Funding the Commons Forum Berlin: Full Schedule

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TBA

AI & the Commons: Shared Risk, Shared Resource?

Wednesday June 11, 2025 TBA

Speakers

Cezar Mocan

Artist & Programmer

I am a Lisbon-based artist and computer programmer interested in the interplay between technology and the natural landscape. Using narrative generative systems—animated videos of infinite duration, real-time simulations built in game engines or other software—I create worlds that... Read More →

Wednesday June 11, 2025 TBA

Roundtable

10:00 CEST

Welcome Words

Wednesday June 11, 2025 10:00 - 10:20 CEST

Einkeller

Speakers

Beth McCarthy

Program Director, Funding the Commons

Beth McCarthy is a Berlin-based strategist, researcher, experience designer and curator. She is a Program Director at Funding the Commons, an organization exploring new models & mechanisms for open source & public goods funding.Formerly of web3 projects including Curve Labs, Centrifuge... Read More →

Wednesday June 11, 2025 10:00 - 10:20 CEST
Einkeller Wilhelm-Kabus-Straße 24, Berlin-Tempelhof-Schöneberg, Germany

Opening & Closing Remarks, Funding the Commons

10:00 CEST

Welcome and Plenary: Who are we and what is post-capitalism?

Wednesday June 11, 2025 10:00 - 10:30 CEST

Bread Cube

Speakers

Gilberto Morishaw

Breadchain Contributor, Breadchain

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

Joshua Davila

Co-Founder, Bread Cooperative

Joshua Dávila is a writer and podcaster of The Blockchain Socialist focused on the intersection of technology, politics, and post-capitalist thought. Originally operating under a pseudonym, he publicly emerged with the publication of his book Blockchain Radicals: How Capitalism Ruined... Read More →

Stephen Reid

Co-founder, Futurecraft

Stephen Reid is a technologist, facilitator and coach who has trained in the fields of AI/ML, complexity science, physics, transformative coaching and insight meditation. Current projects include writing a book on Technological Metamodernism, hosting courses and residencies as a founder... Read More →

Wednesday June 11, 2025 10:00 - 10:30 CEST
Bread Cube Wilhelm-Kabus-Straße 24, Berlin-Tempelhof-Schöneberg, Germany

Opening & Closing Remarks, Breadcon

10:00 CEST

Unconference Open Space

Wednesday June 11, 2025 10:00 - 13:00 CEST

Canopy

Wednesday June 11, 2025 10:00 - 13:00 CEST
Canopy Wilhelm-Kabus-Straße 24, Berlin-Tempelhof-Schöneberg, Germany

Unconference Open Space, Participant-Directed

10:00 CEST

DWeb Pop-Up Programming

Wednesday June 11, 2025 10:00 - 13:00 CEST

Workshop Cube

Wednesday June 11, 2025 10:00 - 13:00 CEST
Workshop Cube Wilhelm-Kabus-Straße 24, Berlin-Tempelhof-Schöneberg, Germany

Workshop, DWeb

10:00 CEST

Tomorrow by DWeb - bar-camp+open-space in the best traditions of DWeb Camp

Wednesday June 11, 2025 10:00 - 18:00 CEST

DWeb Terrace

Do you want to demo your project and get feedback? Did a brilliant idea strike you during the first day of FtC, and now you want to find people to share it with? Does the burning topic of internet freedom and privacy call you to talk about it with others?

Join the Tomorrow Day -- an open space for emergent workshop sessions by everyone, where your input shapes the agenda and fuels creative exploration.

How to participate:

Swing by the DWeb Popup on Day 1 and get your invitation-card. Or find it around the venue.
Fill out the opposite side.
Come to the DWeb Terrace in the morning of Day 2 (10 am) and pitch it in the bar-camp style.
Get your schedule slot, and join sessions of others.

Speakers

Ira Nezhynska

brand designer and creative director

Ira Nezhynska is a designer and creative director in open-source and decentralized tech who helps developers-turned-founders accelerate their product mass adoption through the power of emotion-led visual experiences and brand strategy.After years working for global brands and fintech... Read More →

Arkadiy Kukarkin

Decentralized Tech 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... Read More →

Ryan Taylor

Coordinator, Zero-knowledge Audiovisual Club

We are a global collective of audiovisual experts and students exploring art and creativity with decentralized and open-source technologies. Our focus is on empowering communities through content creation, education, and grassroots event support.Our mission is to share and preserve... Read More →

Wednesday June 11, 2025 10:00 - 18:00 CEST
DWeb Terrace Wilhelm-Kabus-Straße 24, Berlin-Tempelhof-Schöneberg, Germany

Unconference Open Space, DWeb

10:20 CEST

Way of Flowers Artist Talk

Wednesday June 11, 2025 10:20 - 10:30 CEST

Einkeller

Speakers

CROSSLUCID

Artist Collective

An artist collective (est. 2018) that engages in highly collaborative cross-disciplinary projects in co-evolution with technology.Their work and research converges around the exploration of the self as a network; intimacy and the potential for pleasurable actualization through the... Read More →

Wednesday June 11, 2025 10:20 - 10:30 CEST
Einkeller Wilhelm-Kabus-Straße 24, Berlin-Tempelhof-Schöneberg, Germany

Lightning Talk, Funding the Commons

10:30 CEST

Dynamic Ecological Stewardship

Wednesday June 11, 2025 10:30 - 11:30 CEST

Einkeller

Facilitators

Beth McCarthy

Program Director, Funding the Commons

Speakers

CROSSLUCID

Artist Collective

Sarah Baxendell

Layer - COO, ArtEcology - Founder & Regenerative Design Director, Layer Labs; ArtEcology

Sarah BaxendellRegenerative Design Director, ArtEcology | COO, Layer LabsSarah Baxendell operates at the intersection of ecological systems and emerging technology, creating frameworks that redirect capital toward planetary regeneration. As Regenerative Design Director at ArtEcology... Read More →

Crystal Ma

Venture Partner, Eka Frontier

Crystal Ma is a venture builder, growth strategist, and systems architect working across impact, finance, and technology. Her practice sits at the intersection of financial innovation, emerging technologies, and inclusive impact—bringing a uniquely cross-sectoral lens to building... Read More →

Hanna Fiegenbaum

Sustainability Integration Lead, WoodenValley gGmbH

I am a Sustainability expert passionate about implementing solutions to mitigate impacts on climate, nature, and people. I work as a Sustainability Integration Lead for the Built Environment to integrate various environmental indicators and design holistic mitigation and adaptation... Read More →

Wednesday June 11, 2025 10:30 - 11:30 CEST
Einkeller Wilhelm-Kabus-Straße 24, Berlin-Tempelhof-Schöneberg, Germany

Roundtable, Funding the Commons

10:30 CEST

Network States or Neo-colonialism

Wednesday June 11, 2025 10:30 - 11:30 CEST

Bread Cube

This roundtable discusses the intersection of the network state movement and Web3 communities to uncover, examine, and critique its neo-colonial character. While popup villages, edge cities, and local nodes are perceived as bottom-up initiatives by the Web3 community, their interlinkages with the network state movement evoke a critical perspective. Venture capital-backed network states not only claim territory from nation states in a neo-colonial fashion, they also seek legitimisation through subjecting ocean states to a discourse of exoticism and vulnerabilities. Bringing together scholars from the humanities, event organisers, and Web3 practitioners, this discussion aims to inform the audience with a critical and multifaceted view on the network state movement in and beyond Web3.

Facilitators

Ben Biedermann

Managing Director, ACURRAENT UG

Ben is a RaidGuild member and an expert on decentralised identity and Web3 infrastructure, who also reads for a PhD in DLT-based decentralised governance of small jurisdictions. As an entrepreneur, he successfully launched two Web3 consultancies in the past three years and received... Read More →

Speakers

Anna Ehrenstein

artist and academic, freelancer, HGB professor

Born in 1993 in Germany, Anna Ehrenstein lives and works between Berlin and Tirana.Her work has been featured in numerous solo exhibitions, including: Museum Villa Stuck, Munich; C/O Berlin; Francisco Carolinum, Linz; Kunstverein Braunschweig; Weserburg Museum für moderne Kunst Bremen... Read More →

Angela Kölling

rofessor of Anglophone Studies, Johannes Gutenberg Universität Mainz

Angela Kölling is a professor in Anglophone studies at the University of Mainz. Her research focuses on representations of Indigeneity in contemporary non-Indigenous cultures. She teaches literary translation and is interested in Indigenous translation theory.

Luiz Fernando Segala Gomes

Operations Lead, ReFi DAO

I'm the founder and lead of ReFi Barcelona and operations lead at ReFi DAO. Over the past three years, I’ve been organizing and supporting communities and programs across the ReFi and DAO ecosystems. My focus is on coordinating efforts to build interconnection within and between... Read More →

Wednesday June 11, 2025 10:30 - 11:30 CEST
Bread Cube Wilhelm-Kabus-Straße 24, Berlin-Tempelhof-Schöneberg, Germany

Roundtable, Breadcon

11:00 CEST

Political Economy and Commons as a Design Space

Wednesday June 11, 2025 11:00 - 13:00 CEST

Design Space

This workshop invites participants to explore political economy as a design space rather than a set of fixed ideologies, using five key variables: ownership structure, resource allocation mechanism, decision-making authority, distribution model, and relationship to global economy. By examining how different configurations of these variables create known systems like neoliberalism, ones based on commons-based approaches or even completely novel arrangements we can demystify economic systems. The workshop aims to reveal them as intentional human designs that can be reimagined and reconfigured to address contemporary challenges like inequality and ecological limits.

Facilitators

Nick Houde

Head of Research, co-matter

Nick Houde is a researcher and writer living in Berlin. He is the Head of Research for the creative studio co-matter and writes a monthly newsletter about geopolitics, technology, and culture. In recent years he has conducted research on DAO workers with Other Internet, investigated... Read More →

Wednesday June 11, 2025 11:00 - 13:00 CEST
Design Space Wilhelm-Kabus-Straße 24, Berlin-Tempelhof-Schöneberg, Germany

Workshop, Breadcon

11:30 CEST

"World Upstream" Artist Talk

Wednesday June 11, 2025 11:30 - 11:40 CEST

Einkeller

Speakers

Cezar Mocan

Artist & Programmer

Wednesday June 11, 2025 11:30 - 11:40 CEST
Einkeller Wilhelm-Kabus-Straße 24, Berlin-Tempelhof-Schöneberg, Germany

Lightning Talk, Funding the Commons

11:30 CEST

Bioregioning the Commons

Wednesday June 11, 2025 11:30 - 11:40 CEST

Bread Cube

Speakers

Andrea Farias

Researcher & Designer, Independent

Andrea's path took a pivotal turn when she realized that her work in digital innovation, rather than creating useful solutions, was merely applying band-aids to problems driven by an extractive economic paradigm. This awakening led her to explore how digital technology can fundamentally... Read More →

Wednesday June 11, 2025 11:30 - 11:40 CEST
Bread Cube Wilhelm-Kabus-Straße 24, Berlin-Tempelhof-Schöneberg, Germany

Lightning Talk, Breadcon

11:40 CEST

Citizen Pay: Creating a common good payments network

Wednesday June 11, 2025 11:40 - 11:50 CEST

Bread Cube

Speakers

Jonas Boury

Co-Founder, Citizen Wallet ( Brussels Pay)

Jonas is a dynamic product manager and project developer on a mission to revolutionize our financial system through innovative, sustainable solutions. With a strong engineering background and seven years of experience in fast-paced, innovative projects, he has sharpened his expertise... Read More →

Kevin Sundar Raj

Co-Founder, Citizen Wallet

Entrepreneur and software developer, I grew up in between Belgium and Sri Lanka. After moving back to Belgium a few years ago, I started working on Citizen Wallet. In the process, discovering open source and web3.

Wednesday June 11, 2025 11:40 - 11:50 CEST
Bread Cube Wilhelm-Kabus-Straße 24, Berlin-Tempelhof-Schöneberg, Germany

Lightning Talk, Breadcon

11:40 CEST

Permacomputing for a Sustainable "Material Commons"

Wednesday June 11, 2025 11:40 - 11:50 CEST

Einkeller

Speakers

Felipe Schmidt Fonseca

Founder, Reuse City

I am Dr. Felipe Schmidt Fonseca, an experienced Berlin-based Brazilian advocate for social-environmental innovation and free/open-source technologies turned researcher. I am the founder of Reuse City studio and a co-creator of semente, a toolkit for community projects; as well as... Read More →

Wednesday June 11, 2025 11:40 - 11:50 CEST
Einkeller Wilhelm-Kabus-Straße 24, Berlin-Tempelhof-Schöneberg, Germany

Lightning Talk, Funding the Commons

11:50 CEST

Decentralising Neighbourhood Wealth

Wednesday June 11, 2025 11:50 - 12:00 CEST

Bread Cube

Speakers

Charlie Fisher

Founder, Komma

Charlie is known for his advice, research and activism on operationalising the long-term stewardship of land, particularly in the pursuit of urban affordable housing. He is a Co-founder of Komma, a research-action agency whose team have spent more than a decade working with citizens... Read More →

Wednesday June 11, 2025 11:50 - 12:00 CEST
Bread Cube Wilhelm-Kabus-Straße 24, Berlin-Tempelhof-Schöneberg, Germany

Lightning Talk, Breadcon

11:50 CEST

Nuclear Disarmament as a Public Good & Governance Challenge

Wednesday June 11, 2025 11:50 - 12:00 CEST

Einkeller

Speakers

Florian Eblenkamp

Advocacy Officer, International Campain to Abolish Nuclear Weapons

Florian Eblenkamp supports ICAN’s work in nuclear umbrella states, focusing on building political support for the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW). He coordinates with partners worldwide, strengthens the ICAN Parliamentary Pledge and Cities Appeal, and engages... Read More →

Wednesday June 11, 2025 11:50 - 12:00 CEST
Einkeller Wilhelm-Kabus-Straße 24, Berlin-Tempelhof-Schöneberg, Germany

Lightning Talk, Funding the Commons

12:00 CEST

Bioregional Financing

Wednesday June 11, 2025 12:00 - 12:10 CEST

Bread Cube

Speakers

Sarah Baxendell

Layer - COO, ArtEcology - Founder & Regenerative Design Director, Layer Labs; ArtEcology

Wednesday June 11, 2025 12:00 - 12:10 CEST
Bread Cube Wilhelm-Kabus-Straße 24, Berlin-Tempelhof-Schöneberg, Germany

Lightning Talk, Breadcon

12:00 CEST

Facing Challenges Together with AI: Policy, Ecological & Technical Perspectives

Wednesday June 11, 2025 12:00 - 13:00 CEST

Einkeller

Facilitators

Beth McCarthy

Program Director, Funding the Commons

Speakers

Cullen Miller

VP Policy, Spawning

Cullen Miller is an engineer, designer, and musician based in Berlin.He is currently the VP of Policy at Spawning, an organization building data governance solutions for AI training datasets. Previously he worked on the design and engineering of technical systems for large-scale immersive... Read More →

Joshua Tan

Co-Founder, Metagov, Public AI

Josh is a mathematician and computer scientist at Metagov.

Alistair Alexander

Reseacher/Producer, reclaimed.systems

Alistair explores the ecological and socal impact of technologies in workshops, art, research, writing and lots of other (hopefully) engaging ways. Alistair led the award.winning Glass Room Project (www.theglassroom.org ), an immersive art project on data privacy, consumer technology... Read More →

Cezar Mocan

Artist & Programmer

Apolinário Passos

Head of Machine Learning for Art and Creativity, Hugging Face

With 15 years of software engineering expertise and as a pioneer in generative machine learning, Apolinário builds tooling and interactive installations directly from the research source. Apolinário is the Head of Machine Learning for Art and Creativity at Hugging Face, where he... Read More →

Wednesday June 11, 2025 12:00 - 13:00 CEST
Einkeller Wilhelm-Kabus-Straße 24, Berlin-Tempelhof-Schöneberg, Germany

Roundtable, Funding the Commons

12:10 CEST

Local and Bioregional Resilience World Cafe

Wednesday June 11, 2025 12:10 - 13:00 CEST

Bread Cube

Facilitators

Stephen Reid

Co-founder, Futurecraft

Speakers

Jonas Boury

Co-Founder, Citizen Wallet ( Brussels Pay)

Andrea Farias

Researcher & Designer, Independent

Sarah Baxendell

Layer - COO, ArtEcology - Founder & Regenerative Design Director, Layer Labs; ArtEcology

Charlie Fisher

Founder, Komma

Kevin Sundar Raj

Co-Founder, Citizen Wallet

Wednesday June 11, 2025 12:10 - 13:00 CEST
Bread Cube Wilhelm-Kabus-Straße 24, Berlin-Tempelhof-Schöneberg, Germany

Workshop, Breadcon

13:00 CEST

Lunch

Wednesday June 11, 2025 13:00 - 14:00 CEST

Workshop Cube

Wednesday June 11, 2025 13:00 - 14:00 CEST
Workshop Cube Wilhelm-Kabus-Straße 24, Berlin-Tempelhof-Schöneberg, Germany

13:00 CEST

Lunch

Wednesday June 11, 2025 13:00 - 14:00 CEST

Workshop Cube

Wednesday June 11, 2025 13:00 - 14:00 CEST
Workshop Cube Wilhelm-Kabus-Straße 24, Berlin-Tempelhof-Schöneberg, Germany

13:00 CEST

Lunch

Wednesday June 11, 2025 13:00 - 14:00 CEST

Bread Cube

Wednesday June 11, 2025 13:00 - 14:00 CEST
Bread Cube Wilhelm-Kabus-Straße 24, Berlin-Tempelhof-Schöneberg, Germany

14:00 CEST

Political Economy as a Design Space

Wednesday June 11, 2025 14:00 - 14:10 CEST

Bread Cube

Speakers

Nick Houde

Head of Research, co-matter

Wednesday June 11, 2025 14:00 - 14:10 CEST
Bread Cube Wilhelm-Kabus-Straße 24, Berlin-Tempelhof-Schöneberg, Germany

Lightning Talk, Breadcon

14:00 CEST

Anarchiving Game

Wednesday June 11, 2025 14:00 - 15:00 CEST

Design Space

Facilitators

Alessandro Y. Longo

Founder, REINCANTAMENTO and Researcher, The Sphere, REINCANTAMENTO, The Sphere

Alessandro Y. Longo is a philosopher and researcher based in Berlin. Alessandro’s research explores subversive uses of technology, cooperative economic models, and cultural mutations in the age of digital networks. He is the founder of REINCANTAMENTO, a research and publishing collective... Read More →

Lene Vollhardt

Transmedia Artist, Co-Director of The Sphere, The Sphere

Lene Vollhardt / The Sphere (*NYC, USA) is a German-American transmedia and performance artist based in London, UK. Working at the intersection of art and technology, Lene explores how bodies, collaboration, and systems of value intertwine. Their film Swirls of Fortune, an exploration... Read More →

Wednesday June 11, 2025 14:00 - 15:00 CEST
Design Space Wilhelm-Kabus-Straße 24, Berlin-Tempelhof-Schöneberg, Germany

Activation, Funding the Commons

14:00 CEST

Politics of Perception: Architecting Trust and Sovereignty with Geospatial Data and Planetary Sensing

Wednesday June 11, 2025 14:00 - 15:00 CEST

Einkeller

Facilitators

Beth McCarthy

Program Director, Funding the Commons

Speakers

David Dao

Chief Scientist, GainForest / Eval.Science

David Dao is the Co-Founder of GainForest.Earth, a decentralized science non-profit leveraging emerging technologies to address the climate and biodiversity crisis. His work earned him the XPRIZE Rainforest Prize, and he is a leading contributor to research on data valuation in machine... Read More →

John Hoopes

Founder, Astral

John leads work at the intersection of emerging technology, planetary stewardship, and human dignity.He works across research, design, and engineering to develop systems that make complex spatial data verifiable, interoperable, and more useful in practice. His approach blends theoretical... Read More →

Paul Seidler

Artist, terra0

Paul Seidler, an artist and researcher based in Berlin, focuses his exploration on economic systems, decentralized programs, and computation. In 2020, he graduated at the University of Arts in the class of Prof. Joachim Sauter. Seidler is recognized as one of the founding members... Read More →

Cezar Mocan

Artist & Programmer

Wednesday June 11, 2025 14:00 - 15:00 CEST
Einkeller Wilhelm-Kabus-Straße 24, Berlin-Tempelhof-Schöneberg, Germany

Roundtable, Funding the Commons

14:00 CEST

Bridging Public Sector and Blockchain to Meet Sustainable Development Goals

Wednesday June 11, 2025 14:00 - 15:00 CEST

Workshop Cube

Facilitators

Alexandre Maaza

Sustainability Lead, Cardano Foundation

I'm passionate about harnessing blockchain technology to drive sustainable development and innovation at scale.As Sustainability & Innovation Lead at the Cardano Foundation, I bridge cutting-edge blockchain solutions with real-world impact through strategic partnerships and enterprise... Read More →

Wednesday June 11, 2025 14:00 - 15:00 CEST
Workshop Cube Wilhelm-Kabus-Straße 24, Berlin-Tempelhof-Schöneberg, Germany

Workshop, Funding the Commons

14:00 CEST

DWeb Camp Tea Tent

Wednesday June 11, 2025 14:00 - 15:15 CEST

DWeb Terrace

Slow down, enjoy a gongfu tasting of high-grade Oolongs, and imagine yourself in the shade of the towering redwoods. The Tea Tent is a secret highlight of DWeb Camp and this our way of bringing it to you — just a taste.

Speakers

Arkadiy Kukarkin

Decentralized Tech Lead, Internet Archive

Wednesday June 11, 2025 14:00 - 15:15 CEST
DWeb Terrace Wilhelm-Kabus-Straße 24, Berlin-Tempelhof-Schöneberg, Germany

Activation, DWeb

14:00 CEST

DWeb Pop-Up Programming

Wednesday June 11, 2025 14:00 - 19:00 CEST

DWeb Terrace

Wednesday June 11, 2025 14:00 - 19:00 CEST
DWeb Terrace Wilhelm-Kabus-Straße 24, Berlin-Tempelhof-Schöneberg, Germany

14:00 CEST

Unconference Open Space

Wednesday June 11, 2025 14:00 - 19:00 CEST

Canopy

Wednesday June 11, 2025 14:00 - 19:00 CEST
Canopy Wilhelm-Kabus-Straße 24, Berlin-Tempelhof-Schöneberg, Germany

Unconference Open Space, Participant-Directed

14:10 CEST

What is Ethereum R1?

Wednesday June 11, 2025 14:10 - 14:20 CEST

Bread Cube

Speakers

Ariel Rodriguez

Mrs kzg.eth Enthusiastic about Ethereum, Breadchain

Extremely enthusiastic ethereum community member

Wednesday June 11, 2025 14:10 - 14:20 CEST
Bread Cube Wilhelm-Kabus-Straße 24, Berlin-Tempelhof-Schöneberg, Germany

Lightning Talk, Breadcon

14:20 CEST

From Trustless to Trustworthy: Embedding Crypto in Commons Governance

Wednesday June 11, 2025 14:20 - 14:30 CEST

Bread Cube

Speakers

Felix Fritsch

Founder Commons Hubs, Commons Hub

Felix Fritsch is a political economist and community organizer working at the intersection of technology and societal transformation. With a background in political and economic theory, he crafts narratives that connect technological innovation—particularly in the blockchain and... Read More →

Wednesday June 11, 2025 14:20 - 14:30 CEST
Bread Cube Wilhelm-Kabus-Straße 24, Berlin-Tempelhof-Schöneberg, Germany

Lightning Talk, Breadcon

14:30 CEST

What is Money, anyway?

Wednesday June 11, 2025 14:30 - 14:40 CEST

Bread Cube

Speakers

Ethan Frey

Co-founder & CTO,, Layer Labs

Ethan Frey is the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) and Co-founder at Layer.xyz, where he drives the development of decentralized infrastructure with a focus on Actively Validated Systems (AVS) to enhance blockchain security and efficiency. His technical leadership aims to push the boundaries... Read More →

Wednesday June 11, 2025 14:30 - 14:40 CEST
Bread Cube Wilhelm-Kabus-Straße 24, Berlin-Tempelhof-Schöneberg, Germany

Lightning Talk, Breadcon

14:40 CEST

Lessons Learned from Existing Blockchain Political Economies

Wednesday June 11, 2025 14:40 - 15:20 CEST

Bread Cube

This roundtable is a discussion that takes a deeper look at the political and economic realities of building blockchains with technical veterans in the space who will share the realities of it. If blockchains are ideally one of the most resilient technical infrastructures that facilitate economic interaction we have, it’s important to understand how it interplays with the political economic context we live in.

Facilitators

Joshua Davila

Co-Founder, Bread Cooperative

Speakers

Ethan Frey

Co-founder & CTO,, Layer Labs

Connor O'Hara

Software Engineer, Celestia

Long term cryptocurrency enthusiast and software engineer. Skeptical of the industry, believer in the movement. Likes freedom and dislikes landlords. Book smart on computers, street smart on vibes

Trent Van Epps

Founder, Operator, Protocol Guild

Former architect that has been engaging in the Ethereum community since 2016. Writing about Ethereum at trent.mirror.xyz. Started Protocol Guild in 2021 and have since scaled it to 190 members, $28mm distributed, $50mm vesting over the next 4 years. Co-coordinated the KZG trusted... Read More →

Wednesday June 11, 2025 14:40 - 15:20 CEST
Bread Cube Wilhelm-Kabus-Straße 24, Berlin-Tempelhof-Schöneberg, Germany

Roundtable, Breadcon

15:00 CEST

The Missing Layer: Civil Society as Infrastructure for Resilient Public Goods

Wednesday June 11, 2025 15:00 - 15:10 CEST

Einkeller

Speakers

Katia Lukicheva

Founder, Decoland

Katia Lukicheva is a systems strategist working at the intersection of civil society, philanthropy, and emerging technologies to rethink how we fund, govern, and sustain public goods. She brings two decades of experience across grassroots activism and civil society movements, policy... Read More →

Wednesday June 11, 2025 15:00 - 15:10 CEST
Einkeller Wilhelm-Kabus-Straße 24, Berlin-Tempelhof-Schöneberg, Germany

Lightning Talk, Funding x the Commons x Decoland

15:00 CEST

Signals from the Frontier: A Web3 Builders Roundtable

Wednesday June 11, 2025 15:00 - 16:00 CEST

Workshop Cube

Facilitators

James Farrell

CTO, Funding the Commons

James Farrell is the CTO of Funding the Commons, where he leads the development of infrastructure and strategy to support a global ecosystem of builders, researchers, and institutions reimagining public goods funding. With a background in Web3, open source, and systems design, James... Read More →

Wednesday June 11, 2025 15:00 - 16:00 CEST
Workshop Cube Wilhelm-Kabus-Straße 24, Berlin-Tempelhof-Schöneberg, Germany

Workshop, Funding the Commons

15:10 CEST

Funding Beyond the VC Paradigm with UNICEF Ventures

Wednesday June 11, 2025 15:10 - 15:20 CEST

Einkeller

Speakers

Sunita Grote

UNICEF Lead, UNICEF

Sunita Grote leads the Ventures team within UNICEF’s Office of Innovation and co-founded its Venture Fund that provides seed funding in fiat and crypto - the first in the UN system. UNICEF Ventures explores how emerging frontier technology can accelerate results for the most marginalized... Read More →

Wednesday June 11, 2025 15:10 - 15:20 CEST
Einkeller Wilhelm-Kabus-Straße 24, Berlin-Tempelhof-Schöneberg, Germany

Lightning Talk, Funding x the Commons x Decoland

15:20 CEST

Funding Dependencies in Open Source Software Development

Wednesday June 11, 2025 15:20 - 15:30 CEST

Einkeller

Speakers

Eleftherios Diakomichalis

Founder, Drips

Eleftherios Diakomichalis is the founder of Drips, a complete toolkit for allocating and distributing capital to open source builders. He is also a co-founder of Radicle, a sovereign peer-to-peer network for code collaboration.

Wednesday June 11, 2025 15:20 - 15:30 CEST
Einkeller Wilhelm-Kabus-Straße 24, Berlin-Tempelhof-Schöneberg, Germany

Lightning Talk, Funding x the Commons x Decoland

15:20 CEST

Build a blockchain with weird political economies

Wednesday June 11, 2025 15:20 - 16:00 CEST

Bread Cube

In this workshop we will together discursively “build” our own blockchains based on weird political economies that are based on the framework developed by Nick Houde and Joshua Davila.

Facilitators

Joshua Davila

Co-Founder, Bread Cooperative

Speakers

Nick Houde

Head of Research, co-matter

Wednesday June 11, 2025 15:20 - 16:00 CEST
Bread Cube Wilhelm-Kabus-Straße 24, Berlin-Tempelhof-Schöneberg, Germany

Workshop, Breadcon

15:30 CEST

Credibly Neutral Funding: An Overview

Wednesday June 11, 2025 15:30 - 15:40 CEST

Einkeller

Speakers

Devansh Mehta

Lead AI x Public Goods, Ethereum Foundation, Ethereum Foundation

Devansh Mehta is lead for AI x Public Goods and Governance at the Ethereum Foundation. His current focus is on leveraging machine learning models to allocate funding between projects. Previously, he served on committees at Gitcoin and Octant and was working group lead at Arbitrum... Read More →

Wednesday June 11, 2025 15:30 - 15:40 CEST
Einkeller Wilhelm-Kabus-Straße 24, Berlin-Tempelhof-Schöneberg, Germany

Lightning Talk, Funding x the Commons x Decoland

15:40 CEST

Adaptive Funding Strategies for Arts, Research, & Silenced Science

Wednesday June 11, 2025 15:40 - 16:40 CEST

Einkeller

Facilitators

Katia Lukicheva

Founder, Decoland

Beth McCarthy

Program Director, Funding the Commons

Speakers

Joshua Tan

Co-Founder, Metagov, Public AI

Josh is a mathematician and computer scientist at Metagov.

Shady El Damaty

CEO & Co-founder, Holonym Foundation, human.tech

Shady El Damaty, Ph.D. is the CEO and co-founder of Holonym Foundation. Previously, Shady was a cognitive neuroscientist and the pioneering visionary behind DeSci. He created the first decentralized science DAO, built a verified identity registry, and worked to archive hundreds of... Read More →

Fabain Vogelsteller

Founder, Universal Everything

Fabian Vogelsteller is a software developer and entrepreneur whose work has shaped the blockchain and Web3 space. Best known for creating the Ethereum Mist wallet and authoring the ERC-20 token standard, Vogelsteller has helped lay the technical and conceptual foundation for decentralized... Read More →

Lex Gillon

Grants Program Manager, JUST Open Source

Built on the open source principles of transparency, education, and collaboration, JUST Open Source Stiftung drives the Web3 conversation concerning the operational ramifications of building cutting edge technology. We believe the key to realizing the Web3 promise of self sovereignty... Read More →

David Dao

Chief Scientist, GainForest / Eval.Science

Zsofia Samodai

Community Researcher,, Wyvern Art Fund

Zsofia Samodai is Community Researcher at Wyvern Art Fund, coorganizing events and designing protocols that aid collaboration and value social and embodied aspects of artistic creation and reflection. They have graduated with a masters degree in Science, Technology and Society and... Read More →

Devansh Mehta

Lead AI x Public Goods, Ethereum Foundation, Ethereum Foundation

Wednesday June 11, 2025 15:40 - 16:40 CEST
Einkeller Wilhelm-Kabus-Straße 24, Berlin-Tempelhof-Schöneberg, Germany

Roundtable, Funding x the Commons x Decoland

16:00 CEST

Unconference Open Space

Wednesday June 11, 2025 16:00 - 19:00 CEST

Design Space

Wednesday June 11, 2025 16:00 - 19:00 CEST
Design Space Wilhelm-Kabus-Straße 24, Berlin-Tempelhof-Schöneberg, Germany

Unconference Open Space, Participant-Directed

16:30 CEST

Let’s Fund Our Own Tech Coop! Designing sustainable tech from the ground up

Wednesday June 11, 2025 16:30 - 17:15 CEST

Bread Cube

What if crypto communities and local creators co-owned the platforms they use? In this 30-minute hands-on workshop, we’ll co-develop the blueprint for a simple tech coop—covering business models, member benefits, funding options (from shares to subsidies), governance structures, and the legal steps to actually launch. Whether you’re a DAO builder or grassroots innovator, join us to turn solidarity into strategy.

Facilitators

Andreas Arnold

Co-founder & Board member, Platform Coops eG

Andreas Arnold is an industrial engineer, social entrepreneur, and expert in cooperative business models and financing. He serves on the board of Platform Coops eG and has long supported startups, founder teams, and companies working on social innovation and cooperative platform models.To... Read More →

Ela Kagel

Co-founder & board member, Platform Coops eG, Platform Coops eG

Ela Kagel is a digital strategist and expert in commons-based economies, organisational design, and cooperativism. For over two decades, she has been creating spaces that foster cultural exchange, digital innovation, and collective empowerment.Since the 1990s, Ela has been instrumental... Read More →

Wednesday June 11, 2025 16:30 - 17:15 CEST
Bread Cube Wilhelm-Kabus-Straße 24, Berlin-Tempelhof-Schöneberg, Germany

Workshop, Breadcon

16:40 CEST

Systems Transformation for Sustainable Development with United Nations Development Programme

Wednesday June 11, 2025 16:40 - 16:50 CEST

Einkeller

Speakers

Ievgen Kylymnyk

Regional Project Manager, UNDP Eurasia, United Nations Development Programme

Ievgen Kylymnyk is a Regional Project Manager for UNDP Eurasia working on innovation and systems transformation in Europe and Central Asia. Previously Ievgen Kylymnyk served as an Innovation Officer at the UN Secretariat (Department for Political and Peacebuilding Affairs) where he... Read More →

Wednesday June 11, 2025 16:40 - 16:50 CEST
Einkeller Wilhelm-Kabus-Straße 24, Berlin-Tempelhof-Schöneberg, Germany

Lightning Talk, Funding x the Commons x Decoland

16:50 CEST

Empowering Payroll Disbursement in Conflict Zones

Wednesday June 11, 2025 16:50 - 17:00 CEST

Einkeller

Speakers

Marton Kocsev

Stellar Development Foundation

Wednesday June 11, 2025 16:50 - 17:00 CEST
Einkeller Wilhelm-Kabus-Straße 24, Berlin-Tempelhof-Schöneberg, Germany

Lightning Talk, Funding x the Commons x Decoland

17:00 CEST

Cultivating Partnerships between Humanitarian Organizations, Private Sector and Blockchain Public Goods

Wednesday June 11, 2025 17:00 - 17:10 CEST

Einkeller

Speakers

Alexandre Maaza

Sustainability Lead, Cardano Foundation

Wednesday June 11, 2025 17:00 - 17:10 CEST
Einkeller Wilhelm-Kabus-Straße 24, Berlin-Tempelhof-Schöneberg, Germany

Lightning Talk, Funding x the Commons x Decoland

17:10 CEST

Bridging the Commons: Designing a Civic Layer that Connects Legacy Systems with New Public Goods Infrastructure"

Wednesday June 11, 2025 17:10 - 17:40 CEST

Einkeller

Facilitators

Katia Lukicheva

Founder, Decoland

Speakers

Ievgen Kylymnyk

Regional Project Manager, UNDP Eurasia, United Nations Development Programme

Johanna Sieben

Director, Creative Bureaucracy Festival

Johanna Sieben is the Director of the Creative Bureaucracy Festival, a platform that highlights creative approaches to public sector work and brings together people from government, civil society, and beyond to explore how bureaucracy can be a driver of democratic and societal change.Since... Read More →

Alexandre Maaza

Sustainability Lead, Cardano Foundation

Marton Kocsev

Stellar Development Foundation

Wednesday June 11, 2025 17:10 - 17:40 CEST
Einkeller Wilhelm-Kabus-Straße 24, Berlin-Tempelhof-Schöneberg, Germany

Roundtable, Funding x the Commons x Decoland

17:15 CEST

Digital Democracy in DAOs

Wednesday June 11, 2025 17:15 - 17:25 CEST

Bread Cube

Speakers

Theo Beutel

Project Manager, Ethereum Foundation

I work for the Ethereum Foundation as a Project Manager. I also contribute to the project “Decentralised Decision-Making in DAOs: Learnings for Digital Democracy” at the University of Zurich. Previously, I’ve worked as Governance Lead at Safe, the multisig project spun out of... Read More →

Wednesday June 11, 2025 17:15 - 17:25 CEST
Bread Cube Wilhelm-Kabus-Straße 24, Berlin-Tempelhof-Schöneberg, Germany

Lightning Talk, Breadcon

17:25 CEST

The Role of imagination and culture in coop models

Wednesday June 11, 2025 17:25 - 17:35 CEST

Bread Cube

Speakers

Alessandro Y. Longo

Founder, REINCANTAMENTO and Researcher, The Sphere, REINCANTAMENTO, The Sphere

Wednesday June 11, 2025 17:25 - 17:35 CEST
Bread Cube Wilhelm-Kabus-Straße 24, Berlin-Tempelhof-Schöneberg, Germany

Lightning Talk, Breadcon

17:35 CEST

Communet: Vibe Coding Post-Capitalism

Wednesday June 11, 2025 17:35 - 17:45 CEST

Bread Cube

Speakers

Ron Turetzky

Lead protocol Engineer @Opacity, Tech lead @Breadchain, Opacity/Breadchain

Wednesday June 11, 2025 17:35 - 17:45 CEST
Bread Cube Wilhelm-Kabus-Straße 24, Berlin-Tempelhof-Schöneberg, Germany

Lightning Talk, Breadcon

17:40 CEST

Platform Cooperatives as Extitutional Infrastructures

Wednesday June 11, 2025 17:40 - 17:50 CEST

Einkeller

Speakers

Ela Kagel

Co-founder & board member, Platform Coops eG, Platform Coops eG

Wednesday June 11, 2025 17:40 - 17:50 CEST
Einkeller Wilhelm-Kabus-Straße 24, Berlin-Tempelhof-Schöneberg, Germany

Lightning Talk, Funding x the Commons x Decoland

17:45 CEST

Poa: How to Build Organizations Owned Fully by Your Community

Wednesday June 11, 2025 17:45 - 17:55 CEST

Bread Cube

Speakers

Hudson Headley

Founder and Chief Architect, Poa

Hudson Headley is a protocol engineer dedicated to decentralized governance, worker ownership, and innovative post-capitalist economic structures. As the creator of Poa, the Perpetual Organization Architect, Hudson designs blockchain-based tools that enable resilient, worker-owned... Read More →

Wednesday June 11, 2025 17:45 - 17:55 CEST
Bread Cube Wilhelm-Kabus-Straße 24, Berlin-Tempelhof-Schöneberg, Germany

Lightning Talk, Breadcon

17:50 CEST

From Coordination to Legitimacy: Civic Architectures for Public Goods

Wednesday June 11, 2025 17:50 - 19:00 CEST

Einkeller

Facilitators

Katia Lukicheva

Founder, Decoland

Speakers

Gurden Batra

Civic Tech Lead, Dark Matter Labs

Gurden is a design technologist at Dark Matter Labs and combines different crafts like systems thinking, rapid prototyping, speculative and critical design, data justice and tech materiality together in his practice. He has a background in Computer Science and New Media Design. Gurden... Read More →

Charlie Fisher

Founder, Komma

Sunita Grote

UNICEF Lead, UNICEF

Ela Kagel

Co-founder & board member, Platform Coops eG, Platform Coops eG

Lukas Kunert

Senior Manager, Researcher, neosfer GmbH

Lukas Kunert is a serial founder and initiator of various initiatives. His first company was a business that produced organic underwear and unfortunately failed very quickly. After a research phase in which he focused on the topic of the future of insurance and published a research... Read More →

Caroline Paulick-Thiel

Directors, Politics for Tomorrow / nextlearning e. V.

Caroline Paulick-Thiel is a strategic designer and director of Politics for Tomorrow, a non-partisan initiative that aims to enhance the innovation capacity of the public sector to facilitate transformative change processes. They work at the intersection of government and civil society... Read More →

Wednesday June 11, 2025 17:50 - 19:00 CEST
Einkeller Wilhelm-Kabus-Straße 24, Berlin-Tempelhof-Schöneberg, Germany

Roundtable, Funding x the Commons x Decoland

17:55 CEST

Post-Capitalist Labor

Wednesday June 11, 2025 17:55 - 18:40 CEST

Bread Cube

This roundtable is a discussion between Simone Robutti (Tech Workers Coalition), Sam McCarthy (DAOstar and LaborDAO), and Magdalena Ziomek (SMART Coop)where we will discuss the current realities of labor in building out alternatives to exploitative working conditions. Keeping in mind the theme of Adaptive Resilience, we are interested in seeing how alternative labor structures like cooperatives, worker councils and DAOs can or cannot offer more solidaristic relationships with work.

Facilitators

Joshua Davila

Co-Founder, Bread Cooperative

Speakers

Simone Robutti

Organizer, Tech Workers Coalition Global

Simone Robutti is a former software engineer turned organizational consultant, serving primarily co-operatives, democratic workplaces, and associations . He has been politically active, among other things, within Tech Workers Coalition for more than 6 years. More recently, he joined... Read More →

Magdalena Ziomek

co-CEO and co-Founder of SMartDe eG, SMartDe eG

Magdalena Ziomek studied art history in Poland and project management in Germany. She describes herself as a social entrepreneur. Since 2006, Magdalena Ziomek has been investing her academic knowledge and personal experiences to develop effective, tailor-made solutions that empower... Read More →

Sam McCarthy

Ecosystem Lead, DAOstar, DAOstar & LaborDAO

Sam McCarthy is a crypto builder, researcher, and writer. As the ecosystem lead at DAOstar, he supports the DAOstar community, publishes open-source research, and manages fundraising. He is also building a project that provides essential social infrastructure to individuals working... Read More →

Wednesday June 11, 2025 17:55 - 18:40 CEST
Bread Cube Wilhelm-Kabus-Straße 24, Berlin-Tempelhof-Schöneberg, Germany

Roundtable, Breadcon

18:40 CEST

Recap and Audience Discussion

Wednesday June 11, 2025 18:40 - 19:00 CEST

Bread Cube

Speakers

Opening & Closing Remarks, Breadcon