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# PARTICIPANTS

Felix Fritsch / PhD Student Political Science and Sociology, Scuola Normale Superiore, Florence.

Adam Arvidsson / Prof Sociology, University of Naples. Fields of Expertise: Commons, Post-Capitalism, Social Derivatives

Guilio Quarta / Founder and President of The Connective, a consulting and research cooperative connecting economic innovators and social value from below

Jeff Emmett / Commons Stack, Token Engineering Research and Communications

Michael Zargham / Blockscience, founder; Commons Stack Co-Founder and System Architect. Complex Systems Engineer, focus on optimization and control of decentralized systems

Jakob Hackel / PhD Student, Cryptoeconomics Institute, Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration

Oliviero Di Lanzo / Historian focused on information redistribution, The Connective

Thomas Linder / Decentralized autonomous associations, Partner MME (ECSA Legal Council)

Leanne Ussher / Cryptoeconomics, Visit. assistant prof. economics, Bard College

Claire Parfit / Finance Phd student, University of Sydney

Ela Kagel / Governance R&D, dGov, RChain, Platform cooperativism,Founder Supermarkt, Berlin

Colin Drumm / Monetary theorist, Concept factory

Andreas Arnold / Sharing economy & platform cooperativism expert, Berlin

[Eric Barry Drasin](http://www.ericbarrydrasin.com) / Researcher-artist exploring the relationship between art and systems of value. And the Dungeon Master: the world's most brutal academic speed metal powerpoint band

[AJ Adams](https://ajada.ms) /     Designer, [Softspot](
https://www.softspot.art/)

Matt Condon / Software engineer & Solutions architect,[XLNT](https://medium.com/xlnt-art/an-xlnt-thesis-4631c1d1382b)

Stacco Troncoso / co-founder DisCo, Guerilla Translation

Michel Bauwens / Founder P2P Foundation

Minna Tarkka, Director/curator m-cult, MoneyLab Helsinki organizer

Olivier Sarrouy / Curve Labs (ex AragonBlack, Pando) computer scientist, PhD on Communication Sciences on web-based decentralized organizations

Cem Dagdelen / Curve Labs, DAOIncubator (ex AragonBlack, Pando), distributed governance and finance

Rok Kranjc / P2P Foundation research coordinator, conference organizer at the Institute for Ecology, futures game and other anticipatory process designer at Futurescraft

Gibin Hong / Karl Polanyi Institute Seoul

Geert Lovink / Founder, Institute for Network Cultures, MoneyLab 

Antonia Hernandez / PhD student / Concordia U / Montreal

James Foley / Co-founder, Shell protocol

Indy Johar / architect, co-founder of 00 (project00.cc) & Dark Matter

Ataberk Casur / ECSA, intern, Finance student NYU/Stern

Jonathan Beller / ECSA, economic media architect (Prof. of Media, Pratt Institute)

Jorge Lopez / ECSA, distributed systems architect

Dick Bryan / ECSA, chief economist (Prof. emer. of Political economy, University of Sydney)

Akseli Virtanen / ECSA, political economist




