BIOS SPHERE — Featuring Kent C. Dodds
BIOS SPHERE is a one-day gathering for Vancouver's software community. Join us at Science World on Monday, November 2 for a morning workshop followed by an afternoon of talks, demos, coffee, and conversation.
Tickets and times
Choose one ticket for the part of the day you are attending:
Conference only · 13:00–19:00 · CA$35 Early Bird / CA$50 Regular
Kent C. Dodds workshop only · 09:00–12:00 · CA$75 Early Bird / CA$100 Regular · Vancouver workshop venue announcing soon
Full day · 09:00–19:00 · CA$100 Early Bird / CA$125 Regular · workshop and conference
Each Early Bird tier has 25 tickets and closes when sold out or September 30, 2026 at 23:59 PT, whichever comes first.
Refunds and transfers
Full refunds are available through October 19, 2026 at 23:59 PT. After that deadline, tickets may be transferred to another attendee but are not refundable. Refunds and transfers must be handled through Luma. Contact hello@vanspace.dev for help.
Explore the programme and event details at biossphere.dev.
Made possible by Devin
BIOS SPHERE is made possible by Devin, the AI software engineer created by Cognition. Devin works inside a team's existing codebase and tools: planning, writing, testing, and shipping production code across migrations, bug fixes, documentation, and multi-repository projects. The programme will also close with a Devin session; the presenter, title, and session details will be announced soon.
Speakers announced so far
Kent C. Dodds · Software engineer and educator
Kent created React Testing Library, represented PayPal at TC39, and has spent more than a decade teaching developers around the world. He now builds EpicWeb, EpicReact, EpicAI, and EpicProduct. At BIOS SPHERE, Kent will lead the morning workshop and take the stage during the afternoon conference.
Adam W. (@theCTO) · Co-founder and CTO, Orchid
Orchid is a personal assistant that helps people stay organized, find information, and get things done through messages. Adam will join the BIOS SPHERE main stage for Orchid. His session title and details will be announced soon.
AgentGrid will give a 20-minute talk about coordinating coding agents. Its speaker and session details will be announced soon, with more speakers added as they are confirmed.
Morning workshop · Presented by Orchid
AI-Native Product Development with Kent C. Dodds
Kent leads the Product track at MEGA, where the goal is to direct AI toward meaningful system changes and verify what ships. This three-hour, hands-on workshop brings that framework into the room: using agents across the full product-development loop without giving up ownership or judgment.
Orchid is fully subsidizing the workshop, making it possible for the BIOS SPHERE organizers to offer workshop-only admission for CA$100 and a workshop + BIOS SPHERE bundle for CA$125.
Exploration — understand user flows, system behavior, history, and the problem worth solving.
Planning — shape scope, map risk, and turn intent into a strategy agents can execute.
Execution — coordinate direct work, delegated work, parallel agents, handoffs, and merge points.
Feedback — steer with system logs, visual review, human judgment, and concrete artifacts.
Engineering — simplify, work from primitives, maintain conventions, and manage technical debt.
Delivery — run integration checks, monitor the release, and make unresolved risks explicit.
Bring a laptop and expect to work. Workshop and BIOS SPHERE admission are sold separately. The workshop venue will be announced once confirmed.
Monday, November 2 · 09:00–12:00 · 100 participants · Presented by Orchid
BIOS SPHERE is for engineers, designers, founders, students, researchers, product people, and independent builders. You do not need to arrive knowing anyone.
The day
09:00–12:00 · Kent C. Dodds workshop · Presented by Orchid · 100 seats
13:00–19:00 · BIOS SPHERE main conference · 200 seats
Monday, November 2, 2026
Science World, 1455 Quebec Street, Vancouver, BC V6A 3Z7
About the organizers
The organization behind BIOS SPHERE is being formed for public benefit and is in the process of registering as a B.C. non-profit society. Each quarter, we invite an educator or builder worth learning from, invest in their visit, and create a gathering around them.
We exist to close the distance between the people shaping how software is built and the community building it in Vancouver. The goal is more shared knowledge, stronger relationships, and more reasons to come together.
Stage presentations will be recorded and published after the event. Event photography and filming will also take place. Registration includes an optional media-consent choice; attendees who decline can request a no-photo identifier at check-in. Choose a conference-only, workshop-only, or full-day ticket during registration.