Katelyn Bowden
Katelyn is a hacker, an activist, and a community manager. She is a member of the famed hacker collective, the Cult of the Dead Cow (cDc) since 2020. She previously was the founder and CEO of BADASS, a nonprofit dedicated to eradicating revenge porn. Currently, Katelyn is the CMO and Cofounder of the Veilid Project, as well as a board member for the Veilid Foundation- a nonprofit dedicated to developing apps with privacy built in, on the Veilid network. In her spare time, Katelyn creates cursed artwork and nightmare sculptures.
Session
In 2023, cDc launched an open source, distributed p2p app framework called Veilid. Since then, we’ve released the beta of our first app built on the network, VeilidChat. What is Veilid, and how does it work? Why does this project matter? I’ll be answering those questions, and talk about how we ALL can build ways to communicate that aren’t someone’s revenue source.