Share your work at Mozilla Festival 2025
Mozilla Festival isn’t like other tech events—it’s co-created by the community.
Over half of the sessions are led by people just like you: technologists, artists, policymakers, activists, and bold thinkers from around the world.
In 2025, it’s your turn to take the stage.
Submit a proposal and help shape the future of tech.
Be Part of the Program—Lead a Session
Apply now to host a forum, lead a talk, or share your work at Mozilla Festival 2025. Deadline ends May 21.
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Talks
Deep dive into big ideas followed by a discussion
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Forums
Collaborative space to unpack challenges and build solutions together.
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Labs
Hands-on sessions where you build new skills to grow your work and impact.
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Installations
Interactive experiences that invite exploration—art, media, games, and more.
Find Your Aligned Track
Mozilla Festival is shaped around Tracks—these break down the bigger theme of Unlearning into focused areas. When submitting a session proposal, you’ll choose the Track that best fits your idea. Your session proposal should align with the spirit and scope of the track you choose,
Unlearning Default Design
The systems and products we design often exclude the diverse realities they’re meant to serve, reinforcing a narrow view of what’s possible. This track confronts those design principles, challenging the systems that shape today’s tech ecosystem. By taking a look at queer, feminist, neurodivergent, non-Western, and intergenerational perspectives, this track aims to reimagine the “one-size-fits-all” solutions of tech development.
Submit a proposal to Unlearning Default Design →
Unlearning Harmful Tech Systems
Technology is often seen as naturally neutral or objective, when it is not. This track unpacks the harm built into today’s systems and explores real, actionable ways to build something better. Alongside that, it looks at resistance not as disruption for disruption’s sake, but as an act of care—one that sparks imagination, optimism, and the creation of technologies that don’t exist yet, but should.
Unlearning Traditional Profit Models
The conventional entrepreneur playbook is overdue for revision. Built around hypergrowth and rapid scale, it ignores the needs of local communities and limits who sees themselves as builders or innovators. This track invites us to rethink success by exploring alternative, sustainable, inclusive, and community-driven models. It also dives into new financial systems, evolving payment structures, and the real-world impact of shifting economic landscapes.
Unlearning Power in Tech Governance
Decision-making in tech often reinforces inequality and hides the political, corporate, and institutional forces shaping our digital lives. This track explores the hidden power dynamics in tech development, governance, and regulation. It also looks at how our growing digital dependence has shifted our attention, autonomy, and values, looking ahead to reimagine a future where technology fosters collaboration, inclusivity, and shared progress.
Unlearning Tech Immateriality
Terms like “the cloud” make AI feel weightless, , as if it has no real-world impact, but behind every system are data centers, water use, mined minerals, and hidden labor. This track aims to expose the physical and environmental costs of AI, connecting global tech to local harm—and spotlight the communities demanding climate and ecological justice. It explores a future where technology drives climate justice, community, and shared responsibility.
Unlearning Default Security
The expectation to trade privacy, autonomy, or safety in order to participate in digital life has become a quiet norm. But what are the real costs of these trade-offs—and who gets left behind? This track challenges the myth that technology is secure by default, revealing how many tools prioritize data extraction over user protection. This track dives into community-led ways to approach digital safety, focusing on transparency and digital autonomy.