DAO Harvard 2023 Summit on Equitable Ownership

On April 4th, 2023, the DAO Harvard Summit on Equitable Ownership and Governance brought together a group of 70+ leading policymakers, scholars, and industry leaders to explore the possibilities for enabling greater ownership and governance in our online economy. Discussion ranged from identifying the current harms and challenges of today’s centralized technology platforms, the experiences of cooperatives and decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs) as alternative models, and the current policy landscape for cooperatives and blockchain technologies.

“Toward Equitable Ownership and Governance in the Digital Public Sphere”, a companion report to the subject of this Summit, was recently published here: https://www.belfercenter.org/publication/toward-equitable-ownership-and-governance-digital-public-sphere

The conference was co-hosted by Harvard Belfer Center's Technology and Public Purpose Project and Harvard University's Edmond & Lily Safra Center for Ethics.

For more information: https://www.belfercenter.org/event/dao-harvard#!day-3:-equitable-ownership-&-governance

0:00 Introduction
Speakers:
Sarah Hubbard, Harvard University;
Connor Spelliscy, DAO Research Collective;
Nathan Schneider, University of Colorado Boulder

23:03 Lightning Talks: State of Online Governance and Regulatory Environments
Speakers:
Sarah Roth-Gaudette, Fight for the Future
Chris Grieco, Rain
Nolan McCarty, Princeton University
Morshed Mannan, European University Institute
Glen Weyl, RxC, Plural Technology Collaboratory, Plurality Institute
Timothy Massad, Harvard Kennedy School

1:00:37 Fireside Chat
Speaker:
Ed Felten, Offchain Labs
Moderator:
Jake Chervinsky, Blockchain Association

1:24:35 Lightning Talks: Equitably Owned and Governed Organizations in Practice
Speakers:
Camille Canon, Apiary
Jessica Mason, Start.coop
Aiden Slavin, World Economic Forum
Scott Moore, Gitcoin; Katherine Wu, ENS DAO
Karan Aswani, Gnosis
Reuben Youngblom, Stanford Law School and MIT

2:13:24 Panel: DAO and Co-op Regulation
Speakers:
Jake Chervinsky, Blockchain Association
Aaliyah Nedd, NCBA CLUSA International
Moderator:
Connor Spelliscy, DAO Research Collective

2:27:50 Fireside Chat
Speaker:
Rep. Jake Auchincloss, Congressman 4th District of Massachusetts
Moderator:
Amritha Jayanti, Technology and Public Purpose Project at Harvard Belfer Center

2:57:40 Lightning Talks: Policy and Regulation Landscape
Speakers:
Dorothy Dewitt, Office of Senator Kirsten E. Gillibrand
Primavera De Filippi, Berkman Klein Center
Joni Pirovich, Badasl, LawFi DAO; David Kerr, Cowrie LLC; Joe Greenspan, TOKU
Jacqueline Radebaugh, Jason Wiener P.C.
Jonathan Dotan, Equity Labs, Stanford Center for Blockchain Research

3:46:56 Panel: Practitioner and Policymaker Collaboration
Speakers:
Marta Belcher, Filecoin, Protocol Labs
Lizzy Fallon, Office of U.S. Representative Tom Emmer
Peter Van Valkenburgh, Coincenter; Sara Horowitz, Freelancers Union, Freelancers Insurance Company
Moderator:
Nathan Schneider, University of Colorado Boulder

4:38:36 Closing Remarks
Speakers:
Danielle Allen, Harvard University
Sarah Hubbard, Harvard University

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