, Community Led Stage
Roger Dingledine co-founded the Tor Project and has spent more than two decades building and maintaining one of the world's most important pieces of open source privacy software. Millions of people use it every day, from journalists and human rights defenders to anyone who wants to browse without being tracked.
In this open session, you set the agenda. Bring your questions about:
how Tor works and where it's heading
what it takes to keep critical open source infrastructure alive for decades
funding and sustaining a nonprofit open source project
privacy and anonymity in a world of AI and surveillance
what the Web3 and open source communities can learn from each other about decentralization
Roger Dingledine is co-founder and original developer of the Tor Project, a nonprofit that develops free and open source software to protect people from tracking, censorship, and surveillance online. Roger works with journalists and activists on many continents to help them understand and defend against the threats they face, and he is a prominent researcher in the online anonymity field.