Causal Islands Berlin Videos Releasing

We're processing the video footage from Causal Islands Berlin back in October 2024, and starting to release the talks as each talk footage is ready.

All of the talks will be released roughly in order as listed on the Causal Islands Berlin website, and published to our Youtube Channel:

Causal Islands

Information traveling at the speed of light hits a physical limit: a causal island. We experience these causal islands in our distributed systems as latency — a function of our proximity to data centers, to each other, and to the quality of our connectivity. Novel approaches to the Future of Computing — programming languages, networks, interfaces, hardware, and more — end up stranded on similar causal islands. They propagate within different industries, disciplines, and communities at uneven speeds. We’re gathering the brightest minds to challenging your idea of what’s possible, and bridging those islands together. Learn from diverse and unique perspectives across disciplines, discover exciting new areas of research and development, and make plans for ongoing collaboration.

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Thank you for your support

This conference would not have been possible without a lot of support from a lot of people, from volunteer organizers Orion, Jack, and Boris, and those who helped out at the conference itself (Chad, Philipp, Ryan, Rosano, Rachael and everyone that pitched in to help with setup & tidying).

And, three companies that stepped up to support Causal Islands Berlin with direct funding and in-kind support.

GitButler

GitButler provided their office space for both days of the conference, with Patrick running all of the A/V, livestreaming, and video capture as well as being our host at the space. His amazing work is what is the basis for these videos.

tldraw

Steve Ruiz, Founder of TLDraw supported bringing Causal Islands Berlin to Europe from the beginning. Their sponsorship is what allowed us to keep the ticket prices low and support speaker travel and expenses.

Kosmik

Paul Rony of Kosmik also enthusiastically said "yes!", and also delivered an amazing talk that I hope to share with many more people. Of the past of how and why we get here in computing, to better inform where we go next.

Thank you to all of our speakers for preparing great talks to present. We're excited to share them with many more people.

Without further ado, here's the first one:

Folk Computer: A Computer for the Real World - Andrés Cuervo

Andrés Cuervo is an artist, programmer, and HCI researcher building a new kind of tangible programming environment at Folk Computer.

Thank you to Ryan Betts Endless Limited for his design work, and the classic Causal Islands audio loop. Videos are being processed by Adrian at OME Productura.