Holke
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.
Sessions
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.
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.