Hackers Congress Paralelní Polis (HCPP) is the flagship event of Paralelní Polis, which since 2014 has been regularly attended by over 500 fans and IT experts from all over the world.

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Manifesto

They took a shot at privacy, building surveillance systems.

They took a shot at encryption, saying surveillance cannot work if we don’t give them keys.

They took a shot at anonymity, with face recognition, profiling, social credit scores.

We were hiding in a masked crowd.

They took a shot at financial communication, counterfeiting units of money and taking the wealth of the society for themselves.

They enlisted their friendly corporations to supply them with the bullets of control and oppression.

Who will fire the last shot?

And will we then – finally – disappear?

SPEAKERS

Phil Zimmermann

creator of Pretty Good Privacy, an email encryption software

miroslav barta

Archaeologist & egyptologist, author of the seven laws theory

elsirion

Crypto-Anarchist & aspiring Cypherpunk

Jindrich karasek

Senior Cyber Threat Researcher working for Trend Micro

smuggler

Cryptoanarchist & Cypherpunk

ryan lackey

co-founder of HavenCo, entrepreneur, computer security professional

mario havel

hacker, co-founder of bordel hackerspace, member of paralelní polis

Mitch altman

hacker & inventor, best known for inventing TV-B-Gone

brewster kahle

digital librarian, computer engineer, Internet entrepreneur

paul rosenberg

Co-founder of Cryptohippie & author of the Freeman’s Perspective newsletter

Daniela Brozzoni

Bitcoin dev

Radim Kozub

Lawyer, co-founder of Blockchain Legal

Rachel-Rose O’Leary

DarkFi core dev & writer

juraj bednar

Educator, Writer, Cryptoanarchist & Biohacker

parazyd

open source software developer & advocate, co-founder of DarkFi

amin rafiee

Founder of Bittopia University

PAVEL SIMON

assistant professor at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering & IT (University of Žilina)

SETH FOR PRIVACY

privacy educator who hosts the “Opt Out” podcast

paul kohlhaas

Co-Founder & CEO at Molecule, Serial entrepreneur, economist & web3 engineer
Matthias Tarasiewicz
 developer, consultant, research designer & Director of the RIAT Institute

jarrad hope

the thought leader & Co-Founder of Status.im, an open-source mobile client

janine

privacy researcher & investigative journalist focused on Bitcoin and (counter)surveillance

Kai Landre

cyborg musician who can hear the universe

MAX HAMPSHIRE

Developer Relations Officer for Nym, DAO smart contract engineer, writer & artist

exiledsurfer

Open Resorcerer

Filip dvorak
AI Scientist & Entrepreneur

sombernight

Developer and co-maintainer of the Electrum Bitcoin Wallet

ALEXANDRA

Cypherpunk, CEO & founder of Advance Tech Media

stellar magnet

Black Sky Contributor

amir taaki

darkfi cryptography

GREGOR

Swarm Foundation’s director

obi nwosu

CEO of Fedi & a full time Bitcoin advocate

VLADIMIR VENCALEK

IT solution architect
serinko
Revolutionary, anarchist, pagan

pavol luptak

Cryptoanarchist, CEO of Nethemba & Co-Founder of Paralelní Polis CZ & SK

PETER YOUNG

managing director of the Free Cities Foundation

tomas sebek

Surgeon and digital health evangelist

Grafton clark

technical specialist at SatoshiLabs

Michael Schloh von Bennewitz

Computer scientist, founder of the Monero Hardware team

ariel gabizon

Chief scientist at Aztec network

scott beibin

inventor, open source technologist, self taught engineer
Lea Petras
co-founder and CEO of Vexl

rootzoll

Maintainer & LeadDev of the RaspiBlitz project

maxim orlovsky

Radical transhumanist, CEO at Pandora Core AG

Panel discussions

Bitcoin vs Normies in suits

Bitcoin & human rights: How your code can save the world

Lunarpunk & Solarpunk

PARALELNÍ POLIS

VENUE & ORGANIZER

Unique industrial multi-purpose professional event space in the heart of Holešovice district in Prague ideal for presenting various projects and hosting community events.

Paralelní Polis is a one-­of-­a-­kind nonprofit organization that brings together art, social sciences, and modern technologies. The ideas of liberty, independence, innovative thinking, and development of society are the main underlying foundations the whole project is built upon.

The project intends to remain state free as it operates entirely without support from the government. Most of the funds come from voluntary contributions of donors and commercial activities such as running a co­working space and the world’s 1st bitcoin-­only cafe.

It was founded by members of a contemporary-­art group Ztohoven, and Slovak and Czech hacker­spaces. Its main goal is to promote economic, social, and digital freedom. We try to be a vocal voice of freedom in order to shape the public discourse, and ultimately work towards a freer future.

PARTNERS

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Paralelní Polis, Dělnická 43, Praha 7, Czechia