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TODO: make sub pages for each talk, embed video, paste in slides / slide link, add transcripts.
| Time | Presentation |
|---|---|
| 09:00-09:30 | Doors open |
| 09:30-09:45 | Opening Remarks |
| 09:45-10:30 | Network Punk: Welcome to the Jungle, Blaine Cook |
| 10:30-10:45 | Coffee Break |
| 10:45-11:30 | Where did we come from; where will we go, Paul Frazee |
| 11:30-12:15 | Smoke Signal, an journey in building open ecosystems for communities, Nick Gerakines |
| 12:15-12:30 | Skyseed Fund, Peter Wang |
| 12:30-12:45 | Jay Graber Remarks |
| 12:30-14:00 | Lunch |
| 14:00-14:45 | Atproto Ethos, Daniel Holmgren |
| 14:45-15:00 | All the protocols, compared, Ryan Barrett |
| 15:00-15:15 | Fedica's Bluesky analysis and discovery tools, Samir Al-Battran |
| 15:15-15:30 | DO NOT REPLY TO THIS LIGHTNING TALK, Dan Hon |
| 15:30-16:00 | Break |
| 16:00-16:15 | Beyond the Skeet: ATProto's Potential for Digital Preservation and Human Rights, Michelle Lee |
| 16:15-16:30 | Comind: The cognitive layer for ATProto, Cameron Pfiffer |
| 16:30-16:45 | Protocol composition: extending atproto for private data, Rashid Aziz |
| 16:45-17:30 | Yearning for the Open Protocols, Ms Boba |
| 17:15-17:30 | Day 1 Wrap Up |
| Time | Group Discussion |
|---|---|
| 14:00-15:00 | AI on ATproto, hosted by Cameron Pfiffer |
| 15:00-16:30 | Private Data, hosted by Georgia Bullen & Boris Mann |
| 16:30-17:30 | Lexicon Community, hosted by Nick Gerakines |
| Time | Group Discussion |
|---|---|
| 11:30-12:45 | Video on ATProto (Sprk, Skylight, Stream.place) |
| 14:00-15:00 | ATProto and ActivityPub (Darius) |
| 15:00-16:00 | Free Our Feeds (Marc) |
| 16:00-17:30 | IndieSky & more (bnewbold) |
| Time | Group Discussion |
|---|---|
| 11:30-12:30 | ATGeo (Nick & Boris) |
| 14:00-15:00 | Micropayments (Georgia) |
| 15:00-16:30 | Building new services (Ms. Boba) |
| 16:30-17:30 | Creating Tech-Co Ops (maxine.science) |
| Time | Group Discussion |
|---|---|
| 15:00-16:00 | E2EE Messaging, Tessa |
| 16:00-17:00 | Location Data Privacy, Case |
Long form articles in the press and by individuals
https://mandertang.substack.com/p/what-do-a-goose-community-minded
I can hardly remember a time in my life when computers and tech didn’t play a part (It was basically before 1982). With almost 30 years of experience in the Big Tech industry, I have attended many conferences! I can only think of one conference I attended that I didn’t feel totally out of place AND was inspired- Grace Hopper (I got to attend 3 times) UNTIL TODAY.
This weekend I attended the FIRST ATmosphere Developer Conference. Now, I’m not a developer- but the promise of AT Protocol and the growth of Bluesky combined with my next evolution: (soon to be a legal entity) Collective Good Technology A Nonprofit Corporation, I am in full on learning and storming mode.
PacificNorthWexican @mandertang.bsky.social
https://newsletter.danhon.com/archive/s19e08-its-not-2006-anymore-the-useful-vernacular/
I was at ATMosphere Conference 2025 in Seattle over the weekend. I’ll do some quick scene-setting shorthand so that some people will understand why I’m so excited coming out of it:
It felt like being at an O’Reilly ETech conference in the early 2000s. These were the conferences where web2.0 was invented, solidifed, and named. They were incredibly optimistic times and clearly with the benefit of hindsight, we were stupendously naive and privileged. You just have to look back over the last 18-odd or so years to see how what we thought would happen by default (“more people connected means good things will happen!) totally did not happen and instead ended up reinforcing and making existing power structures worse. Sorry.
But the energy from those conferences was there over the weekend. It felt like the beginning of something that could make a difference.
Dan Hon @danhon.com
Don’t call it a Bluesky conference.
Over the weekend, the first in-person gathering devoted to those building with the AT Protocol, or ATProto — the technology that powers Bluesky’s growing social network of 33 million-plus users — was held in Seattle. At the event, developers, engineers, founders, and even members of the Bluesky team, including CEO Jay Graber, were in attendance. Many in the community were meeting each other for the first time after having only ever communicated online.
But although Bluesky is the largest app built on ATProto at this time, the social network itself was not the ATmosphere Conference’s focus. Here, Bluesky was just another developer — albeit a prominent one, given its stewardship of ATProto, the social networking protocol that offers a framework for building a decentralized social network.
Sarah Perez @sarahp.bsky.social @ TechCrunch
There is something meaningful happening under the tech surface and few people are noticing it.
This past weekend, I attended the ATmosphere Conference in Seattle, the first conference about the Authenticated Transfer (AT) Protocol. You likely haven’t heard about it and what it does, but you’ve certainly heard of the social network built using this protocol: Bluesky. (The company’s CEO, Jay Graber, spoke at the conference).
Marcelo Calbucci @calbucci.com @ Geekwire