2025 Community Awards: Recognizing Contributions from Across the LF Decentralized Trust Community

As part of our celebration of a decade of building better together, this year we are giving out 10 community recognition awards. The winners have contributed in a variety of different but important ways. 

Many are driving forces in the development of projects. Others are on the front lines of community building, nurturing and educating the next wave of contributors and builders. 

Some have been part of our community from the earliest days. A number are new contributors. 

All are champions for and of LF Decentralized Trust. 

• IBM Research team: Elli Androulaki, Angelo de Caro, David Enyeart, and Alessandro Sorniotti
• Kaleido founding team: Peter Broadhurst, Steve Cerveny, Sophia Lopez, and Jim Zhang
• European Chapter originators: Maciej Hoffman, Przemyslaw Koper, and Dominik Zyskowski, Espeo Software
• Mariana Benedett, Research Lead, Besu Hub Brazil
• Sophie Bulloch, Maintainer of the Hiero Python SDK and Website
• Shane Deconinck, Web3 Lead, Howest
• Shingo Fujimoto, Principal Research Director, FUJITSU Limited
• Helen Garneau, CMO, Indicio
• Carly Huitma, Manager, Agri-food Data Strategy, University of Guelph, and Trust over IP Steering Committee Chair
• Daniel Szegö, DLT Architect

It’s our honor to recognize each of these 10 community award winners. We thank them profusely for their effort and impact. Check out this video where we feature these winners and their reactions to this award:

You can also find this on Linkedin here. Join us in sharing this honor and congratulating these community leaders.

#BuildingBetterTogether!