LOCALHOST Social

​Join us for the Thursday social to meet Vancouver's local community and visiting IETF attendees.

​We'll have some short presentations, light refreshments and libations.

​We're hosted right downtown at Osito, a creative space for community events at 390 W Hastings, that recently hosted Minimum Viable Demos.

​5:30pm Doors

​6pm LOCALHOSTVan Intro

​A brief hello from local organizers.

​6:15pm - 6:30pm Lightning Talk: What is the IETF?

​An overview of the Internet Engineering Task Force and its role in global standards development.

​Speaker: Murray Kucherawy, IETF Applications and Real Time Area Director (IETF Profile)

​6:30pm - 7:15pm Presentation: Bluesky and ATProtocol So Far

​The Bluesky team has built out a global social media app using the open source ATProtocol design. What does it mean to build, run, customize, and participate in a social network that anyone can run?

​Learn about the journey so far, and what's next.

​Speaker: Bryan Newbold

​7:30pm - 8pm Vancouver Energy

​We'll use this opportunity to present some of the groups and individuals bringing energy to Vancouver.

• ​Atelier

• ​Novus

• ​Minimum Viable Demos

• ​Osito Events

• ​+ community speakers

​Are you building community, companies, projects, or anything else ambitious in Vancouver across art + music + tech + food?

​Come out and find others and grow the local energy.

​8pm - 9:30pm Music & Meetups

​Meet visitors and locals who are building together in Vancouver and beyond.

​Find out more about LOCALHOSTVancouver: a week of tech, media, & other explorations of how to create things we can own together

​Thank you to Bluesky for sponsoring LOCALHOSTVan!

​Thank you to Orcfax for sponsoring LOCALHOSTVan!