DWeb Virtual Meetup—Open Source Ag Tech for Small Farmer Sovereignty

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Join us for a virtual meetup on open source agricultural technologies that are built for/by farmers for sustainable and just food futures.

DESCRIPTIONNovember 2025 DWeb Virtual Meetup — Open Source Ag Tech for Small Farmer Sovereignty &amp; SustainabilityAs agriculture consolidates into fewer and fewer hands, large-scale industrial models have exacerbated social, economic, and environmental inequality in innumerable ways. The centralization of food production has led to ecological deterioration, the exploitation of farm workers, and local, unprocessed food becoming an inaccessible luxury.But there’s hope — as there is immense untapped potential for open hardware and peer-to-peer network technologies to move our food systems away from exploitative practices and towards commons-based, community-centered, agriculture.From the first DWeb Camp in 2019 at a regenerative mushroom farm, <a href="https://dwebcamp.coolab.org/" title="https://dwebcamp.coolab.org/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">DWeb + Coolab Camp Brazil</a> in 2023, the <a href="https://og-basetemplate-ff6ccebada63be3298c783a.webflow.io/#Introduction" title="https://og-basetemplate-ff6ccebada63be3298c783a.webflow.io/#Introduction" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">D:Food Web convenings</a> at DWeb Camp 2024, to <a href="https://blog.archive.org/2025/09/03/dweb-camp-cascadia-2025-canadas-first-regional-decentralized-web-camp-in-the-pacific-northwest/" title="https://blog.archive.org/2025/09/03/dweb-camp-cascadia-2025-canadas-first-regional-decentralized-web-camp-in-the-pacific-northwest/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">DWeb Camp Cascadia</a> earlier this year — agroecological technologies have been an ongoing focus of exploration within the DWeb community. Next spring, it will be the focal point for DWeb Camp / <a href="https://lablab.tec.br/sobre" title="https://lablab.tec.br/sobre" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Lablab</a> Festival in Brazil.We will hear from those who are working on the frontlines to confront the agricultural crisis through decentralized approaches. Through close collaboration with farmers and farm workers, our speakers will describe how people-centered design can lead to transformative technologies that directly respond to the needs of those who produce the food that ends up on our tables.Join us at our next virtual meetup on November 26 at 10am PT and come hear our speakers share their approaches and learnings as they develop decentralized ag / farmer tech. The presentations will be followed by an audience Q&amp;A with the speakers. Stay after the main event and join us for a post-meetup hang out! SPEAKERS<ul><li><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/jesus-torres-81640432/" title="https://www.linkedin.com/in/jesus-torres-81640432/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Jesus Torres</a> of <a href="https://www.entidad.io/" title="https://www.entidad.io/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Entidad</a> is building privacy-first, decentralized identity wallets and apps serving migrant workers and other immigrants.</li><li>Huire Queiroz and Victor Von Sydow of <a href="https://lablab.tec.br/sobre" title="https://lablab.tec.br/sobre" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">LabLab</a>, two of the leaders of DWeb Camp Brazil (March 2026), will share their year-long process to develop teams of Brazilian farmers and technologists who have proposed 12 prototypes — from agriculture hardware to software to research processes — that they will develop and share at DWeb Camp Brazil.</li><li>Anna Lynton is a designer, technologist, and community facilitator working in the open ag tech ecosystem. She will present <a href="https://float.ag/" title="https://float.ag/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Float, the Funding Lab for Open Agroecological Technologies</a>, which utilizes decentralized governance and community-led processes to advance the autonomy of food producers through new models of resourcing the open ag tech ecosystem.</li></ul>Facilitated by DWeb Senior Organizer, mai ishikawa sutton AGENDA00:00 - 00:06 = Welcome &amp; Announcements00:06 - 00:21 = Jesus Torres + audience Q&amp;A00:21 - 00:43 = Hiure/Victor + audience Q&amp;A00:43 - 00:55 = Anna Lynton + Q&amp;A00:55 - 01:00 = Concluding remarks ======This meetup embodies the <a href="https://getdweb.net/principles/" title="https://getdweb.net/principles/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">DWeb Principles</a> on Technology for Human Agency &amp; Distributed Benefits:We stand for technology that enables the primacy of people as beneficiaries of the technology, by upholding their security, privacy and self-determination.Our technologies must minimize surveillance and manipulation of people's behavior, and optimize for social benefits and empower individuals to determine how and why their data is used.We believe that decentralized technologies will be most beneficial to society when the rewards and recognition of their success, monetary or otherwise, are distributed among those who contributed to that success.

JESUS TORRES (above)BIO: Jesus Torres is the co-founder and CEO of <a href="https://www.entidad.io" title="https://www.entidad.io" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Entidad</a>, a public benefit corporation creating technology that empowers individuals to have greater control over their personal data. A Stanford Electrical Engineering graduate, he began his career in Silicon Valley before moving into the entertainment industry, where he supported Grammy-nominated artists through strategic and creative leadership. His passion for mission-driven work grew after leading a research project on farm worker digital literacy. Alongside alumni and longtime friends Jorge Flores and Rene Solorzano, he co-founded Entidad, helping nonprofits deliver nearly $100M in aid through community-centered digital tools.PRESENTATION: Jesus will discuss his work building digital trust with farmworker communities. Entidad leveraged decentralized identity wallets to distribute over $80 million in USDA disaster relief payments to farmworkers across the country. This talk will share our journey building digital trust with farmworker communities during the recent pandemic, how decentralized technology played a crucial role in that work, and how it could unlock economic mobility for these vulnerable communities.

HIURE QUEIROZ (above)BIO: Hiure Queiroz is part of the Lablab 2025-2026 team and is a Ph.D. candidate in Innovation and Technology at the <a href="https://portal.unifesp.br/" title="https://portal.unifesp.br/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Federal University of São Paulo (UNIFESP)</a>, focusing on social technologies for community well-being. With a background in Physics and Engineering, actively promotes critical engagement with technology through hacker culture and participatory methods. He is also the General Coordinator of the <a href="https://www.apc.org/en/users/portal-sem-porteiras" title="https://www.apc.org/en/users/portal-sem-porteiras" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Portal Sem Porteiras Association</a> and co-founder of <a href="https://transistir.github.io/" title="https://transistir.github.io/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Transistir Social Tech</a>, an initiative dedicated to developing software and hardware solutions for local communities.VICTOR VON SYDOW (not pictured)BIO: Victor von Sydow is part of LabLab 2025-2026 team. Interested in research, strategy and technology development focused on systemic aproaches to shape socio-economic alternatives.PRESENTATION: This talk will present the <a href="https://lablab.tec.br/sobre" title="https://lablab.tec.br/sobre" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">LabLab project</a>, a social prototyping laboratory that acts as a training space for network-building in agroecology. Hiure will detail the project's current development phase, sharing our progress in creating both digital and analog experimental spaces. The session will also serve to announce and invite participants to our final culminating event, where we will showcase the outcomes and foster broader community engagement.

ANNA LYNTON (above)BIO: Anna Lynton (she/they) is a designer, technologist, and community facilitator. Her work is rooted in supporting community autonomy, local innovation, and tech sovereignty, with roles across the open ag tech ecosystem including with <a href="https://openteam.community/what-we-do/" title="https://openteam.community/what-we-do/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">OpenTEAM</a> and the <a href="https://www.gia-agroecology.org/" title="https://www.gia-agroecology.org/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Grassroots Innovations Assembly for Agroecology</a>. As a steward of <a href="https://float.ag/" title="https://float.ag/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Float</a>, her work centers on decentralized governance, community-led processes, and advancing the autonomy of food producers.PRESENTATION: "Float: Resourcing Open Agroecological Technologies through Peer-Based Support and Governance" — Float, or the Funding lab for open agroecological technologies, recognizes the need for new models of resourcing and collaboration that support the open ag tech ecosystem. The inaugural pilot round, which kicked off in September 2025, is focused on the theme of Bridging Tech and Food Sovereignty Movements and builds off of rich past collaborations with existing networks including in the DWeb community, having been explored through the D:food/web convening at DWeb at Camp Navarro. The presentation will detail Float's structure, which allows the community to collectively define problems, collaborate on solutions, and decide on how best to resource them.

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