Sarah Drinkwater is the Director of Responsible Tech at Omidyar Network, a social change venture that works to bring about structural changes that will fundamentally shift the systems that govern our daily lives. Sarah is on a mission to make technology more ethical and responsible. In 2020 she and her team launched the Ethical Explorer, a collecti…

Peter Sunde Kolmisoppi believes that content on the Internet should be free - a cause he famously went to jail for as a co-founder of the controversial file sharing service The Pirate Bay. Now, Peter has released a documentary called THE ACTIVIST; a 5 part series for Finnish television where Peter meets with Edward Snowden, Greenpeace captain Paul …

Andres Colmenares is the co-founder of IAM, the think tank, consultancy and conference that explore the futures of the internet(s). Together with Lucy Black-Swan, Andres published The Everything Manifesto in late 2019: a call for citizens and organizations to act collectively to address the climate crisis. We caught up with Andres to find out what …

Philippa Wagner is the director of 23lab, Ennismore’s future innovation lab that researches the hotel experience of the future. Together with her team, she helps shape the future experience of The Hoxton, a series of open-house hotels based in London, Amsterdam, Paris, NYC, Portland and Chicago. In this pop-in call Philippa talks about: The role of…

Julien de Smedt is an architect and the founder of JDS Architects, the award-winning architecture firm behind buildings such as Oslo’s Holmenkollen Ski Jump or Copenhagen’s Kalvebod Waves. We met at JDS' headquarters in Copenhagen to talk* about how architecture influences the way we live and interact with each other as a community. We talk about: …

Lea Korsgaard and Jakob Moll are two of the four journalists who founded Zetland: a Danish digital newspaper and media company that’s built on a community based membership model. Founded in 2012, the publication has over 10,000 paying subscribers in their community who read and listen to Zetland’s daily stories. If you’re not from Denmark you might…

Darius, who is also known as Tiny Subversions on the www, is an internet artist and a researcher on the future of social networks. Based out of Portland, Oregon, he has recently undertaken a fellowship at the Mozilla Foundation in Berlin which resulted in “Run your own social” - a manual that teaches anybody how to create and run a social network f…

Digital anthropologist Dr. Payal Arora bursts Western clichés and reveals how people in China, India and the Middle East will shape the future Internet.由the co-matter podcast

A conversation with Helen Job about the changing role of a future forecaster, the newly founded TCO Lab and upcoming Future of Community Report.

A conversation with Kickstarter co-founder & former CEO Yancey Strickler about his new book and his vision for a more generous world.

Franziska from Adobe Germany talks about their Creative Residency, a program that empowers creatives to spend a year focusing on a personal creative project, while sharing their experience and process with the creative community.

The Guardian's Amanda Michel shares how asking readers to contribute led to one of the most significant turnarounds in recent British media history.

Scott is the founder of Meetup, the platform for people to host and join real-life meetups in their area.Describing Meetup is almost like describing the social web: it's been around since 2002, connects millions of people and is often named in the same category as Facebook, Twitter and other global social networks.Scott has been running Meetup for …

Pop-in calls are short, hands-on conversations where members of the co-matter community call in to share insights about a specific project they currently work on.Today we're joined by the fantastic Kathryn Geels, director of the Engaged Journalism Accelerator based out of London, UK.We talk about:- The Engaged Journalism Accelerator and its mission…

Charles is a co-founder of Are.na, a visual organization tool designed to help you think and create.Some call it the Pinterest for nerds, others an alternative social network that helps you collect and connect ideas with a community of like-minded visual researchers. Are.na has over 100,000 members today and more than 8,000 paying members that fina…

We are introducing a new format to the co-matter podcast: the pop-in call.Pop-in calls are shorter, more hands-on sessions than our long-form conversations. For each pop-in call we invite a member of the co-matter community to call in and share insights, learnings and best practices about a specific project they’re currently working on.The goal is …

Jennifer and Mara are one half, or two of four co-founders, of Zebras Unite. Spread across 6 continents, 40 chapters and an online community of 4000 founders, Zebras Unite is a global movement that aims to make startup and venture capital culture more ethical and inclusive.At our third Community Leadership Summit, which took place in early Septembe…

Hampus Jakobsson is an entrepreneur and investor based out of Malmö, Sweden. Throughout his career, Hampus invested in more than 80 startups and is now one of the most sought-after investors in the Nordics.Earlier this year, he decided to only invest in technologies that contribute to solving the climate crisis. In August 2019 we had the chance to …

Petra is a Brazilian filmmaker whose documentary The Edge of Democracy got released on Netflix today. The Edge of Democracy is a very personal film about the political situation in Brazil, told through the eyes of Petra who witnessed first-hand the rise and fall of her country’s leaders. Her movie reflects a crisis in democracy that’s not only happ…

Yousef is the Global Director of Culture & Community for adidas Running. What he started as a Berlin runners club 6 years ago is now a global community known as adidas Runners, spanning 65 cities and 5 continents. We wanted to learn about Yousef’s journey with adidas Runners, and to understand how we can build authentic brand communities in times w…

Santiago is the founder of Democracy Earth, an open source platform for governance and community participation.A former video game developer turned activist-slash-founding member of Argentina's political party Partido de la Red, Santi takes us on a walk through NYC's central park to talk about the future of democracy. We explore the intersection be…

Solana Larsen is a journalist, editor and activist currently leading the Internet Health Report: Mozilla’s open source initiative to document and explain the state of the Internet in various areas of global interest.We talked to Solana on the occasion of the Internet Health Report’s third release. Her view on the health of the Internet swings from …

Jyri Engeström is a Finland-born, California-raised entrepreneur who has built online social networks since the dawn of the web 2.0 era. With Yes VC, the early-stage venture fund he started together with his partner Caterina Fake, Jyri now invests in the next generation of the web’s social infrastructure.In our call with Jyri, we talk about him gro…

Harper Reed is an American technologist, known for being the CTO behind Obama's 2012 re-election campaign, for his involvement in pioneering online crowdsourcing company Threadless, his hairstyle, and many other weird and wonderful projects he gets involved in.Severin met Harper at MIT’s media lab in Berlin, in August last year. Being a fan of Harp…

Claire L. Evans is a LA-based writer, musician and the author of Broad Band: The Untold Story of the Women Who Made the Internet. She’s also one of the most eloquent, articulate and witty people we’ve met to reflect on the state of the Internet today. In our talk, we covered how Claire met the women who built the internet, how they translated tradi…