2026-07-09 –, Main Lawn & Pool Area
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/
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Welcome to 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, so builders can get feedback from hundreds of savvy, deeply interested potential consumers and partners. It’s a great place to find collaborators, funders, recruit builders to your ecosystem, and get honest feedback about your work.
On Thursday from 8-10 PM in a beautifully lit outdoor market, campers will grab a cocktail and wander through dozens of select projects demonstrating their latest breakthroughs. Every 15 minutes a bell will ring, encouraging campers to move on to a new table. For campers, the true gift is getting an early glimpse of where our DWeb tech is headed, helping them plan for the week of sessions ahead.
As presenters, be sure to bring stickers, postcards announcing when you are presenting, and a way to meet you for 1:1 “office hours” later in the week in case someone wants to take a deeper dive with you.
CRITERIA:
We are looking for tools that are “ready to try”
People shouldn’t need to know how to code to use it
Ready to test by the general public
Not just a concept, but real working code
Wendy Hanamura is an leader with deep experience in nonprofit management of global organizations with outsized impact. Her passion is using storytelling to achieve positive social change. As a content creator, she's had a rich career as a Time Magazine journalist, Tokyo-based foreign correspondent, television reporter and host, moderator and public speaker. She is currently the Board Chair of the Earth Species Project, and contributes her fundraising skills to many organizations she loves.
This year at DWeb I'm helping lead the Demo Night Market. If you are thinking about showing something off, please submit an application (the demo question is late on page 2 of the proposals page) or simply connect with me and we can discuss:
https://linkedin.com/in/matthewschutte
matthew.schutte@holo.host
In past years I've helped steward the lightning talks, and bear at least partial responsibility for a nearly disastrous first unconference style day a few years ago.
I'm a former big wave surfer, a current hack musician, and an experienced entrepreneur with strengths in high level architecture, strategy, communications and partnership / business development.
More recently, I've been deepening my tech skills by building software myself now that getting unstuck has gotten a little easier thanks to some of the new AI tools.
I have lived and traveled all over the world both for work and for surf, but now call Puerto Rico home where I live in a small condo in a small town with my wife Tatiana and our two cats, Tiger and Shy.
On the professional front: I'm a co-founder of Holochain, a peer-to-peer application framework that has taken far longer to get to production ready than any of us anticipated, as well as Unyt accounting, a peer-to-peer payments and accounting system built on top of holochain. In addition, I'm an advisor to a couple of foundational AI lab startups and have volunteered and served on the board of directors of Toward Warm Data with Nora Bateson. I am open to aligned board or advisory roles and would love to hear what you are currently feeling most excited about. Let's jam!
Student in the Boston area interested in mathematics and cryptography. Always up for drumming, frisbee, or hacky sack.
TBD