Back from ATmosphere Conf 2026

Recovering from the four+ days of the second annual ATmosphereConf, this year held here in Vancouver at the UBC campus. It was more than twice as big as last year’s inaugural event in Seattle, and even more international with many folks coming from Europe, Japan, and Brazil.

The community is very thoughtful about how to make hashtag#opensocial better for communities, as demonstrated by some excellent presentations from folks like Erin Kissane, Blaine Cook, Rudolph Fraser and many many more. Watch out for the vids of all the sessions, they will be dropping soon.

I MC’d the Media & Civics track for most of the conf, but I did get to catch up with a ton of folks, including the new Bsky Country manager for Japan Naoko Takano who is brilliant! Now that I have recovered I will write up an event report for Protocols for Publishers ✨ which will be more indepth with some important atproto and standard.site highlights for publishers. Watch out for that!

Congrats to the conf organizers Boris Mann, Ted Han, Nick Gerakines and the local production team who did an excellent job. 🪿✨🦋

🔖 See last year’s report here: micro.chadkohalyk.com/2025/03/3…