OuiShare Fest 2015: Imagining our decentralized future (1):...

View analytic

Imagining our decentralized future (1): Unpanel discussion groups

You need this ticket from Eventbrite to sign up: 3-Day Early Bird Ticket*. 3-Day Early Bird Extended Ticket* 3-Day Regular Ticket* 1-Day Regular Ticket* 3-Day Hacker & Student Ticket

Drawing a picture of how a decentralized future might look like, and what it could mean to a community-focused society.

We're holding unpanel-style discussions in subgroups simultaneously on several themes. Pick the one you like, or move around. Participants are expected to stay on for the groups feedback session following immediately after.

The approximate discussion groups are the following:

Circle A: Decentralized identity & blockchain
Circle B: Inclusion & decentralized communities
Circle C: Semantic web, advantages of decentralization and openness

Moderatoren

Auli Kütt

Web & Tech, OuiShare

Online collaboration tools, open source, IndieWeb, scifi pop culture

Joachim Lohkamp

CEO, Jolocom / Ouishare

Joachim is an entrepreneur and tech enthusiast. He is obsessed with knowledge, change and innovation. Currently, he is Founder and CEO of Jolocom, a Berlin based startup building decentralized tools that lets you generate your own digital identity to assist linkage and attribution of data. Besides that Joachim is a connector for Ouishare, currently curating the content for the Decentralization & Blockchain track of the next Ouishare Fest in... Read More →

Speakers

Sylvain Le Bon

Dirigeant, Open Initiative

Guillaume Capelle

Nominated for the project, Calm

Guillaume Capelle is a French social entrepreneur who created Singa : an international non profit organization connecting refugees with relevant social and professional networks in host societies, as well as generating social and tech innovation.

Constance Choi

Founder, Seven Advisory

Matan Field

CEO, Matan Field

A theoretical physicist and entrepreneur, dedicated to connect science and technology with society and humanities, economics and the environment. Have done PhD and postdoctoral research in String Theory, until in late 2013 have co-founded the La'Zooz project -- making a decentralized and collaborative transportation web. Recently have founded Backfeed, building the model and platform to enable the function of large-scale, decentralised... Read More →

Markus Sabadello

CEO, Danube Tech

Markus Sabadello has been a pioneer and leader in the field of digital identity for many years. He is a long-time participant of communities such as the Internet Identity Workshop, and he has contributed to many technologies (OpenID, SAML, OAuth, InfoCards, XDI, SoLiD, etc.) that have emerged in this space. He has been an early participant of decentralization movements such as the Federated Social Web and FreedomBox. He is co-chair of the OASIS... Read More →

Henry Story

Social Web Architect, Henry Story

I studied analytical philosophy in London in the late 1980ies, worked at AltaVista from 1995 to 2001 and at Sun Microsystems from 2004 to 2010. I have been researching the creation of the distributed secure Social Web using Linked Data, working on standardising pieces that are needed at the W3C, implementing these in Scala and Scala-JS and giving talks on the philosophy of the Web.

Chris Ward

Mobile Editor, Sitepoint

Tech lover and advocate. All about educating people with awesome ideas through tutorials, presentations and clear, understandable explanations of complex topics.