Madelynn Martiniere
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.
Sessions
Opening Ceremony: Join us as we gather as a community for the first time, highlighting a series of powerful stories of our decentralized tools at work.
This kickoff session traces what has grown since the inaugural D:Food track in 2024 — in tools, practitioner networks, and research — and orients participants to the core themes shaping this year's D:Food programming. Join us for a generative discussion taking stock of what the ecosystem has cultivated together at the intersection of food and tech sovereignty, and how to get involved in what's next.
In the face of increasing climate disasters, social unrest, and the collapse of long-held economic systems, people around the globe have been building innovative solutions that empower, engage, and protect their communities - providing alternatives that are both locally relevant and globally applicable.
This conversation invites practitioners working across countries and contexts doing the work to be in community with one another, share what's working, what we're learning, and where the challenges lie.
Together, we'll explore what is truly required for community designed, owned, and governed infrastructure to effectively mitigate the growing effects of climate, social, and economic rupture, and approaches to scale.
The workshops. The provocative talks. The deep technical problems. What questions and conversations have risen up for you?
Bring them to the Linden Theater for two afternoons of Unconference!
The DWeb community has been out in the world, trying things. Some are working. Others… not so much.
This choose-your-own-adventure session will start with brief intros to two workshops focused on patterns that work:
- 4 Key Elements for Effective Community Governance Organizations
- Entanglement by Design
Followed by intros to two workshops focused on how things go wrong:
- Anti-patterns of Exit to Community in Web3
- Wins, Wreckage, and Wisdom: How Projects Survive (and Why They Don’t)
We will then all gather back together for a FishBowl session (a lively and participatory rotating panel discussion) to share noticings, ahas and inspirations.
The workshops. The provocative talks. The deep technical problems. What questions and conversations have risen up for you?
Bring them to the Linden Theater for two afternoons of Unconference!