Web3
Summit
2025

JULY 16-18

FUNKHAUS BERLIN

Web3
Summit
2025

JULY 16-18
FUNKHAUS BERLIN
Tickets
WED 16
10:10 - 11:00 GMT +2
Opening Keynote Day 1: Trust
Studio 1
Ian Grigg
Ricardian Contracts
Inventor, Financial Cryptographer
11:00 - 11:25 GMT +2
What’s in a VM? The Execution Engines Powering Web3’s Future
Studio 2
Torsten Stüber
Parity Technologies
Engineering Manager
11:00 - 11:25 GMT +2
Accelerating Brain Interfaces with a Web3 Twist
Studio 1
Trent McConaghy
Ocean Protocol
Founder
11:25 - 11:50 GMT +2
Collaborator protocol & censorship resistance
Studio 2
Jeffrey Burdges
Web3 Foundation
Researcher
Bhargav Bhatt
Web3 Foundation
Researcher
11:25 - 11:50 GMT +2
Museums On-chain
Studio 1
Riccardo Perillo
Future Maastricht Museum
Founder
11:30 - 12:30 GMT +2
IPFS for Verifiable (D)App Distribution and Retrieval on the Web
Workshop
Daniel Norman
Interplanetary Shipyard
Developer Advocate
11:50 - 12:20 GMT +2
Panel: Governing the Decentralized Future
Studio 1
Bill Laboon
Web3 Foundation
Head of Education and Governance Initiatives
Angela Kreitenweis
TokenEngineering Academy
Founder
11:50 - 12:15 GMT +2
Let Blockchains Breathe: Architecting Scalability with Asynchronous Execution
Studio 2
Ali Merchant
Warden Protocol
Head of Devrel
12:20 - 12:45 GMT +2
Energy and AI Safety
Studio 1
Ed Hesse
Energy Web Foundation
Co-founder & Chairman
12:20 - 12:45 GMT +2
What would threshold cryptography look like in Polkadot
Studio 2
Alistair Stewart
Web3 Foundation
Lead Scientist
12:45 - 14:15 GMT +2
LUNCH BREAK
Outdoor
13:45 - 14:45 GMT +2
Content addressed storage and verified streaming for iroh
Workshop
Rüdiger Klaehn
iroh / n0 inc
Independent hacker
14:15 - 14:40 GMT +2
Tokenized Sentiment: Staking as a New Form of Expression
Studio 1
Harry Evans
Frequency / Project Liberty
CTO
15:00 - 16:00 GMT +2
Reputation for your projects: disco, otters, oranges, and hats Oh My!
Workshop
Grace Rachmany
DAO Leadership
Founder
15:05 - 15:35 GMT +2
Fireside: Policy in the Protocol Age: Web3 and the State
Studio 1
Tomicah Tillemann
Project Liberty
President
15:05 - 15:30 GMT +2
State of distributed validators in 2025
Studio 2
Max Sherwood
H2O Nodes
Co-founder
16:00 - 16:25 GMT +2
The Web3 Mullet: Web2 UX in the Front, Blockchain Logic in the Back
Studio 1
Kristinn Kristinsson
CCP Games
Technical Director
16:25 - 16:40 GMT +2
BREAK
Studio 1
16:40 - 17:40 GMT +2
Closing Keynote Day 1
Studio 1
Gavin Wood
Polkadot
Founder
17:40 - 19:40 GMT +2
Welcome Reception
Outdoor
THU 17
10:00 - 10:50 GMT +2
Opening Keynote Day 2
Studio 1
Jaya Klara Brekke
Nym
Chief Strategy Officer
11:15 - 11:40 GMT +2
Rethinking Developer Infrastructure: Decentralized and Democratized
Studio 2
Johannes Kühlewindt
radicle
Org Lead
11:15 - 11:45 GMT +2
Panel: Building Developer Communities
Studio 1
Pooja Ranjan
Ethereum Cat Herders
President, Herder-In-Chief
Angie Darrow
Web3 Foundation
CECO & CMO
11:30 - 12:30 GMT +2
Implementing the JAM Blockchain Protocol with Elixir
Workshop
Daniel Cukier
jamixir
Core Developer
11:45 - 12:10 GMT +2
Encrypted by Default: The Evolution of Data Control in Decentralized Networks
Studio 2
Wil Wade
Frequency / Project Liberty
Director of Blockchain Engineering
12:35 - 13:00 GMT +2
Regenerative capital allocation
Studio 2
Kevin Owocki
Allo.Capital
Founder
12:35 - 13:00 GMT +2
RISC-V Macro Perspective in web3 context and Polkadot JAM
Studio 1
Qinwen Wang
Lollipop Builder Ltd.
CEO, Founder
13:00 - 14:30 GMT +2
LUNCH BREAK
Outdoor
14:00 - 15:00 GMT +2
Building the commerce protocols to scale AI agent Economy
Workshop
Sunny Chen
Aladdin
Founder and CEO
14:30 - 14:55 GMT +2
The Oracles Secure The Data — Who Secures The Oracles?
Studio 1
Adán Sánchez de Pedro Crespo
Wit/Oracle
Founder
15:15 - 16:15 GMT +2
Introducing Brevity: An interpreted EVM language that runs arbitrary workflows
Workshop
Jonathan Wolff
Isentropy
CTO
16:15 - 17:15 GMT +2
Closing Keynote Day 2
Studio 1
Joe Halpern
Cornell University
Joseph C. Ford Professor of Computer Science
17:15 - 19:15 GMT +2
Happy Hour
Outdoor
FRI 18
10:00 - 10:45 GMT +2
Opening Keynote Day 3: Taking Decentralized AI Mainstream
Studio 1
Anna Kazlauskas
Vana
Co-founder & CEO
10:45 - 11:10 GMT +2
Accountable AI agents
Studio 1
Ingo Rübe
KILT Protocol
Founder
11:10 - 11:35 GMT +2
Exploring wallets with Personhood: Integrate Smart Profiles into your dApps
Studio 2
Hira Siddiqui
Plurality Network
Co-founder/CEO
11:10 - 11:35 GMT +2
Confidential, self‑sovereign LLMs
Studio 1
Alessandro De Carli
Acurast Association
Co-Founder
11:30 - 12:30 GMT +2
Your Protocol, Your Rules: Build and Launch a Custom Data Protocol on Frequency
Workshop
Wil Wade
Frequency / Project Liberty
Director of Blockchain Engineering
11:35 - 12:00 GMT +2
Token Rights as a New Governance Paradigm
Studio 1
Rafa Fernández
ZKsync
Head of Governance
11:35 - 12:00 GMT +2
Dismantling One Data Monopoly at a Time in the Age of AI
Studio 2
Alfonso de la Rocha
Finisterra Labs
CTO
12:30 - 13:30 GMT +2
LUNCH BREAK
Outdoor
13:30 - 13:55 GMT +2
Open Swords Software: From Cypherpunk to Sapphirepunk
Studio 1
Wassim Alsindi
0xSalon
Philosopher of Technology
13:55 - 14:20 GMT +2
Aligned Apps: Software That Works For You
Studio 1
Lefteris Karapetsas
rotki
Founder
14:20 - 15:20 GMT +2
Closing Keynote Day 3: To be Announced
Studio 1
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