Schelling
Point
Denver

March 2nd, ‘23

National Western Complex

The Joy of
Collective Thriving

An Unconference For Planetary
Wellbeing & Flourishing

Sponsors

Agenda

SP Main Stage

10:00 AM

Welcome to Schelling Point (Simona Pop ◖ SP Content Curator)

10:10 AM

DAOs & Network States (Balaji Srinivasan)

10:30 AM

New Form Factors for Quadratic Funding (Kevin Owocki ◖ Supermodular)

10:50 AM

Radicle Drips: New Economic Primitives for Public Goods Funding (Andrew Dickson ◖ Drips)

11:10 AM

How crypto protocols impact our psychology (David Hoffman ◖ Bankless)

11:30 AM

How The FiatConnect Public Good Is Delivering on The Promise of Web3 Payments in Nigeria, Kenya and the Philippines (Marek Olszewski ◖ Celo)

11:55 AM

Planetary Health Futures: tools for imagination + action (Louis Parker, Dimitri De Jonghe)

12:15 PM

Bootstrapping Impact Markets: A Study of Carbon Credits as Impact Certificates (Marcus Aurelius ◖ Klima DAO)

12:35 PM

LUNCH

12:55 PM

Scaling coordination with impact evaluators (Joel Thorstensson ◖ Ceramic)

1:15 PM

Towards a cybernetic cryptoeconomics (Christopher Goes)

1:35 PM

Crypto and Civil Liberties (Marta Belcher ◖ Filecoin Foundation)

1:55 PM

PG Funding Panel (Scott Moore ◖ Gitcoin, Awa Sun ◖ Anoma, Zaki Manian ◖ Cosmos, Daniel Hwang ◖ )

2:15 PM

Introducing the New Creative Economies (Fabian Vogelsteller ◖ Lukso)

2:35 PM

Decentralized Science and VC’s responsibility in the movement (Forest Bai ◖ Foresight Ventures)

2:55 PM

An Antidote to Big Tech’s Harms: Equitable Ownership and Governance in the Online Economy (Connor Spelliscy, Nathan Schneider, Yev MUCHNIK, Sarah Hubbard)

3:20 PM

Account Abstraction: the Pathway to Mass Adoption (Ramon Canales ◖ Matter Labs | zkSync)

3:45 PM

Let's Take Back the Town Square (Stani Kulechov ◖ Aave)

4:05 PM

Protocol Guild: 1 year old (Trent Van Epps ◖ Protocol Guild)

4:25 PM

The Other Burn (Simona Pop, Amy Jung, Hudson Jameson, Maria Magenes)

4:50 PM

Cities Thrive When They Tithe: How the Economics of Tithing Will Fund Your Vision for Free (Niran Babalola ◖ Panvala)

5:10 PM

Civic Innovation For People & Planet (Benjamin LIfe & Timothy Archer ◖ OpenCivics)

Unconference

10:20 AM

Regenerative Employment: The Impact of DAOs and Empowering Individuals (Rachel Brissenden ◖Opolis)

10:40 AM

Seeing The World Through Social Graphs (Billy Luedtke ◖ Intuition)

11:00 AM

Educational Webs (Vivek Singh ◖ kernel)

11:25 AM

What permaculture can teach web3 (Gregory Landua ◖ Regen Network)

11:45 AM

Designing for Resilience in Open-Source Ecosystems (Abbey Titcomb)

12:05 PM

Grow groups sustainably through personalized experiences (Reka.eth ◖ Guild)

12:25 PM

LUNCH

1:10 PM

Beyond Code is Law: A Workshop on DAO Constitutions (Kyle Smith | bestape ◖ Lex Dao)

1:30 PM

United Species DAO: Locally-Led Climate Resilience for All through ReFi (Agustin Matteri, Deepa Chaudhary and Paula Doy)

1:50 PM

Giving nature a voice (and a wallet) (Matthew Monahan Biome ◖ Trust)

2:10 PM

Hypnotic induction to the Decentralized Autonomous Hyperspa (Gabriel Tumlos ◖ Mochi)

2:30 PM

The Collective DAO Archives (Justine Humenansky ◖ Optimism)

2:50 PM

What Do High Schoolers Today Need to Learn to Prepare for Decentralized Careers? (Bethany Crystal)

3:10 PM

Accelerating the Pace of Science: ResearchHub (Tyler Diorio ◖ Research Hub)

3:30 PM

How web3 will save the arts as a public good (Helena Gagern ◖ Salsa)

3:50 PM

Flexible Voting: How GitcoinDAO can Level Up On-Chain Governance (Ben DiFrancesco ◖ ScopeLift)

4:10 PM

The Future of Grants (Kevin Olsen ◖ Gitcoin, Riccardo Lamanna ◖ OpenQ, Vikram Aditya ◖ DaoLens, Balázs Némethi ◖ kycDAO, Joshua Tan (Moderator))

4:40 PM

SocietyOS: Crowdsourcing Civilization Designs Workshop (Elliott Bayev ◖ Global Unity)

5:00 PM

Decentralized Future of Natural Medicines (Mod: Reilly Capps, Sovereign Oshumare, Matthew Duffy, Travis Fluck, Valinda Jones)

DeSci Talks

10:30 AM

Open Science and Decentralized Science (Jonathan Starr ◖ DeSci Labs, Shady El Damaty ◖ OpSci)

11:00 AM

Funding far-out longevity research (Emil Kendziorra ◖ CryoDAO)

11:15 AM

Prefigurative Self Infrastructuring (Michael Zargham ◖ BlockScience)

11:30 AM

Universities and the new world of accreditation and knowledge stewardship (Jonathan Starr ◖ DeSci Labs, Jonathan Kung ◖ Science Publishing DAO, Tammy Francis ◖ Catalyst 4 Change Global)

12:00 PM

LUNCH

1:00 PM

Gitcoin Grants & DeSci (Boris Dyakov ◖ Gitcoin, Azeem Khan ◖ Gitcoin, Jonathan Starr ◖ DeSci Labs, Shady El Damaty ◖ OpSci, Allison Duettmann ◖ Foresight Institute, Manveer Basra ◖ Scholar, Martin Karlsson ◖ Lateral.io/desci, Keith Comito ◖ Lifespan.io, Francisco Diaz ◖ talentDAO)

1:30 PM

Digital Identity for Web Native Scientists (Shady El Damaty ◖ OpSci, Laure Haak ◖ Mighty Red Barn, Joel Thorstensson ◖ Ceramic)

2:00 PM

Metascience (Jonathan Kung ◖ Science Publishing DAO)

2:15 PM

Designing for your Users (Phil Hedayatnia ◖ Airfoil)

2:35 PM

Tech Interoperability & Standards (Omar ElNaggar ◖ Weavechain)

3:05 PM

Decentralized AI & Compute for Public Goods (Don Gossen ◖ Nevermined, Richard Blythman ◖ Algovera, Erik Allberg ◖ dao.xyz, David Aronchick ◖ Bacalhau, Tom Trowbridge ◖ Fluence Labs)

3:45 PM

Alternative Ways to De-Risk Funding of Research (Jeffery Joh ◖ and Benji Leibowitz ◖ VitaDAO)

4:15 PM

New Funding Models for DeSci (Keith Comito ◖ Lifespan.io, Qing Ze, Robbie Hegger)

DeSci Workshops

10:30 AM

DEI in DeSci (Tammy Francis ◖ Catalyst 4 Change Global)

11:30 AM

Ethics in DeSci (Joshua Bate ◖ DeSciWorld and Jelani Clarke ◖ DeSciWorld)

12:10 PM

LUNCH

1:00 PM

X-Community-Schmooze (Boris Dyakov ◖ Gitcoin, Sage Shelton ◖ ReSci Network)

1:40 PM

Tech-Tree (Allison Duettmann ◖ Foresight Institute)

2:20 PM

Incentivization Workshop: Build your own nation (Jonathan Starr)

3:00 PM

Tools Tables (Jonathan Starr ◖ Gridcoin, David Aronchick ◖ bacalhau, Don Gossen ◖Nevermined AG, Richard Blythman ◖ Algovera, Michael Fischer ◖ DBDAO.xyz, Omar ElNaggar ◖ Weavechain, Manveer Basra ◖ Scholar, Jacob Luo, Allison Duettmann ◖ Foresight Institute, Derek Anderson ◖ Blockless, Carla Ostmann ◖ DeSci Labs, Jesse Hudson ◖ Molecule, Nanak Nihal Khalsa ◖ Holonym)

4:00 PM

Unconference (Everyone!)

Speakers

Simona Pop

Balaji Srinivasan

Kevin Owocki

Marcus Aurelius

Rachel Brissenden

David Hoffman

Bethany Crystal

Niran Babalola

Justine Humenansky

Trent Van Epps

Joel Thorstensson

Billy Luedtke

Gregory Landua

Manveer Basra

Reka.eth

Elliott Bayev

Agustin Matteri

Matthew Monahan

Gabriel Tumlos

Ben DiFrancesco

Theresa Kennedy

Kyle Smith | bestape

Marta Belcher

Connor Spelliscy

Nathan Schneider

Yev Muchnik

Amy Jung

Sarah Hubbard

Hudson Jameson

Maria Magenes

Dimitri De Jonghe

Fabian Vogelsteller

Stani Kulechov

Tyler Diorio

Vivek Singh

Helena Gagern

Erik Allberg

Keith Comito

Jeffrey Joh

Michael Zargham

Carla Ostmann

David Aronchick

Emil Kendziorra

Francisco Díaz

Jelani Clarke

Tom Trowbridge

Derek Anderson

Jesse Hudson

Nanak Nihal Khalsa

Benji Leibowitz

Jonathan Kung

Boris Dyakov

Jonathan Starr

Shady El Damaty

Tammy Francis

Azeem Khan

Allison Duettmann

Sage Shelton

Phil Hedayatnia

Omar ElNaggar

Don Gossen

Laure Haak

Martin Karlsson

Richard Blythman

Michael Fischer

Jacob Luo

Joshua Bate

Marek Olszewski

Abbey Titcomb

Timothy Archer

Benjamin LIfe

Reilly Capps

Sovereign Oshumare

Valinda Jones

Matthew Duffy

Travis Fluck

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