Abena is the founder of ETHAccra and part-time academic researcher. She graduated with a master’s degree in information systems from the University of Liechtenstein with magna cum laude. Her core research interest lies at the intersection of technology, the creative economy and society.

20 🇨🇿 // Etherean // Regen // Engineering at Trezor // Builder // Future will not be centralized 🦇🔊

ERC-4337 developer

tbd

Amanda Cassatt is the founder and CEO of Serotonin. Amanda previously served as Chief Marketing Officer of ConsenSys from 2016 through 2019. Joining one year after the launch of Ethereum, Amanda played a crucial role in defining, creating, and growing the narrative for ConsenSys, Ethereum, and blockchain overall.

Amanda stewarded the ConsenSys brand through its global expansion across enterprises, governments, developers, and consumers. She created and scaled the marketing team to over 50 people, serving both the ConsenSys brand and 50+ portfolio companies such as MetaMask, Infura, Truffle, and Gitcoin; managing teams in product marketing, growth, design, content, community, events, email, analytics and SEO. Amanda’s contributions to some of the most successful product launches, token sales and fundraises landed her on Forbes 30 Under 30 in 2016. Amanda is the author of the world's first web3 marketing book, Web3 Marketing: A Handbook for the Next Internet Revolution.

Andreas is a mathematician and programmer, and has been working with Rust and blockchain since 2016. He has contributed to multiple consensus protocols, and been part of the Linera team since early 2023.

A security auditor at Ackee Blockchain, Andrey has always been passionate about cybersecurity and modern technologies. This led him to a degree in Artificial Intelligence and Cybersecurity and a career in AI Research and AppSec. Eventually, he took a course on blockchain tech held by Ackee Blockchain. Very soon, web3 became an integral part of his life, and so began his journey as an auditor. Since then, he has secured many protocols, including those by Axelar, Lido, or Squid.

Anika Nicolaas Ponder leads the Climate and Innovation Department at the Institute for Climate protection, Energy and Mobility (IKEM), a non-profit think tank in Berlin. She has over fifteen years of experience in research at the intersection of climate action, communication, diversity and gender equality. She specialises in the opportunities for social empowerment and engagement arising from the energy transition, as well as innovative formats for climate communication.

The projects for which Anika has been responsible at IKEM include the annual IKEM Academy, the award-winning Infographic Energy Transition Coloring Book, as well as a project to visualise and disseminate the results of the WindNODE project. She also led the Baltic InteGrid project, which analysed the potential of a transnational offshore power grid in the Baltic Sea.

Anika studied at the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences and completed a Master’s degree in Economics and Development at the Sorbonne, Paris. Her academic career is complemented by extensive professional experience in international organisations, such as the OSCE Mission in Kosovo and the United Nations, where she worked on topics linked to sustainable development, among others. She speaks four languages.

Anjali Young is the Co-Founder of Collab.Land. Anjali has been active in online communities since 1993 as both a member and in leadership positions. She has also worked as a lawyer, adjunct professor, and early tech startup employee. Her role at Collab.Land focuses on onboarding all types of tokenized projects and partners onto the platform, ensuring Collab.Land’s “community of communities” is a safe and welcoming space, and educating others about web3 ethos and values. When she’s not working, Anjali enjoys creating art from found objects and improvisational theater. Anjali is one of only a handful of web3 leaders to have received recognition from Salesforce, and is listed as one of its Web3 Advisory Board Members.

Lawyer and DeFi co-founder, fluent in crypto slang and legalese to ensure builders and regulators communicate efficiently. I advise blockchain dreamers with MME, a Swiss law firm, and build the future of trading with Keom Protocol, all while keeping an eye on the greater goal of creating a better financial system.

CEO and co-founder of Encode Club

Head of Research Relations at Heliax.
- building Anoma to unbundle everything.
- building Namada to bring programmable disclosure to the masses.

Previous:
- technical writing for ZK Validator.
- protocol research for Ernst & Young.

co-founder of @lastic_xyz, the blockspace marketplace

StarkWare CPO

Awa joined Chainalysis as the first female data scientist and software engineer in 2017, after working on papers on using on-chain data to de-anonymise Bitcoin. Awa joined Tendermint/Cosmos as a researcher, where she met Adrian and Christopher, and helped out with the Ethereum Community Fund initiative in 2018-2019. Ever since, Awa has co-founded and built several ventures with Adrian and Christopher.

Co-founder, Busker. A software engineer secretly wants to be a rockstar.

Protocol Dev at Mento Labs, ex Security Auditor, building on-chain since 2013

Barbora Lišková works as a landscape architect at the Public Space Office of the Prague Institute of Planning and Development. She studied garden and landscape architecture at the Czech University of Life Sciences in Prague. Alongside Martin Vysoký, she worked in the Swedish Edges studio, which deals with planting technology in structural substrates and stormwater management. She is currently the project manager of the Charles Square Management Plan. She is also involved in several other public space projects with an overlap into landscape architecture.

Bernd is a designer, entrepreneur, and publicist. With his strategic design and transformation team at Ellery Studio in Berlin, he specializes in crafting community-oriented experiences that blend innovation, science, and art. He enthusiastically explains the world of infographics, creative science communication, and futures foresight, both as a practitioner and educator. A solarpunker at heart, his passion lies in advocating for the energy transition, climate action, equality, and social justice.

Billy Rennekamp is founder of Trifle Labs, blurring the line between art and games with new on-chain experiences. He previously founded Folia.app—a space for exhibiting and collecting NFTs—and Clovers Network—an on-chain game that rewards the creation of scarce art. He has also served as the Cosmos Hub Lead and Funding Manager at Interchain Foundation, and contributed to various Ethereum EIPs, Gnosis and Aragon. He recently completed a stint as Entrepreneur in Residence at 1kx, where he researched zk circuits for verifiable computation of real-time game mechanics.

Brenda is the CEO and Co-founder of Tellor, a decentralised oracle network. She is a self-taught solidity developer and formerly, a supervisor with the U.S Federal government, developing and leading teams to develop statistical software and produce Principal Federal Economic Indicators, such as the Producer Price Index, State and Area and National Employment statistics, and Unemployment Insurance statistics, and methodology research. Brenda has a Master of Arts in Applied Economics from Johns Hopkins University.

What really drew Brenda into crypto was Ethereum. She became obsessed with the technology and the freedom it could bring. As a Statistician/Economist she had been programming for years so the transition to Solidity was smooth. Brenda’s first full-time endeavor in crypto was Daxia, a protocol to do long/short tokens (e.g. long/short BTC) (similar to a dy/dx). The issue you quickly run into with derivatives is the oracle problem (how do you get the price to settle to). The companies then were just inputting it themselves, which is not secure and not in line with the ethos of decentralization. Brenda and her team wanted something better so they started building out Tellor internally. And it turned into a full time thing when other projects/investors became more interested in Tellor than Daxia.

Dr. Cathie So dove into Web3 as the founding tutor of Zero-Knowledge University, onboarding numerous developers into ZK. With a background as a researcher at the Ethereum Foundation and a wealth of experience speaking at various conferences on zkML, she now serves as the Chief Scientist at ORA.

Barcelona based Solarpunk Architect, creating regen co-operative social housing and part of Ops team at dOrg —a web3 dev shop building cool stuff and running ourselves as a DAO since 2019.

Dàmir Belltheus Avdic is Head of the Climate and Innovation Department at the Institute for Climate Protection, Energy and Mobility in Berlin. He specialises in socio-economic analyses of green energy, especially offshore-wind electricity and green fuels.

Dàmir leads the international project BOWE2H and coordinates the Europe-Ukraine Energy Transition Hub (EUETH), for which he recently authored a series of studies on the reconstruction and transformation of the Ukrainian energy sector. He has also been involved in numerous studies dealing with the social and economic aspects of climate-protection measures, such as the introduction of ammonia as a fuel for shipping.

He studied History at the Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and holds a BSc in Economics & Business from the University of Amsterdam and a Master’s degree in International Relations from Sciences Po Paris. He speaks eight languages.

Daniel's mission is protecting the relationship between humans and nature. Working to increasingly leverage at a deeper axis for positive societal change, he has held founding and leadership roles in a variety of sectors and with institutions such as XPRIZE Foundation, Burning Man Project, and the Long Now Foundation. He is currently the co-founder of Reconnect Clinics, Reconnect Labs, and Reconnect Foundation.

1990s: environmental activist and film maker protesting old growth logging to the WTO and working with indigenous tribes across the American west.

2000s: led large landscape conservation projects resulting in over 100,000 acres of permanently protected properties from Alaska to Costa Rica.

2010s: leveraged large institutional and foundation capital in order to fund high-growth, high-risk, high-impact projects from health to environment and founded and financed several impact ventures in mental health.

2020s: helped cofound Reconnect Labs, a Swiss psychedelic drug development company, and Reconnect Foundation, funding indigenous eco-cultural conservation efforts in the Amazon basin and the research of consciousness. This year, Daniel is launching Reconnect Clinics: a community-centered group of clinics where the first legal research, education, and practice with psychedelic therapies and consciousness technologies can occur in Europe.

web2 and web3 builder, co-founder https://www.noderpc.xyz/

Ethereum consensus core developer at Lighthouse, Sigma Prime. Fork coordinator at Gnosis Chain. Former Lodestar, at ChainSafe, and OG dev at Dappnode

I'm a research engineer at the Worldcoin Foundation, where I am an engineering manager for our grants program (worldcoin.org/rfp, worldcoin.org/community-grants) and I also lead the technical partnerships side of the World Chain (worldcoin.org/world-chain), our upcoming OP-Stack L2. I'm passionate about ZK cryptography, Ethereum, digital identity and lots of other related topics. github.com/dcbuild3r, dcbuilder.dev

CEO and cofounder of Tally.xyz the leading framework and operating system for DAOs, powering the largest and most important protocols in the space.

Got started by running on of the first bitcoin exchanges in the Czech Republic in 2012: buybtc.cz

Devansh is passionate about speaking truth to power and giving a voice to the voiceless. In 2023, he was selected as a Next Billion Fellow by the Ethereum Foundation to support his mission of outcome funding for journalists creating tangible impact with their stories. He is the founder of VoiceDeck, on the governing council at Gitcoin and Octant, and lead at the Treasury Working Group for Arbitrum DAO. Devansh completed a double masters in journalism and public policy from Columbia University in 2017.

Investment Principal at Lightshift, an venture fund that joins forces and invests in early-stage projects to co-build the open, decentralized future.

Dominic Wörner is a Senior Solutions Architect at DFINITY. Before joining DFINITY, Dominic was a Solutions Architect at Bosch Digital Solutions. He holds a Ph.D. in Information Management from ETH Zurich and was a visiting researcher at MIT's Digital Currency Initiative. Before that, he studied physics in Heidelberg, Germany, and Uppsala, Sweden.

Giulio is a researcher at the Institute for Technology and Humanity within the University of Cambridge. His research primarily investigates how applications of artificial intelligence, such as frontier generative AI and recommender systems, may amplify risks to the integrity of information ecosystems. Giulio has collaborated extensively with governments and international organizations to address these risks. He holds an MPhil and a PhD from the University of Cambridge.

Developer working at BuidlGuidl

French, 26 years-old, based in Paris, hybrid (maths + humanities) background, dev, Rust & Cairo aficionado 🦀, zk-pilled 💊.

Building Kakarot zkEVM 🥕

Eomji Park, currently the Head of Research & Operations at Encode Club and a Guest Scientist at the Technical University of Munich, has a rich background in technology and education. Her journey includes a stint in embedded systems, where she contributed to customer success by developing software and hardware demos to enrich the developer experience. At Encode Club, a leading educational community in emerging technology, Eomji continues her passionate work, focusing on empowering both developers and early-stage projects. Beyond her primary roles, Eomji is actively involved in educating and nurturing new talent in the blockchain space. She frequently collaborates with universities and businesses to conduct workshops and lectures, playing a pivotal role in shaping future innovators.

I joined Nethermind as an intern in 2022, with a background in computer science and self-taught Solidity. During this internship I worked on DeFi protocol development and co-authored EIP-5133. Since then I work as a Smart Contract Engineer at Nethermind, continuing with DeFi protocols, doing research, and writing articles. My current focus revolves around the development of a RWA tokenization platform.

BD and DeFi degen at RedStone - experienced in the DeFi space with a hands-on understanding of user's expectations, needs, and trading strategies expectations. He started his journey with crypto in 2019 and went full-time into Web3 in 2020. He previously lead his Web2 company. Dropped out of medicine to focus on the future of finance.

Senior Software Engineer @ Amazon (AWS). Ex Microsoft with 15 years of experience.

Francesco Andreoli is currently leading the developer community efforts at Consensys. He is an ETH Engineer and digital Entrepreneur who has been active in Switzerland, Sweden, Brazil, South Africa, Nigeria and the United States with a strong developer relation and developer ambassador focus.

I'm Gajesh Naik, Software Engineer and Developer Relations at Eigen Labs. I have been previously part of Solana Labs, FTX Ventures, LayerZero Labs and Telegram Wallet. I have also built two companies before this. I also actively invest in companies.

• TradFi background in Trading / Investment Banking at Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley & Rokos Capital in London
• Read about Crypto in 2017 and started following the space ever since
• Involved and invested in liquid tokens, private deals & advisory roles since Jan 2020

Grace Rachmany is one of the leaders in the areas of new economic models, digital democracy, tokenomics, blockchain governance and distributed technology. She currently serves on the Supervisory Council for the SingularityNet DAO and as the lead specifications creator for tomi.com DAO. Grace is an expert in practicalities of how to lead a decentralized/distributed organization, having worked with hundreds of organizations in the blockchain space. Her background in technology leadership, innovation, and marketing spans 35 years. Grace provides workshops and consulting services for DAOs through DAO Leadership and The Design School for Regenerating the Earth.

Gunilla Samberg is a visual artist, living and working in Umeå, Sweden, born 1945.

I work with different media and expressions, always based on a conceptual ideas. Performance, involving other people, acting in collective performance is an effective and interesting way of making art. It is a really a good feeling to share your ideas, to discuss, discover and express important issues with others. I also make installations and painting. I feel free to chose media and material related to the issue I want to give a specific form. I have made several public artworks and I am really interested in the challenge to make strong visual expressions in public space. I am influenced by my background as a scientist and as a teacher.

I want to share my images of my artworks and my ideas to others. I am convinced that the image has a strong influence and effect on peoples minds. You forget verbal messages, you remember images, they effect you for a long time. I am most concerned about our future, resources are wasted, soil, air and water polluted. Everyone is responsible to do something. We must not resign, we can be inspired of others, we can do something. I am also concerned by the lack of women´s rights, young girls and women being abused all over the world.

Success @Guildxyz

Hanna has a background in art, design and culture before moving into nature conservation and rewilding. She co-founded "Collettivo Rewild Sicily" as a small-scale rewilding initiative exploring bottom-up approaches to habitat restoration, nature-based economies, and local ecological knowledge with and for the community.

Helena Good - Director of Daydream Believers

Meet Helena, an innovator who has turned her dreams into reality through her passion for education. In January 2017, she embarked on an extraordinary journey, creating Daydream Believers—a ground-breaking initiative that reshapes education's landscape.

Daydream Believers empowers educators, employers, and designers to revolutionise learning and teaching experiences by infusing them with the magic of creativity.

Supported by esteemed global brands, charitable organisations, and prestigious universities, Daydream Believers quickly emerged as a force to be reckoned with. In October 2022, it earned a spot among HundrED's elite top 100 global innovations in education, solidifying its place as a game-changer.

Helena leads an exceptional team at Daydream Believers, propelling 21st-century skills to the forefront of modern education. Together they are reshaping, the curriculum into a canvas for creativity, innovation, and transformation.

Before dedicating her time to Daydream Believers, Helena was a college lecturer and in recognition of her exceptional contributions, she was bestowed with the UK TES Lecturer of the Year award in November 2020—a testament to her dedication and ability to inspire.

Helena is on a mission to turn “daydreamer” into a serious career goal!

Dr Hyun-Joo Lim is Principal Academic in Sociology and Inclusivity Lead at the Faculty of Health and Social Sciences at Bournemouth University (BU). Originally from South Korea, her research interests have been developed around gender, identity, the experiences of East Asian migrants, and socially marginalised and ethnically diverse individuals and groups in the UK. Her first book, 'East Asian Mothers in Britain: An Intersectional Exploration of Motherhood and Employment', was published in 2018 by Palgrave Macmillan. Her 2nd book, 'North Korean Women and Defection: Human Rights Violations and Activism', was published in 2023 by Bristol University Press. Her recent publications also include a working paper, Lim, H-J. (2022) ‘Cycle of Oppression: Violations of Human Rights against Women Inside and Outside North Korea’, published by Heidelberg Centre for East Asian Studies Working Paper Series. Other articles relating to North Korean defectors’ experiences and human rights include: Lim, H-J. (2021) ‘Human Rights Activism among North Korean Refugees in the UK: Hope for A Democratic Future?’, in the Journal of Human Rights and Social Work; Lim, H-J. (2021) ‘Traversing’: Familial Challenges for Escaped North Koreans’ in the Journal of Refugee Studies. Currently, she is conducting a collaborative and co-creative research project, ‘Allyship in Action’, with colleagues and students at BU. Additionally, Dr Lim has recently been awarded the British Academy and Leverhulme Grant for her 2-year project, ‘How Effective are Menopause Policies at Universities in England?’, to examine the effectiveness of menopause policies in practice in English Higher Educational institutions.

Founder of ZeroPool

Dynamic, multilingual, innovative young professional with a robust background in political science and economics, complemented by hands-on experience in AI applications and data analysis. Proven expertise in leveraging advanced technology solutions, including NLP tools and data visualization, to drive research on the relevance of cultural politics, cybersecurity, and the evolving role of AI and Blockchain.

Passionate about embracing and shaping change in the rapidly evolving world, contributing to a meaningful mission, and leading with dignity. Possess strong skills in communications and negotiations.

Jakub Jedlinský is a systemic analyst, crypto OG and expert on modelling money flows in alternative currencies and stress testing business plans. He is a co-founder of Altlift, a crypto-consulting company, and Altlift Digital Assets Fund. He teaches about currency systems at Prague University of Economics and Business. Jakub learnt stock-flow consistent modelling from Prof. Steve Keen who supervised his Ph.D. dissertation at Kingston University London.

In love with Ethereum, catching bugs for fun and living,
Through smart contracts, my expertise I'm giving.
In the crypto space, where everything is thrilling,
I have an inner need to just keep building.

Jan is an environmental economist, project coordinator and university teacher at the Faculty
of Social and Economic Studies of the Jan Evangelista Purkyne University in Usti nad Labem.
He is an expert on the economic issues of green and blue infrastructure, climate change
adaptation and water management. He is also involved in popularising the topic to the
general public.

Among other things, he co-authored the publication Water in the City, which brought a
unique comprehensive view of rainwater management to the Czech environment. This
combined a purely technical view of measures with planning, economic, environmental and
landscape aspects.

https://social.kernel.org/jarkko

I am a Ph.D. student in computer science at KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden.
My research interest lies at the intersection of Software Engineering and Blockchain infrastructure.

I am Jayaditya Gupta currently working with Ethereum Foundation under privacy and scaling explorations team. I was exploring state channels and currently learning zero knowledge proofs. I mostly work with backend development, game development and devops. I have some basic knowledge of frontend dev too. I have contributed to various opensoruce organizations like KDE, FOSSASIA, Agones project , P5.js. Before my current job I used to work at CERN as a cloud software engineer. I love anime, games and boxing.

Developer Relations Engineer at Mantle, before it was even called Mantle. Hacker at heart.

I was a music teacher and a professional cellist in a past life. Now I’m a developer in the Zero-Knowledge and blockchain space. I'm passionate about privacy, programming, and decentralization.

Software engineer, crypto builder since 2017. Building Palmera since 2022.

Kaan is a developer of the Sourcify project at the Ethereum Foundation

Founder and CTO of Arrakis, solving LVR. Building the MEV-Aware DEX Design Space

Leading strategic community initiatives at Axelar, formerly the VP of Blockchain Education Network. Building decentralized developer communities since 2013.

Kevin Jones is a Developer Relations Engineer at Edge & Node, working on The Graph protocol and a core member of the Buidl Guidl, supporting Scaffold-ETH

Proving Group Manager, Starkware

A software engineer @ the Ethereum Foundation building Ethereum Execution & Consensus Light Clients

Krištof Hanzlík is a partner at COLL COLL founded in 2007. He is leading projects through all stages of design and procurement. He is also tutoring and lecturing in various schools and institutions. He is a graduate of University College London (UCL). He also studied architecture in Czech Technical University in Prague and TU Wien. He is one of the authors of the book called “One More Tree - O strom více” that was published in 2013l.

Laura Fong Prosper (1978) is a visual artist from Panama,́ based in Berlin.
Her exploration orbits the realms of collective memory, retro-futurisms, ancestral imaginaries and eco-feminisms through a fusion of various mediums, including video, analog film, new media, and most recently textiles.
In her process-oriented practice her language becomes a conduit for conversation between the human body, the surrounding territory, historical contexts and narratives of decolonization. This interplay serves as a tapestry, weaving together threads of personal and collective experiences.
In addition to her thematic explorations, she also embarks on a personal research journey as a recycler of materials, archives, and electronic gear, breathing new life into discarded remnants and committing to sustainability and resourcefulness.
Laura Fong Prosper's artistic practice, rooted in her multicultural heritage invites audiences to traverse a landscape where tradition meets innovation, and where the past comes together with the present and the future in a celebration of human expression.
She studied Film Editing in the International School of Film and TV of San Antonio de los Banõ s in Cuba (EICTV) and received a M.F.A. in New Media Art from the Bauhaus University Weimar in Germany and a M.A. in Art Theory and Literature from the Tongji University in Shanghai, China. ShewasalsoafellowintheKunsthochschulefur̈ Medien(KHM)in Cologne, Germany and was one of the recipients of the Human-Machine Fellowship of the Akademie der Kun̈ ste in Berlin, Germany. Her work has been shown in the Centre Pompidou, Paris, Museo Reina Sofía, Madrid, Akademie der Kun̈ ste, Berlin, Museum of Modern Art Rio de Janeiro, Museum of the Americas Washington DC, Arsenal - Institute for Film and Video Art, Berlin amongst many others. Her work is part of the permanent collection of the Museo de Arte Contemporań eo de Panamá (MAC) and the Murzi & Morgan Collection of Latinamerican Contemporary Art.
She also has a long career as a film editor and VJ.

After a career in TradFi in 2015 I moved full time to blockchain work. I am the CEO of Extropy a blockchain / cryptography consultancy based in Oxford

Much of my work now is teaching bootcamps about Zero Knowledge Proofs, zkML, Advanced Solidity and Solana.

I am a co founder of the Oxford Blockchain Society and run meetup groups for Ethereum and Mina.

I am a regular speaker at web3 conferences and often a volunteer for the Ethereum conferences

ZK & EVM freelancer

Plenty of years of EVM development. Turned to the dark side (of ZK) a year or two ago and haven't looked back.

Developing, consulting, designing various ZK systems. Going to events, teaching ZK, talking and writing about it.

Currently diving deeper into the ZK protocol-level research. Getting lost in that deep well. Building my own STARK prover because, well, why not.

More info at https://github.com/microbecode/portfolio

I'm a developer support engineer at Ledger, helping external developers and different communities to build on top of Ledger.

Luciano Ciattaglia, an L1/L2 Blockchain Security Research Lead at Hacken, holds a degree in Computer Science from the University of Villa Maria and blockchain security certifications, such as CEH, CSSLP, CBSP, and CCSSA. With past roles at Binance, Mercado Libre & Ripio, Luciano has both the passion and expertise to stay ahead of cyber threats in Web3.

Head of Business Development at Mimic Finance, Co-founder of ETHWarsaw
Active in the space since 2020. Ethereum maximalist and passionate about DeFi.

BIO/ARTIST STATEMENT: Margrethe Kolstad Brekke (artist/initiator of the Rjukan Solarpunk Academy)

Utopia as motif, motive, and method

As an art student in the years 2009-2014, the discussion around the Anthropocene
and general knowledge about the climate crisis had established the apocalyptic sublime as a growing rhetorical backdrop in cultural production. In this constant mindscape, I spent most of my years studying. In the textile arts BA program, you could find evidence of apocalypse and colonial-era injustice in every tool, fiber, trade route, and pattern design.
But towards the end of the MA program, I started to get the sense that I had to do
my own artwork a bit differently. That a more interesting, more responsible,- and counterintuitive artistic challenge would be to try and make art about hopes and dreams in times like this. So this is
what Ive been doing since the autumn of 2013. 1st, in Bergen, through all kinds of interdisciplinary collaborations in the years when post-petroleum technologies still came with a sense of the unreal, and the knots- and bolts of real-life green transitions still had a sense of optimistic innocence about it. Since 2019 my perspective has been rooted in the rural rust-belt town Rjukan, where I moved motivated by cheap housing, large abandoned industrial buildings, and among other things the promise in the town’s motto, inspired by the recently installed sunmirrors: ``To make the impossible possible ``. in collaboration with the Sunmirror artist Martin Andersen and Siddharth Sareen (UiS), we established Rjukan Solarpunk Academy (RSA) in 2019. RSA has since then developed into a fruitful hub of science, art, and community development. Inspired by our partnership with the PHD-school ``Empowered Futures`` we piloted the festival concept ``Solarpunk Campus Rjukan`` in 2023. Over the next years, fueled with new creative forces like the traveling writer Daniel Nyiri, and transitioning from ``indiestyle-relational-artproject to a more solid organizational structure- we will work on continued institutionalization of the RSA, and give space for a more diverse interpretation of the term Solarpunk. While RSA will take on a life of its own, I will gradually turn most of my attention back towards traditional studio work, where main topic of my own artistic practice will be the IPPC SSP1-5, so chances are that this will also influence the direction in RSA over the next couple of years.
My role model for this balance of activities has throughout the years been mainly
William Morris, a productive textile artists trying his best to respond to the burning open questions of his own era.

https://www.mkbrekke.com/
https://www.rjukansolarpunkacademy.com/
https://www.solarpunkcampus.org/

EF Protocol Support

Urban Designer | Architect at IPR

Martin Becze created ethereum js and eWASM. He was an early developer of the Ethereum protocol with a special interest in the VM and object capabilities. He has also contributed to the IPFS, Dfinity and Guix ecosystems.

Dr. Martin Derka is a distinguished figure in the blockchain space, with an extensive background in the development of smart contracts and Ethereum-based platforms. His work is particularly noted for its significant contributions to DeFi, where he has specialized in enhancing security measures and mitigating economic manipulations. As a co-founder of Zircuit, he has been instrumental in advancing the state of security in web3 scaling technologies. Martin's leadership in the design and implementation of cutting-edge rollup solutions has positioned him as a key influencer in the Ethereum ecosystem. Martin holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Waterloo, ON, Canada.

Martin Warnke studied in Berlin and Hamburg, received his doctorate in theoretical physics in Hamburg in 1984, began working at the University of Lüneburg, was head of the computer and media centre for many years, habilitated in computer science/digital media at the Leuphana University of Lüneburg in 2008 and has been a professor at the Institute for Culture and Aesthetics of Digital Media, of which he was the founding director, at the Faculty of Cultural Studies since 2010 and has held visiting professorships at the Universities of Basel, Klagenfurt and Vienna.

He works in the field of the history and theory of digital media and the digital documentation of complex artefacts of the visual arts. He is director of the DFG Institute for Advanced Study "Media Cultures of Computer Simulation" (mecs). He founded the "HyperKult" workshop series, was spokesman for the "Computer Science and Society" section of the Gesellschaft für Informatik e. V. and is chairman of the Springhornhof art association.

Martin currently is Senior Fellow at ifk in Vienna: https://www.ifk.ac.at/fellows-detail/martin-warnke-2.html

Martin Woesler is academic supervisor of the research project SCORING, funded by the German Ministry of Education and Science, hosted by Witten/Herdecke University and Leuphana University Lüneburg. He is also Director of the Research Centre of Excellence in Changsha, funded by the EU. His research interests include AI, Digitalization in Asia, Europe, and the USA, cultural comparison, translation studies, comparative literature. Woesler simultaneously holds professorship positions in Asia and Europe. Newest publication with Martin Warnke: Social Cybernetics In Statu Nascendi, Berlin: Matthes & Seitz 2024. LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/martin-woesler/

Founder at Linera, the first blockchain infrastructure based on microchains. Former researcher & engineer at Novi, Meta & ANSSI

Mel's research looks at global catastrophic risk, futures, emerging technologies, and their interactions with contemporary religion. They also co-run a reading group covering different perspectives on the long-term future. Mel holds a BA in History, specialising in religion and politics, as well as an MPhil in Theology, Religion and Philosophy of Religion from the University of Cambridge.

Michal is a blockchain enthusiast, a graduate of Computer Security at CTU Prague, currently working on open-source tooling for secure and efficient Solidity development.

Mu has spent 15+ years organising in collectives and cooperatives at work, at home and at leisure. For the past decade she has worked in the field of decentralisation and privacy enhancing technologies while living and organising in cooperative housing and creating radical media. As a consequence, she is interested in pragmatic solutions that are (to some extent) anti-fragile and don’t rely on altruism.

Works on Trin, a Portal Network Client written in Rust.

Experienced designer with vast experience on web2 and transition to web3. Working to improve ethereum.org every day

Dedicated to enhancing privacy and security within web3

I'm Omar Espejel, with a background in Blockchain Engineering and Developer Advocacy at Starknet Foundation and Starkware. Previously, I also worked at Hugging Face.

At Starkware and the Starknet Foundation, I helped developers navigate Cairo and Starknet technologies, spearheaded the Starknet Book development, and presented at key conferences in Europe and America, including Devcon 2022 and Devconnect 2023. I've led hackathons and edited the Starknet book, a major resource in the Starknet community. This role deepened my blockchain expertise and honed my ability to demystify complex tech.

At Hugging Face, I developed courses on Transformers and Gradio, focusing on sentence transformers and the fastai library, aiming to make machine learning more accessible and innovative.

building infrastructure for @starknet , co-founder at Carmine Finance

Frontend developer at ENS. Currently building Stauro — a service to deploy websites and apps on the new decentralized stack.

Open source creator and maintainer. Author of tinyhttp , gql (Deno GraphQL middleware), tinyws and more.

prev. Rainbow , Genie (acq. by Uniswap), Fleek.

I’m a passionate software engineer with over 20 years of experience (that must mean I’m old). I have been playing with blockchain-related technologies for a few years before I found MakerDAO in 2020.
Together with the backend team I have been designing and developing oracle solutions ever since. We branched out and formed Chronicle to keep building decentralized and verifiable oracles available to everyone.
Together with some members of Polish Web3 community, I founded and run ETHWarsaw Conference, Hackathon and Meetups.

Software engineer for over 20 years. Fell down the crypto rabbit hole in 2016 and never found my back out. Been CTO of an RWA Startup from 2017-2022 and have most recently joined Mento Labs as Engineering Partner to provide decentralized stable currencies for underserved markets such as Africa and Latin America.

I'm a PhD student at the University of Vienna, specialist of China's digital transformation. I work on the Social Credit System and more generally the development and use of the information technology for government purpose. I previously worked at the French Embassy in China as a technology researcher. I am the co-founder of EastIsRed, a China focused advisory company.

Puncar is one of the co-authors of the upcoming book 'How To DAO.' He is deeply involved in the exploration of DAOs and Web3. With his extensive experience co-authoring this comprehensive guide, Puncar offers valuable insights into the principles and practices that shape the DAO ecosystem. He is passionate about empowering individuals and organizations to thrive in the decentralized space, which drives his work as a founder and innovator. Puncar is one of the co-founders of Bankless Consulting and WORKOUTDAO, and he continues to pioneer new pathways in the DAO landscape. If you want to learn how to leverage DAOs and Web3 to unlock new opportunities and drive meaningful change, you can connect with Puncar.

Active Ethereum ecosystem contributor (ethresear.ch / magician)
- Author/coauthor of EIPs-4804/4972/5018/5027/6150
- PhD from Georgia Tech
- Former engineer at Meta/Google/EMC

Interested in Ethereum's DA and L2 and received multiple grants from EF
- Vitalik’s grant on cross-L2 bridge
- Data Availability Sampling Research: https://blog.ethereum.org/2022/12/07/esp-allocation-q3-22
- EthStorage - Proof of Storage on L2 Dataset with L1 Contract: - https://blog.ethereum.org/2023/02/14/layer-2-grants-roundup
- OP Stack grants on multi-section fault proof and zk fault proof

Qi founded EthStorage in 2022 and has recently received a grant from the Ethereum Foundation for his proposal on Proof of Storage on L2 Dynamic Datasets with an Ethereum L1 Contract. He also receives a personal grant from Vitalik and a grant from EF for DAS work. Qi is active in Ethereum ecosystem contributor (ethresear.ch / magician), and is the author/coauthor of EIP/ERC-4804/4972/5018/5027/6150.
Qi also founded QuarkChain in 2018, which is a flexible, scalable, and user-oriented blockchain that applies state-sharding technology. Before QuarkChain, Qi worked as a senior engineer at Google and Facebook in the US. Qi got his Ph.D. from the Georgia Institute of Technology.

BeerFi #DevCommunity org, ex-TradFi, #DeFi #DeSci #CZKstablecoin #DecentralisedBanking
Loves 100% test coverage and opcodes :)

As a formal verification engineer at Runtime Verification, I've dedicated extensive time to fortifying smart contract protocols through a spectrum of measures, including design reviews, manual code reviews, and formal verification processes.

Presently, I'm leading the development of Simbolik, a tool born out of my experiences and needs as a security researcher. This initiative reflects my commitment to advancing the field and addressing critical challenges faced by professionals in this domain.

Regina Kanyu Wang is a writer, researcher, and editor working in English and Chinese. Her stories can be found in her individual collections Of Cloud and Mist 2.2 and The Seafood Restaurant, various magazines, and anthologies. She is co-editor of The Way Spring Arrives and Other Stories, New Voices in Chinese Science Fiction, and the English version of The Making of The Wandering Earth: A Film Production Handbook. She has won multiple Chinese Nebula Awards, and is a finalist of Hugo Awards and Locus Awards, for her stories, reviews, editorial works, and more.

Rica is a creative strategist and connector, working at the intersection of Web3 and regenerative finance. Leading marketing at the Sovereign Nature Initiative, he strategically promotes ecological initiatives. His role in founding PositiveBlockchain and ReFi Lisboa, along with hosting the planta-R podcast—a ReFi DAO initiative in Portuguese—highlights his dedication to leveraging blockchain for societal and environmental restoration. Rica's expertise in strategy and a deep understanding of the ReFi ecosystem make him a pivotal figure in advancing solutions that marry technology with regeneration. His commitment to collective intelligence and decentralised innovation drives his efforts to foster change.

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I'm Sasha Tanase Luca, a web3 designer and innovator. I spearheaded the design for the Ethereum Data Analytics platform at Alethio and led design initiatives for the Threshold Network and tBTC at Thesis. My strengths lie in user research and developer experience, bridging the gap between complex tech and accessible experiences.

ALOHA, you may call me Shaka Lei. I am of Hawaiian, Chinese, Portuguese and Dutch decent and in the present moment I am a nomad based mostly out of my suitcases. Every now and then I am back in the degen cave found in my parents basement where I grew up mostly in the south of Denver. I love following ETH around the Globe and believe we are changing the world. I love sharing music and encouragement at hackathons and recently my frens started calling me an Ethereum Bard.

My Journey with Ethereum started with Devconnect in Amsterdam. 2010 when I was 20 years old for a year I was a missionary in South Africa until the church kicked me out and I got arrested for smoking pot. Then I went back to school and studied music in Hollywood until I got warn out by humans chasing stardom. After dropping out again I started the art of volunteering. First with a kitchen that helped the homeless until I became the kitchen manager. Then I started volunteering with one of my favorite bands called Dispatch until they started taking me on tour with their production crew and a founding member of the band's nonprofit sponsored me to live in Nicaragua teaching music. Then came covid and I became a degen in my parents basement at age 30. Feeling stuck I almost lost my mind so thankfully the universe led me to Ethereum, not online, but to the community of hackers behind it. It was way too late to be an early investor, first time buying ETH was all time highs in 2021 to buy a rugged nft project, that was also before I knew who Vitalik was and what consensus meant. It was however just at the exact right time to start volunteering with Ethereum hackathons around the world. I fell in love with all its possibilities and am now becoming an Ethereum Bard with the right heart to contribute.

Shuyao joined crypto in 2017 and worked as head of BD at consensys for a few years. She now joined MegaETH as cofounder and bring ultra high performance and low latency to the Ethereum community

Director with Sielva Management SA, established in 1976, Zug/Switzerland. Supporting Blockchain & FinTech startups from incorporation to growth with domiciling, independent directorship and family office like services. Professional board member of blockchain companies and Foundation. Experienced in supporting licensing projects such as Securities firm and FinTech with the Swiss Financial Market Authority FINMA.

Lecturer at University of Applied sciences Zurich (CH, since 2022). Guest lecturer at ETH Zurich (CH, 2022-2023), CCFE (CH, since 2023), Business School Friburg (CH, 2022), University of Applied sciences Utrecht (NL, 2022-2023), University of Wyoming (USA, 2022), University of Southern Denmark (DK, 2021-2022), Swinburne University of Technology (AUS, 2022). In person speaker RegTech Forum (CH, 2023, 2024), EthereumZurich (2024), FinConJo (JOR, 2022) re. Digital Asset, ETH Risk Day re. Digital Assets evolution (CH, 2022), Swiss Compliance Officer SACO re. Digital Asset (2022). Online speaker at WWF APAC re Metaverse for fundraising (2022). Online Panellist eg SFTA re. Future of banking and metaverse (2022), SFTA re. Blockchain from crypto to smart contracts (2022). In person panelist: HK FinTech Week (HK, 2023), FinTech.li (FL, 2023), Building a better digital first bank (CH, 2023), University of Zurich (CH, 2021), University of Basel (CH, 2021).

Member of Board of Directors at Swiss Finance + Technology Association (SFTA), Expert for FinTech at Kickstartinnovation.com, Advisor to DEC institute re Regulatory & CBDC, Mentor at Tenity.

Master in Business Administration (MBA), Master in int. Project management, Certificate of Advanced Studies CAS in Blockchain from University of Zurich, FinTech Executive Education at Oxford. Certified PMP®, Scrum Master CSM® and Prince2. Identified as among Top333 FinTech influencer (2022).

I'm an experienced web developer and a passionate IT and electronics instructor, specializing in frontend development and enterprise applications built with Angular.
I spend most of my time exploring what's new in the tech world and helping other developers improve their skills.
As a conference speaker, I bring advanced Angular topics, tips for the integration of smart contracts and best solutions for web3 applications.

Chen Qiufan (a.k.a. Stanley Chan) is an award-winning speculative fiction author, creative producer, research fellow, and early investor. His works include Waste Tide and AI 2041: Ten Visions for Our Future (co-authored with Dr. Kai-Fu Lee).

I'm Associate Professor of Urban Design at the Department of Urbanism, Program Director of MSc MADE at AMS Institute and co-director of VR-BK at BK-LABS. My main objective is to improve the Urban Design process by applying new technologies, modelling and simulation, e.g. by using VR and AR as key design tools. In my methods I use evidence-based design and digital tools: integration of traditional mapping, dynamic user data and sensing technologies. Users play a central role in my approach: the City from Eye-level perspective. My research is covering HEALTH by focussing on Active modes (Walking/biking) in relation to the Built Environment.

As a mathematician, Steffen has >20 years of experience in method and software development. In 2017 he started to implement web3 technology for real-world applications. In 2022, he co-founded corpus, a venture studio for web3 applications, and now, he is the CEO of one of the spinoffs - dm3.

Stella Schaller works as a systemic transformation facilitator and is co-founder of Reinventing Society (www.realutopien.de/en). She leads consulting projects and holistic trainings that empower people to co-create a regenerative future. Stella previously worked in policy consulting in the field of SDGs and climate diplomacy, including projects for the German Federal Foreign Office and the UN. More: www.stellaschaller.de

Team lead, ethical hacker, developer in Ackee Blockchain Security. Former mobile apps developer in legacy banking and CeFi. Professor of Solidity at Czech Technical University.

Stephen Ajayi is a seasoned Cyber Security Professional based in London, England. His expertise spans offensive security, blockchain security auditing, and security research, with proficiency in programming languages like Python and Solidity. Currently, Stephen excels as the DApp Audit Technical Lead at Hacken, where he leads the security analysis of decentralized applications across various blockchain technologies. His role involves conducting in-depth dapp audits, code reviews, penetration testing, and ensuring the security integrity of blockchain infrastructures. Stephen's technical acumen and strategic insights are vital in managing teams, guiding audit processes, and engaging with stakeholders to fortify blockchain security landscapes.

Tereza Bízková is a Colombia-based tech writer and communications professional exploring the intersection of blockchain and positive impact. Having worked in Web3 for over two years, she co-founded ReFi Colombia and ReFi Medellin and is dedicated to forging partnerships and growing the local regenerative ecosystem.

Tibor Tribus, CEO and Co-Founder of Maya-ZK, leads the creation of a proving middleware layer for ZKP clients, harnessing custom firmware and hardware acceleration to redefine efficiency in zero-knowledge proof generation. Before Maya-ZK, he contributed his expertise as a Smart Contract Auditor at Ackee Security,

Tim is Head of Crypto Research at BlueYard Capital. He was previously a developer at Balancer, and AWS before that. He discovered Bitcoin in 2011, Ethereum in 2016, and has been obsessed with crypto and decentralization ever since.

Tobias is the co-founder of growthepie.xyz 🥧📏. He has a strong background in product design as well as education & training for innovation and Design Thinking, for example designing and delivering educational courses for founders for Tech Open Air Berlin. For growthepie, he is responsible for design, partnerships and communications.

Tomas Eminger currently leads the RockawayX Infra division, operating the most efficient infrastructure for blockchains. He advocates for sovereign bare-metal operations as the key to a decentralized future and is currently focusing on enhancing the performance of the ZK proving stack.

Co-founder / CEO at Pheasant Network.

I like new technologies, this brought me to web development over 20 years ago, then to Kubernetes and container, AI, blockchain and now to privacy focused tech.

I co-founded Delendum (a cryptography focused research lab) and am working on new products that adapt to the needs of more distributed economic frameworks at Lita.

Victor is a physicist passionate about exploring complex systems, especially those surrounding decentralized technologies. His journey from academia to entrepreneurship has been marked by a keen interest in building digital communities and creating content, allowing him to authentically connect with developers and technology enthusiasts.

Vinay Gupta is the CEO and founder of Mattereum, focused on bringing physical assets onto the blockchain. Mattereum creates a digital identity layer for real-world objects, enabling new fractional ownership, governance, and trading models using blockchain technology. Vinay has been deeply involved in blockchain for over a decade, playing a central role as the release coordinator for Ethereum's launch in 2015 - the pioneering platform introducing smart contracts and dApps. Prior, he served as a strategic architect at ConsenSys.

Vincenzo Iovino is the Lead Cryptographer of AZKR Research. He got a PhD in Cryptography from University of Salerno in 2011. He has been postdoc, researcher and assistant professor at the universities of Warsaw, Luxembourg, and Salerno. His main research interests are cryptography and security. During COVID19 he hacked the Google&Apple Exposure notification system (RC3 2020 and CT-RSA 2021) and recently he designed the Bank3 and League of Identity systems and along with the AZKR Team he worked on the first anonymous voting protocol used by the Nouns DAO.

Co-founder of Ethereum

Vojtěch Kotecký is a Czech sustainability researcher who works at the Charles University
Environment Centre in Prague. He leads a small unit that focuses on integrating nature and
biodiversity agendas with business sustainability.
Dr. Kotecký has got 30 years’ experience with environmental research and advocacy. He has
been campaigns director of Hnutí DUHA (Friends of the Earth Czech Republic) for ten years.
He has held a number of advisory appointments including membership in the Government
Council for Sustainable Development. He was the deputy chair of the Commission for
Climate Action of the government’s Research, Development and Innovation Council, and sits
in the Ministry of Environment Scientific Council as well as the boards of the Nature
Conservation Agency – the Czech statutory conservation body – and České Švýcarsko
National Park. He has also served as the chair of Friends of the Earth Europe.
The author or co-author of a number of research reports and policy briefs on various
environmental and sustainability issues, Vojtěch Kotecký also wrote hundreds of popular
articles, mainly in national daily newspapers, and has shared a column in Respekt, a Czech
weekly, for nine years. In 2007, he received Minister of Environment Award “for a significant
contribution to the factual tone and scientific approaches in the public debate on
environmental protection”.
Vojtěch Kotecký graduated in biology and ecology from the Charles University in Prague, and
holds a Ph.D. in environmental studies from the same university.

EigenLayer - Solution Architect
Protocol Labs - Product Manager with Project Bacalhau
Google Cloud
Cloudera / Hortonworks
IBM

EF security researcher, co-author of ERC-4337 and working on bringing account abstraction to Ethereum. Been hacking for decades and built a couple of widely used security technologies.

Through multiple roles in Forbes 500 companies, crypto startups and communities, Yulia has accumulated extensive experience in working with people from education to partnerships management, as well as expertise in tech project & product management, business development and operations management.
Being a part of the crypto industry since 2017, she has done analytical researches, onboarded newcomers (especially female), developed communities, and built few startups and launched products in the space.

Currently, she is one of the founding members of BEAST DAO that aims to provide a way for people to come together and jointly work on things they care about.

And she is driving BEAST members' efforts on building PoM (Proof-of-membership) - an authentication system for communities.

Hi! I’m Yulu Pi (all my friends call me Niki). I am currently a PhD candidate from University of Warwick. I worked in several governmental and international organizations before the start of my Phd. My research centers on enhancing the transparency and fairness of AI by leveraging concepts and techniques from Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) and cognitive science literature. My work extends beyond technical and design issues to consider how explainability can be incorporated into governance.

I am also working with The Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence at university of Cambridge on the The In-Depth EU AI Act Toolkit project. We want to design a toolkit for small and medium-sized company to ensure ethical and compliance considerations from the stage of project ideation to product deployment.