Neocypherpunk Summit

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.