Oslo, Norway
Oslo, Norway
Meet Our Freedom Tech Speakers
Meet Our Workshop Speakers
Explore the Freedom Tech Track Agenda
Freedom Stage
14:30
Digital Repression and the Rise of Freedom Tech
14:40
The Invisible Sanction: When Money Becomes a Tool of Control
14:50
What Science Fiction Teaches Us About AI and Human Rights
15:10
18 Months in: Lessons from HRF’s AI Program
15:20
Dictator AI: It Will Start at Home
15:30
Authoritarians and AI: What the Research Shows
15:45
Freedom Tech in a World with AI: Why It’s More Important Than Ever
15:55
Overcoming Censorship as an Opportunity
16:00
CBDCs and Control: The Rise of Programmable Money
16:05
How Bitcoin and AI Expand Freedom Worldwide
16:15
Tribute to Hadiya Masieh
16:20
Permissionless Tech in the Age of Surveillance
Deep Dive Stage
17:15
Deep Dive: How to Keep Bitcoin Mining Decentralized
17:30
Deep Dive: Where Is Nostr Today?
17:45
AI and Freedom Tech Academies at Oslo Konserthus
The AI and Freedom Tech Academies on June 1st feature a series of hands-on workshops in the AI Lounge and Freedom Tech Academy rooms located at the Oslo Konserthus.
Freedom Tech Academy
- Freedom Tech Academy
14:00–14:25
Inside the Most Closed Country on Earth: North Korea and The Case for Freedom Tech
14:30–14:55
Bitcoin for Nonprofits 101
15:00–15:25
Financial Privacy
15:30–15:55
Making Freedom Tech Beautiful
16:00–16:25
How to Use Nostr: The Social Network YOU Control
16:30-17:00
How to Use Bitchat: Talk with Friends Even When the Internet Is Down
AI Academy
- AI Lounge
14:00-14:30
14:30–17:00
Vibe Coding Lounge
AI Lounge at Transformator Scene
14:30–18:00
Meet an AI Agent
Join us for the Freedom Tech track at OFF
More than 6.2 billion people today live under authoritarian rule. In these environments, dissidents and independent voices face bank account freezes, censorship, internet shutdowns, and digital surveillance.
Increasingly, the same financial systems and online platforms they rely on every day are being used to monitor, restrict, and silence them. As digital infrastructure becomes more centralized and programmable, repression is becoming easier to automate and scale at a speed previously thought unimaginable.
The Oslo Freedom Forum (OFF)’s Freedom Tech track examines both sides of this reality: how dictators deploy technology to crack down on dissent and opposition, as well as how democracy advocates use open-source freedom tech to push back against repression.
Taking place on June 2, 2026, at the 2026 Oslo Freedom Forum in Oslo, Norway, this five-hour track brings human rights defenders together with the developers creating tools that protect free speech, financial freedom, and civil liberties. From open-source money like Bitcoin to decentralized communications networks like Nostr and emerging open-source AI, the Freedom Tech track uncovers the technologies that help civil society groups operate, organize, and endure under even the most repressive regimes.
Choose your ticket
Freedom Tech Standard Pass
$1,000
- Access to all daytime programming
- Networking lunches on each day of the conference
- Evening receptions with activists, technologists, and leaders in the arts, media, and business
- Entry to the closing party
Freedom Tech Patron Pass
$5,000
- All-access events from Monday through Wednesday
- Access to VIP dinners
- Evening receptions with activists, technologists, and leaders in the arts, media, and business
- Entry to the closing party
- Access to all daytime programming
- Concierge service and access to luxury hotel room blocks at negotiated rates (on a first-come-first-served basis)
- Expedited registration and check-in
