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.
Schedule
- 13.-15.08.25 "Current Science & Grand Challenges" (invite-only)
- 16.08.25 "Unconference" (public)
- 17.08.25 "Demo Day" (public)
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.
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