Funding the Commons Forum Berlin: Full Schedule

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11:20 CEST

Welcome and Plenary

Tuesday June 10, 2025 11:20 - 11:40 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 →

Tuesday June 10, 2025 11:20 - 11:40 CEST
Bread Cube Wilhelm-Kabus-Straße 24, Berlin-Tempelhof-Schöneberg, Germany

Opening & Closing Remarks, Breadcon

11:40 CEST

Circles: Fair Money with Webs of Trust

Tuesday June 10, 2025 11:40 - 11:50 CEST

Bread Cube

Speakers

Martin Köppelmann

Co-Founder, Gnosis

Tuesday June 10, 2025 11:40 - 11:50 CEST
Bread Cube Wilhelm-Kabus-Straße 24, Berlin-Tempelhof-Schöneberg, Germany

Lightning Talk, Breadcon

11:50 CEST

Data Sovereignty through Preserving Privacy & Verifying Identity

Tuesday June 10, 2025 11:50 - 12:00 CEST

Bread Cube

Speakers

Rene Reinsberg

Co-Founder, Celo, Self

Rene Reinsberg is a co-founder of Celo, Self, and currently President of the Celo Foundation. Celo's Ethereum Layer 2 is at the center of an ecosystem of technologies, organizations, and individuals that all share a mission of building a regenerative financial system that creates... Read More →

Tuesday June 10, 2025 11:50 - 12:00 CEST
Bread Cube Wilhelm-Kabus-Straße 24, Berlin-Tempelhof-Schöneberg, Germany

Lightning Talk, Breadcon

12:00 CEST

Imagining Community-Owned Data Centers

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

Bread Cube

Speakers

Tara Merk

PhD Researcher, CNRS/ Weizenbaum Institute

Tara is a political science PhD candidate at the CNRS/ University Paris II, a research fellow at The New School in New York and associate researcher at the Weizenbaum Institute in Berlin. Her research focuses on Exit to Community, i.e. converting companies in the digital platform... Read More →

Rainer Rehak

Associate Researcher, Weizenbaum Institut

Rainer Rehak is part of the research group “Digitalization, Sustainability, and Participation” at the Weizenbaum Institute for the Networked Society, he is an associated researcher at the Berlin Social Science Center (WZB) and is currently doing his PhD on systemic IT security... Read More →

Julian Pütz

Student Assistant, Weizenbaum Institut

Julian Pütz is a student assistant at the Weizenbaum Institute in the research group “Digitalization, Sustainability and Participation”. He currently studies Political Science (M.A.) at the University of Potsdam.His research interests revolve around the futures of data centres... Read More →

André Ullrich

Research Group Lead, Weizenbaum Institute

André Ullrich heads the research group "Digitalisation, Sustainability and Participation" at the Weizenbaum Institute for the Networked Society and is currently doing his habilitation on responsible and sustainable digitalisation.

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

Workshop, Breadcon

13:00 CEST

Lunch

Tuesday June 10, 2025 13:00 - 14:00 CEST

Bread Cube

Tuesday June 10, 2025 13:00 - 14:00 CEST
Bread Cube Wilhelm-Kabus-Straße 24, Berlin-Tempelhof-Schöneberg, Germany

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

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

15:00 CEST

Interfaces of Resilience: Visual designs for Solidarity

Tuesday June 10, 2025 15:00 - 16:00 CEST

Bread Cube

Speakers

catherine leigh schmidt

designer, bread co–op (fka breadchain)

catherine leigh schmidt is an artist, designer, and writer from the united states. her work focuses on economic media, post-capitalism, and land. she is based between new mexico and sachsen-anhalt, germany.

Ruben Russel

UI/UX designer, Breadchain Coop

Ruben Russel, from Curaçao, is a UI/UX designer and sociologist with over six years of experience in Web3 product design. He specializes in decentralized finance (DeFi), regenerative finance (ReFi), and governance tools that center community needs. As the in-house designer at Bread... Read More →

Rade Stijovic

Graphic Designer, Breadchain Cooperative

Rade Stijović (born 1999, Montenegro) is a graphic designer and visual artist.In his design practice, he primarily operates in the field of design for the cooperatives and cultural scene.Some of his notable projects include: the graphic design for the Mangelos Award for NUA Remont... Read More →

Tuesday June 10, 2025 15:00 - 16:00 CEST
Bread Cube Wilhelm-Kabus-Straße 24, Berlin-Tempelhof-Schöneberg, Germany

Workshop, Breadcon

16:00 CEST

Microsolidarity: Whatever the Question, Community is the Answer

Tuesday June 10, 2025 16:00 - 17:30 CEST

Bread Cube

A practical introduction to Microsolidarity: building communities of belonging and mutual aid

How do we cultivate wholesome spaces that foster trust, care and belonging? How can we sustainably support each other by surfacing our needs and gifts? How do we weave social fabric and build regenerative, resilient communities?

These and other questions will guide us in this interactive workshop on the theory and practice of community-building using Microsolidarity.

In the workshop we will briefly look at some of the underlying ideas and principles of Microsolidarity, and then explore them practically within ourselves, with a partner and in small groups. This will be followed by a collective reflection on our experiences and insights. So, if you are building community or seeking community, join us!

Facilitators

Jocelyn Endres

Network Tickler & Facilitator, Microsolidarity Network

Jocelyn is a social change facilitator and mediator based in Berlin. She is a Coordinator of the Microsolidarity Network and specialises in designing gatherings and facilitating immersive experiences that support change-makers and community builders to foster belonging, mutual aid... Read More →

Nicki Endres

Network Tickler & Facilitator, Microsolidarity Network

Nicki studied psychology, neuroscience, and philosophy, and has trained as a coach and mediator, as well as in Microsolidarity. In recent years, he co-created and co-managed a coworking community in Berlin-Kreuzberg, Imago Space and is currently stewarding The Garden - an organisation... Read More →

Tuesday June 10, 2025 16:00 - 17:30 CEST
Bread Cube Wilhelm-Kabus-Straße 24, Berlin-Tempelhof-Schöneberg, Germany

Workshop, Breadcon

17:30 CEST

Platform State and Digital Public Infrastructure

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

Bread Cube

Speakers

Gianmarco Cristofari

Postdoctoral researcher, Univeristy of Palermo

Gianmarco Cristofari Is a data protection lawyer and a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Palermo and the New York School of Law. His work is on platformization as a social process.

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

Workshop, Breadcon

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

Joshua Davila

Co-Founder, Bread Cooperative

Stephen Reid

Co-founder, Futurecraft

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

Opening & Closing Remarks, Breadcon

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

11:30 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

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

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

15:20 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

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

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

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 →

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

17:45 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

17:55 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