Session 1: Renewing Trust through Digital Democracy

Lightning talks & panel discussion (12:00 - 1:40 PM EEST)

Confirmed speakers include:

• E. Glen Weyl, founder of RadicalxChange, on the urgent need for radical democratic innovation for a pluralistic, positive future.

• Oleksii Zhmerenetskyi, People’s Deputy of Ukraine, member of Parliament and founder of the Strategic Foresight parliamentary caucus, on exploring the future of digital democracy in Ukraine.

• Takahiro Anno, Member of Japan’s House of Councillors, on Team Mirai’s innovation in Broad Listening

• Oleksandra Radchenko, Coordinator of the E-Democracy in E-Governance for Accountability and Participation Program (EGAP), East Europe Foundation, on how transparent online public services increase trust and reduce corruption in Ukraine.

• Katia Lukicheva, founder of Decoland, on bridging upstream reform and downstream participation for decentralized budgeting in Ukraine.

• Zarah Bruhn, Social Innovation Officer at SPRIN-D in Germany, on how governments might embrace disruption and partner with society and business to catalyze solutions.

Session 2: Making Democracy More Resilient in Crisis

Lightning talks & collaborative workshops (1:45 - 3:00 PM EEST)

• Learning from Taiwan

  • Audrey Tang, Taiwan’s Cyber Ambassador, on supporting communities to innovate during disruptive and transformative moments.

  • mashbean, Policy Fellow at Harvard Jennedy School, on moving from digital assembly to digital association.

  • Billion Lee, cofounder of CoFacts, on managing the threats of mis- and dis-information with tools for decentralized sense-making.

• Jess Scully, Executive Director at RadicalxChange, on the Resilient Democracy Toolkit

• Participants will be invited to join one of three facilitated Breakout Sessions to discuss the key issues and considerations, and to crowdsource input on three parts of the toolkit:

  • Gather: Building trust and expanding reach while protecting participants in high-risk contexts

  • Decide: Moving from dialogue to decision through effective deliberation and consensus-building

  • Act: Resourcing and implementing change with transparency and accountability

• Audrey Tang is Taiwan’s cyber ambassador, first digital minister, architect of the Taiwan Model for digital diplomacy and 2025 Right Livelihood laureate. Tang helped safeguard Taiwan’s 2024 presidential and legislative elections from cyber-interference and shaped its COVID-19 response, as well as pioneered participatory platforms like Join.gov.tw, Presidential Hackathon and Ideathon. Tang’s government involvement began in 2014 after she broadcast the Sunflower Movement’s demands and mediated conflicts during the activists’ occupation of Taiwan’s Legislature. Tang also played a role in shaping Taiwan’s gov-zero, or g0v, a grassroots movement promoting transparency and civic engagement. Tang worked in open-source software, where she revitalized the Haskell and Perl programming languages. Tang was named in 2023 to TIME’s 100 Most Influential People in AI list.

• Billion Lee is the cofounder of Cofacts, a project she initiated in 2016. She manages a community focused on developing OSINT fact-checking skills and enhancing media literacy. Billion’s efforts are aimed at creating a more informed and connected society, combating disinformation through education and community engagement.

• E. Glen Weyl is Founder and Research Lead at Microsoft Research’s Plural Technology Collaboratory and Chair of the Plurality Institute. Collaborating with technologists like Audrey Tang and Vitalik Buterin, he co-authored the influential book Radical Markets. Recognized by WIRED and Bloomberg, Weyl holds a PhD in economics from Princeton.

• Katia Lukicheva is a strategic advisor on financing and systems innovation for global public goods, and the founder of Decoland, a policy and systems design lab advancing new architectures for public purpose finance and civic resilience. With two decades of experience across philanthropy, international financing institutions, and civic movements shaping fiscal policy and democratic governance reforms, her work examines innovative approaches to building more equitable, inclusive, and sustainable financing systems for the common good and the role emerging technologies can play in enabling them. She also leads CivicChain, a cross-sector initiative supporting civil society and other actors to engage with frontier technologies and emerging Web3 ecosystems to co-create new models of financing, collaboration, and governance through strategic learning, capacity building, and pilot development. Her current work explores how these innovations can renew the social contract between states, markets, and citizens, and reimagine the global development system for a more resilient and inclusive future.

• mashbean is a Policy Fellow at Harvard Kennedy School and a Next Billion Fellow at the Ethereum Foundation. Formerly a medical doctor, civil servant and columnist, he now leads digital governance work linking cypherpunk ideals with democratic innovation, decentralized identity, and resilient media in Taiwan.

• Oleksandra Radchenko is the Coordinator of the E-democracy projects of the Swiss-Ukrainian E-Governance for Accountability and Participation (EGAP) program. She is engaged in the implementation of civic participation tools since 2017. As part of the project team, Oleksandra coordinated the development, launch and operation of the national e-democracy platform (e-dem.ua), that consists of 5 tools: e-petitions, participatory budget, open city, e-consultations, school participatory budget. Currently, more than 650 Ukrainian communities (more then third part of all the communities) implemented at least one of these instruments on e-dem.ua platform. She has a Master’s degree in Political Science (Ukraine).

• Oleksii Zhmerenetskyi is People’s Deputy of Ukraine and member of Parliament. He established the “Strategic Foresight” parliamentary caucus and is Chairman of the Subcommittee on Anti-Corruption Policy in the Sphere of Digital Innovations and Public Data, Chairman of the Blockchain4Ukraine Inter-factional Parliamentary Association, and co-chairman of the Equal Opportunities Inter-Factional Parliamentary Association.

• Takahiro Anno is the leader of Team Mirai, an AI engineer, entrepreneur, and science fiction writer. He graduated from Kaisei High School and the University of Tokyo, where he studied under Professor Yutaka Matsuo, chair of the Cabinet Office’s AI Strategy Council. After working at the Boston Consulting Group, Anno founded BEDORE Inc. (now PKSHA Communication), an AI chatbot company, and later co-founded MNTSQ, Ltd., a legal technology startup. Both ventures focused on transforming social systems through digital technology. In 2024, he ran for Governor of Tokyo on a platform centered on digital democracy, receiving over 150,000 votes. In January 2025, he launched Digital Democracy 2030, and in May founded the political party Team Mirai. He was elected to the House of Councillors (proportional representation) in the same year, achieving the threshold for official party status with over 2% of the national vote. Anno continues to advance initiatives that connect policy with the realities on the ground, leveraging AI-driven civic participation and fostering two-way, interactive communication between citizens and politics.

• Zarah Bruhn

This event is designed for:

• Democratic innovators and civic technology practitioners across the globe

• Government officials, participation officers and public servants interested in embedding innovative practices within government agencies and institutions

• Civil society leaders working in contexts of crisis, conflict, or democratic erosion

• Researchers and experts in identity and security, deliberation platforms, treasury management, and democratic resilience

• Anyone committed to bridging the gap between democratic ideals and democratic reality

Date: November 14, 2025

Time: This is a global event spanning multiple timezones:

• Sydney (AEDT): 9:00 PM - 12:00 AM

• Tokyo (JST): 7:00 - 10:00 PM

• Taipei (CST): 6:00 - 9:00 PM

• Kyiv (EET): 12:00 - 3:00 PM

• Berlin (CET): 11:00 AM - 2:00 PM

• Edinburgh (GMT): 10:00 AM - 1:00 PM

• Brasília/Buenos Aires (UTC-3): 7:00 - 10:00 AM

• NYC/D.C. (EST): 5:00 - 8:00 AM

• Bay Area (PST): 2:00 - 5:00 AM

Format: Virtual event with interactive breakout sessions

RadicalxChange Foundation is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization dedicated to democratic innovation and institutional design through operational partnerships and experimental projects between academia, government, art, technology, and beyond.

Web3 Institute (Ukraine) is dedicated to advancing decentralized technologies and democratic innovation in Ukraine and beyond.