Funding the Commons Forum Berlin: Full Schedule

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10:20 CEST

"Studiolo Exile" Artist Talk

Tuesday June 10, 2025 10:20 - 10:30 CEST

Einkeller

Speakers

Stephan Zimmerli

Artist, Funding the Commons, Zimmerli Architects

Stephan Zimmerli is a visual artist, architect, scenographer and musician based in Paris.For the past 25 years, he has developed a singular trans-disciplinary practice at the crossroads of Architecture, Theater and Music – with Visual Arts acting as a central craft, a connective... Read More →

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

Roundtable, Funding the Commons

10:40 CEST

Anarchiving as Collective Memory

Tuesday June 10, 2025 10:40 - 11:30 CEST

Einkeller

Facilitators

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 →

Speakers

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 →

Jacob Huehn

Community Weaver, Zukunfts(T)Raum & many more

Connector, experience designer, manifestor in Berlin and beyond.

Atabey fka Carlos Maria Romero

Artist & Curator for Performative Practice, HKW

Atabey is a Colombian-Caribbean multidisciplinary artist and curator with a focus on performance, movement, community, pedagogical projects, and cultural heritage practices relevant to historically marginalized peoples and social cohesion. Working over more than 2 decades in different... 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 →

Stephan Zimmerli

Artist, Funding the Commons, Zimmerli Architects

Tuesday June 10, 2025 10:40 - 11:30 CEST
Einkeller Wilhelm-Kabus-Straße 24, Berlin-Tempelhof-Schöneberg, Germany

Roundtable, Funding the Commons

12:00 CEST

Techno Tyranny, Digital Enclosures & Hospitable States

Tuesday June 10, 2025 12:00 - 13:00 CEST

Einkeller

Facilitators

Beth McCarthy

Program Director, Funding the Commons

Speakers

Fatemeh Fannizadeh

Lawyer

I’m an attorney with a focus on emerging technologies including crypto, AI, their governance, privacy and global implications. Prior to advising projects in the decentralized space, I worked at law firms in Switzerland and France, on high-profile investment arbitration, commercial... Read More →

Rashid Owoyele

Innovation Catalyst, transekt.agency

DeepSeek says:Here’s a critical analysis of **Rashid Owoyele**, synthesizing insights from his work, philosophy, and contextual challenges:---### **1. Strengths and Contributions** **a) Worker-Centered Design Advocacy** Owoyele critiques traditional design frameworks (e.g... Read More →

Alessandro Y. Longo

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

Luce deLire

assistant professor for philosophy, Humbuldt University Berlin AND Selbstbestimmung Selbst Gemacht,

Luce deLire is a ship with eight sails and lies down by the quay. She holds a PhD in philosophy and is currently an Assistant Professor at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Her work engages metaphysics, aesthetics, political theory, and queer/trans studies. Her performances and collaborations... Read More →

Marina Markezic

CEO, co-founder, European Crypto Initiative

Marina is the director and co-founder of the European Crypto Initiative (EUCI), a European advocacy group focused on crypto regulation. Since 2017, Marina has been working with crypto projects on governance and legal matters with a focus on decentralization, DeFi and NFTs. Marina... Read More →

Tuesday June 10, 2025 12:00 - 13:00 CEST
Einkeller Wilhelm-Kabus-Straße 24, Berlin-Tempelhof-Schöneberg, Germany

Roundtable, Funding the Commons

14:00 CEST

Bridging Tech, Solidarity, and Human Rights

Tuesday June 10, 2025 14:00 - 15:00 CEST

Bread Cube

Facilitators

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 →

Speakers

Cassandra Thornton

Uncomfortable, The Feminist Economics Department (The FED), The Hologram, Casino for Social Medicine

Cassie Thornton is changing. In the apocalypse, everything must change, including us and the work we value and how we value things. We call Cassie an artist because we don't have a better title for someone working this hard on invisible stuff, like changing. But in another time, she... Read More →

Grayson Earle

Artist, Bail Bloc

Grayson Earle is a new media artist and educator. He has taught at Oberlin College, The New School, and the City University of New York. He is the creator of Bail Bloc and a member of The Illuminator art collective. He is currently participating in the Braunschweig Projects artistic... Read More →

Kat Young

Founder, ethevacuations

Kat is a startup builder in the Ethereum ecosystem. Most recently she was Head of Product at Gitcoin, building protocols and mechanisms for funding open source software. Previously she was Head of Product at Zora, a protocol for funding creators on the internet, and in her past life... Read More →

Tuesday June 10, 2025 14:00 - 15:00 CEST
Bread Cube Wilhelm-Kabus-Straße 24, Berlin-Tempelhof-Schöneberg, Germany

Roundtable, Breadcon

14:20 CEST

Old Value Systems, New Technologies

Tuesday June 10, 2025 14:20 - 15:30 CEST

Einkeller

Facilitators

Stina Gustafsson

Independent Curator

I’m an independent curator and art strategist, specialising in art and blockchain. I consult museums, cultural organisations and companies on creative collaborations, art & culture-related events and development within the fields of art and culture related to blockchain and web3... Read More →

Speakers

maria paula fernandez

Director of Growth, Avara

María Paula Fernández is an entrepreneur, strategist, writer and curator working in crypto since 2017. She's from Buenos Aires, Argentina and lives in Berlin, Germany. Before joining Avara as Director of Growth, Maria Paula ("MP") co-founded JPG, a company that built cultural infrastructure... Read More →

Georgy Ishmaev

Researcher at WIDE lab. Inria, Inria (National Institute for Research in Digital Science and Technology), France

I am an interdisciplinary researcher working on Ethics of Technology and Computer Science. I did my PhD in Ethics of Technology research on moral values in decentralized systems at Delft University of Technology (the Netherlands). I worked as a Postdoc at the Distributed Systems Section... Read More →

Olha Pylypenko

Programme Director, fx(hash), fx(hash)

Olha Pylypenko is a creative producer and strategist working at the intersection of digital culture, contemporary art, and emerging technologies. Her work centres on shaping collaborative projects, from early concept through to public presentation—spanning online platforms, physical... Read More →

Shai Perednik

Principal Ecosystem Solution Architect, Near Foundation

Principal Ecosystem Architect focused on building ecosystems, strategic partnerships, and technical enablement for Web3 and AI projects.I've been in tech for 30 years, from building distributed systems in the Navy to architecting enterprise-scale solutions at Deloitte and Lockheed... Read More →

Beth McCarthy

Program Director, Funding the Commons

Tuesday June 10, 2025 14:20 - 15:30 CEST
Einkeller Wilhelm-Kabus-Straße 24, Berlin-Tempelhof-Schöneberg, Germany

Roundtable, Funding the Commons

15:30 CEST

Protocol Governance & Cryptoeconomic Design

Tuesday June 10, 2025 15:30 - 16:20 CEST

Einkeller

Facilitators

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 →

Speakers

Oliver Beige

Founder, integrity machines

Oliver is an industrial engineer slash economist who designs governance mechanisms for work and develops an economic pattern language in his spare time.

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 →

Jake Hartnell

Co-founder & CEO, Layer Labs

Jake Hartnell is the CEO and Co-Founder of Layer.xyz, a cutting-edge platform focused onbuilding decentralized infrastructure for the Web3 ecosystem. At Layer.xyz, Jake leads thestrategic vision and drives innovation, aiming to advance blockchain technology's role indecentralized... Read More →

Tuesday June 10, 2025 15:30 - 16:20 CEST
Einkeller Wilhelm-Kabus-Straße 24, Berlin-Tempelhof-Schöneberg, Germany

Roundtable, Funding the Commons

17:00 CEST

Privacy by Design: Sovereign Identities

Tuesday June 10, 2025 17:00 - 17:30 CEST

Einkeller

Facilitators

PG

COO & Co-Founder, Web3Privacy Now

Beth McCarthy

Program Director, Funding the Commons

Speakers

Lena Hierzi

DevRel Engineer, Celo Foundation

Lena Hierzi is a DevRel Engineer at the Celo Foundation and a contributor to Self Protocol, promoting privacy-preserving infrastructure in the Web3 space. With roots in ethical AI research, privacy, and accessibility design, Lena focuses on educating builders about decentralized identity... Read More →

Anke Liu

Ecosystem Growth Lead, Stellar Development Foundation

As the Ecosystem Growth Lead at the Stellar Development Foundation, Anke Liu oversees programs and initiatives catalyzing innovation and expansion of projects building on Stellar, including the Stellar Community Fund. Her collaboration with BlockScience on the creation of Neural Quorum... Read More →

Nanak Nihal Khalsa

Founder, Human.Tech

Nanak Nihal is the president of Holonym Foundation which builds technology to cryptographically harden digital human rights

Tuesday June 10, 2025 17:00 - 17:30 CEST
Einkeller Wilhelm-Kabus-Straße 24, Berlin-Tempelhof-Schöneberg, Germany

Roundtable, Web3Privacy x Funding the Commons

17:30 CEST

ATproto/Bluesky roundtable

Tuesday June 10, 2025 17:30 - 18:30 CEST

DWeb Terrace

Speakers

Michelle Lee

Ecosystem Growth, Protocol Labs

Michelle Lee (Mosh) is a software maker, startup founder, and inventor of Google Forms. From 2012-2016, she sought to make government technology suck less — first at Code for America, as cofounder and CEO of government texting company Textizen, and at GovDelivery building messaging... Read More →

Juan Caballero

Tuesday June 10, 2025 17:30 - 18:30 CEST
DWeb Terrace Wilhelm-Kabus-Straße 24, Berlin-Tempelhof-Schöneberg, Germany

Roundtable, DWeb

17:50 CEST

Privacy by Design: Secure Infrastructures

Tuesday June 10, 2025 17:50 - 18:30 CEST

Einkeller

Facilitators

PG

COO & Co-Founder, Web3Privacy Now

Beth McCarthy

Program Director, Funding the Commons

Speakers

Matan Prasma

Teacher, Researcher & Data Scientist, Stateless Consensus, EF, EF

Ph.D and a few postdocs in Pure Math. Transitioned to Cryptography a few years ago. Taught an extensive course on Elliptic Cures for Cryptography and wrote a book on the subject.

Julio Linares

Public Outreach, Basic Income Earth Network, Poetic Technologies

Julio Linares is an economic anthropologist from Guatemala. He holds an Msc in Anthropology and Development from the London School of Economics And Political Science and a MA in Applied Economics and Social Development from National ChengChi University (國立政治大學) in Taipei... Read More →

Isabela Fernandes

Executive Director, The Tor Project

Isabela Fernandes is the Executive Director of the Tor Project since November 2018. She joined the Tor Project as Project Manager in 2015, after working as Product Manager for International and Growth at Twitter for four years. Isabela has been part of the free software community... Read More →

Liz Steininger

CEO/Managing Director, Least Authority

Liz Steininger is the CEO/Managing Director of Least Authority, a leading Web3 security consulting company and builder of privacy enhancing technology products, including Private.Storage and Winden.App. Least Authority specializes in securing Web3 products, capability-based security... Read More →

Ariel Rodriguez

Mrs kzg.eth Enthusiastic about Ethereum, Breadchain

Extremely enthusiastic ethereum community member

Tuesday June 10, 2025 17:50 - 18:30 CEST
Einkeller Wilhelm-Kabus-Straße 24, Berlin-Tempelhof-Schöneberg, Germany

Roundtable, Web3Privacy x Funding the Commons

18:30 CEST

Privacy for Liberatory Harm Reduction: DIY HRT Support Networks as an Urgent "Real World Application"

Tuesday June 10, 2025 18:30 - 19:00 CEST

Einkeller

Facilitators

Beth McCarthy

Program Director, Funding the Commons

Speakers

Luce deLire

assistant professor for philosophy, Humbuldt University Berlin AND Selbstbestimmung Selbst Gemacht,

Moya Schiller

Activist, various groups, A Softer Space

Moya is a trans* autistic Culture-associated feminist science witch who believes in commons that are collectively taken care of to the benefit of everyone, rather than individualistic approaches for fixing problems for just a select few. Their pronouns are she/any (that is, she as... Read More →

Tuesday June 10, 2025 18:30 - 19:00 CEST
Einkeller Wilhelm-Kabus-Straße 24, Berlin-Tempelhof-Schöneberg, Germany

Roundtable, Web3Privacy x Funding the Commons

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

10:30 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

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 →

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

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

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

14:40 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

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 →

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

15:40 CEST

Adaptive Funding Strategies for Arts, Research, & Silenced Science

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

Einkeller

Facilitators

Katia Lukicheva

Founder, Decoland

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

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

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

Roundtable, 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

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 →

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

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 →

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

17:50 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

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 →

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 →

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 →

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