People

Presentations By

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.

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.

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.

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.

D:food/web Fellows

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Nano .

Digital Artisan, Open Ag Lab, Ayllu Coop

https://gitlab.com/nanocastro

Nick Tucker

Director, Fern Creek

Based in the Far North of New Zealand, supporting organisations and businesses in the food and farming sectors to build deeper relationship with the complex systems they’re part of, and in doing so bring more of the potential within those systems to life. We also have a beef farm of our own, and are building holistic, regenerative systems to produce high quality, sustainable, resilient produce for the local community.

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.

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.

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.

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.

DWeb Camp Organizers

Afri .

Department of Decentralization

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

Andi Wong

Curator, Children's Program

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.

Andre Garzia

Space Steward, Library

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

https://andregarzia.com/

https://ssb.nz

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.

Anh Lê

Steward, Hacker's Hall

Anh is a transdisciplinary researcher and artist based in Lenapehoking/NYC. Recently, they've built community-owned internet infrastructure with Community Tech NY/Community Technology Collective and designed advocacy campaigns to support Southeast Asian movement building in NYC. They are currently pursuing their Masters in International Affairs at The New School, where their research focuses on border technologies, migration, and digital rights.

Anna Lynton

Space Steward

My work focuses on creative climate solutions. I collaborate with communities to listen to their needs, facilitate remote and in-person session to work towards shared visions, and develop processes to address organization's needs.

At OpenTEAM, I have worn many hats. I have lead the development of an equity resource guide, created agricultural data use documents which are now being used in several countries and contexts, and am constantly bringing creative solutions to a remote team.

My background in design, prototyping, code, and technical writing paired with my domain knowledge helps me exceed in the climate and ag space

Arikia Millikam

Video Team Lead

Arikia Millikan is a Berlin-based journalist and entrepreneur building at the intersection of media, technology, and truth. She is driven by the belief that quality, independent journalism is essential societal infrastructure, not a luxury product.

With an educational background in engineering and psychology, Arikia approaches problems with systematic rigor and deep research while maintaining the creative flexibility to reimagine broken systems. As the founder and CEO of CTRL+X™️, she’s developing decentralized publishing tools to make attribution verifiable and truth harder to obscure in a world where information is increasingly mutable.

Arkadiy Kukarkin

Technical Director

B Cavello

Curator, Public AI

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.

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.

Beth McCarthy

Strategic Partnership Coordinator

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.

Brian Eggert

Space Steward

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.

Bruno Caldas Vianna

Space Steward

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.

Cori Schlicht

Space Steward

I'm focused on driving forward scalable missions that prioritize net positive impact. Currently looking beyond sustainability towards regenerative models in digital platforms and community ownership.

I'm inspired by ethical tech that addresses global challenges - prioritizing people and planet over profit.

With a background in consultative enterprise sales and customer success, I have played many roles that require translating market needs into actionable steps for community development and customer-centered solution design. I spend my time developing quality partnerships, growing digital reach for impactful initiatives, and community building.

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

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 Luecke

Space Steward

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

Denis / TriplEight Pisarev

Lead, Parking Team

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

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.

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.

Florian .

Department of Decentralization

Franzi .

Department of Decentralization

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

https://twitter.com/_franzihei

https://github.com/franzihei

Gopi .

Demo Night Market, Co-lead

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

Guo Liu

Space Steward, D:food/web

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.

Henning Fehr

Hospitality (Bar)

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

Hudson Headley

Lead Steward, Hackers Hall

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

Ian Davis

Code of Conduct team

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.

Ira Nezhynska

Creative Director

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.

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.

Justus Perlwitz

Team Lead, Radio Operations

Software architect and cybersecurity researcher from Berlin and Tokyo

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 ! 😊

Kev Nguyễn

Steward

void temporarily made human

Kidist Wosenyeleh

Lighting Team Lead

I am a Minneapolis based creative coder, musician, and moving image artist. My work combines guitar, live visual processing, webcam footage, screen recordings, creative coding, digital distortion, and analog printmaking. I build Black digital interiors through saturated color, layered screens, feedback, handmade abstraction, and spiritual noise.

LX Cast

Curator, Solidarity Tech

LX Cast is 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 co-founder of Spacious, a peer-to-peer group audio app. They are the steward of Folk Tech, a 2026 Voqal Fellow, a board member at Tech Fleet and Prosocial Design Network, Program Designer at AI Stewardship Practice Program, and an organizer of DWeb Camp Cascadia. Ex-Head of Research at Marco Polo, Sr. PM at Notion, Chief Storyteller at Olark, Practice Designer at (the emergence network), Product Strategist at Lightningrod Labs. Resident Fellow in Community at Integrity Institute, steward at Collaborative Technology Alliance steering committee member of the Council on Tech and Social Cohesion, and member of Aspen Institute's Virtually Human working group. Belonging = Freedom = Responsibility is their core organizing principle.

Lee .

Space Steward, Resilience Base

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.

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.

Madelynn Martiniere

Unconference Lead

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.

Mai Ishikawa Sutton

Senior Organizer

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.

Marie K

Head of Pollinator Program

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.

Marta Andreoli

Space Steward, Open Social Space

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.

Mathias Jud

Curator, Decentralized Hardware / Local Community Networks

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.

Matthew Schutte

Demo Night Market, Co-lead

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.

Micah .

Music Team Leader

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.

Nathan Hewitt

Space Steward

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

Nic Laz

Construction Team Lead

cypherpunk // maker // artist

Nils Dirk Mittag

Teen Program Steward

Be human first

Peter .

Department of Decentralization

https://github.com/kalambet

https://kalambet.dev/

Raul .

Department of Decentralization

https://twitter.com/nachortti

Ryder Morton

Teen Program Steward

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

SJ Klein

Curator, Public AI

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).

Sammy Gwilym

Space Steward, P2P/Anti-Authoritarian Tent

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

Samuel Oslund

Curator, D:food/web — Cultivating Tech for Food Sovereignty

Samuel Oslund is the Director of AgTech at 11th Hour Project. Prior to this role, Samuel worked as a Researcher and Designer at Cobble and as a Farm Manager at Santropol Roulant. Samuel holds a B.A. (Hons) in Anthropology from Concordia University.

Sarthi .

Space Steward, Hackers Hall

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

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!

Sina .

Team Lead, Hospitality/Bar

Engineer 🛠 deciphering life through optimism ✨ ….

Spencer Cavanaugh

Space Steward, Lightning Salon

Designer and knowledge management consultant

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.

Tommi Marmo

Community Engagement Lead

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.

Val Elefante

Space Steward, Solidarity Tech/Sustainable Infrastructure

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

Senior Organizer

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.

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.

Yaron .

Department of Decentralization

https://twitter.com/yaronski

Ying Tong

Space Steward

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.

Young Wong

Steward, Children's Program

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.

Zelf .

Curator, P2P Tent

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.

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

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.

ishadai .

Assistant Team Lead, Seedlings Program

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

ligi .

Department of Decentralization

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

mf .

Equipment Manager

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

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.

willscott .

Curator, Resilience Base

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.

Attendees coming to DWeb Camp

Eric Hellman Project Gutenberg	Matthias Kirschner Free Software Foundation Europe	Daniel Holmgren Bluesky
Beatrice Murch Internet Archive Europe	Tony Guepin Internet Archive Europe	Julien Masanes Internet Archive Europe
Kaia Peacock	Zenna 'zelf' Elfen	Wesley Finck Semble & Cosmik Network
Ruben Wolff Peerbench.ai	Cari Anna Korshavn King	kenzo
Holmes Wilson	Ira Nezhynska Independent Creative Director	Joachim Lohkamp DWeb
ajuvo c-base	Bruce Baumgart retired Internet Archive computer systems	Andre Kudra esatus AG
Kevin Baragona DeepAI	mai ishikawa sutton DWeb	Kevin Triplett Equinox Institute
Martijn de Waal Civicixd.nl - AUAS	Matt Lorentz	Pearl Parabéns
Sen Green	termie	Santi Bazerque
Wendy Hanamura DWeb Organizer	Bart Delrue Odisee University of Applied Sciences	George Omnet https://georgeom.net
Nilufer Okay	David Dao GainForest + Protocol Labs	James.eth
Rob Keizer	Arkadiy Kukarkin Internet Archive	Andre Garzia Secure Scuttlebutt
Marta Andreoli Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE)	Nathan Hewitt Raft Foundation	Ying Tong { ideal }
Liz Steininger Least Authority	Ryder Morton	Sammy Gwilym worm-blossom
Christian Tschudin (cft) U of Basel	Sam Wedgwood https://wedg.dev	Chris Joel
Gavin Owens	Irakli Gozalishvili	Jack Douglas
Gamal Adel Leiden University	Gabriel Chartier GnoSys Labs LLC. \| seption.org \| patternjournal.net	Jeremy Paradie Seption.org - Co-founder
Aryabhatta Non-Traditional Student, Chandler-Gilbert Community College	SJ Klein Concordance Library	Ceci ETHPrague
Spencer Saar Cavanaugh	Steven Elleman	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	JWP Consulting GK	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 L. Grønneberg researcher in decentralized internet practices
Holke Brammer Hypercerts Foundation	Mathias Jud qaul.net, ISOC Community Network Infrastructures Special Interest Group, Freifunk	Kairen Labs
Nico from 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	David Thomas Open Food Network	Kheva Mann CTO @ Farm Generations Coop / GrownBy
Divya Chayanam LiteFarm UBC	Leo Proechel Lightningrod Labs	Ciara McHugh Stats4SD
Liz Barry Metagov	Aneta Pavli DeepAI	Nicolas Luck Coasys
Bonstein Sisa Innovation & Strategy with ShambaSense	Seth Frey University of California, Metagov	Pamela Cuadros