The Network State Conference 2023

Opening Address by Balaji

Physical Parallel Societies

Alex Grintsvayg | Cabin

Jason Benn | The Neighborhood SF

Zach Milburn | NOMAD

Dryden Brown | Praxis

Ryan Johnson | Culdesac

Erick Brimen | Prospera

Andrew Rose and Priya Rose | Fractal

Brooke Bowman | Vibecamp

Alexis Rivas | Buildcover

Emerging Parallel Societies

Ryan Rzepecki | Spectra

Shervin Pishevar and Stefan Zingerle | Sherpa Capital and Casa Orascom

Stefan Zingerle | Building Cities in Africa

Yalor Mewn | Metacartel

Zach Anderson | Coordinape

Sondre Rasch | Plumia

Lindsey Elkin | Yayem

Patri Friedman | Pronomos | “Competitive Government”

Vitalik Buterin | Zuzalu

Parallel Media

Glenn Greenwald | Rumble | “Digital Privacy”

Ashley Rindsberg | Gray Lady Winked | “How the New York Times Faked History”

Alana Newhouse | Tablet | “Brokenism”

Nuseir Yassin | Nas Daily | “From Communities to Countries”

Dan Romero | Farcaster

Parallel Education

Chrisman Frank | Synthesis

Michael Gibson | 1517 Fund | “Disrupting Academia”

Tyler Cowen | Emergent Ventures | “Transforming Academic Grants”

Amjad Masad | Replit

Parallel Laws

Garry Tan | YCombinator | “Fixing San Francisco”

Beff Jezos | e/acc

Spencer Macdonald | Spearbit

Luis Cuende | Baseflow

Mark Lutter | Charter Cities

Parallel Biomedicine

Niklas Anzinger | Infinita

Laurence Ion | Vitalia

Patrick Joyce | Research Hub

Parallel Finance

Anatoly Yakovenko | Solana Labs

Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss | Gemini | “Fixing Crypto Regulations”

Codie Sanchez | Contrarian Thinking | “A Blue Collar Network State”

Kathleen Tyson | Pacemaker Global | “Multicurrency Mercantilism”

Peter St Onge | Heritage

Closing Address by Balaji