Privacy Matters - BREW Conference

The BREW Conference
Privacy Matters is a one-day program during Berlin Blockchain Week exploring privacy in decentralized systems.
BREW brings together projects, critical thinkers and builders who value privacy as a digital human right, while also examining how these systems can work in practice and within real constraints.
Throughout the day, we will explore some of the latest developments in privacy technology, from privacy-preserving infrastructure and cryptography to open-source hardware and sovereign digital systems.

The program combines talks, panel discussions, demonstrations and hands-on workshops, offering a broad perspective on what is currently being built and the challenges and trade-offs involved in bringing these technologies into practice.
Schedule
10:00
Doors Open
10:30 - 10:45
Opening
10:45 - 11:15
Meinhard Benn (Freedom Browser)
Freedom: A Browser for the Decentralized Web
11:15 - 11:45
Sergey Shemyakov (L2BEAT)
Behind the L2BEAT Privacy Dashboard
11:45 - 12:15
Amir Taaki (DarkFi)
DarkFi: Onboarding Offshore Capital & Cyber Guerilla Agorist Resistance Through Strong Anonymity
12:15 - 12:30
Mahmoud Abdelhafez (Circadian)
A Secret Shared Between Those Attuned to Deceleration
12:30 - 13:00
Break
13:00 - 13:30
Mark Davis (Crossbar)
Approaches to CROPS in Semiconductors & Hardware
13:30 - 14:15
Panel: Mark Davis (Crossbar), Zaki Manian (Sovright), Riley Wong, Davie Dashyan, ml_sudo (Sovright)
Roots of Trust: Sovereign Tech as the Last Bastion Against AI Totalitarianism
14:15 - 14:30
Louis Parker (Moist Cryptography)
Artist Talk
14:30 - 15:00
Kate Stapleton (Fhenix)
Refactor Contracts for FHE Using Fhenix
15:00 - 15:30
Nima Rasooli (Mirage)
The Best Privacy App Is the One People Actually Use
15:30 - 16:00
Nathaniel Fried (Privacy Pools)
Why Crypto is broken without Privacy
16:00
Closing with Swarm
Workshops and Demos
Please register if you would like to join the workshops
11:30 – 12:00 Freedom Browser: Decentralized Web Browsing
12:00 – 12:30 Walletbeat: Wallet Privacy in Practice
12:30 – 13:00 Break
13:00 – 13:30 Swarm: Decentralized Video Streaming
13:30 – 14:00 Mirage: Private Transactions on Ethereum
14:00 – 14:30 Swarm: Decentralize Any Frontend
14:30 – 15:00 Swarm: Building Decentralized and Private AI Agents

15:00 - 15:30 Integrating with the Nym Mixnet; Network Privacy for All!