Mozilla Festival 2025 Opening
Join Anil Dash, Jordi Valls Riera, Nabiha Syed, and Rocio O’Rourke as they open Mozilla Festival 2025. Together, they invite us to unlearn — rethinking how technology, creativity, and community can shape a better digital future. Including a special announcement in partnership with the City of Barcelona.
Originally recorded November 7th, 2025
Speakers Featured
Anil Dash
Anil Dash is a tech entrepreneur and writer, and someone who's trying to make technology more responsible. He has been creating Internet technologies for two decades, and writing on my blog here that whole time, focused on ensuring that technology's transformative impact on society, media, the arts, labor, government and culture is as positive as possible.
Jordi Valls Riera
Fourth Deputy Mayor of the Barcelona City Council, leading the area of Economy, Finance, Economic Promotion, and Tourism. He holds a Law degree from the University of Barcelona and worked for several years as a lawyer. His extensive political career began in Manresa, where he served as mayor from 1995 to 2006. In 2006, he was appointed Councillor of Labour and Industry of the Government of Catalonia, and from 2007 to 2011, he was President of the Port of Barcelona.
Nabiha Syed
Nabiha Syed is Executive Director of Mozilla Foundation, the global nonprofit that champions trustworthy AI and advocates for a more open, equitable internet. Formerly, Nabiha was CEO of The Markup, an award-winning journalism non-profit recognized as “Most Innovative” by FastCompany in 2022. Prior to The Markup, Nabiha was a highly acclaimed media lawyer with a legal career spanning private practice and the New York Times First Amendment Fellowship. Nabiha sits on the board of the Scott Trust, the $1B+ British company that owns The Guardian newspaper, the New York Civil Liberties Union, the Reporters Committee for the Freedom of the Press, and the New Press. She also serves as an advisor to ex/ante, the first venture fund dedicated to agentic tech, and is a current member of The World Economic Forum’s AI Governance Alliance. In 2023, Nabiha was awarded the NAACP/Archewell Digital Civil Rights Award.
Rocio O'Rourke
With two decades of experience leading high-impact events and campaigns across human rights, nature, and climate, Rocío brings people together to spark dialogue, build alliances, and drive change. Her work spans global campaigns with Amnesty International, The Nature Conservancy, and Climate Lead—producing everything from large-scale concerts and conferences to high-level philanthropic gatherings.