Funding the Commons Forum Berlin

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 →

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 →

Josh is a mathematician and computer scientist at Metagov.

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 →

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 →

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 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 →

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 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 →