Freedom Tech Track Agenda

Welcome

14:00-14:20

Welcome to the Freedom Tech Track

Alex Gladstein,

Chief Strategy Officer, Human Rights Foundation

Álvaro Salas-Castro,

Chief Executive Officer, Reynolds Foundation

Project Spotlight

14:20-14:25

Tracking Internet Shutdowns

Alp Toker,

CEO, Netblocks

Presentation

14:25-14:35

The Digital Free Speech Crackdown in Uganda

Agather Atuhaire,

Lawyer, human rights defender, journalist

Project Spotlight

14:35-14:40

Supporting Open Source Human Infrastructure

Amiti Uttarwar,

Founder and CEO, Waye

Presentation

14:40 - 14:55

The Revolution Will be Social

Rabble,

CEO, Verse Public Benefit Corp

Presentation

14:55-15:00

How to Start with Nostr Today

Ben Perrin,

Educator, BTC Sessions

Presentation

15:00-15:15

How Nostr can Revolutionize Journalism

Anjan Sundaram,

War Reporter and author

Pablo Fernandez,

Nostr Developer

Project Spotlight

15:15-15:20

The State of Decentralized Social Media

Alex Gleason,

CEO, Soapbox

Project Spotlight

15:20-15:25

Publish Without Permission Today

Peter Yared,

CEO, Layer 3 Press

Presentation

15:25-15:40

How China Uses Financial Repression in the Cultural Genocide Against Uyghurs

Rushan Abbas,

Executive Director, Campaign for Uyghurs

Project Spotlight

15:40-15:45

Become Unstoppable: Insight into HRF's Bitcoin Webinar

Anna Chekhovich,

Nonprofit Bitcoin Adoption Lead, Human Rights Foundation

Presentation

15:45-16:00

Securing Lifelines: The Bitcoin Privacy Imperative

Ziya Sadr,

Independent Bitcoin Educator

Project Spotlight

16:00-16:05

How Bitcoin Enables Refugees to Find Safety

Daria Rabinovitsch,

CEO, Helping to Leave

Project Spotlight

16:05-16:10

Building out Africa's Open-Source Ecosystem

Abubakar Nur Khalil,

CEO & Board Member, BTrust

Project Spotlight

16:10-16:15

Using Bitcoin as Day-to-Day Money in Kenya

Sabina Waithira Gitau,

Cofounder, Tando

Fireside Chat

16:15-16:25

Project Liberty

Alex Gladstein,

Chief Strategy Officer, Human Rights Foundation

Tomicah Tillemann,

CEO, Project Liberty

Presentation

16:25-16:40

Announcing the Global Bitcoin Adoption Index

Sarah Kreps,

Director, Cornell Brooks School Tech Policy Institute

Project Spotlight

16:40-16:45

Financial Privacy and Cross-Input Signature Aggregation

Fabian Jahr,

Bitcoin Core Developer, Brink

Presentation

16:45-17:00

The Evolution of Ecash

Calle,

Creator, Cashu

Project Spotlight

17:00-17:05

ARK

Veronika Kuett,

Protocol Research, Ark Labs

Project Spotlight

17:05-17:10

HRF's CBDC Tracker

Nick Anthony,

CBDC Tracker Fellow, Human Rights Foundation

Project Spotlight

17:10-17:15

How Open Source Tech is Helping Venezuela

Leopoldo López,

Venezuelan Opposition Leader

Presentation

17:15-17:30

Transforming Energy into Human Potential

Björn Schmidtke,

CEO, Penguin Group

Delia Garcete,

CEO, Penguin Academy

Announcement

17:30-17:35

Announcing the BDF Q2 Grants

Femi Longe,

Global Bitcoin Development Lead, Human Rights Foundation