The Decentralised Science Conference 2025
Decentralised Science (DeSci) is a global movement and ecosystem of over 150 projects built by scientists trying to address the pain points in science from the bottom up, including funding, reproducibility, and data ownership.
Whether you're a scientist, academic, developer or just curious, this conference is open to all. No prior knowledge of DeSci or Blockchain is required!
Day 1 will be a tour of the leading projects and Day 2 is much more practical with hands-on workshops. Join us to see why so many people feel we are at the cusp of a scientific revolution.
Provisional schedule (subject to change):
AGENDA
DAY 1 - Talk Focused
Doors open at 9 am
🔍 Trust, Transparency & the Case for DeSci
10:30 – 10:35 — Opening & Welcome
10:35 – 10:50 — DeSci: Origins and Potential by Sarah Hamburg PhD
10:50 – 11:05 — DeSci on Trial: Two Years, 2000 ETH, 11 Projects, 2bn data points on Ethereum by Paul Kohlhaas founder Molecule/Bio
11:05 – 11:20 — Coordinating the Galapagos Islands with the Knowledge Network by Joshua Bate founder of DeSciWorld
11:20 – 11:35 — Reinforcement Learning: The Next Frontier in AI and Open Science by John Fletcher co-founder The Innovation Game
11:35 – 11:50 — Get Involved with DeSci by Erin Magennis, co-founder MuseMatrix
11:50 – 12:05 — Rebuilding Scientific Trust with Decentralised Systems by Bharat Harbham co-founder of Causality Network and Clement Heyd (Lead Engineer)
12:05 - 12:15 - Sensemaking
LUNCH: 12:15 - 13:15
🧱 Building the Stack: Infrastructure for Decentralised Science
13:15 – 13:30 — Your Playbook for Fully Verticalised Pharma by Aonia Traxler, CTO HairDAO
13:30 – 13:45 — Human Key Infrastructure for Decentralized Science by Shady El Damaty co-founder Holonym/human.tech
13:45 – 14:00 — Non-technical primer on zK, FHE and MPC by Laurence Kirk founder of Extropy
14:00 – 14:15 — Fostering Breakthroughs in Science by Gillian Koehl PhD from ARIA and Imperial College London
14:15 – 14:30 — Why is Citizen Science Important? Insights From the Self-Blinding Microdosing Study 2.0 by Aleksandra Wingert, PhD, Imperial College London
BREAK - 14:20-14:40
🧠🔌 Neurotech, Freedom & Cognitive Security
14:40 – 14:55 —The Neuroscience of Creativity and Flow States by Dr Shama Rahman Founder of NeuroCreate
14:55 – 15:10 — Free will, Mind-Engineering and Cognitive Security: DeSci for Preserving Human Freedom by Christian Larsen and Catalin Mitelut co-founder of NethoLabs
15:10 - 15:25 — Pursuing a Brain Health Moonshot by Brian Magierski founder of CerebrumDAO
15:25 - 15:40 — The Philosophy of DeSci by Johny Enact
Break: 15:40 - 16:10
🤖 AI in Science: Agents, Discovery & Decentralized Intelligence
16:10 - 16:25 — Drug discovery, decentralised: Why protein folding on-chain is critical to the future of medicine by Szymon Fonau from Macrocosmos
16:25 - 16:40: — Scientific Hypothesis at Scale: Using AI for Infinite Research Discovery by Jacek Wiland from BeeARD.ai
16:40 - 16:55 — Giving Agents Human Expert Verified Skills by Martin Karlsson co-initiator coordination.network
16:55 - 17:10 - Can open Large Biological Models truly decentralize science? by Michael D. Geer founder Humanity
17:10 - 18:00 - Panel: The Future of AI Infrastructure - John Fletcher (The Innovation Game), Liliia Rafikova (AWS), Michael D. Geer (Humanity)
After Event --> Networking drinks and food (18:00 to 22:00)
DAY 2 - Workshop Focused
11:00 - 11:45
Panel: Breaking DAO'n barriers to science featuring Geoff Anders from Quantum Biology DAO, Virginie Lafage from SpineDAO and Maria Corlianò, Ph.D. from MicrobiomeDAO
11:45 - 12:00 - Break off into workshops
After the panel, we break into smaller groups to gain a more hands-on and in-depth understanding of the topics.
More info will be shown on the day :)
Confirmed workshops:
Morning (12:00-14:00)
[Located in the Coffee Room]
Psychedelic Science led by Steven Fülle (PsyDAO)
Future of Mental Health by Andreas Melhede from ElataBiosciences
Phlo: Idea to Innovation in under an hour led by Morgan Richards, ValleyDAO
[Located in the Side Room]
Women's Health: How Blockchain, AI, and data are converging to solve real-world problems led by Veronica Kirin, founder AsteriskDAO
[Located in the main lecture theatre]
Introduction to Blockchain
Prediction Markets for Science
VibeCoding for DeSci
LUNCH 14:00-15:00
Afternoon
15:00 - Meet in the lecture theatre
Hands-on NeuroTech/BCI Workshop led by An Kor 🇺🇦 (Founder and CTO at AI Friendly), Dr Shama Rahman(CEO and Founder at NeuroCreate), Mark Melnykowycz (Cerebrum DAO), Christian Larsen (Co-Founder at Netholabs)
Implementing Emerging Technologies led by Laurence Kirk (Extropy)
Verified Science Workshop led by Causality Network
[Open slots] x 2 - We are intentionally leaving slots open for people to hold their own workshops, please turn up on day 1 to confirm this :)
After Event --> Bowling from 17:00 to 20:00
Dont know what DeSci is?
See the videos below and check out the vids below👇
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-LTZOfMGrs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AG9UmK-8SzQ
Note: We are dedicated to providing a harassment-free event experience for everyone regardless of age, gender, sexual orientation, disability, physical appearance, race, or religion. We will not and do not tolerate any form of harassment including overly sexualized or demeaning comments during talks or anything that threatens personal safety. Anyone violating these rules will be expelled from the conference and banned from future events.
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