Matrix Conference 2025

Version 0.10 Oct. 18, 2025

We released a new schedule version!

We had to move some sessions, so if you were planning on seeing them, check their new dates or locations:

• “Leading the way into CRA compliance: Element’s approach to the incoming regulation” by Denise Almeida, Amandine Le Pape (Oct. 18, 2025, 1:35 p.m. → Oct. 18, 2025, 3:15 p.m.)
• “How do messaging app users feel about untraceability?” by Carla Griggio (Oct. 18, 2025, 2:40 p.m. → Oct. 18, 2025, 1:40 p.m.)

Version 0.9.1 Oct. 17, 2025

We released a new schedule version!

Version 0.8 Oct. 17, 2025

We released a new schedule version!

We have moved a session around: “Lessons learned from implementing Native OIDC from scratch” by The one with the braid (she/her) (Oct. 17, 2025, 12:10 p.m. → Oct. 17, 2025, 12:35 p.m.)

Version 0.7 Oct. 16, 2025

We released a new schedule version!

We sadly had to cancel a session: “How we've upgraded auth for 110M accounts on Matrix.org, and you can too!” by Quentin Gliech

We have moved a session around: “The Matrix SDK No One Talks About” by Benedict Benken (Oct. 17, 2025, 5 p.m. → Oct. 17, 2025, 4:30 p.m.)

Version 0.6 Oct. 15, 2025

We released a new schedule version!

We sadly had to cancel a session: “Break the Matrix - Experience from 1 1/2 years of messenger testing” by Martin Uhlig

Version 0.5 Oct. 14, 2025

We released a new schedule version!

We have new sessions!

• “The Role of the Matrix Protocol within Germany’s Sovereign and Secure Health Messenger Solution – A Loyal Player Embracing the Evolution of Secure Architectures” by Univ.Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Dr. Thomas Grechenig
• “Rocket.Chat: Entering the Matrix” by Gabriel Engel

We sadly had to cancel a session: “Mystery Talk #4”

We have moved a session around: “Large-scale multi-tenancy hosting for TI-Messenger” by Patrick Maier (Oct. 16, 2025, 4:15 p.m. → Oct. 16, 2025, 4:10 p.m.)

Version 0.4 Oct. 13, 2025

We released a new schedule version!

We have a new session: “Mystery Talk #4”.

We sadly had to cancel a session: “Speedrunning Matrix clients with the Rust SDK: a story of Aurora and Multiverse” by Benjamin Bouvier

Version 0.3 Oct. 8, 2025

We released a new schedule version!

We have a new session: “E2EE Direct Messaging in Bluesky with Matrix” by Ranga Krishnan.

We sadly had to cancel a session: “Community safety with policy servers” by Travis Ralston

We had to move some sessions, so if you were planning on seeing them, check their new dates or locations:

• “Leading the way into CRA compliance: Element’s approach to the incoming regulation” by Denise Almeida, Amandine Le Pape (Oct. 18, 2025, 3:55 p.m. → Oct. 18, 2025, 1:35 p.m.)
• “Holding the Fort: How did bridges happen” by Half-Shot (Oct. 16, 2025, 5:10 p.m., Alan Turing → Oct. 18, 2025, 3:55 p.m., Ada Byron)

Version 0.2 Sept. 30, 2025

We released a new schedule version!

We have a new session: “From Healthcare to Governments: Building Europe’s Secure Messaging Standard” by Phillipp Kurtz.

Sadly, we had to cancel sessions:

• “Mystery Talk #1”
• “GDPR-Conform Bridging: Why Polychat Could Be a Solution” by Nadine Minagawa

We had to move some sessions, so if you were planning on seeing them, check their new dates or locations:

• “Matrix and MLS - Water, Oil and Mayonnaise” by Nico (Oct. 17, 2025, 4 p.m., Alan Turing → Oct. 16, 2025, 12:20 p.m., Lynn Conway)
• “Leading the way into CRA compliance: Element’s approach to the incoming regulation” by Denise Almeida, Amandine Le Pape (Oct. 18, 2025, 4:30 p.m. → Oct. 18, 2025, 3:55 p.m.)
• “The Matrix SDK No One Talks About” by Benedict Benken (Oct. 17, 2025, 5:10 p.m. → Oct. 17, 2025, 5 p.m.)
• “How do messaging app users feel about untraceability?” by Carla Griggio (Oct. 18, 2025, 3:35 p.m. → Oct. 18, 2025, 2:40 p.m.)
• “The TI-Messenger Story” by Michael Thiele (Oct. 16, 2025, 11:55 a.m. → Oct. 16, 2025, 11:50 a.m.)
• “Scaling Real-Time in NeoBoard: Our Journey from P2P to MatrixRTC + LiveKit” by Milton Moura (Oct. 18, 2025, 1:35 p.m. → Oct. 18, 2025, 12:10 p.m.)
• “Speedrunning Matrix clients with the Rust SDK: a story of Aurora and Multiverse” by Benjamin Bouvier (Oct. 17, 2025, 2:35 p.m. → Oct. 17, 2025, 2 p.m.)
• “Holding the Fort: How did bridges happen” by Half-Shot (Oct. 16, 2025, 11:20 a.m., Lynn Conway → Oct. 16, 2025, 5:10 p.m., Alan Turing)
• “MatrixRTC - Introducing a new concept to the Matrix-specification” by Timo Kandra (Oct. 17, 2025, 3:35 p.m. → Oct. 17, 2025, 3 p.m.)
• “Famedly – Secure Communication in Health Care with Matrix” by Krille (Christian K.) (Oct. 16, 2025, 11:20 a.m. → Oct. 16, 2025, 3:10 p.m.)
• “Commercialising Matrix” by Runi Hammer, Arnas, Johannes (Oct. 16, 2025, 4:45 p.m. → Oct. 16, 2025, 4:30 p.m.)
• “How we've upgraded auth for 110M accounts on Matrix.org, and you can too!” by Quentin Gliech (Oct. 17, 2025, 2 p.m. → Oct. 17, 2025, 4:30 p.m.)
• “Break the Matrix - Experience from 1 1/2 years of messenger testing” by Martin Uhlig (Oct. 18, 2025, 11:35 a.m. → Oct. 18, 2025, 10 a.m.)
• “Governing Board transparency update” by Kim Brose, Nico (Oct. 17, 2025, 10:25 a.m. → Oct. 17, 2025, 10:30 a.m.)
• “Integrating Matrix in a trustworthy collaborative ecosystem” by Francois HERBRETEAU, Anthony (Oct. 18, 2025, 12:10 p.m. → Oct. 18, 2025, 11:35 a.m.)
• “The High Price of Open Source: Building a Business Around Matrix” by Benedict Benken, Dr. Patrick Alberts (Oct. 16, 2025, 5:40 p.m. → Oct. 16, 2025, 5:25 p.m.)
• “MatrixRTC - The key sharing problem” by Jayesh Nirve (td) (Oct. 17, 2025, 4:35 p.m. → Oct. 17, 2025, 4 p.m.)
• “Supporting TF-X with Matrix: best practices and pitfalls” by Jeroen Franssen (Oct. 17, 2025, 5:35 p.m. → Oct. 17, 2025, 5 p.m.)
• “Getting started with Element Server Suite Community” by Gaël Goinvic (Oct. 18, 2025, 2:10 p.m. → Oct. 18, 2025, 1:35 p.m.)
• “Why do I have 2 passwords? How to talk about encryption in Matrix” by Andy Balaam (Oct. 17, 2025, 5 p.m. → Oct. 17, 2025, 4 p.m.)
• “Element Call: Redefining conferencing for privacy, scale, and sovereignty” by Florian Heese, Aaron Thornburgh, Timo Kandra (Oct. 16, 2025, 3:45 p.m. → Oct. 16, 2025, 3:35 p.m.)
• “Closing” by Yan Minagawa (Oct. 18, 2025, 5:30 p.m. → Oct. 18, 2025, 5 p.m.)
• “Beyond Olm: About challenges and opportunities in Messaging Layer Security (MLS)” by The one with the braid (she/her) (Oct. 16, 2025, 3:10 p.m., Alan Turing → Oct. 16, 2025, 11:20 a.m., Lynn Conway)
• “Sweden's Public Sector in Transition: Exploring Open Standards for Interoperable Communication” by Kenneth Edwall, Anna Engström (Oct. 16, 2025, 11:55 a.m. → Oct. 16, 2025, 11:50 a.m.)
• “Large-scale multi-tenancy hosting for TI-Messenger” by Patrick Maier (Oct. 16, 2025, 4:40 p.m. → Oct. 16, 2025, 4:15 p.m.)
• “Nationwide Rollout of Matrix-Based Instant Messaging (TI-M) for 74 Million Statutorily Insured Citizens in German Healthcare” by Jan Kohnert (Oct. 16, 2025, 4:10 p.m. → Oct. 16, 2025, 3:40 p.m.)
• “SIP/Element: Unifying Telephony and Modern Communication” by Laurent Meiller (Oct. 16, 2025, 2:45 p.m. → Oct. 16, 2025, 2:40 p.m.)
• “Tune Your Chat” by Kim Brose (Oct. 18, 2025, 3:50 p.m. → Oct. 18, 2025, 3:15 p.m.)

Version 0.1.2 Sept. 17, 2025

Publish additional confirmed talks

We have new sessions!

• “Consolidating Germany’s administrative communication: Towards a joint Matrix-based architecture” by Dominik Braun
• “NeoBoard S: a whiteboard matrix client offering endless possibilities for real-time collaboration” by Robert Gerbauld
• “Matrix as a Bridge – Enabling Cross-Border Healthcare Communication Through Open Standards” by Patrice Zoe Brend'amour
• “Luxchat(4gov)” by Patrick Weber

We have moved a session around: “Closing” by Yan Minagawa (Oct. 18, 2025, 5:20 p.m. → Oct. 18, 2025, 5:30 p.m.)

Version 0.1.1 Sept. 16, 2025

Publish additional confirmed talks

We have new sessions!

• “How Matrix is becoming the communication standard for Public Sector” by Amandine Le Pape
• “Leading the way into CRA compliance: Element’s approach to the incoming regulation” by Denise Almeida, Amandine Le Pape
• “Secure and Sovereign communications for United Nations International Computing Centre and its Partners” by Tima Soni
• “Mystery Talk #1”
• “Opening” by Yan Minagawa
• “Nationwide Rollout of Matrix-Based Instant Messaging (TI-M) for 74 Million Statutorily Insured Citizens in German Healthcare” by Jan Kohnert
• “Trialing Matrix within the European Commission for resilient and sovereign communications” by Nicolas Dubois
• “Closing” by Yan Minagawa
• “GDPR-Conform Bridging: Why Polychat Could Be a Solution” by Nadine Minagawa

Version 0.1 Sept. 16, 2025

Initial Schedule Release