​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!