Mozilla Festival 2025

Bringing together disabled and neurodivergent leaders who are imagining tech from the ground up. Learn how they are disrupting ableist systems and reimagining accessibility.

Examining fragmentation in AI governance, analyzing its implications, and proposing community-driven alternatives that prioritize democratic participation and public interest.

This talk will look at how encryption can be aligned with feminist values and explore how digital infrastructures can protect vulnerable communities without surveillance.

In an age of increasing internet censorship and shutdowns, particularly across the global majority, learn how these disruptions occur and what they look like in practice.

In a hands-on, cookie decorating lab, explore how to unlearn default design habits that favour speed at the cost of thoughtful implementation or true intention.

Learn how to prepare the next generation of digital leaders to understand the dangers of improperly collected and stored data through unmasking personal data.

A satirical startup that highlights the dangers to women of a world where deepfakes can be generated with one tap.

V.I.B.E explores the rise of "vibe culture" as a dominant mode of sense-making in the post-truth era, through a speculative electoral campaign and interactive installation.

Inspired by the Google Chrome Dino game that appears during lost internet connections, the installation explores where consciousness drifts during digital "loading states".

Challenge the myth that digital cultural preservation is neutral. As AI systems ingest and repurpose open-access cultural data, entire worldviews are being distorted.

This experiential pop-up market enables attendees to exchange goods, skills, and favors without using currency through barter, gifting, and time credits.

Unlearn the myth of immaterial tech by re-imagining electronics as something deeply local, cultural, and human.