based UBI project Circles, and advised Circles Coop eG on cooperative and ecosystem development.

Andrew is a technologist based in New York City that has always had a strong curiosity for decentralized technologies. He has worked on peer-to-peer applications focused on data autonomy and offline-first use cases since 2021, primarily in the form of data collection and mapping tools for indigenous communities at Awana Digital.

Anna Lynton is a designer, technologist, and community facilitator. Her work is rooted in supporting community autonomy, local innovation, and tech sovereignty, with roles across the open ag tech ecosystem including with OpenTEAM and the Grassroots Innovations Assembly for Agroecology. As a steward of Float, her work centers on decentralized governance, community-led processes, and advancing the autonomy of food producers.

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Anton Tranelis is a software developer and community-builder working on local-first trust infrastructure for real-life communities. He is the initiator and maintainer of Web of Trust, an open-source project for self-sovereign identity, in-person verification, signed attestations, and encrypted collaboration.

Arikia Millikan is the founder of CTRL+X, an ownership protocol for the information economy. Her work sits at the intersection of journalism, payments infrastructure, and protocol design. She is a former editor of WIRED, a member of Superteam Germany, and a 2025 TEDx Berlin speaker on decentralized publishing infrastructure. She organized the Decentralized Media Summit at Berlin Blockchain Week 2025, and co-organizes Oasis, a quarterly vibecoding workshop.

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I am a technolgist and a builder with 15+ years of experience setting strategic direction and building high-performing teams.

Since 2017, I have been focused on shipping blockchain systems, smart contract protocols, decentralized applications, and developer tooling. For the last three years I have been designing and operating novel funding mechanisms for public goods.

Before Web3, I built forensics software, security systems, cryptography-related products, robotics, AI and VR. I worked across both consultancies and fast-moving startups, leading teams from early-stage builds to production-scale delivery.

Arushi Bandi is a technologist living and working out of San Francisco. She is the CEO and Co-founder of Habitat, https://habitat.network, building a platform to help organizations and communities own their data and build software for their unique needs. She is also the infra 'witch' of Collective Action School (https://collectiveaction.school) helping tech workers remake tech from below and has been a recurring class-taker of the School for Poetic Computation.

Prior to building Habitat, she was an infrastructure software engineer at Figma for several years.

I design and troubleshoot distributed systems where compute, storage, and networking interact under real-world failure conditions.

Bart is a Web Development Lecturer at Odisee University of Applied Sciences in Belgium.
Prior to teaching, he served as a developer for the City of Ghent, where he spearheaded web accessibility initiatives. His work included co-developing the city's accessible component library, auditing complex applications, and training developers and stakeholders in universal design.
Today, Bart focuses on educating the next generation of developers to prioritize digital sovereignty and open standards, ensuring the future web remains accessible to everyone.

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Ben Cerveny is the president and chairman of the Foundation for Public Code. His work concerns the fundamental relationship of computation with society.

For more than 25 years Ben has worked as an executive, strategist, and designer in the context of operating systems, media applications, web services, products, the built environment, and digital games.

Before founding the Foundation for Public Code, he was a Design Fellow at Samsung, working with design teams across the company and leading a project on room-scale programmable environments.

Previously, he helped design the massively multiplayer game about collaborative creativity online that became Flickr [and also named it], founded the Experience Design Lab at Frogdesign, and was founder and CEO of Bloom Studios, whose data visualization iPad app Planetary was acquired by the Smithsonian Institution.

He has written and lectured extensively, and taught at UCLA, New York University, and the University College London. He serves on the advisory council of the Digital Public Goods Alliance and the steering committee of the UN/ITU GovStack project.

Agricultural technologist and founder of Green Leaf AI, specializing in decentralized data provenance and deploying community-governed data applications under low-connectivity constraints.

student of nature conservation in love with life processes

Billion is the cofounder of Cofacts, a project she initiated in 2016. She is a staunch advocate for marriage equality and open freedom, dedicating herself to bridging diverse communities and providing empowerment courses to combat disinformation. She is expertise in civic technology and digital democracy.

Blake Stoner stands at the intersection of legacy and innovation, building infrastructure for the next chapter of civic innovation. Inspired by a lineage of public service, his work focuses on expanding how communities are seen, understood, and represented in the systems shaping society.

Stoner is the Founder and CEO of Vngle, a Civic Insights Company designing trusted systems for real-time, community-verified insight. He also serves as Board Chair of Heart of South Downtown, stewarding the revitalization of ten historic blocks in Downtown Atlanta into America’s most ambitious district for doers, creatives, and innovators.

To advance nonpartisan progress, Stoner launched the Institute for Nonpartisan Innovation in partnership with the City University of New York, building collaborative research and civic technology that elevates community-powered breakthroughs. His leadership has earned national recognition, including honors from MIT Solve, American Public Media Group, and Special Congressional Recognition from the late U.S. Congressman John Lewis.

A recognized thought leader and fellow of Harvard, Stanford, USC, Columbia, and the Goldin Institute, Stoner is also part of the UCLA x National University of Singapore Global Executive MBA program, where he studies markets and shifting power dynamics across the USA and Asia.

He holds an MS in Strategic Communication from Columbia University and a BA in Economics from Morehouse College.

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Botao 'Amber' Hu is a social computing researcher and award-winning experiential futures designer, currently a PhD candidate in Human Centred Computing at University of Oxford.

Brad Hutcheson has spent 25 years developing distributed systems and trying to understand their implications. He's the founder of Kunuleco, an open-source protocol that lets any group build a space that belongs to them. It enables community that is not on a central platform and not determined by an algorithm. Your identity is portable and trust works like it does in real life: people vouch for people. He lives in Northern Colorado and is unreasonably optimistic about the future of community-owned infrastructure.

Founder and Digital Librarian of the Internet Archive
Internet Hall of Fame
National Academy of Engineering
Computer History Museum Fellow

Since 2023 I have been involved with an effort to move petabytes of data from Internet Archive and Prelinger Archives onto the Filecoin storage network.

Bruno Caldas Vianna lives in Barcelona. In 2024, he obtained a PhD in Fine Arts from the University of the Arts in Helsinki, Finland, investigating visual arts and artificial intelligence. Bruno is a professor at the Centre for Image and Multimedia Technology, Polytechnic University of Catalonia (CITM-UPC) and also teaches at Elisava University in Barcelona. He has a degree in film, and a master’s degree from NYU’s Interactive Telecommunications Program. His artist practice traverses poetical affordances of technology, by creating visual narratives in innovative and traditional supports, short and feature films, live cinema, augmented reality, mobile apps, installations. Between 2011 and 2016, he ran Nuvem, a rural space dedicated to art and technology in Brazil. From 2012 and 2018 he taught at Oi Kabum, a school for art in technology in Rio de Janeiro. He is a founder of the autonomous technology collective Coolab, which was awarded a Mozilla grant in 2017, with a project to finance community networks.

Camille Nibungco is a UX designer and civic technologist based in Los Angeles. They work across healthcare AI systems and community-centered civic tech, and they build at the intersection of complex systems and the people those systems routinely fail.

Carmel Schare is a first-year PhD student in CSAIL at MIT researching malleable software design.

Senior Software + DevOps Engineer working with ISKME on Open Metadata Exchange.

Ex-Apple, ex-Sun Microsystems, ex-IBM, based in the mountains of Switzerland.

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Daniel Erasmus, head of Erasmus.AI and the ClimateGPT Foundation, has two decades of experience in collecting and processing planetary scale datasets. He leads the team developing ClimateGTP's foundational and fine-tuned model family, which is the world’s first foundational AI model family focussed on effects of Climate Change on Human Systems

Daniel is also Head of AI for Internet Archive Europe, releasing several public purpose models via Hugging Face. He is a member of the OECD AI Expert Group, and a Full Member of the global think tank, the Club of Rome.

For 25 years, Erasmus worked with governments and Fortune 50 companies by leading global foresight research as co-founder of The Digital Thinking Network. The DTN led scenario and innovation breakthrough processes anticipating the 2008 Global Financial Crisis, Oil Price Collapse, and it created the first Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs).

Additionally as a response to Covid, Daniel was instrumental in creating an initiative that has sponsored 100 million meals in Southern Africa.

Born in South Africa, Daniel lives in Amsterdam with his wife Elisabeth, three daughters and a son. He can be found in his office in Amsterdam or on planes, trains and cafes with a laptop, a bowl of matcha, and a yearning for the warm plains of Africa.

Long time hacker in the dweb/p2p space. I now lead design/development of atproto at Bluesky, trying to apply what I learned to the open social web.

Daniel Holmgren is Head of Protocol at Bluesky, where he leads the design and development of the AT Protocol. He's worked in the DWeb space for eight years, previously founding a startup for p2p collaboration on scientific data, then serving as the founding engineer at Fission, where he built an in-browser framework for user-controlled data.

Head of Product at Nym Technologies, building privacy infrastructure for the open internet. PhD candidate in digital epistemology researching trust as the mechanism through which humans extend their cognition into tools, networks, and AI agents. Spent the last two years applying that research to AI-native knowledge systems built on local-first, open-source principles. Thinks the decentralized web's deepest promise is not censorship resistance but cognitive self-determination.

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Founder / Artist. Obsessed with Symbients, AInimism, Hyperstition, Collaboration Monsters, Extitutions, and DAOs.

Dario Presutti is a Project Manager at the Free Software Foundation Europe. His work focuses on fostering the use of Free Software in public administration and promoting transparent, accountable digital infrastructures in Europe. With a background in Political Science and a Master’s degree in International Cooperation, Dario has experience engaging with policymakers, monitoring legislative processes, and contributing to initiatives such as Public Money? Public Code! and Device Neutrality.

David Dao is Chief Scientist at GainForest.Earth and Econ & Gov Lead at Protocol Labs

A pioneer in data valuation for machine learning, David holds a PhD in AI Systems from ETH Zurich. His work, which sits at the frontier of AI and decentralized systems, has been globally recognized by the World Economic Forum, XPRIZE, and Ethereum.

David Thomas spent the first decade of his career as an academic literary critic studying climate change and speculative fiction, then decided he wanted to work on the problem more directly. Drawn to the food sovereignty and agroecology movements and to the open source values of Open Food Network, he joined OFN Canada in 2020. Since then he has been working on a problem familiar to most DWeb Camp participants: how do you build digital infrastructure that generates value for the communities it serves rather than extracting it from them, and how do you keep it that way as it scales? That work has taken him into decentralized web standards, federated community governance, and the painstaking organizational work of convening coalitions whose members owe each other nothing beyond commitment to a shared vision. His organizing conviction is that cooperative federation is the only proven means to achieve economies of scale while ensuring that prosperity and decision-making remain anchored in grassroots producer communities. He co-founded the Community of Organizations to test that conviction in practice. It has been two years in the making, and DWeb Berlin is its first real public reckoning.

Deborah Tien is a co-founding steward of the Relational Tech Project, navigating how we may shift technology culture to be more playful, participatory, and place-based.

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This is a Joint proposal - but happy to provide my Bio in addition to those of the other participants. - Dorn Cox is a Farmer, Author and Researcher and the editor of the Talk to the... Handbook and has been a steward of Farm Hack and the OpenTEAM federated infrastructure for nearly a decade. He convenes the GIAA Infrastructure Working Group and is the primary practitioner refining the question-design discipline that the tool implements.
Anamika Dey (Honey Bee Network / SRISTI / GIAN) has spent more than a decade documenting and stewarding the Indian grassroots innovation archive — over a million records across three federated databases, with a working multilingual AI agent in production. Caroline (Schola Campesina) carries the European agroecology and CSIPM coordination thread. David Otieno (Kenyan Peasant League) provides the ground-truth demonstration of how a sovereign database is actually used at the mobile-phone ceiling of accessibility.
SJ Klein leads the Agricultural Knowledge Concordance at Code for Science & Society (CS&S), and active in the Harvard Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society, with thought-partner networks across Wikimedia, Internet Archive, Code for Science & Society (CS&S), and the AI Commons House. SJ's background in mass-scale community-edited knowledge infrastructure — Wikipedia, Wikidata, and the broader open-knowledge tradition — is the discipline the AKC adapts from millions-of-contributors editing patterns to deep-interview stewardship patterns. Wikipedia is what happens when a community owns its own editorial discipline at scale; the AKC and the tool that supports it are what happens when that ownership extends from the textual content to the knowledge-mapping practice itself.

Duke is a distributed systems engineer working on the IdentiKey Network, a socio-technical stack designed to create the conditions for everyone to be able to realize their creative potential and more fully express their innate gifts. As an engineer, Duke has worked on cryptography at PGP, payments and encryption at Amazon, large-scale infrastructure for Playstation Network, etc.

He has led teams working on non-custodial wallet and key management systems for Nasdaq Private Markets, Holochain, and Good Money Bank, and founded Resource Network, launching a mutual credit cryptocurrency exchange network to real-world businesses. He helped draft the initial spec that became the DID identity standard, and is building a set of distributed network protocols to enable P2P digital sovereignty for anyone and everyone, so we can use the internet together without the weird karma and onerous techno-feudal authority structures.

His mission is to bring non-coercive collaborative models of work and co-creation into the world.

Elektra Wagenrad is a philosopher, author, software developer, and hacker. She is best known for her pioneering work in developing wireless mesh networking technology for community networks and sustainable off-grid solar systems.

Here are the key highlights of her life and work:

Activism & Tech Development: She played a highly active role in the Freifunk community network movement, shaping the development of mesh technology and the grassroots use of WiFi.

Global Community Projects: She has designed and implemented solar-powered, wireless network systems in diverse regions worldwide, including Germany, Bangladesh, India, Chile, and Tanzania.

Sustainable Innovation: She co-developed OSPIT, a sustainable, open-source energy and irrigation solution designed to support community networks in rural areas.

Philosophy & Authorship: Beyond technology, she is an established author and philosopher. Her written works explore deep philosophical concepts, including her book Die Philosophie des Nicht-Denkens (The Philosophy of Non-Thinking).

Engie is an Indigenous Technologist and founding member of Mātou Collective, working at the intersection of Indigenous data sovereignty, digital identity, and emerging technologies. Her work is grounded in kaupapa Māori design and collective ownership, supporting Indigenous-led approaches to technology.

In collaboration with Tauhokohoko - https://www.tauhokohoko.nz/ - Matou has developed an Indigenous Digital Identity Protocol and is advancing community-led digital sovereignty and trade initiatives through the development of the Indigenous Digital Sovereignty Stack, enabling Māori and Indigenous communities to govern, and sustain their own digital infrastructure.

Based in Helsinki, formerly based in NorCal. Security tools engineer by day, hobbyist emulation developer by night. Author of the Dojo Lobby matchmaking platform, Flycast Dojo & Supermodel Dojo emulator forks. When not in front of screens, enjoys long walks and dabbling on drums.

enriquesantos.net on the web, ohnoim.online on Bluesky.

Present: Project Gutenberg, Free Ebook Foundation
Past: Gluejar, OCLC, Bell Labs.

Esther Bauer is a project manager at D64 – Center for Digital Progress and a Fellow for International Digital Policy at the Federal Ministry for Digital and State Modernisation. She is particularly interested in international digital policy and platform regulation, with a focus on the role of civil society in digital policy processes and the protection of human rights in the digital sphere, as well as decentralisation in the digital space.

She studied International Affairs at the Hertie School in Berlin and at the Geneva Graduate Institute. Previously, she worked at the ZDF, the International Network Against Cyber Hate in Amsterdam, and the Federal Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs.

I'm currently a postdoc in Computer Science at the University of Washington, seeking a software or network engineering, research, or PM role for Summer/Fall 2026. I've deployed community networks around the world, and teach technical networking at the Tribal Broadband Bootcamp (TBB). Since 2019, I'm a Founder and Director of the 501(c)(3) nonprofit Local Connectivity Lab (LCL). Our Seattle Community Network (SCN) digital equity project builds DIY Internet infrastructure serving hundreds of users.

I am bringing my kid. I work in tech.

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

In the last seven years I've been working almost exclusively on resilient web sites using Jekyll and developing a platform for updating and hosting them called Sutty. In 2024, I also became an organizer and facilitator at Escuela Común and developer and sysadmin at Red Abya Yala.

Felix Beer is a researcher and strategist reimagining democracy for the age of advanced AI. His work advances institutional R&D as a field to address a core gap: while AI capabilities scale rapidly, there is no systematic infrastructure for designing and testing the institutions that govern them. He builds the ecosystem scaffolding needed to develop, prototype, and scale governance systems capable of aligning and steering increasingly agentic systems. Felix's research focuses on how digital protocols expand the institutional design space, enabling democratic principles to be encoded in the coordination substrate of agentic networks. Felix is a Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Political and Social Studies and an Associate at the TUM Think Tank, NYU Protopolis Lab, and BlockchainGov. He is currently an MPA candidate at the Harvard Kennedy School and a PhD candidate at the Technical University of Munich.

have a background in physics and education, and have spent ten years building teams and software infrastructure around principles of diversity and intersectionality, in domains including real-time optimisation of steel manufacture, medical AI applications, and research on AI explainability and trustworthiness in medical decision-making. I think of myself as a physicist, a poet, and an expert on “in-betweens"

my animal is a hare and i can't seem to add a photo from the mobile site

Release Engineer developing Linux distributions, with a background in containers, operating systems and system level enterprise products.

He is an active member of the free software community with a focus on Guix and Bonfire.

He is a tech worker organizer, co-founded Bologna's chapter of the Tech Workers Coalition in 2021 and has been active in climate justice movements from 2024.

He's working on building democratic, community focused, consent based, user ops technologies that better distribute the power involved in software hosting.

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I work for the Ethereum Foundation by day (🌞) and am a core contributor to the Department of Decentralization by night (🌚).
I care about FOSS, privacy & decentralization. Find me on X and bluesky. 🩷

Software Engineer working for user-sovereignty. I care about anti-authoritarian tech, helping the people building it, and tacos.

Gavin Owens builds technologies for human agency; imbued with values of free association, mutual aid, self-determination and egalitarianism. After starting his early career as a scalable ML engineer in San Francisco, he went on to create a company in the digital tooling space which was acquired by Airbnb. There he worked on intelligent design systems tooling. In late 2010s he was the owner/operator of a small DIY art collective in Oakland, CA. Now lives in London and is founder of Tonk, a knowledge layer for collective intelligence.

Gilberto Morishaw is a techno-futurist, activist, and systems thinker who empowers leaders and organizations to navigate the complex intersection of climate, technology, and society. He is a Community Lead at Bread Cooperative and Co-director of the Creative Regenerative Futures Foundation. He inspires audiences to envision and build a regenerative future, drawing on his expertise in systems thinking, regenerative practices, and future-oriented leadership. He has addressed global audiences at prestigious forums, including the World Economic Forum, the EU Parliament, COP27, and the World Bank, sharing his insights on creating a more sustainable and equitable world. His ideas have been published in Newsweek, the World Economic Forum, Humanity in Action, and various governmental and international reports.

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Grace Rachmany is the Executive Director of the Decentralized Identity Foundation (DIF). She’s an expert in the areas of new economic models, digital democracy, tokenomics, blockchain governance and distributed technology. She is the co-founder of Sideways.Earth and works on bioregional governance and tools for systems change at a regional level. Grace recently co-authored the Blueprint for Decentralization in her previous role as a Supervisory Council member for the SingularityNet DAO. Grace is an expert in practicalities of how to lead a decentralized/distributed organization, having worked with hundreds of organizations in the blockchain space. Grace’s work involves experimentation in infrastructure for human collaboration, governance, and non-monetary economic systems.

Guil Maueler co-founded Regens Unite and has spent 14+ years working at the intersection of brand, product, and community in Web3, fintech, and impact organisations.

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Guo enjoy making interesting things with code, words, and music. He is currently working on moss, a desktop application that publishes a website from a folder, making indie sites a pleasant breeze for everyone. He previously built Matters Town, a publication and social platform for long-form articles. In his spare time, he writes random blog posts (mostly in Chinese) and creates music for plays and himself.

At UBC, I lead a Research Excellence Cluster in Diversified Agroecosystems, and served as Academic Director of the Centre for Sustainable Food Systems at UBC Farm. In these roles, I have led interdisciplinary teams of scholars and community-scientists to visualize, synthesize and communicate the integrated social and ecological mechanisms underlying complex agroecosystems and agroecological transitions. These methods aim to inform policy and practices supporting more resilient and sustainable food systems by making the complexity of agroecosystems more legible to stakeholders including consumers, farmers, and policy makers, and more ‘easily translated’ across diverse disciplinary boundaries.

The ultimate aim of my research is to use participatory action and transdisciplinary methodologies to identify pathways towards food sovereignty, agrarian reform, agroecology, and health equity in global contexts.

The Belgian musician landed a radio hit with her dream pop band Amatorski in 2010 and toured with the band as their manager throughout Europe until becoming involved in the Swiss indie scene in 2013. For her solo album under the name "Hilke", she found a home at Red Brick Records in 2021, where she now also coordinates releases for the musicians' collective. In 2025 she also became a board member of Indiesuisse, the association of Swiss indie labels.

Besides her musical activities, Hilke has always had a passion for digital technology and social media. She has been working for 10 years as a software developer and, in the past year, geopolitics and rising fascism reignited her interest in open social media. She has been studying alternatives to Instagram, TikTok and others, not only from a technical perspective, but also from a queer, feminist, and artist perspective. Her main focus is on the developer and activist community around Bluesky and the AT Protocol.

Hiure Queiroz is a PhD candidate in Innovation and Technology at the Federal University of São Paulo (Unifesp), where he conducts research focused on the development of social technologies for community well-being. He holds a degree in Physics and a master's degree in Materials Science.

He is a member of the Associação Portal Sem Porteiras (redepsp.org) , where he has been actively involved in initiatives that combine participatory methodologies, territorial engagement, and the development of context-based technologies. He was part of the coordination team of LabLab (lablab.tec.br), a collaborative process that brings together farmers, technologists, and researchers to co-create technological solutions rooted in local realities. Rather than focusing on isolated products, LabLab emphasizes the construction of processes, local capacities, and shared governance models for technology development.

He is also involved in the SEMEA-TEC (semea.tec.br) extension group at Unifesp, which develops low-cost sensing and communication technologies for family farming through participatory approaches, bridging academic research and grassroots innovation.

Hiure works to promote the critical appropriation of science and technology through hacker culture and grassroots innovation. He is a founding partner of Transistir Social Tech, an initiative dedicated to the development of hardware and software focused on social and decentralized technologies.

Holke Brammer is a political economist working to strengthen collective action through open technology. As founder and director of Hypercerts Foundation, he leads the development of open infrastructure for impact funding and public goods resource allocation. He was previously a research scientist for public goods funding at Protocol Labs, worked at Yunus Social Business and Boston Consulting Group, and led Open Social Innovation efforts in Germany with ProjectTogether. He holds a Ph.D. in Political Economics from Stanford Graduate School of Business.

Holmes is the founder of Quiet (tryquiet.org), a "Slackier Signal" that doesn't require servers, for organizations that need the privacy of Signal but the team features of Slack. He previously co-founded and co-ran the US-based tech policy activism group Fight for the Future (fightforthefuture.org), and also worked as a campaigner at the Free Software Foundation. Way back in the day, he co-founded a peer-to-peer video podcasting tool built on BitTorrent called Miro, and a collaborative subtitling platform Amara.

Hudson Headley is a protocol engineer dedicated to decentralized governance, worker ownership, and developing post-capitalist economic structures. He is the creator of poa.box, a no-code tool for worker and community owned infrastructure enabling collective governance, project and task management, and finances. He also is a volunteer developer for bread.coop building all sorts of solidarity tech. His day job is working at Opacity Labs.

Ian is a systems 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 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 at Mysilio.

ISKME is a global nonprofit that inspires and convenes educators to embrace the practice of Open Education

Ira is an independent creative director working in open source and decentralized tech. She helps tech founders build brands that accelerate early adoption and funding.

After years working for global brands like Mercedes-Benz and Lindt and fintech giants like Deutsche Bank and Wirecard, she joined Web3 in early 2018 and has since served as a creative director at companies big and small, translating complex tech into brand identities that shift how projects are perceived by users and funders.

These days, she runs her own design consulting practice and serves as a fractional creative director across several decentralized tech projects, three of which are attending DWeb Camp 2026.

Ira has been a core DWeb Camp organizer since 2020.

Jan is an offline first veteran with more than 10 years distributed systems experience building on git, sapling, (c/p)ouchdb and ipfs. He got the once in a lifetime opportunity to work on xenon/darc full time, a fully open source new browser architecture that happens to be perfect for maximising user agency as well as using and developing and local first applications.

A researcher, transdisciplinary thinker, and life experimenter, Jean-François Noubel explores the frontiers of human consciousness and collective intelligence. He dedicates his work to understanding how humanity can evolve toward more conscious, free, and cooperative forms.

An open-source earthling, he lives within the gift economy and makes his own existence a laboratory for experimentation. His work reveals the invisible collective matrices — languages, narratives, monetary systems, social codes — that shape our perception of reality, and explores how to transform them to foster the evolution of consciousness.

Co-founder of Holosapiens (https://holosapiens.earth), an evolutionary laboratory that studies, experiments with, and disseminates the conditions through which our species evolves from Homo sapiens to Holo sapiens. The research focuses on the invisible and unconscious collective dynamics that shape our ways of thinking, perceiving the world, and acting. Holosapiens operates along three complementary axes: producing rigorous knowledge, embodying evolutionary practices through experimental living, and transmitting them through storytelling, in order to render the evolution of our species thinkable and desirable, at both individual and collective scales.

Co-director of the International Metapsychic Institute (https://metapsychique.org), a public utility organization that conducts scientific research on consciousness and non-ordinary phenomena, he also participates in pioneering technological projects like Holochain, and contributes to the emerging economic theories of deep wealth.

Living in Provence, he teaches martial arts, practices yoga, meditation, and paragliding.

A professional Visual Scribe, Systems Thinker, and designer of the track's ongoing Creative Sensemaking Space. Jenni focuses on creating playful, intuitive visual canvases that allow communities to map complex pathways, bypass expert lingo, and access collective joy in times of crisis.

Jeremiah Lee is a humanitarian technologist and human rights activist. He grew up under the California sun, but now calls Stockholm home.

Jihoon Song works on the Ethereum protocol at the Ethereum Foundation. His work centers on the consensus layer, including censorship resistance.

Jobi is a technologist, artist and activist based between Amsterdam and Barcelona. They are the cofounder of Radical Data, a collective building tech for liberation and joy.

Jonathan Starr is the Executive Director of the Open Source Endowment, a 501(c)(3) building a community-managed permanent endowment for critical open source infrastructure. He also directs SciOS and the Institute of Open Science Practices, where he coordinates researchers and technologists building sustainable infrastructure for open science. His work spans funding mechanisms, coordination systems, and the shared technical substrate connecting diverse scientific systems.

Joshua Dávila is the writer and podcaster behind Blockchain Socialist and the author of Blockchain Radicals: How Capitalism Ruined Crypto and How to Fix It, published by Repeater Books in 2023. He is a co-founder of Bread Cooperative, where he builds crypto applications from a post-capitalist point of view.

Information technologist/computer scientist. Formally into this since 2014. Spent most of this time studying in various European universities and doing some research. Recently started my own company (solo founder). Trying to make a significant contribution in a complex world. I like languages, discussing ideas and laws, and building systems.

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Software architect and cybersecurity researcher from Berlin and Tokyo

Karma is a developer from Bhutan currently working with Hypercerts Foundation and Gainforest to build verifiable impact and retro funding mechanisms on AT Proto

Kevin Cussen is an advisor and active contributor to numerous open source communities. He’s held an odd collection of roles throughout his career, from Peace Corps volunteer, to software engineer, to founder and CEO of a West African biogas-as-a-service company. He's held roles at a mix of private, public, and non-profit entities, including leading roles on two open source projects - OpenLMIS and LiteFarm. Kevin has an MBA from the University of Washington and BS in Computer Science from the University of Texas at Dallas. In his spare time, Kevin likes spending time with his family, reading about history and economic theory, and long distance backpacking trips.

Co-founder and technology strategist with Farm Flow. She focuses on human-centered UX design, voice-first data logging ecosystems, and open-source organic compliance software.

Lunarpunk cat herder on a mission to reconnect Web3/blockchain with its cypherpunk roots. A veteran communicator with 20+ years of experience - 9 of those spent in crypto - working at the intersection of communication, coordination, and culture.

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Primavera is a Legal Scholar @ Harvard and CNRS

Felix Beer
Strategist and researcher working on governance innovation at the intersection of technology and democracy. Focused on building new R&D ecosystems that can pilot, test, and scale next-gen institutions for a networked age.

Lovisa Björna
Researcher-practitioner focused on governance in networked systems. Head of Platform at BlockchainGov and initiator of the Governance Module at the Polkadot Blockchain Academy.

Electronic and Computer Engineer from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ). Master’s student in the Graduate Program in Technology for Social Development at the Interdisciplinary Center for Social Development (NIDES/UFRJ). Extension researcher at the Technical Solidarity Center (SOLTEC/UFRJ). Software developer at the EITA cooperative, developing free/libre software technologies for grassroots social movements, and collaborating developer at TEKOPORÃ, a free software collective dedicated to creating community-oriented management solutions guided by agroecological principles.

Is a volunteer with the Freifunk Berlin community network and has been contributing to the peer-to-peer and decentralization space since 2014.

Laurens Hof is one of the leading analysts for the open social web. Writing at Connected Places, he tracks the ecosystems of open social networking protocols like ActivityPub and atproto, trying to work out how these protocols actually function in practice and what they mean for how we communicate online.

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Colombian lawyer, living in berlin
legal architect at MakerDAO, Sustainable Ecosystem Scaling Core Unit
Spun - off to Powerhouse, building Open Source operational and legal infrastructure for the web3 community and beyond.
Love diving, running and DJ ing :)

Lee DeSota is an organizer focused on open science and decentralized governance. She co-leads SciOS, a non-profit which advocates for infrastructure that supports transparent and collaborative research. Additionally, she helps to project manage and champion open source projects at Metagov and DeSci Labs which foster collective decision-making and more replicable, reliable, and transparent scientific publications.

https://ligi.de/

Lisa Petrides is CEO and founder of the Institute for the Study of Knowledge Management in Education (ISKME), a nonprofit dedicated to make learning and knowledge-sharing participatory and open for all. She is a scholar and international open education expert who has led the development of research, policy and practice, to create and support the field of open education practice. Her work includes the creation of ISKME's OER Commons, a digital public library of open educational resources and collaboration platform that facilitates the search, discovery, and adaptation of high-quality digital resources that are free, openly licensed, and available for a diverse range of learners. She also serves as a member of UNESCO’s OER Dynamic Coalition Advisory Group, supporting the implementation of the UNESCO Recommendation on OER.

A former professor at Columbia University, Teachers College, she has advised and led efforts that enable schools, colleges, universities, ministries of education, and the organizations that support them to expand their capacity to create knowledge-driven environments focused on teaching and learning. She received a Ph.D. in Education Policy from Stanford University. She was also reelected to a second term on the San Mateo County Community College District Board of Trustees in November 2024, the governance body of the three-campus community college system in California serving more than 30,000 students.

Elizabeth "Liz" Barry is the Executive Director of Metagov, a nonprofit research-to-infrastructure laboratory advancing collective self-governance in a digital age. By providing the scaffolding (tools, protocols, semantics, norms) necessary for emergent institutional design, Metagov aims to reduce the friction of upgrading or creating new organizations that are “alive” — i.e. that can adapt, incorporate feedback, and manage power. She co-founded the Computational Democracy Project with the creators of Polis. She witnessed Taiwan’s Sunflower Revolution in person, then introduced Audrey Tang to the international community in the 2016 piece "vTaiwan: Public Participation Methods on the Cyberpunk Frontier of Democracy." Her many initiatives have tuned human-environment-technology relationships by applying design to community organizing, science to environmental justice, and math to democracy. More at lizbarry.net.

Liz Sweigart is a co-founding member of And Other Stuff, a freedom-tech collective building open systems that protect human agency, connection, and creativity. She brings a background in consulting psychology, organizational transformation, human-centered design, and online safety, with prior work spanning corporate leadership, participatory design, and human-computer interaction. As a postdoctoral alum of Vanderbilt’s Socio-Technical Interaction Research Lab, Liz is especially interested in how decentralized technologies can be designed with and for the people who need them most, including activists, organizers, and communities with limited technical backgrounds. At AOS, she helps bridge strategy, research, engineering, facilitation, and storytelling to support practical, inclusive tools for a more open web.

Tinker, florester and admirer of originary cultures. I believe and live a better world where communities are enpowered and self-governed, people have the time and spirit to tend their human and non-human peers and tools are hacked or built for the well-being of people and the planet.

working on web and browser like things

I'm a community organizer, working on an open source, collectively owned offline social network and community infrastructure, Dyad.

• LX Cast is a researcher, community convener, program designer, strategist, and product leader who has worked on communication and collaboration tech serving millions of people for over a decade. LX is currently co-founder of Spacious, a peer-to-peer group audio app. They are the steward of Folk Tech, a 2026 Voqal Fellow, Curator at DWeb Camp, Chair of the Board at Tech Fleet, a board member at Prosocial Design Network, a steering committee member of the Council on Tech and Social Cohesion, a member of Aspen Institute’s Virtually Human working group, a space steward at DWeb Camp, a mentor with PDX Women in Tech, All Tech is Human, and Mentor Me Collective, and the teacher of The UX of Community. They work with organizations to develop communities of practice. LX is a founder at Changemaker PM, helping nonprofits develop product discovery practices. Past roles include Head of Research at Marco Polo, Sr. Product Manager at Notion, Chief Storyteller at Olark, Program Designer at AI Stewardship Practice Program, Practice Designer at the emergence network, Product Strategist at Lightningrod Labs. Resident Fellow in Community at Integrity Institute, a steward at Collaborative Technology Alliance, and the host of Belonging Builders. Belonging = Freedom = Responsibility is their core organizing principle. How we are with ourselves, our families and friends, our teams, our communities and our culture are interdependent and pattern one another. For this reason, they are committed to their own work in collective practice to be in right relation as a source of possibility for change.

Madelynn Martiniere is a facilitator, designer, and strategist specializing in collective innovation—the conditions and infrastructure that enable ecosystems to cultivate community resilience and tackle wicked problems together.

For almost two decades, she has worked across sectors and scales to build innovation ecosystems that center open access, community ownership, and collective power. Her portfolio spans the globe: co-designing an entrepreneurship hub for refugees in Uganda, leading development for a digital platform for sustainable fisheries in Latin America, facilitating data sovereignty initiatives toward the UN Sustainable Development Goals, and stewarding a global movement of founders and funders building businesses that balance profit and purpose.

A co-founder of Armillaria and former Executive Director of Zebras Unite, she has spent over 15 years bridging local practice with systems-level change—developing the social, organizational, financial, and technical infrastructure that enables communities to produce, govern, and share the technologies shaping our future.

She currently serves on the boards of Communitere International, which builds community resilience infrastructure in crisis and post-crisis contexts, and the Holochain Foundation, advancing peer-to-peer technology for community-owned digital infrastructure.

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Marcela is the current General Coordinator of the PSP Institute. As one of the association’s founders, she has grown alongside the organization, coordinating programs in the fields of community communication and education, while also supporting the development of other projects hosted by the Institute. She is also a researcher whose work focuses on investigating, designing, and facilitating educational experiences that foster meaningful engagement with technology through hands-on and craft-centered approaches.

Marie is a feminist technologist and community builder. She co-founded drip, an open-source, offline period and fertility tracker that is feminist, gender-inclusive, and science-based, built for everyone. With roots in sociology, Latin American studies, and software engineering, Marie (also known as bl00dymarie on the internet) weaves together tech, sexual health, and community. She is taking care of the Pollinator Program and is hoping to see you all at DWeb Camp.

Marina has spent over a decade in Web3, helping turn protocols into movements. She has worked with Dapper Labs, Flow Blockchain, Nym, and other pioneering teams shaping decentralized infrastructure. Today, she is Ecosystem Development and Growth Lead at Logos.co and a privacy advocate building adoption for censorship-resistant, sovereignty-first technologies.

Mark Graham, Internet Archive: Mark Graham is the director of the Wayback Machine at the Internet Archive, overseeing the daily archiving of hundreds of millions of Web pages. He previously served as senior vice president at NBC News Digital and iVillage and co-founded Rojo Networks. Mark also played a key role in AOL's Internet Center and co-founded PeaceNet and the Association for Progressive Communications (apc.org) He began his career while in the U.S. Air Force advocating for nuclear disarmament. Connect: X: https://x.com/markgraham LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/markjohngraham/ and Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/mark.bsky.social

Markus Sabadello has been a pioneer and leader in the field of digital identity for many years and has contributed to cutting-edge technologies that have emerged in this space. He is co-editor of the Decentralized Identifiers standard at W3C, and member of the Steering Committee at the Decentralized Identity Foundation. Markus has spoken at many conferences and published papers about both the politics and technologies of digital identity. He participated in DWeb Summits 2016 and 2018. He is founder of Danube Tech, a consulting and development company that works on decentralized identity infrastructure.

Curious, outgoing, and deeply inspired by nature, I am passionate about bringing people together and building communities that create meaningful impact. My work sits at the intersection of community building, ecosystem strategy, and innovation, helping organizations foster engagement, collaboration, and growth.

With a background in international marketing, design thinking, and facilitation, I enjoy creating spaces where people can connect, learn, and contribute to a shared vision. Whether I'm designing workshops, developing partnerships, or supporting open and collaborative ecosystems, I'm motivated by purpose-driven work and human connection.

When I'm not working, you'll likely find me hiking, cycling, climbing, practicing yoga, reading, or simply enjoying the outdoors.

Martin Strobl is an economist at IFT and Logos, focusing on mechanism design, token economics, and coordination mechanisms for decentralized systems. He holds an MA in Economics from CERGE-EI, Prague, and a PhD in Political Economy/Economics from the University of Aarhus. Before joining the IFT, Martin was a researcher at the University of Birmingham.

Project Lead & co-founder of Matrix.org, CEO/CTO Element. Stubbornly trying to advance decentralised communication.

This year at DWeb I'm helping lead the Demo Night Market. If you are thinking about showing something off, please submit an application (the demo question is late on page 2 of the proposals page) or simply connect with me and we can discuss:

https://linkedin.com/in/matthewschutte
matthew.schutte@holo.host

In past years I've helped steward the lightning talks, and bear at least partial responsibility for a nearly disastrous first unconference style day a few years ago.

I'm a former big wave surfer, a current hack musician, and an experienced entrepreneur with strengths in high level architecture, strategy, communications and partnership / business development.

More recently, I've been deepening my tech skills by building software myself now that getting unstuck has gotten a little easier thanks to some of the new AI tools.

I have lived and traveled all over the world both for work and for surf, but now call Puerto Rico home where I live in a small condo in a small town with my wife Tatiana and our two cats, Tiger and Shy.

On the professional front: I'm a co-founder of Holochain, a peer-to-peer application framework that has taken far longer to get to production ready than any of us anticipated, as well as Unyt accounting, a peer-to-peer payments and accounting system built on top of holochain. In addition, I'm an advisor to a couple of foundational AI lab startups and have volunteered and served on the board of directors of Toward Warm Data with Nora Bateson. I am open to aligned board or advisory roles and would love to hear what you are currently feeling most excited about. Let's jam!

Matthias Kirschner is President of FSFE. In 1999 he started using GNU/Linux and realised that software is deeply involved in all aspects of our lives. Matthias is convinced that this technology has to empower society not restrict it. While studying Political and Administrative Science he joined FSFE in 2004.

He helps other organisations, companies and governments to understand how they can benefit from Free Software -- which gives everybody the rights to use, understand, adapt, and share software -- and how those rights help to support freedom of speech, freedom of press or privacy.

In his spare time, together with his children and others he wrote the book "Ada & Zangemann - A Tale of Software, Skateboards, and Raspberry Ice Cream", which is available under Creative Commons in many languages and meanwhile also as a movie.

Matt is a veteran of the decentralized social web, from Tent to Scuttlebutt to Nostr, working to help humanity take back our means of communication and organize our way out of the polycrisis.

Lead DevRel / Integrations at Nym, previously Solidity developer / artist.

Nomadic individual who is contributing to privacy & security projects while participating in hackathons all over the world.

Working ad hoc on privacy within the ecosystem.

tbd

A pioneer of early stage digital media and interactive messaging, Michael is co-founder of the Newsmast Foundation, working to strengthen and grow communities in digital spaces built for them, connected across the open social web.

Michael Garfield is a writer and artist focused on transdisciplinary research into the evolutionary history and future of intelligence. He is a co-founder at Atlas Research Group — which builds high-dimensional sensemaking tools on sovereign, commons-oriented infrastructure — and the award-winning host of Humans on the Loop. He has worked with the Santa Fe Institute, Long Now Foundation, Mozilla, and ASU’s Center for Science and the Imagination. He lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Michael Suantak is the founder of ASORCOM (Alternative Solutions for Rural Communities) and eimiAI. Operating at the intersection of indigenous rights and decentralized technology, he engineers autonomous, offline-first communication networks in extreme conflict zones, specifically along the India-Myanmar border.

During state-sponsored internet blackouts and kinetic warfare, Michael’s work focuses on keeping community knowledge, medical coordination, and human agency alive. He is the architect of the "Digital Tarzan" philosophy, which advocates for frugal, rugged infrastructure built from the soil up. His field deployments combine 12V DC-native solar power, tactical LoRa mesh networks, HF radio, and localized edge AI to ensure marginalized communities retain cognitive and digital sovereignty when the centralized grid fails.

Michael believes that true autonomy is not given—it is engineered. His ongoing mission is to help rural populations transition from vulnerable digital consumers into resilient digital sovereigns.

Mitch Altman is a hacker and inventor, known for inventing TV-B-Gone, a keychain that turns off TVs in public places. He co-founded a successful SillyValley startup and did pioneering work in Virtual Reality. He is an author and teacher, and goes around the world giving talks and workshops. He also performs spacey noise music on his self-made synthesizers. Mitch promotes hackerspaces, open source hardware, and mentors others wherever he goes. He is a co-founder of Noisebridge hackerspace in San Francisco, and is founder of Cornfield Electronics.

Mix is from Wellington, New Zealand. He's worked in peer to peer indigenous projects (Ahau), on core protocols and community in Scuttlebutt, has contributed to deliberative tools (Loomio, Cobudget), and grown coops (Protozoa), has a background in radical education.

All in on collectivism. Loves sci-fi and magic the gathering.

With an electrical engineering background, Nádia transitioned to the agtech field through photovoltaic irrigation systems. In contact with organic farmers and brazilian agroecological movement, she started to orient her perspective towards digital systems that support collective work, while diving in the hacker culture and politics. She lives in a small farm in southeast Brazil.

I work at the intersection of open technologies, agroecology, environmental monitoring, and the collective construction of knowledge. I develop and support open source tools aimed at strengthening sustainable territorial practices, connecting local communities, universities and international networks.

I run Raft Foundation, an experiment in nonprofit commoning.

Nena and Austin are building the next generation of coordination interfaces for social, technical, and environmental resilience. For the past five years, they served as executive leadership at Regen Foundation, designing and implementing governance systems, token models, and public infrastructure for collective ownership and environmental decision-making across distributed stakeholders. In parallel, they developed a rigorous research program in this field, distilled in the recent book Ecological Institutions: Law, Economics, and Technology in a More-Than-Human World. They are currently building River Computer, direct evolution of this practice — a studio operating at the frontier of digital sovereignty, partnering with grassroots, Indigenous, and local groups to deploy technical stacks that integrate identity, claims, and governance into operational civic infrastructure.

My name is Andrea (newswimming) and I'm a documentary filmmaker and cultural worker from Los Angeles experimenting with media arts research at our Cinema school. My background is in arts and academia, but I had always pushed the boundaries of what that includes, such as anti-disciplinary methods that foreground relational intimacies. Currently I'm writing a dissertation on reparative arts methods emerging from 1970's Korean avant-garde theatre, Indigenous mask dance, and grassroots media art innovation. I have a passion for seaweed-based diets and designing rituals around food. Previous affiliations include the U.S. Fulbright Program, MIT Open Documentary Lab, Duke Literature Program, and Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, MIT Transmedia Storytelling Initiative, amongst other arts research and civic spaces. My feature film INVISIBLE ORGAN (2021) introduced me to topics of feminist biomedical innovation and inner reproductive health, which brought me closer to my artistic and design research practice.

Nico started the development of Briar Desktop to bring Briar to non-Android platforms. Having been an F-Droid developer for a long time, he sincerely wishes free alternatives to Android to succeed and is mainly interested in free software to empower people.

Niko is a French engineer specializing in encryption, local-first, and semantic web, linked data, graph data. After the Snowden revelations in 2013, he decided to quit his job & dedicate his time to building Nextgraph.org, a decentralized platform for malleable apps based on a graph database featuring CRDTs, P2P and E2EE. He embraced the Local First movement and join a vibrant community of developers, engineers and researchers who are working toward a truly decentralized web, with data and software ownership for the user.

Hi there!

I am a wandering mathematician and cybersecurity researcher currently investigating open-source alternatives for communal gardens and automation of proximity bound experiences.

Elektra Wagenrad is a senior developer of open-source technologies and has been key to the design and implementation of many wireless solutions. Her work focuses on inclusive low tech approaches that aim for autonomy in terms of electric power and communications. She is the lead developer of the OSPIT project and therefor the right person to present and discuss its usage with the participants.

Pamela Cuadros has been part of permaculture learning and capacity building initiatives in Europe. She has also been working as researcher and consultant for the Local Network Initiative (LocNet), resulting in the creation of manuals and methodologies by which local communities can improve their food security. Since 2024 special emphasis is on the Open Source & Solar Powered Irrigation Technology (OSPIT). She is the right person to respond to questions about small scale farming and water management with OSPIT and beyond.

Paul Frazee is Chief Technology Officer and a founding engineer at Bluesky where he co-designed the AT Protocol. He's enthusiastically participated in the DWeb camps and summits since the beginning, and credits much of his career to the connections he made there.

Primavera De Filippi is a Research Director at CNRS (France) and Faculty Associate at Harvard's Berkman Klein Center, working at the intersection of law, technology, and governance. She is the author of Blockchain and the Law (Harvard, 2018) and Blockchain Governance (MIT, 2024).

I'm Luis Hebendanz, an IT consultant with a passion for solving complex technical challenges. My expertise includes:

• Sovereign Infrastructure: I'm a core developer of the NixOS-based infrastructure tool clan https://clan.lol
• IT Security: From code reviews to malware analysis and reverse engineering
• UI: If your highly technical product needs a Web or Native UI
• AI / LLM Integration: Whether it’s integrating LLMs into existing workflows or optimizing and creating benchmarks

Do you have a project in mind? I’d love to hear about it. Reach out to me at consulting@qube.email.

Rabble (Evan Henshaw-Plath) is a technologist, activist, and one of the original members of the Twitter founding team, where he helped build the platform in its earliest days after previously working on activist communication networks like Indymedia and TXTmob. Today he is the creator of Divine, an open-source decentralized social video platform exploring how social media can be rebuilt around user ownership, authenticity, and community governance rather than centralized corporate control.

https://twitter.com/nachortti

René Pinnell is the founder of Artizen, a funding platform for creative public goods across art, science, technology, and culture. Coming from a line of struggling artists, René has long been interested in how creators can receive the support they need to make ambitious work. Before Artizen, he founded Kaleidoscope, where he helped support and fund pioneering VR and immersive media projects, including projects screened at major festivals. His work focuses on building new funding models for creators and expanding the role of creativity in the commons.

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Rich has been working since 2021 to make Social Network Health approaches to preventative mental health care easier to understand and implement. Social Network Health is the study of how relationships in communities effect everything from general mental health to productivity, to suicidal ideation.

Since the last dweb camp, Rich shifted focus from educational applications of social network health to studying remote workers, and building local-first applications.

He is also a co-founder of spacebase.co, whose goal is to democratize access to space, and the Global Space Enablers Network, and works with a number of other NZ startups as a technical problem solver.

He lives on waiheke island with his wife Cindy, and his 3.5 year old daughter Skylark, who are also avid attendees of dweb camp. :)

Riley Wong is the Principal of Emergent Research, a research lab and consultancy investigating digital infrastructure for community privacy, agency, and consent. Their work explores the intersections of cryptographic tooling, cooperative governance, and community-led design, with a particular focus on how communities facing surveillance and repression can build and govern their own community infrastructure.

Riley co-founded the Community Privacy Residency in Taipei and Berlin, convening an international network of experts to co-create privacy infrastructure by and with vulnerable communities. Their background spans privacy-preserving data governance, consent infrastructure, and decentralized collective governance at Metagov, 0xPARC, and DWeb; machine learning engineering and AI ethics at Google; and award-winning investigative data journalism at ProPublica. Their work has been published or presented at MIT, Harvard Kennedy School, Yale, and Penn.

Rob lives on a forested property outside of Winnipeg MB Canada with his wife, his dog, and many musical instruments. He has a background in computer science. He's helped build and run technology related for-profit and not-for-profit organizations, including the local hackerspace, Unix user group, and numerous startups.

Rosanna Crawford is the Outreach & Engagement Coordinator at the True Cost Accounting Accelerator. She's worked in sustainability for 6 years, on projects ranging from urban climate governance, to rural resilience and community climate action, to the Just Transition. She is passionate about sustainable agrifood systems and equitable access to the outdoors. She's from the Scotland.

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Student in the Boston area interested in mathematics and cryptography. Always up for drumming, frisbee, or hacky sack.

Sammy Gwilym is a programmer and illustrator, and one half of worm-blossom. She's a co-author of Willow, a family of peer-to-peer protocols.

To be filled out by Samuel

Computer Scientist / Farmer / Sailor

Sarthi is a builder working at the intersection of AI, decentralized infrastructure, and open internet technologies. After leaving the traditional academic path early to work full-time in crypto and open ecosystems, he has focused on agentic AI, privacy-preserving systems, stablecoins, and digital coordination.

He is especially interested in how decentralized technologies can support more open, resilient, and globally accessible digital economies.

Senka Hadzic is a telecom engineer, researcher and public interest technologist working on affordable connectivity solutions for remote areas and disadvantaged populations. She is part of the iNethi team, a Cape Town based project enabling decentralized content distribution in community networks.

I'm quite disappointed with the modern world. Everyone is so boring. And our technology is so boring too! Even I got boring through most of my life. I've been on a big journey recently discovering how freeing it is to be wrong and bad at things. I love technology which pulls us together as a community, not atomises us. I've also got a background in armchair therapy, spirituality and CRDTs.

Dr. Seth Frey is a computational social scientist and cognitive scientist who studies commons governance, collective action, and other complex social phenomena. He specializes in using online communities as model systems for emergent institutional and organizational phenomena. His expertise is in computational approaches to self-governance and the cognitive science of collective behavior.

He is an associate professor in Communication at the University of California Davis, an affiliate of the Ostrom Workshop at Indiana University, and a Research Director at Metagov. He was a behavioral economist at Disney Research in Walt Disney Imagineering, and a complex systems scholar at NECSI. Seth holds a Ph.D. in Cognitive Science and Informatics (complex systems) from Indiana University and a B.A. in Cognitive Science from UC Berkeley.

Seth’s research has appeared in PNAS, Nature Scientific Reports, and Proceedings of the Royal Society. It has been covered in The New Yorker, New York Times Magazine, and TEDx. It has been funded by the NSF, NASA, and the Ford Foundation.

https://enfascination.com/research

Shadrach Ankrah is an IT Specialist and the Founder of the Africa Rural Internet and STEM Initiative (AFRISTEMI). He works at the intersection of technical deployment and policy advocacy.

Works as Onion Service Site Reliability Engineer at The Tor Project.

Ameer Suhayb Carter (sirsu) is the Design Director of HVNDTEK, a multidisciplinary studio specializing in digital experiences and community infrastructure. Over thirteen years, his work has spanned esports, digital art curation, and collective action — co-founding BLVKHVND (one of the first DAOs to win esports world championships), leading CryptoCookout (a cultural campaign that mobilized 400+ participants around the value of Black representation in digital assets), and running Mint Fund (supporting hundreds of artists across the Global South). He is currently building Aure, a fashion intelligence agent that reads clothing as identity expression through a seven-energy cultural framework. His practice is driven by a belief that the tools we build should carry the full weight of who we are.

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Software engineer, turned entrepreneur, turned non-profit open source ag-tech developer. Got interested in the topic of data equity from a farmer's perspective.

Tara Conway is a research scientist in the Perennial Cultures Lab at The Land Institute. She uses a political ecology lens and participatory research approaches to understand how perennial grains and humans can reciprocally shape one another to achieve a mutually sustaining world. She lives in Athens, GA and is a lover of bogs.

Tara is a postdoc at CERSA/CNRS, Paris, an ICDE research fellow at The New School and associate researcher at the Weizenbaum Institute in Berlin. Her research focuses on exit to community, decentralized governance, and exploring alternative ownership structures for data centers.

Tommi Marmo is an pseudo-artist, tinkerer, activist, and community weaver who focuses on political technology, digital rights awareness, and data degrowth.

Tommi’s mission is to create bridges and connections, intertwining stories and experiences through inter-disciplinary activities that explore the most diverse topics. Their work spans several fronts, and they committed to different fights over time.

They are part of the DWeb Core Team as the Community Engagement Lead, and they are currently pursuing a master degree at XPUB in Rotterdam.

As a teenager, they were a speaker and chief editor at Radioimmaginaria. In 2019, they co-founded a local chapter of LIBERA, an Italian network of organizations fighting mafia through cultural and educational endeavours. In 2020, they invented and co-founded Scambi, the Festival of Paneurethic workshops, of which they are now the president. In 2023 they graduated summa cum laude in Philosophy, International Studies, and Economics with a thesis titled Computer Sciences Are Social Sciences. The workshop series Knitting Our Internet was born out of the research for their thesis.

Being a relentless enthusiastic and curious person, Tommi also worked with many and various organizations, including the DWeb Community, the Free Software Foundation Europe, Village One and Giffoni Film Festival. They were a scout chief, and they were a member of the Association of Internet Researchers, the Coalition for Independent Technology Research, Banca Etica, and Club Tenco. They are the administrator of Pan, a Fediverse instance.

If there is any time left, or in case they can find some, Tommi contributes to Free Software projects, they play table-top role-playing games (TTRPGs), they cycle and they couchsurf around the planet.

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I am just a chaos agent - anything I touch usually breaks, but I often help to fix it:) Logos contributor, spent 10 years at Red Hat building Open Source.

Val is a freelance researcher and project manager specializing in community co-design and collective governance for emerging technologies including AI and the decentralized web. She is currently working on the planning committee for The Protopian Prize Fiction Contest hosted by Metagov and The Public AI Network. She also works on a collective savings tool for independent workers called The Cookie Jar Collective at the Center for Cultural Innovation. Val is also a yoga teacher, and will be leading yoga classes in the mornings during DWeb Camp.

Violet "Rollergirl" is a trans courtesan and paid companion based in New York City. Violet is an expert in infrastructure automation and cybersecurity, nightlife and event planning, and sexual health education. Violet onboards workers in the adult industry to self-sovereignty through privacy-preserving cryptocurrencies like Zcash, earning her the title of "your favorite hooker's favorite hacker."

Wendy Hanamura is an leader with deep experience in nonprofit management of global organizations with outsized impact. Her passion is using storytelling to achieve positive social change. As a content creator, she's had a rich career as a Time Magazine journalist, Tokyo-based foreign correspondent, television reporter and host, moderator and public speaker. She is currently the Board Chair of the Earth Species Project, and contributes her fundraising skills to many organizations she loves.

Wesley is a longtime DWebber who loves the outdoors, writing and learning about the world. He is currently building Semble, a community knowledge garden built on an open social protocol.

I help build a more resilient web. I've worked on projects ranging from internet-wide measurement to privacy-protecting messaging systems. My current work is focused on the evolution of our communication systems.

I've been a ski instructor, bicycled across the himalayas, speak some chinese, and enjoy playing with fire. I taught computer science in pyongyang.

I've been helping fill hard drives at the Internet Archive since 2023! Before joining the Internet Archive, I studied computer science at Reed College in Portland, OR.

I want to support individuals coming together and finding community. My research focuses on understanding and removing limitations on Internet communication. This includes both imposed limitations like network interference, and creating unrealized communication models. I like thinking about network structure, measurement, and the evolution of the browser platform. I’m interested in pursuing a combination of research, teaching, and software development.

Wouter has worked on Defi at MakerDAO since 2017, before shifting focus to decentralized organizations and local-first application building at Powerhouse.

Wouter Tebbens is an industrial engineer born and raised in The Netherlands working from Barcelona. He works for a knowledge society based in human freedom, solidarity, care and regeneration through commons-cooperative networks. He has co-founded and participates in various cooperatives and social organisations.

In the 2000s he set up the Free/Libre and Open Source working group of the Internet Society Netherlands, co-founded the Free Knowledge Institute and coordinated two European Commission funded projects: the SELF project and the Free Technology Academy and participated in various others.

In the last decade he participated in Som Energia, the Spanish renewable energy cooperative; the School of the Commons Barcelona; was part of the p2p value research team studying >300 cases of commons-based p2p internet platforms; participated in the Digital DIY project on legal, ethical and economic aspects related to digital fabrication and DIY; co-founded The Things Network Catalonia and ran various pilots and projects with various municipalities around sensor data through the community network.

In order to seek sustainability for commons-oriented initiatives he conceived the Five Pillar model. In the context especially of la Comunificadora, a programme from Barcelona City to help teams create their commons-collaborative economy project, this model was developed further as the core organising model with specific canvases and workshop methodologies.

Wouter was one of the artifices behind the creation of the cooperative femProcomuns and helped create the initial projects and move them from under the wings of the FKI to the cooperative, including CommonsCloud, the open community network for the Internet of Things and the commons transition group.

Since the pandemic he has been an operational member of The Online Meeting Cooperative (meet.coop), he has worked as the first director of the PublicSpaces Foundation in The Netherlands, is a collaborator at Commons Network and works in various projects to advance a commons-cooperative-regenerative vision.

Ying Tong is an applied cryptographer working on private payments.

co-founder and cto at mask network
research fellow at institute of network society

I have been teaching Chi Gung for over 35 years. I have seen the benefits of balance, and strength through the years.

https://zacchae.us