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Berkeley, California 13–14 April 2024 Conference

Funding the Commons SF Bay Area 2024

Two-day conference on AI and the Open Web: funding mechanisms for public goods and open-source technologies.

80 sessions · 97 speakers · 32 recordings · David Brower Center, Berkeley

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who took the stage, and on what

80 sessions

Day
Where
Format

Saturday 13 April 2024

Welcome & Introducing Earth Commons

Orin Ayodele Earth Commons

Earth Commons

Soils and Open Agriculture for Planetary Health

Will Gardiner Open Agricultural Technology

Earth Commons

Fueling Climate Tech: Funding Mission-Driven Startups

Phil Dillard Thruline Networks

Earth Commons

Inclusive Climate Open Innovation and Systems Transitions: Case of the Circular Design Lab Bangkok

Courtney Savie Lawrence UNDP

Earth Commons

Bridging Technology & Tradition: White Buffalo Woman x Web 3.0

Jessica Abkarian IRL Art

Earth Commons

The Cost of Community

Josh Tan Metagov

Funding the Commons

Internet Standards as Public Goods

Danny O'Brien Filecoin Foundation

Workshop · Funding the Commons

Studies of Extreme Weather using Machine Learning & Climate Emulators

William (Bill) Collins Berkeley National Lab

Earth Commons

AI Tech Trees for Ambitious Futures

Allison Duettmann Foresight Institute

Earth Commons

Network Funding Model

Juan Benet Protocol Labs Network

Funding the Commons

The property systems that brought us here will never take us there

Matthew Prewitt RadicalxChange

Earth Commons

Drawing on Indigenous Wisdom for Adaptive Economic Models

Atossa Soltani Amazon Sacred Headwaters

Earth Commons

Funding the Transition to Regenerative Bioregional Economies through Bioregional Financing Facilities

Samantha Power Finance for Gaia

Earth Commons

Reflections on Building Web3 Ecosystems for ReFi

Angelo Kalaw Celo

Earth Commons

Learning from Mycelial Networks for Designing Resilient Interdependence

Gregory Landua Regen Network

Earth Commons

How Web2 and Web3 can learn from each other’s grant funding pathways and processes

Eugene Leventhal Metagov

Workshop · Funding the Commons

Impactful Capital Allocation in Climate, Ecology and Biodiversity

Matthew Stotts Cerulean Ventures

Earth Commons

Open Innovation for Planetary Thriving

Stuart Cowan Buckminster Fuller Institute

Earth Commons

Sunday 14 April 2024

The Tragedy of Our Global Commons Systems - and Ideas for Solutions

Marco Schletz Open Earth Foundation

Earth Commons

Open Source Campus + MC Innovator Feature

Era Qian Edge

From Github to Startup - The Odyssey of Open Source Founder · Funding the Commons

Session with Lynne Twist

Lynne Twist Pachamama Alliance

Earth Commons

Gorilla LLM: Connecting LLMs with Massive Apps, Tools, and Services through APIs

Shishir Patil Co-Founder, Gorilla

From Github to Startup - The Odyssey of Open Source Founder · Funding the Commons

Embedding Sustainability into Tech’s DNA

Megan Klimen Filecoin Foundation

Earth Commons

Earth Science in an Age of Change

Joe Mascaro Planet Labs

Earth Commons

Weaving Together Strategies to Regenerate Our Planet's Life-Giving Commons

Bobby Fishkin ReframeIt

Earth Commons

Biodiversity Islands: The Food, Water, Carbon, Community Nexus

Brett Levin BIOCULTIVATION

Earth Commons

The Model Openness Framework: Promoting Completeness and Openness for Reproducibility, Transparency & Usability in AI

Matt White Executive Director, Linux Foundation

The Path to Commercialization - OS Opportunities & Challenges · Funding the Commons

Blockchain Based Solutions for Climate

Elvie Kamalova Blockstreet Capital

Earth Commons

Can You Change the Future? Introducing the Ecological Benefits Framework

Douglas Gayeton The Lexicon

Earth Commons

Building for Modern Carbon Credit Markets Using Open Data Frameworks and AI

Peter Rosberg Centigrade

Earth Commons

AI and the Collective Pursuit of Truth

Jamie Joyce Founder, The Society Library

Collective Intelligence / OS Community Growth & Autonomous Society · Funding the Commons

A Universal Regenerative Experience

Josh Whiton MakeSoil

Earth Commons

Towards A Planetary Federation Of Bioregions

Benjamin Life Open Civics

Earth Commons

Lawyering for the Planet: New Cultures of Legal Practice & New Pathways to Licensure

Jessy Kate Schingler Open Lunar Foundation

Earth Commons

Ma Earth: Funding for Regenerative Land Projects

Matthew Monahan Ma Earth

Earth Commons

Decentralized Trust in Environmental Assets with Liquicert

Alan Ransil Devonian Systems

Earth Commons

Closing Remarks

David Casey Funding the Commons

Earth Commons

Recorded talks
32 from this edition

Closing Remarks (Open Source Day)A Developer’s Journey: Supporting Your Public Goods WorkOpen Culture in the ArtsJolt: An open source zkVM by a16z crypto research and engineeringFunding AI Public Goods and Keeping Them PublicMeasuring impact of open source software (Web3 + bigger picture)Measuring impact of open source software (Web2)Onion Services: The Last Defense Line for the Open WebRetro Profit OrganizationsBlockchain as CommonsAfternoon Workshop PreviewDriving growth in an ecosystem, what worked and what didn'tDisability Justice and Tech from a Funder PerspectiveOpen Collective's Exit to CommunityPublic Goods Funding as a Competitive AdvantageMorning Workshops PreviewBerkeley RDIDelivering Sustainability of Critical OSS ProjectsOpening Remarks (Open Source Day)Introducing Funding the CommonsAGI with Safety GuaranteesOpen Source Search: Two Decades of Bad Design Decisions & Legacy SoftwareOpen Source Conversational AIAutoGen: A Multi-Agent Framework for Enabling Next-Gen AI ApplicationsAdvancing Open Source LLM Evaluation, Testing, and DebuggingEfficient Fine-Tuning and Serving of LLMs that Rival GPT-4Unlocking Value in Open Source AIBuilding Truly Open AIBuilding Successful Codegen AgentsOpen Source Robotics + Robo Dog DemoHow to Grow & Scale Your OS CommunityConclusion (AI Day)

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