# Speakers at Funding the Commons

707 people who have spoken, moderated, mentored, or judged at Funding the Commons gatherings since 2021.

## Aaron Sanchez
Global Head of Strategy and Partnerships, Exponential Science
- Open Conversations: Don’t Build in a Blockchain Bubble

## Aaron Soskin
Founder & CEO, Govrn
- New York 2022: Measurement Systems & Contributor Rewards

## Aayush Gupta
Founder, Proteus / ZK Email
- X: https://x.com/yush_g
- San Francisco 2025 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/san-francisco-2025/): Privacy By Design: ZK, MPC, TEE
- Istanbul 2023: How New ZK App Ideas can Aid the Commons

## Abbey Titcomb
Head of Marketing, Runner
- Istanbul 2023: Public Goods Funding Stack Workshop
- Bogotá 2022: Investing in Network Goods: New Ecosystem Funding Paradigms

## Abhinav Singh
Head of Security Research, Normalyze (acquired by Proofpoint)
- San Francisco 2025 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/san-francisco-2025/): Computer Security in the Age of AI; Decentralized AI: Beneficial Scenarios

## Abi Dharshan
Community & Growth Product Management, Zerion
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/abishekdharshan
- X: https://x.com/abishekinguout
- Website: https://www.abishekdharshan.com/
- Taipei 2023 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/taipei-2023/): Tools for Public Goods Ecosystem Building

## Adam Arvidsson
Professor of Sociology, University of Naples Federico II
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/adam-arvidsson-b12531283
- Website: https://unina.academia.edu/AdamArvidsson
- Bangkok 2024 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/bangkok-2024/): Risking together. The commons in the Anthropocene

## Adam Chen
Weaviate
- SF Bay Area 2024 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/sf-bay-area-2024/): Panel: How to Grow & Scale Your OS Community

## Adam Marblestone
CEO & Co-Founder, Convergent Research
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/adam-marblestone-87202813
- X: https://x.com/AdamMarblestone
- Website: https://www.convergentresearch.org/team/adam-marblestone
- Virtual Summit, March 2022: Focused Research Organizations

## Adam Russell
Director, Artificial Intelligence Division, USC Information Sciences Institute
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/adam-russell-00868b162
- Website: https://www.isi.edu/directory/adam-russell/
- San Francisco 2026 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/sf-2026-intelligence-at-the-frontier/): Fireside Chat with Adam Russell and Tom Kalil; It's the Institutions, Stupid; Adam Russell & Tom Kalil: What Do We Want AI to Do for Us?

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

## Addie Wagenknecht
Artist, Independent artist
- Paris 2023: Fireside Chat with Guy Wuollet
- Lisbon 2022: Blue Funds Fireside Chat

## Adina Popescu
Founder & CEO, ÆRTH
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/adina-popescu-91b7b2b7
- X: https://x.com/aaadina
- Website: https://www.aerth.live/team
- San Francisco 2025 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/san-francisco-2025/): AI & Emerging Technologies for Ecological Resilience Roundtable

## Afolabi Aiyeloja
Steward, Greenpill Network & Dev Guild, Greenpill Network / Green Goods
- Frontier Fund Showcase (April 2026): Lightning Rounds
- PG Town Hall #10 (December 2025): Partner Lightning Talks: Key themes & learnings of 2025

## Akli LE COQ
Crypto-assets engineer / referent, COMCYBER-MI (French Ministry of Interior)
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/aklilecoq
- Buenos Aires 2025 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/buenos-aires-2025/): Leveraging Technology Towards Public Efficiency

## Alan Ransil
Co-Founder, Devonian Systems / Cherty
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alan-ransil-53573873/
- X: https://x.com/RRansil
- Website: https://home.cherty.io/
- Open Conversations: Building the Digital Backbone for Earth's Future
- San Francisco 2025 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/san-francisco-2025/): "Seed Banks for Data": Stewarding and Preserving Climate Data; Office Hours Sessions
- Bangkok 2024 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/bangkok-2024/): Building a Global Operating System for Earth
- SF Bay Area 2024 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/sf-bay-area-2024/): Decentralized Trust in Environmental Assets with Liquicert
- Paris 2023: Data Provenance and the Climate Crisis - FtC Paris 2023

## Alan Zabihi
Co-founder & CEO, Superagent (YC W24)
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alanzabihi
- Website: https://www.superagent.sh/about
- SF Bay Area 2024 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/sf-bay-area-2024/): Open Source Conversational AI

## Ala Shaabana
Co-Founder, Bittensor / Opentensor Foundation
- X: https://x.com/shibshib89
- San Francisco 2026 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/sf-2026-intelligence-at-the-frontier/): Fireside Chat with Ala Shaabana and Ashutosh Desai; Who Owns the Intelligence? Open vs. Closed AI

## Alejandra Borda
Fifty Years
- New York 2022: Encoding our values into economic systems; Building a Regen Alliance

## Aleksandra Smilek
Strategic & Creative Director, Wise Ancestors
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/smilek-aleksandra-51806579
- Website: https://www.wiseancestors.org/team
- San Francisco 2025 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/san-francisco-2025/): Stewarding the Future with Wise Ancestors; Biodiversity Data as a Commons: Sequencing Life on Earth; Biodiversity Commons

## Alessandro Longo
Founder, REINCANTAMENTO; Researcher, The Sphere, REINCANTAMENTO / The Sphere
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alessandro-y-longo-a88203199
- Website: https://alessandrolongo-1883.medium.com/
- Berlin Forum 2025 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/berlin-forum-2025/): Anarchiving as Collective Memory; Techno Tyranny, Digital Enclosures & Hospitable States; Anarchiving Game; The Role of imagination and culture in coop models

## Alessandro Mazzi
Sovereign Nature Initiative
- Istanbul 2023: Impact Evaluation Workshop; On-Chain Data As Primitive and Building Block

## Alexander H. Færøy
Software developer, The Tor Project
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ahfaeroey
- Website: https://github.com/ahf
- RealFi Hack 2025

## Alexandre Maaza
Sustainability Lead, Cardano Foundation
- Buenos Aires 2025 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/buenos-aires-2025/)
- Berlin Forum 2025 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/berlin-forum-2025/): Bridging Public Sector and Blockchain to Meet Sustainable Development Goals; Cultivating Partnerships between Humanitarian Organizations, Private Sector and Blockchain Public Goods; Bridging the Commons: Designing a Civic Layer that Connects Legacy Systems with New Public Goods Infrastructure

## Alexis Gamboa
Co-Founder, LoopID
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexis-gamboa/
- SF Bay Area 2024 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/sf-bay-area-2024/): Building Digital Infrastructure for the Circular Transformation

## Alex Netto
- Aleph Pop-up 2024: Coordination Mechanisms (presentation); Coordination Mechanisms (workshop)

## Alex Skidanov
Co-Founder, NEAR AI / NEAR Protocol
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/skidanovalex
- X: https://x.com/alexskidanov
- San Francisco 2025 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/san-francisco-2025/): Decentralized, Confidential Machine Learning
- SF Bay Area 2024 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/sf-bay-area-2024/): Building Truly Open AI

## Alex Tabarrok
Professor of Economics, George Mason University / Mercatus Center
- X: https://x.com/ATabarrok
- Website: https://marginalrevolution.com/
- Virtual Summit, March 2022: Two Novel Mechanisms for Funding and Discovering Public Goods

## Alisher Sherali
Experience designer, Status / Keycard / Logos (IFT)
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alishersherali
- X: https://x.com/alisher_sherali
- Website: https://alisher.xyz/
- Open Conversations: Technology for Life Outside Institutions (Alisher S.)
- Buenos Aires 2025 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/buenos-aires-2025/): RealFi Lightning Talks

## Alistair Alexander
Researcher/Producer, reclaimed.systems
- Buenos Aires 2025 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/buenos-aires-2025/)
- Berlin Forum 2025 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/berlin-forum-2025/): Facing Challenges Together with AI: Policy, Ecological & Technical Perspectives

## Allison Duettmann
President & CEO, Foresight Institute
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/allison-duettmann-b5021a106/
- X: https://x.com/allisondman
- Website: https://foresight.org/people/allison-duettmann/
- San Francisco 2025 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/san-francisco-2025/): Decentralized Scenarios Under Short AGI Timelines; Decentralized AI: Beneficial Scenarios Workshop; Office Hours Sessions
- SF Bay Area 2024 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/sf-bay-area-2024/): AI Tech Trees for Ambitious Futures
- New York 2022: Web3 Commons Learning Tools; Towards Paretotopia Visualizing Voluntarily Cooperation
- Virtual Summit, March 2022: Tech trees & DAOs to advance ambitious science & tech

## Alon Shavit
Co-Founder & CEO, Upright Ventures / Celo Camp
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alon-shavit-73254039
- Buenos Aires 2025 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/buenos-aires-2025/): RealFi Lightning Talks

## Al Smith
Director of Fundraising, The Tor Project
- San Francisco 2026 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/sf-2026-intelligence-at-the-frontier/): Sustainable Funding Infrastructure for Digital Rights & Internet Freedom; Sustainable Funding for Internet Freedom Tools
- Open Conversations: Digital Privacy as a Human Right
- SF Bay Area 2024 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/sf-bay-area-2024/): Onion Services: The Last Defense Line for the Open Web

## Aman
Growth Lead, DAOstar (Metagov)
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/amanwithwings
- Website: https://metagov.org/people/amandeep
- Bangkok 2024 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/bangkok-2024/): DAO Security Standard

## Amber Case
Founder, Calm Tech Institute
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/caseorganic
- X: https://x.com/caseorganic
- Website: https://caseorganic.com/
- San Francisco 2025 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/san-francisco-2025/): An Anthropology of Cyborgs, for Cyborgs

## Amelia Solon
Principal Data Scientist, Global Trade Compliance
- Buenos Aires 2025 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/buenos-aires-2025/)
- Berlin Forum 2025 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/berlin-forum-2025/): Human Pulse Art Activation; Onboarding to the Covenant Community

## Ana Ojeda
Telos y Norse Securities
- Aleph Pop-up 2024: Venezuela, Hacking Censorship - Panel & Discussion: Leveraging Decentralized Technologies for Resistance

## Anastasia Gamick
President & Co-Founder, Convergent Research
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/anastasiagamick
- X: https://x.com/AGamick
- Website: https://www.convergentresearch.org/team/anastasia-gamick
- New York 2022: Focused Research Organizations Startups For Public Goods

## Andrea Farias
Researcher & Designer, Independent
- Berlin Forum 2025 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/berlin-forum-2025/): Bioregioning the Commons; Local and Bioregional Resilience World Cafe

## Andrea Leiter
Co-Founder; Assistant Professor of Law, Sovereign Nature Initiative; University of Amsterdam
- Berlin Forum 2025 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/berlin-forum-2025/)
- Berlin 2023: Introducing DEEP: A Pathway Toward Flipping the Economics of Ecology

## Andreas Arnold
Co-founder & Board member, Platform Coops eG
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andreasarnold1
- Website: https://platform.coop/people/andreas-arnold/
- Berlin Forum 2025 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/berlin-forum-2025/): Let's Fund Our Own Tech Coop! Designing sustainable tech from the ground up

## Andrej Berlin
Founder / CEO, Deep Work Network
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrejberlin
- Buenos Aires 2025 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/buenos-aires-2025/)
- Berlin Forum 2025 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/berlin-forum-2025/)
- Design Jam Bangkok 2024: Opening Ceremony; Team Formation, Mentor Identification & Challenge Selection; Practical Workshop: From Hypothesis to Solution; Practical Workshop: Prototyping and Presentation
- Bangkok 2024 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/bangkok-2024/): Design as Praxis: Learnings & Practical Applications from the FtC Design Jam; Systems Thinking for Decentralized Science & Environmental Impact Roundtable

## Andrew Critch
CEO & EECS Research Scientist
- Virtual Summit, March 2022: Improvements to the S-Process
- Virtual Summit, November 2021: S-process funding

## Andrew Dickson
Researcher, Drips.Network
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrew-p-dickson
- X: https://x.com/surfaquadreams
- SF Bay Area 2024 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/sf-bay-area-2024/): Afternoon Workshop Previews; Bridging the Gap: Web2 and Web3 OSS Funding Infrastructure
- Taipei 2023 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/taipei-2023/)
- Bogotá 2022: Radicle Drips: The Latest Mechanism Design

## Andrew Nesbitt
Software Engineer / Co-founder, Ecosyste.ms
- X: https://x.com/teabass
- Website: https://nesbitt.io/
- SF Bay Area 2024 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/sf-bay-area-2024/): Measuring impact of open source software (Web2)

## André Ullrich
Researcher, Weizenbaum Institute
- Buenos Aires 2025 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/buenos-aires-2025/)
- Berlin Forum 2025 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/berlin-forum-2025/): Imagining Community-Owned Data Centers

## Angela Kölling
rofessor of Anglophone Studies, Johannes Gutenberg Universität Mainz
- Berlin Forum 2025 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/berlin-forum-2025/): Network States or Neo-colonialism

## Angela Kreitenweis
Founder, Token Engineering Academy (TE Academy)
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/angelakreitenweis/
- X: https://x.com/akrtws
- Bangkok 2024 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/bangkok-2024/): Retro Funding Voting Designs – How to Find the Ground Truth in Rewarding Impact
- Berlin 2023: Public Goods for Advancing the Field of Token Engineering

## Angela Ocando
Web3Citizen
- Aleph Pop-up 2024: Venezuela, Hacking Censorship - Panel & Discussion: Leveraging Decentralized Technologies for Resistance

## Angelo Kalaw
Partner, Ecosystem Strategy and Innovation, Celo
- SF Bay Area 2024 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/sf-bay-area-2024/): Reflections on Building Web3 Ecosystems for ReFi
- Paris 2023

## Anirudha Bose
Staff Engineer, Brave
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/onyb/
- X: https://x.com/onybose
- Website: https://anirudha.co
- Berlin 2023: Open Source All Things

## Anish Mohammed
Co-founder, CTO & Chief Scientist, Panther Protocol
- Paris 2023

## Anke Liu
Ecosystem Growth Lead, Stellar Development Foundation
- Open Conversations: From the Ground Up: Localizing Blockchain for Real-World Impact
- Buenos Aires Builder Residency 2025
- Buenos Aires 2025 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/buenos-aires-2025/)
- Berlin Forum 2025 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/berlin-forum-2025/): Practical Approaches to Building for Financial Inclusion; Financial Empowerment through Privacy-Ensured Identity Verification; Privacy by Design: Sovereign Identities
- Bangkok 2024 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/bangkok-2024/): Tracking Real-World Impact In Grant Programs; State of Web3 Grants Report: Reflections & Directions
- PG Builders Town Hall #5 (October 2024): Sponsor Spotlights: innovating public goods during the FtC Bangkok hackathon
- Earth Commons Hackathon 2024
- Taipei 2023 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/taipei-2023/): Reputation-Based Governance to Power Funding Allocation

## Anna Ehrenstein
Artist; Professor, Photography Dept., HGB Leipzig, HGB Leipzig / independent artist
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/anna-ehrenstein-6387b5140
- X: https://x.com/annaehrenstein
- Website: https://www.annaehrenstein.com/
- Berlin Forum 2025 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/berlin-forum-2025/): Network States or Neo-colonialism

## Anna Kazlauskas
Co-Founder, Vana / Open Data Labs
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/annakaz
- X: https://x.com/annakaz
- Website: https://annakaz.com
- San Francisco 2026 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/sf-2026-intelligence-at-the-frontier/): Proof of Control; Inside the Proof-of-Control Stack
- San Francisco 2025 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/san-francisco-2025/): Decentralized AI, from Open Data to AGI

## Anna Kryukova
- Bogotá 2022: Investing in Network Goods: New Ecosystem Funding Paradigms

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

## Anna Stone
Executive Director, GoodDollar
- Paris 2023

## Anna Tumadóttir
CEO, Creative Commons
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/annatumadottir
- Website: https://creativecommons.org/person/annacreativecommons-org/
- Lisbon 2022: Creative Commons

## Anna Whitson-Diaz
Senior Partnerships Manager for Aid, Stellar Development Foundation
- Open Conversations: Breaking Barriers in Humanitarian Aid
- Bangkok 2024 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/bangkok-2024/): Unlocking Financial Inclusion: Funding Solutions for Refugee Aid

## Ann Pace
Executive Director & Treasurer, Wise Ancestors
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/annpace
- Website: https://www.wiseancestors.org/team
- San Francisco 2025 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/san-francisco-2025/): Biodiversity Data as a Commons: Sequencing Life on Earth; Biodiversity Commons

## Antonella Perrone
COO, Xcapit
- Bangkok 2024 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/bangkok-2024/): Humanitarian Aid Revolutionized by Blockchain: Non Custodial Smart Wallet for Basic Phones and No Internet Needed

## Anton Oskia
Founder & CEO, Lovable (formerly GPT Engineer)
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/antonosika
- X: https://x.com/antonosika
- Website: https://lovable.dev
- SF Bay Area 2024 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/sf-bay-area-2024/): Building Successful Codegen Agents

## Anya Biarozka
Design, Onchain Allocation Handbook, Gitcoin
- PG Town Hall #4 ft. Gitcoin (September 2024): Panel: Gitcoin Onchain Allocation Handbook

## Apolinario Passos
Head of Machine Learning for Art and Creativity, Hugging Face
- Berlin Forum 2025 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/berlin-forum-2025/): Facing Challenges Together with AI: Policy, Ecological & Technical Perspectives

## Arch Wongchindawest
Founder, Wildchain
- Bangkok 2024 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/bangkok-2024/): Building for Impact and Inclusion in Southeast Asia’s Local Context

## Ariagne Cediel
U3Tech
- Aleph Pop-up 2024: Venezuela, Hacking Censorship - Panel & Discussion: Leveraging Decentralized Technologies for Resistance

## Aria McLauchlan
Co-founder & Executive Director, Land Core
- SF Bay Area 2024 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/sf-bay-area-2024/): How impact measurement helps build resilient systems

## Ariel Eiberman
Latam Director, Gnosis Pay
- Buenos Aires 2025 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/buenos-aires-2025/)

## Ariel Rodriguez
Mrs kzg.eth Enthusiastic about Ethereum, Breadchain
- Berlin Forum 2025 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/berlin-forum-2025/): Privacy by Design: Secure Infrastructures; What is Ethereum R1?

## Arkadiy
Internet Archive
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/arkadiykukarkin
- RealFi Hack 2025: Judged track(s): Resilient Anonymous Publishing

## Arnav Garg
Senior ML Engineer, Predibase
- SF Bay Area 2024 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/sf-bay-area-2024/): Efficient Fine-Tuning and Serving of LLMs that Rival GPT-4

## Artem Brazhnikov
Head of Engineering, Golem Foundation (Octant)
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/0xartem/
- X: https://x.com/avee_eth
- Open Conversations: Sustainable Mechanisms for Public Goods
- Bangkok 2024 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/bangkok-2024/): Degens & Dragons
- SF Bay Area 2024 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/sf-bay-area-2024/): Bridging the Gap: Web2 and Web3 OSS Funding Infrastructure
- Istanbul 2023: Public Goods Funding Stack Workshop; Impact Evaluation Workshop

## Arun Maharajan
Blockchain Lead, UNICEF Office of Innovation
- Buenos Aires 2025 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/buenos-aires-2025/): Multistakeholder Collaboration for the Common Good; The Future of Public Goods Funding

## Arun Philips
Founder, CommunityBuild
- Bangkok 2024 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/bangkok-2024/)

## Arvy K
Experience Designer, Co-founder, seks.design / the Y radio
- Buenos Aires 2025 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/buenos-aires-2025/)
- Berlin Forum 2025 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/berlin-forum-2025/): Decentralised, Community-driven Infrastructures to Transform the Music Industry

## Asad Khan
Founder, (stealth mode)
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/asadkhan11/
- X: https://x.com/fintech_khan
- Paris 2023

## Ashutosh Desai
Artist, Technologist, Builder
- San Francisco 2026 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/sf-2026-intelligence-at-the-frontier/): Fireside Chat with Ala Shaabana and Ashutosh Desai; On the Shoulders of Capitalism; Who Owns the Intelligence? Open vs. Closed AI

## Ash Vardanian
Founder, Unum
- SF Bay Area 2024 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/sf-bay-area-2024/): Open Source Search: Two Decades of Bad Design Decisions & Legacy Software

## Ataberk Casur
Inverter Network
- Istanbul 2023: On-Chain Data As Primitive and Building Block
- New York 2022: Unleashing Refi's ecosystem value

## Atabey fka Carlos Maria Romero
Artist & Curator for Performative Practices, HKW
- Berlin Forum 2025 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/berlin-forum-2025/): Bullerengue, an Embodied Practice of Communitarian Knowledge and Memory; Anarchiving as Collective Memory

## Athena Aktipis
Professor of Psychology; Director, Cooperation Lab, Arizona State University / Cooperative Futures Institute
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/athenaaktipis
- X: https://x.com/AthenaAktipis
- Website: https://athenaaktipis.org
- San Francisco 2026 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/sf-2026-intelligence-at-the-frontier/): From Multicellularity to Multi-Agent AI: Evolution’s Lessons for Scaling Cooperation; From Multicellularity to Multi-Agent AI

## Atossa Soltani
Director of Global Strategy (also founder, Amazon Watch), Amazon Sacred Headwaters Initiative
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/atossasoltani/
- X: https://x.com/asoltani
- SF Bay Area 2024 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/sf-bay-area-2024/): Drawing on Indigenous Wisdom for Adaptive Economic Models

## Atsushi Hayashi
Co-representative Director; Co-founder of Next Commons Lab and Nishikigoi NFT, Paramita Inc.
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/atsushi-hayashi-123456/
- X: https://x.com/atsushi_hayashi
- Tokyo 2024 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/tokyo-2024/): Tackling East Asia's Population Decline Issues with Local Coop's Subsystem for Local Governance

## Audrey Tang
Cyber Ambassador; former Digital Minister of Taiwan; co-author of Plurality, Taiwan Cyber Ambassador-at-large; Plurality.net
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/audreyt/
- X: https://x.com/audreyt
- Open Conversations: Healing Democracy
- Tokyo 2024 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/tokyo-2024/): Digital Public Goods Quadratic Funding Experiments in the Government; Designing for Plurality; Broad Listening in Practice

## Augusto Ardiles Diaz
Undersecretary of Investments, Gobierno de la Ciudad de Buenos Aires
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/augusto-ardiles
- San Francisco 2026 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/sf-2026-intelligence-at-the-frontier/): How Cities Become AI Innovation Labs
- Buenos Aires 2025 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/buenos-aires-2025/): Leveraging Technology Towards Public Efficiency

## Austin Wade Smith
Former Executive Director, Regen Foundation, River Computer (2026); Board Director, Regen Foundation
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/austin-wade-smith-65544932
- Website: https://www.regen.foundation/
- San Francisco 2025 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/san-francisco-2025/)

## Austin / Zak
BuidlGuidl
- Earth Commons Hackathon 2024

## Aviv Ovadya
Founder, AI & Democracy Foundation
- San Francisco 2026 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/sf-2026-intelligence-at-the-frontier/): Democratic Infrastructure for the Age of AI

## Aya Miyaguchi
President, Ethereum Foundation
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ayamiyaguchi/
- X: https://x.com/AyaMiyaguchi
- Open Conversations: On Ethereum's Path Forward
- San Francisco 2025 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/san-francisco-2025/): Leading Through Subtraction
- Tokyo 2024 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/tokyo-2024/): Institutional Innovations in Public Goods Resource Distribution

## Ayşe Sabuncu
Impact Hub Network
- Istanbul 2023: Measuring Impact Panel

## Aza Raskin
Co-Founder, Earth Species Project; Center for Humane Technology
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/azaraskin
- X: https://x.com/aza
- Website: https://aza.wtf/
- Open Conversations: AI and the Language of Life
- San Francisco 2025 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/san-francisco-2025/): Frontier AI to Decode Animal Language

## Barry Threw
Executive Director, Gray Area
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/barrythrew/
- X: https://x.com/barrythrew
- Website: https://barrythrew.com
- San Francisco 2025 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/san-francisco-2025/): Where Does Funding Come From? Funding Informational Commons in a World with AI
- SF Bay Area 2024 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/sf-bay-area-2024/): Open Culture in the Arts

## B Cavello
Program Director, Emerging Technologies, The Aspen Institute (Aspen Digital)
- San Francisco 2025 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/san-francisco-2025/): Futures Worth Building

## Belén Burgstaller
Directora Ejecutiva, Mujeres 2000
- Buenos Aires 2025 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/buenos-aires-2025/): Multistakeholder Collaboration for the Common Good

## Ben Biedermann
Managing Director, ACURRAENT UG
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ben-biedermann-acurraent/
- Berlin Forum 2025 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/berlin-forum-2025/): Network States or Neo-colonialism
- Bangkok 2024 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/bangkok-2024/): State of Web3 Grants Report: Reflections & Directions; Buying Time and Engineering a Future: Digital Public Infrastructure Procurement in Small Jurisdictions
- Earth Commons Hackathon 2024

## Ben Cerveny
Co-founder and President, Foundation for Public Code
- San Francisco 2025 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/san-francisco-2025/): Public Product Organizations, Vehicles for Collaborative Stewardship

## Ben Goldhaber
Strategic Partnerships, FAR.AI (FAR Labs) / Future of Life Institute
- San Francisco 2025 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/san-francisco-2025/): AI Tools for Navigating Existential Risk
- SF Bay Area 2024 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/sf-bay-area-2024/): Panel: How to Grow & Scale Your OS Community

## Benjamin Life
Co-founder & Steward, OpenCivics
- SF Bay Area 2024 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/sf-bay-area-2024/): Towards A Planetary Federation Of Bioregions

## Benjamin Reinhardt
CEO / Director, Speculative Technologies
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/benjaminzreinhardt/
- X: https://x.com/Ben_Reinhardt
- Website: https://benjaminreinhardt.com
- Paris 2023: Eight Myths About Technology Research; Roadmapping for Impact Funding

## Beth McCarthy
Program Director, Funding the Commons
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ontologymachine/
- X: https://x.com/ontologymachine
- San Francisco 2026 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/sf-2026-intelligence-at-the-frontier/): Closing Words from Funding the Commons
- Q1 Connection Circle (February 2026): Fireside Chat: connections as infrastructure, network intelligence, politics of attention, ecosystem capacity, how culture travels through networks
- Buenos Aires 2025 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/buenos-aires-2025/)
- Berlin Forum 2025 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/berlin-forum-2025/): Anarchiving as Collective Memory; Techno Tyranny, Digital Enclosures & Hospitable States; Old Value Systems, New Technologies; Privacy by Design: Sovereign Identities; Privacy by Design: Secure Infrastructures; Privacy for Liberatory Harm Reduction: DIY HRT Support Networks as an Urgent "Real World Application"; Welcome Words; Dynamic Ecological Stewardship; Facing Challenges Together with AI: Policy, Ecological & Technical Perspectives; Politics of Perception: Architecting Trust and Sovereignty with Geospatial Data and Planetary Sensing; Adaptive Funding Strategies for Arts, Research, & Silenced Science
- PG Town Hall #9 (May 2025): Theme framing: Layer Zero / the Cultural Layer
- PG Town Hall #8 (April 2025): Berlin update
- San Francisco 2025 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/san-francisco-2025/): Culture & Community as Complex Systems; Privacy By Design: ZK, MPC, TEE
- Design Jam Bangkok 2024: Opening Ceremony; Introduction to Mentors & Challenges
- Bangkok 2024 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/bangkok-2024/): Opening Words; Designing for Real-World Impact Roundtable; Opening Words (Day 1); Self-Governing Land Trusts; Network Goods: Digital Infrastructures for the Common Good
- PG Town Hall #4 ft. Gitcoin (September 2024): Design Jam / FtC Bangkok segment
- Tokyo 2024 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/tokyo-2024/): Greetings from FtC & Plurality Tokyo
- SF Bay Area 2024 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/sf-bay-area-2024/): Introducing Funding the Commons; Human rights-centered FLOSS technology; Welcome
- Istanbul 2023: Programmable Attestations I; Impact Evaluation Workshop; Experience Design for Collective Space; Infrastructure & Tooling as Network Goods' Connective Tissue; On-Chain Data As Primitive and Building Block; Getting to Paretoutopia: Collective Problem Solving for the Public Goods Funding Stack
- Berlin 2023: Refunding the Commons?; Unpaid Position: Building a Better and More Sustainable Future for Cultural Public Goods
- Paris 2023

## Bhaji Illuminati
CMO, Centrifuge
- Paris 2023

## Bobby Fishkin
Co-Founder, ReframeIt
- SF Bay Area 2024 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/sf-bay-area-2024/): Weaving Together Strategies to Regenerate Our Planet's Life-Giving Commons

## Brad Shaffer
Professor of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology; Director, La Kretz Center for California Conservation Science, UCLA
- X: https://x.com/bradshaffer
- Website: https://www.ioes.ucla.edu/person/brad-shaffer/
- San Francisco 2025 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/san-francisco-2025/): Biodiversity Data as a Commons: Sequencing Life on Earth

## Brenda Loya
Co-Founder & CEO, Tellor
- Berlin 2023

## Brett Levin
Founder, BIOCULTIVATION
- SF Bay Area 2024 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/sf-bay-area-2024/): Biodiversity Islands: The Food, Water, Carbon, Community Nexus

## Brian Behlendorf
Chief AI Strategist (per 2024); formerly CTO, OpenSSF, Linux Foundation
- San Francisco 2026 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/sf-2026-intelligence-at-the-frontier/): Fireside Chat with Brian Behlendorf and Tricia Wang; Brian Behlendorf & Tricia Wang: Shadow IT to Shadow Agents
- SF Bay Area 2024 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/sf-bay-area-2024/): Delivering Sustainability of critical OSS projects; Panel: Driving growth in an ecosystem; Driving growth in an ecosystem, what worked and what didn't

## Britta Gustafson
Senior Product Manager, A1M Solutions
- SF Bay Area 2024 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/sf-bay-area-2024/): Fireside Chat: A developer's journey; A Developer’s Journey: Supporting Your Public Goods Work

## Bruno Fonseca Bouwman
Full-stack Developer, Holonym Foundation (human.tech)
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bruno-bouwman
- Website: https://github.com/brunobouwman
- RealFi Hack 2025
- Earth Commons Hackathon 2024

## Bruno Maia
Co-Founder & COO, Zeom
- RealFi Hack 2025

## bumblefudge
IPFS Ecosystem Team / CASA
- Istanbul 2023: Infrastructure & Tooling as Network Goods' Connective Tissue

## Caitlin Moore
Co-Founder & CFO, Devonian Systems (Cherty)
- San Francisco 2025 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/san-francisco-2025/): Office Hours Sessions; AI & Emerging Technologies for Ecological Resilience Roundtable
- PG Town Hall #7 (February 2025): Panel: Earth Commons: Innovation, Challenges, and the Road Ahead
- Bangkok 2024 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/bangkok-2024/): Verifiable Public Goods Pipelines: A Dive into Cherty and the Poplar Protocol

## Cameron Dennis
Founder & CEO, Banyan Collective
- SF Bay Area 2024 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/sf-bay-area-2024/): Welcome Address; Panel: How to Grow & Scale Your OS Community

## Camila Rioja
President and Co-founder, Plexos Institute
- Bangkok 2024 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/bangkok-2024/): A Potent Alignment for Web3, Community, and Planetary Health - An Open Call to Explore Community Currencies in Recife, Brazil

## Carl Cervone
Co-Founder, Open Source Observer (Kariba Labs)
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/carlcervone/
- X: https://x.com/carl_cervone
- SF Bay Area 2024 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/sf-bay-area-2024/): Measuring impact of open source software (Web3 + bigger picture)
- Taipei 2023 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/taipei-2023/): Impact Measurement for Digital Public Goods
- Istanbul 2023: Measuring Impact Panel

## Caroline Klatt
Co-Founder & COO, Flowcarbon
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/caroline-klatt-5b404323/
- X: https://x.com/linistern
- Paris 2023

## Caroline Paulick-Thiel
Director, Politics for Tomorrow / nextlearning e.V.
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/caroline-paulick-thiel
- X: https://x.com/paulickthiel
- Website: https://www.politicsfortomorrow.eu/who/caroline-paulick-thiel
- Berlin Forum 2025 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/berlin-forum-2025/): From Coordination to Legitimacy: Civic Architectures for Public Goods

## Carter Brooks
Artist and Philosopher of Climate Art, Independent (carterbrooks.com)
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/carterbrooks
- Website: https://carterbrooks.com/
- San Francisco 2025 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/san-francisco-2025/): Through the Eyes of a Climate Artist

## Carter Gibson
Head of Community / Group Product Manager, Enterprise Engagement, Google
- San Francisco 2025 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/san-francisco-2025/): Culture & Community as Complex Systems

## Cassandra Thornton
Artist, founder, The Feminist Economics Department (The FED) / The Hologram
- Website: https://feministeconomicsdepartment.com/
- Berlin Forum 2025 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/berlin-forum-2025/): Bridging Tech, Solidarity, and Human Rights

## Cassidy Daly
Co-Founder, Centrifuge
- Paris 2023: Is Capitalism Really the Problem? - FtC Paris 2023

## catherine leigh schmidt
designer, bread co–op, bread co–op (fka breadchain)
- Berlin Forum 2025 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/berlin-forum-2025/): Interfaces of Resilience: Visual designs for Solidarity

## Cathy Mulligan
Founder, Digital Crossroads; Visiting Academic, Imperial College London, Digital Crossroads; Imperial College London
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cathymulligan
- X: https://x.com/API_Economics
- Website: https://www.chartwellspeakers.com/speaker/cathy-mulligan/
- Lisbon 2022: Protocols: Foundations of Resilient Democracies

## Cem Dagdelen
Founder, Curve Labs
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cemfdagdelen/
- X: https://x.com/cemfdagdelen
- Berlin 2023: Infrastructuring open Conspiracies

## Cezar Mocan
Artist & Programmer, Independent
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cezarmocan
- X: https://x.com/CezarMocan
- Website: https://cezar.io/
- Berlin Forum 2025 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/berlin-forum-2025/): AI & the Commons: Shared Risk, Shared Resource?; "World Upstream" Artist Talk; Facing Challenges Together with AI: Policy, Ecological & Technical Perspectives; Politics of Perception: Architecting Trust and Sovereignty with Geospatial Data and Planetary Sensing

## Charbel-Raphaël Segerie
Executive Director, CeSIA (French Center for AI Safety)
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/charbel-raphael-segerie/
- X: https://x.com/CRSegerie
- Website: https://crsegerie.github.io/
- Paris 2023: Controllable AI for a Safer, More Ethical Future - FtC Paris 2023

## Charlie Durand
Founder, Extra Labs
- Berlin 2023

## Charlie Fisher
Founder, Komma
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/fishercharlie
- X: https://x.com/fisherofficial
- Website: https://creativebureaucracy.org/foundation/people/charlie-fisher
- Berlin Forum 2025 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/berlin-forum-2025/): Decentralising Neighbourhood Wealth; Local and Bioregional Resilience World Cafe; From Coordination to Legitimacy: Civic Architectures for Public Goods

## Charlotte Fradet
Community Builder, Funding the Commons
- Buenos Aires 2025 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/buenos-aires-2025/): Residency Report: Highlights and Outcomes; Multistakeholder Collaboration for the Common Good

## Cheeky Gorilla
Contributor, Protocol Guild
- X: https://x.com/cheekygorilla0x
- Website: https://github.com/cheeky-gorilla
- Tokyo 2024 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/tokyo-2024/): Roads and Bridges: Funding Our Digital Infrastructure
- Berlin 2023: Funding Ethereum's Core Protocol Work

## Cheryl Contee
Co-Founder, BrightWorks AI; AI Expert & Senior Advisor, Change Agent AI, BrightWorks AI; Change Agent AI
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cherylcontee
- X: https://x.com/ch3ryl
- Website: https://brightworksai.com/team/
- San Francisco 2026 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/sf-2026-intelligence-at-the-frontier/): We Asked for Flying Cars, We Got LLMs Instead

## Cheryl Ng
Startup Ecosystem Consultant, UNICEF Venture Fund
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cheryl-ng/
- X: https://x.com/explorengcheryl
- Website: https://www.unicefventurefund.org/team/cheryl-ng
- Tokyo 2024 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/tokyo-2024/): Digital Public Goods Accelerator Guide

## Chiara di Leone
PhD student, History of Science, UCLA Department of History; Weird Economies
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chiara-di-leone-365b8086
- X: https://x.com/ChiaraDiLeone
- Website: https://chiaradileone.com/
- San Francisco 2025 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/san-francisco-2025/)

## Chika Uwaziel
Co-Founder, Afropolitan
- Paris 2023

## Chi Ling Chan
Founder & Director, Equitech Collective
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chanchiling
- Website: https://govinsider.asia/intl-en/article/chan-chi-ling-founder-and-director-equitech-collective
- Bangkok 2024 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/bangkok-2024/): Catalyzing Systemic Change in Southeast Asia

## Ching-Sue Hung
Research Lead, Taiwan Labor Front
- Taipei 2023 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/taipei-2023/): Finding the Future for Labor in Social and Solidarity Economy

## Chi Zhang
Co-Founder & CEO, Kite AI
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chizhangucb
- X: https://x.com/ChiZhangData
- San Francisco 2025 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/san-francisco-2025/): Decentralized AI, from Open Data to AGI

## Chris Anatolio
Senior Developer Advocate / Technical Instructor, Stellar Development Foundation
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/anataliocs
- X: https://x.com/CAnatalio
- Bangkok 2024 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/bangkok-2024/): Enabling Adoption With Better UX Through Passkeys
- Earth Commons Hackathon 2024: FtC x EC Hackathon | Workshop: Stellar & Mobile Money Networks (Oct 2024)

## Chris Carella
Head of Product, CharmVerse
- Tokyo 2024 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/tokyo-2024/): Nouns Cares – A Better World On-Chain

## Chris Cassano
Co-Founder & CTO, Lit Protocol
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ccassano
- X: https://x.com/chriscassano
- Website: https://github.com/glitch003
- San Francisco 2025 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/san-francisco-2025/): Privacy By Design: ZK, MPC, TEE

## Chris Georgen
Co-Founder, Ampersand Labs
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chrisgeorgen
- X: https://x.com/c_georgen
- Website: http://chrisgeorgen.com/
- PG Town Hall #8 (April 2025): Community Projects Showcase (lightning talks)

## Chris Peng
Co-Founder & CEO, Labfront
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/christopher-peng/
- X: https://x.com/cpeng
- Website: https://linktr.ee/cpeng
- Taipei 2023 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/taipei-2023/): From Funding to Cost - How Movements Like DeSci are Working to Fix Science

## Christian Adler
Co-Founder / VP Product, LoopID
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/christianadler
- X: https://x.com/ChristianJAdler
- Website: https://dldnews.com/speakers/christian-adler/
- SF Bay Area 2024 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/sf-bay-area-2024/): Building Digital Infrastructure for the Circular Transformation

## Christian Betancourt
Ixian
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/betancourtchristian
- X: https://x.com/VHSorBetancourt
- Aleph Pop-up 2024: Local Considerations, Local Organizations; Free Jurisdictions for Public Goods Development

## Christine Peterson
Co-Founder, Foresight Institute
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/christine-peterson-3b81
- X: https://x.com/lifeext
- Website: https://foresight.org/people/christine-peterson/
- San Francisco 2025 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/san-francisco-2025/): Decentralized AI: Beneficial Scenarios
- New York 2022: Web3 Commons Learning Tools; Towards Paretotopia Visualizing Voluntarily Cooperation

## Christopher Goes
Co-Founder, Anoma / Heliax
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/christophergoes
- X: https://x.com/cwgoes
- Website: https://pluranimity.org/
- Bangkok 2024 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/bangkok-2024/): Scale-Free money: A Public-Goods-First Economic System

## Christopher Szymczak
Innovation Manager (Digital Public Goods Lead), UNICEF Office of Innovation
- Open Conversations: Building Public Goods to Expand Human Freedom (Chris Szymczak)
- Tokyo 2024 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/tokyo-2024/): Institutional Innovations in Public Goods Resource Distribution
- Paris 2023: Funding the Commons or Funding the Youth?

## Christopher Tam
Co-Founder and CEO, Zero Computing
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/christophertam96/
- X: https://x.com/christam96_
- Taipei 2023 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/taipei-2023/): Road to Future-Proofing Ethereum

## Chris Wray
Researcher, UC Davis/Future Human Systems Research
- San Francisco 2025 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/san-francisco-2025/): Collective Intelligence vs. Superintelligence? Institutional Design for Resilience in the AI Age; Office Hours Sessions; Collective Intelligence vs. Superintelligence?

## Cj Hetherington
Chief Executive Officer, Limitless
- Berlin 2023

## Clara G
Operations, dOrg & Consultant, ACT3, dOrg, ACT3
- Bangkok 2024 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/bangkok-2024/): Housing & Lands Commons for Regen, Stable and Affordable Living: Web3 Opportunities

## Clara Tsao
Founding Officer & Director, Filecoin Foundation
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/claratsao/
- X: https://x.com/tweetclarita
- San Francisco 2025 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/san-francisco-2025/)
- Bangkok 2024 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/bangkok-2024/): Network Goods: Digital Infrastructures for the Common Good

## Claudio Cossio
CEO, METTAL
- X: https://x.com/ccossio
- Buenos Aires 2025 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/buenos-aires-2025/): RealFi Lightning Talks

## Clement Hsieh
Senior Fintech Researcher / Data Engineer, ITRI
- Taipei 2023 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/taipei-2023/)

## Connor McCormick
Researcher, Internalize externalities
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/connormcmk
- San Francisco 2025 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/san-francisco-2025/): Index Wallet Game

## Connor O'Hara
Software Engineer, Celestia, dev
- Berlin Forum 2025 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/berlin-forum-2025/): Lessons Learned from Existing Blockchain Political Economies

## Corey James
Protocol Labs
- SF Bay Area 2024 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/sf-bay-area-2024/)

## Courtney Savie Lawrence
Global Senior Advisor - Climate, Technology, Systems and Sustainability Innovation, UNDP
- SF Bay Area 2024 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/sf-bay-area-2024/): Inclusive Climate Open Innovation and Systems Transitions

## Crosslucid
Artist Collective, CROSSLUCID
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tomasctoth
- X: https://x.com/Crosslucid
- Website: https://crosslucid.zone/
- Berlin Forum 2025 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/berlin-forum-2025/): Way of Flowers Artist Talk; Dynamic Ecological Stewardship
- Bangkok 2024 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/bangkok-2024/): Oceanic Whispers: Environmental Stewardship as a Creative Practice

## Crystal Ma
Venture Partner, Eka Frontier
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/crystal-ma-lee
- Website: https://crystalma.org
- Berlin Forum 2025 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/berlin-forum-2025/): Dynamic Ecological Stewardship
- Bangkok 2024 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/bangkok-2024/): Stories of Impact Game-Changers: Innovations for Regeneration in Southeast Asia and beyond

## Cui Jia Wei 崔家瑋
vTaiwan
- Tokyo 2024 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/tokyo-2024/): Key for a Better Artificial System: from Gov to AI

## Cullen Miller
VP Policy, Spawning
- Buenos Aires 2025 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/buenos-aires-2025/)

## Cypherbadger / Andres
Ethereum Volcano
- Aleph Pop-up 2024: Venezuela, Hacking Censorship - Panel & Discussion: Leveraging Decentralized Technologies for Resistance

## Dae Moyer
Development Lead, Endaoment
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/daefi/
- X: https://x.com/dae_NDAO
- SF Bay Area 2024 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/sf-bay-area-2024/): Panel: Driving growth in an ecosystem; Driving growth in an ecosystem, what worked and what didn't

## Damián Silva
Tropykus
- Aleph Pop-up 2024: Comprender a los latinoamericanos para diseñar una plataforma DeFi con sabor local

## Daniela Zschaber
Product Manager, Blockful
- Bangkok 2024 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/bangkok-2024/): Governance & Web of Trust Roundtable

## Daniel Friedman
President & Co-Founder, Active Inference Institute
- SF Bay Area 2024 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/sf-bay-area-2024/): Panel: Funding AI public goods and keeping them public

## Daniel Goodwin
- New York 2022: Catalyzing early, ambitious biotechnology efforts for planetary health

## Daniel Ospina
Instigator, RnDAO
- Bangkok 2024 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/bangkok-2024/): Contribution & Attestation Roundtable; Governance & Web of Trust Roundtable

## Daniel Pike
- Virtual Summit, March 2022: Catalysing innovation and public goods funding in the Carbon Removal ecosystem

## Daniel Wolfe
Executive Director, UCSF UC Berkeley Joint Program in Computational Precision Health
- San Francisco 2025 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/san-francisco-2025/): Beyond the Black Box Algorithm: Health Data and the Public Good

## Danny O'Brien
Senior Fellow, Filecoin Foundation
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dannyo2/
- X: https://x.com/mala
- Website: https://danny.spesh.com
- San Francisco 2025 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/san-francisco-2025/): Load-Bearing People, Load-Bearing Code
- Bangkok 2024 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/bangkok-2024/): Lifecycle of a Commons; Network Goods: Digital Infrastructures for the Common Good; A Quick Deep Dive into the Filecoin Network for the Curious
- SF Bay Area 2024 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/sf-bay-area-2024/): Internet Standards as Public Goods; Panel: Public goods Profit Sharing in Tech; Morning Workshops Preview
- Virtual Summit, March 2022: Stable Orbits: Decentralization Lessons from Webs[0-3]

## Daphne Charles
- Bogotá 2022: Complex Products: Where DAOs and Funding Mechanisms Fall Short

## Darren Zhu
Founder, Culture (consumer biotech startup)
- New York 2022: Peer Review as a public good
- Virtual Summit, November 2021: Beyond Philanthropy: Memetic Altruism and Future Prizes - Darren Zhu & Lawrence Wu

## David Casey
CEO, Funding the Commons
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidacasey/
- X: https://x.com/david1casey
- Internet Freedom X Space with Tor (June 2026)
- Inside the Tor Internet Freedom Round (June 2026): David / Tor intro
- Ma Earth & Funding Regeneration (June 2026)
- Frontier Fund Showcase (April 2026)
- San Francisco 2026 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/sf-2026-intelligence-at-the-frontier/): Closing Words, Day 2; Opening Words; Closing Words from Funding the Commons; Governance Experiment Results & Floor Invitations; Floor 16 Opening — Welcome & Frame
- Human Flourishing in the Age of AI (March 2026)
- Open Conversations: Reclaiming Crypto for Public Goods
- PG Town Hall #10 (December 2025): Panel: PGF Needs a New Narrative
- Buenos Aires 2025 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/buenos-aires-2025/): Opening: Welcome & Year in Review; Surprise Announcement
- Berlin Forum 2025 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/berlin-forum-2025/): Welcome Words
- PG Town Hall #9 (May 2025): Akashic
- San Francisco 2025 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/san-francisco-2025/): Opening Words; Funding the Commons Update
- Design Jam Bangkok 2024: Opening Ceremony
- Bangkok 2024 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/bangkok-2024/): Opening Words; Unlocking Financial Inclusion: Funding Solutions for Refugee Aid; Closing Words; Opening Words (Day 1); Opening Words & Residency Update (Day 2)
- Tokyo 2024 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/tokyo-2024/): Opening Words; Fireside Chat; Greetings from FtC & Plurality Tokyo; Closing Words; Web3 Innovation in Japan (Fireside Chat)
- Edge Esmeralda Pop-up 2024: Welcome Gathering for Cultivating Sustainable Ecosystems; How Do We Network Regenerative Community Projects?
- SF Bay Area 2024 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/sf-bay-area-2024/): Introducing Funding the Commons; Conclusion & Workshop Results; Closing Remarks; Welcome Address; Conclusion; Conclusion (AI Day)
- Taipei 2023 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/taipei-2023/): Introducing Funding the Commons; Closing Words; Day One Closing Remarks; Philosophies for Public Goods Funding
- Istanbul 2023: Landscape of Public Goods Funding; David's Keynote; Public Goods Funding Stack Workshop; Getting to Paretoutopia: Collective Problem Solving for the Public Goods Funding Stack
- Paris 2023: Funding the Commons, an Incubation Ecosystem for Public Goods Funding Infrastructure

## David Dalrymple
Programme Director, Safeguarded AI, ARIA (Advanced Research + Invention Agency)
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidad
- X: https://x.com/davidad
- New York 2022: Hypercerts: on-chain primitives for impact markets
- Virtual Summit, March 2022: Interoperable mechanisms for non-rival goods (Hypercerts) - David "davidad" Dalrymple

## David Dao
Co-Founder & Chief Scientist, GainForest
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dwddao/
- X: https://x.com/dwddao
- Website: https://www.daviddao.org/
- San Francisco 2026 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/sf-2026-intelligence-at-the-frontier/): Can We Govern the Commons at Planetary Scale?; A Community Treasury, Allocated by AI Digital Twins: The Simocracy Experiment
- Open Conversations: Bridging Nature, Data, and Human Opportunity
- Buenos Aires Builder Residency 2025: Ecological public goods
- Buenos Aires 2025 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/buenos-aires-2025/): AI4PG: Bridging AI Research and Public Goods Funding
- Berlin Forum 2025 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/berlin-forum-2025/): Politics of Perception: Architecting Trust and Sovereignty with Geospatial Data and Planetary Sensing; Adaptive Funding Strategies for Arts, Research, & Silenced Science
- San Francisco 2025 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/san-francisco-2025/): "Seed Banks for Data": Stewarding and Preserving Climate Data
- PG Town Hall #7 (February 2025): Panel: Earth Commons: Innovation, Challenges, and the Road Ahead
- Bangkok 2024 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/bangkok-2024/): Climate Positive DePIN; Restoring Nature's Biodiversity with DeSci and Equitable AI; Funding the Commons Builder Residencies: Chiang Mai Teaser
- Paris 2023: GainForest (AI x climate x web3) - FtC Paris 2023

## David Fortson
Chief Growth Officer, Regen Network Development PBC
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-fortson-19692715
- X: https://x.com/regen_network
- San Francisco 2025 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/san-francisco-2025/): Office Hours Sessions; AI & Emerging Technologies for Ecological Resilience Roundtable
- PG Town Hall #7 (February 2025): Panel: Earth Commons: Innovation, Challenges, and the Road Ahead

## David Lang
- New York 2022: Standards in the Real World

## David Sneider
Co-Founder & CEO, Lit Protocol
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dsneider
- X: https://x.com/davidlsneider
- San Francisco 2025 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/san-francisco-2025/)

## David Vorick
Co-Founder, Glow
- SF Bay Area 2024 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/sf-bay-area-2024/): Blame

## Dawn Drescher
Co-Founder, GoodX / Impact Markets
- Berlin 2023

## Dawn Song
Professor, EECS, UC Berkeley
- Virtual Summit, November 2021: Data Commons for Public Good

## Dazza Greenwood
Founder, CIVICS.com; MIT Computational Law Report
- San Francisco 2025 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/san-francisco-2025/): Legal Infrastructure for Agent Transactions

## Debra Nita
Associate Director, Head of Growth, YAP Global
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/debra-nita
- Website: https://yapglobal.com/team/debra-nita/
- RealFi Hack 2025
- Earth Commons Hackathon 2024

## De Kai
Empathetic AI Institute
- San Francisco 2026 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/sf-2026-intelligence-at-the-frontier/): Why Empathetic AI Is the Mother of All Commons

## Denis Drescher
Co-Founder, GoodX / Impact Markets
- Virtual Summit, March 2022: Impact Markets: Attributed Impact and More - Denis Drescher & Matt Brooks

## Devansh Mehta
Head of AI x Public Goods & Governance, Ethereum Foundation
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/devansh-mehta-670192109
- X: https://x.com/TheDevanshMehta
- Website: https://devanshmehta.com
- Buenos Aires 2025 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/buenos-aires-2025/)
- Berlin Forum 2025 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/berlin-forum-2025/): Credibly Neutral Funding: An Overview; Adaptive Funding Strategies for Arts, Research, & Silenced Science
- San Francisco 2025 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/san-francisco-2025/): "Deep Funding": Scaling Funding & Governance with Network Intelligence; Office Hours Sessions
- PG Town Hall #6 (January 2025): Panel: Predictions for Public Goods Funding in 2025 (Deep Funding)

## Devinder Sodhi
Learning Layer Labs
- San Francisco 2026 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/sf-2026-intelligence-at-the-frontier/): Hackathon Opening Session; Jeff Burnstein & Devinder Sodhi: Physical AI

## Dev Lewis
Fellow & Program Lead, Digital Asia Hub
- Taipei 2023 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/taipei-2023/): Layer-0: Ancient Asian Philosophies and New Worlds

## Diego Saez Gil
Co-founder & CEO, Pachama
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dsaezgil
- X: https://x.com/dsaezgil
- Website: https://dsaezgil.com/
- Open Conversations: Climate Data Belongs in the Commons
- San Francisco 2025 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/san-francisco-2025/): Geospatial AI for Climate and Nature

## Dina Bécane-Gonçalves
CGO, mined.fi
- Bangkok 2024 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/bangkok-2024/): Systems Thinking for Decentralized Science & Environmental Impact Roundtable

## Divya Siddarth
Co-Founder & Executive Director, Collective Intelligence Project
- New York 2022: Decentralized Societies; Funding Positive-Sum Goods

## Djimo Serodio
Founder, Silvi
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/djimoserodio/
- X: https://x.com/djimoserodio
- San Francisco 2025 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/san-francisco-2025/): AI & Emerging Technologies for Ecological Resilience Roundtable
- SF Bay Area 2024 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/sf-bay-area-2024/): How to Plant 1 Trillion Trees

## Dobrosława Gogłoza
Consultant, Pomagam.pl
- Taipei 2023 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/taipei-2023/): Can we learn from traditional donation crowdfunding?

## Don Gossen
Nevermined
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/nevermined
- Tokyo 2024 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/tokyo-2024/): Aligning AI with AI-Commerce

## Don Ho
OrangeDAO
- San Francisco 2025 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/san-francisco-2025/): Activating Founder Mode: Office Hours with OrangeDAO

## Douglas Gayeton
Co-Founder, The Lexicon
- SF Bay Area 2024 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/sf-bay-area-2024/): Can You Change the Future? Introducing the Ecological Benefits Framework

## Dr. Neil Gains
Assistant Dean for Student Affairs (Graduate), School of Global Studies, Thammasat University, Thammasat University School of Global Studies
- Bangkok 2024 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/bangkok-2024/): Addressing climate change with behavioural science: Findings from 63 countries.

## Duke Jones
CEO / Founder, IdentiKey
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dukejones
- X: https://x.com/DukeJon66534415
- San Francisco 2025 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/san-francisco-2025/): Office Hours Sessions
- Bangkok 2024 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/bangkok-2024/): Reclaiming Digital Sovereignty

## Eileen Wagner
UX Designer, Decent Patterns
- Berlin Forum 2025 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/berlin-forum-2025/): Privacy by Design

## Eirini Malliaraki
Director, Renaissance Philanthropy
- Paris 2023: Roadmapping for Impact Funding

## Ela Kagel
Co-founder & board member, Platform Coops eG / SUPERMARKT Berlin
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ela-kagel-a09459111/
- X: https://x.com/ElaKagel
- Website: https://elakagel.de
- Berlin Forum 2025 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/berlin-forum-2025/): Let's Fund Our Own Tech Coop! Designing sustainable tech from the ground up; Platform Cooperatives as Extitutional Infrastructures; From Coordination to Legitimacy: Civic Architectures for Public Goods
- Berlin 2023

## Ela Madej
Co-Founder & Partner, Fifty Years
- New York 2022: Impact Capitalism Via Early Stage Deep Tech VC

## Eleftherios Diakomichalis
Founder, Drips (Monadic)
- LinkedIn: https://de.linkedin.com/in/eleftheriosd
- X: https://x.com/lftherios
- Berlin Forum 2025 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/berlin-forum-2025/): Funding Dependencies in Open Source Software Development
- San Francisco 2025 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/san-francisco-2025/)
- PG Town Hall #6 (January 2025): Panel: Predictions for Public Goods Funding in 2025 (Deep Funding)
- Taipei 2023 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/taipei-2023/): On Chain Graphs and Funding Public Goods; Philosophies for Public Goods Funding
- Berlin 2023: Interdependence, On-Chain Graphs, & Public Goods
- Paris 2023: Dependency Funding with Drips v2

## Eli Mohamad
CryoDAO Core Team
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/emohamad
- X: https://x.com/elimohamad
- Bangkok 2024 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/bangkok-2024/): Funding BioDAOs Roundtable

## Eliza Pancake
Ethereum Foundation
- Buenos Aires 2025 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/buenos-aires-2025/): The Future of Public Goods Funding

## Ellie Rennie
- New York 2022: Measurement Systems & Contributor Rewards

## Elliot Seeger
Impact and Learning Expert, Self-employed
- Bangkok 2024 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/bangkok-2024/): So What? Why Monitoring and Impact Measurement Matter in Humanitarian Contexts

## Elvie Kamalova
Blockstreet Capital (Chainlink Labs?)
- SF Bay Area 2024 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/sf-bay-area-2024/): Blockchain Based Solutions for Climate

## Enrique Baiz
Gane
- Buenos Aires 2025 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/buenos-aires-2025/)

## Eoghan O'Keeffe
epok.tech
- PG Town Hall #9 (May 2025): Panel: Memory, Media, and Meaning: Cultural Infrastructure for the Commons

## Era Qian
Founder, Edge Society
- SF Bay Area 2024 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/sf-bay-area-2024/): Welcome Address; Open Source Campus + MC Innovator Feature; Unlocking Value in Open Source AI; Conclusion; Conclusion (AI Day)

## Eric Katerman
- New York 2022: Fluid Quadratic Finance: Cultivating Trust with a Flexible Public Goods Funding Model

## Eri Kawai
Student, Waseda University
- Tokyo 2024 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/tokyo-2024/): Natural Resources as Commons Based on the Japanese Satoyama Concept

## Erik Bordeleau
Co-founder and Research Lead, The Sphere
- Berlin 2023: Infrastructuring open Conspiracies

## Erik Bovee
MindsDB
- SF Bay Area 2024 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/sf-bay-area-2024/): Unlocking Value in Open Source AI

## Erik Ohlsen
Owner, Permaculture Artisans
- Edge Esmeralda Pop-up 2024: Permaculture Skills Center Tour

## Esben Kran
Co-Founder & Director, Apart Research, Apart Research / Seldon
- X: https://x.com/esbenkc
- Website: https://kran.ai/
- San Francisco 2026 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/sf-2026-intelligence-at-the-frontier/): Superintelligence Companies and Humanity's Future

## Esteban Iglesias
CEO & Founder, PaltaLabs
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/esteban-iglesias
- X: https://x.com/esteblock_dev
- Website: https://esteban.paltalabs.io/
- Buenos Aires 2025 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/buenos-aires-2025/)

## Estefano Pinilla
AthenaDAO
- Tokyo 2024 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/tokyo-2024/): Funding Deeptech and Decentralized Science; #SavetheOvaries with AthenaDAO

## Ethan Frey
CTO, Layer Labs
- Open Conversations: Building the Systems of Tomorrow
- Berlin Forum 2025 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/berlin-forum-2025/): What is Money, anyway?; Lessons Learned from Existing Blockchain Political Economies

## Eugene Leventhal
Executive Director (through 2025); DAWO26 organizer, Metagov
- San Francisco 2026 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/sf-2026-intelligence-at-the-frontier/)
- Bangkok 2024 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/bangkok-2024/): State of Web3 Grants Report: Reflections & Directions
- Earth Commons Hackathon 2024
- SF Bay Area 2024 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/sf-bay-area-2024/): Improving Impact Assessment in Retro Funding; How Web2 and Web3 can learn from each other's grant funding pathways

## Eunielle Yi
Founding Partner, Impact Collective
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/eunielle/
- Taipei 2023 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/taipei-2023/)

## Evan Miyazono
Co-Founder & CEO, Atlas Computing
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/evan-miyazono/
- X: https://x.com/emiyazono
- Website: https://atlascomputing.org/team/
- San Francisco 2026 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/sf-2026-intelligence-at-the-frontier/): Alignment Is Not Enough
- San Francisco 2025 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/san-francisco-2025/): Building the 21st Century Commons
- SF Bay Area 2024 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/sf-bay-area-2024/): AGI with Safety Guarantees
- Paris 2023: Funding the Commons, an Incubation Ecosystem for Public Goods Funding Infrastructure; A case study: Network Goods in Protocol Labs; Controllable AI for a Safer, More Ethical Future - FtC Paris 2023
- Lisbon 2022: Network Goods- Purpose, Brief History, Looking Ahead
- Bogotá 2022: FTC Bogota Introduction
- New York 2022: Funding the Commons kickoff; Closing Remarks
- Virtual Summit, March 2022: Funding the Commons Day 1 Wrap-up; Fireside chat with Tom Kalil & Evan Miyazono; Networked Good - To the future; Welcome to Funding the Commons - March 2022 - Evan Miyazono & Karola Kirsanow
- Virtual Summit, November 2021: Impact Evaluators

## Evi Nova
Blockchain Developer, Byzantine Finance
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/evinova
- X: https://x.com/tester5319
- Buenos Aires 2025 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/buenos-aires-2025/)

## Fabian Vogelsteller
Founder, LUKSO
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/fabian-vogelsteller-46365042
- X: https://x.com/feindura
- Berlin Forum 2025 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/berlin-forum-2025/): Adaptive Funding Strategies for Arts, Research, & Silenced Science

## Facundo Trotz
Policy Writer, Kleros
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/facundotrotz
- Buenos Aires 2025 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/buenos-aires-2025/): Decentralized Justice in Action The Kleros: Mendoza Supreme Court Pilot

## Fatemeh Fannizadeh
Lawyer, Geneva-legal.ch
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/fatemehfannizadeh
- Berlin Forum 2025 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/berlin-forum-2025/): Techno Tyranny, Digital Enclosures & Hospitable States

## Federico Ast
Founder & CEO, Kleros
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/federicoast
- X: https://x.com/federicoast
- Website: https://www.federicoast.com/
- Buenos Aires 2025 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/buenos-aires-2025/): Decentralized Justice in Action The Kleros: Mendoza Supreme Court Pilot

## Feems
DAO Gov researcher, DAO Governance Collective
- X: https://x.com/feemschats
- Bangkok 2024 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/bangkok-2024/): On-chain capital allocation: from present mechanisms to future possibilities
- PG Town Hall #4 ft. Gitcoin (September 2024): Panel: Gitcoin Onchain Allocation Handbook
- Istanbul 2023: Measuring Impact Panel
- Berlin 2023

## Felipe Schmidt Fonseca
Founder, Reuse City
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/felipefonseca
- Berlin Forum 2025 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/berlin-forum-2025/): Permacomputing for a Sustainable "Material Commons"

## Felix Fritsch
Founder, Commons Hub
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/felix-fritsch-b4993a97/
- X: https://x.com/FelixFritsch2
- Website: https://commons-hub.at
- Berlin Forum 2025 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/berlin-forum-2025/): From Trustless to Trustworthy: Embedding Crypto in Commons Governance
- Paris 2023

## Fernanda Tello
Economist | Founder, CriptoUNAM
- Open Conversations: Can We Bring the Campus Economy Onchain?

## Fernando Boiero
CTO & Co-founder, Xcapit
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/fboiero
- X: https://x.com/fboiero
- Open Conversations: When Crypto Meets Institutions
- Buenos Aires 2025 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/buenos-aires-2025/): Multistakeholder Collaboration for the Common Good

## Finn Fierro
Null Solutions Limited
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finn-casey-fierro
- X: https://x.com/f_casey_fierro
- Berlin Forum 2025 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/berlin-forum-2025/)

## Fintan Halpenny
Maintainer, Radicle
- Buenos Aires 2025 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/buenos-aires-2025/): The Future Home of Open Source

## Florent Tavernier
Research Engineer, Sundial
- San Francisco 2025 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/san-francisco-2025/): Privacy By Design: ZK, MPC, TEE

## Florian Eblenkamp
Advocacy Officer, International Campain to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, ICAN (Internationale Kampagne zur Abschaffung von Atomwaffen)
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/florian-eblenkamp
- Berlin Forum 2025 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/berlin-forum-2025/): Nuclear Disarmament as a Public Good & Governance Challenge

## Florian Glatz
Co-founder of EUCI, Blockchain Lawyer, Advisor, Board Member
- Bangkok 2024 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/bangkok-2024/): Funding the Future: Innovative Approaches to Financing Crypto Policy Work

## Fotis Tsiroukis
Vice President SEMF, SEMF NGO | TUM, Crypto Commons Association
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/fotis-tsiroukis-9136b11b6
- X: https://x.com/FTsiroukis
- Berlin Forum 2025 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/berlin-forum-2025/): Collective Worldbuilding through Speculative Fiction

## Francisco Catrileo
CPO, PaltaLabs
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/francisco-catrileo-3908646a
- X: https://x.com/fran_punck184
- Buenos Aires 2025 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/buenos-aires-2025/)

## Frank Hu
Contributor, FAB DAO, da0
- X: https://x.com/frankhu9
- Taipei 2023 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/taipei-2023/): Incentivising Public Goods

## Frankie Colamarino
Founder, Problem (Problem Media) / Nouns Cares
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/frankieco
- X: https://x.com/franke
- Website: https://frankie.co
- Open Conversations: Making People, Places & Things Come Together
- Tokyo 2024 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/tokyo-2024/): Nouns Cares – A Better World On-Chain

## Frank Liu
Desci Sino, Open Biobank
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/befrankmit/
- Tokyo 2024 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/tokyo-2024/): Making Science Cool and Fun

## Fumitaka Watanabe
Kyoto University, Beyond2050 Design Office
- Tokyo 2024 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/tokyo-2024/): How to "Regenerate" Social Common Capital by Philanthropy

## Galia Benartzi
Co-Founder, Business Development, Entrepreneur
- Paris 2023

## Garm Lucassen
CTO & Co-Founder, Fractional CPTO • Founder mode for hire
- Berlin 2023

## Genki Kanda
RIKEN
- Tokyo 2024 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/tokyo-2024/): Laboratory Automation and Robotic Crowd Biology (日本語)

## Geordan Shannon
Founder / Dr, Unexia
- SF Bay Area 2024 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/sf-bay-area-2024/): Planet.Health: Infrastructures of hope

## Georgy Ishmaev
Postdoctoral Researcher, Inria
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/georgy-ishmaev-883586186
- Berlin Forum 2025 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/berlin-forum-2025/): The Search for Values in the Dark Forest of Merkle Trees; Old Value Systems, New Technologies

## Gianmarco Cristofari
Postdoctoral researcher, University of Palermo
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gianmarco-cristofari-162077167
- X: https://x.com/GianmarcoCrist
- Website: https://www.unipa.it/persone/docenti/c/gianmarco.cristofari/en/
- Buenos Aires 2025 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/buenos-aires-2025/)
- Berlin Forum 2025 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/berlin-forum-2025/): Platform State and Digital Public Infrastructure

## Gilberto Morishaw
Contributor, Bread Cooperative (Breadchain)
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gilberto-morishaw-b92a23108
- X: https://x.com/bertmangil
- Website: https://morishaw.com
- Buenos Aires 2025 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/buenos-aires-2025/)
- Berlin Forum 2025 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/berlin-forum-2025/): Welcome and Plenary; Bridging Tech, Solidarity, and Human Rights; Welcome and Plenary: Who are we and what is post-capitalism?; Recap and Audience Discussion

## Gimmy Chang
FAB DAO
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gimmy-chang-31851b1a5
- X: https://x.com/0xGimmy
- Website: https://mediumstarbucks.substack.com/
- Tokyo 2024 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/tokyo-2024/): Key for a Better Artificial System: from Gov to AI; d/acc Chat
- Taipei 2023 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/taipei-2023/): Tools for Public Goods Ecosystem Building

## Glenn Tan
Partner, Blockchain for Good Alliance
- Bangkok 2024 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/bangkok-2024/): Blockchain for Good: Ideating for Impact

## Glen Weyl
Research Lead / Founder, Microsoft Research (Plural Technology Collaboratory); Plurality Institute; RadicalxChange Foundation
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/eglenweyl
- X: https://x.com/glenweyl
- Website: https://www.glenweyl.com/
- Open Conversations: On Plurality & Harnessing Energy for Social Growth
- Tokyo 2024 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/tokyo-2024/): Designing for Plurality
- Virtual Summit, March 2022: Plural Funding - Glen Weyl & Leon Erichsen

## Gloria Kexin Wu
Founding Team: Strategy and Operations, Karma3 Labs/OpenRank
- SF Bay Area 2024 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/sf-bay-area-2024/): Improving Impact Assessment in Retro Funding

## Gonzalo Othacehe
Software Engineer, OpenZeppelin
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gonzaotc
- Open Conversations: Removing Barriers to Ethereum Adoption

## Gopal Dayaneni
Co-founder, Movement Generation
- Edge Esmeralda Pop-up 2024: Governance of Sustainable Communities

## @GrandMasterJo
Decoland
- X: https://x.com/GrandMasterJo
- Earth Commons Hackathon 2024

## Graven
Flow State Coop
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gravenprest
- X: https://x.com/gravenhq
- PG Town Hall #8 (April 2025): Community Projects Showcase (lightning talks)

## Grayson Earle
Artist, Bail Bloc
- Website: https://www.graysonearle.com/
- Berlin Forum 2025 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/berlin-forum-2025/): Bridging Tech, Solidarity, and Human Rights

## Gregory Landua
Co-Founder & CEO, Regen Network
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gregory-landua-4953b29/
- X: https://x.com/gregory_landua
- Website: https://registry.regen.network/team/gregory-landua
- San Francisco 2025 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/san-francisco-2025/): Investing in Climate Resilience; Office Hours Sessions
- SF Bay Area 2024 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/sf-bay-area-2024/): Learning from Mycelial Networks for Designing Resilient Interdependence

## Grégoire Gambatto
CEO, OnlyDust
- Bangkok 2024 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/bangkok-2024/): From Public Goods Contribution to Professional Success

## Griff Green
Co-Founder, Giveth
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/griffgreen/
- X: https://x.com/thegrifft
- Paris 2023

## Guillermo Gallardo
DevRel Lead / Senior DevRel Engineer, NEAR Protocol
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/guillermo-gallardo-35342b94
- X: https://x.com/gagdiez
- Buenos Aires 2025 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/buenos-aires-2025/)
- Berlin Forum 2025 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/berlin-forum-2025/): Intents for Impact: Simplifying Cross-Chain Solutions for the Common Good

## Guillermo Goncalvez
CEO, El Dorado
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/guillermogoncalvez
- Buenos Aires 2025 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/buenos-aires-2025/): P2P Markets in LATAM

## Guo Liu
Co-Founder/CTO, Matters Lab
- Istanbul 2023: Programmable Attestations I; Experience Design for Collective Space

## Gurden Batra
Civic Tech Lead, Dark Matter Labs
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gurden-batra
- Website: https://gurden.xyz/
- Berlin Forum 2025 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/berlin-forum-2025/): From Coordination to Legitimacy: Civic Architectures for Public Goods

## Gus Domel
Partner, Boost VC
- Tokyo 2024 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/tokyo-2024/): Funding Deeptech and Decentralized Science

## Guy Wuollet
Partner, a16z crypto
- Paris 2023: Fireside Chat; Why DePIN Matters

## Hackathon Organizers
- San Francisco 2026 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/sf-2026-intelligence-at-the-frontier/): Hackathon Opening Session

## Hadar Rottenberg
Tech Lead, ‏GoodDollar.org‏
- Buenos Aires 2025 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/buenos-aires-2025/)
- RealFi Hack 2025: Judged track(s): Community Finance Systems & Coordination
- PG Town Hall #8 (April 2025): Community Projects Showcase (lightning talks)

## Hal Seki
Code for Japan
- X: https://x.com/hal_sk
- Tokyo 2024 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/tokyo-2024/): Civic community fund and ecosystem, Korea and Japan; Building Digital Commons: How Civic Tech Drives Public Innovation; Introducing Pagoda

## Hanna Fiegenbaum
Sustainability Integration Lead, WoodenValley gGmbH, European Commission
- Berlin Forum 2025 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/berlin-forum-2025/): Dynamic Ecological Stewardship
- Berlin 2023

## Hazel Hu
Team Lead, GCC, Go around.
- X: https://x.com/withhazelhu
- Bangkok 2024 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/bangkok-2024/): A Year in Public Goods Funding

## Hector Rocha
Full Professor of Strategy & Entrepreneurship, IAE Business School
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hectorrocha10
- X: https://x.com/hectorrocha10
- Buenos Aires Builder Residency 2025
- Buenos Aires 2025 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/buenos-aires-2025/): Multistakeholder Collaboration for the Common Good

## Henri Stern
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/henri-stern
- X: https://x.com/sternhenri
- New York 2022: Privacy as a commons in web3 where we are and where we can go

## Henry Baiz
CEO & Co-Founder, Gane (Gane Mobile)
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/henry-baiz/
- Buenos Aires 2025 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/buenos-aires-2025/): Blockchain for Everyone: Free Mobile Real Utility and Mass Adoption in LATAM
- Bangkok 2024 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/bangkok-2024/)

## Hiro Hamada
DeSci Tokyo & ARAYA
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hirohamada/
- Tokyo 2024 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/tokyo-2024/): Opening Words; Greeting from DeSciTokyo

## Hirokazu Nishio
Cybozu Labs Inc.
- Tokyo 2024 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/tokyo-2024/): Design for Plurality (Panel)

## Holke Brammer
Founder & Director, Hypercerts Foundation
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hbrammer/
- X: https://x.com/holkeb
- Website: https://holke.xyz
- San Francisco 2026 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/sf-2026-intelligence-at-the-frontier/): A Community Treasury, Allocated by AI Digital Twins: The Simocracy Experiment
- Buenos Aires Builder Residency 2025: Impact certification infrastructure
- Buenos Aires 2025 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/buenos-aires-2025/): Rewiring the Commons: Hypercerts on AT Protocol
- Bangkok 2024 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/bangkok-2024/): Funding Networks with Hypercerts; Contribution & Attestation Roundtable
- Earth Commons Hackathon 2024
- SF Bay Area 2024 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/sf-bay-area-2024/): Afternoon Workshop Previews; Bridging the Gap: Web2 and Web3 OSS Funding Infrastructure
- Taipei 2023 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/taipei-2023/): Hypercerts and Hyperboards; Incentivising Public Goods; Hypercerts and Hyperboards: Advancing Modern Impact Funding Systems
- Berlin 2023: From Hypercerts to Hyperboards: Advancing Modern Impact Funding Systems
- Paris 2023: Hypercerts: How to Build Modern Impact Funding Systems - FtC Paris 2023
- Lisbon 2022: Hypercert Scenarios: Presentation and Workshop
- Bogotá 2022: Rewarding Impact with Hypercerts.xyz; Workshop: Impact Markets

## Hsin-chan Chien
Participant, Editor in chief, g0v.tw
- Taipei 2023 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/taipei-2023/): Decentralizing the Narrative: Web3's Role in Democratizing Media

## Hudson Headley
Chief Architect, Bread Cooperative / POA
- Buenos Aires 2025 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/buenos-aires-2025/)
- Berlin Forum 2025 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/berlin-forum-2025/): Poa: How to Build Organizations Owned Fully by Your Community

## Ievgen Kylymnyk
Regional Project Manager, UNDP
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ievgen-kylymnyk
- Berlin Forum 2025 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/berlin-forum-2025/): Systems Transformation for Sustainable Development with United Nations Development Programme; Bridging the Commons: Designing a Civic Layer that Connects Legacy Systems with New Public Goods Infrastructure

## Iker Alustiza
Senior Web3 Engineer, NEAR Foundation
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/iker-alustiza-beitia-68803a2b
- RealFi Hack 2025

## Illia Polosukhin
Co-Founder, NEAR Protocol / NEAR AI
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/illia-polosukhin-77b6538
- X: https://x.com/ilblackdragon
- San Francisco 2026 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/sf-2026-intelligence-at-the-frontier/): Fireside Chat with Illia Polosukhin and Juan Benet; Building a Secure Agentic Future; Illia Polosukhin & Juan Benet: Building the Agentic Future
- Open Conversations: The Only Way Forward Is User-Owned AI
- San Francisco 2025 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/san-francisco-2025/): Architecting Resilient Futures
- Bangkok 2024 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/bangkok-2024/): Fireside Chat with Juan Benet & Illia Polosukhin

## Ira Nezhynska
Design Partner, Funding the Commons
- RealFi Hack 2025
- Berlin Forum 2025 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/berlin-forum-2025/): Reputation-engineering exercises for founders, or how to turn strangers into early adopters
- PG Town Hall #9 (May 2025): Panel: Memory, Media, and Meaning: Cultural Infrastructure for the Commons

## Isabela Fernandes
Executive Director, The Tor Project
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/isabela-f-6263aa18/
- Open Conversations: Privacy Is a Civic Technology
- Berlin Forum 2025 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/berlin-forum-2025/): Digital Disobedience: Reclaiming the Internet as a Public Good; Privacy by Design: Secure Infrastructures
- Berlin 2023: Circumventing censorship with Tor

## Isabel Hou
Lawyer, g0v contributor, AI Academy
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/isabel-hou-aiaacademy
- X: https://x.com/IamIsabelHou
- Taipei 2023 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/taipei-2023/): How Can Web3 Be the Infrastructure of AI Applications?; Open Source Communities and Its Contribution to Building Public Goods

## Jaan Tallinn
Founder, Future of Life Institute & CSER
- Virtual Summit, March 2022: Fireside chat with Jaan Tallinn & Juan Benet

## Jack Manning Bancroft
Founder, AIME
- SF Bay Area 2024 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/sf-bay-area-2024/): Rewiring How We are Networked

## Jacky Wang
Organizer, BuZhiDAO
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jackywang135/
- X: https://x.com/taipeicity_eth
- Taipei 2023 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/taipei-2023/): Philosophies for Public Goods Funding

## Jacob Huehn
Community Weaver, Zukunfts (T)Raum & many more
- Buenos Aires 2025 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/buenos-aires-2025/)
- Berlin Forum 2025 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/berlin-forum-2025/): Anarchiving as Collective Memory; Decentralised, Community-driven Infrastructures to Transform the Music Industry

## Jahed Momand
Co-Founder and General Partner, Cerulean Ventures
- Paris 2023

## Jake Hartnell
CEO & Co-Founder, Layer (Layer Labs)
- X: https://x.com/jakehartnell
- Website: https://github.com/jakehartnell
- Open Conversations: Building the Systems of Tomorrow (Ethan Frey & Jake Hartnell)
- Berlin Forum 2025 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/berlin-forum-2025/): Protocol Governance & Cryptoeconomic Design; AVS: The Customization Machine
- Bangkok 2024 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/bangkok-2024/): Self-Governing Land Trusts; Full Stack Decentralization Now; Layer Technical Workshop
- Earth Commons Hackathon 2024

## Jakob Drzazga
Serial Entrepreneur
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/1akob
- San Francisco 2026 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/sf-2026-intelligence-at-the-frontier/): Welcome from Frontier Tower’s Founder; Jakob (Frontier Tower) — Town Hall: How We Fund the Building

## James Farrell
CTO, Funding the Commons
- San Francisco 2026 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/sf-2026-intelligence-at-the-frontier/): Who Owns the Intelligence? Open vs. Closed AI
- Buenos Aires 2025 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/buenos-aires-2025/): Residency Report: Highlights and Outcomes; Surprise Announcement
- RealFi Hack 2025: Judged track(s): Build RealFi
- Berlin Forum 2025 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/berlin-forum-2025/): Signals from the Frontier: A Web3 Builders Roundtable

## James Kiernan
Head of Impact, Golem Foundation (Octant)
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/vpabundance/
- X: https://x.com/vpabundance
- San Francisco 2025 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/san-francisco-2025/): "Deep Funding": Scaling Funding & Governance with Network Intelligence; Office Hours Sessions
- PG Town Hall #7 (February 2025): Onboarding the FtC Community to Octant
- Taipei 2023 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/taipei-2023/): Octant's Regenerative Funding: ETH Staking for Public Goods
- Istanbul 2023: Mechanism Design and Community Activation Pathways for Public Goods; Measuring Impact Panel; Getting to Paretoutopia: Collective Problem Solving for the Public Goods Funding Stack

## James Sinka
- New York 2022: Ownership and Revenue in Scientific Discoveries IP NFTs

## James Tunningley
Co-Founder & Senior Advisor, ARCHITECT / The Architect Institute
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/james-tunningley
- Website: https://www.plrd.org/authors/james-tunningley
- Buenos Aires 2025 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/buenos-aires-2025/): Leveraging Technology Towards Public Efficiency
- SF Bay Area 2024 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/sf-bay-area-2024/)

## Jamie Joyce
Founder & Executive Director; 2026 candidate for U.S. Congress, The Society Library
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/justjamiejoyce
- X: https://x.com/JustJamieJoyce
- Website: https://www.jamiejoyce.com/
- San Francisco 2026 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/sf-2026-intelligence-at-the-frontier/): Scaled Democratic Reasoning
- SF Bay Area 2024 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/sf-bay-area-2024/): AI and the Collective Pursuit of Truth

## Janine Leger
Co-Founder, Edge City
- Paris 2023: Zuzalu: A First-of-its-kind IRL Pop-up Community Experiment

## Jarrad Hope
Co-founder, Logos / Institute of Free Technology (Status)
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jarradhope
- X: https://x.com/jarradhope_
- Open Conversations: Freedom Requires Privacy
- Buenos Aires 2025 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/buenos-aires-2025/): Surprise Announcement

## Jarrod Barnes
Research Scientist, Dynamical Systems
- Open Conversations: Decentralized AI: The Fight for Privacy and Trust
- Bangkok 2024 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/bangkok-2024/): Decentralized Intelligence - The Impact of User-Owned AI; NEAR Technical Workshop
- PG Builders Town Hall #5 (October 2024): Sponsor Spotlights: innovating public goods during the FtC Bangkok hackathon

## Jason Efstathiou
Head of Product, Drips
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jason-efstathiou
- X: https://x.com/efstajas
- Website: https://jason-e.dev
- Bangkok 2024 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/bangkok-2024/): Contribution & Attestation Roundtable; How Ecosystem-Focused Should Public Goods Funding Programs Be?

## Jason Lopatecki
Founder - CEO, Arize AI
- SF Bay Area 2024 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/sf-bay-area-2024/): Advancing Open Source LLM Evaluation, Testing, and Debugging

## Jason Potts
Director, Blockchain Innovation Hub
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jason-potts-679ba364/
- X: https://x.com/profjasonpotts
- Paris 2023: Contribution Theory of Value: On the Evolution of Markets and Commons

## Jaydeep Korde
Co-Founder & CEO, Launchnodes / Impact Stake
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jaydeep-korde-a43b319
- X: https://x.com/launchnodes
- Open Conversations: Funding Impact with Ethereum Staking
- Buenos Aires 2025 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/buenos-aires-2025/): Turning ETH Staking into Education, Connectivity, Trees, and Cash Aid

## Jeanne Bloch
Founder, XRPL Commons & Decentralized Desires
- Paris 2023

## Jeff Burnstein
Association for Advancing Automation
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeff-burnstein-25b5138
- San Francisco 2026 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/sf-2026-intelligence-at-the-frontier/): Jeff Burnstein & Devinder Sodhi: Physical AI

## Jeff Emmett
- New York 2022: Measurement Systems & Contributor Rewards

## Jeff Hou
Associate Director, KPMG in Taiwan
- Taipei 2023 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/taipei-2023/): A View from Asia Impact Ecosystem

## Jeff Pulver
Founder, The vCon Foundation
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jpulver/
- X: https://x.com/jeffpulver
- Website: https://thejeffpulver.substack.com/
- Berlin 2023: Dialing into the Future: Sustainable Funding & Value Synergy in Open Source
- Paris 2023: FWD (Free World Dialup) or The History of the Future

## Jelani Clarke
Executive Lead, DeSciWorld
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jelani-clarke-ph-d-920b1080
- X: https://x.com/JelaniC3
- Taipei 2023 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/taipei-2023/): From Funding to Cost - How Movements Like DeSci are Working to Fix Science

## Jesse Katz
expressive freedom worldwide
- Aleph Pop-up 2024: Open access to information and data for knowledge coordination and co-creation; Community Graphs & DecentLibrary; Open access to information and data for knowledge coordination and co-creation; Fireside Chat

## Jesse Pollak
Creator of Base, Coinbase
- Paris 2023: Is Capitalism Really the Problem? - FtC Paris 2023

## Jessica Abkarian
IRL Art
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/juliaabkarian/
- SF Bay Area 2024 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/sf-bay-area-2024/): Bridging Technology & Tradition: White Buffalo Woman x Web 3.0

## Jessica Zartler
Communications Lead & Researcher, BlockScience
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jessicazartler/
- X: https://x.com/jessicazartler
- SF Bay Area 2024 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/sf-bay-area-2024/)

## Jessy Kate Schingler
Senior Advisor (governance & institution design), Open Lunar Foundation
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jessykateschingler/
- X: https://x.com/jessykate
- Website: https://jessykate.com/
- SF Bay Area 2024 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/sf-bay-area-2024/): Lawyering for the Planet: New Cultures of Legal Practice & New Pathways to Licensure
- New York 2022: Network futures for the Earth-Moon System with Jessy Kate
- Virtual Summit, March 2022: Borderless public goods and interplanetary publics

## Joaquin Soza
CTO, DeFindex
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/joaquinsoza
- Website: https://joaquin.paltalabs.io/
- Buenos Aires 2025 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/buenos-aires-2025/)

## Jocelyn Endres
Network Tickler & Facilitator, Microsolidarity Network
- Buenos Aires 2025 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/buenos-aires-2025/)
- Berlin Forum 2025 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/berlin-forum-2025/): Microsolidarity: Whatever the Question, Community is the Answer

## Jocelyn Weber Phipps
Deputy Director, RDI, UC Berkeley College of Engineering
- SF Bay Area 2024 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/sf-bay-area-2024/): Welcome Address; Berkeley RDI

## Joe Lim
South Ventures
- X: https://x.com/fpineapple
- Taipei 2023 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/taipei-2023/): Social Impact Bonds Cases On and Off the Chain

## Joel Thorstensson
Co-Founder, 3Box Labs
- Paris 2023: Roadmapping for Impact Funding

## Joe Mascaro
Planet Labs
- SF Bay Area 2024 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/sf-bay-area-2024/): Earth Science in an Age of Change

## Johanna Sieben
Festival Director; Vice Managing Director, Falling Walls Foundation, Creative Bureaucracy Festival / Falling Walls Foundation
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/johanna-sieben-b33697100
- Website: https://creativebureaucracy.org/foundation/people/johanna-sieben
- Buenos Aires 2025 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/buenos-aires-2025/)
- Berlin Forum 2025 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/berlin-forum-2025/): Bridging the Commons: Designing a Civic Layer that Connects Legacy Systems with New Public Goods Infrastructure

## John Guilding
Team Lead, Ethereum Foundation
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/johnguilding
- Buenos Aires 2025 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/buenos-aires-2025/)

## John Henry Clippinger
Director, MIT Media Lab & Active Inference Institute
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-henry-clippinger-5ab1b
- X: https://x.com/hjohnhenry
- SF Bay Area 2024 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/sf-bay-area-2024/): Panel: Funding AI public goods and keeping them public

## John Hoopes
Founder, Astral
- Berlin Forum 2025 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/berlin-forum-2025/): Politics of Perception: Architecting Trust and Sovereignty with Geospatial Data and Planetary Sensing
- Earth Commons Hackathon 2024: FtC x EC Hackathon | Workshop: Carbon Credits, Simply Explained (Oct 2024)

## JohnX
Astral
- Website: https://johnx.co
- Earth Commons Hackathon 2024

## Jonas Boury
Co-Founder, Citizen Wallet, Citizen Pay
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jonasboury
- X: https://x.com/JonasBoury
- Website: https://jonasboury.com/
- Berlin Forum 2025 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/berlin-forum-2025/): Citizen Pay: Creating a common good payments network; Local and Bioregional Resilience World Cafe

## Jonas Seiferth
Retro Funding Lead, Optimism Unlimited (Optimism Foundation)
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jonas-seiferth/
- X: https://x.com/JonasSFT
- Berlin Forum 2025 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/berlin-forum-2025/)
- Bangkok 2024 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/bangkok-2024/): Retro Funding: Experts vs Data, reflections from two large scale experiments
- Istanbul 2023: Public Goods Funding Stack Workshop
- Berlin 2023: Retroactive Public Goods Funding: 2 Years In
- Paris 2023

## Jonathan Dotan
- Lisbon 2022: Regenerative Value

## Jonathan Kung
Co-founder, Societal Labs
- Taipei 2023 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/taipei-2023/): From Funding to Cost - How Movements Like DeSci are Working to Fix Science

## Jon Ruth
Climate Coordination Network (CCN)
- PG Town Hall #7 (February 2025): Panel: Earth Commons: Innovation, Challenges, and the Road Ahead

## Jordan Ndetcho
Decoland
- Earth Commons Hackathon 2024: FtC x EC Hackathon | Workshop: Multidimesional impact dashboard with Decoland (Oct 2024)

## Jordi Pinyana
President, Digital Voting, Decentralization & Blockchain
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jordi-painan
- X: https://x.com/jp_aulet
- Buenos Aires 2025 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/buenos-aires-2025/)

## Jori Armbruster
CEO & Co-Founder, EthicHub
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jori-armbruster/
- X: https://x.com/jori_armbruster
- Website: https://joriarmbruster.com
- Bangkok 2024 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/bangkok-2024/): Systems Thinking for Decentralized Science & Environmental Impact Roundtable
- Paris 2023

## Josh Ford
Developer Relations Engineer, NEAR AI & NEAR Protocol
- San Francisco 2025 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/san-francisco-2025/): Building User-Owned AI with TEEs & Open Infrastructures

## Josh Tan
Product & Strategy Lead (Public AI); Research Lead (Metagov); BKC Fellow 2026, Public AI / Metagov
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/joshuaztan/
- X: https://x.com/joshuaztan
- Website: https://www.joshuatan.com/
- San Francisco 2026 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/sf-2026-intelligence-at-the-frontier/): Joshua Tan: Incubating Networked Systems and Autonomous Orgs
- Berlin Forum 2025 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/berlin-forum-2025/): Facing Challenges Together with AI: Policy, Ecological & Technical Perspectives; Adaptive Funding Strategies for Arts, Research, & Silenced Science
- Bangkok 2024 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/bangkok-2024/): Web3 and Small Business: How to Build a Community Bank for DAOs
- Earth Commons Hackathon 2024
- SF Bay Area 2024 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/sf-bay-area-2024/): The Cost of Community; Open Collective's Exit to Community

## Joshua Davila
Co-Founder; writer & podcaster, Bread Cooperative / The Blockchain Socialist
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jadavila
- X: https://x.com/TBSocialist
- Website: https://theblockchainsocialist.com/about/
- Berlin Forum 2025 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/berlin-forum-2025/): Welcome and Plenary; Protocol Governance & Cryptoeconomic Design; Welcome and Plenary: Who are we and what is post-capitalism?; Lessons Learned from Existing Blockchain Political Economies; Build a blockchain with weird political economies; Post-Capitalist Labor; Recap and Audience Discussion
- PG Town Hall #9 (May 2025): Panel: Memory, Media, and Meaning: Cultural Infrastructure for the Commons
- Bangkok 2024 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/bangkok-2024/): Solidarity Primitives: How to fund your commons with an aligned community; Contribution & Attestation Roundtable
- PG Builders Town Hall #5 (October 2024): Sponsor Spotlights: innovating public goods during the FtC Bangkok hackathon
- Earth Commons Hackathon 2024

## Josh Whiton
Founder, MakeSoil
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/joshwhiton/
- X: https://x.com/joshwhiton
- Website: https://joshwhiton.com/
- Edge Esmeralda Pop-up 2024: Tech for Regeneration; Composting to Build Healthy Living Soil
- SF Bay Area 2024 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/sf-bay-area-2024/): A Universal Regenerative Experience

## @JuampiHernandez
Business Development, Talent Protocol
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/juampihernandez
- X: https://x.com/JuampiHernandez
- Earth Commons Hackathon 2024

## Juan Angel
Chief Business Officer, Matter
- RealFi Hack 2025: Judged track(s): Private Data Manager (PDM); Combined Privacy + DeFi App; Privacy-Preserving AI

## Juan Benet
Founder & CEO, Protocol Labs
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jbenetcs
- X: https://x.com/juanbenet
- Website: https://research.protocol.ai/authors/juan-benet/
- San Francisco 2026 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/sf-2026-intelligence-at-the-frontier/): Fireside Chat with Illia Polosukhin and Juan Benet; Thoughts for the FtC Community in 2026; Illia Polosukhin & Juan Benet: Building the Agentic Future
- Buenos Aires 2025 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/buenos-aires-2025/): Public Goods Funding Keynote Presentation
- San Francisco 2025 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/san-francisco-2025/): Architecting Resilient Futures
- Bangkok 2024 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/bangkok-2024/): Priorities for PGF Builders in 2025; Fireside Chat with Juan Benet & Illia Polosukhin
- Aleph Pop-up 2024: PGF Tools for Aleph & Crecimiento
- SF Bay Area 2024 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/sf-bay-area-2024/): Network Funding Model
- Istanbul 2023: Network Structures for Funding Public Goods; Getting to Paretoutopia: Collective Problem Solving for the Public Goods Funding Stack
- Paris 2023
- Lisbon 2022: Funding the Commons Q&A
- Bogotá 2022: Complex Products: Where DAOs and Funding Mechanisms Fall Short
- New York 2022: Priorities for Public Goods Builders in 2022; Web3 Commons Learning Tools; Towards Paretotopia Visualizing Voluntarily Cooperation; Network Funds: Decentralized Investment Structures for Public Goods and Commons
- Virtual Summit, March 2022: Introducing Network Funds - Funding Public Goods for Fun and Profit; Fireside chat with Jaan Tallinn & Juan Benet
- Virtual Summit, November 2021: Intro: Closing The Innovation Chasm; Closing Remarks

## Juan Guillen
- X: https://x.com/0x7u4n
- Paris 2023

## Ju-Chun (JC) Ko
Professor, National Taiwan University
- Taipei 2023 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/taipei-2023/): From the GOOD Class to GOOD Congress

## Judy Zhou
steward of the Human Flourishing floor, Frontier Tower
- San Francisco 2026 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/sf-2026-intelligence-at-the-frontier/): Flourishing Floors — Mechanism Design Workshop; A Community Treasury, Allocated by AI Digital Twins: The Simocracy Experiment

## Julia Kiseleva
Founder & CEO (ex-Microsoft Research)
- SF Bay Area 2024 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/sf-bay-area-2024/): AutoGen: A Multi-Agent Framework for Enabling Next-Gen AI Applications

## Julian Pütz
Student Assistant, Weizenbaum Institut
- Berlin Forum 2025 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/berlin-forum-2025/): Imagining Community-Owned Data Centers

## Julian Zawistowski
Founder; Foundation Council member, Golem Foundation (Octant)
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/julian-zawistowski-352478/
- X: https://x.com/julianzawist
- Buenos Aires 2025 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/buenos-aires-2025/): The Future of Public Goods Funding
- Taipei 2023 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/taipei-2023/): Philosophies for Public Goods Funding
- Berlin 2023: Octant and Beyond: Ideas for Regenerative Web3 Self-Funding
- Paris 2023: What's at Stake: ETH & Public Goods Funding

## Julio Linares
Public Outreach, Basic Income Earth Network, Poetic Technologies
- Buenos Aires 2025 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/buenos-aires-2025/)
- Berlin Forum 2025 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/berlin-forum-2025/): Privacy by Design: Secure Infrastructures
- Bangkok 2024 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/bangkok-2024/): Decolonizing Money

## Justina Svitraite
Senior User Researcher & Design Sprint Facilitator, Deep Work Studio
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/justina-svitraite-333482232
- Website: https://www.justinaonthetrip.com/
- Design Jam Bangkok 2024: Introduction to Mentors & Challenges; Practical Workshop: From Hypothesis to Solution; Practical Workshop: Prototyping and Presentation
- Bangkok 2024 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/bangkok-2024/): Design as Praxis: Learnings & Practical Applications from the FtC Design Jam

## Kai Micah Mills
Cryopets
- Bangkok 2024 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/bangkok-2024/)

## Karl Floersch
CEO & Co-founder, OP Labs PBC (Optimism)
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/karlfloersch
- X: https://x.com/karl_dot_tech
- Website: https://karl.tech/
- New York 2022: Public Goods - the long and short of it
- Virtual Summit, November 2021: Retroactive Public Goods Funding Experiment 1

## Karola Kirsanow
Cybrarian
- Lisbon 2022: Network Research Updates; Blue Funds Fireside Chat
- New York 2022: Research Roadmapping with Discourse Graphs — mapping out investments in scientific public goods
- Virtual Summit, March 2022: Welcome to Funding the Commons - March 2022 - Evan Miyazono & Karola Kirsanow

## Kat
Head of Product, Drips
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kat-y-73599622
- PG Town Hall #10 (December 2025): Partner Lightning Talks: Key themes & learnings of 2025

## Kate Sills
Third-generation farmer and software engineer.
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kate-sills
- Website: https://katelynsills.com
- New York 2022: Blockchain Education as a public good

## Katia Lukicheva
Founder, Decoland, The Decoland
- Berlin Forum 2025 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/berlin-forum-2025/): The Missing Layer: Civil Society as Infrastructure for Resilient Public Goods; Adaptive Funding Strategies for Arts, Research, & Silenced Science; Bridging the Commons: Designing a Civic Layer that Connects Legacy Systems with New Public Goods Infrastructure; From Coordination to Legitimacy: Civic Architectures for Public Goods
- Earth Commons Hackathon 2024: FtC x EC Hackathon | Workshop: Multidimesional impact dashboard with Decoland (Oct 2024)
- PG Builders Town Hall #5 (October 2024): Sponsor Spotlights: innovating public goods during the FtC Bangkok hackathon

## Katie Evans
Chief Business Development & Comms Officer, Swarm
- Paris 2023

## Katie Wawro
Technical Program Manager
- SF Bay Area 2024 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/sf-bay-area-2024/)

## Katrin Tinn
- New York 2022: Crowdfunding and the alignment of incentives

## Kat Young
Founder, ethevacuations
- Berlin Forum 2025 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/berlin-forum-2025/): Bridging Tech, Solidarity, and Human Rights

## Kazuya Saginawa
CEO, bitgrit
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kazuya-saginawa
- Tokyo 2024 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/tokyo-2024/): Democratization of AI and social implementation using Web3 (日本語)

## Keith Adams
Pebblebed
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/keith-adams-pb
- X: https://x.com/keithmadams
- SF Bay Area 2024 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/sf-bay-area-2024/): Unlocking Value in Open Source AI

## Kelani Nichole
Founder, TRANSFER
- SF Bay Area 2024 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/sf-bay-area-2024/): Open Culture in the Arts

## Kelsie Nabben
- Lisbon 2022: A ‘Governance Layer’ for the Decentralised Web

## Ken Beckers (bitbeckers)
Core Developer, Hypercerts Foundation / Ma Earth
- Ma Earth & Funding Regeneration (June 2026): Ma Earth: the how (hypercerts on the AT Protocol)
- Bangkok 2024 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/bangkok-2024/): Designing for Real-World Impact Roundtable
- Istanbul 2023: On-Chain Data As Primitive and Building Block

## Kenji Hiramoto
IT Promotion Agency[IPA], Japan
- Tokyo 2024 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/tokyo-2024/): Support OSS as the Japanese Government

## Ken NG
- New York 2022: Public Goods - the long and short of it

## Ken Suzuki
Co-Founder and Executive Chair of the Board, SmartNews, Inc.
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ken-suzuki-03489
- X: https://x.com/kensuzuki
- Website: https://nameteki.kensuzuki.org/profile
- Open Conversations: Reconciling Public Goods with a Capitalistic Framework
- Tokyo 2024 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/tokyo-2024/): Open problems toward realization of Nameraka (Smooth) Society

## Kevin Owocki
Founder (Gitcoin), Allo Capital, Allo Capital / Gitcoin
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/owocki/
- X: https://x.com/owocki
- Website: https://owocki.com/
- Open Conversations: Community Tools to Fund What Matters
- PG Town Hall #10 (December 2025): Panel: PGF Needs a New Narrative
- San Francisco 2025 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/san-francisco-2025/): "Deep Funding": Scaling Funding & Governance with Network Intelligence
- Bangkok 2024 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/bangkok-2024/): On-chain capital allocation: from present mechanisms to future possibilities; Capital Allocation Workshop with Gitcoin
- PG Town Hall #4 ft. Gitcoin (September 2024): Panel: Gitcoin Onchain Allocation Handbook
- SF Bay Area 2024 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/sf-bay-area-2024/): Public Goods Funding as a Competitive Advantage; Improving Impact Assessment in Retro Funding
- Istanbul 2023: Mechanism Design and Community Activation Pathways for Public Goods; Infrastructure & Tooling as Network Goods' Connective Tissue; Getting to Paretoutopia: Collective Problem Solving for the Public Goods Funding Stack
- Paris 2023: An Attractor for Public Goods Funding
- Bogotá 2022: Rewarding Impact with Hypercerts.xyz
- Virtual Summit, November 2021: Quadratic funding on Gitcoin

## Kevin Sundar Raj
Co-Founder, Citizen Wallet
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kevin-sundar-raj-92261b33
- Website: https://github.com/kevtechi
- Buenos Aires 2025 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/buenos-aires-2025/)
- Berlin Forum 2025 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/berlin-forum-2025/): Citizen Pay: Creating a common good payments network; Local and Bioregional Resilience World Cafe

## Kiba Gateaux
Fullstack Developer, Debt DAO / Molecule (last known)
- Tokyo 2024 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/tokyo-2024/): Accelerating Science with On-Chain Liquidity & Incentives
- Berlin 2023

## Kid Parchariyanon
CEO and Co-Founder, RISE; Managing Partner, SeaX Ventures, RISE / SeaX Ventures
- Bangkok 2024 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/bangkok-2024/): Opening Words; Opening Words (Day 1)

## Kieran Prasch
- Open Conversations: Some Information Needs a Plan, Not Just Storage

## Kiki Bowman
Chief of Communications, United Nations University
- Tokyo 2024 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/tokyo-2024/): Introducing the United Nations University

## Kim Buisson
Partner, Funding the Commons
- 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): Panel: Memory, Media, and Meaning: Cultural Infrastructure for the Commons
- PG Town Hall #8 (April 2025): Community Projects Showcase (lightning talks)
- PG Town Hall #7 (February 2025): Panel: Earth Commons: Innovation, Challenges, and the Road Ahead
- PG Town Hall #6 (January 2025): Panel: Predictions for Public Goods Funding in 2025 (Deep Funding)
- PG Builders Town Hall #5 (October 2024): Sponsor Spotlights: innovating public goods during the FtC Bangkok hackathon
- PG Town Hall #4 ft. Gitcoin (September 2024): Panel: Gitcoin Onchain Allocation Handbook
- PG Town Hall #3 (August 2024): Celo Public Goods / ReFi (+ GG21 breakout rooms)
- PG Town Hall #2 (July 2024): Mechanisms for funding public goods (DeSci + Artizen)
- PG Town Hall #1 (June 2024): How are we seeing the public goods landscape shifting in 2024

## Kitty Horlick
Director, RariLabs
- Bangkok 2024 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/bangkok-2024/): Unlocking digital democracy with ZK identity

## Kolatat Phaiboonnukulkij
Founder and CEO, RIFFAI
- Bangkok 2024 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/bangkok-2024/): Climate Change, Extreme Weather, and Why Satellite Technology Plays a Pivotal Role in SEA Digital Transition

## Kotaro Okada
Representative Director, De-Silo, B-Side Incubator
- Tokyo 2024 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/tokyo-2024/): Academic Incubation for Humanities & Social Science (日本語)

## Kyle (kbw.eth)
passport
- Bangkok 2024 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/bangkok-2024/): Please don't feed the Sybils

## Laura Lotti
Researcher & Co-Founder, Other Internet
- Berlin 2023: Web3 Work: The Contributor's Perspective

## Laura Navarro Muñoz (LauNaMu)
Founder, Metrics Garden (Impact Studio)
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lauranmunoz/
- X: https://x.com/0xynamu
- Website: https://github.com/0xynamu
- Bangkok 2024 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/bangkok-2024/): Reputation Based Impact Attestations for Funding Allocation
- SF Bay Area 2024 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/sf-bay-area-2024/): Afternoon Workshop Previews; Improving Impact Assessment in Retro Funding
- Istanbul 2023: Programmable Attestations I; Impact Evaluation Workshop; Getting to Paretoutopia: Collective Problem Solving for the Public Goods Funding Stack
- Berlin 2023

## Lauren Turk
Director of Strategic Partnerships, Fera Zero
- SF Bay Area 2024 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/sf-bay-area-2024/): How impact measurement helps build resilient systems

## Lawrence Wu
- Virtual Summit, November 2021: Beyond Philanthropy: Memetic Altruism and Future Prizes - Darren Zhu & Lawrence Wu

## Lena Bumke
Associate, Grace – Accelerate Female Entrepreneurship
- Berlin 2023
- Paris 2023

## Lena Hierzi
DevRel Engineer, Celo Foundation
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lena-hierzi-8221151ab
- Buenos Aires 2025 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/buenos-aires-2025/)
- Berlin Forum 2025 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/berlin-forum-2025/): Privacy by Design: Sovereign Identities

## Lene Vollhardt
Transmedia Artist, Co-Director of The Sphere, The Sphere
- Berlin Forum 2025 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/berlin-forum-2025/): Anarchiving as Collective Memory; Swirls of Fortune – A Protocol Art Performance; Anarchiving Game

## Leo Gao
OpenAI
- X: https://x.com/nabla_theta
- San Francisco 2026 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/sf-2026-intelligence-at-the-frontier/): The AGI Race to the Bottom

## Leo Lin
Founder, Arkreen
- Bangkok 2024 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/bangkok-2024/): Climate Positive DePIN

## Leonardo Arias Fonseca
Researcher, Flashbots
- Buenos Aires 2025 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/buenos-aires-2025/)

## Leon Erichsen
Product Manager, Gitcoin Passport
- New York 2022: Decentralized Societies
- Virtual Summit, March 2022: Plural Funding - Glen Weyl & Leon Erichsen

## Lex Gillon
Grants Program Manager, JUST Open Source, Modality
- Berlin Forum 2025 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/berlin-forum-2025/): Adaptive Funding Strategies for Arts, Research, & Silenced Science

## Lindsey Thrift
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/thriftlindsey
- X: https://x.com/thrift_lindsey
- New York 2022: Interoperable Grants 2.0

## Livia De
- Bogotá 2022: Workshop: Funding Mechanisms

## Liying Wang
General Counsel, AppWorks Accelerator
- Taipei 2023 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/taipei-2023/): How Can Web3 Be the Infrastructure of AI Applications?

## Liz Barry
Metagov
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/elizabethbarry
- Website: https://lizbarry.net/
- San Francisco 2026 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/sf-2026-intelligence-at-the-frontier/): Intro to Institutional Imagination Block, Engineering Democratic Systems; Engineering Democratic Systems for the Age of AI

## Liz Henry
Program Manager, DIFxTech
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lizhenry/
- SF Bay Area 2024 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/sf-bay-area-2024/): Nothing About Us Without Us: Disability Justice and Tech; Disability Justice and Tech from a Funder Perspective

## Liz Steininger
CEO/Managing Director, Least Authority, Least Authority TFA GmbH
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lizsteininger
- X: https://x.com/liz315
- Berlin Forum 2025 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/berlin-forum-2025/): User Autonomy and Privacy-by-Default through Distributed, Resilient Systems; Privacy by Design: Secure Infrastructures

## @Lord_forever
Protocol Labs
- X: https://x.com/Lord_forever
- Earth Commons Hackathon 2024

## Lorena Junghans
Impact producer, KINDA / Connected Differences e.V. / The Palestine Music Space
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lorena-carla-junghans-155825155
- Website: https://callmelorenzo.com/
- Buenos Aires 2025 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/buenos-aires-2025/)
- Berlin Forum 2025 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/berlin-forum-2025/): Decentralised, Community-driven Infrastructures to Transform the Music Industry

## Lou de Kerhuelvez
., Nodes
- San Francisco 2025 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/san-francisco-2025/): AI Tools for Navigating Existential Risk; Biodiversity Commons

## Louise Borreani
Co-director, Ecofrontiers
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/louise-borreani-887278203
- X: https://x.com/LBorreani
- Buenos Aires 2025 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/buenos-aires-2025/)

## Lucas Vogelsang
Co-Founder, Centrifuge
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lucasvo/
- X: https://x.com/lucasvo
- Paris 2023: Is Capitalism Really the Problem? - FtC Paris 2023

## Luce deLire
assistant professor for philosophy, Humbuldt University Berlin AND Selbstbestimmung Selbst Gemacht, Humbuldt University Berlin AND Selbstbestimmung Selbst Gemacht,
- Berlin Forum 2025 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/berlin-forum-2025/): Techno Tyranny, Digital Enclosures & Hospitable States; Privacy for Liberatory Harm Reduction: DIY HRT Support Networks as an Urgent "Real World Application"

## Luis Muñoz
Share
- PG Town Hall #8 (April 2025): Community Projects Showcase (lightning talks)

## Luiz Fernando Segala Gomes
Operations Lead, ReFi DAO
- Berlin Forum 2025 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/berlin-forum-2025/): Network States or Neo-colonialism

## Lukas Kunert
Senior Manager, Researcher, neosfer GmbH
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lukas-kunert-271b05115
- Buenos Aires 2025 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/buenos-aires-2025/)
- Berlin Forum 2025 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/berlin-forum-2025/): From Coordination to Legitimacy: Civic Architectures for Public Goods

## Luke Drago
Workshop Labs
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lukedrago
- X: https://x.com/luke_drago_
- Website: https://lukedrago.com/
- San Francisco 2026 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/sf-2026-intelligence-at-the-frontier/)

## Luke Smith
CEO, Terra Genesis, Origins Co•op
- Bangkok 2024 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/bangkok-2024/): Climate Positive DePIN

## Luuk Weber
Investor and Ecosystem Builder, Ethereum for the World / Celo PG
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/luukweber
- Buenos Aires 2025 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/buenos-aires-2025/): For The World: How ReFi will Reach Critical Velocity

## Lynne Twist
Co-founder, The Pachamama Alliance
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lynnetwist/
- SF Bay Area 2024 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/sf-bay-area-2024/)

## Madeleine Parker
Human Capital Management, Sixth Street
- Istanbul 2023: Programmable Attestations I
- Berlin 2023

## Madisen Taylor
ai & humans
- San Francisco 2025 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/san-francisco-2025/): Decentralized AI, from Open Data to AGI

## Magdalena Ziomek
co-CEO and co-Founder of SMartDe eG, SMartDe eG
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/magdalena-ziomek-13795441
- Berlin Forum 2025 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/berlin-forum-2025/): Post-Capitalist Labor

## Mahesh Murthy
Founder, Karma (Karma GAP)
- PG Town Hall #10 (December 2025): Partner Lightning Talks: Key themes & learnings of 2025
- PG Town Hall #8 (April 2025): Community Projects Showcase (lightning talks)
- Bangkok 2024 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/bangkok-2024/): State of Web3 Grants Report: Reflections & Directions

## Mai Ishikawa Sutton
Senior Organizer, DWeb
- Q1 Connection Circle (February 2026): Fireside Chat: connections as infrastructure, network intelligence, politics of attention, ecosystem capacity, how culture travels through networks

## Mallika Robinson
Co-founder, Guardians of Earth
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mallikarr/
- X: https://x.com/guardianmallika
- Paris 2023: Nature Realms: Unleashing Community Power for Biodiversity Conservation - FtC Paris 2023

## Manu Alzuru
Founder, DoinGud; Blockravers
- Istanbul 2023: Programmable Attestations I; Experience Design for Collective Space
- Berlin 2023
- Bogotá 2022: Workshop: Impact Markets

## Manuel Olariu
DeepVenture.io
- PG Town Hall #2 (July 2024): Mechanisms for funding public goods (DeSci + Artizen)

## María Fernanda Díaz
Abogada y Magíster en Magistratura y Gestión Judicial, Juzgado de Paz y Contravencional de Lavalle
- Buenos Aires 2025 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/buenos-aires-2025/): Decentralized Justice in Action The Kleros: Mendoza Supreme Court Pilot

## María Paula Fernandez
Co-Founder (JPG); Director of Growth (Avara), JPG (Juried Protocol Galleries) / Avara
- Buenos Aires 2025 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/buenos-aires-2025/)
- Berlin Forum 2025 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/berlin-forum-2025/): Old Value Systems, New Technologies
- Berlin 2023: Unpaid Position: Building a Better and More Sustainable Future for Cultural Public Goods

## Marco Barbosa
CoFounder & President, Impact Market
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/marcopsbarbosa/
- X: https://x.com/mbarrbosa
- Paris 2023

## Marco Schletz
Researcher, Open Earth Foundation
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/marcoschletz/
- San Francisco 2025 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/san-francisco-2025/): Sensemaking a Planetary Ecological Commons
- SF Bay Area 2024 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/sf-bay-area-2024/): The Tragedy of Our Global Commons Systems - and Ideas for Solutions

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

## Marek Olszewski
Co-Founder; President, Valora, cLabs (Celo) / Valora
- San Francisco 2025 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/san-francisco-2025/)
- Paris 2023: Public Goods That Will Onboard the Next Billion - FtC Paris 2023
- Bogotá 2022: FiatConnect & Connect the World - Using Competitions to Bootstrap Public Goods

## Maria João Sousa
Executive Director, Climate Change AI
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mariajoaosousa
- X: https://x.com/mariajoao_sousa
- San Francisco 2025 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/san-francisco-2025/): "Seed Banks for Data": Stewarding and Preserving Climate Data

## Marie-Claire Graf
Founder, Future Leaders Network
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/marie-claire-graf
- Website: https://marieclairegraf.com/
- San Francisco 2025 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/san-francisco-2025/): "Seed Banks for Data": Stewarding and Preserving Climate Data

## Marieke Flament
Senior Advisor, Giga, Unicef
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mariekeflament/
- X: https://x.com/mariekeflament
- Paris 2023: The Open Web is NEAR: How BOS, NDC, and DAOs are Creating a Decentralized Web

## Marina Markezic
Co-Founder & Executive Director, European Crypto Initiative (EUCI)
- Buenos Aires 2025 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/buenos-aires-2025/)
- Berlin Forum 2025 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/berlin-forum-2025/): Techno Tyranny, Digital Enclosures & Hospitable States
- Bangkok 2024 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/bangkok-2024/): Funding the Future: Innovative Approaches to Financing Crypto Policy Work

## Mari Uzawa Urabe
Uzawa Kokusai Gakkan
- Tokyo 2024 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/tokyo-2024/): Social Common Capital and the Future – For Building Regenerative Communities

## Mark Graham
Director, Wayback Machine, Internet Archive
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/markjohngraham
- X: https://x.com/MarkGraham
- San Francisco 2026 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/sf-2026-intelligence-at-the-frontier/): Internet Archive: Public Data for a Public AI
- San Francisco 2025 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/san-francisco-2025/): Toward Universal Access to All Knowledge

## Mark Melnykowycz
CerebrumDAO
- Tokyo 2024 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/tokyo-2024/): DeSci DAO Architecture Design and Roadmapping

## Mark Pascall
Co-founder, The Wellbeing Protocol, The Wellbeing Protocol (hum.community)
- Bangkok 2024 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/bangkok-2024/): Designing for Real-World Impact Roundtable

## Mark S. Miller
Chief Scientist (also Senior Research Fellow, Foresight Institute), Agoric
- Website: http://erights.org
- San Francisco 2025 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/san-francisco-2025/): Decentralized AI: Beneficial Scenarios
- New York 2022: Web3 Commons Learning Tools; Towards Paretotopia Visualizing Voluntarily Cooperation

## Marta Belcher
General Counsel, Blockchain Association
- Virtual Summit, November 2021: How can public goods be profitable? - Miles Jennings & Marta Belcher

## Martina S Mahnke
Dr. phil., University of Copenhagen, Denmark
- Taipei 2023 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/taipei-2023/): Ecological Sustainability: A Blind Spot in the Tech Community?

## Martin Köppelmann
Co-Founder and CEO, Gnosis
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/koeppelmann
- Berlin Forum 2025 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/berlin-forum-2025/): Circles: Fair Money with Webs of Trust

## Martin Strobl
Token Economist, Kaufmann Ulm Lichtwerbung GmbH
- Buenos Aires 2025 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/buenos-aires-2025/)

## Marton Kocsev
Stellar Development Foundation, GIZ
- Berlin Forum 2025 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/berlin-forum-2025/): Empowering Payroll Disbursement in Conflict Zones; Bridging the Commons: Designing a Civic Layer that Connects Legacy Systems with New Public Goods Infrastructure

## Masaaki Taira
Member, House of Representatives, fmr. Minister for Digital Transformation, Japan
- Tokyo 2024 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/tokyo-2024/): The Role of Emerging Technologies in Japan's National Economic Strategy (日本語); Fireside Chat; Web3 Innovation in Japan (Fireside Chat)

## Masahiro Fukuhara
ONGAESHI
- Tokyo 2024 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/tokyo-2024/): "ONGAESHI" - The Future of Education Funding Mechanism

## Masanori Kusunoki
Digital Agency, Government of Japan
- Tokyo 2024 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/tokyo-2024/): Institutional Innovations in Public Goods Resource Distribution

## Mashal Waqar
CMO, Octant
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mashalwaqar
- Octant v2 & the Anatomy of a Funded Project (May 2026): Fireside: what it takes to get funded
- PG Town Hall #10 (December 2025): Panel: PGF Needs a New Narrative

## Mashbean
Harvard Kennedy School
- Taipei 2023 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/taipei-2023/): Digital Realm and Public Goods

## Matan Prasma
Teacher, Researcher & Data Scientist, Ethereum Foundation
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/matan-prasma
- Buenos Aires 2025 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/buenos-aires-2025/)
- Berlin Forum 2025 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/berlin-forum-2025/): Privacy by Design: Secure Infrastructures

## Matheus Pagani
Co-Founder and CEO, Venture Miner
- X: https://x.com/MatheusPagani77
- RealFi Hack 2025

## Matt Brooks
- Virtual Summit, March 2022: Impact Markets: Attributed Impact and More - Denis Drescher & Matt Brooks

## Matthew Frehlich
GM / Product - Network Goods, Congrue
- Istanbul 2023: Infrastructure for Real World Claims
- Paris 2023: Funding the Commons, an Incubation Ecosystem for Public Goods Funding Infrastructure; A case study: Network Goods in Protocol Labs
- Lisbon 2022: Network Funding Updates
- Bogotá 2022: Impact Evaluators: Existential Challenges and Opportunities
- New York 2022: Building a Regen Alliance; Daily Kickoff with Matt Frehlich

## Matthew Monahan
Co-Founder, Ma Earth
- San Francisco 2025 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/san-francisco-2025/): Funding the Regeneration
- SF Bay Area 2024 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/sf-bay-area-2024/): Ma Earth: Funding for Regenerative Land Projects

## Matthew Prewitt
President, RadicalxChange Foundation
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/matt-prewitt-7616738b/
- San Francisco 2026 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/sf-2026-intelligence-at-the-frontier/)
- San Francisco 2025 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/san-francisco-2025/): Where Does Funding Come From? Funding Informational Commons in a World with AI
- SF Bay Area 2024 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/sf-bay-area-2024/): The property systems that brought us here will never take us there; Improving Impact Assessment in Retro Funding

## Matthew Stephenson
Head of Research / Research Partner, Pantera Capital
- SF Bay Area 2024 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/sf-bay-area-2024/): Improving Impact Assessment in Retro Funding; Retro Profit Organizations
- Istanbul 2023
- Paris 2023: Retro Public Harms and Behavioral Game Theory Solutions - FtC Paris 2023

## Matthew Stotts
General Partner, Cerulean Ventures
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/matthewstotts/
- X: https://x.com/mlstotts
- SF Bay Area 2024 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/sf-bay-area-2024/): Impactful Capital Allocation in Climate, Ecology and Biodiversity

## Matthias Bronner
UNICEF Office of Innovation
- San Francisco 2026 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/sf-2026-intelligence-at-the-frontier/): Matthias Broner: UNICEF's Financial Rails for the Age of AI

## Matt Strachman
GreenPill Writers Guild
- PG Town Hall #4 ft. Gitcoin (September 2024): Panel: Gitcoin Onchain Allocation Handbook

## Matt White
Executive Director, Linux Foundation
- SF Bay Area 2024 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/sf-bay-area-2024/): The Model Openness Framework

## Max Langenkamp
Researcher, SecureDNA
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/max-langenkamp-2aa6b435
- Website: https://maxlangenkamp.me/
- San Francisco 2025 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/san-francisco-2025/): Biorisk as Common Resource: The Critical Digital-to-Physical Interface; Decentralized AI: Beneficial Scenarios

## Max Song
Founder, Carbonbase
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/songmax
- X: https://x.com/Pericarus
- San Francisco 2025 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/san-francisco-2025/)
- Bangkok 2024 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/bangkok-2024/): Designing Next Generation Digital Climate Infrastructure and creating Systematic Valuing of Nature

## Megan Klimen
Founding Officer / Co-Founder, Filecoin Foundation
- San Francisco 2026 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/sf-2026-intelligence-at-the-frontier/): Internet Archive: Public Data for a Public AI
- Bangkok 2024 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/bangkok-2024/): Funding BioDAOs Roundtable
- SF Bay Area 2024 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/sf-bay-area-2024/): Embedding Sustainability into Tech's DNA

## Meg Lister
GM, Grants Labs (Gitcoin)
- PG Town Hall #4 ft. Gitcoin (September 2024): Panel: Gitcoin Onchain Allocation Handbook
- Paris 2023: 25 . Grants for (Public) Good: Establishing Resilient, Democratic Funding Mechanisms

## Mehan Jayasuriya
Senior Program Officer, Mozilla
- SF Bay Area 2024 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/sf-bay-area-2024/): Panel: Driving growth in an ecosystem; Driving growth in an ecosystem, what worked and what didn't

## Melyn McKay
founder, Coala Pay
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/melyn-mckay-derville
- Open Conversations: Reclaiming Blockchain: Trust, Sovereignty, and Real-World Impact
- Bangkok 2024 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/bangkok-2024/): Unlocking Financial Inclusion: Funding Solutions for Refugee Aid

## Mf (michiel)
Foragers.io / Web3Privacy / xx.network
- RealFi Hack 2025

## Mgoes
Founding Steward , BIohackerDAO
- X: https://x.com/m_goes_distance
- Bangkok 2024 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/bangkok-2024/): Funding BioDAOs Roundtable
- Earth Commons Hackathon 2024

## Michael Zargham
Founder & CEO, BlockScience
- SF Bay Area 2024 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/sf-bay-area-2024/): Perceiving the Earth Commons
- New York 2022: Algorithms as Policy; Measurement Systems & Contributor Rewards

## Michel Bauwens
Founder, P2P Foundation
- X: https://x.com/mbauwens
- Open Conversations: Redefining the Commons: Global Coordination, Local Impact
- Bangkok 2024 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/bangkok-2024/): Crypto for Real: From the Commons for Capital to Capital for the Commons
- Earth Commons Hackathon 2024

## Michelle Finneran Dennedy
LOKKER
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michelledennedy
- X: https://x.com/mdennedy_
- San Francisco 2026 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/sf-2026-intelligence-at-the-frontier/): Privacy Is the Heartbeat of Humanity

## Michelle Lee
Product, Protocol Labs
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michellelee3/
- X: https://x.com/mishmosh
- San Francisco 2025 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/san-francisco-2025/)
- SF Bay Area 2024 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/sf-bay-area-2024/)

## Michelle Ma
- New York 2022: Interoperable Grants 2.0

## Michiru Toda
Deputy Chief of SIIF Impact Economy Lab / Secretariat Lead of GSG Impact JAPAN, SIIF / GSG Impact JAPAN
- Tokyo 2024 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/tokyo-2024/): Impact Economy - Impact at the Heart of Every Decision

## Mike Natanzon
Abundance Protocol
- PG Town Hall #8 (April 2025): Community Projects Showcase (lightning talks)

## Miles Jennings
General Counsel, Andreessen Horowitz
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/miles-jennings-37695716
- X: https://x.com/milesjennings
- Virtual Summit, November 2021: How can public goods be profitable? - Miles Jennings & Marta Belcher

## Miley Takesada
Code for Japan
- Tokyo 2024 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/tokyo-2024/): Science, technology, and Citizenship (日本語)

## Mingzhu He
The Flourishing Systems Foundation
- San Francisco 2026 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/sf-2026-intelligence-at-the-frontier/): Flourishing Floors — Mechanism Design Workshop

## MN Hsu
Founder / Writer, Blocktrend
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/astrohsu/
- X: https://x.com/astro_hsu
- Taipei 2023 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/taipei-2023/): Decentralizing the Narrative: Web3's Role in Democratizing Media

## Moenick
Directeur commercial chez S.A.D.
- PG Town Hall #6 (January 2025): Panel: Predictions for Public Goods Funding in 2025 (Deep Funding)

## Moh Suthasiny Sudprasert
Co-CEO and Co-founder, Happy Ground
- Bangkok 2024 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/bangkok-2024/): Building for Impact and Inclusion in Southeast Asia’s Local Context
- Earth Commons Hackathon 2024

## Molly Mackinley
Protocol Labs
- Istanbul 2023: Network Structures for Funding Public Goods

## Monty Merlin Bryant
founder, ReFi DAO
- X: https://x.com/MontyMerlin
- Open Conversations: Finance as a Tool for Regeneration (Monty Bryant)
- Bangkok 2024 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/bangkok-2024/): Regenerative & Bioregional Finance
- PG Town Hall #3 (August 2024): Celo Public Goods / ReFi (+ GG21 breakout rooms)

## Mosh Lee
IPFS Fund
- SF Bay Area 2024 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/sf-bay-area-2024/): Panel: Driving growth in an ecosystem; Driving growth in an ecosystem, what worked and what didn't

## Moya Schiller
Captain, A Softer Space
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/moya
- Buenos Aires 2025 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/buenos-aires-2025/)
- Berlin Forum 2025 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/berlin-forum-2025/): Privacy for Liberatory Harm Reduction: DIY HRT Support Networks as an Urgent "Real World Application"

## Mykola Siusko
Web3Privacy Now
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/siusko
- X: https://x.com/KolyaSiusko
- Buenos Aires 2025 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/buenos-aires-2025/)

## Nadiem Sissouno
Head of Economics, Mento Labs
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nadiem-sissouno-66004197/
- X: https://x.com/nad_roid
- Berlin 2023: Making or Breaking the Stablecoin Market

## Nanak Nihal Khalsa
Co-Founder, Holonym Foundation / human.tech
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nanaknihal-khalsa
- X: https://x.com/NanakNihal
- Website: https://github.com/nanaknihal
- Open Conversations: Infrastructure Must Be Human-Centered (Shady El Damaty & Nanak Nihal); Redefining Human Rights in the Digital Age (Shady El Damaty & Nanak Nihal)
- Buenos Aires 2025 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/buenos-aires-2025/): Leveraging Technology Towards Public Efficiency
- RealFi Hack 2025: Judged track(s): Privacy Meets Identity; Secure Onboarding to RealFi; Human Passport: Portable Keycard Identity
- Berlin Forum 2025 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/berlin-forum-2025/): Privacy by Design: Sovereign Identities
- San Francisco 2025 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/san-francisco-2025/): Office Hours Sessions; Privacy By Design: ZK, MPC, TEE
- Bangkok 2024 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/bangkok-2024/): Cryptography for Public Goods
- Earth Commons Hackathon 2024

## Nancy Bui
Commons Fund, Operations Project Manager
- Bangkok 2024 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/bangkok-2024/): Designing for Real-World Impact Roundtable

## Natalie Cadranel
Founder/Director, OpenArchive
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nataliecadranel/
- X: https://x.com/ncadranel
- SF Bay Area 2024 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/sf-bay-area-2024/): Human rights-centered FLOSS technology

## Natalie Limwatana
Coordinator, Regenerative Designer
- Earth Commons Hackathon 2024

## Nate Gosselin
Fractional Product Leader / Startup Advisor, Self-employed
- Berlin 2023: Gitcoin's Allo Protocol: Empowering Communities to Invest in Their Future
- New York 2022: Interoperable Grants 2.0

## Nathaniel Hindman
BIO, Head of Growth
- Bangkok 2024 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/bangkok-2024/): Funding BioDAOs Roundtable

## NatyShi
Token Engineering
- Aleph Pop-up 2024: Fundamentos de Token Engineering

## Navroop Sahdev
Founder & CEO, The Digital Economist
- Open Conversations: Economics as the Interconnectedness of Things
- SF Bay Area 2024 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/sf-bay-area-2024/): Blockchain as Commons

## Nicholas Hu
Founder, Software Developer
- X: https://x.com/firmy
- Taipei 2023 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/taipei-2023/): Open Source Communities and Its Contribution to Building Public Goods

## Nick Houde
Researcher & Writer; Head of Research, co-matter, Least Authority / co-matter
- Berlin Forum 2025 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/berlin-forum-2025/): Political Economy and Commons as a Design Space; Political Economy as a Design Space; Build a blockchain with weird political economies
- Berlin 2023: Web3 Work: The Contributor's Perspective

## Nicki Endres
Network Tickler & Facilitator, Microsolidarity Network
- Buenos Aires 2025 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/buenos-aires-2025/)
- Berlin Forum 2025 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/berlin-forum-2025/): Microsolidarity: Whatever the Question, Community is the Answer

## Nick Mathewson
The Tor Project
- Website: http://www.wangafu.net/~nickm/
- RealFi Hack 2025

## Nico Gallardo
Community lead, Embedded Systems & Hardware Engineer
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nico-gallardo-a7311a85
- X: https://x.com/nicnode
- Octant v2 & the Anatomy of a Funded Project (May 2026): Octant v2 walkthrough
- Bangkok 2024 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/bangkok-2024/): Degen incentives for regen outcomes

## Nicole Chan
Honorable Chairperson, Taiwan Association for Blockchain Ecosystem Innovation (TABEI)
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nicole-chan-9225714a/
- Taipei 2023 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/taipei-2023/): Decentralizing, Demonstrating, Democratizing ESG

## Nicole Nguyen
APAC DAO
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nicole-nguyen-vietnam
- X: https://x.com/NicolenguyenEth
- Design Jam Bangkok 2024: Opening Ceremony; Introduction to Mentors & Challenges
- Bangkok 2024 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/bangkok-2024/): Opening Words; Building for Impact and Inclusion in Southeast Asia’s Local Context; Design as Praxis: Learnings & Practical Applications from the FtC Design Jam; Opening Words (Day 1)

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

## Nikhil Garg
- New York 2022: Democracy, Participation, and Mechanisms: What to do when participation is unrepresentative?

## Niklas Rindtorff
PhD student, Aithyra
- New York 2022: LabDAO lets build an online research institute

## Nishio Hirokazu
Cybozu Labs Inc. Research Director, Cybozu Labs Inc., Research Director
- Tokyo 2024 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/tokyo-2024/): Plurality in Japan (日本語); Designing for Plurality

## Njambi Ngoroje
Director of Operations, Grassroot Economics
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/njambi-njoroge-042960108/
- Paris 2023

## Noah Yeh
Contributor, da0 / g0v
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/noahyeh/
- X: https://x.com/noahyeh
- Tokyo 2024 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/tokyo-2024/): Introducing Pagoda
- Taipei 2023 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/taipei-2023/): Opening; Tools for Public Goods Ecosystem Building; Funding the Commons Event Opening Day One; DID : The Foundation for a Resiliant and Inclusive Society
- Berlin 2023: Funding the Commons is next in Asia!

## Nusha Rubin
Founder, OHR
- Buenos Aires 2025 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/buenos-aires-2025/)
- Berlin Forum 2025 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/berlin-forum-2025/): Decentralised, Community-driven Infrastructures to Transform the Music Industry

## Olha Pylypenko
Programme Director, fx(hash), fxhash
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/olha-pylypenko-046a8a10a
- X: https://x.com/the_olha
- Berlin Forum 2025 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/berlin-forum-2025/): Old Value Systems, New Technologies

## Oliver Beige
Founder, integrity machines / CyberCat Institute
- Berlin Forum 2025 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/berlin-forum-2025/): Vibecoding Governance; Protocol Governance & Cryptoeconomic Design
- Berlin 2023: Putting the "Design" in Mechanism Design

## Oliver Sauter
- Lisbon 2022: A Regenerative VC Alternative
- New York 2022: Regenerative ICOS & IPOs; Public Goods - the long and short of it

## Omoju Miller
CEO and Founder, Technologist.
- Paris 2023: Soulbound Reputation Tokens to the Rescue

## Ori Applebaum
- Paris 2023: What Money Can't Buy: The Limits of Ecosystem Funding

## Orin Ayodele
Earth Commons Lead, Funding the Commons
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/orinayoayodele
- PG Town Hall #2 (July 2024): Open discussion segment
- PG Town Hall #1 (June 2024): Open discussion segment
- SF Bay Area 2024 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/sf-bay-area-2024/): Welcome & Introducing Earth Commons
- Berlin 2023: Public Goods Hackathon Winners Announced

## Othman
The Governance Memory System
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/othman-g-4a561a126
- X: https://x.com/othman
- Frontier Fund Showcase (April 2026): Lightning Rounds

## Owen Cotton-Barratt
- Virtual Summit, November 2021: Impact certificates and Impact Markets

## Owen Hassall
Lead DevRel, NEAR Protocol
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/owen-hassall
- RealFi Hack 2025

## Paco Villetard
CTO, OnlyDust
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/pacovilletard
- X: https://x.com/pacovilletard
- Website: https://pacovilletard.fr
- San Francisco 2025 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/san-francisco-2025/)

## Pamela Limón
Founder, DeSci Mexico
- Aleph Pop-up 2024: Local Considerations, Local Organizations; Discourse; Open access to information and data for knowledge coordination and co-creation; Fireside Chat; Welcome Words; Lessons in Funding and Coordination from Institutional Actors

## Pandora Thomas
Founder / Co-owner, Earthseed Farm / Urban Permaculture Institute
- Edge Esmeralda Pop-up 2024: Earthseed Farm Tour

## Patrick Joyce
Co-Founder, ResearchHub
- Tokyo 2024 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/tokyo-2024/): Accepting Goodhart's Law in Academia

## Paul Brody
Global Blockchain Leader, Ethereum Enterprise Alliance
- X: https://x.com/pbrody
- San Francisco 2025 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/san-francisco-2025/): Funding Open Source & Decentralized Development, from Enterprise to AI Agents

## Paul Glavin
Associate Professor, McMaster University
- PG Town Hall #10 (December 2025): Panel: PGF Needs a New Narrative
- PG Town Hall #8 (April 2025): Community Projects Showcase (lightning talks)

## Paul Kohlhaas
Founder & CEO, Molecule & BIO
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kohlhaas
- X: https://x.com/paulkhls
- Bangkok 2024 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/bangkok-2024/)
- Tokyo 2024 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/tokyo-2024/)

## Paul Riechers
Theoretical Physicist | Co-founder, Simplex / Astera Institute
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/paul-riechers-0ba48047
- Website: https://paulriechers.com
- San Francisco 2026 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/sf-2026-intelligence-at-the-frontier/): Understanding AI, Unlocking Optionality

## Paul Seidler
Artist, terra0
- Berlin Forum 2025 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/berlin-forum-2025/): Politics of Perception: Architecting Trust and Sovereignty with Geospatial Data and Planetary Sensing

## Petar Maymounkov
Decentralized protocols
- New York 2022: Plural Markets and the Creative Uncertainty of Open Source

## Peter Cui
vTaiwan
- X: https://x.com/tsuijiawei
- Taipei 2023 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/taipei-2023/): Open Source Communities and Its Contribution to Building Public Goods

## Peter Rosberg
CTO, Centrigrade Earth
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/peterrosberg/
- SF Bay Area 2024 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/sf-bay-area-2024/): Building for Modern Carbon Credit Markets

## Pete Silvester
Founder & Chief Venture Builder, xCelery
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/petesilvester
- Design Jam Bangkok 2024: Keynote: The Founder's Journey
- Earth Commons Hackathon 2024

## Phil Dillard
Founder & CEO, Thruline Networks
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/phildillard/
- X: https://x.com/PhilDillard0210
- SF Bay Area 2024 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/sf-bay-area-2024/)

## Philea Bartels
CPO, Refunite
- Bangkok 2024 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/bangkok-2024/): Unlocking Financial Inclusion: Funding Solutions for Refugee Aid

## Philipp Pieper
Co-Founder, Swarm
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/philipppieper/
- X: https://x.com/PhilippPieper
- Berlin 2023

## Philipp Von Der Wippel
Founder & Managing Director, ProjectTogether
- Berlin 2023

## Philip Stehlik
Co-Founder & Partner, Earth
- Paris 2023

## Phoebe Poon
Founder & CEO, Liker Land
- Taipei 2023 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/taipei-2023/): Decentralizing the Narrative: Web3's Role in Democratizing Media

## Pia Mancini
Founder & CEO, Give Zero
- Paris 2023: The Future is Collective

## Pooja Shah
- Bogotá 2022: Complex Products: Where DAOs and Funding Mechanisms Fall Short
- Virtual Summit, March 2022: Incentivizing Ongoing Maintenance
- Virtual Summit, November 2021: Networked OKRs & Milestone Bounties

## Pranav Maheshwari
Edge & Node
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/thepranavmaheshwari
- X: https://x.com/maheswaripranav
- San Francisco 2026 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/sf-2026-intelligence-at-the-frontier/): Proof of Control; Inside the Proof-of-Control Stack

## Prapaporn Tivayanond Mongkhonvanit
Dean of the School of Global Studies, Thammasat University
- Bangkok 2024 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/bangkok-2024/): The 4th Industrial Revolution and the Impact on the Marginalized and Vulnerable Sector of Southeast Asia

## Primavera De Filippi
Head of Research, Alien
- Paris 2023: Copylefting the Patent System with DeSci

## Proud Limpongpan
Co-founder, Ennovie
- Earth Commons Hackathon 2024

## Puja Ohlhaver
- New York 2022: Decentralized Societies

## Quentin Feuillade-Montixi
WeaveMind
- San Francisco 2026 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/sf-2026-intelligence-at-the-frontier/): LLM Psychology; Why AI Needs Its Own Language

## Rachel Brissenden
FtC Tokyo EMCEE
- Tokyo 2024 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/tokyo-2024/)

## Rade Stijovic
Graphic Designer, Breadchain Cooperative
- Berlin Forum 2025 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/berlin-forum-2025/): Interfaces of Resilience: Visual designs for Solidarity

## Radisav Stijović
Graphic Designer
- Berlin Forum 2025 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/berlin-forum-2025/)

## Rainer Rehak
Associate Researcher, Weizenbaum Institut, Weizenbaum-Institut
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rainer-rehak-993833406
- Berlin Forum 2025 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/berlin-forum-2025/): Imagining Community-Owned Data Centers

## Raphaël Haupt
CEO and Co-Founder, Toucan Protocol
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/raphaelhaupt/
- X: https://x.com/raphabenoi
- Paris 2023

## Rashid Owoyele
Innovation Catalyst, transekt.agency
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rowoyele
- X: https://x.com/faux_mint
- Berlin Forum 2025 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/berlin-forum-2025/): Techno Tyranny, Digital Enclosures & Hospitable States

## Rashmi Abbigeri
Developer at DAOstar
- Berlin Forum 2025 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/berlin-forum-2025/)
- Bangkok 2024 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/bangkok-2024/): The Grants Metadata Standard by DAOstar.org; Understanding the ROI of grants in your ecosystem
- Earth Commons Hackathon 2024: FtC x EC Hackathon | Workshop: DAOIP 5 Metadata Standard Introduction (Oct 2024)

## Raul Jordan
- Virtual Summit, November 2021: Story of a network-funded team

## Raymond Cheng
Co-Founder & CEO, Kariba Labs / Open Source Observer (OSO)
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ryscheng/
- X: https://x.com/RaymondCheng00
- Website: https://www.raymondcheng.net/
- Buenos Aires 2025 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/buenos-aires-2025/): The Future of Public Goods Funding
- San Francisco 2025 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/san-francisco-2025/): "Deep Funding": Scaling Funding & Governance with Network Intelligence
- PG Town Hall #6 (January 2025): Panel: Predictions for Public Goods Funding in 2025 (Deep Funding)
- Bangkok 2024 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/bangkok-2024/): Understanding the ROI of grants in your ecosystem
- Earth Commons Hackathon 2024
- SF Bay Area 2024 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/sf-bay-area-2024/): Introducing Funding the Commons; Panel: Public goods Profit Sharing in Tech; Afternoon Workshop Previews; Improving Impact Assessment in Retro Funding; Conclusion & Workshop Results; Bridging the Gap: Web2 and Web3 OSS Funding Infrastructure; Closing Remarks (Open Source Day); Morning Workshops Preview; Opening Remarks (Open Source Day)
- Taipei 2023 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/taipei-2023/): Measuring the Impact of Open Source Efforts with Open Source Observer
- Istanbul 2023: Infrastructure for Real World Claims; Infrastructure & Tooling as Network Goods' Connective Tissue

## Rebecca Somers
Former Partner, GIS Management Consultant
- Earth Commons Hackathon 2024

## Regis Chapman
GravityDAO
- Bangkok 2024 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/bangkok-2024/): Creating Empathy Between Givers And Receivers in Grants Funding

## Rene Reinsberg
Co-Founder, Celo Foundation / Self Protocol
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/reinsberg/
- X: https://x.com/RegenRene
- Berlin Forum 2025 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/berlin-forum-2025/): Data Sovereignty through Preserving Privacy & Verifying Identity
- Berlin 2023
- Paris 2023: Public Goods That Will Onboard the Next Billion - FtC Paris 2023

## René Pinnell
Founder & CEO, Artizen
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rjpinnell
- Frontier Fund Showcase (April 2026): Context + Rene Demo: live walkthrough of Artizen / how artifact purchases unlock matching
- PG Town Hall #2 (July 2024): Mechanisms for funding public goods (DeSci + Artizen)
- Bogotá 2022: Workshop: Funding Structures
- New York 2022: Fluid Quadratic Finance: Cultivating Trust with a Flexible Public Goods Funding Model

## Reuven Gonzales
Engineer, Kariba Labs / Open Source Observer
- SF Bay Area 2024 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/sf-bay-area-2024/): Fireside Chat: A developer's journey; A Developer’s Journey: Supporting Your Public Goods Work

## Rhys Lindmark
Roote
- Bogotá 2022: Workshop: Impact Markets

## Rica Amaral
Creative Strategist & Growth Leader, Kairós Creative Strategy
- Buenos Aires 2025 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/buenos-aires-2025/)

## Riho Kawaguchi
Investor, ANRI
- Tokyo 2024 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/tokyo-2024/): Funding Deeptech and Decentralized Science

## Risdianto Irawan
Regional Technology for Development Specialist, UNICEF
- Bangkok 2024 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/bangkok-2024/): Leveraging Open Source Technologies to Support Children's Well-being

## Rita Palma
Master student, Malmö University
- Berlin Forum 2025 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/berlin-forum-2025/): Multispecies Speculative Design

## Ritsuko Nakajima
Director, Japan Science and Technology Agency
- Tokyo 2024 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/tokyo-2024/): Japan's Preprint Server: Jxiv (日本語)

## Robert Dowling
Filecoin Foundation
- Earth Commons Hackathon 2024

## Robert Drost
CEO, Eigen Foundation
- Open Conversations: The Future of Open Source Is Funded
- Berlin Forum 2025 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/berlin-forum-2025/)
- San Francisco 2025 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/san-francisco-2025/): The Crypto-Settlement Manifesto for OSS Builders; Building Sustainable Open Source: Open Core & Web3 Decentralized Clouds

## Robin Peckham
Co-Director, Taipei Dangdai Art & Ideas
- X: https://x.com/RobinPeckham
- Taipei 2023 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/taipei-2023/): Supporting the Digital Art Ecosystem

## Roger Dingledine
Co-Founder & Original Developer, The Tor Project
- Website: https://www.freehaven.net/~arma/
- Internet Freedom X Space with Tor (June 2026): Anchor segment: David in conversation with Roger
- Open Conversations: Privacy Can't Ask Permission
- Buenos Aires Builder Residency 2025: Workshops on the how and why of privacy and equal access to information; office hours
- Buenos Aires 2025 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/buenos-aires-2025/): Privacy and Public Goods: Vitalik Buterin & Roger Dingledine; The Tor Project: Privacy for the Commons; Surprise Announcement

## Rok Kranjc
Futurecraft / Crypto Commons Association
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rok-kranjc-109669161
- X: https://x.com/carniolanfox
- Berlin Forum 2025 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/berlin-forum-2025/): Guerilla Economic Futuring

## Romina Bungert
Managing Director, Erdös Capital
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/romina-bungert/
- X: https://x.com/lianefiligrane
- Bangkok 2024 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/bangkok-2024/): Toward Fair and Open Decentralized Finance
- Berlin 2023

## Ron Turetzky
Lead protocol Engineer @Opacity, Tech lead @Breadchain, Opacity/Breadchain
- Berlin Forum 2025 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/berlin-forum-2025/): Communet: Vibe Coding Post-Capitalism
- Bangkok 2024 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/bangkok-2024/): Contribution & Attestation Roundtable; Post-Capitalist Crypto in Practice

## Rubbycobain
la chama que pinta billetes
- Aleph Pop-up 2024: Venezuela, Hacking Censorship - Panel & Discussion: Leveraging Decentralized Technologies for Resistance

## Ruben Russell
UI/UX designer, Breadchain Coop, Breadchain Cooperative
- Berlin Forum 2025 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/berlin-forum-2025/): Interfaces of Resilience: Visual designs for Solidarity

## Ryan Kidd
MATS
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ryan-kidd-1b0574a3
- Website: https://ryankidd.ai/
- San Francisco 2026 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/sf-2026-intelligence-at-the-frontier/): Scaling AI Safety and Security

## Ryan Rising
Permaculture Action Network
- Edge Esmeralda Pop-up 2024: Welcome Gathering for Cultivating Sustainable Ecosystems; Ecosystem Organizing and Regenerative Design; Facilitation for Collaborative Groups; Design Focus: Functional Connection Through Relationships; Governance Discussion: Social Technologies

## Ryan Taylor
Coordinator, Zero-knowledge Audiovisual Club
- Berlin Forum 2025 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/berlin-forum-2025/): Local Live Internationalization
- PG Town Hall #9 (May 2025): Panel: Memory, Media, and Meaning: Cultural Infrastructure for the Commons

## Ryo Arai
Editor-in-chief, Chizaizukan
- X: https://x.com/ryo77331
- Tokyo 2024 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/tokyo-2024/): What is Needed to Increase the Liquidity of Intellectual Property (日本語)

## Ryosuke Shibato
CEO, academist, Inc.
- Tokyo 2024 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/tokyo-2024/): Decentralizing Research Towards "Open Academia"

## Ryota Kanai
Araya Inc., Ai Alignment Network
- Tokyo 2024 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/tokyo-2024/): Key for a Better Artificial System: from Gov to AI

## Sabeen Ali
Protocol Labs
- San Francisco 2026 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/sf-2026-intelligence-at-the-frontier/): Hackathon Opening Session

## Sakuya Shirosaki
DeSci Contributor @ DeSci Tokyo / Kanazawa University
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sakuya-shirosaki-575840318
- Tokyo 2024 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/tokyo-2024/): Exploring Decentralized Science in Japan

## Samantha Power
Ecological Economist and Founder, Finance for Gaia
- SF Bay Area 2024 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/sf-bay-area-2024/): Funding the Transition to Regenerative Bioregional Economies

## Sam Bennetts
Regen Network Development PBC
- San Francisco 2025 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/san-francisco-2025/)

## Sam McCarthy
Executive Director, DAOstar
- Buenos Aires 2025 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/buenos-aires-2025/)
- Berlin Forum 2025 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/berlin-forum-2025/): Post-Capitalist Labor

## Sam Ragsdale
Engineering, Merit Systems
- SF Bay Area 2024 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/sf-bay-area-2024/): Jolt: An Open Source zkVM by a16z crypto research and engineering

## Sam Richards
- Istanbul 2023: Quadratic Funding and Private, Collusion-Resistant Voting

## Samuel Delesque
Traditional Dream Factory
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/samueldelesque
- Website: https://samueldelesque.me/
- Berlin Forum 2025 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/berlin-forum-2025/)

## Samuel Klein
Co-Founder, Public AI Network / Omnipedia; Berkman Klein Center (Harvard)
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sjklein/
- X: https://x.com/metasj
- San Francisco 2026 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/sf-2026-intelligence-at-the-frontier/): Building Libraries Any Agent Can Edit
- San Francisco 2025 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/san-francisco-2025/): OMN: Towards a Robust Planetary Library; Office Hours Sessions
- SF Bay Area 2024 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/sf-bay-area-2024/): Panel: Funding AI public goods and keeping them public
- New York 2022: Comprehensive advances and commons sins with SJ Klein

## Sarah Ashley Baxendell
COO, Layer Labs; Founder & Regenerative Design Director, ArtEcology, Layer Labs / ArtEcology
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sarahashleybaxendell
- Berlin Forum 2025 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/berlin-forum-2025/): Dynamic Ecological Stewardship; Bioregional Financing; Local and Bioregional Resilience World Cafe
- San Francisco 2025 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/san-francisco-2025/): Sensemaking a Planetary Ecological Commons

## Sara Horowitz
Founder, Mutualist Society
- New York 2022: The capitalists case against self sovereignty

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

## Sarah Thiam
Researcher, Germina Labs
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sarahthiam
- San Francisco 2025 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/san-francisco-2025/): Office Hours Sessions; Access the Decentralized Storage Layer of the Internet
- Bangkok 2024 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/bangkok-2024/): Network Goods: Digital Infrastructures for the Common Good

## Sara Johnstone
Co-Founder & CEO, RelayFunder
- X: https://x.com/regensolarpunk
- Buenos Aires 2025 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/buenos-aires-2025/): Residency Report: Highlights and Outcomes; RealFi Lightning Talks
- Istanbul 2023: Experience Design for Collective Space
- Berlin 2023

## Scott Michael Kilduff Jr.
Tulipan Partners
- PG Builders Town Hall #5 (October 2024): Sponsor Spotlights: innovating public goods during the FtC Bangkok hackathon

## Scott Moore
Founder, Public Works
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/notscottmoore/
- X: https://x.com/notscottmoore
- Open Conversations: On Gitcoin, Digital Public Goods & Plurality Tools
- Tokyo 2024 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/tokyo-2024/): Roads and Bridges: Funding Our Digital Infrastructure
- Istanbul 2023: New Forms of Venture Mutualism; Public Goods Funding Stack Workshop
- Paris 2023
- Bogotá 2022: Investing in Network Goods: New Ecosystem Funding Paradigms
- New York 2022: Public Goods - the long and short of it
- Virtual Summit, March 2022: Reimagining Public Goods: Building a Solarpunk Future

## Sean Cheetham
Aztec Labs
- Berlin Forum 2025 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/berlin-forum-2025/)

## Sebastian Ramirez Garcia
Nummora
- Buenos Aires 2025 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/buenos-aires-2025/): Multistakeholder Collaboration for the Common Good

## Sejal Rekhan
Grants Lab, Gitcoin (Grants Lab) / GreenPill Network
- PG Town Hall #6 (January 2025): Panel: Predictions for Public Goods Funding in 2025 (Deep Funding)
- PG Town Hall #4 ft. Gitcoin (September 2024): Panel: Gitcoin Onchain Allocation Handbook
- Taipei 2023 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/taipei-2023/): Tools for Public Goods Ecosystem Building

## Seth Frey
Associate Professor, UC Davis
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/enfascination
- X: https://x.com/FreyProf
- San Francisco 2025 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/san-francisco-2025/): Collective Intelligence vs. Superintelligence? Institutional Design for Resilience in the AI Age; Office Hours Sessions; Collective Intelligence vs. Superintelligence?
- SF Bay Area 2024 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/sf-bay-area-2024/): The Current State of Organizing Collective Ownership of a Commons

## Shady El Damaty
Co-Founder & CEO, human.tech
- LinkedIn: https://fr.linkedin.com/in/shadyeldamaty
- X: https://x.com/hebbianloop
- San Francisco 2026 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/sf-2026-intelligence-at-the-frontier/): Human Flourishing in the Age of AI
- Human Flourishing in the Age of AI (March 2026): Fireside chat
- Open Conversations: Infrastructure Must Be Human-Centered; Redefining Human Rights in the Digital Age
- Buenos Aires 2025 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/buenos-aires-2025/): A Protogovernance Framework for Accelerating Humanity
- Berlin Forum 2025 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/berlin-forum-2025/): The Covenant of Human-Aligned Technology; Adaptive Funding Strategies for Arts, Research, & Silenced Science
- San Francisco 2025 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/san-francisco-2025/): Powering Human Coordination Networks with Keys, Identity, and Wallets; Office Hours Sessions; Human Tech Alignment Workshop
- Bangkok 2024 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/bangkok-2024/): Please don't feed the Sybils; Human Key Infrastructure for Human Flourishing
- PG Builders Town Hall #5 (October 2024): Sponsor Spotlights: innovating public goods during the FtC Bangkok hackathon
- Earth Commons Hackathon 2024
- Taipei 2023 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/taipei-2023/): From Funding to Cost - How Movements Like DeSci are Working to Fix Science

## Shai Perednik
Principal Ecosystem Solution Architect, Galaxy
- Buenos Aires 2025 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/buenos-aires-2025/)
- RealFi Hack 2025
- Berlin Forum 2025 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/berlin-forum-2025/): Intent-Driven Economies: Rethinking Labor, Markets, and Local Resilience; Old Value Systems, New Technologies

## Shane Mac
Co-founder & CEO, XMTP Labs
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/shanemacsays
- X: https://x.com/ShaneMac
- Website: https://www.shanemac.com/
- San Francisco 2026 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/sf-2026-intelligence-at-the-frontier/): Proof of Control; Inside the Proof-of-Control Stack

## Shannon Hong
Product, TwelveLabs
- SF Bay Area 2024 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/sf-bay-area-2024/): Panel: How to Grow & Scale Your OS Community

## Sharfy Adamantine
Co-Founder, GainForest
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sharfina-adamantine/
- X: https://x.com/sharfyae
- Berlin Forum 2025 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/berlin-forum-2025/)
- Taipei 2023 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/taipei-2023/): Incentivising Public Goods
- Istanbul 2023: Impact Evaluation Workshop

## Shaun Conway
Founder & CEO, ixo
- Taipei 2023 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/taipei-2023/): Digital Twins in The Commons
- New York 2022: Adaptive Finance Risk Adjusted Bonding Curves

## Shaun Johnson
Cofounder, Startup Institute
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/johnsonshaun
- Buenos Aires 2025 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/buenos-aires-2025/): RealFi Meets Real Payments, Real Settlement, Real World

## Shaw Walters
ElizaOS
- San Francisco 2026 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/sf-2026-intelligence-at-the-frontier/): Open by Default

## Sheila Warren
Co-founder, Advanced AI Society
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sheilawarren
- San Francisco 2026 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/sf-2026-intelligence-at-the-frontier/): Fireside Chat with Sheila Warren and Tricia Wang; The Acceleration of Dehumanization

## Shih-Ming You
Deputy Secretary-General, Taipei City Government
- Taipei 2023 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/taipei-2023/): Local Government Welcome Remarks

## Shinya Mori
Co-Founder, Beacon Labs / Imi
- Buenos Aires 2025 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/buenos-aires-2025/): RealFi Lightning Talks
- Bangkok 2024 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/bangkok-2024/): Road to Effective Public Goods Funding through Quantitative Cross-Comparative Analysis of Grants Programs
- Earth Commons Hackathon 2024
- Tokyo 2024 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/tokyo-2024/): Roads and Bridges: Funding Our Digital Infrastructure
- Berlin 2023

## Shishir Patil
Co-founder, Gorilla (UC Berkeley)
- SF Bay Area 2024 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/sf-bay-area-2024/): Gorilla LLM: Connecting LLMs with Massive Apps, Tools, and Services

## Sho Sugiura
Co-founder & CEO, Blocq, Inc.
- Tokyo 2024 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/tokyo-2024/): Quantum-Proof System with a Quantum Blockchain

## Shruti Appiah
Chief Economist, Huddle01
- Bangkok 2024 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/bangkok-2024/): Network Goods: Digital Infrastructures for the Common Good

## Shuma Kudo
Kanazawa University/DeSci Tokyo
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/shuma-kudo-071310264
- Tokyo 2024 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/tokyo-2024/): Exploring Decentralized Science in Japan

## Shunsuke Takagi
Founder, DeCartography / Plurality Tokyo
- Tokyo 2024 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/tokyo-2024/): Greetings from FtC & Plurality Tokyo; Digital Public Goods Quadratic Funding Experiments in the Government; Quadratic Funding Experiment in Japan; Quadratic Funding Workshop with DigDAO によるQFワークショップ 日本語
- Taipei 2023 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/taipei-2023/)

## Silvia Bessa
Co-Founder & Research Director, Open Impact Foundation
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/silviabessa/
- X: https://x.com/silvianetobessa
- Paris 2023: Roadmapping for Impact Funding

## Simeon Campos
Founder & CEO, SaferAI
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sim%C3%A9on-campos-8555251a8/
- X: https://x.com/simeon_Cps
- Paris 2023: Controllable AI for a Safer, More Ethical Future - FtC Paris 2023

## Simona Pop
- X: https://x.com/Sim_Pop
- New York 2022: Building a Regen Alliance; Public Goods - the long and short of it

## Simone Robutti
Organizer, Tech Workers Coalition Global
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/simonerobutti
- X: https://x.com/twcitalia
- Website: https://robutti.me
- Berlin Forum 2025 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/berlin-forum-2025/): Post-Capitalist Labor

## Simonethg
U3Tech
- Aleph Pop-up 2024: Venezuela, Hacking Censorship - Panel & Discussion: Leveraging Decentralized Technologies for Resistance

## Sophia Dew
Developer relations, formerly Celo and Ethereum Foundation
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sophiadew
- X: https://x.com/sodofi_
- Website: https://www.sophiadew.com/
- San Francisco 2025 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/san-francisco-2025/): "Deep Funding": Scaling Funding & Governance with Network Intelligence
- PG Town Hall #3 (August 2024): Celo Public Goods / ReFi (+ GG21 breakout rooms)

## Sophia Rokhlin
Program Director, Ma Earth US
- Ma Earth & Funding Regeneration (June 2026): Ma Earth: the why

## Spencer Graham
Cofounder and Protocol Lead, Hats Protocol, Protocol Engineer → AI Engineer
- Bangkok 2024 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/bangkok-2024/): Empowered and Accountable Grants Councils

## Stefi Pereira
Product Owner
- Buenos Aires 2025 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/buenos-aires-2025/): Residency Report: Highlights and Outcomes
- Berlin 2023

## Stephan Zimmerli
Artist, Funding the Commons, Zimmerli Architects, Client Account Manager
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephan-zimmerli-380651199
- Website: http://www.stephanzimmerli.com/
- Berlin Forum 2025 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/berlin-forum-2025/): "Studiolo Exile" Artist Talk; Anarchiving as Collective Memory

## Stephen DeMeulenaere
Founder, Complementary Currency Resource Center
- Bangkok 2024 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/bangkok-2024/): Indigenous Economic Models as Inspiration for Emerging Economic Networks

## Stephen Reid
Co-founder, Futurecraft
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephenreid321
- Website: https://stephenreid.substack.com/
- Berlin Forum 2025 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/berlin-forum-2025/): Welcome and Plenary; Welcome and Plenary: Who are we and what is post-capitalism?; Local and Bioregional Resilience World Cafe; Recap and Audience Discussion

## Steph Orpilla
Head of DevRel, Nillion
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephorpilla
- X: https://x.com/StephNoh
- RealFi Hack 2025: Judged track(s): Private Data Manager (PDM); Combined Privacy + DeFi App; Privacy-Preserving AI

## Steven Haft
Co-founder, Ethereum Climate Platform
- Paris 2023

## Steven Yang
CEO, Canopy Impact Investment
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/steven-yang-0bb6b895/
- Taipei 2023 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/taipei-2023/): Impact Measurement for Digital Public Goods

## Stina Gustafsson
Independent Curator
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stina-gustafsson-236ab467
- X: https://x.com/Stina_Gus
- Website: https://www.stina-gustafsson.com/
- Berlin Forum 2025 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/berlin-forum-2025/): Value Creation as Collective Practice; Old Value Systems, New Technologies
- PG Town Hall #9 (May 2025): Panel: Memory, Media, and Meaning: Cultural Infrastructure for the Commons

## Stuart Cowan
Regenerative Economist, Buckminster Fuller Institute
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-stuart-cowan-1892a51a/
- San Francisco 2025 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/san-francisco-2025/): Sensemaking a Planetary Ecological Commons; Geospatial AI for Climate and Nature
- SF Bay Area 2024 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/sf-bay-area-2024/): Open Innovation for Planetary Thriving

## Suji Yan
Founder, Mask Network
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tedkoyan/
- Taipei 2023 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/taipei-2023/)

## Sungduk Yu
Principal Applied Scientist, Oracle
- SF Bay Area 2024 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/sf-bay-area-2024/)

## Sunita Grote
Office of Innovation, UNICEF
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sunitagrote
- X: https://x.com/sunitagrote
- Berlin Forum 2025 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/berlin-forum-2025/): Funding Beyond the VC Paradigm with UNICEF Ventures; From Coordination to Legitimacy: Civic Architectures for Public Goods

## Suraj Patel
MongoDB Ventures & Corporate Development
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/surajsf
- SF Bay Area 2024 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/sf-bay-area-2024/): Unlocking Value in Open Source AI

## Susanne Aichele
Mothertree Labs
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/susanne-aichele
- Website: https://aichele.ca
- Design Jam Bangkok 2024: Team Formation, Mentor Identification & Challenge Selection; Keynote: Re-Storying the Commons; Practical Workshop
- Bangkok 2024 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/bangkok-2024/)

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

## Takahiro Anno
AI Engineer, Sci-fi writer, Entrepreneur
- Tokyo 2024 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/tokyo-2024/): Broad Listening in Practice

## Takayoshi Hayashi
Senior Data Analyst
- Tokyo 2024 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/tokyo-2024/): Visual Analytics for R&D Intelligence (日本語)

## Tammy Yang
Founder & CPO, Numbers Protocol
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tammyyang/
- X: https://x.com/tammyyang0
- Taipei 2023 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/taipei-2023/): How Can Web3 Be the Infrastructure of AI Applications?

## Tandin Wangchuk
The Dharma Code
- PG Town Hall #8 (April 2025): Community Projects Showcase (lightning talks)

## Tanin Sripharavong
Solutions Architect, Noburo
- Earth Commons Hackathon 2024

## Tara Merk
PhD Researcher, CNRS / Weizenbaum Institute; The Metagovernance Project
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tara-merk-1765b8117/
- X: https://x.com/mpg_dd
- Berlin Forum 2025 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/berlin-forum-2025/): Imagining Community-Owned Data Centers
- Berlin 2023: Web3 Work: The Contributor's Perspective

## Taro Shirakawa
AI Governance Association
- Tokyo 2024 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/tokyo-2024/): ONGAESHI Workshop: Hands-On NFT Experience to Support Talent

## Telamon Ardavanis
Edge City
- X: https://x.com/TelamonArdavani
- Website: https://telamonardavanis.substack.com/
- RealFi Hack 2025

## Teodor Petricevic
Accelerator Lead, UNDP AltFinLab
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/teopetricevic
- Open Conversations: You Can't Blockchain Your Way to Global Impact (Teo Petricevic, UNDP AltFinLab)
- Buenos Aires 2025 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/buenos-aires-2025/): Leveraging Technology Towards Public Efficiency

## Tereza Bízková
Head of Communications & Community, Funding the Commons
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tereza-bizkova
- 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 2026 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/sf-2026-intelligence-at-the-frontier/): Hackathon Opening Session
- PG Town Hall #10 (December 2025)
- RealFi Hack 2025: Judged track(s): RealFi Content Bounty; Build RealFi
- PG Town Hall #9 (May 2025): Panel: Memory, Media, and Meaning: Cultural Infrastructure for the Commons
- PG Town Hall #8 (April 2025): Community Projects Showcase (lightning talks)
- San Francisco 2025 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/san-francisco-2025/): Investing in Climate Resilience
- PG Town Hall #7 (February 2025): Panel: Earth Commons: Innovation, Challenges, and the Road Ahead
- PG Town Hall #6 (January 2025): Panel: Predictions for Public Goods Funding in 2025 (Deep Funding)
- Design Jam Bangkok 2024: Opening Ceremony
- Bangkok 2024 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/bangkok-2024/): Climate Positive DePIN
- PG Builders Town Hall #5 (October 2024): Sponsor Spotlights: innovating public goods during the FtC Bangkok hackathon
- PG Town Hall #4 ft. Gitcoin (September 2024): Thailand hackathon segment
- PG Town Hall #3 (August 2024): Celo Public Goods / ReFi (+ GG21 breakout rooms)
- Aleph Pop-up 2024: Welcome Words
- PG Town Hall #2 (July 2024): Mechanisms for funding public goods (DeSci + Artizen)
- PG Town Hall #1 (June 2024): How are we seeing the public goods landscape shifting in 2024

## Theo Beutel
Project Manager, Ethereum Foundation
- Website: https://theodorbeutel.de/
- Berlin Forum 2025 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/berlin-forum-2025/): Protocol Governance & Cryptoeconomic Design; Digital Democracy in DAOs
- New York 2022: A User centric approach to DeSci and tokenomics with Theodor Beutel

## Thisana Thitisakdiskul
CEO & Co-Founder, Noburo
- Bangkok 2024 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/bangkok-2024/): Building for Impact and Inclusion in Southeast Asia’s Local Context

## Timour Kosters
Co-founder, Edge City
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/timkosters
- X: https://x.com/timourxyz
- Website: https://www.timour.xyz/
- San Francisco 2025 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/san-francisco-2025/): Funding Open Source & Decentralized Development, from Enterprise to AI Agents

## Tim Roughgarden
a16z crypto; Columbia University
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tim-roughgarden-1a594855
- X: https://x.com/Tim_Roughgarden
- Website: https://timroughgarden.org
- New York 2022: Fireside chat

## Tito Jankowski
Founder, AirMiners
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/titojankowski
- Website: https://tito.co/
- San Francisco 2025 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/san-francisco-2025/): Investing in Climate Resilience

## Tobias Schreier
Co-founder, growthepie
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tobsch
- RealFi Hack 2025

## Toby Shorin
Founder, ‎Researcher & Writer
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tobyshorin
- X: https://x.com/tobyshorin
- Website: https://writing.tobyshorin.com/
- San Francisco 2025 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/san-francisco-2025/): Existential Narratives Workshop

## Tofus Wang
Contributor, da0
- X: https://x.com/tofuswang
- Taipei 2023 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/taipei-2023/)

## Tom Grau Baena
Fundador / Consultor
- Aleph Pop-up 2024: Local Considerations, Local Organizations; Empowering Underprivileged Communities through Blockchain: An Introduction to the Blockchain Inclusion Toolkit

## Tomislav Mamić
Founder, MUQA
- PG Town Hall #1 (June 2024): How are we seeing the public goods landscape shifting in 2024

## Tom Kalil
CEO, Renaissance Philanthropy
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tom-kalil-a581
- San Francisco 2026 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/sf-2026-intelligence-at-the-frontier/): Fireside Chat with Adam Russell and Tom Kalil; Adam Russell & Tom Kalil: What Do We Want AI to Do for Us?
- San Francisco 2025 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/san-francisco-2025/): Building the 21st Century Commons
- Virtual Summit, March 2022: Fireside chat with Tom Kalil & Evan Miyazono

## Tom Mellan
Research Scientist, https://research.protocol.ai/groups/cryptoeconlab/
- SF Bay Area 2024 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/sf-bay-area-2024/): Bridging the Gap: Web2 and Web3 OSS Funding Infrastructure

## Tom Terado
Developer Relations, Nillion Labs
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tterado
- Website: https://www.tterado.com/
- RealFi Hack 2025

## Tony Lai
Co-Founder, Mother Tree Labs; Stanford CodeX
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tonyklai/
- X: https://x.com/lai
- San Francisco 2025 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/san-francisco-2025/): Ecoweaving with Beloved Intelligence; AI & Emerging Technologies for Ecological Resilience Roundtable
- Bangkok 2024 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/bangkok-2024/): Self-Governing Land Trusts; A Potent Alignment for Web3, Community, and Planetary Health - An Open Call to Explore Community Currencies in Recife, Brazil
- SF Bay Area 2024 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/sf-bay-area-2024/)
- Berlin 2023: Ecoweaving: Collective Action for the Eco-Commons

## Toshiaki Takase
CEO, NEORT
- Tokyo 2024 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/tokyo-2024/): Drawing with Code

## Trent Van Epps
Founder / Operator, Protocol Guild
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/trenton-van-epps
- X: https://x.com/trent_vanepps
- Buenos Aires 2025 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/buenos-aires-2025/)
- Berlin Forum 2025 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/berlin-forum-2025/): Lessons Learned from Existing Blockchain Political Economies
- New York 2022: Funding Ethereum with the Protocol Guild with Trenton Van Epps

## Tricia Wang
Advanced AI Society
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/triciawang
- Website: https://triciawang.com
- San Francisco 2026 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/sf-2026-intelligence-at-the-frontier/): Fireside Chat with Sheila Warren and Tricia Wang; Fireside Chat with Brian Behlendorf and Tricia Wang; Proof of Control; Pi, Einstein, and the Choice We Face with AI; Brian Behlendorf & Tricia Wang: Shadow IT to Shadow Agents; Inside the Proof-of-Control Stack

## Troy Carter
CEO, Earthshot
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/troyearthshot
- X: https://x.com/troycarter
- San Francisco 2025 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/san-francisco-2025/): Investing in Climate Resilience

## Tshilidzi Marwala
United Nations University
- Tokyo 2024 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/tokyo-2024/): Introducing the United Nations University

## Tux Pacific
Founder/CEO, Entropy
- X: https://x.com/__tux
- Buenos Aires 2025 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/buenos-aires-2025/)

## Tyrice Hicks
Knovel Protocol
- PG Town Hall #8 (April 2025): Community Projects Showcase (lightning talks)

## Vaughn McKenzie-Landell
CEO & Co-Founder, Butter
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/vaughnmck
- X: https://x.com/noturhandle_
- Lisbon 2022: Funding DAOS with SuperPACs
- Bogotá 2022: Workshop: Funding Structures

## Václav Pavlín
Infrastructure engineer (Waku / Logos), Logos / IFT (Status)
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/vpavlin
- X: https://x.com/vpavlin
- Buenos Aires 2025 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/buenos-aires-2025/)
- RealFi Hack 2025: Judged track(s): Logos x Tor: Privacy Infrastructure; Resilient Activist Technology

## Ven Gist
Researcher & Philosopher, The Open Machine
- SF Bay Area 2024 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/sf-bay-area-2024/): Improving Impact Assessment in Retro Funding

## Victor Hugo Martins
Staff Software Engineer, The Aha Company
- Buenos Aires 2025 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/buenos-aires-2025/): RealFi Lightning Talks

## Victoria Kozlova
PhD Candidate, TalTech / RMIT
- Earth Commons Hackathon 2024

## Vienna Rae-Looi
ETH Kuala Lumpur
- Tokyo 2024 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/tokyo-2024/): Civic Community Fund and Ecosystem, Korea & Japan (Fireside Chat)

## Vincent Weisser
Founder, Prime Technology
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/vincentweisser
- X: https://x.com/vincentweisser
- Website: https://www.vincentweisser.com/
- San Francisco 2025 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/san-francisco-2025/): Decentralized AI, from Open Data to AGI

## Vitalik Buterin
Co-founder, Ethereum Foundation
- X: https://x.com/VitalikButerin
- Website: https://vitalik.eth.limo/
- Buenos Aires 2025 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/buenos-aires-2025/): Privacy and Public Goods: Vitalik Buterin & Roger Dingledine
- Virtual Summit, November 2021: Funding public goods — algorithms and mechanisms

## Vitaly Butlatov
Founder, Merklebot
- SF Bay Area 2024 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/sf-bay-area-2024/): Open Source Robotics + Robo Dog Demo

## Vivian Chen
Founding Member, da0
- Bangkok 2024 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/bangkok-2024/): Opening Words; Opening Words & Residency Update (Day 2)
- Taipei 2023 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/taipei-2023/): Opening; Impact Measurement for Digital Public Goods; Funding the Commons Event Opening Day One; Open Source Communities and Its Contribution to Building Public Goods
- Berlin 2023: Funding the Commons is next in Asia!

## Wanseob Lim
Loqu, Inc.
- Tokyo 2024 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/tokyo-2024/): Civic community fund and ecosystem, Korea and Japan

## Warin Ratchananusorn
Vice President and Director of Digital Startup Insitute, Digital Economy Promotion Agency (depa) of Thailand, Technology & Innovation Enthusiast.
- Bangkok 2024 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/bangkok-2024/): Thailand Digital Economy Landscape and Opportunities for Startups

## Wassim Alsindi
Director of Research, Parallel Industries
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/wassimalsindi/
- X: https://x.com/WassimAlsindi
- Berlin 2023: Refunding the Commons?

## Weiren Liu
Independent Researcher, da0
- X: https://x.com/aphsaia
- Taipei 2023 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/taipei-2023/): How to Build Digital Public Goods with the Public

## Wendy Hanamura
DWeb Senior Organizer, Internet Archive
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/wendyhanamura
- X: https://x.com/whanamura
- San Francisco 2026 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/sf-2026-intelligence-at-the-frontier/): Internet Archive: Public Data for a Public AI
- Open Conversations: Reclaiming the Internet as a Public Square
- San Francisco 2025 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/san-francisco-2025/): Internet Archive Tour; Opening Words; Leading Through Subtraction

## Will Gardiner
Software Engineer, Regen Network, Our Sci
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gardinerw/
- Bangkok 2024 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/bangkok-2024/): Self-Governing Land Trusts
- SF Bay Area 2024 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/sf-bay-area-2024/): Soils and Open Agriculture for Planetary Health

## William (Bill) Collins
Associate Laboratory Director, LBNL
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/william-collins-b5b0b768/
- SF Bay Area 2024 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/sf-bay-area-2024/): Studies of Extreme Weather using Machine Learning & Climate Emulators

## William Le
Co-Founder/CEO, Haraka
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/william-le/
- X: https://x.com/freewillle
- SF Bay Area 2024 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/sf-bay-area-2024/): Improving Impact Assessment in Retro Funding

## Will Ruddick
Founder, Grassroots Economics Foundation
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/willruddick
- Website: https://willruddick.substack.com/
- San Francisco 2025 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/san-francisco-2025/): Barter & Beyond Game; Introducing Grassroots Economics and the Barter & Beyond Game

## Will Scott
- Lisbon 2022: Blue Funds Fireside Chat

## Will Wheeler
Owner / Founder, Problem Media / Nouns Cares
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/willwheeler
- Website: https://www.wheeler.works/
- Open Conversations: Making People, Places & Things Come Together (Frankie Colamarino, Will Wheeler)
- Tokyo 2024 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/tokyo-2024/): Nouns Cares – A Better World On-Chain

## Will Zeng
Unitary Fund
- New York 2022: Unitary Fund experiments in public goods funding in quantum technologies

## Xochitl Cazador
Chief Ecosystem Growth Officer, Celo Foundation
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/xochitl/
- X: https://x.com/xochitlcazador
- Paris 2023: How ReFi Will Change the World

## Yen-Lin Huang
Web3 Architect, Moda Taiwan
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mashbean/
- Taipei 2023 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/taipei-2023/)

## Yih Jeng
Associate Professor, National Sun Yat-sen University
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/yih-jeng-84537014
- Taipei 2023 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/taipei-2023/): Social Impact Bond and Its Funding Mechanism

## Yin Aiwen
- X: https://x.com/aiwenyin
- Berlin 2023

## Ying Tong Lai
- New York 2022: A Collaborative Map of the Intellegent Cooperation Landscape

## Yoko Ikeda
Secretariat of New Form of Capitalism Realization
- Tokyo 2024 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/tokyo-2024/): Innovation Implemented by Public-Private Co-Creation (日本語)

## Yoshiro Tasaka
Director, Shibuya Startup Support (Shibuya City Government)
- Tokyo 2024 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/tokyo-2024/): Digital Public Goods Quadratic Funding Experiments in the Government

## You-Sheng Zhang
CoFounder, Volume DAO
- Taipei 2023 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/taipei-2023/): Supporting the Digital Art Ecosystem

## Yuko Koshiba
Philanthropy Advisors
- Tokyo 2024 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/tokyo-2024/): Philanthropy Funding the Commons: Evoking the Potential of Philanthropy in Japan

## Yuriko Koike
Governor of Tokyo
- Tokyo 2024 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/tokyo-2024/): Greetings From a Surprise Guest

## Yusuke Obinata
Web3 Foundation, SovAge
- Tokyo 2024 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/tokyo-2024/): Web3 Beyond Business (日本語)

## Zach Lefler
Software Engineer, Gainforest
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/zach-lefler/
- SF Bay Area 2024 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/sf-bay-area-2024/): Blame

## Zackary Dunivin
PhD Student, Indiana University
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/zackary-dunivin-b9101395
- SF Bay Area 2024 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/sf-bay-area-2024/): The Current State of Organizing Collective Ownership of a Commons

## Zakk Fleischmann
Bizdev lead, Informal Systems
- Paris 2023

## Zarinah Agnew
Senior Fellow, The Collective Intelligence Project / District Commons
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/zarinah-agnew/
- X: https://x.com/zarinahagnew
- PG Town Hall #1 (June 2024): How are we seeing the public goods landscape shifting in 2024
- SF Bay Area 2024 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/sf-bay-area-2024/): The Current State of Organizing Collective Ownership of a Commons

## Zeugh
Head of Research, Blockful
- X: https://x.com/theZeugh
- Website: https://zeugh.eth.limo/
- Bangkok 2024 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/bangkok-2024/): Governance & Web of Trust Roundtable
- Earth Commons Hackathon 2024

## Zsofia Samodai
Community Researcher, Wyvern Art Fund
- Berlin Forum 2025 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/berlin-forum-2025/): Adaptive Funding Strategies for Arts, Research, & Silenced Science
- Bangkok 2024 (https://fundingthecommons.io/events/bangkok-2024/): Funding the art commons: How to implement structures and counter-infrastructures centering social, embodied and collaborative aspects of artistic expression?