FFDW's Social Impact Summit
Join us for this inaugural summit designed to bring together nonprofits, funders, thinkers and doers interested in using decentralized technologies to create social impact, as part of our efforts to build a community of those using decentralized technologies to create a better internet.
8am [all times PST]
Introduction
Welcome; Marta Belcher (General Counsel, Protocol Labs; Chair, Filecoin Foundation for the Decentralized Web)
Introduction; our co-MCs, Hunter Treseder (Head of Social Impact, Filecoin Foundation/Filecoin Foundation for the Decentralized Web) and Clara Tsao (Founding Director, Filecoin Foundation/Filecoin Foundation for the Decentralized Web)
8:15am-8:45am PST
Why You Should Care About Decentralized Technology
Moderator; Kristin Smith (Executive Director, Blockchain Association)
Rainey Reitman (Chief Program Officer, EFF; Board, Filecoin Foundation for the Decentralized Web)
Sheila Warren (CEO, Crypto Council for Innovation)
Michele Benedetto Neitz (Director, Blockchain Law for Social Good Center)
8:45am-9:45am PST
Preserving Public Interest Artifacts With The Decentralized Web
Lightning talks:
Christopher Kulendron Thomas (Artist)
Natalie Cadranel (Founder and Director, OpenArchive)
9:05am-9:15am PST
Break
Patrick Ball (Executive Director, HRDAG)
Nathan Freitas (Founder, Guardian Project)
Jonathan Dotan (Founding Director, Starling Labs)
9:45am-10:10am PST
Fireside chat
Brewster Kahle (founder, Internet Archive) interviewed by Marta Belcher (General Counsel, Protocol Labs; chair, FFDW)
10:10am-10:40am PST
Getting to know each other
We’ll move into small breakout groups to share introductions and open questions based on what we’ve heard so far.
10:40am-11am PST
FFDW’s Our 2022
Learn about our plans for 2022 and where we could collaborate.
Clara Tsao (Founding Director, Filecoin Foundation/Filecoin Foundation for the Decentralized Web)
11am-11:10am PST
Break
11:10am-11:40am PST
Opportunities In Decentralized Tech
Lightning talks:
Wendy Hanamura (Director of Partnerships, Internet Archive)
John Paul Farmer (Former CTO, New York)
Divya Siddarth (Verses)
11:40am-12:10pm PST
How Could Decentralized Tech Help You?
We’ll move into small breakout groups to discuss opportunities to collaborate and learn more, together.
12:10pm-12:15pm PST
Funding the Commons
Evan Miyazono (Research, Protocol Labs)
12:15pm-12:35pm PST
Wrap and Thank You
Clara Tsao (Founding Director, Filecoin Foundation/Filecoin Foundation for the Decentralized Web)