Jaromil Roio
Dyne.org
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Neo-cypherpunk summit on cryptography as civic infrastructure, resistance networks, and digital sovereignty in Berlin.
Without privacy there is no democracy.
Gathering at Berlin’s historic Funkhaus, the Neo-Cypherpunk Summit brings together a global network of hacktivists, researchers, technologists, whistleblowers, philosophers, lawyers, policy-makers, artists, organizers and builders.
From defending resistance networks under political duress to scaling cryptography as civic infrastructure, the summit explores how open protocols and privacy tools can become a resilient shared foundation for digital autonomy, free assembly and accountability.
The summit focuses on activist culture, digital rights, free software sustainability, privacy-preserving technology and the collective practice of privacy.
Neocypherpunk extends the original cypherpunk idea beyond the sovereign individual. Privacy is framed here as a collective practice: encryption, open protocols and decentralized infrastructure as shared resources maintained and defended by communities.
Gathering at Berlin’s historic Funkhaus, the Neo-Cypherpunk Summit brings together a global network of hacktivists, researchers, technologists, whistleblowers, philosophers, lawyers, policy-makers, artists, organizers and builders.
From defending resistance networks under political duress to scaling cryptography as civic infrastructure, the summit explores how open protocols and privacy tools can become a resilient shared foundation for digital autonomy, free assembly and accountability.
The summit focuses on activist culture, digital rights, free software sustainability, privacy-preserving technology and the collective practice of privacy.
Neocypherpunk extends the original cypherpunk idea beyond the sovereign individual. Privacy is framed here as a collective practice: encryption, open protocols and decentralized infrastructure as shared resources maintained and defended by communities.
Juan Benet
Protocol Labs
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Xavier Damman
Open Collective
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Isabela Fernandes
Tor Project
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Marek Tuszynski
Tactical Tech
Executive Director and co-founder of Tactical Tech
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Geert Lovink
Institute of Network Cultures
Media theorist, professor at the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences, author of Platform Brutality.
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Tatiana Bazzichelli
Disruption Network Lab
Curator and researcher on information technology, network culture, hacktivism and whistleblowing.
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Matthias Kirschner
Free Software Foundation Europe
Helps organisations, companies and governments understand how they can benefit from Free Software.
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Jarrad Hope
Logos
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Eleftherios
Radicle / Drips
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Dialogue
Discourse to identify and bridge gaps in knowledge, alignment, values and vision.
Knowledge Exchange
Develop skills, strategies and intuition for hacking, organizing and advocacy.
Rituals
Activations and participatory programming inviting exploration through creativity and play.
Field Building
Nourish a cross-disciplinary community of practice exploring how privacy mediates power.
Showcases
Discover bold ideas, meet the makers, and explore innovations shaping the future.
Debates
World-class leaders go head-to-head, rethinking the systems and norms that shape our world.
- 10:00 - 10:10Piergiorgio Catti De Gasperi, Mykola Siusko, Chris Haug, Beth McCarthy, Susanna Davies-CrookOpening Words from Web3Privacy & Comrades
- 10:15 - 10:30Ramy Raoof HalimThe Adversary Is Always Watching: What Can We Learn From Communities Living Under Surveillance
- 10:35 - 10:55Tatiana Bazzichelli, Jonas FrankkiInvestigating the Kill Cloud
- 11:00 - 11:15Brett ScottPrivacy vs 'Progress' - The Case of Cashless Society
- 11:20 - 11:50ml_sudo, Zaki Manian, Cameron Colby Thomson, David Dashyan, Riley WongRoots of Trust: Sovereign Tech as the Last Bastion Against AI Totalitarianism
- 11:55 - 12:05Piergiorgio Catti De GasperiThe Politics of Privacy: Autonomy and Power in the Digital Age - Book Series Presentation
- 12:10 - 12:25Marek TuszynskiPolitics of Gen AI
- 12:30 - 13:00Jaya Klara Brekke, Alessandro Longo, Alistair Alexander, Susanna Davies-CrookDeviant Slop: Power and Control in AI
- 13:00 - 14:00Lunch break
- 14:05 - 14:15Migle RakitaiteDecentralization Theatre
- 14:15 - 14:45Viktor Tron, Mario Havel, Kyle den Hartog, Meinhard Benn, Migle RakitaiteThe Decentralization Stack: Where Are We Still Lying to Ourselves?
- 14:50 - 15:20Adam Burns, Bradley Clark Royes, Liz Steininger, Calle, Beth McCarthyBuilding the Stack: Self-Hosted, Mesh and Decentralized Infrastructure in Practice
- 15:25 - 15:40Cade DiehmOnce in a Lifetime
- 15:45 - 16:00Geert LovinkFrom Platform Brutality to Streaming Alternatives
- 16:05 - 16:35Xavier Damman, Matthias Kirschner, Tara Merk, Joshua Dávila, Florian GlatzStewarding Resilient, Free & Open Digital Infrastructures
- 16:40 - 17:05Laura Lotti, Andrea Leiter, Beth McCarthyHolding Volatility: Exocapitalism and Web3
- 17:10 - 17:25Isabela Fernandes20 years of the Tor Project: How an anonymity tool became public interest infrastructure
- 17:30 - 18:00Sebastian Vogelsang, Caroline Paulick-Thiel, paksoy, Rose Regina Lawrence, Will ScottPower, Protocols and Public Interests in Governing the Decentralized Web
- 18:05 - 18:30polar, lunar_miningPerspectives on Neocypherpunk
- 18:30 - 18:40Web3Privacy TeamHauptbühne Closing Words
- 18:55 - 19:55The Plural Monolith: A Collective Livecoding Music Experiment
- 10:45 - 10:55Robert de GrootVolksbühne Opening Words
- 11:00 - 11:25Mate Soos, Daniel CalderonNaming the Harm: A Privacy Threat Vocabulary for Cypherpunks
- 11:30 - 11:45Raphael RobertFrom standardizing Messaging Layer Security (MLS) to building Air, a new private messenger
- 11:50 - 12:05Shayan EskandariWe Promised Decentralization, but Forgot to Build the Infrastructure.
- 12:10 - 12:25Una WangNo Longer Just Concrete: the Collapse of Private Space
- 12:30 - 13:00Bastin Jafari, Kris Decoodt, Koss, Nikoline, Piergiorgio Catti De GasperiPlural Events - Privacy, and Real and Local Collective Actions
- 13:00 - 14:00Lunch break
- 14:05 - 14:10Kate StapletonIntro to State of Privacy in Web3
- 14:15 - 15:15polymutex, Igor Mandrigin, Connor O'Hara, Marina Markezic, Kimmo Sirén, Kate Stapleton, Max HampshireState of Privacy in Web3: Where We Are, Where We're Going
- 15:20 - 15:50Binji Pande, Nick Almond, Lefteris KarapetsasCROPS or Bust! Towards an Open Source, Censorship Resistant, Private and Secure Ethereum
- 15:55 - 16:10Nicole YehPrivacy Without Surveillance: Deploying Anonymous Verification in Real Systems
- 16:15 - 16:30Péter SzilágyiSelf-sovereign genomics: turning biology cypherpunk
- 16:35 - 16:50serinkoRojavaNet: People, revolution & free internet
- 17:00 - 17:10Rose Regina LawrenceThe Revolution Will Be Archived: Decentralized Preservation for Accountability and Sovereignty
- 17:15 - 17:40Yonatan, Josephine Shen, Rainer RehakResistance and Political Organization in the Shadow of Big Tech
- 17:45 - 18:00Arturo FilastòMeasuring the Internet to fight censorship
- 18:05 - 18:30Eslem Demirel, Tobi, Jaya Klara BrekkeNo Tech for Apartheid
- 18:35 - 18:50Justin ShenkBuilding for Epistemic Accountability and Human Judgement in the Age of AI
- 18:55 - 19:05Jake HartnellSymbients: An Alternative Intelligence Narrative
- 19:10 - 19:20MoistCryptographyProgrammable Cryptography and the Art of Selling Your Face
- 19:20 - 19:25Robert de GrootVolksbühne Closing Words
- 10:30 - 10:35Raul, Martin, PeterIntro to Dept of Decentralization Workshop Room
- 10:35 - 12:05Raul, Spring OnionOpen ended introduction to GrapheneOS
- 12:10 - 13:25Mario HavelFOSSify yourself for privacy and security
- 13:00 - 14:00Lunch Break
- 14:30 - 16:00Vijay KrishnavanshiThe Walkaway Test: from Everyday Apps to AI agents (Fileverse)
- 16:05 - 17:20ZimtFighting the Right Battles: A Cypherpunk Strategy Session Hosted/facilitated by Zimt
- 17:25 - 17:30Raul, Martin, PeterClosing remarks to DoD Workshop Room
- 10:30 - 10:40Joshua Dávila, Gilberto MorishawIntroduction to Bread Coop Zone
- 10:40 - 11:15Tara Merk, Joshua Dávila, Andreas Arnold, Ela Kagel, Anna ThieserDemocracy and Technology
- 11:15 - 11:45FranciscoBread Cooperative: Community Savings Tools Stacks Showcase
- 11:45 - 12:25Kassandra, Bagelface, Luis BezzenbergerLightning Rounds: Kohaku , Gas Killer , Threshold homomorphic private voting
- 12:25 - 12:40Phakin (Kin) NimmannorrawongOn Cryptoleftism
- 12:40 - 13:00Florian GlatzFreedom Browser Workshop
- 13:00 - 14:00Lunch break
- 13:30 - 14:00Gilberto Morishaw, Unai, Guil MaulerCreative Jam: Co-creation and the Arts
- 14:00 - 14:20Miho Soon, Simone RobuttiIntroduction to Practical Political Organizing
- 14:20 - 15:20Alessandro Longo, Gilberto MorishawThe Good, The Just, and The Godly
- 14:50 - 15:00Paul McCloudTraditional Dream Factory
- 15:05 - 16:05Guil Mauler, Unai, Gilberto MorishawCreativity in the Age of AI
- 16:00 - 16:10Julio LinaresDecolonizing Money: The Promise of Abolishing the US Dollar Book Talk
- 16:15 - 16:45Julio Linares, Gianmarco Christofari, Francisco, Gilberto MorishawEconomies at a Crossroads: Latin America
- 16:45 - 17:00Gilberto Morishaw, Joshua DávilaExploring our Relationship with Labor
- 17:10 - 17:40Joshua Dávila, Andrea Leiter, Laura LottiChat with Laura Lotti and Andrea Leiter on Exocapitalism
- 17:40 - 18:10Unai, Gilberto MorishawFrom Robo-Gandhi to Cyber-Martin Luther King
Tatiana Bazzichelli & Jonas Frankki
Disruption Network Lab
“Investigating the Kill Cloud”
Watch on YouTubePiergiorgio Catti De Gasperi
W3PN
“The Politics of Privacy: Autonomy and Power in the Digital Age”
Watch on YouTubeJaya Klara Brekke, Alessandro Longo & Alistair Alexander
“Deviant Slop: Power and Control in AI”
Watch on YouTubeMeinhard Benn, Viktor Tron, Mario Havel & Kyle den Hartog
“Where Are We Still Lying to Ourselves?”
Watch on YouTubeA. Burns, B.C. Royes, L. Steininger & Calle
“Self-Hosted, Mesh and Decentralized Infra in Practice”
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