This June, Web3 Summit 2026 returns during Berlin Blockchain Week as a gathering for the people actively building new digital systems around openness, participation, privacy, and user control.

But this is not a conference built around hype or speculation. It is a festival for digital freedom, bringing together developers, researchers, artists, economists, philosophers, cryptographers, protocol engineers, and cultural thinkers exploring what more human-centered technology could actually look like.

Gavin Wood
Amir Taaki
Joan Westenberg
Friederike Ernst
Joshua Dávila
Nina Siedler
Paul Dylan-Ennis
Rachel-Rose O'Leary
Bill Laboon
astral industries
sheraya
leo schill & TAJA
Futura Camp
More TBA

Germany is in the middle of a much larger cultural conversation about digital agency. People are increasingly questioning how much control they truly have over their online lives, from communication and identity to payments, data, creativity, and participation itself.

Across Europe, concerns around surveillance, platform dependency, algorithmic control, AI centralization, and digital rights are no longer fringe debates confined to technologists. They are becoming mainstream societal questions. Nowhere is that conversation more alive than in Berlin.