DWeb Camp 2026

Mathias Jud

Mathias is a contemporary artist living in Switzerland and Berlin. He is co-founder and project manager of qaul.net, an off-the-grid p2p mesh messenger App. Mathias is active in community networks such as Freifunk, and helped build up community mesh networks around the world. He is a board member of the Special Interest Group for Community Network Infrastructures of the Internet Society.


Sessions

07-08
17:00
60min
Demo Night Market Rehearsal
Matthew Schutte, Gopi Mehta, Beth McCarthy, Stefano De Vuono, Luandro, Andrew Chou, Mix Irving, Evan Prodromou, fauno, Mathias Jud, Nano Castro, Max Hampshire, Dan Visel, Guo Liu, Zacchaeus, Pumsuanhang (Michael) Suantak, Dani, Kumavis, rabble, Afri Blanck, Arushi, sammy, Nico@Briar, Václav Pavlín, Gavin Owens, Andre Alves Garzia, LX Cast, Carmel Schare, Christian Tschudin (cft), Wouter Kampmann | Powerhouse, Gabriel, Wesley, Nicolas Luck, James Weir, Zach Alexander, Holmes Wilson, Matthew Hodgson, Guillem Cordoba, Duke Dorje, Othman, Blake Stoner, Joshua Davila, Kevin Triplett, David Dao, Pete Hayman, Eric Harris-Braun, Ira N, Christine Lemmer-Webber, adz, Anton Tranelis, Lee, Jonathan Starr, Lars Gierth, Day Waterbury, Zach Miltz, Willem Wyndham, Alisher, Calum Bowden, brewster kahle, Andre Kudra

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!

Protocols and Platforms
Main Lawn & Pool Area
07-09
10:30
60min
Cross-Pollination between Peer-to-Peer & Local First + Decentralized Hardware/Local Community Networks Tracks
Zenna, Mathias Jud

A networking session designed to build bridges between the mesh networking, P2P, and local-first communities. Through structured conversations and collaborative reflection, participants will discover shared interests, uncover opportunities for collaboration, and make new cross-community connections.

Peer-to-Peer & Local First
P2P Portal
07-09
16:30
90min
Building & Testing Antennas for LoRa Communication
Mathias Jud, Elektra Wagenrad

Most LoRa boards come with prebuilt antennas, which are unoptimized and flawed.
In this workshop you will learn the basics about Radio-Antennas, build your own antenna, test it and optimize it for the LoRa frequency band.

Decentralized Hardware/Local Community Networks
Decentralized Hardware @ Hackers Lab
07-09
20:00
120min
Demo Night Market
Matthew Schutte, Gopi Mehta, Stefano De Vuono, Luandro, Andrew Chou, Beth McCarthy, Mix Irving, Evan Prodromou, fauno, Mathias Jud, Ryder Morton, Nano Castro, Max Hampshire, Mark Graham, Dan Visel, Guo Liu, Zacchaeus, Pumsuanhang (Michael) Suantak, Dani, Kumavis, rabble, Afri Blanck, Arushi, sammy, Nico@Briar, Václav Pavlín, Gavin Owens, Andre Alves Garzia, LX Cast, Carmel Schare, Christian Tschudin (cft), Wouter Kampmann | Powerhouse, Gabriel, Wesley, Nicolas Luck, James Weir, Z. D. Alexander, Holmes Wilson, Matthew Hodgson, Guillem Cordoba, Duke Dorje, Othman, Blake Stoner, Joshua Davila, Kevin Triplett, David Dao, Pete Hayman, Eric Harris-Braun, Ira N, Christine Lemmer-Webber, adz, Anton Tranelis, Lee, Jonathan Starr, Lars Gierth, Day Waterbury, Zach Miltz, Willem Wyndham, Alisher, Calum Bowden, brewster kahle, Andre Kudra

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/

Protocols and Platforms
Main Lawn & Pool Area
07-10
09:30
30min
qaul قول Internet Independent Wireless Mesh Communication App
Mathias Jud

Introduction into how you can communicate off-the-grid with qaul and build your own local communication network.

Decentralized Hardware/Local Community Networks
Decentralized Hardware @ Hackers Lab
07-10
17:00
60min
Community Networks Networking Session
Mathias Jud, Paul Fuxjäger, Shadrach

Network among community networks practitioners and interested people. Exchange knowledge and learnings, and introduce interested people to the best practice and creation of community networks.

Decentralized Hardware/Local Community Networks
Decentralized Hardware @ Hackers Lab
07-11
09:30
30min
sig0lease - collaborative service discovery publication for local network services
Adam, Mathias Jud

Local Community and Edge Networks can host services, but lack an easy standard way of publishing and discovering services hosted within them. sig0lease offers an open, distributed, standards based method of service publication and discovery within autonomous local community networks.

Decentralized Hardware/Local Community Networks
Decentralized Hardware @ Hackers Lab