Mozfest/2025
< Mozfest
Overview
From November 7 - 9 2025 the 15th Edition of Mozilla Festival was held in Barcelona, Spain at Poble Espanol.
Headline speakers included:
- Ruha Benjamin - Renowned scholar, Dr. Ruha Benjamin, joined Mozilla Foundation’s Executive Director, Nabiha Syed, for a conversation on imagination as an act of radical possibility and a path to new futures.
- Chelsea Manning - The activist and whistleblower shared how her journey—from classified military intelligence to public whistleblowing to life as a network security advocate—has been defined not by what she learned, but by what she had the courage to unlearn.
2025's festival highlights included:
- 2,195 attendees
- Over 230 sessions over 3 days
- Participants from 79 countries, 81% who attended the festival for the first time
- Global press presence like TIME and The Guardian, and national Spanish media
- ~3 Million reached across paid and organic digital platforms
- the beginning of a new multi-year partnership with the City of Barcelona
Every one of those numbers reflects the collective strength of Mozilla: from our community, wranglers, and volunteers to our program, production, strategy, comms, platforms, people, legal, finance, and partners.
For more highlights see: https://www.mozillafestival.org/en/2025-highlights/
News Announcements at MozFest 2025
- THREE YEAR PARTNERSHIP: Mozilla Foundation Executive Director, Nabiha Syed, and Barcelona’s, Deputy Mayor, Jordi Valls, signed a three-year partnership to host Mozilla Festival in the city through 2027, celebrating Barcelona’s leadership in advancing an open and inclusive digital future.
- INCUBATOR: Mozilla Foundation announced its new Incubator, which will help values-aligned technologies move from prototype to sustainability.
- In 2026, this Incubator will give out $1 million in new AI & Democracy awards to address the urgent challenges artificial intelligence poses to democratic institutions, information ecosystems, and civic participation.
- MOZILLA DATA COLLECTIVE: Mozilla Foundation announced the official launch of the Mozilla Data Collective, a community-powered data value exchange that allows communities to benefit from and be compensated for their data.