How to coordinate an epistemic revolution by Nick Almond | Devcon SEA
Thu, Oct 2, 2025, 12:00 AM
Amid widespread misinformation, division, and fractured consensus, we face an epistemic crisis. This talk unifies learning and governance theory, organizational design, social consensus tools, AI, and prediction markets. We will explore how DAOs and Ethereum can serve as decentralized platforms for collective intelligence and planetary-scale problem-solving, guiding us toward an epistemic revolution at this critical time. Speaker(s): Nick Almond Skill level: Beginner Track: Coordination Keywords: Consensus, Quadratic Voting, Collective Intelligence, citizens, assembly Follow us: https://twitter.com/efdevcon, https://twitter.com/ethereum, https://warpcast.com/devcon Learn more about devcon: https://www.devcon.org/ Learn more about ethereum: https://ethereum.org/ Visit the https://archive.devcon.org/ to gain access to the entire library of Devcon talks with the ease of filtering, playlists, personalized suggestions, decentralized access on Swarm, IPFS and more. Devcon is the Ethereum conference for developers, researchers, thinkers, and makers. Devcon SEA was held in Bangkok, Thailand on Nov 12 - Nov 15, 2024. Devcon is organized and presented by the Ethereum Foundation. To find out more, please visit https://ethereum.foundation/
Speakers
Nick Almond is the CEO of Factory Labs a London based research and development company focussed on decentralised governance and collective intelligence technologies. He is a physicist, learning theorist and DAOist who is committed to promoting strong crypto values and building tools for unleashing human potential through coordination and social consensus formation.