DWeb Camp 2026

Daniel Holmgren

Daniel Holmgren is Head of Protocol at Bluesky, where he leads the design and development of the AT Protocol. He's worked in the DWeb space for eight years, previously founding a startup for p2p collaboration on scientific data, then serving as the founding engineer at Fission, where he built an in-browser framework for user-controlled data.


Sessions

07-09
09:30
60min
Decentralization Trade Offs in AT Protocol and ActivityPub
Boris Mann, Daniel Holmgren, Christine Lemmer-Webber

Christine Lemmer Webber is lead author and co-editor of the W3C ActivityPub specification. Daniel Holmgren is Head of Protocol at Bluesky, working on the AT Protocol specification at the IETF. Join us for a discussion on decentralization trade-offs and other design decisions in the two protocols, and what that means for different architectures, structures, and even future points of convergence.

Moderated by Boris Mann

Open Social Web
Linden Theater
07-10
11:00
30min
Start From Scale: Building an Open Network for the Real World
Paul Frazee, Daniel Holmgren

Bluesky CTO Paul Frazee on why building an open social network meant designing for scale from day one — and what the Atmosphere's bet on open computing looks like ten years after the first Decentralized Web Summit.

Open Social Web
Open Social Space
07-11
10:00
30min
Unbundling Decentralization
Daniel Holmgren

"Decentralization" can imply particular network topologies while bundling together a set of related values like credible exit, data sovereignty, privacy, permissionless participation, and censorship resistance. This talk teases those values apart and makes the case for pursuing them directly, framed by what they enable rather than what they prevent.

Open Social Web
Open Social Space
07-11
16:30
60min
Panel Talk: Future of P2P
sammy, Christine Lemmer-Webber, Matthew Hodgson, adz, Daniel Holmgren

This talk invites three representatives from large social networks to discuss how they view the future of P2P from a broad range of expertise in the field of social networks and peer-2-peer. Daniel Holmgren from Bluesky, Matthew Hodgson from Matrix, Adz from P2Panda and Christine Lemmer-Webber from Spritely and ActivityPub.

The session will be moderated by Sammy from the Willow protocol.

There will be a space for interactive questions from audience participation.

Peer-to-Peer & Local First
P2P Portal