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Brewster Kahle

Founder, Internet Archive

A passionate advocate for public Internet access and preservation, Brewster Kahle has spent his career intent on a singular focus: providing Universal Access to All Knowledge. He is the founder and Digital Librarian of the Internet Archive, one of the largest libraries in the world. In 1996, Kahle founded the Internet Archive, which now preserves more than 250 petabytes of data—the books, Web pages, music, television, and software of our cultural heritage. In 2025, the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine preserved its 1 trillionth webpage, by working with more than 2000+ library and university partners and the public to create a public archive of the web, accessible to all. Kahle is also a member of the National Academy of Engineering, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the Internet Hall of Fame.

Paul Frazee

CTO, Bluesky

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.

Daniel Holmgren

Head of Protocol, Bluesky

Daniel Holmgren is Head of Protocol at Bluesky, where he leads the design and development of the AT Protocol. He's worked in the DWeb space for eight years, previously founding a startup for p2p collaboration on scientific data, then serving as the founding engineer at Fission, where he built an in-browser framework for user-controlled data.

Matthew Hodgson

Co-Founder, Matrix

Matthew is technical co-founder of Matrix, and CEO/CTO of Element - the company formed in 2017 to let the core Matrix dev team work on Matrix full-time as their day job. He came up with the idea of Matrix with Amandine in 2013 while they were running Amdocs’ Unified Communication unit. He has a degree in Physics & Computer Science from the University of Cambridge.

Primavera De Filippi

Tenured Researcher, Centre National de Recherches Scientifiques

Since 2015, I am a Tenured Researcher at Centre National de Recherches Scientifiques (CNRS), France, and a Faculty Associate at Harvard’s Berkman-Klein Center. Since 2017, I am also a Visiting Fellow at the European University Institute, Robert Schuman Center for Advanced Studies, and at the WZB Berlin Social Science Center. My fields of interest focus on legal challenges raised by decentralized technologies, their potential to design new governance models and participatory decision-making, and the concept of governance-by-design.

Liz Barry

Executive Director, Metagov

Liz Barry is the Executive Director of Metagov. Before joining Metagov, she served as Head of Partnerships at The Computational Democracy Project, the 501(c)3 organization she established with the creators of the Polis technology to steward its open source code and methods. Liz works with facilitators, social movements, civil society organizations, journalists, indigenous nations, democratic governments both young and old, and peacebuilders to implement "listening at scale." The collaboration began when her presence at Taiwan's 2014 Sunflower Revolution and subsequent relationship with g0v led to her writing up the first coverage of vTaiwan in the west, in the 2016 piece for Civicist titled "vTaiwan: Public Participation Methods on the Cyberpunk Frontier of Democracy," now republished by Taiwan's government.

Mitch Altman

Inventor, TV-B-Gone

Mitch Altman is a Berlin-based hacker and inventor of TV-B-Gone. He is a featured speaker at hacker conferences, an international expert on the hackerspace movement, and teaches introductory electronics workshops. He is also Chief Scientist and CEO of Cornfield Electronics.

Christine Lemmer-Webber

Executive Director, Spritely Institute

Christine has devoted her life to advancing user freedom. Realizing that the federated social web was fractured by a variety of incompatible protocols, she co-authored and shepherded ActivityPub's standardization. She has also contributed to many other free and open source projects, including co-founding MediaGoblin. Christine established the open source Spritely Project to solve known problems in existing centralized and decentralized social media platforms and to re-imagine the way we build networked applications - work that now continues here at the institute under her guidance as Executive Director.

Arkadiy Kukarikin

Decentralization Lead, Internet Archive

Arkadiy has worked on creating sustainable communities on the web for the past decade. He is currently the Decentralized Tech lead at the Internet Archive and has served as Collaborations Coordinator with Protocol Labs and advisor to Ampled, an artist support co-operative. Previously, he was the CTO at Mediachain Labs (acquired by Spotify in spring 2017) and worked on The Hype Machine, an influential music blog aggregator.

Santi Bazerque

Creator, Hyper Hyper Space

I'm a computer scientist and small business owner from Argentina. I work on Hyper Hyper Space, a sync engine focused on: Authority decentralization: full peer autonomy and BFT sync - Post-CRDT consistency: modeling non-monotonic data in a coordination-free setting. My plan for this year is releasing a new version of the engine, and leveraging our new data model to be able to plug the sync engine into traditional storage systems, with modest adaptations/limitations on the app side. The end goal is having DX-parity (or close!) with traditional centralized systems.

Andreas Dzialocha

Co-Founder, P2Panda

Working on p2panda (building blocks for p2p applications), Toolkitty (coordination app for collectives, organisers and venues), Reflection (collaborative, local-first GTK text editor) and Modal (collective for emancipatory software - modern, p2p Linux mobile / desktop with folks from PostmarketOS and Gnome)

Christian Tschudin

P2P Basel

Diploma in Mathematics; PhD in Computer Science; PostDoc at ICSI, Berkeley; Assoc. prof. at Uppsala University, Sweden; Since 2002 full professor at the University of Basel, Switzerland. Research interests: distributed systems, computer neworks, mobile code, Secure Scuttlebutt (SSB), metamorphic software ("how to securely use your computer post-compromise"). Radio amateur.

Laurens Hof

Consultant and writer on decentralised social media

Laurens Hof is one of the leading analysts for the open social web. Writing at Connected Places, he tracks the ecosystems of open social networking protocols like ActivityPub and atproto, trying to work out how these protocols actually function in practice and what they mean for how we communicate online.

Eric Harris Braun

Founder, Holochain

Eric Harris-Braun co-founded Holochain, Holo & the MetaCurrency project, each of which focus on a different layer of technical infrastructure for embodying a new economy. Holochain delivers a massively scalable framework for truly distributed web applications, which Holo uses to provide HoloFuel a value-stable currency backed by the productive capacity of web hosting, while the MetaCurrency project delves deep into the post-monetary currency designs to foster a more thrivable world.

Ying Tong

Co-founder, { ideal }

Ying Tong is an applied cryptographer working on private payments and digital identity. She is a co-founder of { ideal } and a co-organiser of the Community Privacy Residency. She also works on standards for zero-knowledge proofs.

Seph Gentle

Independent Researcher

Seph Gentle is a prolific software researcher behind projects including the eg-walker paper and ShareJS, one of the oldest local-first open source projects. He worked on Google Wave back in 2010, then built ShareDB — the first realtime collaborative database built on top of Operational Transform. More recently, he's been working as part of the Braid project at the Invisible College on Diamond Types: the world's fastest CRDT.

Florian

Collective Member, Department of Decentralization

Sharfy A

Chief Engineering & Product, GainForest

Julien Masanes

Internet Archive Europe

Dan Visel

Internet Archive

Rose Regina Lawrence

OpenArchive

Samuel Oslund

Director of Ag Tech Programs, 11th Hour Project

Ksenia

Researcher, eQualitie.org

layer0x

Legal Tech Lead + Legal Digital Commons Steward, Powerhouse

2019 - 2021 Blue Swan / Lead Blue Swan Academy
Role: Designing and executing crypto technology training courses for legal and finance professionals

2021 - 2024 MakerDAO / Sustainable Ecosystem Scaling (SES) Core Unit / Legal Architect,
Roles:
- Designing and managing processes for procuring and coordinating legal work in the Maker ecosystem.
- Developing policies and governance procedures on legal issues
- Project Lead Self Insurance Fund

2024 - 2026 Powerhouse (MakerDAO spin- off) / Legal Tech Lead + Legal Digital Commons Steward
Roles:
- Build and Promote Open Source Legal Infrastructure
- Design. Design, implement, and productize legal workflows and legal vehicles for network orgs and open source builder teams

Dorn Cox

Member, GIAA; President, Farm Hack; Director and Ecosystem Steward, OpenTEAM

Cox is a Farmer, Author and Researcher and the editor of the Talk to the... Handbook and has been a steward of Farm Hack and the OpenTEAM federated infrastructure for nearly a decade. He convenes the GIAA Infrastructure Working Group and is the primary practitioner refining the question-design discipline that the tool implements.

Franzi

Collective Member, Department of Decentralization

https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:sdqcstxdiwgdugbkbxjho6nc

https://twitter.com/_franzihei

https://github.com/franzihei

Afri

Collective Member, Department of Decentralization

https://bsky.app/profile/l5y.tech
https://github.com/l5yth
https://l5y.tech/

ligi

Collective Member, Department of Decentralization

https://bsky.app/profile/ligi.de
https://twitter.com/mr_ligi
https://github.com/ligi
https://ligi.de/

Peter

Collective Member, Department of Decentralization

https://github.com/kalambet

https://kalambet.dev/

Raul

Collective Member, Department of Decentralization

https://twitter.com/nachortti

Yaron

Collective Member, Department of Decentralization

https://twitter.com/yaronski

Zacchaeus

Board member, Treasurer, Noisebridge

https://zacchae.us

T B Dinesh

Tech Director, Janastu

T. B. Dinesh is an Indian computer scientist and mathematician. He started his research with generating software based on algebraic specification and later focused on web 2.0, web accessibility, web annotation, hypermedia and mesh networking. In 1999, he co-founded the Pagelets project. In 2002, he founded [Janastu.org Janastu] in Bangalore, a non-profit where he serves as technical director, and a company called Servelots. Both serve non-profits with free and open-source software and developing ways for re-narration of the web with web accessibility for the print-impaired. He has studied and built community-based digital tools such as SWeeT Web, Alipi, Pantoto, CoLRN and Papad.

Mai Ishikawa Sutton

DWeb

mai ishikawa sutton is a Senior Organizer of DWeb and DWeb Camp. They are a organizer and writer focused on the digital commons and other intersections between network technologies and the solidarity economy. They are a Digital Commons Fellow with Commons Network (https://commonsnetwork.org/) and co-founder and editor of COMPOST (https://compost.digital/), an online magazine about and for the digital commons.

Sarthi

Developer Relations, Masumi Network

A builder on a journey to learn and contribute to the society.

Ruben Rodriguez-Perez

Internet Archive

A free software enthusiast with a passion for problem solving in a wide set of connected fields. Focused on projects driven by a social mission and a long term commitment to collective empowerment. Always looking for new challenges and learning with other hackers.

Tony Guepin

Internet Archive Europe

A long-time Software Entrepreneur, Tony brings his knowledge and detailed overview to support Universal Access to All Knowledge as a member of the board of Internet Archive Europe.

Jenni Ottilie Keppler

Visual Scribe

A professional Visual Scribe, Systems Thinker, and designer of the track's ongoing Creative Sensemaking Space. Jenni focuses on creating playful, intuitive visual canvases that allow communities to map complex pathways, bypass expert lingo, and access collective joy in times of crisis.

Jean-François Noubel

Co-founder, Holosapiens

A researcher, transdisciplinary thinker, and life experimenter, Jean-François Noubel explores the frontiers of human consciousness and collective intelligence. He dedicates his work to understanding how humanity can evolve toward more conscious, free, and cooperative forms.

An open-source earthling, he lives within the gift economy and makes his own existence a laboratory for experimentation. His work reveals the invisible collective matrices — languages, narratives, monetary systems, social codes — that shape our perception of reality, and explores how to transform them to foster the evolution of consciousness.

Co-founder of Holosapiens (https://holosapiens.earth), an evolutionary laboratory that studies, experiments with, and disseminates the conditions through which our species evolves from Homo sapiens to Holo sapiens. The research focuses on the invisible and unconscious collective dynamics that shape our ways of thinking, perceiving the world, and acting. Holosapiens operates along three complementary axes: producing rigorous knowledge, embodying evolutionary practices through experimental living, and transmitting them through storytelling, in order to render the evolution of our species thinkable and desirable, at both individual and collective scales.

Co-director of the International Metapsychic Institute (https://metapsychique.org), a public utility organization that conducts scientific research on consciousness and non-ordinary phenomena, he also participates in pioneering technological projects like Holochain, and contributes to the emerging economic theories of deep wealth.

Living in Provence, he teaches martial arts, practices yoga, meditation, and paragliding.

Bradley Clark Royes

Node Manager, Foresight Institute (Berlin AI Node)

AI Node Manager at Foresight

Paul Fuxjäger

Phd Student, University of Vienna

About Me:

Background in wireless mesh networking (published on interference models within IEEE802.11 networks), co-organizer of https://battlemesh.org since 2017 and active in the SSI movement (W3C DIDs) since 2018. Currently pursuing a PhD around the topics covered in this workshop at University of Vienna, faculty of computer science: https://cosy.cs.univie.ac.at

Description of latest talk at atmosphereconf in Vancouver contains more context info about my current work:https://atmosphereconf.org/event/jaAWVRY

Andrea Ferrante

Coordinator, Schola campesina Aps

Agroecologist, specialized on agricultural policies and agroecology: over 20 years’ experience in international food and agriculture policy development and rural development.
Extensive experience in working with and supporting small-scale food producing organizations globally, including in policy processes at national, regional and international level
20 years’ experience in running a organic family farm and actually member of a Bio social coop running a farm in Viterbo province (Italy)
Coordinator of the Schola Campesina Aps, International agroecology school based in the Biodistretto della Via Amerina e delle Forre (Civita Castellana, Viterbo, Italy)
R&D coordinator of Fondazione Biodistretto della Via Amerina e delle Forre Ets
President of the Agri Social Cooperative Teveriva Bio

Alex Dalessio

Executive Director, eQualitie.org

Alex is a multidisciplinary professional with 20 years of experience working on six continents. Prior to eQualitie, Alex was an executive focused on developing and launching emerging technology programs in large organizations. As part of this work, he launched and led Amazon’s Worldwide Public Sector Innovation Studio and was a senior advisor in the White House, where he led national initiatives in sustainability, technology modernization and identity management. He is also a co-founder of multiple award-winning sustainable agriculture companies supporting global food security. His passion is using technology to help make the world more equitable and sustainable for all living things. Alex holds a JD from UC Berkeley, an MBA from Oxford University and a Masters in Environmental Management from Yale University.

Andi Wong

Teaching Artist/Project Coordinator, ArtsEd4All

Andi served as teaching artist and site arts coordinator in San Francisco public schools for over two decades. As project coordinator for ArtsEd4All, she creates curriculum, conducts workshops, hosts film screenings, and organizes participatory community events such as the annual Blake Mini Library book drive for Hamilton Families, Civic Season with Made By Us, and open-ended play with The Blue Marbles Project. Her creative partners include composer/musician Marcus Shelby, First Voice led by artistic directors Brenda Wong Aoki and Mark Izu, The Last Hoisan Poets (poets Genny Lim, Flo Oy Wong and Nellie Wong), Del Sol String Quartet, and the Internet Archive.

Andreas Arnold

Co-Founder and Board Member, Platform Coops eG

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.

Anton Tranelis

Initiator and maintainer, Web of Trust

Anton Tranelis is a software developer and community-builder working on local-first trust infrastructure for real-life communities. He is the initiator and maintainer of Web of Trust, an open-source project for self-sovereign identity, in-person verification, signed attestations, and encrypted collaboration.

Arikia Millikam

Founder, CTRL+X

Arikia is a journalist and builder of decentralized publishing technologies based in Berlin. She has been working in digital publishing since 2006, has founded two other media companies, and is a former editor of WIRED.com. She hosted the Decentralized Media Summit at Berlin Blockchain Week in 2025. She volunteers at Berlin Tierheim’s Vogelhaus and has been a parrot whisperer all her life.

Arushi

CEO & Co-founder, Habitat; ex-Figma

Arushi Bandi is a technologist living and working out of San Francisco. She is the CEO and Co-founder of Habitat, https://habitat.network, building a platform to help organizations and communities own their data and build software for their unique needs. She is also the infra 'witch' of Collective Action School (https://collectiveaction.school) helping tech workers remake tech from below and has been a recurring class-taker of the School for Poetic Computation.

Prior to building Habitat, she was an infrastructure software engineer at Figma for several years.

Hannah Wittman

Professor, University of British Columbia

At UBC, I lead a Research Excellence Cluster in Diversified Agroecosystems, and served as Academic Director of the Centre for Sustainable Food Systems at UBC Farm. In these roles, I have led interdisciplinary teams of scholars and community-scientists to visualize, synthesize and communicate the integrated social and ecological mechanisms underlying complex agroecosystems and agroecological transitions. These methods aim to inform policy and practices supporting more resilient and sustainable food systems by making the complexity of agroecosystems more legible to stakeholders including consumers, farmers, and policy makers, and more ‘easily translated’ across diverse disciplinary boundaries.

The ultimate aim of my research is to use participatory action and transdisciplinary methodologies to identify pathways towards food sovereignty, agrarian reform, agroecology, and health equity in global contexts.

B Cavello

Director of Emerging Technologies, The Aspen Institute, Public AI Network

B Cavello is a technology and facilitation expert passionate about creating social change by empowering everyone to participate in technological and social governance. They serve as director of emerging technologies for Aspen Digital, a program of the Aspen Institute. B also serves as a 2026 Siegel research fellow, as organizer for the Public AI Network, and as a board member to Metagov, an interdisciplinary research nonprofit promoting digital self-governance. Previously they worked assistant program chair for the Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) Conference, tech policy advisor in the US Congress, program lead at Partnership on AI, senior engagement lead at IBM, and director of product and community Exploding Kittens.

Bart Delrue

Lecturer, Odisee University of Applied Sciences

Bart is a Web Development Lecturer at Odisee University of Applied Sciences in Belgium.
Prior to teaching, he served as a developer for the City of Ghent, where he spearheaded web accessibility initiatives. His work included co-developing the city's accessible component library, auditing complex applications, and training developers and stakeholders in universal design.
Today, Bart focuses on educating the next generation of developers to prioritize digital sovereignty and open standards, ensuring the future web remains accessible to everyone.

Enrique Santos

Hacker-Errant, Rocinante Laboratories

Based in Helsinki, formerly based in NorCal. Security tools engineer by day, hobbyist emulation developer by night. Author of the [Dojo Lobby](https://lobby.dojo.ooo/) matchmaking platform, [Flycast Dojo](https://flycast.dojo.ooo) & [Supermodel Dojo](https://github.com/blueminder/supermodel-dojo) emulator forks. When not in front of screens, enjoys long walks and dabbling on drums.

[enriquesantos.net](https://enriquesantos.net/) on the web, [ohnoim.online](https://bsky.app/profile/ohnoim.online) on Bluesky.

Beth McCarthy

Founder, Abstract Machine Studio

Beth McCarthy is a Berlin-based strategist, curator & experience designer. With her consultancy Abstract Machine Studio, Beth serves clients building ecoystem, culture and relational intelligence. Currently, she supports DWeb Camp with strategic partnerships, Web3Privacy Now as Program Director, Funding the Commons with program deisgn and management 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 humand and their systems.

blake g

datrs

Blake is an Open Source Software developer working in peer-to-peer, privacy, and security.
https://github.com/cowlicks

DWeb

Blockchain & startup project leader with 7 years of experience coordinating multi-stakeholder initiatives in privacy, security, and decentralized technologies
Proven track record of building relationships across the Ethereum ecosystem, organizing large-scale events, delivering security-focused projects, and fostering collaboration between diverse contributors
Skilled in simplifying complex concepts, milestone-based project execution, and facilitating alignment across organizations

Boris Mann

COO, Project Lead, Ink & Switch / AT Community Fund

Boris is a technologist and community builder. He currently splits his time between Ink & Switch‘s local-first & malleable software focus, and supporting the growth of open social ecosystems. Boris founded the AT Community Fund and ran the last two Atmosphere Conferences, as well as helping found CoSocial, a co-op for open social for Canadians.

He lives in Vancouver, Canada, where he is part of several groups including a creative coworking studio Z-Space and DWebYVR. You can find out more on his website bmannconsulting.com

Brad Hutcheson

Founder Kunuleco, Ltd., Kunul.eco

Brad Hutcheson has spent 25 years developing distributed systems and trying to understand their implications. He's the founder of Kunuleco, an open-source protocol that lets any group build a space that belongs to them. It enables community that is not on a central platform and not determined by an algorithm. Your identity is portable and trust works like it does in real life: people vouch for people. He lives in Northern Colorado and is unreasonably optimistic about the future of community-owned infrastructure.

Bruno Caldas Vianna

CITM-UPC, Coolab

Bruno is a professor at UPC's center for multimedia in Barcelona, with a focus on AI and creative technologies. He helps build the community server in his neighborhood, with local cloud and AI, and for many years helped develop community networks for Internet access in Brazil.

Carmel Schare

PhD student, MIT

Carmel Schare is a first-year PhD student in CSAIL at MIT researching malleable software design.

Johann Lensing

Communications Manager, D64 - Zentrum für Digitalen Fortschritt

Communications Manager at D64 - Zentrum für Digitalen Fortschritt (Center for Digital Progress)

Deborah Tien

Co-Founding Steward, Relational Tech Project

Crafting relational tech with neighbors, all over the world.

Marta Andreoli

Community builder and ecosystem strategist, FSFE, Freelance

Curious, outgoing, and deeply inspired by nature, I am passionate about bringing people together and building communities that create meaningful impact. My work sits at the intersection of community building, ecosystem strategy, and innovation, helping organizations foster engagement, collaboration, and growth.

With a background in international marketing, design thinking, and facilitation, I enjoy creating spaces where people can connect, learn, and contribute to a shared vision. Whether I'm designing workshops, developing partnerships, or supporting open and collaborative ecosystems, I'm motivated by purpose-driven work and human connection.

When I'm not working, you'll likely find me hiking, cycling, climbing, practicing yoga, reading, or simply enjoying the outdoors.

Daniel Erasmus

Founder, https://erasmus.ai/; https://climategpt.ai/

Daniel Erasmus, head of Erasmus.AI and the ClimateGPT Foundation, has two decades of experience in collecting and processing planetary scale datasets. He leads the team developing ClimateGTP's foundational and fine-tuned model family, which is the world’s first foundational AI model family focussed on effects of Climate Change on Human Systems

Daniel is also Head of AI for Internet Archive Europe, releasing several public purpose models via Hugging Face. He is a member of the OECD AI Expert Group, and a Full Member of the global think tank, the Club of Rome.

For 25 years, Erasmus worked with governments and Fortune 50 companies by leading global foresight research as co-founder of The Digital Thinking Network. The DTN led scenario and innovation breakthrough processes anticipating the 2008 Global Financial Crisis, Oil Price Collapse, and it created the first Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs).

Additionally as a response to Covid, Daniel was instrumental in creating an initiative that has sponsored 100 million meals in Southern Africa.

Born in South Africa, Daniel lives in Amsterdam with his wife Elisabeth, three daughters and a son. He can be found in his office in Amsterdam or on planes, trains and cafes with a laptop, a bowl of matcha, and a yearning for the warm plains of Africa.

Dario P.

Free Software Foundation Europe

Dario Presutti is a Project Manager at the Free Software Foundation Europe. His work focuses on fostering the use of Free Software in public administration and promoting transparent, accountable digital infrastructures in Europe. With a background in Political Science and a Master’s degree in International Cooperation, Dario has experience engaging with policymakers, monitoring legislative processes, and contributing to initiatives such as Public Money? Public Code! and Device Neutrality.

David Dao

Chief Scientist, GainForest

David Dao is Chief Scientist at GainForest.Earth and Econ & Gov Lead at Protocol Labs

A pioneer in data valuation for machine learning, David holds a PhD in AI Systems from ETH Zurich. His work, which sits at the frontier of AI and decentralized systems, has been globally recognized by the World Economic Forum, XPRIZE, and Ethereum.

David Thomas

Executive Director, OFN Canada; Gathering for Open Agricultural Technology (GOAT), Community of Organizations (CoO)

David Thomas spent the first decade of his career as an academic literary critic studying climate change and speculative fiction, then decided he wanted to work on the problem more directly. Drawn to the food sovereignty and agroecology movements and to the open source values of Open Food Network, he joined OFN Canada in 2020. Since then he has been working on a problem familiar to most DWeb Camp participants: how do you build digital infrastructure that generates value for the communities it serves rather than extracting it from them, and how do you keep it that way as it scales? That work has taken him into decentralized web standards, federated community governance, and the painstaking organizational work of convening coalitions whose members owe each other nothing beyond commitment to a shared vision. His organizing conviction is that cooperative federation is the only proven means to achieve economies of scale while ensuring that prosperity and decision-making remain anchored in grassroots producer communities. He co-founded the Community of Organizations to test that conviction in practice. It has been two years in the making, and DWeb Berlin is its first real public reckoning.

Andre Kudra

esatus AG, real-cis GmbH, TeleTrusT e.V.

Digital identity becomes valuable when it works across systems and enables real processes. That’s where Dr. Andre Kudra focuses his work. For more than 20 years, he has been working at the intersection of business and technology, bringing verifiable credentials and wallets into existing architectures and using them to build new, trusted digital processes across organizations. Business-driven yet tech-savvy, he combines strategic thinking with a deep understanding of how systems behave in practice.

As CIO of esatus AG, he shapes the technological direction together with his team and works on solutions that extend existing IAM landscapes instead of replacing them. He co-founded real-cis GmbH, which is making the vision of a truly Secure Platform happen with its Sovereignty Anchors, hardware and software comined for truly decentralized, sovereign computing.

His roots go back to the early days of digital culture, from the demoscene to retro computing, which still shapes how he thinks about technology today.

ishadai

Co-founder, facilitator, Brilliant Mind Academy-AI Assisted Learning Center

Doctor of medical qigong, masters in Traditional Chinese Medicine. Shamanic work, Spiritual Midwife, Birth and Death Doula.

Anamika Dey

CEO, GIAN, Honey Bee Network

Dr Anamika Dey is the CEO of GIAN (Gujarat Grassroots Innovation Augmentation Network) and a researcher working at the intersection of traditional knowledge sovereignty, community data governance, and grassroots innovation in India.
For over a decade, she has worked with the Honey Bee Network — one of the earliest models of community-owned knowledge documentation, built on principles of recognition, reciprocity, and benefit-sharing with knowledge holders. Long before "data commons" became a tech conversation, the Network was asking: who owns what a community knows, and who profits from it?
She brings this lens to questions of Community Data Sovereignty, ethical bio-entrepreneurship, and what decentralised governance of knowledge actually looks like on the ground — in villages, not whitepapers. She is also the founder of The Little Himalayan Co., a social enterprise that attempts to close the loop between knowledge holders and markets without extracting value from either.
She is interested in finding how decentralised architectures can serve communities that have the most to lose from centralised platforms — and the most to contribute to a more equitable web.

Seth Frey

Associate Prof; Research Director, UC Davis, Metagov

Dr. Seth Frey is a computational social scientist and cognitive scientist who studies commons governance, collective action, and other complex social phenomena. He specializes in using online communities as model systems for emergent institutional and organizational phenomena. His expertise is in computational approaches to self-governance and the cognitive science of collective behavior.

He is an associate professor in Communication at the University of California Davis, an affiliate of the Ostrom Workshop at Indiana University, and a Research Director at Metagov. He was a behavioral economist at Disney Research in Walt Disney Imagineering, and a complex systems scholar at NECSI. Seth holds a Ph.D. in Cognitive Science and Informatics (complex systems) from Indiana University and a B.A. in Cognitive Science from UC Berkeley.

Seth’s research has appeared in PNAS, Nature Scientific Reports, and Proceedings of the Royal Society. It has been covered in The New Yorker, New York Times Magazine, and TEDx. It has been funded by the NSF, NASA, and the Ford Foundation.https://enfascination.com/research

Elektra Wagenrad

Freifunk.net

Elektra Wagenrad is a philosopher, author, software developer, and hacker. She is best known for her pioneering work in developing wireless mesh networking technology for community networks and sustainable off-grid solar systems.

Here are the key highlights of her life and work:

Activism & Tech Development: She played a highly active role in the Freifunk community network movement, shaping the development of mesh technology and the grassroots use of WiFi.

Global Community Projects: She has designed and implemented solar-powered, wireless network systems in diverse regions worldwide, including Germany, Bangladesh, India, Chile, and Tanzania.

Sustainable Innovation: She co-developed OSPIT, a sustainable, open-source energy and irrigation solution designed to support community networks in rural areas.

Philosophy & Authorship: Beyond technology, she is an established author and philosopher. Her written works explore deep philosophical concepts, including her book Die Philosophie des Nicht-Denkens (The Philosophy of Non-Thinking).

Tommi Marmo

Bard and Jester, DWeb Core Team

Enthusiast by nature, bard by trade, Tommi brings people together in the most improbable ways. They love to describe themselves as FediObsessed not only because they love the Fediverse, but because they believe networked independent communities and bottom-up politics are the only things that will save humanity from the climate collapse. They study Experimental Publishing (XPUB) at the Piet Zwart Institute in Rotterdam and they are involved in (too) many other things that compromise their sanity and that would make this bio unbelievably long.

Evan Prodromou

Research Director, Social Web Foundation

Evan is the Research Director at SWF. He is the co-author of the ActivityPub protocol and the Activity Streams 2.0 data format. Sometimes called “The Father of the Fediverse,” Evan made the first-ever post on the social web in May 2008. He founded the identi.ca website and GNU Social software, as well as coauthoring the OStatus specification. As chair of the W3C’s Social Web Working Group, he led the development of ActivityPub and AS2 into official standards. He won the O’Reilly Open Source Award in 2009 as “Best Social Networking Hacker.” He is the author of “ActivityPub: Programming for the Social Web” from O’Reilly Media.

Nicholas Luck

Founder, Managing Member, Coasys DAO LLC

Founder and director of Coasys. Inventor of ADAM. Former lead developer of Holochain core team. Senior developer with 20+ years of experience. Academic background in computer-science, psychology and artificial neural networks.

Gavin Owens

Founder, Tonk

Gavin Owens builds technologies for human agency; imbued with values of free association, mutual aid, self-determination and egalitarianism. After starting his early career as a scalable ML engineer in San Francisco, he went on to create a company in the digital tooling space which was acquired by Airbnb. There he worked on intelligent design systems tooling. In late 2010s he was the owner/operator of a small DIY art collective in Oakland, CA. Now lives in London and is founder of Tonk, a knowledge layer for collective intelligence.

Gilberto Morishaw

Community Lead, Bread Cooperative, Creative Regenerative Futures Foundation

Gilberto Morishaw is a techno-futurist, activist, and systems thinker who empowers leaders and organizations to navigate the complex intersection of climate, technology, and society. He is a Community Lead at Bread Cooperative and Co-director of the Creative Regenerative Futures Foundation. He inspires audiences to envision and build a regenerative future, drawing on his expertise in systems thinking, regenerative practices, and future-oriented leadership. He has addressed global audiences at prestigious forums, including the World Economic Forum, the EU Parliament, COP27, and the World Bank, sharing his insights on creating a more sustainable and equitable world. His ideas have been published in Newsweek, the World Economic Forum, Humanity in Action, and various governmental and international reports.

Grace Rachmany

Executive Director, Decentralized Identity Foundation; Co-founder, Sideways.earth; Founder, DAO Leadership

Grace Rachmany is the Executive Director of the Decentralized Identity Foundation (DIF). She’s an expert in the areas of new economic models, digital democracy, tokenomics, blockchain governance and distributed technology. She is the co-founder of Sideways.Earth and works on bioregional governance and tools for systems change at a regional level. Grace recently co-authored the Blueprint for Decentralization in her previous role as a Supervisory Council member for the SingularityNet DAO. Grace is an expert in practicalities of how to lead a decentralized/distributed organization, having worked with hundreds of organizations in the blockchain space. Grace’s work involves experimentation in infrastructure for human collaboration, governance, and non-monetary economic systems.

Guil

Co-founder, Regens Unite

Guil Maueler co-founded Regens Unite and has spent 14+ years working at the intersection of brand, product, and community in Web3, fintech, and impact organisations.

Guo Liu

Managing Member, Symbiosis Lab

Guo enjoy making interesting things with code, words, and music. He is currently working on moss, a desktop application that publishes a website from a folder, making indie sites a pleasant breeze for everyone. He previously built Matters Town, a publication and social platform for long-form articles. In his spare time, he writes random blog posts (mostly in Chinese) and creates music for plays and himself.

Daniel N.

Head of Product & Phd Candidate, Nym Technologies / ELTE Budapest Sociology DS

Head of Product at Nym Technologies, building privacy infrastructure for the open internet. PhD candidate in digital epistemology researching trust as the mechanism through which humans extend their cognition into tools, networks, and AI agents. Spent the last two years applying that research to AI-native knowledge systems built on local-first, open-source principles. Thinks the decentralized web's deepest promise is not censorship resistance but cognitive self-determination.

Stefano De Vuono

Future Industries

Hi. My name is Stefano De Vuono (he/him). I'm sometimes a San Francisco-based and sometimes Earth-based software engineer. I've often straddled the line between art and technology, design and code. I wrote my first university essay on emacs on my new Linux install. I've worked as a web (and sometimes embedded hardware) developer a digital art startup, where I designed and patented a digital image security system.

Whether helping a client revamp their developer tooling, shortening onboarding from two weeks to less than a day, collaborating with artists to develop interactive installations, or mentoring junior engineers, I have a passion for making things better Currently, I'm open to senior or staff-level engineering roles, ideally with a focus on backend or infrastructure work.

I'm also open to collaborating on interesting projects or chatting about math! Please don't hesitate to reach out! You can find me. I believe in you.

Himerria Wortham

Embodied Movement Facilitator, Embodied Practice - Collective Intelligence Simulation

Himerria Wortham
Dancer, Choreographer
Himerria Wortham is an interdisciplinary artist who was born and raised in Berlin, Germany, and later moved to Detroit before settling in Los Angeles. Her curiosity for art and culture, along with her passion for storytelling, led her to explore dance, choreography, and experimental documentary filmmaking.
Himerria began her career as a professional commercial dancer, performing nationally and internationally with artists such as Aretha Franklin and Carly Rae Jepsen, and appearing in TV shows like HBO’s Euphoria, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, and the Academy Awards. She has appeared in music videos and live TV performances with legendary artists including Beyoncé, Toni Braxton, and Shakira, to name a few. As a choreographer, Himerria has most recently worked as the department head of choreography on the hit Disney Channel TV show "Saturdays".
Her 20-year career as a teaching artist, both locally in LA and internationally, has offered her the unique opportunity to connect with people from all walks of life, across various dance experiences and age groups. Her foundational influences include hip-hop, jazz, ballet, West African dance, and street styles such as waacking and house dance, as well as contemporary improv and site-specific dance theater.
Previously serving as the Associate Artistic Director of the site-specific dance company Heidi Duckler Dance (HDD), she engaged with diverse communities native to Los Angeles through place-based performances, filmmaking, and teaching experiences with the HDD company.
Today, Himerria is completing her Master’s Degree in Visual Anthropology, Media and Documentary Practices, focusing her thesis on improv dance as a knowledge producing method in ethnographic research and experimental filmmaking.
As the co-founder of the Cantilever Collective, a Los Angeles-based performing arts group, Himerria partners with intergenerational groups to co-create movement for sensory exploration, knowledge production and community building.

Holke

Founder and Director, Hypercerts Foundation

Holke Brammer is a political economist working to strengthen collective action through open technology. As founder and director of Hypercerts Foundation, he leads the development of open infrastructure for impact funding and public goods resource allocation. He was previously a research scientist for public goods funding at Protocol Labs, worked at Yunus Social Business and Boston Consulting Group, and led Open Social Innovation efforts in Germany with ProjectTogether. He holds a Ph.D. in Political Economics from Stanford Graduate School of Business.

Holmes Wilson

KJ, Karaokecrime

Holmes is the founder of Quiet (tryquiet.org), a "Slackier Signal" that doesn't require servers, for organizations that need the privacy of Signal but the team features of Slack. He previously co-founded and co-ran the US-based tech policy activism group Fight for the Future (fightforthefuture.org), and also worked as a campaigner at the Free Software Foundation. Way back in the day, he co-founded a peer-to-peer video podcasting tool built on BitTorrent called Miro, and a collaborative subtitling platform Amara.

Hudson Headley

Protocol Engineer, Bread.coop, Poa.box, Opacity

Hudson is a full-stack engineer and cooperative economics nerd building poa.box a no-code DAO builder for worker and community-owned organizations. Poa features voting based on direct democracy and participation level, vouch-based membership, on-chain task management with stablecoin payments, and governance minimization by design. The goal is to empower people and contributors, not capital (can’t buy votes) . Also volunteer at bread.coop contributing to various solidarity tech primitives. He is a decentralization maxi and works frequently with IPFS and web3 tech stacks to maximize censorship resistance. Based in NYC

SJ Klein

Director, Concordance

I am Samuel Klein, wikipedian, linguaphile and, hoom, inclusionist. I am currently working on platforms for community-owned publishing of research and data. In the past I worked on a national digital library, at a "purpose of the Internet" research group, directed part of a global education project, and served as a trustee of the Wikimedia Foundation. Currently summarizing some cross-wiki thoughts + conversations about project + community design as design chats.

Currently working on matchmaking people with ideas. My writing background consists of a few journals and newsletters, doggerel on the back of exams, broadsheets on telephone poles, philosophical essays, and marked-up drafts of [others'] texts in red and blue. My academic background includes physics, mathematics, algorithms and language. In the Wikiverse: you can find me on the English Wikipedia, and occasionally on Wikibooks, Wiktionary (see also mod-wiktionary), the OLPC wiki, and previously on some smaller language wikis (Nahuatl, Swahili) or taking collab notes on Hypothesis XXX - synchrony across annotation systems for all sorts of knowledge (e.g., via hypothes.is and open annotation).

fishinthecalculator

Founder, Tech Worker Coalition Bologna

I am a Release Engineer developing Linux distributions by trade and a tech worker organizer and climate activist in my own time.

Kevin Baragona

Founder, DeepAI

I am a tech entrepreneur working on AI tools and related areas the last 10 years. I frequent community spaces and advocate politically against evil things (and for good things).

Artem

CEO, Octant Labs/Solidified Labs

I am a technolgist and a builder with 15+ years of experience setting strategic direction and building high-performing teams.

Since 2017, I have been focused on shipping blockchain systems, smart contract protocols, decentralized applications, and developer tooling. For the last three years I have been designing and operating novel funding mechanisms for public goods.

Before Web3, I built forensics software, security systems, cryptography-related products, robotics, AI and VR. I worked across both consultancies and fast-moving startups, leading teams from early-stage builds to production-scale delivery.

Fotis (Hermes) Tsiroukis

PhD Candidate, TUM, CCA

I am an interdisciplinary nomad and explorer of the forefront of technology and culture. My life has led me through a vast diversity of environments; from playing in rock bands, to working in web3, all the way to an academic trajectory that led me to a PhD in philosophy. I navigate life with a profoundly unquenchable desire for deeper understanding of people, their cultural code and what motivates them. In parallel, I mostly find myself being an independent scout for emerging scenes of techno-cultural innovation that have the potential to be part of history, documenting them and supporting them.

ajuvo Stephan

crewman, member, CEO, c-base, CCC, n2n I&O Ltd.

I am an old (60+) hacker, having begun with taming mainframes for fun and money, working my way through the advent of the internet. I helped resistance in communist Poland, navigated the uncertain financial waters of German reunification and its fallout, helped address the Y2K-bug, seen the New Economy bubble burst, and so on. I am an economist and a philosopher in the field of cultural history of technology, currently CEO for a small entity that acquires and runs real estate for hacker purposes, from data centers to living communities of elderly hackers. I am member of c-base and have long been active in the CCC, and I’m a member of the German Gesellschaft für Freiheitsrechte GFF, doing things that are partially similar to what for example the EFF is doing in the US.
My nom de guerre ajuvo is easy to retrieve in hacker-related communications channels.

Eva

I am bringing my kid. I work in tech.

Václav Pavlín

Solutions Engineer, Logos

I am just a chaos agent - anything I touch usually breaks, but I often help to fix it:) Logos contributor, spent 10 years at Red Hat building Open Source.

Antoine McGrath

Internet Archive

I work in the field of information access. I am a former Internet Archive employee and founded CRSReports.com with support from the talent of my friend and co-founder Bill Marczak.

My passion is to empower others to improve our world through the democratization of information. I have an interest in persistent information access and attended the first Decentralized Web Summit with web luminaries: Primavera De Filippi, Jay Graber, Mitchell Baker, James Prestwich, Karissa McKelvey, Juan Benet, Dr. Gavin Wood, Dan Gillmor, Brewster Kahle, Vint Cerf, Tim Berners-Lee, Cory Doctorow, and many more incredible thinkers.

Qubasa

IT Freelancer, clan.lol

I'm Luis Hebendanz, an IT consultant with a passion for solving complex technical challenges. My expertise includes:

- **Sovereign Infrastructure:** I'm a core developer of the NixOS-based infrastructure tool clan https://clan.lol
- **IT Security:** From code reviews to malware analysis and reverse engineering
- **UI:** If your highly technical product needs a Web or Native UI
- **AI / LLM Integration:** Whether it’s integrating LLMs into existing workflows or optimizing and creating benchmarks

Do you have a project in mind? I’d love to hear about it. Reach out to me at [email protected].

Gamal Adel

PhD Candidate, Leiden University

I'm a PhD candidate in Network Science at Leiden University and University of Amsterdam. I'm an ardent believer in our need for better ways to do collective and grassroot action, especially through better thought out communication mechanisms.

luna sahin

I'm a community organizer, working on an open source, collectively owned offline social network and community infrastructure, Dyad.

Will Howes

Crawl Engineer, Wayback Machine

I've been helping fill hard drives at the Internet Archive since 2023! Before joining the Internet Archive, I studied computer science at Reed College in Portland, OR.

Brian Eggert

Data Onboarding Specialist, Prelinger Archives, Internet Archive

I've spent the last 3+ years working with Prelinger Archives, Internet Archive, and the Filecoin Foundation for the Decentralized Web to move culturally valuable datasets on chain to the filecoin storage network. Before that I was a data analyst and data wrangler at an AI startup. I'm interested in cultural preservation, privacy, and censorship resistance.

Ian Davis

Mysilio

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.

Sammy Gwilym

worm-blossom.org

Illustrator, programmer, mum, half of worm-blossom, and co-author of Willow.

Micah

Independent

In the pursuit of wonder I enjoy a playful but earnest lifelong aspiration toward fluency of expression and connection through multiple media forms, and have practiced many, ranging from musical instruments to computer code and mathematical abstractions, from rhythmic exchanges in music to participation in rhythmic weavings of people sharing in collaboration and exchange of perspectives across social and cultural landscapes. Connecting through creativity and play makes me glad to be alive. I believe in powers of listening, curiosity, music and heart. I feel grounded when I'm challenged to work together with others in creating spaces for culture and collective wellbeing to grow where they're planted.

Juan Diez

Founder and CEO, Torbellino Tech SL

Information technologist/computer scientist. Formally into this since 2014. Spent most of this time studying in various European universities and doing some research. Recently started my own company (solo founder). Trying to make a significant contribution in a complex world. I like languages, discussing ideas and laws, and building systems.

Ira Nezhynska

Creative Director, DWeb Camp

Ira is an independent creative director working in open source and decentralized tech. She helps tech founders build brands that accelerate early adoption and funding.

After years working for global brands like Mercedes-Benz and Lindt and fintech giants like Deutsche Bank and Wirecard, she joined Web3 in early 2018 and has since served as a creative director at companies big and small, translating complex tech into brand identities that shift how projects are perceived by users and funders.

These days, she runs her own design consulting practice and serves as a fractional creative director across several decentralized tech projects.

Ira has been a core DWeb Camp organizer since 2020.

Guillem Córdoba

Dash Chat

I’m a software engineer, located near Barcelona, in Catalunya. I studied the Grau en Enginyeria Informàtica, at FIB, UPC (http://www.fib.upc.edu/fib/estudiar-enginyeria-informatica.html).

I will post my projects and other updates in this site (https://guillem.casa/). Contact me for any doubts or questions!

jan

cofounder, developer, userandagents.com, xe.dev

Jan is an offline first veteran with more than 10 years distributed systems experience building on git, sapling, (c/p)ouchdb and ipfs. He got the once in a lifetime opportunity to work on xenon/darc full time, a fully open source new browser architecture that happens to be perfect for maximising user agency as well as using and developing and local first applications.

Jason Morton

Founder and CEO, EZKL

Jason Morton is founder and CEO of EZKL, a company that makes verifiable AI systems. He was previously a tenured professor of Mathematics at Penn State.

Jeremiah Lee

Founder, Ananas Teknik

Jeremiah Lee is a humanitarian technologist and human rights activist. He grew up under the California sun, but now calls Stockholm home.

Jihoon Song

Research Engineer, Ethereum Foundation

Jihoon Song works on the Ethereum protocol at the Ethereum Foundation. His work centers on the consensus layer, including censorship resistance.

Jobi

Cofounder, Radical Data

Jobi is a technologist, artist and activist based between Amsterdam and Barcelona. They are the cofounder of Radical Data, a collective building tech for liberation and joy.

Jonathan Starr

Co-director, Executive Director, SciOS, The Open Source Endowment

Jonathan Starr is the Executive Director of the Open Source Endowment, a 501(c)(3) building a community-managed permanent endowment for critical open source infrastructure. He also directs SciOS and the Institute of Open Science Practices, where he coordinates researchers and technologists building sustainable infrastructure for open science. His work spans funding mechanisms, coordination systems, and the shared technical substrate connecting diverse scientific systems.

Joshua Davila

Founder, Bread Cooperative

Joshua Dávila is the writer and podcaster behind Blockchain Socialist and the author of Blockchain Radicals: How Capitalism Ruined Crypto and How to Fix It, published by Repeater Books in 2023. He is a co-founder of Bread Cooperative, where he builds crypto applications from a post-capitalist point of view.

karma

Karma is a developer from Bhutan currently working with Hypercerts Foundation and Gainforest to build verifiable impact and retro funding mechanisms on AT Proto

Max Hampshire

Lead DevRel / Integrations, Nym

Lead DevRel / Integrations at Nym, previously Solidity developer / artist.

Lee

Lead Facilitator (Metagov) - Co-Director (SciOS), Metagov, SciOS

Lee is an organizer who weaves open science and collective self-rule on the internet. They co-lead SciOS, a non-profit which advocates for infrastructure that supports transparent and collaborative research. Additionally, they help to project manage and champion open source projects at Metagov which foster collective decision-making towards more resilient worlds.

Lisa Petrides

CEO and Founder, Institute for the Study of Knowledge Management in Education (ISKME)

Lisa Petrides is CEO and founder of the Institute for the Study of Knowledge Management in Education (ISKME), a nonprofit dedicated to make learning and knowledge-sharing participatory and open for all. She is a scholar and international open education expert who has led the development of research, policy and practice, to create and support the field of open education practice. Her work includes the creation of ISKME's OER Commons, a digital public library of open educational resources and collaboration platform that facilitates the search, discovery, and adaptation of high-quality digital resources that are free, openly licensed, and available for a diverse range of learners. She also serves as a member of UNESCO’s OER Dynamic Coalition Advisory Group, supporting the implementation of the UNESCO Recommendation on OER.

A former professor at Columbia University, Teachers College, she has advised and led efforts that enable schools, colleges, universities, ministries of education, and the organizations that support them to expand their capacity to create knowledge-driven environments focused on teaching and learning. She received a Ph.D. in Education Policy from Stanford University. She was also reelected to a second term on the San Mateo County Community College District Board of Trustees in November 2024, the governance body of the three-campus community college system in California serving more than 30,000 students.

Liz Sweigart

Co-Founder, And Other Stuff, Divine Video

Liz Sweigart is a co-founding member of And Other Stuff, a freedom-tech collective building open systems that protect human agency, connection, and creativity. She brings a background in consulting psychology, organizational transformation, human-centered design, and online safety, with prior work spanning corporate leadership, participatory design, and human-computer interaction. As a postdoctoral alum of Vanderbilt’s Socio-Technical Interaction Research Lab, Liz is especially interested in how decentralized technologies can be designed with and for the people who need them most, including activists, organizers, and communities with limited technical backgrounds. At AOS, she helps bridge strategy, research, engineering, facilitation, and storytelling to support practical, inclusive tools for a more open web.

Luca Bonissi

Volunteer, Fsfe.org

Luca can make anything! Tinkerer, ice cream chef, hacker....come try his wares!

Kris Is

Movement Coordinator, Logos

Lunarpunk cat herder on a mission to reconnect Web3/blockchain with its cypherpunk roots. A veteran communicator with 20+ years of experience - 9 of those spent in crypto - working at the intersection of communication, coordination, and culture.

Madelynn Martiniere

Director, Catalyst Studios

Madelynn Martiniere is a facilitator, designer, and strategist specializing in collective innovation—building the conditions and infrastructure that enable communities, organizations, and ecosystems to coordinate across difference and cultivate lasting resilience. Over almost two decades, she has worked across sectors, scales, and four continents to build innovation ecosystems that center open access, community ownership, and collective power.

Marie K

DWeb

Marie is a feminist technologist and community builder. She co-founded drip, an open-source, offline period and fertility tracker that is feminist, gender-inclusive, and science-based, built for everyone. With roots in sociology, Latin American studies, and software engineering, Marie (also known as bl00dymarie on the internet) weaves together tech, sexual health, and community. She is taking care of the Pollinator Program and is hoping to see you all at DWeb Camp.

Marina Petrichenko

Ecosystem Development / Growth Lead at Logos, Logos.co / free.technology

Marina has spent over a decade in Web3, helping turn protocols into movements. She has worked with Dapper Labs, Flow Blockchain, Nym, and other pioneering teams shaping decentralized infrastructure. Today, she is Ecosystem Development and Growth Lead at Logos.co and a privacy advocate building adoption for censorship-resistant, sovereignty-first technologies.

Mark Graham

Director, the Wayback Machine, Internet Archive

Mark Graham, Internet Archive: Mark Graham is the director of the Wayback Machine at the Internet Archive, overseeing the daily archiving of hundreds of millions of Web pages. He previously served as senior vice president at NBC News Digital and iVillage and co-founded Rojo Networks. Mark also played a key role in AOL's Internet Center and co-founded PeaceNet and the Association for Progressive Communications (apc.org) He began his career while in the U.S. Air Force advocating for nuclear disarmament. Connect: X: https://x.com/markgraham LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/markjohngraham/ and Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/mark.bsky.social

Martijn de Waal

Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences

Martijn de Waal (1972) is a writer and researcher focussing on the implications of new media for public spaces.

I am currently working as a professor (lector) at the research group Civic Interaction Design at the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences. I also serve as the Academic Director for the Centre of Expertise Creative Innovation, a collaboration between my institute, InHolland University of Applied Sciences, the Amsterdam University of the Arts, and the Gerrit Rietveld Academy.

During 2018 I functioned as the head of research for the faculty of Digital Media and Creative Industries at my university.

Formerly I worked as an assistant professor in Media Studies at the University of Amsterdam. I hold a PhD (2012) from the University of Groningen, where I was a member of the research group of practical philosophy, and the digital media & urban public space programme. In 2009 I spent a semester as a visiting scholar at the M.I.T. Center for Civic Media.

In November 2016 De Platformsamenleving was published, a book I co-authored with Jose van Dijck and Thomas Poell. An updated English version The Platform Society appeared in the fall of 2018 with Oxford University Press.

In 2014 I wrote The City as Interface (Rotterdam: Nai010 Publishers), a book on the relation between digital media and the urban public sphere.

Other key books and articles include: The Hackable City Cahiers and The Hackable City book, edited with Michiel de Lange and Matthijs Bouw; Responsive Urban Spaces, written with Frank Suurenbroek and Ivan Nio; Owning the city: New media and citizen engagement in urban design (co-authored with Michiel de Lange);

With Michiel de Lange, in 2007 I founded TheMobileCity.nl, an international think tank and research network on New Media and Urban Culture.

I was appointed as the general chair for the Media Architecture Biennale that took place in Amsterdam and Utrecht in June 2021. Frank Suurenbroek, Michiel de Lange and Nanna Verhoef have joined me in the executive committee organizing the event.

In the past I have worked as a journalist for a broad variety of Dutch media such as de Volkskrant and VPRO Radio, and organized various workshops on digital media and interactive storytelling. I also contributed to Neville Mars study The Chinese Dream with a travelogue.

From 2008-2014 I served as a member of the board of the Dutch Cultural Broadcasting Fund. From 2017-2020 I chaired the grant program for Digital Culture at the Creative Industries Fund NL.

Martin Strobl

Economist, IFT & Logos

Martin Strobl is an economist at IFT and Logos, focusing on mechanism design, token economics, and coordination mechanisms for decentralized systems. He holds an MA in Economics from CERGE-EI, Prague, and a PhD in Political Economy/Economics from the University of Aarhus. Before joining the IFT, Martin was a researcher at the University of Birmingham.

Mathias Jud

qaul.net, ISOC Community Networks Infrastructures SIG, Freifunk

Mathias is a contemporary artist living in Switzerland and Berlin. He is co-founder and project manager of qaul.net, an off-the-grid p2p mesh messenger App. Mathias is active in community networks such as Freifunk, and helped build up community mesh networks around the world. He is a board member of the Special Interest Group for Community Network Infrastructures of the Internet Society.

Matt Lorentz

Creator, Horcrux

Matt is a veteran of the decentralized social web, from Tent to Scuttlebutt to Nostr, working to help humanity take back our means of communication and organize our way out of the polycrisis.

Matthew Schutte

Co-Founder, Holochain

Matthew: co-founded Holochain; Leads business development for Unyt Accounting; serves as Head of Sovereign Platforms for Cognisee AI, a Frontier AI Research Lab focused on collective intelligence; served on the Board of Nora Bateson's Toward Warm Data; graduated from Berkeley Law School, long ago served as a not-so-competent managing director of an angel investment firm; and is a retired big wave surfer.

Matthias Kirschner

President, Free Software Foundation Europe

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.

Michael Foster

Director, Newsmast Foundation

Michael Foster is an ex-director of Reuters New Media and FT.com. Now, as social media creates enormous divides in our society, he has turned his hand to charity, co-founding the Newsmast Foundation to bring communities back together in digital spaces built for them.

Michael Garfield

Co-Founder, Atlas Research Group

Michael Garfield is a writer and artist focused on transdisciplinary research into the evolutionary history and future of intelligence. He is a co-founder at Atlas Research Group — which builds high-dimensional sensemaking tools on sovereign, commons-oriented infrastructure — and the award-winning host of Humans on the Loop. He has worked with the Santa Fe Institute, Long Now Foundation, Mozilla, and ASU’s Center for Science and the Imagination. He lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

mixmix

Socket Security, Scuttlebutt, Protozoa Coop

Mix is a community weaver and software engineer. Comes from New Zealand, loves p2p tech, sci-fi, magic the gathering. Currently works for Socket Security making FOSS ecosystems safer.

newswimming

PhD Student, University of Southern California

My name is Andrea (newswimming) and I'm a documentary filmmaker and cultural worker from Los Angeles experimenting with media arts research at our Cinema school. My background is in arts and academia, but I had always pushed the boundaries of what that includes, such as anti-disciplinary methods that foreground relational intimacies. Currently I'm writing a dissertation on reparative arts methods emerging from 1970's Korean avant-garde theatre, Indigenous mask dance, and grassroots media art innovation. I have a passion for seaweed-based diets and designing rituals around food. Previous affiliations include the U.S. Fulbright Program, MIT Open Documentary Lab, Duke Literature Program, and Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, MIT Transmedia Storytelling Initiative, amongst other arts research and civic spaces. My feature film INVISIBLE ORGAN (2021) introduced me to topics of feminist biomedical innovation and inner reproductive health, which brought me closer to my artistic and design research practice.

Nathan Hewitt

Raft Foundation

Nathan Hewitt runs Raft Foundation, an experiment in nonprofit commoning.

Nico@Briar

Contributor, The Briar Project

Nico started the development of Briar Desktop to bring Briar to non-Android platforms. Having been an F-Droid developer for a long time, he sincerely wishes free alternatives to Android to succeed and is mainly interested in free software to empower people.

Oliver Child

University of Bristol

Oliver is a PhD candidate at the University of Bristol exploring democratised scalable fabrication of electronic devices with 3D printing. His research involves both novel printing techniques with hobbyist machines as well as understanding making and hacking communities' experiences with personal fabrication tools. He navigates between practical fabrication and machine mediated user-material interactions. Oliver also likes shapes, patterns, machines, and slugs.

Olivier Schulbaum

Founder / Founder / Board Member / Core member, Platoniq Foundation / Goteo.org / Civio / Democratic Tech Fund (DTF)

Platoniq Foundation (Creativity & Democracy) and Goteo.org Co-Founder. Member of Democratic Tech Fund (DTF) where he coordinates the forthcoming ARCHICARE Programme: Building infrastructures of memory, resistance and care. Designing strategies for co-constructing tomorrow's public policies and territories. Currently developing the citizen advocacy impact framework ‘Crowdvocacy’, a coordinated process between participation platforms where civic initiatives amplify their influence, obtaining resources, and stimulating leadership. Member of the Board of Trustees of the Civio Citizens' Foundation. Institutions hunger for WIDER participation. Citizens challenge them with #WILDERparticipation!

Eric Hellman

Executive Director, Project Gutenberg

Present: Project Gutenberg, Free Ebook Foundation
Past: Gluejar, OCLC, Bell Labs.

Gopi

Research & Development, TUM Blockchain Club

Privacy first engineer, currently focused on Consensus, DAOs, & PETs.

Beatrice Murch

Program Manager, Internet Archive Europe

Program Manager of @internetarchive.eu. Photographer, Wife, Mother, Daughter, Sister, Aunt, Cat Servant, Coffee Lover, Immigrant, Traveler, Geek, Participant & Hope Junkie. 🇺🇸&🇬🇧 🥰💍🇦🇷&🇪🇸 🏠 🇳🇱

Rabble

principal, divine.video, andotherstuff.org

Rabble (Evan Henshaw-Plath) is a technologist, activist, and one of the original members of the Twitter founding team, where he helped build the platform in its earliest days after previously working on activist communication networks like Indymedia and TXTmob. Today he is the creator of Divine, an open-source decentralized social video platform exploring how social media can be rebuilt around user ownership, authenticity, and community governance rather than centralized corporate control.

René Pinnell

Founder, Artizen

René Pinnell is the founder of Artizen, a funding platform for creative public goods across art, science, technology, and culture. Coming from a line of struggling artists, René has long been interested in how creators can receive the support they need to make ambitious work. Before Artizen, he founded Kaleidoscope, where he helped support and fund pioneering VR and immersive media projects, including projects screened at major festivals. His work focuses on building new funding models for creators and expanding the role of creativity in the commons.

Rich Bodo

chief discombobulator, self

Rich has been working since 2021 to make Social Network Health approaches to preventative mental health care easier to understand and implement. Social Network Health is the study of how relationships in communities effect everything from general mental health to productivity, to suicidal ideation.

Since the last dweb camp, Rich shifted focus from educational applications of social network health to studying remote workers, and building local-first applications.

He is also a co-founder of spacebase.co, whose goal is to democratize access to space, and the Global Space Enablers Network, and works with a number of other NZ startups as a technical problem solver.

He lives on waiheke island with his wife Cindy, and his 3.5 year old daughter Skylark, who are also avid attendees of dweb camp. :)

Richard Ng

IndigiDAO Program Manager / New Mexico Community Community Capital Digital Kinship Initiative / Project Kiai Principal Investigator, New Mexico Community Capital / IndigiDAO / Project Kiai / Community Governed Organization (CGO) Working Group Member

Richard Ng (Kānaka Maoli) is a member of the CGO as the Program Manager for IndigiDAO a community governed program that works with Indigenous entrepreneurs to design community governed structures leveraging decentralized technologies. He is also the Principal Investigator of Project Kiaʻi focused on creating a protocol for Indigenous communities to design their digital infrastructure through the deployment of a sovereign stack. He is focused on bringing Indigenous and value systems as a core element is designing systems of governance for all of humanity.

Rob Keizer

Rob lives on a forested property outside of Winnipeg MB Canada with his wife, his dog, and many musical instruments. He has a background in computer science. He's helped build and run technology related for-profit and not-for-profit organizations, including the local hackerspace, Unix user group, and numerous startups.

Young Wong

Martial Artist, ArtsEd4All

Sifu Young Wong is a disciple of Hung Sing Style Choy Lee Fut. Choy Lee Fut, one of the most popular styles among full contact fighters throughout Asia, was founded over 150 years ago by Chan Heung in Gung Mui, China. Hung Sing Choy Lee Fut practitioners were instructed in the skills of defensive warfare and spiritual discipline.

Young studied both Wing Chun, (direct lineage from Ip Man, reknowned Chinese martial artist and grandmaster of the martial art Wing Chun), as well as Choy Lee Fut (under Sifu E.Y. Lee, direct lineage from Grand Master Lau Bun, who is credited with bringing Choy Li Fut to America) Sifu Young's name has been entered in the Shaolin Temple and in the Choy Lee Fut origination temple in China. Young is also a retired architect and enjoys woodworking now.

bumblefudge.com

Janitor, Decentralized Identity Foundation, IPFS Foundation

Sociotechnical jack-of-all-trades, decentralizer, gadfly, information warrior. Ask me about DIDs, VCs, IPFS, censorship-resistance, UX, and worker-ownership models.

Gabriel

Developer Advocate for Pubky protocol, Employee at synonym.to

Software Engineer working for user-sovereignty. I care about anti-authoritarian tech, helping the people building it, and tacos.

Justus Perlwitz

Senior Partner, JWP Consulting GK

Software architect and cybersecurity researcher from Berlin and Tokyo

Steve Francis

Project Director, Terraso/LandPKS, Tech Matters, Terraso, GOAT, OpenTEAM, Float

Software engineer, turned entrepreneur, turned non-profit open source ag-tech developer. Got interested in the topic of data equity from a farmer's perspective.

Ryder Morton

Internet Archive

Student in the Boston area interested in mathematics and cryptography. Always up for drumming, frisbee, or hacky sack.

Tara Merk

Postdoc, CERSA/CNRS, Weizenabum Institute

Tara is a postdoc at CERSA/CNRS, Paris, an ICDE research fellow at The New School and associate researcher at the Weizenbaum Institute in Berlin. Her research focuses on exit to community, decentralized governance, and exploring alternative ownership structures for data centers.

Hilke Ros

musician and coder, indiemusi.ch

The Belgian musician landed a radio hit with her dream pop band Amatorski in 2010 and toured with the band as their manager throughout Europe until becoming involved in the Swiss indie scene in 2013. For her solo album under the name "Hilke", she found a home at Red Brick Records in 2021, where she now also coordinates releases for the musicians' collective. In 2025 she also became a board member of Indiesuisse, the association of Swiss indie labels.

Besides her musical activities, Hilke has always had a passion for digital technology and social media. She has been working for 10 years as a software developer and, in the past year, geopolitics and rising fascism reignited her interest in open social media. She has been studying alternatives to Instagram, TikTok and others, not only from a technical perspective, but also from a queer, feminist, and artist perspective. Her main focus is on the developer and activist community around Bluesky and the AT Protocol.

Val Elefante

Project Manager, Community Lead, Metagov, The Protopian Prize

Val is a freelance researcher and project manager specializing in community co-design and collective governance for emerging technologies including AI and the decentralized web. She is currently working on the planning committee for The Protopian Prize Fiction Contest hosted by Metagov and The Public AI Network. She also works on a collective savings tool for independent workers called The Cookie Jar Collective at the Center for Cultural Innovation. Val is also a yoga teacher, and will be leading yoga classes in the mornings during DWeb Camp.

Wendy Hanamura

DWeb Camp

Wendy Hanamura is an leader with deep experience in nonprofit management of global organizations with outsized impact. For more than a decade she served the Internet Archive as Director of Partnerships and continues as a Steward of DWeb (https://getdweb.net/). She helped create the Dentralized Web Summits (2016, 2018) and DWeb Camps (2019-date).

Hanamura's passion is using storytelling to achieve positive social change. As a content creator, she's had a rich career as a magazine journalist, Tokyo-based foreign correspondent, television reporter and host, moderator and public speaker.

Wesley

Technical Co-Founder, Cosmik Network

Wesley is a longtime DWebber who loves the outdoors, writing and learning about the world. He is currently building Semble, a community knowledge garden built on an open social protocol.

Day Waterbury

Interstitialist, Internet Archive, DWeb, Collaborative Technology Alliance, Denizens

What gives my life meaning is to serve and protect the living earth and her people. My mission is to equip the regenerative movement at scale at the pace of the polycrisis, connecting place-based systems change initiatives with trust-based funding, and empowering a global network of networks with tools for coordination. I truly believe that for our species to thrive we need to maximize the number of us who are fully prepared and resourced to contribute collaboratively to co-create a regenerative unfolding. I don't think of this as political, but rather the rational pursuit of my aspirations on behalf of humanity and the greater blossoming of consciousness in the cosmos.

willscott

Web Hacker, snowstorm

Will aims to support individuals in discovering and building communities. His research focuses on understanding and removing limitations on Internet communication. He likes thinking about network structures, measurement, and the evolution of communication.

Andre Garzia

Secure Scuttlebutt

Working on free and open source software, writing books, making tea.

https://andregarzia.com/

https://ssb.nz

Wouter Tebbens

President, Free Knowledge Institute; Democratic Tech Fund

Wouter Tebbens is an industrial engineer born and raised in The Netherlands working from Barcelona. He works for a knowledge society based in human freedom, solidarity, care and regeneration through commons-cooperative networks. He has co-founded and participates in various cooperatives and social organisations.

In the 2000s he set up the Free/Libre and Open Source working group of the Internet Society Netherlands, co-founded the Free Knowledge Institute and coordinated two European Commission funded projects: the SELF project and the Free Technology Academy and participated in various others.

In the last decade he participated in Som Energia, the Spanish renewable energy cooperative; the School of the Commons Barcelona; was part of the p2p value research team studying >300 cases of commons-based p2p internet platforms; participated in the Digital DIY project on legal, ethical and economic aspects related to digital fabrication and DIY; co-founded The Things Network Catalonia and ran various pilots and projects with various municipalities around sensor data through the community network.

In order to seek sustainability for commons-oriented initiatives he conceived the Five Pillar model. In the context especially of la Comunificadora, a programme from Barcelona City to help teams create their commons-collaborative economy project, this model was developed further as the core organising model with specific canvases and workshop methodologies.

Wouter was one of the artifices behind the creation of the cooperative femProcomuns and helped create the initial projects and move them from under the wings of the FKI to the cooperative, including CommonsCloud, the open community network for the Internet of Things and the commons transition group.

Since the pandemic he has been an operational member of The Online Meeting Cooperative (meet.coop), he has worked as the first director of the PublicSpaces Foundation in The Netherlands, is a collaborator at Commons Network and works in various projects to advance a commons-cooperative-regenerative vision.

Wouter Kampmann

Founder, Powerhouse

Wouter has worked on Defi at MakerDAO since 2017, before shifting focus to decentralized organizations and local-first application building at Powerhouse.

Z.D. Alexander

Founder, Null LLC

Zach is a designer and technologist based in Oakland, California. He was previously the designer of Meedan's Check, and a founding engineer at Ethos Life.

Zelf

Vildgård

Zenna 'zelf' Elfen is an internet architect and weaver of networks. With roots in the local hackerspace Forskningsavdelningen in Malmö, she has since explored seizing the means of local-production—through computer controlled mechanics—in FabLabs across the world, as well contributed towards building up the realm of Peer-2-Peer and Local-First networks, primarily through Secure Scuttlebutt, the gossping protocol. In the more recent years she's been involved with organizing parts of the Next Generation Internet together with NGI Search and NLnet. Currently she runs a podcast, called [solarcast](https://solarcast.cc/@solarcast) and in her spare time she is slowly growing a research institute located on a historical 1777 farm in the south of Denmark called Vildgård.

Noah brikk

https://tonstr.studio

[ Noah brikk

Audio Team Lead at DWeb Camp ]

Yisi Liu

Research Fellow, Institute of Network Society

co-founder and cto at mask network
research fellow at institute of network society

fiore

technical founder, dyad

have a background in physics and education, and have spent ten years building teams and software infrastructure around principles of diversity and intersectionality, in domains including real-time optimisation of steel manufacture, medical AI applications, and research on AI explainability and trustworthiness in medical decision-making. I think of myself as a physicist, a poet, and an expert on “in-betweens"

Pollinators

Andrew Chou

Software Engineer, Awana Digital

Andrew is a technologist based in New York City. He is an advocate for open source software that promotes autonomy and decentralization. He currently works at Awana Digital, a non-profit organization that builds peer-to-peer mapping tools used by Indigenous communities to document and defend their territories.

Billion Lee

cofounder, Cofacts

Billion is the cofounder of Cofacts, a project she initiated in 2016. She is a staunch advocate for marriage equality and open freedom, dedicating herself to bridging diverse communities and providing empowerment courses to combat disinformation. She is expertise in civic technology and digital democracy. Billion's efforts are aimed at creating a more informed and connected society, combating disinformation through education and community engagement.

Blake Stoner

Founder & CEO, Vngle: The Civic Insights Company

Blake Stoner works at the intersection of decentralized technology, civic systems, and community participation, building infrastructure that helps communities be more accurately seen, understood, and represented in the age of AI. Through Vngle, he explores how provenance, real-time civic insight, and participatory systems can strengthen trust while expanding visibility for communities often overlooked by traditional information systems.

Beyond Vngle, Blake advances collaborative civic innovation through the Institute for Nonpartisan Innovation (INI), a cross-campus initiative co-powered with CUNY institutions that connects students, researchers, civic leaders, and communities around real-world challenges and emerging public-interest technologies.

At the center of his work is a mission to help communities better steward their own narratives, strengthen societal trust, and build more resilient civic infrastructure for the future of the web.

Esther Jang

Director, Local Connectivity Lab

I'm a postdoc in Computer Science at the University of Washington, seeking a software or network engineering, research, or PM role for Summer/Fall 2026. I've deployed community networks around the world, and teach technical networking at the Tribal Broadband Bootcamp (TBB). Since 2019, I'm a Founder and Director of the 501(c)(3) nonprofit Local Connectivity Lab (LCL). Our Seattle Community Network (SCN) digital equity project builds DIY Internet infrastructure serving hundreds of users. My projects center around DIY, empowerment, and pedagogy, for example- building communities of practice to sustain technical infrastructures and vice versa. In my free time, I am an avid jazz singer and in-line roller skater.

LX Cast

Relational Design Lab, Folk Tech

LX Cast is the lead of Relational Design Lab, a R&D lab for belonging and technology. They are a researcher, community convener, program designer, strategist, and product leader who has worked on communication and collaboration tech serving millions of people for over a decade. LX is currently co-founder of Spacious, a peer-to-peer group audio app. They are the steward of Folk Tech, a 2026 Voqal Fellow, Co-Organiser of DWeb Camp Cascadia, Facilitator and Program Designer at AI Stewardship Practice Program, Practice Designer at The Emergence Network, and a board member at Prosocial Design Network and Tech Fleet. Belonging = Freedom = Responsibility is their core organising principle.

fauno

Worker owner, Sutty Worker Co-op

My work and activism is focused on investigating, adapting and implementing ecological and resilient technologies, specially autonomous, collectivelly managed infrastructure. Since 2017 I've been working almost exclusively on resilient web sites using Jekyll and developing a platform for updating and hosting them called Sutty. I'm also an organizer, facilitator and cis-admin at Escuela Común / Red Abya Yala.

Michael Suantak

eimiAI Alternative Solutions

Pumsuanhang (Michael) Suantak is a technologist and indigenous rights advocate specializing in decentralized infrastructure and AI data sovereignty. He founded eimiAI to develop grassroots Large Language Models (LLMs) that preserve the languages and cultures of his native Kuki-Chin-Zo people and over 20 other low-resource communities across India and Myanmar.

Michael is also the Founder of ASORCOM and the Community Wireless Cooperative (CWC). He architects off-grid, community-owned wireless mesh networks in remote jungle and border regions. By deploying edge servers and secure LoRa communication systems, he provides vital connectivity and crisis mitigation tools independent of the global internet.

Operating at the intersection of digital self-governance and alternative ICT policy, Michael is a 2024 DWeb Fellow dedicated to ensuring marginalized communities retain ownership of their digital infrastructure, data, and cultural heritage.

Riley Wong

Principal / Researcher, Emergent Research / MIT

Riley Wong is the Principal of Emergent Research, a research lab and consultancy investigating digital infrastructure for community privacy, agency, and consent. Their work explores the intersections of cryptographic tooling, cooperative governance, and community-led design, with a particular focus on how communities facing surveillance and repression can build and govern their own community infrastructure.

Riley co-founded the Community Privacy Residency in Taipei and Berlin, convening an international network of experts to co-create privacy infrastructure by and with vulnerable communities. Their background spans privacy-preserving data governance, consent infrastructure, and decentralized collective governance at Metagov, 0xPARC, and DWeb; machine learning engineering and AI ethics at Google; and award-winning investigative data journalism at ProPublica. Their work has been published or presented at MIT, Harvard Kennedy School, Yale, and Penn.

Senka H

iNethi

Senka operates at the intersection of decentralized technology, public policy, and sustainable development. Part academic, part engineer, and part grassroots advocate, she is a firm believer in open ecosystems: from open science, FLOSS, and digital public goods to the power of the digital commons and cooperative models.

Shadrach Ankrah

Founder & Executive Director, Africa Rural Internet and STEM Initiative (AFRISTEMI)

Shadrach Ankrah is an IT Specialist and the Founder of the Africa Rural Internet and STEM Initiative (AFRISTEMI). He works at the intersection of technical deployment and policy advocacy.
He currently focus on deploying community-owned Wi-Fi mesh networks in remote communities. These networks are built by the community, owned and managed by them, fostering accessibility and affordability, hence allowing user control. The local communities he serves are mainly remote, rural, and underserved, facing many challenges, including poor education, poor health, and ICT and infrastructure.

Luandro

Awana Digital

Tinker, florester and admirer of originary cultures. I believe and live a better world where communities are enpowered and self-governed, people have the time and spirit to tend their human and non-human peers and tools are hacked or built for the buen vivir.

nádia coelho pontes

Member, Tekoporã

With an electrical engineering background, Nádia transitioned to the agtech field through photovoltaic irrigation systems. In contact with organic farmers and Brazilian agroecological movement, she started to orient her perspective towards digital systems that support collective work, while diving in hacker culture and politics. She's currently part of the Tekoporã Collective, and the Transfeminist Network for Digital Care.

Camille Nibungco

https://camillenibung.co/

D:food/web Fellows

Anna Lynton

Funding lab for open agroecological technologies

Anna Lynton is a designer, technologist, and community facilitator. Her work is rooted in supporting community autonomy, local innovation, and tech sovereignty.

Tara Conway

Research Scientist, Perennial Cultures Lab, The Land Institute

As a social scientist in The Land Institute's Perennial Cultures Lab, Tara is interested in how plants, people, and place can shape one another to achieve a more mutually sustaining world. She lives in Athens, GA and is a lover of bogs and granite outcrops.

Bendjedid Rachad Sanoussi

Founder and CTO, Green Leaf AI

Bendjedid Rachad Sanoussi is an ICT specialist and environmental advocate focused on digital solutions for sustainability. He is currently pursuing a PhD in Digital and Artificial Intelligence for Management, focusing on AI applications in sustainable systems. He is the Founder and CTO of Green Leaf AI, where he leads the development of AI solutions for climate-resilient agriculture, with a focus on early disease detection in date palm systems. Rachad is also engaged in climate advocacy as Advocacy Officer at Ecolotrip and serves on the Student Leadership Committee of the UNIC Network for Climate Action (2025–2026). He has worked with UNDP and ITU and is active in youth climate and digital governance networks. Moreover, Rachad strives to advocate for the inclusion of youth perspectives in environmental and digital policies. He aspires to become a tech policy analyst https://www.linkedin.com/in/rachadsanoussi/.

Asante

Dr., Department of Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering, KNUST; VISTA; Kumasi Technical University, Kumasi/Ghana

Dr. Johnson Opoku-Asante is an Agricultural and Water Resources Engineer specializing in agricultural machinery, irrigation systems, biowaste valorization, and rural technology development. He holds a PhD in Agricultural Machinery Engineering, an MSc in Water Resources Engineering and Management, and a BSc in Agricultural Engineering. With over 15 years of experience in engineering design, technology transfer, and community innovation, he has worked with institutions such as the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) D-Lab, Olin College of Engineering, IDE Ghana, and KNUST’s Technology Consultancy Centre. Through the Technology Consultancy Centre (TCC), he co-founded the Volta Invasive Species Transformation Alliance (VISTA) in partnership with the Volta River Authority (VRA), MIT, and Akosombo Industrial Company Limited (AICL), to address aquatic weed challenges in the Lower Volta, and promote biowaste-based livelihood opportunities for local communities.

Duke Jones

IdentiKey

Duke is a distributed systems engineer with a passion for 'liberation technologies' -- building tools for human freedom and thriving, consciously developed with human heart at the core.

Larissa Bral

Federal University of Rio de Janeiro - UFRJ - Brazil

Electronic and Computing Engineer by UFRJ. Master's student in the Postgraduate program in Technology for Social Development of the Interdisciplinary Nucleus for Social Development (NIDES) UFRJ. Extension researcher at the Technical Solidarity Center (SOLTEC) of UFRJ. Programmer at the EITA cooperative, developing technologies in free software for popular social movements, and collaborating programmer at TEKOPORÃ, a free software collective dedicated to creating management solutions focused on communities and guided by agroecology.

Engie Matene

Mātou Collective, Ngāti Rangi, Ngāti Moerewa, Ngā hapū o Te Hikutu, Kuki Airani

Engie is an Indigenous Technologist and founding member of Mātou Collective, working at the intersection of Indigenous data sovereignty, digital identity, and emerging technologies. From Aotearoa, New Zealand - her work is grounded in kaupapa Māori design and collective ownership, supporting Indigenous-led approaches to technology.

Mātou has developed an Indigenous Digital Identity Protocol and is advancing community-led digital sovereignty and trade initiatives through the development of the Indigenous Digital Sovereignty Stack, enabling Māori and Indigenous communities to govern, and sustain their own digital infrastructure.

Hiure

Member, PSP/Coolab/SemeaTec

Hiure Queiroz is a PhD candidate in Innovation and Technology at the Federal University of São Paulo (Unifesp), where he conducts research focused on the development of social technologies for community well-being. He holds a degree in Physics and a master's degree in Materials Science.

He is a member of the Associação Portal Sem Porteiras, where he has been actively involved in initiatives that combine participatory methodologies, territorial engagement, and the development of context-based technologies. He was part of the coordination team of the LabLab (lablab.tec.br), a collaborative process that brings together farmers, technologists, and researchers to co-create technological solutions rooted in local realities. Rather than focusing on isolated products, LabLab emphasizes the construction of processes, local capacities, and shared governance models for technology development.
Hiure works to promote the critical appropriation of science and technology through hacker culture.

Luke Smith

Cofounder, Origins Co•op

I am a regenerative designer, practitioner, and educator working at the confluence of ecology, technology, and economy.

I trained as an ecologist and conservation scientist and have been shaped by two decades of living and working with indigenous and peasant farming communities across Latin America, Subsaharan Africa, and Southeast Asia.

I am a cofounder of Origins, a cooperative brokerage platform developing regenerative supply systems and ethical trade networks for agroforestry goods grown by smallholder farmers.

I am committed to the regeneration of landscapes, cultures and livelihoods; to the emergence of cooperative, life-serving economies; and to supporting people, communities and organizations in realizing their higher potential.

I grew up in Britain and I live in Ithaca, NY, USA on a smallholding with my wife and two daughters.

Shalini A

Janastu

I have been part of Janastu - a software NGO, and Servelots - an IT company that engages with local contexts for their research and development needs for more than a decade. Our organization focuses on Community Networks in the remote villages preferably a local network to encourage local content and archival of local knowledge over the WIFI Mesh network and to bring in internet whenever required. I have been engaging with Community Owned WIFI-mesh networking by setting up a network and building mesh applications. I advocate these technologies with the local craftswomen and youth for this CN area.

Kirstin Auker

Co Founder, Farm Flow

I've spent 15+ years working across nearly every part of the food system, from planting and harvesting on small farms to building supply chains and designing the software and teams that keep food moving. That range has given me a real feel for both sides. I know what actually happens in the field, and I know how to translate that into tools and systems people will trust and use. I'm at my best bridging technical teams and farmers, leading with curiosity and clarity, and helping mission-driven organizations grow without losing what makes them good. At the heart of it, my work is about strengthening regional food systems and supporting the people who grow and move our food, at every scale.

Rosanna Crawford

Outreach & Engagement Coordinator, True Cost Accounting Accelerator

I've worked in the sustainability sector for 7 years on projects ranging from urban climate governance, to rural community climate action, to Just Transition research. I am passionate about equitable access to the outdoors, sustainable agrifood systems, and the Just Transition. I live in London and like to climb, run, swim, and garden in my free time.

Joseph

Director, TASFRL

Joseph K. Johnson, PMP® is a Director and Treasurer for Texas AgriForestry Small Farmers, Ranchers, and Landowners (TASFRL) and serves on the Steering Committee for the Small Landowners Carbon Collaborative (SLCC). With more than 20 years of cross-sector experience spanning the travel industry, energy, utilities, financial services, and agroforestry, he brings expertise in governance, portfolio leadership, and large-scale program oversight.

He also serves on the Board of Directors for the Texas Forestry Association, is a founding member of the BIPOC National Empowerment Trust (BNET) Network, and is a member of the Funding Lab for Open Agroecological Technologies (FLOAT), supporting sustainable land stewardship, agroecological innovation, and climate resilience. He additionally contributes to USDA/NRCS Texas State Technical Advisory Committees and supports responsible land stewardship initiatives. He is also a trained burn manager.

Veronica Villa

Campaigner and researcher, ETC Group

Mexican anthropologist, anchors the program on Food Sovereignty, Seeds, Peasant Livelihoods inside the ETC Group. Passionate about technologies, innovations and systems of knowing that come from the peoples. Very focused in the production of didactic materials (booklets, graphics, audios) for the movements and grassroots organizations. Loves music, dances, poetry, visual arts. Surprised by the velocity of changes the last two decades, full of hope that human connection will shield us from anxiety and despair.

Wedja

Communications Professional, LabLab, Float e MST

My family has been settled through MST (Landless Workers' Movement) land reform for 20 years. I grew up in that context, as part of an agroecological farming community. I am a social communication student, worked in LabLab and am currently working on the Float-funded project "From CSAs to Bioregional Economy". I come from the territory this session is about.

Pamela Cuadros

Permaculture practitioner, set designer, lighting designer and visual artist. 20 years work experience in Latin America and Europe. Current focus: water management solutions for small-scale farming. Also involved in design of ineractive environmental education, ex. audiowalks.

Marcela Guerra

General Coordinator, Institute of Science and Technology Portal sem Porteiras

Researcher and project manager working at the intersection of technology and education, focused on bringing development tools in the hands of communities. Currently coordinating the emerging Institute of Science and Technology Portal sem Porteiras.

Robin Woolner

Robin works at the intersection of ecological stewardship and community governance. has worked internationally in food sovereignty and ecosystem restoration communities over the last 15 years. Most recently in Concow, California where he helped organize education events which brought together land stewards from the area to exchange resources and ideas in the wake of devastating wildfire. During this time he also was a team member for the community tool library, operating the mobile sawmill.

Steve Francis

Tech Matters, Terraso, Better Deal for Data (BD4D), GOAT, OpenTEAM

Software engineer turned entrepreneur turned non-profit open source ag tech supporter. Building tools to support farmers and their communities live more sustainably.

Tamisha Lee

President, Jamaica Network of Rural Women Producers

Tamisha Lee is a dynamic agricultural leader and grassroots advocate from Jamaica. She serves as the President of the Jamaica Network of Rural Women Producers (JNRWP), where she is deeply committed to the economic and social empowerment of rural female farmers. Tamisha focuses on building climate-resilient food systems through community-led solutions, including parametric insurance partnerships, direct-to-consumer farmers' markets, and agricultural capacity building. She bridges grassroots field experience with regional advocacy to champion digital and food sovereignty, ensuring that smallholders in the Global South have the tools and structural support to protect their livelihoods.

Bonstein Sisa

Innovation Strategist, ShambaSense

With over 8 years of experience in strategy, service design, business model innovation, and systems transformation, I specialize in helping organizations design and implement scalable models across operations, technology, AI, data, and institutional growth.
My expertise spans business model design, digital transformation, operational efficiency, and ecosystem strategy, with a strong focus on turning complex ideas into practical, high-impact systems.
I thrive in aligning strategy with execution, bringing clarity to complexity and helping institutions build sustainable solutions that deliver real impact.

Nano

Digital Artisan, Open Ag Lab, Ayllu Coop

https://gitlab.com/nanocastro

DWeb Camp Organizers

Florian

Department of Decentralization

Henning Fehr

Steward, Chaos Infusion

* based in Berlin
* Masters in Fine arts
* extended travels in Canada and the US

Franzi

Department of Decentralization

https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:sdqcstxdiwgdugbkbxjho6nc

https://twitter.com/_franzihei

https://github.com/franzihei

Afri

Department of Decentralization

https://bsky.app/profile/l5y.tech
https://github.com/l5yth
https://l5y.tech/

ligi

Department of Decentralization

https://bsky.app/profile/ligi.de
https://twitter.com/mr_ligi
https://github.com/ligi
https://ligi.de/

Peter

Department of Decentralization

https://github.com/kalambet

https://kalambet.dev/

Raul

Department of Decentralization

https://twitter.com/nachortti

Yaron

Department of Decentralization

https://twitter.com/yaronski

Mai Ishikawa Sutton

Senior Organizer

Sarthi

Space Steward, Hackers Hall

A builder on a journey to learn and contribute to the society.

Karmel Salah

Hospitality (Bar) Team, Co-lead

AI Engineer and Researcher currently pursuing a Master’s degree in Artificial Intelligence at University of Potsdam, Germany. I am passionate about using AI and technology to create meaningful and creative solutions, combining research, innovation, and storytelling.

Beyond tech, Ivenjoys social activities, sports, meeting new people, and learning new things every day. I love making people laugh with funny jokes and believes great conversations can start with a simple “hi.” Always curious, open-minded, and energetic, I enjoy connecting with people from different backgrounds and exchanging ideas.

So don’t be shy say hi to me ! 😊

Andi Wong

Curator, Children's Program

Anna Lynton

Space Steward

Anna Lynton is a designer, technologist, and community facilitator. Her work is rooted in supporting community autonomy, local innovation, and tech sovereignty.

Arikia Millikam

Video Team Lead

Arkadiy Kukarkin

Technical Director

B Cavello

Curator, Public AI

BZ Petroff

HR & Procurement

BZ joined the Internet Archive in October 2016. A veteran of the Animation industry; Lucasfilm, Wild Brain, Pixar and Colossal Pictures, it was her love of books that drove her to work for the Internet Archive. As a life long "people person" she is well suited for her responsibilities in events and people operations for the Archive. When not working, BZ likes to watch baseball, listen to jazz and go running on her beloved Mt. Tamalpais.

Nils Dirk Mittag

Teen Program Steward

Be human first

Beth McCarthy

Strategic Partnership Coordinator

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

blake g

Food Team Co-lead

Blake is an Open Source Software developer working in peer-to-peer, privacy, and security.
https://github.com/cowlicks

Equipment Manager

Seb

Space Steward, Forest

Breaking the chains of our past with the blocks of our future (or something along those lines...) 🧙‍♂️

Find me in the forest!

Bruno Caldas Vianna

Space Steward

Steven Elleman

Space Steward, Lightning Salon

Coliving-for-life, started three grouphouses in and around San Francisco California. Now at Embassy, a 15-person commune whose mission is to incubate preconfigurative practices and technologies for better ways of living in community. At Embassy I am trying to collect lineages of practice that may make sense together: DWeb, new-age secular-religiousity, communal living, bodywork, cosmolocalism, programmable cryptography... Somehow they share a bottom-up rhyme, and my wild dream is to find a coherent wholeness at home, a new holonic home, where these lineages coalesce into a sum greater than their parts.

Cori Schlicht

Space Steward

Cori is a co-founder of Regens Unite, a global network at the intersection of regeneration, technology, and shared ownership, known for its gatherings in cities from Bangkok to Buenos Aires. Her background spans event production, community building, partnerships, and growth strategy in DAOs, with early roots in enterprise tech sales and customer success.

She is passionate about ethical tech that prioritizes people and planet over pure profit. She spends her time producing events, building partnerships, and growing reach for work that matters.

Deborah Tien

Steward, Wild Web of Care

Crafting relational tech with neighbors, all over the world.

Andre Vacha

Food Team Co-lead

Crypto burnout who found his people and calling in the dweb community. Designer and technologist focused on systems that help us live more conscious lives, live more connected to ourselves and the world around us. This camp, I'm eager to learn about and contribute to open social, namely in conversations around moving beyond the feed interface, food sovereignty, and co-living community infrastructure.

Marta Andreoli

Space Steward, Open Social Space

Dan Schmidt

Steward, Wild Web of Care

Dan is a Watson Fellow exploring how social tech might align with natural human rhythms rather than engagement-driven design

Dani

Logistics & Procurement

Dani is a Paris/Berlin-based curator of human experiences. By day, they bring their background as a business owner and data/marketing strategist to the creation of memorable, detail-driven events. By night, they're a promoter, booker, and resident DJ for the Paris queer multidisciplinary collectives Grisemule and The Love.

Passionate about digital rights, decentralized governance, and the ways technology shapes how we organize and live together.

Dario P.

Space Steward, Hackers Hall

Spencer Cavanaugh

Space Steward, Lightning Salon

Designer and knowledge management consultant

ishadai

Assistant Team Lead, Seedlings Program

Doctor of medical qigong, masters in Traditional Chinese Medicine. Shamanic work, Spiritual Midwife, Birth and Death Doula.

Eileen

Curator, Design for Decentralized Tech

Eileen Wagner is a Berlin-based UX designer and conceptual engineer working at the intersection of privacy, security, and local-first technologies. She is currently Head of Product at [Tonk](https://tonk.xyz/), where she shapes how people and machines share data without buying into platform infrastructures. With a decade of experience spanning usable security, open source design, and public interest tech, she has worked with over 70 teams across for-profit and nonprofit sectors. A bit of a librarian at heart, she also maintains [Decent Patterns](https://decentpatterns.com/), a pattern library for distributed systems.

Liz Barry

Curator, Sustaining Infrastructure

Elizabeth "Liz" Barry is the Executive Director of Metagov, a nonprofit research-to-infrastructure laboratory advancing collective self-governance in a digital age. By providing the scaffolding (tools, protocols, semantics, norms) necessary for emergent institutional design, Metagov aims to reduce the friction of upgrading or creating new organizations that are “alive” — i.e. that can adapt, incorporate feedback, and manage power. She co-founded the Computational Democracy Project with the creators of Polis. She witnessed Taiwan’s Sunflower Revolution in person, then introduced Audrey Tang to the international community in the 2016 piece "vTaiwan: Public Participation Methods on the Cyberpunk Frontier of Democracy." Her projects have tuned human-environment-technology relationships by applying design to community organizing, science to environmental justice, and math to democracy. More at lizbarry.net.

Sina

Team Lead, Hospitality/Bar

Engineer 🛠 deciphering life through optimism ✨ ….
Https://www.sinarahimi.dev
Https://linkedin.com/in/sinarahimii
https://x.com/banksy_said_hi

Tommi Marmo

Curator, Open Social Web; Team Lead, Documentation

Eseohe Ojo

Associate Producer; Space Steward

Eseohe Ojo (Ese) is Policy and Campaign Manager at Fight for the Future as well as Projects Organizer with DWeb. She is an Associate Producer of 2022 DWeb Camp. She’s worked on various projects involving policy, writing, research and communications with nonprofits on a range of issues including digital rights, the environment, freedom of expression, access to information, academic freedom, gender, democracy, and open government.

Guo Liu

Space Steward, D:food/web

Hudson Headley

Lead Steward, Hackers Hall

SJ Klein

Curator, Public AI

David Luecke

Space Steward

I like mountains, forests and open technology made for humans.

Will Howes

Space Steward

I've been helping fill hard drives at the Internet Archive since 2023! Before joining the Internet Archive, I studied computer science at Reed College in Portland, OR.

Brian Eggert

Space Steward

Ian Davis

Code of Conduct team

Sammy Gwilym

Space Steward, P2P/Anti-Authoritarian Tent

Illustrator, programmer, mum, half of worm-blossom, and co-author of Willow.

Micah

Music Team Leader

Ira Nezhynska

Creative Director

Joachim Lohkamp

Senior Organizer

Joachim is a strategic ecosystem builder and part of the core organizing team at DWeb, where he helps shape one of the leading global gatherings in decentralized technology.

Between 2014 and 2020, he served as a Connector for the Ouishare network, scaling cross-border collaboration across Europe and the United States. He initiated the GET Decentralized Hackathon & Summit in Berlin and played a catalytic role in early transatlantic convenings that helped build the foundation for the first DWeb Summit in 2016.

As founder of Jolocom, Joachim has been an active contributor to the decentralized identity landscape. He has served as co-founder and board member of Bundesblock and as a steering committee member of the Decentralized Identity Foundation (DIF), helping shape governance, standards, and industry coordination in the blockchain and digital identity space.

LX Cast

Curator, Solidarity Tech

Lee

Space Steward, Resilience Base

Madelynn Martiniere

Unconference Lead

Marie K

Head of Pollinator Program

Mathias Jud

Curator, Decentralized Hardware / Local Community Networks

Matthew Schutte

Demo Night Market, Co-lead

mixmix

Head Weaver

Mix is a community weaver and software engineer. Comes from New Zealand, loves p2p tech, sci-fi, magic the gathering. Currently works for Socket Security making FOSS ecosystems safer.

Nathan Hewitt

Space Steward

Nathan Hewitt runs Raft Foundation, an experiment in nonprofit commoning.

Gopi

Demo Night Market, Co-lead

Privacy first engineer, currently focused on Consensus, DAOs, & PETs.

Rob Keizer

Team Lead, Reviewing and Scheduling

Sharon Albuerne

Lighting Team Lead

Sharon Albuerne is a San Francisco-based interdisciplinary researcher whose work exists at the intersection of personality, culture, and environment. Rooted in systems theory, her research draws from sources as wide ranging as evolutionary biology, cognitive psychology, game theory, indigenous studies, and political science. She is working to develop a "social immune system" composed of pattern languages for identifying, containing, and repelling dark personalities and other bad actors in group settings, with the goal of enabling regenerative cultures that can restore ecological balance. When she's not busy fighting sociopathic hegemony, she enjoys tap dancing, tide-pooling, playing guitar, crafting, good conversation, and bad puns.

Young Wong

Steward, Children's Program

bumblefudge.com

Curator, Unconference

Sociotechnical jack-of-all-trades, decentralizer, gadfly, information warrior. Ask me about DIDs, VCs, IPFS, censorship-resistance, UX, and worker-ownership models.

Justus Perlwitz

Team Lead, Radio Operations

Software architect and cybersecurity researcher from Berlin and Tokyo

Ryder Morton

Teen Program Steward

Student in the Boston area interested in mathematics and cryptography. Always up for drumming, frisbee, or hacky sack.

Val Elefante

Space Steward, Solidarity Tech/Sustainable Infrastructure

Wendy Hanamura

Senior Organizer

willscott

Curator, Resilience Base

Andre Garzia

Space Steward, Library

Working on free and open source software, writing books, making tea.

https://andregarzia.com/

https://ssb.nz

Ying Tong

Space Steward

Zelf

Curator, P2P Tent

Noah brikk

Audio Team Lead

[ Noah brikk

Audio Team Lead at DWeb Camp ]

Yisi Liu

Space Steward

co-founder and cto at mask network
research fellow at institute of network society

Nic Laz

Construction Team Lead

cypherpunk // maker // artist

Denis / TriplEight Pisarev

Lead, Parking Team

https://bsky.app/profile/tripleight.bsky.social
https://mastodon.social/@tripleight
https://github.com/tripleight
https://zkzkzk.uk

Anh Lê

Steward, Hacker's Hall

https://bsky.app/profile/vananh.bsky.social
https://vananh.neocities.org

Kev Nguyễn

Steward

void temporarily made human

Roots Descendents Soundsystem

The Roots Descendents Soundsystem will bring their full stack to DWeb Camp for the upliftment of all attendees — daily from 14:00 until 22:00. Everyone is invited to dance and meditate along.

The Roots Descendents Soundsystem will bring their full stack to DWebCamp for the upliftment of all attendees. You can have every single cell of your body massaged from 14:00 until 22:00 every day of camp (first day starting earlier and last day most likely until later). Everyone is invited to dance and meditate along. A good way to keep body and mind in balance.

Not only do they fit very well in the theme "Root Systems" of this year - but they also align very well with the mission of DWebCamp . The Roots Descendents Soundsystem is also behind Roots Order Records - and one repeated line from their first and so far only album is: "All humans benefit must be the center of your plan" which fits so well with the first principle of DWebCamp "Technology for human agency".

The Roots Descendents Soundsystem was founded in Germany/Kassel in 2014 and are using their self-built and custom-made system to play roots reggae and dub. This music can be seen as the roots of a lot of modern music. There is a great documentary about this called "Dub Echoes".

After over a year of construction, regular events are now taking place all over the country, from south to north and east to west to spread good vibes and conscious music!

Word, sound and power: mash down Babylon!

The music carries an ancient spiritual message deeply rooted in the Rasta philosophy that appeared in Jamaica in the 1930s. It says: "One love. Everyone is welcome, regardless of nationality, race, colour or creed. We are one big family and we should live in peace instead of killing each other." This peace is evident in the sound system: sound women and sound men create a peaceful and positive atmosphere full of respect. But nevertheless, political and social grievances are pointed out!

Roots Descendents run sessions in an original Soundsystem style. Artists from different places are invited to enrich the music and make each session special. Through the mystical Roots vibration, they bring musical healing to the people, in the tradition of Roots & Culture Soundsystems like Jah Shaka, Dandelion, King Shiloh and Aba Shanti-I.

One love!

Attendees coming to DWeb Camp

Beth McCarthy DWeb Camp	mai ishikawa sutton DWeb	ajuvo c-base
Bruce Baumgart retired Internet Archive computer systems employee	Eric Hellman Project Gutenberg	Martijn de Waal Civicixd.nl - AUAS
Matthias Kirschner Free Software Foundation Europe	Wouter Tebbens Free Knowledge Institute	Matt Lorentz
Ruben Wolff Peerbench.ai	Kevin Triplett Equinox Institute	JaPossert idea2.life & EvoBioSys(.org)
Holmes Wilson	Andre Kudra esatus AG	termie
Joachim Lohkamp DWeb	Ira Nezhynska Independent Creative Director	Pearl Parabéns
Moon Davé	Kevin Baragona DeepAI	Santi Bazerque
Young M Wong DWeb	Andi Wong DWeb	Wendy Hanamura DWeb Organizer
Bart Delrue Odisee University of Applied Sciences	George Omnet https://georgeom.net	Sam Wedgwood https://wedg.dev
Nilufer Okay	David Dao GainForest + Protocol Labs	Sharfy Adamantine GainForest + HypercertsIT
James.eth	Rob Keizer	Arkadiy Kukarkin Internet Archive
Andre Alves Garzia Secure Scuttlebutt	Nathan Hewitt Raft Foundation	Ying Tong { ideal }
Liz Steininger Least Authority	Ryder Morton Internet Archive	Sammy Gwilym worm-blossom
Christian Tschudin U of Basel	Gavin Owens	Irakli Gozalishvili
Jack Douglas	Chris Joel	Gamal Adel Leiden University
Aryabhatta Non-Traditional Student, Chandler-Gilbert Community College	Beatrice Murch Internet Archive Europe	Tony Guepin Internet Archive Europe
Julien Masanes Internet Archive Europe	SJ Klein Concordance Library	Gabriel Chartier GnoSys Labs LLC. \| seption.org \| patternjournal.net
Jeremy Paradie Seption.org Co-founder	Kaia Peacock	Zenna 'zelf' Elfen
David Luecke	Wesley Finck Semble & Cosmik Network	Daniel Holmgren Bluesky
Spencer Saar Cavanaugh	Andrea Ferrante Schola Campesina	Caroline Ledant Schola Campesina
Anamika Dey Honey Bee Network	David Otieno Kenyan Peasant League	Chesha Wettasinha Prolinnova International
Steven Elleman	Cari Anna Korshavn King	Val Elefante Metagov
Dario Free Software Foundation Europe	Yaron Zimmermann DoD	Guo Liu
Bruno Caldas Vianna	Hudson Headley	Will Howes Wayback Machine
LX Cast Folk Tech	Justus Perlwitz JWP Consulting GK	kenzo
Václav Pavlín Logos	Jeremiah Lee	Mf
Joshua Rosenberg Library Of The Commons Co.	Giacomo Leidi	Gabriel Voelkner
Rubbel De Catc	Jason Morton ezkl	Hannah Wittman University of British Columbia; LiteFarm
Hanna Grønneberg researcher in decentralized internet practices	Holke Brammer Hypercerts Foundation	Mathias Jud qaul.net, ISOC Community Network Infrastructures Special Interest Group, Freifunk
Sarthi Borkar Kairen Labs	Nico Briar	Eugene Leventhal Octant & Metagov
vgrass Berlin FediDay	Anna Lynton Funding Lab for Open Agroecological Technologies	Arushi Bandi CEO, Habitat
Dylan Tull Atlas Research Group	Michael Garfield Atlas Research Group	Christina Bowen Atlas Research Group
coreygo Atlas Research Group	Andre Vacha curl.projects	Pete Hayman Beetmash
Dorn Cox OpenTeam / Community Governed Organization (CGO) Working Group	Henry Jake Foreman New Mexico Community Capital / Community Governed Organization (CGO Working Group	Jenni Keppler Community Governed Organization (CGO) Working Group
Jamala Taylor Land Together / Community Governed Organization (CGO) Working Group	Richard Ng New Mexico Community Capital / Community Governed Organization (CGO) Working Group	Chris Hartgerink ResearchEquals
David Thomas Open Food Network	Kheva Mann CTO @ Farm Generations Coop / GrownBy	Enrique Santos
Leo Proechel Lightningrod Labs	Ciara McHugh Stats4SD	Liz Barry Metagov
Aneta Pavli DeepAI	Nicolas Luck Coasys, https://coasys.org	Bonstein Sisa Innovation & Strategy with ShambaSense (www.shambasense.com)
Seth Frey University of California, Metagov	Pamela Cuadros	Seph
Tomo Saito	Marcela Guerra Institute of Science and Technology Portal sem Porteiras	Nano Castro
Ela Kagel co-founder & board member of Platform Coops eG in Berlin	Martin Strobl IFT & Logos	Boris Mann DWebYVR
Luke Hubbard U&A - agent54 - xenon/darc	Dr. Johnson Opoku-Asante (1) Department of Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering, KNUST, (2) TCC-CIMET/ KNUST, (3) IDIN, MIT D-Lab, USA, (4) Kumasi Technical University, Kumasi	Sergei Tikhomirov Logos
Brad Hutcheson Founder, Kunul.eco \| Open-source protocol for community-owned digital spaces	Karma Yoezer Hypercerts & GainForest	Matthew Schutte Co-Founder Holochain
Tara Conway The Land Institute	Guil Maueler Regens Unite	James Weir Coasys, https://coasys.org
Veronica Villa ETC Group	Steve Francis Terraso / Better Deal for Data	Liz Sweigart And Other Stuff / Divine Video
Ben Fischer	Guillem Córdoba Dash Chat	Sol Sarratea
Jobi Jara Kroese Radical Data	Rob Lach computingwith.love	Day Waterbury Internet Archive / Long ARC Foundation
Zach Alexander	Wedja Lablab	Kaia Nau
Tamisha Lee President; Jamaica Network of Rural Women Producers	Engie Matene Co Founder & Core Contributor - Mātou Collective	Artem Octant Labs/Solidified Labs
Meri Leeworthy	Sophie Bloemen Commons Network	mix irving Socket Security
Gopi Mehta Consensus and DeFi R&D	Karmel Salah	Rain Rudnick synth.kitchen
Shalini A	Danny	B Cavello The Aspen Institute & Public AI Network
Hongyang Xiang	Michael Foster The Newsmast Foundation	Deena Baig
Esther Jang Local Connectivity Lab	Camille Nibungco	Billion Lee
Andrew Chou Awana Digital	fauno	Lisa Petrides CEO and Founder, ISKME.org
Christian Clauss ISKME.org	Thierry Damiba	Himerria Wortham
Senka Hadzic	Isabela Product Support and Field Team Affiliate, Awana Digital	Luandro Brazil Program's Coordinator, Awana Digital
Bendjedid Rachad Sanoussi Green Leaf AI	Lee DeSota Metagov + SciOS	Julian Nalenz
Pascal Possler Moderator & Water Tattoos	Blake Stoner Founder of Vngle: The Civic Insights Company	Howard Lo
Victor Lablab	Kat Excellence ATProto PDX	Yisi Liu Mask Network
Clara Engler The Tor Project, Inc.	Paul Frazee Bluesky	Riley Wong Emergent Research / Community Privacy / MIT
Nádia Tekoporã	Sharon Albuerne	Ryan Taylor Zk Av Club
Irena Neuschäfer-Satke	Luke Smith Origins Co•op	Kirstin Auker
Shadrach Ankrah Africa Rural Internet and STEM Initiative (AFRISTEMI)	Arikia Millikan Founder, CTRL+X	Cori Schlicht Regens Unite
Kaliya Young 'Identity Woman' & Project Weave	Evan Prodromou Research Director, Social Web Foundation	Iván Ávalos GNU Taler
Denis Pisarev DevCult	Carmel Schare	Kris Is Logos
Brian Eggert Prelinger Archives, Internet Archive	Andreas Dzialocha p2panda	Mitch Altman
Laurens Hof	Bradley Clark Royes The Foresight Institute	Rubén Rodríguez Pérez Internet Archive
Dan Schmidt Watson Fellow	Mascha Gugganig Technical University Munich	Darrell Duane
Avni Khatri GitHub, Internet-in-a-Box	John Bruhling Zcash Foundation + Zk Av Club	Elaine Baker Xodus.online
Ray Berger	Tony Lai Public AI, Stanford CodeX, Mothertree Labs	Antoine McGrath Internet Archive
Christine Lemmer-Webber Spritely	Rob Morris	Gabriel Pubky (pubky.org, pubky.app)
Crypto Marina	Julija Rukanskaitė Design lead @Reliabl	Florian Holosapiens
Paul Fuxjäger @cyperhippie	Luca Bonissi	Zach Miltz SynchroLabs.ai
Yaxin https://x.com/electricgoatpod	Scott Beibin	Jean-François Noubel Holosapiens.earth
Juan Diez Torbellino Tech	Thomas Holosapiens	Liz Cole Offworld Voyage and Evil Twin Booking Agency
jboy	Jonathan Starr SciOS	fiore dyad.berlin prefig.tech
Arkadiy Kukarkin Internet Archive	Roman Griesfelder Internet Archive Switzerland	Johann Lensing D64 - Center for Digital Progress
malcolm handley	Alisher Logos	Alexander Sellström Emerald Project
Willem Wyndham Co-founder, CSO, The Aha Company