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Opening
by Andy Piper
5 minutes pause
10:15 – 10:40 in Sofya
The Matrix State of the Union
by Matthew Hodgson
5 minutes pause
10:45 – 11:10 in Sofya
Element's year in review: Interoperability in the real world.
by Neil Johnson
50 minutes pause
12:00 – 12:25 in Sofya
Making Custom Profiles in Matrix More Useful
by Andrew Morgan (anoa), Aaron Thornburgh
5 minutes pause
12:30 – 12:55 in Sofya
A vision for a next-generation timeline
by Jade, Ginger
5 minutes pause
13:00 – 13:25 in Sofya
Implementing Security Labels in Matrix
by Midhun Suresh R, Kieran Lane
50 minutes pause
14:15 – 14:40 in Sofya
Bringing MatrixRTC to the Matrix Ecosystem
by Timo Kandra, Robin Townsend
5 minutes pause
14:45 – 15:10 in Sofya
Federated Scheduling: Integrating JSCalendar (RFC 8984) into Matrix
by Benedict Benken, Michael Thiele
5 minutes pause
15:15 – 15:40 in Sofya
Project Hydra (phase 2+3): further improving the security of the federation protocol
by Kegan Dougal
5 minutes pause
15:45 – 16:10 in Sofya
Our Common Journey to a Federated User Directory
by Kai A. Hiller, Maghen Calinghee
35 minutes pause
16:45 – 17:10 in Sofya
Next Generation Matrix: P2P, DMLS and more!
by Matthew Hodgson
5 minutes pause
17:15 – 17:40 in Sofya
Integrating Matrix Chat into the Waldur Resource Management Platform for Sovereign Conversations
by Hendrik Jaks
5 minutes pause
17:45 – 18:10 in Sofya
Disappearing the Protocol: Integrating Matrix into a Multi-App Platform
by Pierre 'McFly' Marty
Daychange from Day 1 to 2
10:00 – 10:25 in Sofya
Foundation & Governing Board update
by Amandine Le Pape, Nico, Neil Johnson, Richard van der Hoff
5 minutes pause
10:30 – 10:55 in Sofya
Matrix and MLS - The next step of the evolution
by Niklas Zender, Timm Behner, David Lassig
50 minutes pause
11:45 – 12:40 in Sofya
How Encryption works in Matrix
by Andy Balaam
5 minutes pause
12:45 – 13:10 in Sofya
New phone who dis: User verification using X.509 certificates
by Richard van der Hoff
65 minutes pause
14:15 – 14:40 in Sofya
When to Change the Locks in Your Matrix
by Bjoern Reiners, Timm Behner, David Lassig
5 minutes pause
14:45 – 15:10 in Sofya
Towards a Post-Quantum Matrix Protocol: A Hybrid Design Adapted to the Brazilian Scenario
by Paulo A L Rego, Rodrigo Pacheco
5 minutes pause
15:15 – 15:40 in Sofya
Feature asymmetry in interoperable messaging - a barrier for mitigating network effects?
by Stina Olsson
35 minutes pause
16:15 – 16:40 in Sofya
Homeserver Decentralisation Working Group Report
by Nicolas Da Mutten
5 minutes pause
16:45 – 17:10 in Sofya
Widgets Working Group
by Hato Nordeck, Yan Minagawa
35 minutes pause
17:45 – 18:10 in Sofya
Closing
by Andy Piper
Daychange from Day 2 to 3
Daychange from Day 3 to 4
12:00 – 12:55 in Katherine
Matrix in Public Sector - Panel Discussion
by Marco Holz, Patrick Weber, Kenneth Edwall, Amandine Le Pape, Mathieu Velten
5 minutes pause
13:00 – 13:25 in Katherine
How can governments collaborate digitally without forcing every organization onto the same platform?
by Kenneth Edwall, Cecilia Spiik
50 minutes pause
14:15 – 14:40 in Katherine
Bridging private federations across borders
by Mathieu Velten, Kenneth Edwall, Jeroen Franssen
5 minutes pause
14:45 – 15:10 in Katherine
Server-side functionality for multilateral use
by Patrick Maier
5 minutes pause
15:15 – 15:40 in Katherine
Sovereignty meets Interoperability: The European Commission's Matrix Story
by Alexandru VIGNIDE, Diana GHEORGHE
5 minutes pause
15:45 – 16:10 in Katherine
Forrester Report: Open source and open standards for sovereignty, privacy, and security
by Dario Maisto
35 minutes pause
16:45 – 17:10 in Katherine
Between the protocol and the customer: federation expectations in production
by Renato Becker
5 minutes pause
17:15 – 17:40 in Katherine
Open, Secure Collaboration at Scale: How UNICC Leverages Matrix
by Sameer Chauhan
5 minutes pause
17:45 – 18:10 in Katherine
Practical insights of using Matrix in Germany: External Security, Healthcare & Public Sector
by Franziska Streidt, Oliver Graml
Daychange from Day 1 to 2
11:45 – 12:10 in Katherine
Challenges of Matrix within Europe's most sovereign, most secure and largest IT Infrastructure
by Richard Schlögl
5 minutes pause
12:15 – 12:40 in Katherine
MSG GOV: Building Brazil's Sovereign Government Messaging Platform on Matrix
by Diego Serpa, Jose Macedo
5 minutes pause
12:45 – 13:10 in Katherine
Why Is There Rust in our Matrix?
by Bjoern Reiners, Nico, David Lassig
65 minutes pause
14:15 – 14:40 in Katherine
NI2CE network effects in a voluntary adoption paradigm
by Jeroen Franssen
5 minutes pause
14:45 – 15:10 in Katherine
Sustainable Digital Sovereignty
by Amandine Le Pape
5 minutes pause
15:15 – 15:40 in Katherine
Common challenges for organizations when deploying [matrix]
by Jan Krammer (Janonym), Philipp Monz
35 minutes pause
16:15 – 16:40 in Katherine
Starting a Sovereign Chat Project in the Dutch Government: Early Lessons
by Manfred Zielinski, Gideon Bleumink
Daychange from Day 2 to 3
Daychange from Day 3 to 4
11:30 – 11:41 in Peter
Open protocols unite: Common goals in advocating?
by samvie
3 minutes pause
11:44 – 11:55 in Peter
Introduction to custodial / janitorial moderation and why you are already doing it
by Cat
5 minutes pause
12:00 – 12:25 in Peter
Building a safer network, together
by Jim Mackenzie, Juliet (she/her)
5 minutes pause
12:30 – 12:55 in Peter
The Adoption Gap: How Choice and Stigma Shape User Acceptance of Metadata-Private Messaging
by Tom Biselli
5 minutes pause
13:00 – 13:25 in Peter
FluffyChat - Creating a [matrix] messenger for individuals
by Krille (Christian K.)
50 minutes pause
14:15 – 14:40 in Peter
Using Matrix to extend trust across military C2 infrastructure
by Luke Wattam
5 minutes pause
14:45 – 15:10 in Peter
NeoBoard at scale - Demo
by Hato Nordeck
5 minutes pause
15:15 – 15:40 in Peter
Robrix: a pure Rust multi-platform Matrix client, and a peek at its future
by Kevin Boos
5 minutes pause
15:45 – 16:10 in Peter
As a [server administrator], I want to [run Element successfully in my organisation/community]
by Quentin Gliech
35 minutes pause
16:45 – 17:10 in Peter
From helplessness to sovereignty: Matrix as a use case for fairer information infrastructure
by Denise Almeida
5 minutes pause
17:15 – 17:40 in Peter
Europe’s tech sovereignty: what’s in it for Matrix?
by Marcel Kolaja
5 minutes pause
17:45 – 18:10 in Peter
Digital Sovereignty Is No Longer a Buzzword — It's Procurement Policy
by Jens-Uwe Thieme
Daychange from Day 1 to 2
11:15 – 11:26 in Peter
Integrations at Work: Bringing Workplace Apps into Element
by David Langley, Half-Shot
3 minutes pause
11:29 – 11:40 in Peter
A Year (and a half) of Continuwuity
by Jade, Nex, Ginger
5 minutes pause
11:45 – 12:10 in Peter
Preserving Integration, Rebuilding the Core: Matrix for Healthcare Communication
by Jan Kohnert
5 minutes pause
12:15 – 12:40 in Peter
TI-Messenger goes Europe: Austrian healthcare adopts matrix protocol
by Phillipp Kurtz
5 minutes pause
12:45 – 13:10 in Peter
Side Effects Include: Data Breaches, GDPR Fines, and a Group Chat With 47 Nurses
by Patrice Zoe Brend'amour
65 minutes pause
14:15 – 14:40 in Peter
Matrix Wrench - an admin tool for operators and community managers
by Christian Paul
5 minutes pause
14:45 – 15:10 in Peter
What's New in the Matrix Rust SDK
by Damir Jelić
5 minutes pause
15:15 – 15:40 in Peter
Speedrun Client with the Matrix Rust SDK
by Ivan Enderlin
35 minutes pause
16:15 – 16:40 in Peter
The Engineering Behind Matrix Notifications
by Benedict Benken
5 minutes pause
16:45 – 17:10 in Peter
A faster, rustier Element Web
by Dave Baker, Florian Duros
5 minutes pause
Matrix as an App Backend: The perfect container for private structured Data
by Timo Kandra
2 minutes pause
When the Bridge Looks Like an Attacker: Building a Focus App on Matrix Instagram Bridges
by Roshan Kattil, Thai An Le
2 minutes pause
Making Matrix Feel Like WhatsApp Without Centralizing It
by Sarah L. Silva
Daychange from Day 2 to 3
Daychange from Day 3 to 4