Early bird ends, pre-conference workshops, travel support updates

Early bird tickets will end this Sunday

At 11pm PT this Sunday, February 1st, we'll end early bird tickets. Standard tickets will go up by $50USD. Your ticket gets you into all 4 days, including workshops and events like ATScience.

Remote tickets will go on sale soon

We've got remote tickets ready to go, but not quite released yet! They will have suggested pricing of $10USD to help support the conference.

The remote/hybrid crew will have a longer post about what we've got planned later this week. Thanks to our sponsor @stream.place for committing to three full streaming rooms!

Workshops and activities

We have ~80 people on Thursday and ~100 on Friday that have already committed to joining us for those days without more details on activities. Thank you for your trust!

If you check your email and edit your workshop / activity selections you can see extended descriptions and check on timing for what we're announcing below.

Thursday

This is your day to dive deep with protocol depths as well as connect into ecosystem planning.

OAuth Masterclass @ngerakines.me OAuth Masterclass

Dawn Walker @dcwalker.ca Hospicing Social Media

Ivan Sigal @ivansigal.bsky.social Explorations into new social tech modalities

Chad Miller @chadtmiller.com Abstracting the Appview with Quickslice

Tessa Brown @tessa.germnetwork.com Dive into user research, joined by the community Ecosystem Action Research team which @christian.bsky.social has kicked off

We have some more workshops that are being organized, as well as dedicated time and space for unconference style community hacking, convening, or group discussions.

On Thursday evening, a Vancouver craft brewery tour is coming together led by @daffl.xyz and @ngerakines.me . Join the Roomy channel to find out more.

Friday

The big event on Friday is the all day ATScience event, who now have some great announced speakers - @sjgreenwood.bsky.social , @hyl.st , @emily.space , @aaronstevenwhite.io , @teonbrooks.com - with more to come!

The same tickets get you into the entire event, read their event page for full details.

ATScience 2026

A full-day exploration of AT Protocol for science, education, and open knowledge. A side event to AtmosphereConf 2026 @ Vancouver, March 27, 2026

Of the two Bluesky devrel workshops, the "Creating" workshop is currently full! We'll have some more slots to release closer to the conference.

Meet the Bluesky DevRel team, join the workshops - ATmosphereConf News

Announcing our first pre-conference activities - half day workshops on learning to work with ATproto

Rounding out the day, we have two great sessions:

Fig & Bailey @bad-example.com at://advent, an atproto adventure

Brendan @schlage.town Leaflet & @standard.site : Atmospheric Publishing

And, just like Friday, we'll have a few corners where you can meet and connect on schemes of your own.

Travel Support for Europe and Japan

As we confirm speakers and talks, we're also extending travel support confirmations.

The team at New_ Public @newpublic.org are partnering with us to help support travel from Europe.

Bluesky @bsky.app has also increased their commitment in particular to support travel from Japan.

We'll go into more detail on this with upcoming posts!

In Seattle, 20% of our budget went to travel support, and with these new commitments, we are on track to be at the same level for Vancouver. Thank you to all of our sponsors and those buying tickets to help bring this community together.

ATmosphereConf is the global community conference for the AT Protocol ecosystem, taking place March 26th - 29th in Vancouver, BC, Canada. Follow @atprotocol.dev for updates or subscribe to this site for updates. Still not sure? You can add your email to the website to get further updates https://atmosphereconf.org .