Session Host Guide

Congratulations on taking the first steps toward hosting a session at Mozilla Festival. This guide is your ultimate go-to resource for everything you need to know to lead a session.

This year the Mozilla Festival is in Barcelona, Spain from November 7-9, celebrating our 15th year! Mozilla Festival is where passionate individuals come together to build a better internet. It’s a space for exploration, collaboration, and bold ideas. A space for you to platform your work, and in the process learn new skills, challenge assumptions, and connect with innovators shaping the future.

Mozilla Festival 2025 Tracks

Unlearning Default Design

Confronts the design principles and systems that fuel the technology ecosystem, re-imagining “one-size-fits-all” solutions.

Unlearning Harmful Tech Systems

Focuses on unpacking harmful tech systems and exploring action-oriented strategies to ethically build an alternative tech future.

Unlearning Traditional Profit Models

Explores alternative profit models that are sustainable, inclusive, and community-rooted, including financial models and evolving payment systems.

Unlearning Power in Tech Governance

Unpacks the hidden power dynamics in technology development, governance and regulation today.

Unlearning Tech Immateriality

Exposes the physical and environmental costs of AI, and explores a future where technology drives climate justice and shared responsibility.

Unlearning Default Security

Challenges the myth that technology is secure by default, and explores community-led approaches to digital safety that transparency and digital autonomy.

Session Types

  • Labs

    Hands-on sessions where you build new skills to grow your work and impact.

  • Forums

    Collaborative space to unpack challenges and build solutions together.

  • Talks

    Deep dive into big ideas followed by a discussion.

  • Installations

    Interactive experiences that invite exploration—art, media, games, and more.

This is a roadmap to your session hosting journey. It will serve as an essential resource as you design your session, refine your facilitation skills, and navigate the event venue. You’ll also find information about what support you have available to you throughout the experience.

If you have any questions, require further guidance, or want to share your experiences, we’re eager to hear from you. Please don't hesitate to reach out to us at festival@mozillafoundation.org.

We wish you the best of luck in preparing to facilitate your Mozilla Festival session!