Speakers
Twelve disruptive leaders imagined actionable alternatives to systemic defaults at Mozilla Festival 2025.
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On Unlearning
Plenary
Dr. Ruha Benjamin
Dr. Ruha is an enthralling storyteller, brilliant scholar, and fierce advocate for all things just. Break free from the power of digital biases and system-shaping myths. She redefines unlearning as a radical act of possibility.
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Awe as an Antidote to the Grid
Plenary
Jason Silva
Jason Silva is an Emmy-nominated storyteller, filmmaker. Step outside the algorithm and experiment with unmapping the self, as he sheds inherited assumptions and reimagines unlearning as liberation.
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A World of New Learnings
Plenary
Chelsea Manning
Chelsea Manning is a technologist, data scientist, and security consultant. Known for her expertise in security and artificial intelligence, she advocates for industry-wide adoption of ethical guardrails in machine learning.
Main Stage Debates
Unlearning Privacy
Privacy is often described as a fundamental right, while data is increasingly seen as a public resource. The tension between radical transparency and data protection sits at the center of this session, raising urgent questions about who controls information and how it should be shared in a digital society.
Unlearning Creativity
AI is reshaping the creator economy, challenging long-held ideas of originality and ownership. The conversation will ask what creativity looks like when machines become co-authors, and how artists, technologists, and audiences can shape a future where human imagination remains central.
Unlearning Traditional Product Path
The race for users, data, and reach has become the engine of today’s digital platforms. Growth at all costs often sidelines rights, privacy, and security, particularly for people in the Global South, Indigenous communities, and marginalized groups. This session examines what other measures of success could drive healthier, more equitable digital ecosystems.
Unlearning Regulation
Traditional rules are struggling to keep pace with fast-moving technologies and shifting power structures. The session will explore whether governments should rewrite the rulebook, whether communities can govern themselves, and how regulation might move beyond control toward more adaptive, participatory, and accountable models. From AI ethics to platform accountability, we will ask what regulation for the digital future should look like.
Unlearning Systems
What if the systems we take for granted are holding us back? By looking to Indigenous knowledge and alternative economic models rooted in land, community and ecological balance, we will ask how unlearning dominant ways of knowing and organizing could help us respond to environmental crises, confront inequality and imagine more sustainable futures.
