Neocypherpunk Summit

Adam Burns is a technologist & Australian internet pioneer. He was the technical manager for Australia’s first national ISP assisting activists to communicate across south east Asia and Pacific Islands. He founded the first open community wireless network in Europe.

He designed the software behind the Pocket FM broadcast system deployed in crisis areas & IDP camps in the Middle East and Africa.

Published, interviewed, filmed and quoted in numerous publications and documentaries (including Steal This Film 214), he advocates for
open source, as well as equitable digital access and participation.

Alessandro Y. Longo is a researcher, writer, and cultural organizer based between Berlin and Turin. He’s a PhD candidate at DREST (Italian Doctoral School of Religious Studies), where he investigates the emergence of synthetic intimacy on AI companionship platforms.

Alessandro is the initiator and maintainer of REINCANTAMENTO, an independent research and publishing group exploring technology, radical imagination, and rituals through the lens of re-enchantment. He's a user researcher for Shared Visions, a Creative Europe-funded cooperative art platform adopting Web3 infrastructure, and has spent several years contributing to protocol design and blockchain governance through Curve Labs and Circles Coop.

Alistair writes, researches and engages a diverse range of people on the ecological and social impact of technology, he works with activists and campaigners on reimagining our technology futures.
Alistair has written widely about permacomputing, the semi conductor supply chain, AI and collapse, ecologies of knowledge for Truthdig.com, Berliner Gazette, Branch Magazine.

Recent projects include a course on tools to Disconnect/Reconnect with School of Machines, researching regenerative pathways for AI and digital infrastructures with Bath Spa University and the London Design Museum, applying the Doughnut Economic Model to NHS digital services.
Alistair writes a newsletter at https://reclaimedsystems.substack.com/
More info on his projects https://reclaimed.systems.

Andrea Leiter is the Director of the Amsterdam Center for International Law and a Senior Research Fellow at the Zug Institute for Blockchain Research. Her work explores global inequality and transnational governance through private actors in the digital economy. Trained in international law, she examines how questions of value, ownership, and justice structure our relationship to land and community.

Her current research project, ‘(Re)coding Values in the Digital Economy’, is funded by the Dutch Research Council VENI grant. She is the author of 'Making the World Safe for Investment' (Cambridge University Press, 2023), which traces the historical foundations of property protection in international economic law.

Alongside her academic work, she has co-developed ecological and social justice initiatives at the intersection of economics, technology, and environmental restoration, including the Sovereign Nature Initiative and A Thousand Breaths.

Andreas Arnold is a Berlin-based social entrepreneur, cooperative strategist, and connector working at the intersection of the cooperative economy, Web3, and community-driven innovation. Trained as an Industrial Engineer and Management expert, he has spent the past 15 years exploring the transition from the sharing economy toward platform cooperatives and decentralized economic systems.

As co-founder and board member of Platform Coops eG, Andreas supports founders and organizations in building cooperative digital business models, governance structures, and alternative financing approaches. His work spans blockchain ecosystems, DAOs, DGOV, marketplaces, and cooperative finance — with a current focus on cooperative stablecoins and community-owned financial infrastructures.

Previously, Andreas led the digitalization and marketplace development for the freelancer cooperative SMartDe eG, coordinated marketplace strategy for the blockchain-based UBI project Circles, and advised Circles Coop eG on cooperative and ecosystem development.

Arturo Filastò founded the Open Observatory of Network Interference (OONI) in 2011 and serves as Executive Director and CTO. He previously worked for the Tor Project and created several free software projects that promote human rights, such as GlobaLeaks.

He co-founded and serves as the Vice-President of the Hermes Center for Digital Human Rights. Arturo studied Mathematics and Computer Science at Università di Roma “La Sapienza”"

Software Developer and Computer Scientist from the United States, currently based in London. He has been working professionally in the Ethereum ecosystem since 2018 with a focus on smart contracts. He is currently building Gas Killer, a verifiable off-chain compute service that uses EigenLayer to reduce gas costs for complex EVM transactions. He is a contributor for Bread Cooperative.

Berlin-based software engineer with a background in philosophy. My work revolves around resonance and plurality, with the goal of dissolving the dichotomy between the universal and the particular—the individual and the collective. Drawing on Hartmut Rosa's resonance theory and concepts from the Plurality movement, I explore how technology can foster genuine connection rather than alienation.

I currently work as an IT manager at the MIND Foundation, where I help scale their processes in the field of psychedelic therapy, and serve as the Berlin Chapter Lead for the RadicalxChange Foundation, organizing deliberative democracy events and building Plural Events, a collaborative governance platform based on the plural management protocol.

Beth McCarthy is a Berlin-based strategist, curator & experience designer. With her consultancy Abstract Machine Studio, Beth serves clients across the frontier tech, open web and new internet spaces, building ecosystem, culture and relational intelligence. She supports projects like DWeb Camp with strategic partnerships, Web3Privacy Now as Program Director, Funding the Commons with program curation, and other allies as an advisor.

Beth is passionate about digital rights and freedom, tech as a force for resilient communities, and designing for ethical humans and their systems.

Binji helps translate technology’s deepest technical work into stories that normal people can actually feel. His work sits at the strange little intersection of crypto, culture, ai, privacy, public infrastructure, and making important ideas sound less like they were assembled in a bunker.

Before joining the Ethereum Foundation, Binji worked at Coinbase and Optimism, helping bring crypto products to wider audiences. Today, he focuses on making Ethereum’s values more legible to the world, especially around privacy, censorship resistance, open source, and the future of human agency online.

His talk asks a simple question: if cypherpunks were right about so much, why does the average person still not relate to them?

Bradley is a strategic designer and innovator working at the intersection of culture, AI-native systems, and human-centred technology. Currently the Node Manager for Foresight Institute's Berlin AI Node and leading AI Builders Berlin as Community Director, he brings experience design, blending applied research with grassroots organising and urban rituals.

"Brett Scott is an author, journalist, economic anthropologist and former financial broker. His latest book Cloudmoney: Cash, Cards, Crypto and the War for our Wallets (Penguin/HarperCollins, 2022) explores the battle between cash and digital money, and is described by the Financial Times as a ‘compelling case against the contactless society’.

His previous book, The Heretic’s Guide to Global Finance (Pluto Press, 2013), was a hands-on guide to financial activism and alternative finance for people who wish to change the financial sector for the better. He’s written on cashless society, fintech, cryptocurrency, monetary reform, economic activism, and the politics of tech for publications like The Guardian, Business Insider, New Scientist, Huffington Post, Wired Magazine and CNN.com, and has spoken at over 300 events in over 30 countries.

Brett Scott regularly appears on TV shows, radio broadcasts and documentaries across the world, including BBC World News and Sky News. He’s provided input to reports for multilateral institutions like the United Nations Research Institute for Social Development, UN Principles for Responsible Investment, and UN Environment Program, and has presented on financial inclusion at EU Parliament, EU Commission and IMF events.

He obtained a degree in anthropology in South Africa and a Masters in international development from Cambridge University (UK), and worked in the world of financial derivatives in the midst of the 2008 financial crisis, after which he worked on financial reform campaigns and alternative finance projects with a wide range of groups."

Cade Diehm (IE/AU) is a researcher, author, founder of New Design Congress (DE, 2018), Para-Real Ltd. (IE, 2025), and is a founding member of Modal Collective (EU, 2025). Over a thirteen year career, Cade has developed a forensic practice capable of piercing opaque systems of power to make sense of their structural function. His work repurposes information security, political science, open source intelligence, game design, AI/ML, and software engineering as a single method capable of reckoning with systems of intense complexity.

With a multi-disciplinary background in information security, interface politics and digital anthropology, Cade and his team study technology's macro-influence on subcultures, economic livelihoods, identity, conflict and ecological relationships. As New Design Congress' founder, Cade leads an ambitious research programme that anticipates how digital dependence creates brittle societies by accelerating risks across economics, infrastructure, identity, and ecology.

Cade’s expertise has informed projects across major institutions and civil society organisations – including the European Parliament, the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, PEN America and others – and his team frequently collaborates with research institutions, civil society, technology firms and environmental groups. Cade serves on the executive board of the Australian and New Zealand Society for Ecological Economics and the observer board of the Digital Credentials for Europe (DC4EU), a European Union Digital Europe Programme pilot.

Prior to founding New Design Congress, Cade was a security researcher at Tactical Tech, a Berlin-based NGO focused on digital rights. He contributed to Signal’s initial launch in the early 2010s, and headed a design-led security practice at SpiderOak, a pioneering zero-knowledge cloud storage company. From 1999 to 2006, Cade represented Australia in international disability swimming, and holds Australian and world records.
Cade resides in Berlin with his partner and two Shiba Inus, Ripley and Kodak.

Calle is the creator and lead maintainer of the Cashu open source protocol. Cashu enables users to easily use bitcoin in a private, offline, and programmable way. Calle is also the maintainer of Bitchat android, a cross platform meshnet app that enables users to chat and send bitcoin without an internet connection.

"Cameron Colby Thomson has extensive experience in various roles and positions. Cameron Colby is the Chief Executive Officer of Good Ancestor, a public charity that promotes long-term thinking, arts, and freedom. Additionally, they serve on the Board of Directors for the Human Rights Foundation.

Thomson is also involved in the insurance industry, having founded and served as the Chairman and Founding CEO of Honest Policy, Inc. Cameron Colby has expertise in rating and analyzing insurance companies and creating tools to help consumers make informed choices.

Cameron Colby is a Founding Board Member of Open Source Ecology, an organization focused on creating sustainable and open-source solutions. Thomson is also the Chairman and General Partner of Allied Strategy, an investment partnership with a social mission. Cameron Colby founded this venture during their time at University and later restarted it as an impact and management consulting vehicle.

Thomson co-founded the Turbine Flats Project, an NGO that renovated a warehouse to create an innovation community. The project hosts startups, maker spaces, and community events.

Cameron Colby is a Charter Board Member of the Jeffrey S. Raikes School of Computer Science and Management, an experimental college program aimed at developing leaders at the intersection of business, technology, and global issues.

Thomson has also worked as a Partner at Social Impact Capital, and as the Co-Founder, CEO, and Chairman of SEMCAT Corporation. SEMCAT developed a price comparison tool for insurance agents and was later acquired by Applied Systems.

Lastly, Thomson has served as an Advisor for The Feast Conference, an event focused on social innovation.

Cameron Colby Thomson earned a Baccalaureate Diploma in Biology, Math, English, History, and Philosophy from the International Baccalaureate in 2000. From 2000 to 2004, they pursued a BSc in Computer Science from the Jeffrey S. Raikes School of Computer Science and Management. Cameron Colby later obtained a Master of Business Administration (MBA) from the same institution in 2005."

Caroline Paulick-Thiel is a strategic designer with experience in developing and leading participatory processes to address public challenges. Since 2015, she has been the director of politicsfortomorrow.eu , a non-partisan initiative that promotes public change and collaborates with political and administrative institutions from the local to the highest federal level in Germany.

Technologist, now building popup villages and physical spaces for humans & technology to interweave in beautiful ways. Founder of Ethereum research group ephema, quantitatively modeling changes to the Ethereum protocol. Executive Director at PBS Foundation, maintaining key Ethereum infra and researching distribution of value flow. Built LI.FI in the early days and an opensource framework to run iOS UI code on android based on low level GPU rendering loops called UIKit-cross-platform.
Loves to understand how humans work and intersect with technology, which advances at a quicker pace than ever in a world of AI and tech's economies of scale. Incessantly curious.

Cryptographic engineer interested in unstoppable private money. Currently focused on ZCash's Tachyon upgrade, the next generation shielded protocol and ZK proof system for ZCash for planetary scale. I write blogs about math, life, and autodidacticism, and do Twitter psy ops.

Previously worked in the Cosmos, Solana, Ethereum, TradFi, and performing arts education worlds; wrote code in Rust at all of them. Private money is necessary for dignity and freedom, but more importantly, it is inevitable. Victory is not when they give us permission, it's when they lose the ability to stop us. Excited to eat donor kebaps and drink Club Mate.

Systems engineer, software supply chain security researcher.
Who runs your software?
Who has built your compiler?
Can you build your compiler?
Now you need to compile your compiler with previous version of a compiler...
Now you need to compile your compiler with previous version of a compiler...
Now you need to compile your compiler with previous version of a compiler...
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Florian Glatz is a lawyer, developer, and researcher working at the intersection of law, decentralized technology, and digital sovereignty. For over a decade, he has helped shape the legal, governance, and technical foundations of the blockchain ecosystem, advising organizations on legal compliance, institutional design, and the interaction between code and law in a digital society.

Today, Florian's work focuses on projects such as the Ethereum Ecosystem Initiative (EEI) and Freedom Browser, advancing user-owned infrastructure, decentralized communication, and new models for digital coordination. Alongside his work as a technologist and institution builder, he continues to explore how software-driven innovation can transform law, finance, and governance.

Florian is also a leading voice in European blockchain policy. He founded Blockchain.Lawyer, was the Founding President of Bundesblock, Germany's blockchain association, and has played a key role in advocating for blockchain technologies and constructive regulatory frameworks across Europe. Throughout his career, he has focused on bridging legal systems, public institutions, and emerging technologies to support more open, resilient, and self-sovereign digital societies.

Economist and Data Scientist from Argentina, currently based in the Basque Country. He holds a Master’s degree in Economics from the University of the Basque Country (EHU) and is currently pursuing a PhD in Energy Economics and Policy. His research focuses on energy systems, data analysis, and the use of modern technologies, including artificial intelligence and decentralized digital tools, to support economic innovation and applied research. Since 2025, he has collaborated with Bread Cooperative as both a smart contract developer and frontend developer, contributing to blockchain-based solutions and digital product development while combining technical expertise with an interdisciplinary economic perspective.

Geert Lovink is a Dutch media theorist, internet critic and author of Organization after Social Media (with Ned Rossiter, 2018), Sad by Design (2019), Stuck on the Platform (2022) and Platform Brutality (2025). In 2004 he founded the Institute of Network Cultures (https://www.networkcultures.org) at the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences (HvA), which will become independent in September 2026 after his mandatory retirement. The centre is focused on revenue models in the arts (MoneyLab), social media critique and mapping the Gen Z mental landscape and expanded publishing experiments. INC is part of support campaigns for Ukranian artists, in particular UkrainaTV (Krakow) and the related StreamArtNetwork.

Gianmarco Cristofari is an interdisciplinary researcher. Trained as a data protection lawyer, he holds a PhD in Global Studies and has been a visiting researcher in Amsterdam and New York. With INC he published his first book, The Politics of Platformization. His interests revolve around the politics of technology, the history of computation and cybernetics, and Marxism and social system theory. He is currently researching the relationship between platformization, digital sovereignty and digital public infrastructure.

Gilberto Morishaw is a leading techno-futurist and systems thinker who empowers leaders and organizations to navigate the complex intersection of climate, technology, and society. He inspires audiences to envision and build a regenerative and impactful future, drawing on his expertise in systems thinking, regenerative practices, and future-oriented leadership.

With a background in International and European Governance and Global Impact, Gilberto's expertise spans topics from AI, climate change, and migration to systems thinking, youth engagement, and Web3. He is a community lead at Bread Cooperative and he serves as Co-Director for the Creative Regenerative Futures Foundation, is a former Youth Advisor for the European Commissioner for International Partnerships, and is a German Marshall Fund TILN Alumnus.

Creative director and senior designer based in Berlin - Building communities and freedom tech.

I work with teams building at the edge of what's possible. The work spans brand strategy, product development, content creation, and design ops. I help teams go from “interesting concept” to a clear story people can trust, use, and fund. Art direction, motion, video, and illustration. Years of building a body of work as a collage artist and animator taught me to sweat the details and set a visual bar the whole team can rally around.

From co‑founding Regens Unite to building design culture at General Magic, I’ve learned that great work comes from great coordination.

Igor serves as the Chief Technology and Product Officer (CTPO) and is a co-founder of Gateway.fm. As a highly versatile builder and seasoned engineer, he brings a comprehensive understanding of systems architecture, possessing deep, hands-on experience across the entire spectrum of the network stack. His technical background bridges the gap between traditional Web2 and modern decentralized systems, spanning everything from browser-level engineering to the deployment of massive, large-scale cloud computing services.

His technological journey eventually led him to become deeply entrenched in the Web3 space. Notably, Igor has contributed directly to the foundational layer of the industry as an Ethereum core developer—focusing specifically on the highly efficient Erigon client—while also serving as a dedicated blockchain protocol researcher. Today at Gateway.fm, his leadership is instrumental in designing and implementing resilient, large-scale distributed infrastructure services capable of supporting enterprise demands. Crucially, Igor also spearheads the development of the Open Privacy Suite, where he pioneers practical, interoperable privacy tools designed to bridge the gap between absolute network confidentiality and ecosystem transparency.

Isabela Fernandes is the Executive Director of the Tor Project since November 2018.

She joined the Tor Project as Project Manager in 2015, after working as Product Manager for International and Growth at Twitter for four years. Isabela has been part of the free software community since the late 90s, and in 2007 she co-founded and worked as Latin America Project Manager for North by South, a startup from San Francisco focused on free software projects.

Isabela was also part of Brazil’s Federal Government Free Software initiative, working in 2005 on the Ministry of Communications digital inclusion project and participating in 2006 on a project to migrate the IT of the Presidential Palace of Brazil to free software.

Jake Hartnell is an Artist and Founder obsessed with Hyperstition, Symbients, Extitutions, DAOs, Collective Intelligence, and building Collaboration Monsters. A graduate of UC Berkeley School of Information, he previously founded Futurepress (building open source publishing tools like Epub.js), Common Garden (open IoT infrastructure for smart environment automation), DAO DAO (A DAO that creates open source governance tooling), Juno Network (pioneering WASM smart contracts), and WAVS (a framework for building decentralized event driven applications). He is a member of the Glitch Art Collective and Feytopia, a proponent of AInimism (see AInimism.org), and is always excited to imagine the world of tomorrow with friends.

Jaya Klara Brekke was awarded a PhD in the field of Digital Geography from the Durham University, UK and has spent the last fifteen years working on the meaning-making and political economies of emerging technologies in theory and practice. She is currently Chief Strategy Officer at Nym, a decentralized platform that inverts the principle of AI in order to provide unprecedented security for internet traffic in transit

Jonas is a cultural producer, graphic designer and art director with over a decade of experience in communication for non-profits, and has shaped Disruption Network Lab’s communication since its founding. Since 2014 Jonas has designed and animated the visual identity of the Disruption Network Lab and each conference, and additionally researches speakers, networks and topics for future events. In 2023 he was also Press Manager, communicating the conference contents to journalists, developing media partnerships and PR, expanding the reach of the Disruption Network Lab and its activities. Jonas was born in Sweden, studied Marketing, International Relations and Culture Management in Gothenburg. He was part of sinnwerkstatt for 10 years, one of the first media agencies dedicated to the common good, and it’s offshoot animation agency Sinnema, producing and designing campaigns for German and International NGOs. Before relocating to Berlin in the mid 2000’s he was part of the Swedish Attac movement, helping to communicate issues around fair world trade, and co-founded the media watchdog Mediekritik.nu, an early platform for crowdsourced fact checking of Swedish mainstream media.

Joshua Dávila is a writer and podcaster of The Blockchain Socialist focused on the intersection of technology, politics, and post-capitalist thought. Originally operating under a pseudonym, he publicly emerged with the publication of his book Blockchain Radicals: How Capitalism Ruined Crypto and How to Fix It, released by Repeater Books in 2023. He is a co-founder of the Breadchain Cooperative, which develops crypto applications from a post-capitalist perspective.

Dávila has interviewed leading voices in the crypto space such as Vitalik Buterin, Ethan Buchman, and Chris Goes, as well as critics like Cory Doctorow. He has collaborated with researchers like Primavera De Filippi to explore the ideological roots of the Network State concept. His writing has appeared in publications including Friends With Benefits and Outland, and he is the co-author of the science fiction series Katabasis Chronicles with Beth McCarthy.

Julio Linares is an economic anthropologist from Guatemala. He holds an Msc in Anthropology and Development from the London School of Economics And Political Science and a MA in Applied Economics and Social Development from National ChengChi University (國立政治大學) in Taipei, Taiwan, where he lived for 6 years. From 2018, he has served as Public Outreach for the Basic Income Earth Network (BIEN), establishing regional and national networks in different continents. His research focus dwells on the relationship between money, direct democracy and basic income. Julio is currently based in Berlin, Germany, where he explored these topics in practice with the Circles UBI project from 2019-2023. His forthcoming book, Decolonizing Money (Pluto 2026) argues for the abolition of the US dollar as a means of achieving a social and ecological just transition.

Justin Shenk is a Berlin-based AI researcher and runs AI Salon Berlin. His work spans computational neuroscience, machine learning, and the intersection of society and technology. He holds a PhD from the Donders Institute and co-founded computer vision startup VisioLab. He mentors AI safety projects for AI Safety Camp, SPAR and SAIGE, and is a co-mentor for CORDA's inaugural fellowship cohort with Baran Peters, working on increasing accountability of language models in political communication and public epistemics.

Kassandra.eth is a core developer and protocol architect known for her leading work in on-chain liquidity management. She was the founder and Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of Arrakis Finance, a prominent decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol specializing in automated, concentrated liquidity management, and was previously known for her contributions to the Gelato Network.

She currently works at the Ethereum Foundation, where she contributes to Kohaku, and was selected as one of 15 members of the Foundation's Silviculture Society, an advisory group of blockchain experts tasked with helping the EF uphold Ethereum's core values of open-source development, privacy, security, and censorship resistance.
Kassandra is also a co-founder of Bread Cooperative, a worker-led collective building blockchain-based financial tools designed around solidarity and cooperative governance rather than purely extractive, investor-driven models.

Kate Stapleton is Head of Ecosystem at Fhenix, where she works to advance privacy-preserving technologies and expand the next generation of decentralized applications. With a background spanning cybersecurity research, red teaming, blockchain education, and ecosystem development, Kate brings a multidisciplinary perspective to building more accessible, resilient, and user-centric technologies.

Born and raised in Toronto and now based in Montreal, Kate holds degrees in Business Administration from York University and English Literature from Concordia University. Her path into Web3 began through cybersecurity and evolved into leadership roles across the blockchain ecosystem, including serving as Vice President of the Blockchain Education Network and helping grow some of the industry's most active developer and community networks.

Passionate about privacy, decentralization, and education, Kate is driven by a belief that emerging technologies should empower individuals while remaining accessible to those traditionally excluded from technical spaces. She is a frequent speaker, community builder, and advocate for a more open and equitable digital future."

Kimmo Siren is Head of Product for Lens and Orb at Mask Network. He has a PhD and a background in applied machine learning.

Gardening the soil of Invisible Garden and p2pmentor 🌿

Lifelong explorer of the convergence of web3, IoT, and digital biology, with a current focus on flow states, and with interspecies research on a second layer. Generally interested in tech geared at making governance weird again and guiding our evolution as a multi-planetary species from a regenerative perspective.

Former Gardener of Commons Stack's Trusted Seed (https://trustedseed.org/) and Community Architect at IoTeX. Co-Summoner of Ethereum, Singularity University, and the B Corps movement in Venezuela.

Mixed background starting in theater and media studies, moving on to grassroots activism and government relations, and finding kinship among social impact-enabling (technical) circles. I've co-initiated both tech startups and civic innovation spaces.

Kris De Coodt is a communicator, connector, and coordinator with 20 years of experience across advertising, startups, and emerging technologies, including blockchain. His work centers on projects pursuing deep systemic change through decentralization, open collaboration, and community-driven innovation.

Currently, Kris serves as Logos Movement Coordinator at the Institute of Free Technology, where he helps scale the global Logos ecosystem through content strategy, community development, and organizational systems. He also co-founded Commons Hub Brussels, a community space dedicated to regenerative culture, governance experimentation, and commons-based collaboration.

Guided by values of ubuntu, integrity, vulnerability, antifragility, and “buidling,” Kris is motivated by bold visions, first-principles thinking, and bringing people together to turn ideas into action.

Kyle den Hartog, Security Engineer at Brave Software, is helping to promote a world where the Web can be more private and secure for everyone. This vision led him to be an eager contributor to the design and development of standards in W3C and IETF.

With a background in security and cryptography, he has worked in domain verticals such as digital identity, Web3, and now work on browsers here at Brave. His long term focus remains on improving our symbiotic relationship with technology, and he's active in communities related to these topics.

Laura Lotti is a researcher, analyst and writer investigating protocols for material autonomy across new and old technologies. She co-founded Other Internet Research Institute.

Lefteris Karapetsas is a seasoned blockchain developer, known for his contributions to Ethereum's early Solidity and core client development, the DAO, and the Raiden Network, before founding rotki, a privacy-focused, self-hosted portfolio management tool. Based in Berlin, he is an advocate for open-source development, financial transparency, and user data sovereignty.

Liz Steininger is the CEO/Managing Director of Least Authority, a leading Web3 security consulting company and builder of privacy enhancing technology products, including Private.Storage and Winden.App. Least Authority specializes in securing Web3 products, capability-based security and implementing advanced cryptography, especially zero-knowledge proofs (ZK) and multi-party computations (MPC). Beyond security audits for new technologies, Least Authority has also released the MoonMath Manual, a practical guide for developers to understand zero-knowledge proofs. The company focuses on cutting-edge security and empowering users to control their right to privacy.

Luis Bezzenberger is a researcher and developer working at the intersection of applied cryptography, Ethereum infrastructure, and decentralized governance. At brainbot, he contributes to Shutter Network, focusing on threshold encryption, encrypted voting, MEV protection, and privacy-preserving applications for Web3.

His work includes Snapshot Shielded Voting, one of the largest encrypted voting systems used in DAO governance, as well as ongoing efforts to bring verifiable encrypted voting into real-world institutional settings. Together with Universität der Bundeswehr München and the City of Munich, he is currently working on a municipal voting prototype for a staff council election that combines client-side encryption, threshold homomorphic encryption, zero-knowledge proofs, and Ethereum-based public verifiability.

Luis has presented his work at conferences and events including EthCC, EDCON Osaka, Protocol Berg, DappCon, ETHWarsaw, StarkWare Sessions, and the Ethereum Cypherpunk Congress. His talks often explore how cryptographic infrastructure can move beyond theory and DAO governance into practical systems for coordination, privacy, and democratic participation.

Rachel-Rose O'Leary is a DarkFi core developer and writer. She authored 'Lunarpunk and the Dark Side of the Cycle', a text which helped create a web3 privacy revival. She is an artist by training and a self-taught programmer.

Marek Tuszynski, Executive Director and co-founder of Tactical Tech, is an artist, designer and curator working at the intersection of technology and activism. Marek is also a filmmaker, producer, teacher and provocateur whose creative interventions span media from film and radio to television, books, exhibitions, public spaces and the web. For 30 years, he has worked at the intersection of technology and politics, information and activism, and the consequences of living in a quantified society. In 2023, Marek was recognised by Mozilla Rise25 Awards as one of the artists and visionary leaders actively shaping a more ethical, responsible, and inclusive future for the internet.

Marina is the director and co-founder of the European Crypto Initiative (EUCI), a European advocacy group focused on crypto regulation. Since 2017, Marina has been working with crypto projects on governance and legal matters with a focus on decentralization, DeFi and NFTs. Marina is an expert on key crypto regulatory topics and follows the recent regulatory developments and their influence on the industry.

Ethereum Foundation Protocol Support, Bordel Hackerspace.

Bringing new core devs to Ethereum, building community in Prague and sustaining cryptoanarchy values.

I also love cats, meow meow meow, I need 100 words but I don't want to bother people with my bio, instead of reading this pointless fluff, you should probably just come meet me!

I did bunch of cool hacking and stuff. Seriously who reads these long bios, if you think I am so interesting you read till here you should really come to my workshop. I am in cult of stallman, join me on the gnu path to freedom. All software should be Free. Fuck Apple. Also fuck Nvidia. And all other proprietary stuff our corporate overlords push on normies. Ok is this enough words

Martin is a project manager at the Ethereum Foundation Funding Coordination team, where he works on mapping Ethereum critical infrastructure and securing neutral funding for core development.

Mate Soos is a security researcher, software engineer, and open-source developer working at the intersection of cryptography, formal methods, and decentralized systems. Currently a researcher at Argot Collective, he previously worked at the Ethereum Foundation and the National University of Singapore, and has held security and research roles at Zalando, Cisco, Gotham Digital Science, and Security Research Labs.

Mate is best known for his contributions to the SAT and SMT solving ecosystem, maintaining the widely used CryptoMiniSat solver and helping maintain STP. He is also a principal author of research tools including ApproxMC, UniGen, Arjun, Pepin, and Bosphorus, with a long-standing focus on building robust, production-quality open-source software for the research community.

He holds a PhD from INRIA Rhône-Alpes, where his research focused on RFID security, privacy, and lightweight cryptography, and has spent his career advancing both the theory and practice of security, verification, and computational reasoning. Today, his work explores how rigorous cryptographic and formal methods research can support more trustworthy and resilient digital infrastructure.

Matthias Kirschner is President of FSFE. In 1999 he started using GNU/Linux and realised that software is deeply involved in all aspects of our lives. Matthias is convinced that this technology has to empower society not restrict it. While studying Political and Administrative Science he joined FSFE in 2004.

He helps other organisations, companies and governments to understand how they can benefit from Free Software -- which gives everybody the rights to use, understand, adapt, and share software -- and how those rights help to support freedom of speech, freedom of press or privacy.

In his spare time, together with his children and others he wrote the book "Ada & Zangemann - A Tale of Software, Skateboards, and Raspberry Ice Cream", which is available under Creative Commons in many languages and meanwhile also as a movie.

Max Hampshire is a technologist, researcher, and developer advocate working at the intersection of privacy, decentralization, and digital autonomy. Currently Senior Developer Relations at Nym Technologies, he helps developers build privacy-preserving applications and infrastructure for a more secure and surveillance-resistant internet. His work spans developer tooling, education, protocol design, and the practical adoption of privacy-enhancing technologies.

Based in Amsterdam, Max has spent over a decade exploring the social, political, and technical implications of decentralized systems. He is a co-founder of terra0, an experimental project investigating autonomous ecosystems and machine ownership through blockchain technology, and has contributed to research initiatives including the RIAT Institute for Future Cryptoeconomics and the Institute of Network Cultures.

Combining a background in blockchain engineering, political philosophy, and technology studies, Max's work bridges theory and practice—from building developer infrastructure to advancing the cypherpunk vision of privacy, sovereignty, and collective resilience. His talks and projects have been featured at events including Transmediale, Ars Electronica, Devcon, and Web3 Summit.

Meinhard is a developer and entrepreneur working on decentralized infrastructure and peer-to-peer systems. He started working with Bitcoin in 2011 and founded SatoshiPay in 2014, one of the early companies exploring blockchain-based payments and web monetization. He is currently building Freedom, a browser for the decentralized web that integrates Swarm, IPFS, and ENS as first-class protocols rather than relying on centralized gateways. His work focuses on making decentralized technologies usable by exposing native browser APIs for storage, identity, and payments, enabling developers to build applications that are open, resilient, user-owned, and directly connected to peer-to-peer networks.

Migle went from actress to documentary filmmaker to blockchain in 2017 to asking why privacy tech is so bad at explaining itself. She co-founded WinPrivacy, a creative agency for privacy and security projects, and leads Womxn in Privacy. Currently supporting Swarm Foundation, building decentralized storage infrastructure and backing public goods since Ethereum's early days.

Miho Soon is a researcher, facilitator, product designer and coach from Malaysia. Her work focuses on money trauma & economic psychology - socio-political perspectives towards the human relationship with money and work. She has brought together hundreds of students, activists and organisations across Europe and Asia to talk about how personal experiences connect to a systemic context around capitalism.

Miho is also a product designer who has built successful design interventions working across numerous fields including blockchain, crisis mitigation and human rights. She has been active across degrowth, migrant justice, Palestine solidarity and tech movement spaces. She is the host of the documentary podcast Money Trauma, and an affiliate fellow of The Post Growth Institute. She's currently based in Berlin.

Sudo is Project Lead at Sovright (fka Electric Coin Company). She spends her time in the related spaces of privacy, security and hardware. She's worked at a range of defi and institutional projects in crypto, including Anchorage, Synthetix and BitPay. A few career pivots ago, she worked in private equity and at a DNA testing company.

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Accelerating companies & institutions to create fair digital societies empowered with the Web3: helped startups fundraise $100 mln., leaders deliver keynotes from WebSummit to Blockshow, support PoC sales from UAE to leading oil companies, grow communities to 100K members.

Nick is a technologist, physicist, governance and learning theorist, architect, academic and builder. He believes in decentralisation, DAOs as a means to reshape human organisation, the commons and collective action as a cultural practice.

I work on privacy-preserving identity and anonymous credential implementations, with a focus on bridging research and real-world use cases. My recent work includes exploring deployments related to age and eligibility verification, government wallet integration, and practical product constraints for privacy-preserving systems.

Nikoline Arns is a governance designer, civic-tech entrepreneur, and community organizer building bridges between Web3, privacy culture, and real-world social infrastructure. Her current focus is HUBS Network, a decentralized network of physical hubs, hacker spaces, cultural centers, and regenerative communities experimenting with open governance, self-sovereignty, and collaborative coordination. Through HUBS, she works on connecting online decentralized movements with IRL communities that share values around privacy, decentralization, and commons-based systems.

Before Hubs Network, Nikoline co-founded projects such as pact.social, citizen.chat and DoinGud, where she explored decentralized governance, social impact coordination, NFTs, and privacy-preserving civic participation tools. Her background spans design, cooperative organizing, DAO ecosystems, and sociocratic governance, with a long-standing focus on connecting communities that “share the same values but not the same language” — from Ethereum builders to local cooperatives and civic initiatives.

Deeply influenced by cypherpunk culture, RadicalxChange, and regenerative coordination movements, Nikoline advocates for human-centered digital systems that strengthen autonomy, trust, and democratic participation both online and offline. Her work sits at the intersection of privacy, decentralized social infrastructure, and imagination-driven institution building.

Since July 2025, Barış has been working in technical support for the CORRECTIV.Exile section and leads the Karakutu project. He studied Mathematics and Philosophy before continuing his education at the Ostkreuzschule für Fotografie.

For several years he worked as a freelance photographer, documenting social and political events such as the refugee crisis on Lesbos and the Catalan independence referendum. He later joined Brazil Carbon, where he contributed to the development of a blockchain-based protocol for carbon credit offsetting.

Karakutu, which he has been developing since 2024, is a censorship-resistant platform for preserving and providing access to censored news in Turkey.

With over 15 years in tech, I've spent most of my career promoting open science — working to make research more efficient, effective, and accessible to the people and communities who need it most.

More recently, I've shifted my focus to a different kind of openness: the commons. I now support the Traditional Dream Factory, a living lab in Portugal that is actively proving that commons-based land regeneration is not just ecologically sound, but financially viable. It's the kind of project that asks a fundamental question — can we build institutions and economies that treat land as something to steward rather than extract?

Behind that project sits OASA, a Swiss non-profit developing the legal, financial, and technical infrastructure to make replication possible. The vision is a replicable template: a toolkit that allows communities around the world to transition land out of extractive private ownership and into permanent regenerative stewardship — at scale, and built to last beyond any single generation.

Peter is the CTO of ChainSafe Systems, a research Web3 engineering company building open-source protocol-level infrastructure across Ethereum, its L2s, Filecoin, and Polkadot. He has spent close to a decade building in the space, from consensus clients and bridges through to developer tooling. A member of the Department of Decentralization, he is a long-time advocate for self-hosted, data sovereign, privacy-first, and local-first infrastructure.

Peter spent 10 years building the core of the Ethereum platform, helping shape one of the most widely used open-source systems for decentralized computation. Finance being - to him - an unfulfilling topic, however, in 2025 he started working on something similar for the world of genomics. His current project, Dark Bio, aims to achieve openness and composability for personal health analysis: a uniquely challenging topic due to the high-stakes nature of genomic data. By combining lessons from distributed systems, cryptography, and open developer ecosystems, Peter is exploring how individuals might one day benefit from richer, more transparent interpretations of their own biological data without surrendering control over it.

Phakin (Kin) is a PhD researcher in Sociology at St. John's College, the University of Cambridge, supported by the Cambridge-Thai Foundation scholarship in partnership with the Cambridge Trust. In 2026-2027, he is also a research fellow at the Institute for Digital Cooperative Economy (ICDE) at The New School, New York. His doctoral research explores the intersection of leftist politics and blockchain technologies through an empirical case of the Crypto Leftist communities. It examines how the cryptolefts reconfigure the logic of blockchain affordances through collective identity formation and participatory practices, expressed in the form of tech cooperative, blockchain-based applications, and everyday interactions across digital platforms.

I WORK at the intersection of technology and philosophy, bridging theory and practice to promote thoughtful innovation.

I CARE about the social and political impact of cryptography, peer-to-peer networks, and distributed systems in empowering individual autonomy, protecting freedoms, and creating systems that resist censorship.

I OFFER my expertise and facilitate collaboration for groups that uphold these principles, with a commitment to promoting shared prosperity and upholding human rights in the digital space.

Lecturer/Assistant Professor in the College of Business, University College Dublin. Author of Absolute Essentials of Ethereum (2024).

polymutex wishes to push the Ethereum wallet ecosystem forward through Walletbeat, an L2BEAT-like wallet evaluation framework inspired by Ethereum values.:Security, privacy, self-sovereignty, transparency, and ecosystem alignment. Inspired by Vitalik's blog posts on Ethereum ecosystem alignment legibility, and ""What I would like to see in a wallet"", this maps well to CROPS values.

Walletbeat is an open-source, permissively-licensed database of data about Ethereum wallet. All attributes it looks for in wallets are based on verifiable wallet behavior, from simple presence of UI features all the way down to packet-level wallet network traffic analysis to look for privacy/metadata leakage.

Rainer Rehak is part of the research group “Technology, Power, and Domination” at the Weizenbaum Institute for the Networked Society, he is an associated researcher at the Berlin Social Science Center (WZB), and has completed his PhD on systemic IT security and societal data protection at the TU Berlin.

He studied computer science and philosophy in Berlin and Hong Kong and has been working on the implications of the computerization of society for over 15 years. His research fields include technology impact assessment, collective data protection, systemic IT security, state hacking, computer science and ethics, fictions of technology, digitization and sustainability, convivial and democratic digital technology, epistemics of automation, digital (de-)colonialism, and the implications and limits of AI systems.

He also publishes regularly in non-scientific outlets and is an expert witness for parliaments (e.g., the German Bundestag) and courts (e.g., the German Constitutional Court). Together with other digital policy and environmental organizations, he initiated the “Bits & Bäume” conference series for digitalisation and sustainability. Rainer Rehak is co-chair of the Forum Computer professionals for peace and societal responsibility (FIfF).

Ramy Raoof Halim is a renowned technologist, security researcher and advisor who works with human-rights defenders, activists communities, and journalists in high-risk environments worldwide. Over the last 15 years, he has contributed to numerous high-profile investigations of state-sponsored surveillance, cyberattacks, and censorship in different regions, as well as to civic litigation to hold governments, tech and telecom companies to account. Ramy has worked on digital security, threat research, and infrastructure resilience on behalf of organizations including the European Union, Open Technology Fund, Amnesty International, Citizen Lab, Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights, and the International Committee of the Red Cross. He also served on the board of the Tor Project from 2017-2021. He is currently a fellow with Tahrir Institute for Middle East Policy (TIMEP) focusing on surveillance and technology in the MENA region, examining how emerging technologies, spyware, and digital repression enable human rights abuses. His contributions have been internationally recognized, including with the 2023 Burke Distinguished Journalism Award, the 2017 Heroes of Human Rights and Communications Surveillance Award from Access Now, and the Deutsche Welle Bobs Award in 2016. He was named among the World Top 100 Info Security Influencers in 2016 by CISO Platform in India, and was featured in Newsweek’s Digital Power Index in 2012.

Raphael is an expert in the field of secure messaging, with a decade of experience contributing to the development and advancement of the industry. Throughout his career, he has had the opportunity to contribute to the security of various messaging platforms, helping to improve their safety and privacy. His efforts are part of a broader team endeavor to enhance the reputation of these platforms, amongst others as Head of Security at Wire. He is a co-author of the Messaging Layer Security (MLS) protocol and helped initiate the working group More Instant Messaging Interoperability (MIMI).

Throughout his career, Raphael has collaborated with various organizations, such as NGOs, to gather important feedback and ensure that secure messaging solutions are both user-friendly and accessible to diverse stakeholders. His work in end-to-end encrypted messaging and conference calling, as well as cryptographic authentication systems, has contributed to the improvement of security and functionality in messaging platforms across the industry.

Raul is part of the Ethereum Foundation's Funding Coordination team, focused on helping critical public goods projects build sustainable funding pathways. As part of the team, he leads Project Odin. A member of the Department of Decentralization, he previously worked at Parity Technologies and the Web3 Foundation.

"Hey there! I’m Riley (they/them).

I’m the Principal of Emergent Research and grad student at MIT, investigating privacy, governance, and data; co-founder of the Community Privacy Residency; recent Research Fellow at 0xPARC and Staff Research Scientist at Metagov; and maintainer of a coops, governance, and privacy Discord server—join us!

Recently, I built synths and community through the Synth Library NYC and DIY Synth Collective; previously at Landscape.fm and Stem Modular. Please get in touch if you’re interested in commissioning a custom instrument or synth design.

Previously, I was a machine learning engineer at Google, as a 20%er on Magenta, QTPOC@Google board member, AI Principles Ethics Fellow, and Google.org Fellow with the Trevor Project; award-winning investigative data journalism fellow at ProPublica, reporting on racial disparities in cancer clinical trials; and data scientist at Penn Medicine.

I’m excited about music, community building, infrastructure, and interdependence. <3 "

I worry about your privacy and digital rights. How can I help you?

Supporter of: Bits of Freedom, Electronic Frontier Foundation, European Digital Rights, Fair Data Society, MyData Global, NLnet Foundation, SIDN Fund, Privacy International and others.

Rose Regina is the Digital Security Manager at OpenArchive.

For over a decade, she has trained lawyers, open source developers, journalists and human rights defenders in best practices and skill-building to protect their work and the digital tools they depend on. She has a dedicated history with secure FOSS, having worked for the Software Freedom Law Center, Mozilla, and Tactical Tech.

Based in Berlin, she consults on security, threat modeling and strategic analysis.

With over 18 years in IT and a focus on open protocols, he helps organizations navigate decentralization and digital transformation. His current work centers on the AT Protocol (ATProto), building user-centric social apps and infrastructure around the shared Bluesky graph.

He leads Flashes, the photo and video app often called "the Instagram for the open social web," and co-develops Eurosky Social, a European initiative advancing digital sovereignty and public-interest infrastructure for ATProto.

Over the past 15+ years, he has contributed to more than 50 published apps, including award-winning titles featured by Apple and downloaded by millions.

As a full-stack engineer, he designs and builds native iOS and backend systems, with recent products like Flashes and Skeets for Bluesky showing how open protocols can power next-generation social experiences.

Accessibility is integral to his work — he develops inclusive, human-centered apps that work for everyone, combining strong technical execution with thoughtful UX and accessibility standards.

Aspiring revolutionary, privacy practitioner, and liberatory technologist exploring tools and systems to foster autonomy — focusing on what the next battle is, not the last one.

I learned most while living and organizing in Rojava: hosting a radio program and helping found the Medical Self‑Defense Network (MSDN) when emergency care was highly improvised. Those experiences taught me that antifragile practice depends on simple, reliable tools and, above all, on well knitted social fabric.

After three years driving the decentralized network at Nym, I joined a team returning to Rojava with a narrower question: how to keep people connected when infrastructure is severed?

Our project aims to answer that question and to show that decentralization, anti‑censorship, and the practical ethos behind unix and the internet are closer to Rojava people’s everyday revolutionary practice, not empty phrases co‑opted by systems of concentrated power.

I build tools and systems communities can sustain and improve on their own terms. Our next mission is to apply the same do‑it‑together approach to keeping people connected under hostility.

Shayan Eskandari is a security researcher, hacker, educator, and internet freedom activist working at the intersection of blockchain technology, security, and digital rights.

His PhD dissertation, Uncovering Blockchain Challenges: Technical Nuances and Their Unforeseen Consequences, maps the gap between blockchain's ambitious promises and its real-world implications; from cryptojacking and front-running attacks that exploit the protocol's foundational properties, to oracle trust failures and the regulatory blind spots that leave auditors unable to accurately understand cryptoassets. The central argument: the same properties that make blockchains powerful — permissionlessness, transparency, decentralization — are also the source of their most dangerous attack surfaces.

He currently serves as a postdoctoral fellow at NOVA SBE's Data, Operations & Technology Knowledge Center, contributing to BLOCKCHAIN.PT, a Portuguese national initiative co-funded by PRR and NextGenerationEU.

His career spans the full arc of Web3: blockchain engineer at Bitaccess during Bitcoin's early ATM era, security engineer at ConsenSys Diligence specializing in smart contract auditing, and CTO at Ether Capital, where he led one of the first publicly traded Ethereum staking operations (36,000 ETH). He co-founded IranUnchained, a Moloch v3-based NGO addressing the gap between crypto's borderless ideals and geopolitical exclusion. He is also co-founder of Shiryakhat and CoinIran Academy, educating Farsi-speaking communities on blockchain technology since 2015.

His current obsession is MoaV — Mother of All VPNs (moav.sh). The ideology: internet freedom cannot depend on any single tool, protocol, or organization. It must be distributed infrastructure, built before the crisis, resilient enough that no state can shut it all down without breaking their own internet. One command turns a $10 VPS into a node running 16+ simultaneous circumvention protocols: DNS tunnels, obfuscated proxies, Psiphon relays and Tor bridges. Deployed by activists and diaspora communities keeping people connected when their governments decide they shouldn't be.

Outside the terminal: analogue photography, film, multi exposures, and a camera collection that has clearly gotten out of hand.

Simone is an organizational developer, tech labor organizer, and educator. Coming from a STEM background, he eventually moved into more organizational and political roles, which he has a decade of experience in. His main political experience is within Tech Workers Coalition, a worker-run International organization building worker power in the tech sector. He’s also currently active in Reversing.works, a technical investigation group revealing evidence of illicit worker surveillance through mobile app analysis, and Cables of Resistance, a major German anti-big-tech conference.

He teaches organizational practices for political spaces and works as a consultant for democratic workplaces such as cooperatives, associations, and NGOs.

He is based in Berlin.

Susanna has worked professionally in the fields of contemporary art and media for over 15 years. Her experience spans the breadth of the creative industry. She has initiated and managed large-scale brand partnerships and immersive high budget exhibitions as well as small and innovative artist-led interdisciplinary projects. Susanna previously held the post of Curator of Talks and Research at the ICA (Institute of Contemporary Arts), London and Head of Content and Community at Ignota Books. She is currently Curator of Public Programs at the Barbican.

In 2019, Susanna worked from concept to completion with Jefferson Hack on Transformer: A Rebirth of Wonder at 180 Studios in the role of Associate Curator.

She has held editorial positions at Dazed, Sleek and Exberliner and her writing has featured in several published collections and exhibition catalogues. Her writing has been published internationally including in Frieze, Twin and LEAP Shanghai.

Susanna studied at The Royal College of Art, University of California at Berkeley, University of Leeds and University of the Arts London. She is also a fully qualified hypnotherapist D.Hyp, HPD (NCH), CH and Yoga teacher (RYT750h)."

Tara Merk is a postdoc researcher at the CNRS, Paris, an ICDE research fellow at The New School in New York and associate researcher at the Weizenbaum Institute in Berlin. Her research focuses on alternative ownership models in the digital economy, participatory (digital) governance design, open-source communities, and blockchain technology.

In her PhD thesis she explored the process of Exit to Community, i.e. transitioning organizations and technologies in the digital platform economy into community ownership and governance.

Tara has previously worked with Other Internet, Metagov, the GIZ, and as a consultant, educator and strategy analyst across the blockchain ecosystem.

Tatiana Bazzichelli is the founder and director of Disruption Network Lab, a Berlin-based nonprofit organisation that exposes the misconduct and wrongdoing of the powerful, and of the Disruption Network Institute, a hub of investigations on the impacts of data-driven technologies on warfare. For the past twelve years, Disruption Network Lab has organised almost forty conferences and over sixty meetups, accessible to global audiences and local communities, bringing together urgent topics, diverse points of view and in-depth knowledge from around the world. Bazzichelli holds a PhD degree in Information and Media Studies and has published several books, including Whistleblowing for Change (2021). She was previously Programme Curator at transmediale festival, and has served on many award and funding juries including Hauptstadtkulturfonds, KulturLichter and Transparency International's Anti-Corruption Award.

Father humbly trying to create contexts to include and unleash everyone.

At Bread Coop I host online events, inform the community about Bread´s achievements, and encouraging the cryptoleftists community members to actively support each other and contribute to shared projects.

Una is a polymathic researcher, engineer, designer and maker expanding the boundaries of architecture, technology, and decentralized systems. Holding a PhD from ETH Zurich, she led no1s1 project — pioneering work in decentralized autonomous buildings, cyber-physical systems and regenerative built environments that is shaping the future of interaction with physical space. Bridging deep engineering expertise and craftmanship, she turns concepts into real-world cyber-physical products and artifacts. Her work exhibited at MoMA NYC, Art Basel Miami, The House of Electronic Arts, WEF ETH Pavillion, etc. As a globally engaged speaker and community builder, Una brings sharp insight and earnest dialogue to stages across culture, industry, academia, and beyond — connecting dots between technology, people, and place.

Co-founder of Fileverse, an end-to-end encrypted office suite made to decentralize everyday collaboration and guarantee privacy by design. His goal is to offer a simple, freedom-enhancing way for the 3 billion people locked behind the dangerously comfortable walled gardens of big tech office suites. He is the architect behind ddocs.new, the end-to-end encrypted alternative to google docs; dsheets.new a secure spreadsheet made for the open financial world; and the Fileverse middleware which enables the creation of decentralized applications. Vijay is also the co-author of ERC-8019 ""Minimal Wallet-Managed Auto-Login"", a standard improving Ethereum UX by enabling wallet-managed auto-logins on Apps.

Viktor Trón is the founder of Ethereum Swarm and President of the Swarm Foundation. He has spent over a decade building decentralized storage and communication infrastructure aimed at enabling a truly serverless web.

I'm focused on making the web better - by building technical systems to make progress on the interwoven access, privacy, cultural, and security problems that exist today.

I've worked as a software engineer at Google on Gmail, Google+, and google ideas. I completed grad school at the University of Washington in 2016, with projects measuring and addressing online censorship. I've worked and studied in China, and have taught computer science in North Korea.

Citizen, dad, entrepreneur, engineer in computer science. Focused on changing the incentives to transition from extraction to regeneration.

I work on the transition from top down hierarchies optimized for profit and efficiency to bottom up decentralized networks optimized for wellbeing and regeneration of local communities. A big part of that is to rebuild the commons and enable communities to develop their own internal economy. That’s what I do with the Commons Hub Brussels and Open Collective.

I’ve always been passionate about using technology to empower citizens to do things that only a few could do before, and in doing so, free them from wage slavery, let them pursue the wellbeing of all stakeholders, not just a few shareholders.

I moved to San Francisco in 2009 where I started Storify.com, a platform to write stories using what people post on social media. It was used by publishers, brands and organizations around the world (CNN, New York Times, Washington Post, BBC, BILD, The White House, The United Nations, Ford, IBM, TED, ...). Acquired by Livefyre in 2013, acquired by Adobe in 2016 (which sadly eventually sunset it in 2018 — still interested in buying it back if you know anyone there).

In 2015, I started working on a new lightweight and transparent form of association to enable the Internet generation to fund communities in full transparency: https://opencollective.com.

I moved to NYC in 2016 then eventually moved back to Belgium in 2019 where I've been an active member of Extinction Rebellion. This led me to start allforclimate.earth with my partner Leen Schelfhout, a common non-profit that grassroots initiatives for the climate can use to collect and spend money without having to go through the pain of setting up their own non-profit and accounting.

In 2020, with covid, I focused my energy on the street level with the Citizen Garden, the Citizen Bike Garden and the Citizen Corner, in Schaerbeek, Brussels (https://citizenspring.earth)

With my partner Leen, we started the Citizen Corner in 2021, a 2.5-year temporary occupation in Brussels where we started Regens Unite (2022), a community of climate activists, technologists, crypto, healers uniting for regeneration.

In 2024, we started the Commons Hub Brussels to bring the commons back to the forefront of our society.

I’m also back at the head of Open Collective since October 2024 with the goal to build a new web3 native version to help communities develop their resilience with their own internal community."

Yonatan Miller is a tech worker and trade union organizer from New York who considers Berlin home. He graduated from a Master’s Programme in Labour Policies and Globalisation, where he furthered his knowledge of the organizing challenges of global solidarity in the tech sector.

Including his own workplace, he cultivated a network of English speaking works councils at 40-different tech companies in Germany where they strategize responses to mass layoffs, changing software and building further capacity through unionization.

The focus of is organizing is local, but he also understands the importance of exchanging lessons and building strategic bridges transnationally.

He co-founded the Berlin Tech Workers Coalition. In his spare time he collects 🦝 memes.

"Zaki Manian wears many hats in the blockspace. I am currently a cofounder of the iqlusion. We are working Armistice, an open source hardware security solution. Iqlusion advises, and supports a number of blockchain projects and you might see my name on their websites for that work. I’m an advisor to the Electric Coin Company.

I went to the University of Pennsylvania and graduated in 2005. I studied History of Science. I taught myself after college software engineering, programming and computer science. From 2008-2013, I was tech lead on scientific instrumentation product at ReaMetrix. I started an enterpise blockchain company called Skuchain in 2014 and started teaching myself cryptography. I started contributing more to projects like Bitcoin, Zcash, Tendermint, Ethereum etc. I got interested in weird ideas like scalable public blockchains.

In 2017, I co-founded the Trusted IoT Alliance and iqlusion. I also started contributing more to Cosmos. I helped build the first validator dashboard and then Figment ran with the idea. I helped launch the first public Cosmos testnets. I spent a lot of 2018 working part time at All In Bits, building out the validator ecosystem, and figuring how do actually do quality assurance to enable the Cosmos launch. In 2019, after the Hub launch, I joined All in Bits as Director of Research. Where I worked on finishing the Cosmos design goals by completing IBC.

After All In Bits proved too unstable to finish the work, I resigned in Feb 2019 and am completeing the IBC work with the community from contributors from Agoric, Interchain Berlin and Informal."

Crypto lawyer and PhD researcher working at the intersection of Web3, privacy, and regulation. I've advised a DeFi project, built a global crypto regulatory intelligence tool covering 40+ jurisdictions, and I mentored at last year's hackathon organized by this team. I'm close to the cypherpunk ethos which is exactly why I think we need to have an honest conversation about where our energy is going.