Mozilla Foundation

Watch the recording of Rudy on the MozFest main stage from his October 30th, 2026 presenting for the "Pushing Through The Concrete" panel.

What if technology could be shaped by people and communities on their own terms, for the problems in front of them?Mozilla Foundation is betting on the people who are bold enough to answer those questions.

The people on this stage are already showing us what different technological futures can look like: a social network built around Black community governance, civic technology designed for crisis response, tools for ocean and climate resilience, infrastructure shaped by communities rather than platforms, and research exposing where dominant systems fail. These are our pollinators; builders, researchers, and organizers testing alternatives in the real world and asking what it would take for them to become the norm rather than the exception.

Mozilla Fellows build better because their work starts with a problem, not profit or an IPO.