2026-07-09 –, Linden Theater
10 years ago, the Internet Archive convened the first Decentralized Web Summit in San Francisco 2016. Now, we've invited five of the original Builders to look back & look forward with us:
What have we learned? How has the early promise of decentralization panned out? Where to go from here?
10 years ago, the Internet Archive convened the first Decentralized Web Summit in San Francisco 2016. Now, we've invited five of the original Builders to look back & look forward with us:
Mathew Hodgson, Founder & CTO, Matrix
Primavera DeFilippi, Distributed Governance; Blockchain & the Law
Markus Sabadello, Decentralized Identity & DID architect
Brewster Kahle, Founder, Internet Archive & Digital Librarian
Paul Frazee, CTO, Bluesky
What have we learned? How has the early promise of decentralization panned out? Where to go from here?
We look at every layer of the decentralized stack from storage to governance, to share insights from some of the foundational members of the DWeb ecosystem.
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.
Paul Frazee is Chief Technology Officer and a founding engineer at Bluesky where he co-designed the AT Protocol. He's enthusiastically participated in the DWeb camps and summits since the beginning, and credits much of his career to the connections he made there.
Founder and Digital Librarian of the Internet Archive
Internet Hall of Fame
National Academy of Engineering
Computer History Museum Fellow