LubnaDajani

Live to Inspire and Innovate.

New YorkFounder, AllternetW3C Invited ExpertIEEE Standards ContributorCatalyst 2030 USA Co-Chair
Portrait of Lubna Dajani in soft natural light, quarter-turn, accessible-intellectual register.
New York — natural light, quarter-turn.
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“Technology is a Product of Human Innovation.”— Lubna Dajani
Now
Updated 02 May 2026

At Allternet, building a post-quantum hardware root-of-trust and the protocol layer for self-sovereign identity. Co-chairing Catalyst 2030 USA on the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. Active on IEEE P7800 and continuing contributions to 7010, 7014, 2874, and P7016. Reading, slowly, on regenerative finance and the kindHuman thesis. Writing, less quickly, the next essay.

The
Long View

I have spent twenty-five years working at the seam between deep technology and the people it touches. In 2005 I was working on RFID when most rooms had not yet heard the word. In 2007 I co-founded Mobile Monday New York because the mobile internet was about to rewrite identity, and the conversation needed a room. In 2014 I wrote The Allternet — the manifesto that became the company I run today.

The questions have not changed: who owns your data; who owns your name; who decides what trust costs. The instruments have. From mobile to self-sovereign identity, from privacy policy to cryptographically held identity, from ethics committees to IEEE working groups, from convenience to consequence. I have served as a W3C Invited Expert on Privacy, contributed to IEEE 7010, 7014, 2874, P7016 and P7800, and now build hardware-rooted, post-quantum-ready trust at Allternet.

I am convinced of one thing. The bridge from humankind to kindHuman is built one sovereign voice at a time — and it is finally something we have the tools to build.

Centerpiece
I — III

A voice that we can hear.

three movements · sub-2 min
“For the first time in human history, each of us today has a voice that we can hear if we choose to use it and if we choose to listen.”— Lubna Dajani

Voices remembered on this device

    Privacy by architecture

    What you type is hashed in this tab via SubtleCrypto.SHA-256. The raw text is never sent anywhere and is never written to disk. Only the digest and a coarse minute-grained timestamp are kept in IndexedDB on this device, capped at twelve, FIFO. Names never surface. Same input → same node, always.

    Twenty-five years, four registers — venture, board, standards, scholarship.

    Allternet Limited
    Founder & Managing Director
    Post-quantum hardware root-of-trust and protocol layer for self-sovereign identity, ethical AI, Web3 and the energy / data / telecom convergence. The company I run today; the manifesto I wrote in 2014 made operational.
    2017 — present
    Catalyst 2030 USA
    Co-Chair
    A global community of social entrepreneurs working in service of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. I co-chair the United States chapter.
    co-chair
    Coralus
    Board Member
    A radically generous funding ecosystem for women-and-non-binary-led ventures of consequence.
    board
    Jointechlabs
    Board Advisor
    Regenerative biomedical platform — point-of-care cell therapy.
    advisor
    AEC Hackathon
    Board Member
    The original architecture / engineering / construction hackathon — built environment as a place where invention can land.
    board
    NYU Steinhardt — Music Design Lab
    Visiting Scholar
    Working at the seam where listening, instrument design and the engineering of attention meet.
    visiting
    Stratemerge Inc.
    Founder & CEO
    Strategy and venture practice across mobile, identity and emerging tech, prior to Allternet.
    prior
    Mobile Monday New York
    Co-Founder
    The room that hosted the Northeast's mobile-internet conversation when the conversation still mattered most.
    2007
    Innovation engagements
    Advisor
    GE · AT&T · Viacom · Microsoft · Nokia · PwC · ARM · Hansol Secure.
    selected

    Verifiable contributions to the standards bodies that govern trust.

    Interviews, panels, and talks.

    Essays, in her own register.

    The
    Allternet
    “For the first time in human history, each of us today has a voice that we can hear if we choose to use it and if we choose to listen.”

    Allternet is the company I founded to build what the manifesto described: a hardware-rooted, post-quantum-ready trust layer for the next internet — self-sovereign identity, ethical AI, energy / data / telecom convergence — with privacy as architecture, not policy. allternet.com.

    The
    Mission

    “I am convinced that we are finally in a position to lift the economic burden and eradicate hunger and much of the unnecessary suffering in the world.”— Lubna Dajani

    Three modes.

    Advisory & board work

    Deep-tech, identity, privacy, post-quantum security and regenerative-systems ventures — early through Series B.

    Speaking & moderation

    Keynotes, symposia, standards bodies. The room that wants the technical and the humane in one voice.

    Press & conversation

    Interviews, podcasts, op-eds. On record, in her register.

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