ATmosphereConf Call for Presentations & Initial Speakers

Welcome to the end of January in the ATmosphere and Happy Lunar New Year!

The ATProto community's enthusiasm has been fantastic and we've connected with great builders and community leaders who will join us on March 22-23 in Seattle.

Initial Speakers

We're looking forward to hearing from many amazing presenters including:

• Blaine Cook, original lead engineer of Twitter, creator of OAuth, and pioneer of decentralized social systems, Blaine remains inexplicably hopeful about the power of online networks to connect and empower humanity for good.
• Nick Gerakines, has worked at technology and gaming companies including Microsoft GitHub, Datadog, Mattel, Blizzard Entertainment, Electronic Arts and Yahoo. Creator of SmokeSignal Events and Lexicon Community
• Rudy Fraser, Founder, Blacksky, creator of the rsky AT Protocol implementation in Rust, ASML Fellow, Berkman Klein Center at Harvard
• Erin Kissane, writer, researcher, editor, and community leader. A cofounder of the COVID Tracking Project, and author of the Elements of Content Strategy, who has spoken and written about the impacts of and structure of social media. Follow her new studio wreck.age.
• And more to come

Call for Presentations

If you'd like to join us and present, we'd also like to hear from you! Just fill out the form below with your pitch.

We have three different types of talks:

• Full length presentation: 30 - 40min talk + QA
• Lightning Talk or Demo: 10min demo or short talk
• Discussion Lead: facilitate a 45min group discussion with yourself + 1 - 2 others as facilitators. Good for everything from broad topics like "Building a Business on ATproto" to technical items like "Lexicon Resolution in Protocol"

As inspiration we'd also like to share some of the topics of interest that the community has shared with us:

• Products built with ATproto
• ATProto Infrastructure & operations
• Shared resources like Lexicon.community, PLC.directory and their governance
• Business models and monetization
• ATProto data & lexicons, and private data
• Ecosystem Authentication

As well as main stage talks that will be recorded and livestreamed, we are focusing on builder and community connections with our discussion groups, so please do bring your community — we're happy to host AT Protocol ecosystem discussions that are important to you.

Additional Sponsors: Streamplace & Graze

We have two more sponsors to announce who are already building in the ATmosphere. We'd like to thank Streamplace and Graze for their support for ATmosphereConf.

Streamplace is a Named Sponsor, and will also be supporting video for the conference, including with their own atproto-linked Livestreaming.

Thanks Graze for supporting as a Community Sponsor! They've just open sourced Grazer, their core feed algorithm engine, and have an article in TechCrunch today.

Check out the main ATmosphereConf page for all the listed sponsors, and get in touch if you'd like to support us!