Marcin Jakubowski

Leveraging Plan-B options in an Age of Fractured States: A practical discussion on the logistics of a decentralized lifestyle, managing global travel, legal residency, and "world-schooling" while living entirely on the Bitcoin network. Discover the tools and mindsets needed to move your family from a fixed location to a global presence.

Your 101 guide on how to prep for times of uncertainty. Our panel discusses solutions for different risk factors affecting individuals and family life.

What if the critical systems of civilization —housing, energy, food, and manufacturing— were open, modular, and collaboratively developed like open source software? Open Source Ecology (OSE) is working to make that a reality by creating the Global Village Construction Set: a library of open, low-cost, high-performance machines that enable distributed production and local resilience at industrial productivity.

This keynote outlines how OSE combines extreme design-build, collaborative literacy, and enterprise-backed training to accelerate the development of open hardware ecosystems. By integrating education, production, and entrepreneurship —such as building homes while training new practitioners— OSE demonstrates a viable pathway to an open source economy with lower costs, faster innovation, and broader access to the means of production.

The talk challenges assumptions about proprietary development and industrial scale, presenting a concrete, scalable alternative: a transparent, collaborative model capable of rebuilding the technosphere for abundance, resilience, and human flourishing.