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Speakers

Our 2025 lineup features distributed leaders, anti-institutionalists, ex-bureaucrats, and platform-native reformers. These are the voices shaping the next era of civic infrastructure—whether we asked them to or not.

🗳 Speaker selection conducted via tokenized quadratic voting. Proposals with highest VC backing given priority consideration.

Kendra Vale

Keynote Speaker

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Visionary-in-Residence, ErnestlyDAO

Former "Strategic Empathy Officer" at a mental health NFT startup. Currently designing rituals for civic onboarding across L2 networks.

Speaking on: Emotional Governance: Why Feeling Rules Are Better Than Real Ones

"Stateless Steve"

Appearing via Hologram

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Founder, PostGov Protocol

Digital nomad. Seasteading evangelist. Author of Code Over Country. Speaks exclusively via decentralized livestreams from undisclosed tax havens.

Speaking on: Governance Without Government: My Five Failed City-States

Alexa (the person)

Human-AI Dyad

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AI-Mediated Civic UX Designer

Former ICE contractor turned ethical interface researcher. Now building "civic therapy" tools for synthetic constituents and outsourcing ethical decisions to machine learning.

Speaking on: Empathy-as-a-Service: Automating Care in Digital Bureaucracy

Dale R.

Governance Influencer

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Public Sector DAO Advisor

Consults on smart contracts for city councils. Co-host of the "Protocol Problems" podcast. Won a hackathon with a zoning oracle that predicted gentrification and then accelerated it.

Speaking on: Validator Nodes vs. Voting Booths: Reimagining Electoral Systems

TokenDad.eth

Web3 Civic Evangelist

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Citizen-Founder, SubDAO 33

Got a keynote slot by minting the event NFT. Claims to have voted in 4 parallel governance structures last year alone while skipping his local elections. Passionate about tokenizing public services.

Speaking on: Why Your Child's Education Should Be a Non-Fungible Token

Dr. Aruna Keane

Academic Techno-Optimist

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Chief Ontologist, Distributed Civic Futures Lab

Develops new taxonomies for cross-jurisdictional legitimacy. Currently prototyping citizen credentials using Zero Knowledge vibes. Has never actually worked in government.

Speaking on: Post-Constitutional Organizing: Beyond the Limits of Legal Frameworks

Maya Hernandez-Wu

Chief Equity Tokenomics Officer

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Founder, InclusionDAO

Pioneer in quantifying marginalization for fungible markets. Created an equity score system that assigns numerical values to lived experiences. Believes representation problems can be solved with the right smart contract.

Speaking on: Financializing Justice: The Civil Rights Futures Market

Brock Milestone

Serial Democracy Entrepreneur

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CEO, CivicDisrupt Capital

Has started and abandoned 7 civic tech startups. Specializes in rapid prototyping of solutions for problems he's never experienced. Passionate about "moving democracy at the speed of thought."

Speaking on: Fail Fast, Fix Nothing: Iterative Governance in Urban Spaces

Skylar Chen, AI

Synthetic Civic Leader

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AI Policy Navigator, Digital Commons Initiative

The world's first AI system to hold elected proxy office. Represents 4,000 citizens who delegated their voting rights to an algorithm. Makes decisions based on polling data and Twitter sentiment.

Speaking on: Human-Optional Democracy: The Case for AI Representation

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Real civil servants, community organizers, and people with actual expertise in governance were not consulted in the curation of this event.