Protocols for Publishers✨ London: Showcase
We're on the path to a new kind of web, with an uncertain future: AI-based user agents are fast-becoming a core interface to the internet for over half-a-billion active users per week. Platforms have increasingly seized control of the publisher-reader relationship: search engines are squeezing out web publishers to juice ad revenue, while social platforms have captured audiences with algorithmic reach and paid promotion. The rise of new AI super-apps, in place of traditional browsers, is set to make this dynamic exponentially worse.
How can publishers engage in this platform shift beyond being a dataset to be scraped? How can we avoid being trapped by a new wave of mega-platforms? And how can publishers on the web reach real users, build lasting relationships, and continue to have a equitable business model?
Join us for an evening of presentations and open discussion where protocol builders and publishers share their thinking about the future of the web.
You will hear short talks about the challenges and opportunities in the space featuring ActivityPub, AT Protocol, Web Payments, and controlling your data in an AI World. Each talk will include Q&A.
Following will be a relaxed mixer over drinks and light bites with the speakers and peers.
Learn more about PfP✨ and sign up to the mailing list: https://protocolsforpublishers.com/london-2026/
Speakers
Opening remarks from by PfP✨ NYC alum Ben Werdmuller (ProPublica)
A conversation with Saskia Welch (Newsmast) and Siddhartha Kurapati (Bristol Cable) about building a local news app using Activity Pub for The Bristol Cable.
Aendra Rininsland (FT) presents news feeds for news orgs on AT Protocol.
E.M. Lewis-Jong (Mozilla Data Collective, Common Voice) discusses ethical creation, curation, and control of AI training datasets.
Jeremiah Lee (Interledger) talks about open payments and web monetization.
Learn more about each speaker at the PfP✨London event page →
Sponsors
PfP✨London is convened with the support of: