# Funding the Commons Forum: Berlin 2025

Conference · Engelnest Coworking, Berlin · 10–11 June 2025

Two-day forum with Web3Privacy Now on worldbuilding, systems design, adaptive tools, and open governance: Infrastructures of Resilience.

- Watch all recordings: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL3C6eF-zu5AaQ2O-TrlKzuNEsYONg6StP
- Photo album: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1DblclK7nprXckFCG5CQEuyUpF4L55g_D
- Watch the recap reel: https://x.com/FundingCommons/status/1938612658799853665

## Tuesday 10 June 2025

- 10:00–13:00 **Unconference Open Space** (Workshop · Participant-Directed · Canopy)
- 10:00–12:00 **Conversation Protocols**: Cank Auden (Workshop · DWeb · DWeb Terrace)
- 10:00–10:20 **Welcome Words**: David Casey, CEO, Funding the Commons (Talk · Einkeller)
- 10:20–10:30 **"Studiolo Exile" Artist Talk**: Stephan Zimmerli, Artist, Funding the Commons, Zimmerli Architects (Roundtable · Funding the Commons · Einkeller)
- 10:30–10:40 **Bullerengue, an Embodied Practice of Communitarian Knowledge and Memory**: Atabey fka Carlos Maria Romero, Artist & Curator for Performative Practice, HKW (Lightning · Funding the Commons · Einkeller)
- 10:40–11:30 **Anarchiving as Collective Memory**: Beth McCarthy, Program Director, Funding the Commons; Alessandro Longo, Founder, REINCANTAMENTO, The Sphere; Jacob Huehn, Community Weaver, Zukunfts(T)Raum & many more; Atabey fka Carlos Maria Romero, Artist & Curator for Performative Practice, HKW; Lene Vollhardt, Transmedia Artist, The Sphere; Stephan Zimmerli, Artist, Funding the Commons, Zimmerli Architects (Roundtable · Funding the Commons · Einkeller)
  In the shadow of State censorship and algorithmic homogenization, cultural memory is a contested field between resisting communities and extractive elites. Inspired by The Sphere's work on anarchiving, this panel explores memory as a vector of collective formation that shapes not just what we preserve, but who we become together. Adopting the affordances of decentralized technologies like IPFS...
- 11:00–12:00 **Onboarding to the Covenant Community**: AJ, Principal Data Scientist, Synchrograph (Workshop · Funding the Commons · Design Space)
- 11:00–12:00 **The Search for Values in the Dark Forest of Merkle Trees**: Georgy Ishmaev, Researcher at WIDE lab. Inria, Inria (National Institute for Research in Digital Science and Technology), France (Workshop · Funding the Commons · Workshop Cube)
- 11:20–11:40 **Welcome and Plenary**: Gilberto Morishaw, Breadchain Contributor, Breadchain; Joshua Dávila, Co-Founder, Bread Cooperative; Stephen Reid, Co-founder, Futurecraft (Talk · Breadcon · Bread Cube)
- 11:30–12:00 **Swirls of Fortune – A Protocol Art Performance**: Lene Vollhardt, Transmedia Artist, The Sphere (Other · Funding the Commons · Einkeller)
- 11:40–11:50 **Circles: Fair Money with Webs of Trust**: Martin Köppelmann, Co-Founder, Gnosis (Lightning · Breadcon · Bread Cube)
- 11:50–12:00 **Data Sovereignty through Preserving Privacy & Verifying Identity**: Rene Reinsberg, Co-Founder, Celo, Self (Lightning · Breadcon · Bread Cube)
- 12:00–13:00 **Imagining Community-Owned Data Centers**: Tara Merk, PhD Researcher, CNRS/ Weizenbaum Institute; Rainer Rehak, Associate Researcher, Weizenbaum Institut; Julian Pütz, Student Assistant, Weizenbaum Institut; André Ullrich, Research Group Lead, Weizenbaum Institute (Workshop · Breadcon · Bread Cube)
- 12:00–13:00 **Local Live Internationalization**: Ryan Taylor, Coordinator, Zero-knowledge Audiovisual Club (Other · DWeb · DWeb Terrace)
- 12:00–13:00 **Decentralised, Community-driven Infrastructures to Transform the Music Industry**: Jacob Huehn, Community Weaver, Zukunfts(T)Raum & many more; Nusha Rubin, Founder, ohr; Arvy K, Experience Designer, seks.design, the Y radio; Lorena Junghans, KINDA / The Palestine Music Space (Workshop · Funding the Commons · Design Space)
- 12:00–13:00 **Techno Tyranny, Digital Enclosures & Hospitable States**: Beth McCarthy, Program Director, Funding the Commons; Fatemeh Fannizadeh, Lawyer; Rashid Owoyele, Innovation Catalyst, transekt.agency; Alessandro Longo, Founder, REINCANTAMENTO, The Sphere; Luce deLire, assistant professor for philosophy, Humboldt University Berlin and Selbstbestimmung Selbst Gemacht; Marina Markezic, CEO, European Crypto Initiative (Roundtable · Funding the Commons · Einkeller)
  Liberal democracies are everywhere on the way out. Tyranny seems to be the order of the day. Yet progressive and even centrist democratic forces seem to lose ground. This has three main reasons: For one, the new tyrannies are still poorly understood, especially regarding their media-technological foundations. Secondly, the implication of progressive and leftist politics in its own decline is not...
- 12:00–12:30 **Intents for Impact: Simplifying Cross-Chain Solutions for the Common Good**: Guillermo Gallardo, DevRel Lead, NEAR Dev (Workshop · Funding the Commons · Workshop Cube)
- 12:30–13:00 **Practical Approaches to Building for Financial Inclusion**: Anke Liu, Ecosystem Growth Lead, Stellar Development Foundation (Workshop · Funding the Commons · Workshop Cube)
- 14:00–15:00 **Bridging Tech, Solidarity, and Human Rights**: Gilberto Morishaw, Breadchain Contributor, Breadchain; Cassandra Thornton, Uncomfortable, The Feminist Economics Department (The FED), The Hologram, Casino for Social Medicine; Grayson Earle, Artist, Bail Bloc; Kat Young, Founder, ethevacuations (Roundtable · Breadcon · Bread Cube)
- 14:00–19:00 **Unconference Open Space** (Workshop · Participant-Directed · Canopy)
- 14:00–19:00 **DWeb Pop-Up Programming** (DWeb Terrace)
- 14:00–15:30 **Collective Worldbuilding through Speculative Fiction**: Fotis Tsiroukis, Vice President SEMF, SEMF NGO | TUM (Technical University Munich) (Workshop · Breadcon · Design Space)
- 14:00–14:10 **Intent-Driven Economies: Rethinking Labor, Markets, and Local Resilience**: Shai Perednik, Principal Ecosystem Solution Architect, NEAR Foundation (Lightning · Funding the Commons · Einkeller)
- 14:00–15:30 **Privacy by Design**: Eileen Wagner, UX Designer, Decent Patterns (Workshop · DWeb · Workshop Cube)
  It's problem-solving time! We experience a number of shared problems in privacy and decentralization. Let's explore common solutions! This workshop prototypes a new game developed by the Decent Patterns open UX library. We present a card game with problems and design patterns, participants are asked to draw cards and develop a solution story. We team up, present back, mix and match, and iterate!The...
- 14:10–14:20 **Value Creation as Collective Practice**: Stina Gustafsson, Independent Curator (Lightning · Funding the Commons · Einkeller)
- 14:20–15:20 **Old Value Systems, New Technologies**: Stina Gustafsson, Independent Curator; Georgy Ishmaev, Researcher at WIDE lab. Inria, Inria (National Institute for Research in Digital Science and Technology), France; Olha Pylypenko, Programme Director, fx(hash); Shai Perednik, Principal Ecosystem Solution Architect, NEAR Foundation; Beth McCarthy, Program Director, Funding the Commons (Roundtable · Funding the Commons · Einkeller)
- 15:00–16:00 **Interfaces of Resilience: Visual designs for Solidarity**: catherine leigh schmidt, designer, bread co–op (fka breadchain); Ruben Russell, UI/UX designer, Breadchain Cooperative; Rade Stijovic, Graphic Designer, Breadchain Cooperative (Workshop · Breadcon · Bread Cube)
- 15:20–15:30 **Vibecoding Governance**: Oliver Beige, Founder, integrity machines (Lightning · Funding the Commons · Einkeller)
  Vibecoding isn't just a fun way to quickly code flight simulators, it's also the native abstraction layer for designing governance mechanisms.
- 15:30–17:30 **Multispecies Speculative Design**: Rita Palma, Artist, Malmö University (Workshop · Funding the Commons · Design Space)
- 15:30–16:20 **Protocol Governance & Cryptoeconomic Design**: Joshua Dávila, Co-Founder, Bread Cooperative; Oliver Beige, Founder, integrity machines; Theo Beutel, Project Manager, Ethereum Foundation; Jake Hartnell, Co-founder & CEO, Layer (Roundtable · Funding the Commons · Einkeller)
- 15:40–17:30 **Brand Lab, or reverse-engineering your project’s reputation (no design skills required)**: Ira Nezhynska, brand designer and creative director (Workshop · DWeb · Workshop Cube)
  ▇▇ Workshop details and track record: https://nezhynska.com/brand-lab If you experience any of the problems below, this workshop will give you the knowledge and tools to tackle them with glory and fire:you launched your product. People visit your website but no one tries out your demo or creates an accountyou thought you were the only one on the market, but suddenly there...
- 16:00–17:30 **Microsolidarity: Whatever the Question, Community is the Answer**: Jocelyn Endres, Network Tickler & Facilitator, Microsolidarity Network; Nicki Endres, Network Tickler & Facilitator, Microsolidarity Network (Workshop · Breadcon · Bread Cube)
  A practical introduction to Microsolidarity: building communities of belonging and mutual aidHow 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...
- 16:20–16:30 **AVS: The Customization Machine**: Jake Hartnell, Co-founder & CEO, Layer (Lightning · Funding the Commons · Einkeller)
- 16:30–16:40 **Privacy as an Ecosystem**: PG, COO & Co-Founder, Web3Privacy Now (Lightning · Web3Privacy x Funding the Commons · Einkeller)
- 16:40–16:50 **The Covenant of Human-Aligned Technology**: Shady El Damaty, Co-Founder & CEO, human.tech (Lightning · Web3Privacy x Funding the Commons · Einkeller)
- 16:50–17:00 **Financial Empowerment through Privacy-Ensured Identity Verification**: Anke Liu, Ecosystem Growth Lead, Stellar Development Foundation (Lightning · Web3Privacy x Funding the Commons · Einkeller)
- 17:00–17:30 **Privacy by Design: Sovereign Identities**: PG, COO & Co-Founder, Web3Privacy Now; Beth McCarthy, Program Director, Funding the Commons; Lena Hierzi, DevRel Engineer, Celo Foundation; Anke Liu, Ecosystem Growth Lead, Stellar Development Foundation; Nanak Nihal Khalsa, Founder, human.tech (Roundtable · Web3Privacy x Funding the Commons · Einkeller)
- 17:30–18:30 **Platform State and Digital Public Infrastructure**: Gianmarco Cristofari, Postdoctoral researcher, University of Palermo (Workshop · Breadcon · Bread Cube)
- 17:30–18:30 **ATproto/Bluesky roundtable**: Michelle Lee, Ecosystem Growth, Protocol Labs; bumblefudge, IPFS Ecosystem Team / CASA (Roundtable · DWeb · DWeb Terrace)
- 17:30–19:00 **Guerilla Economic Futuring**: Rok Kranjc, Futurescraft (Founder), Futurescraft & Crypto Commons Association (Workshop · Funding the Commons · Design Space)
- 17:30–17:40 **Digital Disobedience: Reclaiming the Internet as a Public Good**: Isabela Fernandes, Executive Director, The Tor Project (Lightning · Web3Privacy x Funding the Commons · Einkeller)
- 17:40–17:50 **User Autonomy and Privacy-by-Default through Distributed, Resilient Systems**: Liz Steininger, CEO/Managing Director, Least Authority (Lightning · Web3Privacy x Funding the Commons · Einkeller)
- 17:50–18:30 **Privacy by Design: Secure Infrastructures**: PG, COO & Co-Founder, Web3Privacy Now; Mykola Siusko, Web3Privacy Now; Matan Prasma, Teacher, Stateless Consensus, Ethereum Foundation; Julio Linares, Public Outreach, Basic Income Earth Network, Poetic Technologies; Isabela Fernandes, Executive Director, The Tor Project; Liz Steininger, CEO/Managing Director, Least Authority; Ariel Rodriguez, Mrs kzg.eth Enthusiastic about Ethereum, Breadchain (Roundtable · Web3Privacy x Funding the Commons · Einkeller)
- 18:30–19:00 **Privacy for Liberatory Harm Reduction: DIY HRT Support Networks as an Urgent "Real World Application"**: Beth McCarthy, Program Director, Funding the Commons; Evi Nova, Blockchain Engineer, Web3Privacy Now; Tux Pacific, Founder/CEO, Entropy; Luce deLire, assistant professor for philosophy, Humboldt University Berlin and Selbstbestimmung Selbst Gemacht; Moya Schiller, Activist, A Softer Space (Roundtable · Web3Privacy x Funding the Commons · Einkeller)

## Wednesday 11 June 2025

- 10:00–10:30 **Welcome and Plenary: Who are we and what is post-capitalism?**: Gilberto Morishaw, Breadchain Contributor, Breadchain; Joshua Dávila, Co-Founder, Bread Cooperative; Stephen Reid, Co-founder, Futurecraft (Talk · Breadcon · Bread Cube)
- 10:00–13:00 **Unconference Open Space** (Workshop · Participant-Directed · Canopy)
- 10:00–18:00 **Tomorrow by DWeb - bar-camp+open-space in the best traditions of DWeb Camp**: Ira Nezhynska, brand designer and creative director; Arkadiy Kukarkin, Decentralized Tech Lead, Internet Archive; Ryan Taylor, Coordinator, Zero-knowledge Audiovisual Club (Workshop · DWeb · 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...
- 10:00–10:20 **Welcome Words**: Beth McCarthy, Program Director, Funding the Commons (Talk · Funding the Commons · Einkeller)
- 10:00–13:00 **DWeb Pop-Up Programming** (Workshop · DWeb · Workshop Cube)
- 10:20–10:30 **Way of Flowers Artist Talk**: CROSSLUCID, Artist Collective (Lightning · Funding the Commons · Einkeller)
- 10:30–11:30 **Network States or Neo-colonialism**: Ben Biedermann, Managing Director, ACURRAENT UG; Anna Ehrenstein, artist and academic, freelancer, HGB professor; Angela Kölling, Professor of Anglophone Studies, Johannes Gutenberg Universität Mainz; Luiz Fernando Segala Gomes, Operations Lead, ReFi DAO (Roundtable · Breadcon · 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...
- 10:30–11:30 **Dynamic Ecological Stewardship**: Beth McCarthy, Program Director, Funding the Commons; CROSSLUCID, Artist Collective; Sarah Ashley Baxendell, Layer - COO, Layer, ArtEcology; Crystal Ma, Venture Partner, Eka Frontier; Hanna Fiegenbaum, External Expert on Nature Credit Markets and Price Formation, European Commission Joint Research Centre (Roundtable · Funding the Commons · Einkeller)
- 11:00–13:00 **Political Economy and Commons as a Design Space**: Nick Houde, Head of Research, co-matter (Workshop · Breadcon · 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...
- 11:30–11:40 **Bioregioning the Commons**: Andrea Farias, Researcher & Designer, Independent (Lightning · Breadcon · Bread Cube)
- 11:30–11:40 **"World Upstream" Artist Talk**: Cezar Mocan, Artist & Programmer (Lightning · Funding the Commons · Einkeller)
- 11:40–11:50 **Citizen Pay: Creating a common good payments network**: Jonas Boury, Co-Founder, Citizen Wallet (Brussels Pay); Kevin Sundar Raj, Co-Founder, Citizen Wallet (Lightning · Breadcon · Bread Cube)
- 11:40–11:50 **Permacomputing for a Sustainable "Material Commons"**: Felipe Schmidt Fonseca, Founder, Reuse City (Lightning · Funding the Commons · Einkeller)
- 11:50–12:00 **Decentralising Neighbourhood Wealth**: Charlie Fisher, Founder, Komma (Lightning · Breadcon · Bread Cube)
- 11:50–12:00 **Nuclear Disarmament as a Public Good & Governance Challenge**: Florian Eblenkamp, Advocacy Officer, International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (Lightning · Funding the Commons · Einkeller)
- 12:00–12:10 **Bioregional Financing**: Sarah Ashley Baxendell, Layer - COO, Layer, ArtEcology (Lightning · Breadcon · Bread Cube)
- 12:00–13:00 **Facing Challenges Together with AI: Policy, Ecological & Technical Perspectives**: Beth McCarthy, Program Director, Funding the Commons; Cullen Miller, VP Policy, Spawning; Josh Tan, Co-Founder, Metagov, Public AI; Alistair Alexander, Researcher/Producer, reclaimed.systems; Cezar Mocan, Artist & Programmer; Apolinário Passos, Head of Machine Learning for Art and Creativity, Hugging Face (Roundtable · Funding the Commons · Einkeller)
- 12:10–13:00 **Local and Bioregional Resilience World Cafe**: Stephen Reid, Co-founder, Futurecraft; Jonas Boury, Co-Founder, Citizen Wallet (Brussels Pay); Andrea Farias, Researcher & Designer, Independent; Sarah Ashley Baxendell, Layer - COO, Layer, ArtEcology; Charlie Fisher, Founder, Komma; Kevin Sundar Raj, Co-Founder, Citizen Wallet (Workshop · Breadcon · Bread Cube)
- 14:00–14:10 **Political Economy as a Design Space**: Nick Houde, Head of Research, co-matter (Lightning · Breadcon · Bread Cube)
- 14:00–19:00 **Unconference Open Space** (Workshop · Participant-Directed · Canopy)
- 14:00–15:15 **DWeb Camp Tea Tent**: Arkadiy Kukarkin, Decentralized Tech Lead, Internet Archive (Other · DWeb · 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.
- 14:00–19:00 **DWeb Pop-Up Programming** (DWeb Terrace)
- 14:00–15:00 **Anarchiving Game**: Alessandro Longo, Founder, REINCANTAMENTO, The Sphere; Lene Vollhardt, Transmedia Artist, The Sphere (Other · Funding the Commons · Design Space)
- 14:00–15:00 **Politics of Perception: Architecting Trust and Sovereignty with Geospatial Data and Planetary Sensing**: Beth McCarthy, Program Director, Funding the Commons; David Dao, Co-Founder & Chief Scientist, GainForest; John Hoopes, Founder, Astral; Paul Seidler, Artist, terra0; Cezar Mocan, Artist & Programmer (Roundtable · Funding the Commons · Einkeller)
- 14:00–15:00 **Bridging Public Sector and Blockchain to Meet Sustainable Development Goals**: Alexandre Maaza, Sustainability Lead, Cardano Foundation (Workshop · Funding the Commons · Workshop Cube)
- 14:10–14:20 **What is Ethereum R1?**: Ariel Rodriguez, Mrs kzg.eth Enthusiastic about Ethereum, Breadchain (Lightning · Breadcon · Bread Cube)
- 14:20–14:30 **From Trustless to Trustworthy: Embedding Crypto in Commons Governance**: Felix Fritsch, Founder Commons Hubs, Commons Hub (Lightning · Breadcon · Bread Cube)
- 14:30–14:40 **What is Money, anyway?**: Ethan Frey, Co-founder & CTO, Layer (Lightning · Breadcon · Bread Cube)
- 14:40–15:20 **Lessons Learned from Existing Blockchain Political Economies**: Joshua Dávila, Co-Founder, Bread Cooperative; Ethan Frey, Co-founder & CTO, Layer; Connor O'Hara, Software Engineer, Celestia; Trent Van Epps, Founder, Protocol Guild (Roundtable · Breadcon · 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...
- 15:00–16:00 **Human Pulse Art Activation**: AJ, Principal Data Scientist, Synchrograph (Other · Funding the Commons · Design Space)
- 15:00–15:10 **The Missing Layer: Civil Society as Infrastructure for Resilient Public Goods**: Katia Lukicheva, Founder, Decoland (Lightning · Funding x the Commons x Decoland · Einkeller)
- 15:00–16:00 **Signals from the frontier: A public goods builder round table**: James Farrell, CTO, Funding the Commons (Workshop · Funding the Commons · Workshop Cube)
  In this fast-paced, maker-led session we’ll take stock of today’s public-goods funding rails, surface the hardest blockers builders face, and co-design the next wave of experiments—from a lean “Commons Guild” core to open-mentorship hackathons. Come share your pain points, imagine 2028’s coordination wins, and leave having shaped the future of Funding the Commons and the Commonslab -...
- 15:10–15:20 **Funding Beyond the VC Paradigm with UNICEF Ventures**: Sunita Grote, UNICEF Lead, UNICEF (Lightning · Funding x the Commons x Decoland · Einkeller)
- 15:20–16:00 **Build a blockchain with weird political economies**: Joshua Dávila, Co-Founder, Bread Cooperative; Nick Houde, Head of Research, co-matter (Workshop · Breadcon · 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 Dávila.
- 15:20–15:30 **Funding Dependencies in Open Source Software Development**: Eleftherios Diakomichalis, Founder, Drips (Lightning · Funding x the Commons x Decoland · Einkeller)
- 15:30–15:40 **Credibly Neutral Funding: An Overview**: Devansh Mehta, Lead, AI x Public Goods & Governance, Ethereum Foundation (Lightning · Funding x the Commons x Decoland · Einkeller)
- 15:40–16:40 **Adaptive Funding Strategies for Arts, Research, & Silenced Science**: Katia Lukicheva, Founder, Decoland; Beth McCarthy, Program Director, Funding the Commons; Eleftherios Diakomichalis, Founder, Drips; Josh Tan, Co-Founder, Metagov, Public AI; Shady El Damaty, Co-Founder & CEO, human.tech; Fabian Vogelsteller, Founder, Universal Everything; Lex Gillon, Grants Program Manager, JUST Open Source; David Dao, Co-Founder & Chief Scientist, GainForest; Zsófia Samodai, Community Researcher, Wyvern Art Fund; Devansh Mehta, Lead, AI x Public Goods & Governance, Ethereum Foundation (Roundtable · Funding x the Commons x Decoland · Einkeller)
- 16:00–17:00 **Print your own money**: Jay Cousins (Workshop · Design Space)
- 16:00–19:00 **Unconference Open Space** (Workshop · Participant-Directed · Design Space)
- 16:00–17:00 **Funding Ethereum Aligned Ecosystems**: Nico Gallardo, Community Lead, Octant (Workshop · Funding the Commons · Workshop Cube)
- 16:30–17:15 **Let’s Fund Our Own Tech Coop! Designing sustainable tech from the ground up**: Andreas Arnold, Co-founder & Board member, Platform Coops eG; Ela Kagel, Co-founder & board member, Platform Coops eG (Workshop · Breadcon · 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...
- 17:00–17:10 **Systems Transformation for Sustainable Development with United Nations Development Programme**: Ievgen Kylymnyk, Regional Project Manager, UNDP Eurasia, United Nations Development Programme (Lightning · Funding x the Commons x Decoland · Einkeller)
- 17:00–18:00 **Soundscapes**: Dana Muinara, Music Artist (Workshop · Workshop Cube)
  Dana is inviting you to sit and be with sounds to integrate, activate, illuminate, what was and is present. She is sensing what is in the field and is translating that into sound, touching deeply, connecting deeper with oneself, landing in the body, allowing to take a moment of being present and letting the sounds move through the field and the body. Entering soundscapes to travel in inner...
- 17:10–17:20 **Empowering Payroll Disbursement in Conflict Zones**: Marton Kocsev, Stellar Development Foundation (Lightning · Funding x the Commons x Decoland · Einkeller)
- 17:15–17:25 **Digital Democracy in DAOs**: Theo Beutel, Project Manager, Ethereum Foundation (Lightning · Breadcon · Bread Cube)
- 17:20–17:30 **Cultivating Partnerships between Humanitarian Organizations, Private Sector and Blockchain Public Goods**: Alexandre Maaza, Sustainability Lead, Cardano Foundation (Lightning · Funding x the Commons x Decoland · Einkeller)
- 17:25–17:35 **The Role of imagination and culture in coop models**: Alessandro Longo, Founder, REINCANTAMENTO, The Sphere (Lightning · Breadcon · Bread Cube)
- 17:30–18:00 **Bridging the Commons: Designing a Civic Layer that Connects Legacy Systems with New Public Goods Infrastructure**: Katia Lukicheva, Founder, Decoland; Ievgen Kylymnyk, Regional Project Manager, UNDP Eurasia, United Nations Development Programme; Johanna Sieben, Director, Creative Bureaucracy Festival; Alexandre Maaza, Sustainability Lead, Cardano Foundation; Marton Kocsev, Stellar Development Foundation (Roundtable · Funding x the Commons x Decoland · Einkeller)
  Today, we’re seeing blockchain used in the real world to deliver humanitarian aid, support sustainable development, and pilot decentralized funding models. From digital wallets for displaced communities to SDG-aligned funding and municipal innovation portfolios in Eastern Europe, these experiments are emerging across radically different systems. But what makes it possible to innovate across...
- 17:35–17:45 **Communet: Vibe Coding Post-Capitalism**: Ron Turetzky, Lead protocol Engineer @Opacity, Opacity/Breadchain (Lightning · Breadcon · Bread Cube)
- 17:45–17:55 **Poa: How to Build Organizations Owned Fully by Your Community**: Hudson Headley, Founder and Chief Architect, Poa (Lightning · Breadcon · Bread Cube)
- 17:55–18:40 **Post-Capitalist Labor**: Joshua Dávila, Co-Founder, Bread Cooperative; Simone Robutti, Organizer, Tech Workers Coalition Global; Magdalena Ziomek, co-CEO and co-Founder of SMartDe eG, SMartDe eG; Sam McCarthy, Ecosystem Lead, DAOstar & LaborDAO (Roundtable · Breadcon · 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,...
- 18:00–18:10 **Platform Cooperatives as Extitutional Infrastructures**: Ela Kagel, Co-founder & board member, Platform Coops eG (Lightning · Funding x the Commons x Decoland · Einkeller)
- 18:10–19:10 **From Coordination to Legitimacy: Civic Architectures for Public Goods**: Katia Lukicheva, Founder, Decoland; Gurden Batra, Civic Tech Lead, Dark Matter Labs; Charlie Fisher, Founder, Komma; Sunita Grote, UNICEF Lead, UNICEF; Ela Kagel, Co-founder & board member, Platform Coops eG; Lukas Kunert, Senior Manager, neosfer GmbH; Caroline Paulick-Thiel, Directors, Politics for Tomorrow / nextlearning e. V. (Roundtable · Funding x the Commons x Decoland · Einkeller)
- 18:40–19:00 **Recap and Audience Discussion**: Gilberto Morishaw, Breadchain Contributor, Breadchain; Joshua Dávila, Co-Founder, Bread Cooperative; Stephen Reid, Co-founder, Futurecraft (Talk · Breadcon · Bread Cube)

## Recordings

- Infrastructures of Resilience: Berlin Forum: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVBFv3khNmY