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PSLab developer

Principal engineer @ Eilbek Research, find us at eilbek-research.de

Brandon has been a privacy advocate and an occasional contributor to the Monero protocol, via the Monero Research Lab, since 2014. He earned his Ph.D. in Mathematical Sciences from Clemson University in 2017, and has since worked at Monero Research Lab, Geometry Labs, and Cypher Stack.

Co-founder Ledger, now https://www.zknox.com

Cade is the Head of Research at the World Ethical Data Foundation, and founder of New Design Congress and Para-Real Limited, an R&D research lab.

With a multi-disciplinary background in information security, interface politics and digital anthropology, Cade and his team study technology's macro-influence on subcultures, economic livelihoods, identity, conflict and ecological relationships. As New Design Congress' founder, Cade leads an ambitious research programme that anticipates how digital dependence creates brittle societies by accelerating risks across economics, infrastructure, identity, and ecology.

Prior to founding New Design Congress, Cade was a security researcher at Tactical Tech, a Berlin-based NGO focused on digital rights. He contributed to Signal’s initial launch in the early 2010s, and headed a design-led security practice at SpiderOak, a pioneering zero-knowledge cloud storage company. Cade’s work has informed a wide range of projects and organisations, from the European Parliament and the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, to PEN America and VRChat. He serves on the executive board of the Australian and New Zealand Society for Ecological Economics and the observer board of the Digital Credentials for Europe (DC4EU), a European Union Digital Europe Programme pilot. From 1999 to 2006, Cade represented Australia in international disability swimming, and holds Australian and world records.

Cade resides in Berlin with his partner and two Shiba Inus, Ripley and Kodak.

Casey has a PhD in Philosophy from the University of Guelph. He is currently researching anti-surveillance and anarchist technologies. He is the Comms Lead and lead writer for Nym.

Chris has had no Ham license for decades, mostly because there always was something else eating up his time. But next congress, definitely.
Chris does not expect the fall of civilisation and would not consider himself a prepper, but being able to communicate if centralised infrastructure is not available for a while seems like a good idea and the real treasure are the friends we make on the way.
Contact:
Matrix: @chris:strafpla.net
Mastodon: @chris@strafpla.net
https://mail.strafpla.net

Elizabeth Jane Cole is responsible for space analog research mission development at Offworld Voyage with a focus on designing decentralized and distributed coordination systems for autonomous and collective action through the Offworld Voyage 'Astronaut Collectives Are Beautiful' initiative.

She is a co founder of Evil Twin Booking Agency, a collectively run agency representing public figures in science, journalism, arts and activism, where she has served in administrative, logistical and creative roles since 2002. While leading the organization she has helped develop story and strategy for projects that promote intelligent debate and independent critical thinking.

Elizabeth is an alumna of the Mars Desert Research Station (MDRS Crew 286), and a core committee member of the Journal of Space Analog Research, a peer-reviewed publication from The Mars Society dedicated to advancing our understanding of human space exploration through terrestrial analog studies.

In the past she has written for Wired Magazine and has produced an episode for NPR's Love and Radio Podcast.

Floris is a software engineer at number 0 where he builds networking
protocols in Rust to support user agency. Previously he's been an SRE
and Python developer.

When not creating software Floris can be found in the mountains,
climbing, ski touring or paragliding.

Francisco Cabañas (articmine@getmonero.org): Based in Canada, Francisco holds a PhD and MSc in Physics, a BSc in Physics and Mathematics, and has extensive business and non-profit experience. He has actively researched and invested in cryptocurrencies, since 2011, and focuses on the economic, social, regulatory and long-term economic viability aspects of cryptocurrencies. Francisco has researched and studied scaling. POW security, spam mitigation, fees, fee markets and the adaptive block weight in Monero since 2014. He is currently working on the scaling, spam mitigation and fees of Monero, ahead of the upcoming fork of Monero to implement the Full Chain Membership Proofs plus plus (FCMP++) privacy and fungibility upgrade. Francisco also has been a Core Team Member of the Monero Project, https://getmonero.org/, since 2016.

Freeman Slaughter is a postdoc at the University of South Florida, having obtained his Ph.D. from Clemson University, with a focus on zero-knowledge proofs. He has been spearheading the push to migrate cryptocurrencies to post-quantum standards, having published a few of them himself.

I'm idk, I'm the current lead developer of the Java and Go I2P router projects, I sometimes also work with other privacy-enhancing technologies such as Monero and Tor. I believe privacy is normal, and am on a mission to normalize privacy for everyone.

I'm the Lead Application Engineer at Namecoin. I work on Namecoin's TLS and Tor interoperability, among other things.

Got into scripting via The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind modding as a wee lad and went onto earn a first job by programming free bots for EverQuest II, Guild Wars, and World of Warcraft, which led to being hired by a succession of online gaming loot companies. Dabbled in PlayStation Portable modding, learning more scripting and delving into lower-level languages and the jailbreaking process itself. Studied at the United States Naval Academy, including Cyber Warfare coursework, with associated Navy service. Moved onto machine learning work (mostly categorization) for BlyncSync Technologies correlating head and eye movements to fatigue, all the while becoming more and more engrossed in privacy and cryptography applications. Now working with Cypher Stack, a cryptography and cryptocurrency software development studio focusing on privacy protocols, on applications related to or directly involving Tor, Monero, and similar privacy protocols and cryptocurrencies like Firo, Epic Cash, Bitcoin Cash and CashFusion, etc.

Hey, my name is Joshua Dávila and I’m the writer / podcaster behind The Blockchain Socialist. Originally pseudo-anonymous, I’ve come out of the anon closet with the publishing of my book Blockchain Radicals: How Capitalism Ruined Crypto and How to Fix It published through Repeater Books in 2023. I am also a co-founder of Bread Cooperative where we build crypto applications from a post-capitalist point of view.

Laurin is a full-stack developer and likes working on decentralized technologies. His interests lie in application interoperability, RDF, and local-first.

Apart from contributing to NextGraph, Laurin works on ActivityPods, a framework to create decentralized social apps based on ActivityPub and Solid.

Laurin is involved with climate and social activism. Apart from that, he is interested in Science, Technology, and Society. He is based in Graz where he studies Computational Social Systems.

Contributor to Radicle. See lorenz.leutgeb.xyz

Ethereum Foundation researcher, founder of Bordel Hackerspace in Prague. A hacker active in decentralized systems, hardware and art (proofof.cat), embracing FOSS and living 5+ years unbanked.

Mario Behling is a technologist and entrepreneur with over two decades of experience in open source development and digital innovation. He is the co-founder of FOSSASIA, the open source community in Asia, which plays a key role in advancing the FOSS movement across the region. Mario has launched numerous open source initiatives and companies spanning software and hardware, and continues to promote open technologies through education, community building, and enterprise solutions. He is the CEO of OpnTec, a German open source company focused on sustainable tech, and advises international organizations including the UNESCO on digital transformation strategies. He also served as a board member of the Open Source Business Alliance Germany, supporting open source adoption across public and private sectors.

Mathias develops since over 25 years open-source projects. He created the OSINT project Zone*Interdite, developed censorship detection and circumvention software, as well as resilient communication tools. He is the project manager of the off-the-grid P2P mesh communication messenger qaul.

Software engineer by day. Philosopher and artist by night.

Developing Z-Wave and other IoT controllers and devices for 17 years, I'm an active member of the Z-Wave Alliance open standard organization and chief of controller solutions at Trident IoT.

I'm a technologist passionate about FOSS, functional programming, decentralized systems, and embedded technologies.

I'm actively developing practical applications on top of Bitcoin and decentralized finance, with a focus on solving real-world problems. I'm also open to exploring and supporting technologies that align with this goal.

I'm always curious about how systems are built—from overall design down to the implementation details. My experience includes Haskell, Nix, Rust, Android development, blockchain integration, microservices orchestration, and infrastructure operations. I'm also interested embedded and low-power technologies like ESP32s, FPGAs, and LoRa.

In my free time, I contribute to open source projects like Nixpkgs, support efforts to grow blockchain adoption, and study the RF environment around me.

Graphic & web designer, bitcoiner, traveler, explorer of the forefront tech that shapes web evolution.

Experienced tech-lead, founder and hacker. You can reach out via email - connect@tautvilas.lt

independent researcher, distributed systems & decentralized networks

I started as an artist working on abstract scultpures as a free spirit -
but turned into free-design hardware development during the time of
Snowden revelations. I just could not stand that we are all cheated,
tricked, and manipulated -- and tried to elaborate escapes on a digital
hardware level. Initially, this activity was meant to save my children
and their innocent minds -- now I see that mankind has to get rescued.