The SBC DAO Workshop (aka DAO Berkeley 2025) will take place August 3, 2025 at UC Berkeley. Part of SBC ‘25.
The theme this year is “Back to the Drawing Board”: a chance to reflect on the trajectory of DAOs and rethink our organizational stack from first principles. If current models risk irrelevance, what new design spaces should we be exploring? This year, all talks will be organized as lightning talks of 5 minutes, leading into a set of three roundtable discussions.
The SBC DAO Workshop is part of an interdisciplinary series of meetings intended to support the growing community of researchers interested in DAOs and other digitally-constituted organizations. Previous events in this series have been held at Cornell, Stanford, Harvard, and the University of Tokyo.
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If you would like to attend the workshop, please pre-register here. Due to the venue’s security, you MUST preregister to attend in person.
Note: we hope to be able to welcome all potential attendees. However, if pre-registrations exceed the capacity of the venue, we may have to waitlist some attendees. We will prioritize those with submissions to the workshop.
DAO Berkeley is the second event of the series with a peer-reviewed component. 🎉
❗ Submission deadline: May 30, 2025 June 15, 2025
✅ Author notification: June 15, 2025 June 22, 2025
The main workshop day will feature a mix of invited speakers, breakout discussions, and peer-reviewed papers. Depending on time, there may be a poster session. Note, there will be a reception in the evening.