2025-03-16 –, Main Stage
DWeb leader Wendy Hanamura goes deep with Ethereum Foundation's new president, Aya Miyaguchi, exploring the values, decisions, challenges, and future direction of the Ethereum community.
What does it mean to lead the Ethereum Foundation, a group dedicated to the principle that Ethereum "belongs to everyone precisely because it belongs to no one?" Join these two women leaders in the decentralized tech world as they discuss the values underlying Ethereum Foundation's leadership, how to craft a builder-friendly community, and how Miyaguchi plans to reach the next billion Ethereum users. Drawing from their shared Japanese heritage, they will explore the concept of "subtraction" and how that underlies Miyaguchi's deepest hopes for her community.
WENDY HANAMURA
Lead Organizer, DWeb
Wendy Hanamura helps to steward the DWeb community (GetDWeb.net) that now encompasses global nodes of technologists, policymakers, artists and activists all working to build a better web. Hanamura produced the Decentralized Web Summits in 2016 & 2018, and DWeb Camp in 2019-2024. For almost a decade, Hanamura served as Director of Partnerships at the Internet Archive where she is now a Fellow, using her skills in communication and content strategy, strategic planning, fundraising, and partnership building, all in service of the Internet Archive’s mission: universal access to knowledge. Hanamura was also an Emmy Award-winning television producer & correspondent (CBS, NHK, PBS, KCET/Link) and serves on the boards or advisory panels of the Filecoin Foundation, Filecoin Foundation for the Decentralized Web, Earth Species Project, Harvard Asian American Alumni Alliance, and Whose Knowledge?
