Ayana Zaire Cotton is a cultural worker from Prince George’s County, Maryland. During a biotechnology residency at Ginkgo Bioworks she wrote the non-linear speculative fiction novella Cykofa: The Seeda Origin Story in collaboration with creative writing software she engineered at the Recurse Center. Ayana is the founder and steward of Seeda School, named after Seeda, the non-binary biotechnologist living in Cykofa, an abolitionist community seeded by black feminist ancestors. Seeda School houses a community of practice for black feminist worldbuilding and creative actualization. Through Seeda School they publish a newsletter and podcast For the Worldbuilders. Inside the ecosystem of their practice Ayana braids storytelling, engineering, and interspecies collaboration to engage our collective imagination around the worlds we need in the future we desire.

Kelani Nichole is a technologist and founder of an experimental media art gallery called TRANSFER. She has been exploring decentralized networks and virtual worlds in contemporary art since 2013. Nichole's focus is supporting artists with critical technology practice, and exploring alternative models of cultural infrastructure. Currently she is building the TRANSFER Archive, a decentralized data trust and cooperative model for cultural value exchange, and producing a generative documentary film 'Almost in Real Time'.

mai is an organizer and writer focused on the digital commons and other intersections between network technologies and the solidarity economy. They are a co-founder and editor of COMPOST, an online magazine about and for the digital commons. They are a Senior Organizer with DWeb and a Digital Commons Fellow with Commons Network.

ngọc triệu (she/her) is a Vietnamese design researcher and community organizer working at the intersection of human-centered design, digital rights, and public-interest technology. Over the past 6 years, ngọc's worked closely with free, open-source and decentralized project teams and their communities to tackle challenges such as digital safety and security, mis/disinformation, and Internet censorship. She initially joined the DWeb movement in 2022 as a DWeb Fellow then returned to DWeb Camp 2023 to lead the first Design Track—a thematic program dedicated to promote usable security and accessibility in Internet freedom and human rights tools and platforms. She now serves as the DWeb Fellowship Director, bringing her experience in community building and decolonial practices to amplify and expand the program's impact.

Regina Harsanyi is the Associate Curator of Media Arts at the Museum of the Moving Image. She also advises artist studios, art museums, galleries, auction houses, and private collectors on preventive conservation for variable media arts, from plastics to distributed ledger technologies. Harsanyi previously facilitated over 200 exhibitions with a creative technology focus as Director of Programming at Wallplay after working as a Registrar at Sotheby’s. She is a graduate of New York University’s Institute of Fine Arts, has taught at School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Columbia University, and lectures globally. Her most recent curatorial work includes the acclaimed exhibition Auriea Harvey: My Veins are the Wires, My Body is Your Keyboard (MoMI, 2024).

Sarah Grant is an American artist and professor of media art based in Berlin at the Weise7 studio. Her teaching and art practice engages with the electromagnetic spectrum and computer networks as artistic material, social habitat, and political landscape. She holds a Bachelors of Arts in Fine Art from UC Davis and a Masters in Media Arts from New York University's Interactive Telecommunications Program. Since 2015, she has organized the Radical Networks conference in New York and Berlin, a community event and arts festival for critical investigations and creative experiments in telecommunications.

Sarah Friend is an artist and software developer from Canada and currently based in Berlin, Germany. She is an alumni in the Berlin Program for Artists, a founder and co-curator of Ender Gallery, an artist residency taking place inside the game Minecraft, and an organiser of Our Networks, a conference on all aspects of the distributed web. Recent solo exhibitions include Off: Endgame, curated by Rhizome, Refraction and Fingerprints at Public Works Administration, New York, USA and Terraforming at Galerie Nagel Draxler in Berlin, Germany. She is on the advisory board and was formerly the smart contract lead for Circles UBI, a blockchain-based community currency that aims to lead to a more equal distribution of wealth. She was also the technical lead for Culturestake, a project that uses quadratic voting to lead to better decisions about arts funding. She was a co-founder of bitspossessed, a software development consultancy that operates as a coop, and in 2022 was a visiting Professor of blockchain art at The Cooper Union.

Filecoin Foundation for the Decentralized Web (FFDW) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit whose mission is to ensure the permanent preservation of humanity’s most important information by stewarding the development of open-source software and open protocols for decentralized data storage and retrieval networks.