Protocol School

2025 Edition

September 15–19, 2025 — Online

The inaugural Protocol School ran over five days as part of the Protocol Symposium 2025, organized around the theme Accelerating Order. Twelve 90-minute learning modules were developed and delivered by 11 university teaching fellows drawn from the Summer of Protocols research community.

Format

Twelve modules over five days, covering protocol theory and practice at a college level. Suitable for students, researchers, and professionals; some technology background was recommended but not required. Certification was available for participants who met completion requirements. Hackathon and coworking sessions ran in parallel for hands-on application.

Teaching Fellows

The 2025 cohort comprised 11 teaching fellows who developed original curriculum for the program.

• Eric Alston — Scholar in Residence & Faculty Director, Hernando de Soto Capital Markets Program, University of Colorado Boulder
• Andrés Monroy-Hernández — Associate Professor of Computer Science, Princeton University
• Helena Rong — Assistant Professor, Interactive Media Business, NYU Shanghai
• Vaughn Tan — Honorary Associate Professor of Strategy, University College London; Fellow, Centre for Strategic Futures
• Chen Qiufan (Stanley Chan) — Berggruen Institute Fellow; Research Scholar, MacMillan Center, Yale University
• Yige Wang — Assistant Professor, Beijing Foreign Studies University
• Giovanni Merlino — Associate Professor of Computer Science Engineering, University of Messina
• Ben Zucker — Composer, audiovisual artist, President of New Music Chicago
• Felix Beer — Researcher, TUM Think Tank / Harvard Kennedy School / BlockchainGov
• Martin Harrigan — Lecturer & researcher, South East Technological University, Ireland
• Primavera De Filippi — Artist and Legal Scholar, Harvard University