Decentralized Web Summit: Locking the Web Open

The Decentralized Web Summit took place at the Internet Archive from June 7th - June 9th, 2016. You can read more about the event on the press page. Videos and photos from the event are posted below. More coming soon.

June 8th, Summit

Welcome

Wendy Hanamura
Mitchell Baker

Keynote Address: Vint Cerf – "A Web that Archives Itself"

Vint Cerf

Keynote Address: Tim Berners-Lee – "Re-decentralizing the web - some strategic questions"

Tim Berners-Lee

Introduction: Brewster Kahle – "Locking the Web Open – a Call for a New, Decentralized Web"

Brewster Kahle

Panel: Peer to Peer Networks

Kevin Marks, Moderator
Feross Aboukhadijeh
David Dias
Zooko Wilcox
Dr. Gavin Wood

Panel: Naming & User Identities in Decentralized Networks

Chelsea Barabas, Moderator
Christopher Allen
Muneeb Ali
Joachim Lohkamp
Jeremy Rand

Video: Creativity on the Decentralized Web – Scott Draves' Electric Sheep

Keynote: Cory Doctorow: "How Stupid Laws and Benevolent Dictators can Ruin the Decentralized Web, too"

Cory Doctorow

Panel: As we build a Decentralized Web, what values do we want written in the code?

Amber Case, Moderator
Primavera De Filippi
Max Ogden
Wendy Seltzer
Peter Van Garderen

Panel: Security in a World of Black Hats

Ross Schulman, Moderator
Van Jacobson
Mike Perry
Paige Peterson
Brian Warner

Video: Enterprise on the Decentralized Web

Panel: Moonshot Challenge – What could you do to Decentralize Scientific Journal Articles?

Wendy Hanamura, Moderator
Juan Benet
Trent McConaghy
Karissa McKelvey
Denis Nazarov
Evan Schwartz

Closing Remarks: What happens next?

Brewster Kahle

June 9th, Meetup

SESSION A: Lightning Talks and Workshops

Juan Benet - IPFS
Arkadiy Kukarkin - Mediachain.io
Stefan Thomas - Interledger
Natalie Meyers - Center for Open Science
Jae Kwon - Tendermint
Brian Warner - Tahoe-LAFS
Michael Grube - Freenet
Muneeb Ali - Blockstack

SESSION B: Lightning Talks and Workshops

Matthew Hodgson - Matrix
Lauren Garcia - LevelNews.org
Ryan Barrett - IndieWeb
Primavera De Filippi - Backfeed/COALA
Joel Dietz - Decentralized Autonomous Society
Galen Wolfe-Pauly - Urbit
Tamas Kocsis - ZeroNet
David Dias - Protocol Labs/IPFS
Dr. Gavin Wood - Ethereum

SESSION C: Lightning Talks and Workshops

Jehan Tremback - Althea
John Light - Bitseed
Victor Morrow - Prometheus
Feross Aboukhadijeh - WebTorrent
Samer Hassan - Berkman Center / P2Pvalue
Dan Gillmor - Author, Tech Journalist
Paul Frazee - Patchwork
Christopher Allen - Blockstream
Jeremy Rand - Namecoin

SESSION D: Lightning Talks and Workshops

Greg Lindahl - Internet Archive
Dan Whaley - Hypothes.is
Alberto Granzotto - IPDB/BigchainDB
Ben Trask - StrongLink
Harlan T Wood - Co-Makery
Joachim Lohkamp - Jolocom/Ouishare
Maira Sutton - Shareable
Zooko Wilcox - Zcash/ Tahoe-LAFS
Mek Karpeles - Internet Archive

Photos

The Decentralized Web Summit

New Connections

We are bringing together a diverse group of Web architects, activists, engineers, archivists, scholars, journalists, and other stakeholders to explore the technology required to build a Decentralized Web and its impact.

Call to action

The current Web is not private or censorship-free. It lacks a memory, a way to preserve our culture’s digital record through time. The Decentralized Web aims to make the Web open, secure and free of censorship by distributing data, processing, and hosting across millions of computers around the world, with no centralized control.

Sharing vision & Tech know-how

The Summit & meetup is a two-day event for high level discussions among leaders from around the globe working on decentralized technologies. What decentralized applications are being built today, and what is just around the corner? Together, can we prototype the Decentralized Web and start to lock the Web open for good?