Agenda
Two days of talks, music, workshops, installations, and performances across Funkhaus as we address one simple but urgent question: Who should control our digital future?
Studio Two is open to attendees throughout the event. Use the Web3 Summit Conference App to book a slot and arrange a pop-up talk or presentation.
THU 18
09:00 – 20:00
Chill Space by Astral Industries
Outdoor
London based electronic music label Astral Industries, run by Ario Farahani, are providing the music for the chill out area Space to Think across both days of Web3 Summit. Their artists have exhibited and performed at various notable venues worldwide including the Barbican, Berghain, Bassiani and MoMA to name a few.
Ario
Nathalia
Hems
Romi
Planatia
09:00 – 20:00
Wooden Workshop
Outdoor
One Of A Kind, 2026, Collaborative wooden sculpture. Sascha Reichel (aka sheraya_berlin) is the artist and wood sculptor behind One Of A Kind, the collaborative lifesize wooden sculpture workshop at Web3 Summit. The physicality of his artistic process provides a calming, creative space as an outlet from the realities of modern life and technology.
Sheraya
09:00 – 20:00
Collective Canvas
Outdoor
Collaborative Canvas, 2026, Acrylic on canvas. Collaborative Canvas explores collective creation through open participation. Throughout the Web3 Summit, everyone can actively contribute to three collaborative paintings that focus on themes of participation, experimentation, and exchange among people and diverse perspectives.
Taja Vaetoru
Leo Schill
09:00 – 20:00
FalkLand
Outdoor
Gather around as we collect memories and swag from past events with intention. Every party needs an ending. This will be the ending we all want.
FalkLand
09:00 – 22:00
Lasermice
Room H2
All day.
So Kanno
09:00 – 22:00
The Way of Flowers
Room H2
Room H2-2
All day.
CROSSLUCID
09:00 – 22:00
Stardust & Resonant Ecology
Studio 4
Interactive art installations by Felix Paul Niemeyer (Stardust) and Rahul Sharma (Resonant Ecology). The two works will alternate throughout the day — exact switch times to be confirmed.
Felix Paul Niemeyer
Rahul Sharma
10:00 – 10:05
Opening & Housekeeping
Studio 1
Pascal Possler
10:00 – 17:00
Developer Playground
Foyer
10:05 – 10:50
Say Hello to the Web3 Summit Apps
Studio 1
Anton Khvorov
Alex Bird
10:50 – 11:15
The Hidden Price of Free: What Your Data Is Really Worth
Studio 1
Bill Laboon
Oliver Poole
Heidi Mallace
11:00 – 19:00
Custom Jewelry Workshop
Outdoor
Ascending Transmission, 2026, Laser engraving on metal. This workshop represents the “Co-Creation” element of the Web3 Summit. Ascending Transmission is an interactive transmission that reads the shape of your choices and returns something you didn't know you were looking for. Shapes are generated using an app by Metakosmia and engraved on necklaces by a laser engraver.
11:00 – 12:00
Introducing the exit to community cookbook
Room H1
How can Web3 projects move beyond the rhetoric of decentralization and actually build ownership structures that are more accountable, resilient, and community-aligned?
BlockchainGov's new Exit to Community (E2C) Cookbook delivers practical tools, real-world case studies, and ready-to-use governance frameworks to help projects, platforms, and organizations successfully transition toward shared ownership, community stewardship, and genuine participatory governance.
Tara Merk
Lovisa Björna
11:30 – 11:55
More Truth - What Web3 Was Chasing and What Got Away
Studio 1
Andrea Leiter
12:00 – 13:00
Polkadot 2030
Studio 1
Gavin Wood
13:00 – 13:45
Polkadot Platform – Under the Hood
Studio 2
Torsten Stüber
Adrian-Costin Catangiu
13:30 – 15:30
Live-Coding Music workshop
Studio 4
Please bring your laptop and headphones to take part in the workshop.
Antonio Roberts aka hellocatfood
14:00 – 14:30
The Neutral Ground: Money, power, and the multipolar internet
Studio 1
Friederike Ernst
14:00 – 14:45
Build & deploy your first next-gen Web3 product in 10 minutes with Playground.dot
Studio 2
Karim Jedda
Ionut Zolti
14:30 – 15:00
The K-Hole Economy and the Permanent Underclass
Studio 1
Joshua Dávila
14:45 – 15:30
Scalable Web3 Storage for Products
Studio 2
Robert Klotzner
15:00 – 16:00
Play, Own, Build: The New Foundations of Gaming
Room H1
Room H1-4
Ludovico Dominguez
Remy Le Berre
Shawn Tabrizi
15:30 – 16:30
Keynote
Studio 1
Yanis Varoufakis
15:30 – 16:15
Product-sdk: Building Products on Polkadot
Studio 2
Valentin Fernandez
16:15 – 16:45
SPACE
Studio 2
OPEN TO ATTENDEES
16:30 – 17:00
Manifesto for a Dark Renaissance: Anonymity as Hard Offensive Power
Studio 1
Amir Taaki
17:00 – 17:05
Closing & Housekeeping
Studio 1
Pascal Possler
17:20 – 17:40
Tee Ceremony
Room H1
CIRCADIAN
18:00 – 19:30
The Plural Monolith
Studio 4
A collective livecoding experiment featuring Alexandra Cardenas.
EthSwarm x DarfFi x WinPrivacy
Alexandra Cardenas
18:45 – 20:45
Art performance
Room H1
Room H1-4
Veronika Janovec
20:00 – 21:00
Live-Coding Music performance
Studio 4
Antonio Roberts aka hellocatfood
21:45 – 00:00
Mobile Kino Pop Up Cinema
Outdoor
Screening THE MATRIX.
FRI 19
09:00 – 16:00
Chill Space by Astral Industries
Outdoor
London based electronic music label Astral Industries, run by Ario Farahani, are providing the music for the chill out area Space to Think across both days of Web3 Summit. Their artists have exhibited and performed at various notable venues worldwide including the Barbican, Berghain, Bassiani and MoMA to name a few.
Ario
Nathalia
Hems
Romi
Planatia
09:00 – 20:00
Wooden Workshop
Outdoor
One Of A Kind, 2026, Collaborative wooden sculpture. Sascha Reichel (aka sheraya_berlin) is the artist and wood sculptor behind One Of A Kind, the collaborative lifesize wooden sculpture workshop at Web3 Summit. The physicality of his artistic process provides a calming, creative space as an outlet from the realities of modern life and technology.
Sheraya
09:00 – 20:00
Collective Canvas
Outdoor
Collaborative Canvas, 2026, Acrylic on canvas. Collaborative Canvas explores collective creation through open participation. Throughout the Web3 Summit, everyone can actively contribute to three collaborative paintings that focus on themes of participation, experimentation, and exchange among people and diverse perspectives.
Taja Vaetoru
Leo Schill
09:00 – 20:00
FalkLand
Outdoor
Gather around as we collect memories and swag from past events with intention. Every party needs an ending. This will be the ending we all want.
FalkLand
09:00 – 21:00
Lasermice
Room H2
So Kanno
09:00 – 21:00
The Way of Flowers
Room H2
Room H2-2
All day.
CROSSLUCID
09:00 – 18:00
Stardust & Resonant Ecology
Studio 4
Interactive art installations by Felix Paul Niemeyer (Stardust) and Rahul Sharma (Resonant Ecology). The two works will alternate throughout the day — exact switch times to be confirmed.
Felix Paul Niemeyer
Rahul Sharma
10:00 – 10:05
Opening & Housekeeping
Studio 1
Pascal Possler
10:00 – 15:00
Developer Playground
Foyer
10:05 – 10:35
People Don't Use Technology. They Use Products
Studio 1
Karim Jedda
10:35 – 11:05
The Fight For The Future Of AI
Studio 1
Nick Srnicek
11:00 – 19:00
Custom Jewelry Workshop
Outdoor
Ascending Transmission, 2026, Laser engraving on metal. This workshop represents the “Co-Creation” element of the Web3 Summit. Ascending Transmission is an interactive transmission that reads the shape of your choices and returns something you didn't know you were looking for. Shapes are generated using an app by Metakosmia and engraved on necklaces by a laser engraver.
11:00 – 13:00
Unstoppable Voices: Art, Journalism and Web3 Against Censorship
Room H1
Room H1-4
What happens to free expression when platforms decide who gets to speak? Through art, journalism, and emerging Web3 infrastructure, this immersive workshop explores how independent voices can create, publish, and reach audiences beyond traditional gatekeepers. Featuring an immersive experience by artist Andy Serra and the unveiling of a decentralized solution built for journalism, attendees will discover how new models for information resilience, free expression, and digital sovereignty are already taking shape.
Andy Serra
Carlos Aguiló
Luz Mely Reyes
11:05 – 11:30
SimpleX Community Credits: Making Privacy Profitable
Studio 2
Alain Brenzikofer
11:20 – 12:05
Artists Should Be Running This
Studio 1
Joan Westenberg
11:30 – 12:00
Scaling Human Intelligence
Studio 2
Ciarán Murray
12:00 – 12:30
Frame Transaction (deep dive)
Studio 2
Alex Forshtat
12:05 – 12:40
Rewriting the Rules Before the Rules Rewrite Us
Studio 1
Nina Siedler
Florence d'Ath
Samuel Jacques-Cloutier
12:40 – 13:10
Privacy Won the Argument. So Why Are We Still Losing
Studio 1
Max Schrems
13:30 – 13:50
Tee Ceremony
Room H1
CIRCADIAN
14:00 – 15:50
Art performance
Room H1
Room H1-4
Veronika Janovec
14:15 – 14:45
Cypherpunk Culture Within Blockchain Communities
Studio 1
Paul Dylan-Ennis
Rachel-Rose O'Leary
Max Hampshire
14:30 – 15:00
Decentralised, privacy-preserving Twitter clone
Studio 2
Micha Roon
14:45 – 15:15
The Future of Truth on the Internet: Journalism, Community, and Web3
Studio 1
Can independent journalism survive the internet as we know it? At a time when trust, visibility, and distribution are increasingly controlled by digital platforms, journalists and Web3 builders come together to explore how decentralized infrastructure can support independent media and strengthen the public sphere. Join the conversation about the future of truth, community, and journalism online.
Luz Mely Reyes
Carlos Aguiló
José Luis Peñarredonda Martínez
Pauline Cohen Vorms
15:00 – 15:30
Belonging before identity: a community-rooted approach to Proof of Personhood
Studio 2
Sanne Wassink
Michiel Heij
15:00 – 15:50
Music Performance
Studio 4
Visuals by Rahul Sharma.
Hoshiko Yamane
Makoto Sakamoto
15:00 – 16:00
Developer Playground: Awards and closing
Foyer
15:15 – 15:25
Closing
Studio 1
Pascal Possler
15:40 – 17:00
Let's Talk about JAM
Studio 2
Dr. Gavin Wood
16:10 – 16:50
Fireside chat
Outdoor
Happening in the Chill Space tent. Hosted by Joan Westenberg.
Joan Westenberg
Veronika Janovec
Aria Santillana
Rahul Sharma
So Kanno
CROSSLUCID
17:00 – 00:00
The Afters
Outdoor
Prosumer, Naomi, and Aria Santillana represent three distinct sounds from Berlin's electronic music landscape. Blending house, disco, and contemporary club sounds, they bring deep musical knowledge, eclectic taste, and dancefloor energy to the Web3 Summit afterparty.
17:00 – 20:00 – Aria Santillana
20:00 – 22:00 – Naomi
22:00 – 00:00 – Prosumer
Prosumer
Naomi
Aria Santillana
