Funding the Commons
directory of

Speakers

Everyone who has spoken, moderated, mentored, or judged at a Funding the Commons gathering since 2021, with what they work on and the sessions they gave.

71

A

Aaron Soskin

Govrn

  • Measurement Systems & Contributor Rewards (2022)
New York 2022

Abbey Titcomb

Runner

  • Public Goods Funding Stack Workshop (2023)
  • Investing in Network Goods: New Ecosystem Funding Paradigms (2022)
Istanbul 2023Bogotá 2022

Adam Spiers

Toucan Protocol

  • FtC x EC Hackathon | Workshop: Introducing Toucan Protocol (Oct 2024) (2024)
  • Sponsor Spotlights: innovating public goods during the FtC Bangkok hackathon (2024)
Earth Commons Hackathon 2024PG Builders Town Hall #5 (October 2024)

Addie Wagenknecht

Artist

  • Fireside Chat with Guy Wuollet (2023)
  • Blue Funds Fireside Chat (2022)
Paris 2023Lisbon 2022

Afolabi Aiyeloja

Greenpill Network / Green Goods

  • Lightning Rounds (2026)
  • Partner Lightning Talks: Key themes & learnings of 2025 (2025)
Frontier Fund Showcase (April 2026)PG Town Hall #10 (December 2025)

Ala Shaabana

Bittensor / Opentensor Foundation

X

  • Fireside Chat with Ala Shaabana and Ashutosh Desai (2026)
  • Who Owns the Intelligence? Open vs. Closed AI (2026)
San Francisco 2026

Alessandro Longo

REINCANTAMENTO / The Sphere

LinkedInwebsite

  • Anarchiving as Collective Memory (2025)
  • Techno Tyranny, Digital Enclosures & Hospitable States (2025)
  • Anarchiving Game (2025)
1 more
  • The Role of imagination and culture in coop models (2025)
Berlin Forum 2025

Alessandro Mazzi

Sovereign Nature Initiative

  • Impact Evaluation Workshop (2023)
  • On-Chain Data As Primitive and Building Block (2023)
Istanbul 2023

Alexandre Maaza

Cardano Foundation

  • Bridging Public Sector and Blockchain to Meet Sustainable Development Goals (2025)
  • Cultivating Partnerships between Humanitarian Organizations, Private Sector and Blockchain Public Goods (2025)
  • Bridging the Commons: Designing a Civic Layer that Connects Legacy Systems with New Public Goods Infrastructure (2025)
Buenos Aires 2025Berlin Forum 2025

Alex Netto

  • Coordination Mechanisms (presentation) (2024)
  • Coordination Mechanisms (workshop) (2024)
Aleph Pop-up 2024

Ana Ojeda

Telos y Norse Securities

  • Venezuela, Hacking Censorship - Panel & Discussion: Leveraging Decentralized Technologies for Resistance (2024)
Aleph Pop-up 2024

Andrea Leiter

Sovereign Nature Initiative; University of Amsterdam

  • Introducing DEEP: A Pathway Toward Flipping the Economics of Ecology (2023)
Berlin Forum 2025Berlin 2023

Andrej Berlin

Deep Work Network

LinkedIn

  • Opening Ceremony (2024)
  • Team Formation, Mentor Identification & Challenge Selection (2024)
  • Practical Workshop: From Hypothesis to Solution (2024)
3 more
  • Practical Workshop: Prototyping and Presentation (2024)
  • Design as Praxis: Learnings & Practical Applications from the FtC Design Jam (2024)
  • Systems Thinking for Decentralized Science & Environmental Impact Roundtable (2024)
Buenos Aires 2025Berlin Forum 2025Design Jam Bangkok 2024Bangkok 2024

Angela Kreitenweis

Token Engineering Academy (TE Academy)

LinkedInX

  • Retro Funding Voting Designs – How to Find the Ground Truth in Rewarding Impact (2024)
  • Public Goods for Advancing the Field of Token Engineering (2023)
Bangkok 2024Berlin 2023

Angela Ocando

Web3Citizen

  • Venezuela, Hacking Censorship - Panel & Discussion: Leveraging Decentralized Technologies for Resistance (2024)
Aleph Pop-up 2024

Anke Liu

Stellar Development Foundation

5 more
Buenos Aires Builder Residency 2025Buenos Aires 2025Berlin Forum 2025Bangkok 2024PG Builders Town Hall #5 (October 2024)Earth Commons Hackathon 2024Taipei 2023

Anna Kryukova

  • Investing in Network Goods: New Ecosystem Funding Paradigms (2022)
Bogotá 2022

Anna Medina

Funding the Commons

  • Community Projects Showcase (lightning talks) (2025)
  • Panel: Earth Commons: Innovation, Challenges, and the Road Ahead (2025)
  • Sponsor Spotlights: innovating public goods during the FtC Bangkok hackathon (2024)
3 more
  • Panel: Gitcoin Onchain Allocation Handbook (2024)
  • Welcome Words (2024)
  • How are we seeing the public goods landscape shifting in 2024 (2024)
PG Town Hall #8 (April 2025)PG Town Hall #7 (February 2025)PG Builders Town Hall #5 (October 2024)PG Town Hall #4 ft. Gitcoin (September 2024)Aleph Pop-up 2024PG Town Hall #1 (June 2024)

Anya Biarozka

Gitcoin

  • Panel: Gitcoin Onchain Allocation Handbook (2024)
PG Town Hall #4 ft. Gitcoin (September 2024)

Ariagne Cediel

U3Tech

  • Venezuela, Hacking Censorship - Panel & Discussion: Leveraging Decentralized Technologies for Resistance (2024)
Aleph Pop-up 2024

Arkadiy

Internet Archive

LinkedIn

  • Judged track(s): Resilient Anonymous Publishing (2025)
RealFi Hack 2025

Ayşe Sabuncu

Impact Hub Network

  • Measuring Impact Panel (2023)
Istanbul 2023

B

Beth McCarthy

Funding the Commons

LinkedInX

  • Closing Words from Funding the Commons (2026)
  • Anarchiving as Collective Memory (2025)
  • Techno Tyranny, Digital Enclosures & Hospitable States (2025)
33 more
  • Old Value Systems, New Technologies (2025)
  • Privacy by Design: Sovereign Identities (2025)
  • Privacy by Design: Secure Infrastructures (2025)
  • Privacy for Liberatory Harm Reduction: DIY HRT Support Networks as an Urgent "Real World Application" (2025)
  • Welcome Words (2025)
  • Dynamic Ecological Stewardship (2025)
  • Facing Challenges Together with AI: Policy, Ecological & Technical Perspectives (2025)
  • Politics of Perception: Architecting Trust and Sovereignty with Geospatial Data and Planetary Sensing (2025)
  • Adaptive Funding Strategies for Arts, Research, & Silenced Science (2025)
  • Theme framing: Layer Zero / the Cultural Layer (2025)
  • Berlin update (2025)
  • Culture & Community as Complex Systems (2025)
  • Privacy By Design: ZK, MPC, TEE (2025)
  • Opening Ceremony (2024)
  • Introduction to Mentors & Challenges (2024)
  • Opening Words (2024)
  • Designing for Real-World Impact Roundtable (2024)
  • Opening Words (Day 1) (2024)
  • Self-Governing Land Trusts (2024)
  • Network Goods: Digital Infrastructures for the Common Good (2024)
  • Design Jam / FtC Bangkok segment (2024)
  • Greetings from FtC & Plurality Tokyo (2024)
  • Introducing Funding the Commons (2024)
  • Human rights-centered FLOSS technology (2024)
  • Welcome (2024)
  • Programmable Attestations I (2023)
  • Impact Evaluation Workshop (2023)
  • Experience Design for Collective Space (2023)
  • Infrastructure & Tooling as Network Goods' Connective Tissue (2023)
  • On-Chain Data As Primitive and Building Block (2023)
  • Getting to Paretoutopia: Collective Problem Solving for the Public Goods Funding Stack (2023)
  • Refunding the Commons? (2023)
  • Unpaid Position: Building a Better and More Sustainable Future for Cultural Public Goods (2023)
San Francisco 2026Q1 Connection Circle (February 2026)Buenos Aires 2025Berlin Forum 2025PG Town Hall #9 (May 2025)PG Town Hall #8 (April 2025)San Francisco 2025Design Jam Bangkok 2024Bangkok 2024PG Town Hall #4 ft. Gitcoin (September 2024)Tokyo 2024SF Bay Area 2024Istanbul 2023Berlin 2023Paris 2023

bumblefudge

IPFS Ecosystem Team / CASA

  • Infrastructure & Tooling as Network Goods' Connective Tissue (2023)
Istanbul 2023

C

Caitlin Moore

Devonian Systems (Cherty)

  • Office Hours Sessions (2025)
  • AI & Emerging Technologies for Ecological Resilience Roundtable (2025)
  • Panel: Earth Commons: Innovation, Challenges, and the Road Ahead (2025)
1 more
  • Verifiable Public Goods Pipelines: A Dive into Cherty and the Poplar Protocol (2024)
San Francisco 2025PG Town Hall #7 (February 2025)Bangkok 2024

Camila Rioja

Plexos Institute

  • A Potent Alignment for Web3, Community, and Planetary Health - An Open Call to Explore Community Currencies in Recife, Brazil (2024)
Bangkok 2024

Cassidy Daly

Centrifuge

  • Is Capitalism Really the Problem? - FtC Paris 2023 (2023)
Paris 2023

Cezar Mocan

Artist & Programmer

LinkedInXwebsite

  • AI & the Commons: Shared Risk, Shared Resource? (2025)
  • "World Upstream" Artist Talk (2025)
  • Facing Challenges Together with AI: Policy, Ecological & Technical Perspectives (2025)
1 more
  • Politics of Perception: Architecting Trust and Sovereignty with Geospatial Data and Planetary Sensing (2025)
Berlin Forum 2025

Chris Anatolio

Stellar Development Foundation

LinkedInX

  • Enabling Adoption With Better UX Through Passkeys (2024)
  • FtC x EC Hackathon | Workshop: Stellar & Mobile Money Networks (Oct 2024) (2024)
Bangkok 2024Earth Commons Hackathon 2024

Christian Betancourt

Ixian

LinkedInX

  • Local Considerations, Local Organizations; Free Jurisdictions for Public Goods Development (2024)
Aleph Pop-up 2024

Clara G

dOrg, ACT3

  • Housing & Land Commons for Regen, Stable and Affordable Living: Web3 Opportunities (2024)
Bangkok 2024

Cypherbadger / Andres

Ethereum Volcano

  • Venezuela, Hacking Censorship - Panel & Discussion: Leveraging Decentralized Technologies for Resistance (2024)
Aleph Pop-up 2024

D

Damián Silva

Tropykus

  • Comprender a los latinoamericanos para diseñar una plataforma DeFi con sabor local (2024)
Aleph Pop-up 2024

Danny O'Brien

Filecoin Foundation

LinkedInXwebsite

5 more
San Francisco 2025Bangkok 2024SF Bay Area 2024Virtual Summit, March 2022

Daphne Charles

  • Complex Products: Where DAOs and Funding Mechanisms Fall Short (2022)
Bogotá 2022

David Casey

Funding the Commons

LinkedInX

  • Closing Words, Day 2 (2026)
  • Opening Words (2026)
  • Closing Words from Funding the Commons (2026)
38 more
Internet Freedom X Space with Tor (June 2026)Inside the Tor Internet Freedom Round (June 2026)Ma Earth & Funding Regeneration (June 2026)Frontier Fund Showcase (April 2026)San Francisco 2026Human Flourishing in the Age of AI (March 2026)PG Town Hall #10 (December 2025)Buenos Aires 2025Berlin Forum 2025PG Town Hall #9 (May 2025)San Francisco 2025Design Jam Bangkok 2024Bangkok 2024Tokyo 2024Edge Esmeralda Pop-up 2024SF Bay Area 2024Taipei 2023Istanbul 2023Paris 2023

David Dao

GainForest

LinkedInXwebsite

10 more
San Francisco 2026Buenos Aires Builder Residency 2025Buenos Aires 2025Berlin Forum 2025San Francisco 2025PG Town Hall #7 (February 2025)Bangkok 2024Paris 2023

David Fortson

Regen Network Development PBC

LinkedInX

  • Office Hours Sessions (2025)
  • AI & Emerging Technologies for Ecological Resilience Roundtable (2025)
  • Panel: Earth Commons: Innovation, Challenges, and the Road Ahead (2025)
San Francisco 2025PG Town Hall #7 (February 2025)

Dr. Neil Gains

Thammasat University School of Global Studies

  • Addressing climate change with behavioural science: Findings from 63 countries (2024)
Bangkok 2024

E

Eirini Malliaraki

Renaissance Philanthropy

  • Roadmapping for Impact Funding (2023)
Paris 2023

Ela Kagel

Platform Coops eG / SUPERMARKT Berlin

LinkedInXwebsite

  • Let's Fund Our Own Tech Coop! Designing sustainable tech from the ground up (2025)
  • Platform Cooperatives as Extitutional Infrastructures (2025)
  • From Coordination to Legitimacy: Civic Architectures for Public Goods (2025)
Berlin Forum 2025Berlin 2023

Ellie Rennie

  • Measurement Systems & Contributor Rewards (2022)
New York 2022

Eoghan O'Keeffe

epok.tech

  • Panel: Memory, Media, and Meaning: Cultural Infrastructure for the Commons (2025)
PG Town Hall #9 (May 2025)

Era Qian

Edge Society

  • Welcome Address (2024)
  • Open Source Campus + MC Innovator Feature (2024)
  • Unlocking Value in Open Source AI (2024)
2 more
SF Bay Area 2024

Eric Katerman

  • Fluid Quadratic Finance: Cultivating Trust with a Flexible Public Goods Funding Model (2022)
New York 2022

Eri Kawai

Waseda University

  • Natural Resources as Commons Based on the Japanese Satoyama Concept (2024)
Tokyo 2024

Erik Bordeleau

The Sphere

  • Infrastructuring open Conspiracies (2023)
Berlin 2023

Erik Ohlsen

Owner, Permaculture Artisans

  • Permaculture Skills Center Tour (2024)
Edge Esmeralda Pop-up 2024

Evan Miyazono

Atlas Computing

LinkedInXwebsite

12 more
San Francisco 2026San Francisco 2025SF Bay Area 2024Paris 2023Lisbon 2022Bogotá 2022New York 2022Virtual Summit, March 2022Virtual Summit, November 2021

F

G

Gopal Dayaneni

Movement Generation

  • Governance of Sustainable Communities (2024)
Edge Esmeralda Pop-up 2024

Graven

Flow State Coop

LinkedInX

  • Community Projects Showcase (lightning talks) (2025)
PG Town Hall #8 (April 2025)

Guo Liu

Matters Lab

  • Programmable Attestations I (2023)
  • Experience Design for Collective Space (2023)
Istanbul 2023

H

Hadar Rottenberg

GoodDollar

  • Judged track(s): Community Finance Systems & Coordination (2025)
  • Community Projects Showcase (lightning talks) (2025)
Buenos Aires 2025RealFi Hack 2025PG Town Hall #8 (April 2025)

Holke Brammer

Hypercerts Foundation

LinkedInXwebsite

12 more
  • Funding Networks with Hypercerts (2024)
  • Contribution & Attestation Roundtable (2024)
  • Afternoon Workshop Previews (2024)
  • Bridging the Gap: Web2 and Web3 OSS Funding Infrastructure (2024)
  • Hypercerts and Hyperboards (2023)
  • Incentivising Public Goods (2023)
  • Hypercerts and Hyperboards: Advancing Modern Impact Funding Systems (2023)
  • From Hypercerts to Hyperboards: Advancing Modern Impact Funding Systems (2023)
  • Hypercerts: How to Build Modern Impact Funding Systems - FtC Paris 2023 (2023)
  • Hypercert Scenarios: Presentation and Workshop (2022)
  • Rewarding Impact with Hypercerts.xyz (2022)
  • Workshop: Impact Markets (2022)
San Francisco 2026Buenos Aires Builder Residency 2025Buenos Aires 2025Bangkok 2024Earth Commons Hackathon 2024SF Bay Area 2024Taipei 2023Berlin 2023Paris 2023Lisbon 2022Bogotá 2022

I

Ievgen Kylymnyk

UNDP

LinkedIn

  • Systems Transformation for Sustainable Development with United Nations Development Programme (2025)
  • Bridging the Commons: Designing a Civic Layer that Connects Legacy Systems with New Public Goods Infrastructure (2025)
Berlin Forum 2025

Ira Nezhynska

Funding the Commons

  • Reputation-engineering exercises for founders, or how to turn strangers into early adopters (2025)
  • Panel: Memory, Media, and Meaning: Cultural Infrastructure for the Commons (2025)
RealFi Hack 2025Berlin Forum 2025PG Town Hall #9 (May 2025)

J

James Kiernan

Golem Foundation (Octant)

LinkedInX

4 more
San Francisco 2025PG Town Hall #7 (February 2025)Taipei 2023Istanbul 2023

Janine Leger

Edge City

  • Zuzalu: A First-of-its-kind IRL Pop-up Community Experiment (2023)
Paris 2023

Jason Potts

Blockchain Innovation Hub

LinkedInX

  • Contribution Theory of Value: On the Evolution of Markets and Commons (2023)
Paris 2023

Jeff Emmett

  • Measurement Systems & Contributor Rewards (2022)
New York 2022

Jeff Pulver

The vCon Foundation

LinkedInXwebsite

  • Dialing into the Future: Sustainable Funding & Value Synergy in Open Source (2023)
  • FWD (Free World Dialup) or The History of the Future (2023)
Berlin 2023Paris 2023

Jesse Katz

expressive freedom worldwide

  • Open access to information and data for knowledge coordination and co-creation; Community Graphs & DecentLibrary (2024)
  • Open access to information and data for knowledge coordination and co-creation; Fireside Chat (2024)
Aleph Pop-up 2024

Jesse Pollak

Coinbase

  • Is Capitalism Really the Problem? - FtC Paris 2023 (2023)
Paris 2023

John Hoopes

Astral

  • Politics of Perception: Architecting Trust and Sovereignty with Geospatial Data and Planetary Sensing (2025)
  • FtC x EC Hackathon | Workshop: Carbon Credits, Simply Explained (Oct 2024) (2024)
Berlin Forum 2025Earth Commons Hackathon 2024

Jon Ruth

Climate Coordination Network (CCN)

  • Panel: Earth Commons: Innovation, Challenges, and the Road Ahead (2025)
PG Town Hall #7 (February 2025)

Jordan Ndetcho

Decoland

  • FtC x EC Hackathon | Workshop: Multidimensional impact dashboard with Decoland (Oct 2024) (2024)
Earth Commons Hackathon 2024

Josh Tan

Public AI / Metagov

LinkedInXwebsite

3 more
  • Web3 and Small Business: How to Build a Community Bank for DAOs (2024)
  • The Cost of Community (2024)
  • Open Collective's Exit to Community (2024)
San Francisco 2026Berlin Forum 2025Bangkok 2024Earth Commons Hackathon 2024SF Bay Area 2024

Joshua Davila

Bread Cooperative / The Blockchain Socialist

LinkedInXwebsite

  • Welcome and Plenary (2025)
  • Protocol Governance & Cryptoeconomic Design (2025)
  • Welcome and Plenary: Who are we and what is post-capitalism? (2025)
8 more
  • Lessons Learned from Existing Blockchain Political Economies (2025)
  • Build a blockchain with weird political economies (2025)
  • Post-Capitalist Labor (2025)
  • Recap and Audience Discussion (2025)
  • Panel: Memory, Media, and Meaning: Cultural Infrastructure for the Commons (2025)
  • Solidarity Primitives: How to fund your commons with an aligned community (2024)
  • Contribution & Attestation Roundtable (2024)
  • Sponsor Spotlights: innovating public goods during the FtC Bangkok hackathon (2024)
Berlin Forum 2025PG Town Hall #9 (May 2025)Bangkok 2024PG Builders Town Hall #5 (October 2024)Earth Commons Hackathon 2024

Juan Angel

Matter

  • Judged track(s): Private Data Manager (PDM); Combined Privacy + DeFi App; Privacy-Preserving AI (2025)
RealFi Hack 2025

Juan Benet

Protocol Labs

LinkedInXwebsite

  • Fireside Chat with Illia Polosukhin and Juan Benet (2026)
  • Thoughts for the FtC Community in 2026 (2026)
  • Illia Polosukhin & Juan Benet: Building the Agentic Future (2026)
18 more
San Francisco 2026Buenos Aires 2025San Francisco 2025Bangkok 2024Aleph Pop-up 2024SF Bay Area 2024Istanbul 2023Paris 2023Lisbon 2022Bogotá 2022New York 2022Virtual Summit, March 2022Virtual Summit, November 2021

Judy Zhou

Frontier Tower

  • Flourishing Floors — Mechanism Design Workshop (2026)
  • A Community Treasury, Allocated by AI Digital Twins: The Simocracy Experiment (2026)
San Francisco 2026

Justina Svitraite

Deep Work Studio

LinkedInwebsite

  • Introduction to Mentors & Challenges (2024)
  • Practical Workshop: From Hypothesis to Solution (2024)
  • Practical Workshop: Prototyping and Presentation (2024)
1 more
  • Design as Praxis: Learnings & Practical Applications from the FtC Design Jam (2024)
Design Jam Bangkok 2024Bangkok 2024

K

Kat

Drips

LinkedIn

  • Partner Lightning Talks: Key themes & learnings of 2025 (2025)
PG Town Hall #10 (December 2025)

Katia Lukicheva

Decoland

  • The Missing Layer: Civil Society as Infrastructure for Resilient Public Goods (2025)
  • Adaptive Funding Strategies for Arts, Research, & Silenced Science (2025)
  • Bridging the Commons: Designing a Civic Layer that Connects Legacy Systems with New Public Goods Infrastructure (2025)
3 more
  • From Coordination to Legitimacy: Civic Architectures for Public Goods (2025)
  • FtC x EC Hackathon | Workshop: Multidimensional impact dashboard with Decoland (Oct 2024) (2024)
  • Sponsor Spotlights: innovating public goods during the FtC Bangkok hackathon (2024)
Berlin Forum 2025Earth Commons Hackathon 2024PG Builders Town Hall #5 (October 2024)

Kelsie Nabben

  • A ‘Governance Layer’ for the Decentralised Web (2022)
Lisbon 2022

Ken Beckers (bitbeckers)

Hypercerts Foundation / Ma Earth

  • Ma Earth: the how (hypercerts on the AT Protocol) (2026)
  • Designing for Real-World Impact Roundtable (2024)
  • On-Chain Data As Primitive and Building Block (2023)
Ma Earth & Funding Regeneration (June 2026)Bangkok 2024Istanbul 2023

Ken Ng

  • Public Goods - the long and short of it (2022)
New York 2022

Kevin Owocki

Allo Capital / Gitcoin

LinkedInXwebsite

11 more
  • On-chain capital allocation: from present mechanisms to future possibilities (2024)
  • Capital Allocation Workshop with Gitcoin (2024)
  • Panel: Gitcoin Onchain Allocation Handbook (2024)
  • Public Goods Funding as a Competitive Advantage (2024)
  • Improving Impact Assessment in Retro Funding (2024)
  • Mechanism Design and Community Activation Pathways for Public Goods (2023)
  • Infrastructure & Tooling as Network Goods' Connective Tissue (2023)
  • Getting to Paretoutopia: Collective Problem Solving for the Public Goods Funding Stack (2023)
  • An Attractor for Public Goods Funding (2023)
  • Rewarding Impact with Hypercerts.xyz (2022)
  • Quadratic funding on Gitcoin (2021)
PG Town Hall #10 (December 2025)San Francisco 2025Bangkok 2024PG Town Hall #4 ft. Gitcoin (September 2024)SF Bay Area 2024Istanbul 2023Paris 2023Bogotá 2022Virtual Summit, November 2021

Kim Buisson

Funding the Commons

  • Panel: Memory, Media, and Meaning: Cultural Infrastructure for the Commons (2025)
  • Community Projects Showcase (lightning talks) (2025)
  • Panel: Earth Commons: Innovation, Challenges, and the Road Ahead (2025)
6 more
  • Panel: Predictions for Public Goods Funding in 2025 (Deep Funding) (2025)
  • Sponsor Spotlights: innovating public goods during the FtC Bangkok hackathon (2024)
  • Panel: Gitcoin Onchain Allocation Handbook (2024)
  • Celo Public Goods / ReFi (+ GG21 breakout rooms) (2024)
  • Mechanisms for funding public goods (DeSci + Artizen) (2024)
  • How are we seeing the public goods landscape shifting in 2024 (2024)
Ma Earth & Funding Regeneration (June 2026)Frontier Fund Showcase (April 2026)Human Flourishing in the Age of AI (March 2026)PG Town Hall #10 (December 2025)PG Town Hall #9 (May 2025)PG Town Hall #8 (April 2025)PG Town Hall #7 (February 2025)PG Town Hall #6 (January 2025)PG Builders Town Hall #5 (October 2024)PG Town Hall #4 ft. Gitcoin (September 2024)PG Town Hall #3 (August 2024)PG Town Hall #2 (July 2024)PG Town Hall #1 (June 2024)

L

Laura Lotti

Other Internet

  • Web3 Work: The Contributor's Perspective (2023)
Berlin 2023

Lena Bumke

Grace – Accelerate Female Entrepreneurship

Berlin 2023Paris 2023

Lene Vollhardt

The Sphere

  • Anarchiving as Collective Memory (2025)
  • Swirls of Fortune – A Protocol Art Performance (2025)
  • Anarchiving Game (2025)
Berlin Forum 2025

Livia De

  • Workshop: Funding Mechanisms (2022)
Bogotá 2022

Luce deLire

Humboldt University Berlin; Selbstbestimmung Selbst Gemacht

  • Techno Tyranny, Digital Enclosures & Hospitable States (2025)
  • Privacy for Liberatory Harm Reduction: DIY HRT Support Networks as an Urgent "Real World Application" (2025)
Berlin Forum 2025

Luis Muñoz

Share

  • Community Projects Showcase (lightning talks) (2025)
PG Town Hall #8 (April 2025)

M

Madeleine Parker

Sixth Street

  • Programmable Attestations I (2023)
Istanbul 2023Berlin 2023

Mallika Robinson

Guardians of Earth

LinkedInX

  • Nature Realms: Unleashing Community Power for Biodiversity Conservation - FtC Paris 2023 (2023)
Paris 2023

Manu Alzuru

DoinGud; Blockravers

  • Programmable Attestations I (2023)
  • Experience Design for Collective Space (2023)
  • Workshop: Impact Markets (2022)
Istanbul 2023Berlin 2023Bogotá 2022

Manuel Olariu

DeepVenture.io

  • Mechanisms for funding public goods (DeSci + Artizen) (2024)
PG Town Hall #2 (July 2024)

Marcus Aurelius

KlimaDAO

  • Panel: Earth Commons: Innovation, Challenges, and the Road Ahead (2025)
  • FtC x EC Hackathon | Workshop: Carbon Credits, Simply Explained (Oct 2024) (2024)
  • Workshop: Funding Mechanisms (2022)
PG Town Hall #7 (February 2025)Earth Commons Hackathon 2024Bogotá 2022

Marek Olszewski

cLabs (Celo) / Valora

  • Public Goods That Will Onboard the Next Billion - FtC Paris 2023 (2023)
  • FiatConnect & Connect the World - Using Competitions to Bootstrap Public Goods (2022)
San Francisco 2025Paris 2023Bogotá 2022

Marieke Flament

UNICEF

LinkedInX

  • The Open Web is NEAR: How BOS, NDC, and DAOs are Creating a Decentralized Web (2023)
Paris 2023

Marton Kocsev

GIZ

  • Empowering Payroll Disbursement in Conflict Zones (2025)
  • Bridging the Commons: Designing a Civic Layer that Connects Legacy Systems with New Public Goods Infrastructure (2025)
Berlin Forum 2025

Mashal Waqar

Octant

LinkedIn

  • Fireside: what it takes to get funded (2026)
  • Panel: PGF Needs a New Narrative (2025)
Octant v2 & the Anatomy of a Funded Project (May 2026)PG Town Hall #10 (December 2025)

Matthew Frehlich

Congrue

  • Infrastructure for Real World Claims (2023)
  • Funding the Commons, an Incubation Ecosystem for Public Goods Funding Infrastructure (2023)
  • A case study: Network Goods in Protocol Labs (2023)
4 more
  • Network Funding Updates (2022)
  • Impact Evaluators: Existential Challenges and Opportunities (2022)
  • Building a Regen Alliance (2022)
  • Daily Kickoff with Matt Frehlich (2022)
Istanbul 2023Paris 2023Lisbon 2022Bogotá 2022New York 2022

Matt Strachman

Greenpill Writers Guild

  • Panel: Gitcoin Onchain Allocation Handbook (2024)
PG Town Hall #4 ft. Gitcoin (September 2024)

Meg Lister

Grants Lab (Gitcoin)

  • Panel: Gitcoin Onchain Allocation Handbook (2024)
  • Grants for (Public) Good: Establishing Resilient, Democratic Funding Mechanisms (2023)
PG Town Hall #4 ft. Gitcoin (September 2024)Paris 2023

Mf (michiel)

Foragers.io / Web3Privacy / xx.network

RealFi Hack 2025

Mgoes

BiohackerDAO

X

  • Funding BioDAOs Roundtable (2024)
Bangkok 2024Earth Commons Hackathon 2024

Michelle Ma

  • Interoperable Grants 2.0 (2022)
New York 2022

Mike Natanzon

Abundance Protocol

  • Community Projects Showcase (lightning talks) (2025)
PG Town Hall #8 (April 2025)

Moenick

Directeur commercial chez S.A.D.

  • Panel: Predictions for Public Goods Funding in 2025 (Deep Funding) (2025)
PG Town Hall #6 (January 2025)

Molly Mackinley

Protocol Labs

  • Network Structures for Funding Public Goods (2023)
Istanbul 2023

Mosh Lee

IPFS Fund

  • Panel: Driving growth in an ecosystem (2024)
  • Driving growth in an ecosystem, what worked and what didn't (2024)
SF Bay Area 2024

N

Nanak Nihal Khalsa

Holonym Foundation / human.tech

LinkedInXwebsite

  • Infrastructure Must Be Human-Centered (Shady El Damaty & Nanak Nihal) (Open Conversation, 2025)
  • Redefining Human Rights in the Digital Age (Shady El Damaty & Nanak Nihal) (Open Conversation, 2025)
  • Leveraging Technology Towards Public Efficiency (2025)
5 more
  • Judged track(s): Privacy Meets Identity; Secure Onboarding to RealFi; Human Passport: Portable Keycard Identity (2025)
  • Privacy by Design: Sovereign Identities (2025)
  • Office Hours Sessions (2025)
  • Privacy By Design: ZK, MPC, TEE (2025)
  • Cryptography for Public Goods (2024)
Buenos Aires 2025RealFi Hack 2025Berlin Forum 2025San Francisco 2025Bangkok 2024Earth Commons Hackathon 2024

Nate Gosselin

Fractional Product Leader / Startup Advisor

  • Gitcoin's Allo Protocol: Empowering Communities to Invest in Their Future (2023)
  • Interoperable Grants 2.0 (2022)
Berlin 2023New York 2022

NatyShi

Token Engineering

  • Fundamentos de Token Engineering (2024)
Aleph Pop-up 2024

Nick Houde

Least Authority / co-matter

  • Political Economy and Commons as a Design Space (2025)
  • Political Economy as a Design Space (2025)
  • Build a blockchain with weird political economies (2025)
1 more
  • Web3 Work: The Contributor's Perspective (2023)
Berlin Forum 2025Berlin 2023

Nico Gallardo

Embedded Systems & Hardware Engineer

LinkedInX

  • Octant v2 walkthrough (2026)
  • Degen incentives for regen outcomes (2024)
Octant v2 & the Anatomy of a Funded Project (May 2026)Bangkok 2024

Nidhi Harihar

VoiceDeck

  • Panel: Memory, Media, and Meaning: Cultural Infrastructure for the Commons (2025)
PG Town Hall #9 (May 2025)

Nikhil Garg

  • Democracy, Participation, and Mechanisms: What to do when participation is unrepresentative? (2022)
New York 2022

O

Oliver Beige

integrity machines / CyberCat Institute

  • Vibecoding Governance (2025)
  • Protocol Governance & Cryptoeconomic Design (2025)
  • Putting the "Design" in Mechanism Design (2023)
Berlin Forum 2025Berlin 2023

Omoju Miller

CEO and Founder; Technologist

  • Soulbound Reputation Tokens to the Rescue (2023)
Paris 2023

Ori Applebaum

  • What Money Can't Buy: The Limits of Ecosystem Funding (2023)
Paris 2023

Orin Ayodele

Funding the Commons

LinkedIn

  • Welcome & Introducing Earth Commons (2024)
  • Public Goods Hackathon Winners Announced (2023)
PG Town Hall #2 (July 2024)PG Town Hall #1 (June 2024)SF Bay Area 2024Berlin 2023

Othman

The Governance Memory System

LinkedInX

  • Lightning Rounds (2026)
Frontier Fund Showcase (April 2026)

P

Pamela Limón

DeSci Mexico

  • Local Considerations, Local Organizations; Discourse (2024)
  • Open access to information and data for knowledge coordination and co-creation; Fireside Chat (2024)
  • Welcome Words (2024)
1 more
  • Lessons in Funding and Coordination from Institutional Actors (2024)
Aleph Pop-up 2024

Pandora Thomas

Earthseed Farm / Urban Permaculture Institute

  • Earthseed Farm Tour (2024)
Edge Esmeralda Pop-up 2024

Paul Glavin

McMaster University

  • Panel: PGF Needs a New Narrative (2025)
  • Community Projects Showcase (lightning talks) (2025)
PG Town Hall #10 (December 2025)PG Town Hall #8 (April 2025)

Pete Silvester

xCelery

LinkedIn

  • Keynote: The Founder's Journey (2024)
Design Jam Bangkok 2024Earth Commons Hackathon 2024

Pia Mancini

Give Zero

  • The Future is Collective (2023)
Paris 2023

Q

R

Raymond Cheng

Kariba Labs / Open Source Observer (OSO)

LinkedInXwebsite

13 more
Buenos Aires 2025San Francisco 2025PG Town Hall #6 (January 2025)Bangkok 2024Earth Commons Hackathon 2024SF Bay Area 2024Taipei 2023Istanbul 2023

Rene Reinsberg

Celo Foundation / Self Protocol

LinkedInX

  • Data Sovereignty through Preserving Privacy & Verifying Identity (2025)
  • Public Goods That Will Onboard the Next Billion - FtC Paris 2023 (2023)
Berlin Forum 2025Berlin 2023Paris 2023

René Pinnell

Artizen

LinkedIn

  • Mechanisms for funding public goods (DeSci + Artizen) (2024)
  • Workshop: Funding Structures (2022)
  • Fluid Quadratic Finance: Cultivating Trust with a Flexible Public Goods Funding Model (2022)
Frontier Fund Showcase (April 2026)PG Town Hall #2 (July 2024)Bogotá 2022New York 2022

Rubbycobain

la chama que pinta billetes

  • Venezuela, Hacking Censorship - Panel & Discussion: Leveraging Decentralized Technologies for Resistance (2024)
Aleph Pop-up 2024

Ryan Rising

Permaculture Action Network

  • Welcome Gathering for Cultivating Sustainable Ecosystems (2024)
  • Ecosystem Organizing and Regenerative Design (2024)
  • Facilitation for Collaborative Groups (2024)
2 more
  • Design Focus: Functional Connection Through Relationships (2024)
  • Governance Discussion: Social Technologies (2024)
Edge Esmeralda Pop-up 2024

Ryan Taylor

Zero-knowledge Audiovisual Club

  • Local Live Internationalization (2025)
  • Panel: Memory, Media, and Meaning: Cultural Infrastructure for the Commons (2025)
Berlin Forum 2025PG Town Hall #9 (May 2025)

Ryo Arai

Chizaizukan

X

  • What is Needed to Increase the Liquidity of Intellectual Property (日本語) (2024)
Tokyo 2024

S

Sam Richards

  • Quadratic Funding and Private, Collusion-Resistant Voting (2023)
Istanbul 2023

Sarah Smith

Gitcoin

  • Panel: Gitcoin Onchain Allocation Handbook (2024)
PG Town Hall #4 ft. Gitcoin (September 2024)

Scott Michael Kilduff Jr.

Tulipan Partners

  • Sponsor Spotlights: innovating public goods during the FtC Bangkok hackathon (2024)
PG Builders Town Hall #5 (October 2024)

Scott Moore

Public Works

LinkedInX

4 more
Tokyo 2024Istanbul 2023Paris 2023Bogotá 2022New York 2022Virtual Summit, March 2022

Shady El Damaty

human.tech

LinkedInX

11 more
San Francisco 2026Human Flourishing in the Age of AI (March 2026)Buenos Aires 2025Berlin Forum 2025San Francisco 2025Bangkok 2024PG Builders Town Hall #5 (October 2024)Earth Commons Hackathon 2024Taipei 2023

Simeon Campos

SaferAI

LinkedInX

  • Controllable AI for a Safer, More Ethical Future - FtC Paris 2023 (2023)
Paris 2023

Simona Pop

X

  • Building a Regen Alliance (2022)
  • Public Goods - the long and short of it (2022)
New York 2022

Simonethg

U3Tech

  • Venezuela, Hacking Censorship - Panel & Discussion: Leveraging Decentralized Technologies for Resistance (2024)
Aleph Pop-up 2024

Sophia Rokhlin

Ma Earth

  • Ma Earth: the why (2026)
Ma Earth & Funding Regeneration (June 2026)

Stephen Reid

Futurecraft

LinkedInwebsite

  • Welcome and Plenary (2025)
  • Welcome and Plenary: Who are we and what is post-capitalism? (2025)
  • Local and Bioregional Resilience World Cafe (2025)
1 more
  • Recap and Audience Discussion (2025)
Berlin Forum 2025

Steph Orpilla

Nillion

LinkedInX

  • Judged track(s): Private Data Manager (PDM); Combined Privacy + DeFi App; Privacy-Preserving AI (2025)
RealFi Hack 2025

Stina Gustafsson

Independent Curator

LinkedInXwebsite

  • Value Creation as Collective Practice (2025)
  • Old Value Systems, New Technologies (2025)
  • Panel: Memory, Media, and Meaning: Cultural Infrastructure for the Commons (2025)
Berlin Forum 2025PG Town Hall #9 (May 2025)

Susanne Aichele

Mothertree Labs

LinkedInwebsite

  • Team Formation, Mentor Identification & Challenge Selection (2024)
  • Keynote: Re-Storying the Commons (2024)
  • Practical Workshop (2024)
Design Jam Bangkok 2024Bangkok 2024

Sven H

Incented

  • Panel: Memory, Media, and Meaning: Cultural Infrastructure for the Commons (2025)
PG Town Hall #9 (May 2025)

T

Tandin Wangchuk

The Dharma Code

  • Community Projects Showcase (lightning talks) (2025)
PG Town Hall #8 (April 2025)

Tara Merk

CNRS / Weizenbaum Institute; The Metagovernance Project

LinkedInX

  • Imagining Community-Owned Data Centers (2025)
  • Web3 Work: The Contributor's Perspective (2023)
Berlin Forum 2025Berlin 2023

Tereza Bízková

Funding the Commons

LinkedIn

  • Hackathon Opening Session (2026)
  • Judged track(s): RealFi Content Bounty; Build RealFi (2025)
  • Panel: Memory, Media, and Meaning: Cultural Infrastructure for the Commons (2025)
12 more
  • Community Projects Showcase (lightning talks) (2025)
  • Investing in Climate Resilience (2025)
  • Panel: Earth Commons: Innovation, Challenges, and the Road Ahead (2025)
  • Panel: Predictions for Public Goods Funding in 2025 (Deep Funding) (2025)
  • Opening Ceremony (2024)
  • Climate Positive DePIN (2024)
  • Sponsor Spotlights: innovating public goods during the FtC Bangkok hackathon (2024)
  • Thailand hackathon segment (2024)
  • Celo Public Goods / ReFi (+ GG21 breakout rooms) (2024)
  • Welcome Words (2024)
  • Mechanisms for funding public goods (DeSci + Artizen) (2024)
  • How are we seeing the public goods landscape shifting in 2024 (2024)
Inside the Tor Internet Freedom Round (June 2026)Ma Earth & Funding Regeneration (June 2026)Octant v2 & the Anatomy of a Funded Project (May 2026)Frontier Fund Showcase (April 2026)Human Flourishing in the Age of AI (March 2026)San Francisco 2026PG Town Hall #10 (December 2025)RealFi Hack 2025PG Town Hall #9 (May 2025)PG Town Hall #8 (April 2025)San Francisco 2025PG Town Hall #7 (February 2025)PG Town Hall #6 (January 2025)Design Jam Bangkok 2024Bangkok 2024PG Builders Town Hall #5 (October 2024)PG Town Hall #4 ft. Gitcoin (September 2024)PG Town Hall #3 (August 2024)Aleph Pop-up 2024PG Town Hall #2 (July 2024)PG Town Hall #1 (June 2024)

Theo Beutel

Ethereum Foundation

website

  • Protocol Governance & Cryptoeconomic Design (2025)
  • Digital Democracy in DAOs (2025)
  • A User-centric approach to DeSci and tokenomics (2022)
Berlin Forum 2025New York 2022

Tom Grau Baena

Fundador / Consultor

  • Local Considerations, Local Organizations; Empowering Underprivileged Communities through Blockchain: An Introduction to the Blockchain Inclusion Toolkit (2024)
Aleph Pop-up 2024

Tomislav Mamić

MUQA

  • How are we seeing the public goods landscape shifting in 2024 (2024)
PG Town Hall #1 (June 2024)

Tricia Wang

Advanced AI Society

LinkedInwebsite

  • Fireside Chat with Sheila Warren and Tricia Wang (2026)
  • Fireside Chat with Brian Behlendorf and Tricia Wang (2026)
  • Proof of Control (2026)
3 more
  • Pi, Einstein, and the Choice We Face with AI (2026)
  • Brian Behlendorf & Tricia Wang: Shadow IT to Shadow Agents (2026)
  • Inside the Proof-of-Control Stack (2026)
San Francisco 2026

Tyrice Hicks

Knovel Protocol

  • Community Projects Showcase (lightning talks) (2025)
PG Town Hall #8 (April 2025)

V

W

Will Scott

  • Blue Funds Fireside Chat (2022)
Lisbon 2022

X

Y

Yuko Koshiba

Philanthropy Advisors

  • Philanthropy Funding the Commons: Evoking the Potential of Philanthropy in Japan (2024)
Tokyo 2024

Z

Zarinah Agnew

The Collective Intelligence Project / District Commons

LinkedInX

  • How are we seeing the public goods landscape shifting in 2024 (2024)
  • The Current State of Organizing Collective Ownership of a Commons (2024)
PG Town Hall #1 (June 2024)SF Bay Area 2024

Zsofia Samodai

Wyvern Art Fund

  • Adaptive Funding Strategies for Arts, Research, & Silenced Science (2025)
  • Funding the art commons: How to implement structures and counter-infrastructures centering social, embodied and collaborative aspects of artistic expression? (2024)
Berlin Forum 2025Bangkok 2024

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