Attend
Wednesday June 8 ‐ Thursday June 9, 2016 at Internet Archive, San Francisco, CA
Code of Conduct
The Decentralized Web Summit has a code of conduct that all participants are required to observe.
Live Stream
If you cannot attend in person, both days of the summit will be streamed online. Please check this website during the summit for the stream.
Registered Attendees
Ari Bader-Natal — Principal Learning Architect at Minerva Project
Jeffrey Ventrella — Founder of Wiggle Planet, LLC
Kyle Drake — Founder of Neocities
Edward Silverton — Senior Consultant at Digirati
Ben Trask — Developer at Decentralized Services
Dan Whaley — CEO at Hypothes.is
Cassie Findlay — Archives and Record Keeping Consultant at Recordkeeping Innovation
Matt Zumwalt — Founder of DataBindery & Dat Jawn
Amber Case — Cyborg Anthropologist at Calmtech.com
Neil Minton — System Support Engineer at Internet Archive, Archive-It
Giovanni Damiola — Software Engineer at Internet Archive
Mouse Reeve — Web Application Developer at Internet Archive
Mark Graham — Director of the Wayback Machine at Internet Archive
Vinay Goel — Senior Data Engineer at Internet Archive
Sylvie Rollason-Cass — Web Archivist at Internet Archive
Maria LaCalle — Web Archivist at Internet Archive
Drew Winget — Visualisation Engineer at Stanford University Libraries
Mek Karpeles — Engineer at Internet Archive
Tracey Jaquith — TV Architect at Internet Archive
Richard Caceres — Engineer at Internet Archive
Veronica Estrada Galinanes — Visiting Graduate Student from UC Santa Cruz
Kelly Ransom — Director at Internet Archive
Peter Van Garderen — Founder of Artefactual Systems
Courtney Mumma — Program Manager at Internet Archive
Jim Nelson — Cluster Operations Engineer at Internet Archive
Davide Semenzin — Software Engineer at Internet Archive
John Light — Co-founder of Bitseed
Greg Lindahl — Engineer at Internet Archive
Juan Benet — Creator of IPFS
Jillian Lohndorf — Web Archivist at Internet Archive
Caitlin Olson — Executive Assistant at Internet Archive
Karissa McKelvey — Hat Wearer at US Open Data
Carolyn Madeo — Designer, Librarian at Internet Archive
Dimitrios Latsis — Film Archivist and Curator at Internet Archive
Regina Mullen — Peopled at Dialexica
Carla LaFever — Internet Evangelism Manager at Google
Anish Mohammed — Advisor at Ripple Labs
Gordon Feller — Board of Directors Member at Meeting of the Minds
Max Senges
Cory Doctorow
Alberto Granzotto — CEO at Urlist
Trent McConaghy — CTO of BigchainDB
Samer Hassan — Berkman Fellow & Assistant Prof at Berkman Center at Harvard & Univ. Complutense Madrid
Ferris Aboukhadijeh — Founder of WebTorrent
Jason Griffey — Fellow at Berkman Center for Intermet & Society
Michael Grube — Developer at University of Michigan
Harlan T Wood — Cofounder of Core Network
Ilya Kreymer — Engineer at Rhizome
Benjamin Mandel — Geek at Internet Archive
Laura Seaman — Program Manager at Stanford PACS DCSL
Sandro Hawke — Technical Staff at W3C / MIT
Michael Vassar — Advisor at Nanotronics Imaging
Ben Gross — Manager, Endpoint Engineering and Infrastructure at UC Berkeley
Maira Sutton — Campaign Organizer at Shareable
Bram Cohen— Founder of BitTorrent Inc.
Mike Doty — Engineer at Bitseed
David Dias — P2P Software Engineer at Protocol Labs
Jay Graber— Software Engineer at Skuchain
Tekla Perry — Senior editor at IEEE Spectrum
Mek Karpeles — Engineer at Internet Archive / Archive Labs
Jeremy Gillula — Staff Technologist at Electronic Frontier Foundation
Noah Swarz — Staff Technologist at Electronic Frontier Foundation
Dan Gillmor — Professor at Arizona State University
Greg McMullen — Chief Policy Officer at BigchainDB / IPDB
Brian Warner — Engineer
Primavera De Filippi — Researcher at Harvard / Berkman Center
Kristen Ratan — Cofounder of Collaborative Knowledge Foundation
Dominic Tarr
Alberto Granzotto — Engineer at BigchainDB
Denis Nazarov — Project Lead at Mediachain
Arkadiy Kukarkin — CTO at Mediachain Labs
Wendy Hanamura — Director of Partnerships at Internet Archive
Muneeb Ali — Co-founder at Blockstack Labs
Snehan Kekre — Student/Activist at Minerva Project
William Lubanovic — Senior Software Engineer at Internet Archive
Wendy Seltzer — Technology & Society Domain Lead at W3C MIT
Noah Thorp — Cofounder of CoMakery
Shish Ramam — Senior Architect at Guidewire Software
Brendan Boyd — Software Development Manager at Gensler
Ross Schulman — Senior Counsel at New America's Open Technology Institute
Xavier Beynon — Engineer at Duetto Research Inc
Jacob Payne — Self Employed Software Developer
Chelsea Palmer — Organizer at Human Data Commons Foundation
Mike Pfister — Software Engineer
Michael Pierce
Bill Levay — Freelance Archivist
John Muller — Vice President at PayPal, Inc.
Matthew Hodgson — Technical Co-founder of Matrix.org
Abraham Goldoor — Software Engineer at BitTorrent, Inc.
Peter Mui — Founder of MIT $100K Entrepreneurial Competition
Richard Whitt – Corp Dir. for Strategic Initiatives of Google Inc.
Jake Orlowitz — Head of the Wikipedia Library at Wikimedia Foundation
Joseph Perla — Engineering Manager at Lyft
Ryan Barrett — Engineer at IndieWebCamp and Bridgy
Mark Watson — Author and Consultant at Cognition.tech
Nicola Greco — PhD Student at MIT/Berkman Center
Lorien Smyer — Galvanize Full Stack Web Dev Program Graduate
Charles Lehner — Free Software Developer at Secure Scuttlebutt Consortium
Michael Grube — Developer at University of Michigan
Shuli Hallak — VP of ISOC-NY
Daniel Posch — Engineer at Scramble.io / WebTorrent
Van Jacobson — Researcher at Google
Gail Truman — Consultant at Truman Technologies
Jake Wilkins — Comrade at Tolerable Technology
Robin Chandler — Project Manager at Califa
Barbara Miller — Support Engineer at Internet Archive
Andrew Sherman — Digital Communications Intern at Wikimedia Foundation
Abel Patten — Owner of Solvocracy
Johnny Script — CEO of Modulhaus
Jefferson Bailey — Director, Web Archiving Programs at Internet Archive
Kevin Marks — Organiser at Indieweb
Steven Siloti — Engineer at BitTorrent Inc
Amy Guy — PhD Student at MIT / University of Edinburgh
Simon St.Laurent — Strategic Content Director at O'Reilly Media, Inc.
Francis Brunelle — Web Developer
Christina Michelle Bailey — Creator & Curator at DistributedBytes
Victor Morrow — Founder at Prometheus
John Lekashman — Archivist at Internet Archive
Jeremy Rand — Lead Application Engineer at Namecoin
Gillian Andrews — Senior Usability Research Fellow at Simply Secure
Ryan Rix — Site Reliability Engineer at Uber Technologies
Kyzyl Fenno-Smith — Librarian at CSUEB
Jeffrey Martin — Creative Director at Take it LLC
David Reed — Principal at Reed.com
Michael Becker — Software Engineer at Groupon
Melanie Benjamin — Donor and Funder Relations Lead at Center for Open Science
Natalie Meyers — Partnerships & Collaborations Manager at Center for Open Science
Jeffrey Kaplan — Collections Manager at Internet Archive
Andrew Bezella — Sr Sysadmin at Internet Archive
Evan Schwartz — Engineer at Ripple / Interledger
Stefan Thomas — CTO at Ripple / Interledger
John Gonzalez — Director of Engineering at Internet Archive
Mark Graham — Director, Wayback Machine at Internet Archive
Daniel Finlay — Software Developer at Consensys Systems
Jehan Tremback — Founder at Althea
Jae Kwon — Cofounder at Tendermint
Vinay Goel — Senior Data Engineer at Internet Archive
David Rinehart — Artist in Residence at Internet Archive
DV Henkel-Wallace — Partner at A.B. Scott & Co.
Mark Seiden — Aecurity Advisor at Internet Archive
Eric Liu — Director at Bayes Impact
Sri Chilukuri — VP Product Marketing at Diablo Technologies
Brian Behlendorf — Executive Director at The Hyperledger Project
Lukas Schwab — Fellow at Bayes Impact
Raza Zaidi — CPO at Neobase
Mehdi Jamei — Data Scientist at Bayes Impact
Jay Carpenter — Founder of Desert Blockchain LLC
David Vorick — CEO of Nebulous Inc.
Gabriel Guevara — Web Developer at Chapter Three
Steve Dekorte — Lead at voluntary.net
James Henry Ault — Business Development at Urbit
Galen Wolfe-Pauly — Founder at Urbit
Daniel Roberts — Fresh Graduate from SFSU
Mitchell Baker — Executive Chairwoman at Mozilla
Christian Ferrier — Owner of Xioustic Computer Services
Christoph Witzany — CEO of CloudFleet
Vicky Reich — Executive Director of LOCKSS Program at Stanford University Libraries
David Rosenthal — Chief Scientist at LOCKSS Program at Stanford University Libraries
Jaye Lapachet — Senior Consultant at J8 Consulting
Eric Newton — Innovation Chief, Professor of Practice at Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication, Univ AZ
Elio Grieco — Subcommitee Chair at Security Canyon
Jessy Exum — Software Architect
Bill Mar — Founder at Special Computing
Christopher Allen — Principal Architect: Blockchain Standards & Decent at Blockstream
Johannes Ernst — unCEO at Indie Computing Corp.
Carl Malamud — Rogue Archivist at Public.Resource.Org, Inc.
Dwalu Khasu — Sr. Cluster/DevOps Engineer at The Internet Archive
william austin — intern at the internet archive
Aaron Ximm — Engineer at Archive.org
Dave Cohen — Integration Engineer at Ripple
Jon Godston — Mechanical Engineer at google
Micheal Folkson — Founder at RiskBazaar
David Chiles — Developer at ChatSecure
Chris Ballinger — Founder at ChatSecure
David Brodsky — Developer at ChatSecure
Kenji Nagahashi — Senior Engineer-wayback at The Internet Archive
Richard Gibson — Architect at Dyn
Yaron Greenwald — Student at Brandeis University
Nuala Creed — Artist
James Prestwich — COO/CFO Storj Labs inc.
Will Fitzpatrick — Counsel at The Omidyar Group
Murat Gabriel — Employee at Blue System
Clemens Toennies —CEO at Blue System
Aashish Sheshadri — Sofware Engineer at PayPal
Rohit Harchandani — Sofware Engineer at PayPal
Vax Cymaticka - Hckr at Invisible System
Douglas Crockford —The Bosses of you at PayPal
Akala Lemus—Cofounder at Metazen
Greyson Nevins-Archer — Engineering Intern at Google inc.
Danese Cooper — Distinguished Member Technical staff at PayPal
John Ryan—CEO at WireTheWorld
Cinmarron Taylor — Principal engineer at Piston Cloud Computing
Gavin McDermott — Engineer at IDEO
Dave Taht — Nagger-In-Chief at BlufferBoat.net
Jennifer Granick — Director of Civil Liberties at Stanford Center for Internet and Society
Tantek Çelik — Web Standards Lead at Tantek.com/Mozilla
Amandine Le Pape — Product Manager at Vector
Gerard Cerchio — Consultant at Circlesoft Llc.
Nathan Wilcox — Chief Engineer at Zcash
Reid Williams — Designer at IDEO
Marek Kotewicz — Core Developer at ETH Core Limited
Daneil Cawrey — Communications at Velocity
Norman Bookstein — Mahdi at Skipatrol.org
Katie Lucas — Public Policy Specialist at TBC
Kim Zetter — Senior Staff Writer at Wired
Ronny Kerr — Writer
Stephen Whitemore — p2p Hacker at Protocol Labs
Mark Sullivan — Improvisational Engineer at Maybe
Alexis Rossi — Director of Media & Access at Internet Archive
William Bruns — Software Engineer
Robert Stephenson — Founder and PI at opencourse.org
Gavin Morgan — CTO at FirstClass CI
Bob Way — Integration Architect at Ripple
Andi Wong — Teaching Artist at ArtsEd4All @ Rooftop Alternative PreK-8 School
Marat Nepomnyashy — Software Developer at MBNI LLC
Mary Austin — Founder at San Francisco Center For The Book
Daniel Brooks — Consulting Software Engineer at The Web
Faustin Bray — Producer at Sound Photosynthesis
Ken Goldberg — Professor at UC Berkeley
Daniel Windham — Student at Harvard
Ix Rudis—Studio Manger at 4K Studios
Anton Podviaznikov — Engineer at Runnable
Tracey Rosenberg — ED at Media Alliance
James Baicoianu — Principal Engineer and Founder at Supercritical Industries
Robert Krahn—Senior Researcher at HARC / YC Research
Kevin O'Malley — President at TechTalk Studio
Christie Dames—CEO at TechTalk Studio
Caslon Kahle — Student at Oberlin College
Caleb Chen—Marketing Associate at London Trust Media
Yuvi Panada — Operation Engineer at Wikimedia Foundation
Wendell Davis— Developer at ETH CORE LIMITED
Thomas Greco—Special Advisor at Omise
Richardo Cabello — Open Source Developer at Mr.doob
Candida Haynes — Technology Consultant
Tom Lagenstein — Program Manager at Stanford University
Darius Dunlap — CEO at Syncopat
Joesuel Musambaghani — Software Engineer at Slack
Caleb Chen — Marketing associate at Private Internet Access
Matthew Braithwaite
Ainsley Sutherland — Open Lab Fellow at BuzzFeed
Peter Brantley — Director Of Online Strategy at UC Davis Library
Amanda Hickman — Senior Fellow at BuzzFeed Open Lab
Lucas Gonze — VP Content Operations at Gracenote
Gene Becker — Instigator at Samsung
Evan Paschke — CoFounder at Factbox
Martin Zizi — CEO at Arendir Mobile
Brian Ebert — Head Deep Learning and Data at Aerendir Mobile inc.
Tiffany Shlain — Filmmaker/Founder of the Webby Awards at Let It Ripple Mobile Films for Global Change
Tim Lewkow — Integration Engineer at Ripple
Jae Yang — Software Engineer at Keyboard Masher
Promit Ghosh — Data Science Intern at Lineage Logistics
Jonathan Weber — Global Technology Editor at Reuters
Danny O'Brien — International Director at Electronic Frontiers Foundation
Ben Sharafian — Engineering Intern at Ripple
Greg Slepak — President at okTurtle Foundation
Bryan Kaplan — Self Employed
Hunter Lee — Data Scientist at Lineage Logistics
Mikola Lysenko — Free Lance
Nathan Ginnever — Engineer
Eamonn O'Brien-Strain — Engineer at Google
Ian McKeller — Senior Software Engineer at Google
Don Means — Director at Gigabit Libraries Network
Caterina Rindi — Consultant and Educator at Rindi Counseling
Steve Waterhouse — Partner at Pantera Capital
Zach Alexander — Designer and Developer
Adam Hyde — CoFounder at Coko Foundation
Andrew Atkin — IT Manager at Santa Clara County
Bernhard Seefeld — Director, Product Management at Google
John Eisenmen — Software Architect at Orange SV
Eric Myhre — Hopeful Hacker at Polydawn
Squiggy Rubio — Web Developer at Electronic Frontier Foundation
Marc Juul — Hacker at BioBricks Foundation
Trav Fryer — Internet Gardener at Singularity University
Joseph Chow — Consulting Engineer (Ethereum) at consensys
G Chiacchieri — Designer of Powerful Interfaces at Human Advancement Research Community (HARC)
Dan Kurtz — Software Engineer at No Where In Particular
Abhishek Gutgutia — Open Innovation at Accenture
Greg Hazel — CoFounder at OpenGarden
Joseph Poon — CoFounder at Lightning
Thaddeus Dryja — CTO at Lightning Labs
Brian Webster — General Manager at Better World Associates
Kenny Okagaki — FilmMaker at Harvard University
Alessandro Voto — Research Manager at IFTF
Antoine McGrath — Founder & Project Manager at CRSReports.com
Robert Terrin — Student at Colombia University
Gavin Knight — COO at Credible Friends
Brian Santos — CEO at eSpend
Karriem Khan — Advisor at eSpend
Sean Phillips — Advisor at eSpend
Matthew Nakatani — Digital Marketing Consultant at Anonymous Ads
Wayne Vaughan — CEO at Tierion
Tom Kyser — Director of Growth at Tierion
Alexander MacGillivray
Steve Douty — CEO at Nexo Inc.
Alex Leverington — Core Developer at Ethereum Project
Ameen Soleimani — Engineer at Consensys
Elizabeth Biddlecome — Engineer at Null
Linnsey Miller — Senior Data Scientist at ShadowFax Security
Dan Morehead — CEO Pantera at Capital
Hilliery Shay — Student at Mills College
Jake Hartnell — Founder Common at Garden
Richard Stallman — Founder of GNU Project and Free Software Foundation