Not a logo wall of people who never agreed to be there. Below are the actual seats we are recruiting for, what each one is asked to do, and what it pays. When someone signs, their name appears here — and not one day sooner.
Announcements begin once agreements are countersigned. This section stays empty until then — deliberately.
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Each seat is defined by what it does, not by who fills it. We are looking for people who built the thing, defended the thing, or spent a career thinking hard about whether we should have built it at all.
Someone who made a thing that is now in everyone's hands or everyone's infrastructure — and can explain how it actually happened, including the parts that went wrong.
A senior security practitioner — agency, national-level, or platform — who has run real incident response and can teach fundamentals without mythologizing the work.
A widely respected offensive-security researcher who teaches authorized-use ethics as seriously as technique. The ethics-and-law module comes first, always — that is a condition of the seat.
A scholar who can teach how institutions actually work to a room of teenagers and adults at once — and who teaches evaluation, not conclusions. Nonpartisan delivery is a condition of the seat.
An investigative journalist who works on influence operations, manufactured trends, or information integrity, and can show the audience their actual method — sourcing, verification, retraction.
A researcher or practitioner on the ethics of computing — AI, surveillance, child safety by design, provenance. Someone who has had to make an actual call with actual stakes, not only write about them.
A trust-and-safety or child-protection specialist to lead the family digital-safety session and review the Juniors Room program before it runs.
A civic-tech or hardware founder who can run a build track that produces something real by 4:00 PM, and who is honest about what building actually costs.
Subject-matter hosts who can run a room of ten senior people through one hard question without letting it become a panel.
The most important seats in the building. Screened, background-checked, two-adult rule at all times. Prior experience with kids matters more than prior experience with computers.
Published up front, because serious people should not have to negotiate blind. These are standard terms; keynote terms are individually negotiated within the published band.
| Role | Honorarium | Travel & lodging | Experience revenue share | Ask |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Keynote | $25,000 – $75,000 | Covered | 20% | Main stage + 1 autograph window |
| Faculty (anchors a lab) | $10,000 | Covered | 20% | One lab + one roundtable + one window |
| Roundtable host | $5,000 | Covered | 20% | One 75-min roundtable + written summary |
| Panelist | $2,500 | Covered | 20% | One panel |
| Junior mentor | Volunteer or $500 | Covered | — | Full-day supervised room |
You hold your own IP. We license the recording of your session for the library — nonexclusive, and you can pull it.
Faculty who contribute to the annual intelligence report are credited authors, not anonymous sources.
Autograph and photo windows are timed and capped. You are not on the floor for eight straight hours.
You will not be asked to endorse a candidate, party, or position. The Civics Lab teaches method, not conclusions.
The best faculty come from warm introductions. If you know someone who belongs in one of these seats — or if that person is you — the two paths below both land in the same inbox.
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Faculty honoraria are the single largest thing sponsorship buys. Underwriting a named seat is how a sponsor puts a genuinely serious person in front of a room of kids, teachers, and practitioners.