DWeb Seminar 2025

August 13-17, 2025 @ Internet Archive, San Francisco

After more than ten years of pioneering work towards a genuinely decentralized and distributed system, it is time to revisit what the DWeb has achieved thus far.

The goal of this seminar is to collect and solidify the insights gained over the last decade and to identify the immediate challenges ahead of us. We have identified immutable data, cryptographic identities, convergent data structures, and an abundance of in-networking memory as foundational for a decentralized web. All these concepts, which were not available when the Internet was born, today allow us to dare a radical redesign of a distributed system that is offline-first, permissionless, trustworthy and resilient.

Scheduled for August 13-17, 2025 we will set camp around the Internet Archive in San Francisco to solidify the insights gained over the last decade, both in form of an intensive, internal working session and public days of sharing and discussing.

Who

DWeb Seminar 2025 is led by Research Director, Professor Christian Tschudin and Associate Research Director, Andreas Dzialocha. The event is produced by DWeb organizer Wendy Hanamura, and sponsored by the Internet Archive.

Roughly ten technologists and researchers have been selected, drawing from cornerstone technologies to ensure that deep knowledge of cryptography, CRDTs, access control, anonymity, replication, discovery, identity and databases will be represented.

Schedule


13.-15.08. "Current Science & Grand Challenges"

invite-only

Three-day technology-and science-intensive for ten advanced decentralized web builders and researchers. The goal is to map the current DWeb technological landscape, learn from each other, and define the challenges ahead.

16.08. "Unconference"

public

Key findings of the sessions will be presented and further discussed with the wider DWeb community in an round-table unconference format. Together we want to deepen our learnings and share strategies on how to move forward at speed.

17.08. "Demo Day"

public

The most advanced decentralized web protocol builders in our community will be around, this is the time to experiment with their technologies in workshops and presentations.

Location

The public days (16.-17.08.) will take place in the Internet Archive in San Francisco.

Address: 300 Funston Avenue, CA 94118