Presenters tabling at Thursday's Demo Night Market are invited to gather on the Main Lawn to practice your pitches, hone your storytelling and receive feedback from mentors and peers.

We'll also test out equipment and internet connection, and ensure you feel ready to demo tomorrow!

GainForest funds people who steward forests, directly. We do this with three pieces that fit together: data sovereignty so the communities collecting forest data own it, local AI so models that read that data can run on the steward's own device, and open nature finance so the money that depends on the data actually reaches the steward. This session shares three short stories from the field, then turns into a small-group conversation about where this kind of stack would matter in your own community.

Open source powers a $100T+ digital economy; more than 99% of companies rely on OSS, 70%+ of production code comes from it, yet the maintainers carrying that infrastructure are barely funded and burning out, with 60% having quit or considered quitting, while only a tiny fraction of companies give back. FOSS and OSS licenses were 40+ years old and were designed for another era. Prosperous Software Movement is trying to fix the value-capture failure in open source.

Back by popular demand: the DWeb Demo Night Market -- a festive evening kick-off event where you can get a taste of tech from around the world, directly from the decentralized tech stack. We’re highlighting “ready to test” new tools, in a beautifully lit outdoor market, where you can grab a cocktail and wander through dozens of select projects demonstrating their latest breakthroughs.

In part, check out projects to help plan for what sessions to attend in the week ahead.

Take a look at some of the presenters from 2024's Demo Night: https://2024.dwebcamp.org/projects/

A hands-on follow-up to the Hypercerts on AT Protocol talk. We'll design funding, decision-making, or evaluation mechanisms together — adapted to the room, ranging from conceptual sketches to technical deep dives.

Simocracy is a small experiment that lets you write a short brief for an AI agent and put it in a conversation alongside other agents and humans. This session is a discussion about what that does to a room. We will run a short live demo with sims debating a topic the room picks, then break out for small-group conversations about who writes these agents, whose perspectives they carry, and when you want them around. No background needed.

Simocracy is a small experiment that lets you write a short brief for an AI agent and put it in a conversation alongside other agents and humans. This session is a discussion about what that does to a room. We will run a short live demo with sims debating a topic the room picks, then break out for small-group conversations about who writes these agents, whose perspectives they carry, and when you want them around. No background needed.