2026-07-08 –, Linden Theater
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.
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mai is an organizer and writer focused on the digital commons and other intersections between network technologies and the solidarity economy. They are a Senior Organizer with DWeb and a Digital Commons Fellow with Commons Network. They are a co-founder and editor of COMPOST, an online magazine about and for the digital commons. Their former projects and employers include the Oakland Public Library, Public Citizen, Shareable, and the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
ian is a systems engineer with over a decade of experience building and managing distributed infrastructure. He takes a particular focus on the ethical and social aspects of what he is building, and is passionate about building technical tools and standards that help communities and individuals manage and share their data in a way that promotes consent and autonomy. He is currently building a more cooperative web at Mysilio.
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.
