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!

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/

I have spent the past year doing a deep dive into fictions that imagine dystopian futures, exploring what rhymes with the future emerging out of our complex present and what these stories can tell us about our own experiences hoping and coping our way into the world we're co-creating.

I'll first compare works by authors like Margaret Atwood, Octavia Butler, William Gibson and Audrey Schulman, and media like Fallout and Silo, through the lens of eschatology and "existential hope"; and then we'll do an exercise on writing into speculative futures with the scaffolding of a condensed version of the Microscope scenario-writing & gaming format.