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Videos

Talks, panels, and interviews.

  1. Two panelists in conversation on the Local-First Conf stage in Berlin.

    Data Ownership Beyond Local First video

    A panel at Local-First Conf 2026 in Berlin with Paul Frazee (Bluesky), Boris Mann (Ink & Switch), and Zenna Fiscella (Scuttlebutt), moderated by Eileen Wagner: what data ownership means once you look past local-first software.

  2. Me in the middle of talking

    We Build On Hope video

    The current state of tech can feel disheartening. But we have every reason to hope.

  3. A phone screen showing a folder named GAFA with the Google, Apple Store, Facebook, and Amazon apps.

    Should Europe wean itself off US tech? — RTÉ Radio 1 video

    A twelve-minute conversation on Today with David McCullagh, with Dr Hazel Murray of Munster Technological University, about Europe’s dependence on US technology and what it would take to reduce it.

  4. European Data Summit 2026 — Enforce. Simplify. Build. — title card with a lone fish facing a shoal, dated April 15th, 2026.

    Building a thriving open social web for Europe — European Data Summit 2026 video

    My keynote at the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung’s European Data Summit 2026, followed by the panel “Digital Public Infrastructure — the Social Media Issue”.

  5. Me in an orange shirt in front of purple drapes

    Cambridge Disinformation Summit video

    Robin Berjon, Principal, Supramundane Agency, discusses digital sovereignty and infrastructure needed to support sovereignty.

  6. The ATmosphereConf 2026 livestream frame: two speakers at a lectern beside a slide showing a rendered document.

    ATmosphereConf 2026: WebTiles Showcase and Matadata! 2 videos

    My two sessions at ATmosphereConf 2026 in Vancouver: a showcase of WebTiles with Ted Han, and a lightning talk on Matadata, publishing scientific data straight to AT.

  7. A person walking between rows of server racks in a dimly lit data centre.

    Vulnérabilités systémiques dans le secteur du numérique : audition à l’Assemblée nationale video

    My testimony before the Assemblée nationale’s commission of inquiry into France’s structural dependencies and systemic vulnerabilities in the digital sector, in a round table with David Chavalarias and Maud Quessard.

  8. Robin Berjon on stage

    De l’usage démocratique des protocoles video

    Soirée destinée aux décideurs, journalistes, mécènes, scientifiques, libristes, citoyennes et citoyens qui souhaitent s’informer, réfléchir et agir concrètement pour le développement d’un espace numérique européen souverain et résilient aux perturbations géopolitiques.

  9. Care Bears being various parts of the cloud stack

    Digital Building Blocks: ATProto and Eurosky Explained video

    Explaining ATProto and Eurosky at the Eurosky Live 2025 conference.

  10. My face under a blue hue, and the title

    What is digital sovereignty and how can Europe achieve it? video

    Europe has experienced a sense of losing control over its digital ecosystem and economic considerations, coupled with a perception that its innovation in the technology world is lagging. In this foundational episode, Chloe Teevan and Gautam Kamath explore the critical concept of digital sovereignty with Robin Berjon and why it demands attention from policymakers worldwide.

  11. Three people seated on stage with microphones in front of a screen reading “full stack Journalism”.

    Interfaces and influence: Reclaiming Newsroom Technology — Full Stack Journalism video

    Episode two of the Full Stack Journalism live podcast, with Sara Cooper, Tina Lee, and host Sabrina Faramarzi, on the hidden influences underpinning the technology newsrooms depend on.

  12. Fuzzy colours and re:publica 25

    re:publica 25: How We Can Finally Make The Digital World Democratic video

    Our digital sphere is authoritarian and as the internet is infrastructure for society this makes our world authoritarian too. In this talk, I explain how to use open protocols, pro-democracy technical architectures, and our understanding of digital infrastructure to build democratic social media.

  13. Panel announcement with all participants and details listed.

    The Next Social Wave: Open, Competitive, and User-Controlled 2 videos

    Two excerpts from the Future of Technology Institute panel on the next wave of decentralised social media, with Sherif Elsayed-Ali, Marietje Schaake, and Emily Liu.

  14. EU DisinfoLab webinar card: “Free Our Feeds — a path to build open, public interest social media”, with Robin Berjon and Joe McNamee, 13 February 2025.

    Free Our Feeds: a path to build open, public interest social media video

    An EU DisinfoLab webinar on getting away from algorithms designed to generate polarised content: how open protocols open the door to public interest social media infrastructure and a healthier information environment. Moderated by Joe McNamee.

  15. The title over a detail of some samurai armour

    Europe - Community or Colony? Can we Build our Own Digital Infrastructure? video

    A panel on sovereignty and infrastructure with Cristina Caffarra, Axel Voss, Marian Gläser, Jonas Andrulis, Andy Yen, and Ivan De Lastours.

  16. Hearsay Culture, orange background

    Hearsay Culture Radio video

    In this episode, Robin Berjon—technologist, deputy director of the IPFS Foundation, and former New York Times privacy and data governance lead—joins host Dave Levine (Associate Dean and Professor at Elon University School of Law, affiliate scholar at Stanford’s Center for Internet and Society) to dive into the challenges of digital infrastructure and how we can reclaim social media from billionaire capture.

  17. Title card in white monospace on black: “Web3 Summit 2024 — IPFS — Robin Berjon — The Public Interest Internet”.

    The Public Interest Internet video

    My talk at Web3 Summit 2024 at Funkhaus Berlin: what it would take to run the internet as public interest infrastructure rather than as a set of privately governed platforms.

  18. Delacroix Frenc revolution with the title

    Consent of the Governed — keynote at the Consent Workshop 2022 video

    An overview of the problems with consent in privacy.