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In Estonia it powers the state cloud (Riigipilv) and the national scientific computing infrastructure (ETAIS), where deployments routinely involve personal and sensitive data. Yet support for all of it happens across scattered channels: Slack, Signal, email, whatever a given user reaches for. The context for any single deployment is split across all of them. To debug a problem you reconstruct the story from fragments in different apps, there is no durable history tied to the project, and sensitive conversations end up sitting in third-party consumer tools.\nWe are building a Matrix integration for Waldur using the Application Service API, giving every project its own room. Room membership mirrors project membership: members are invited and synced automatically from their existing project roles, so the people in the conversation are exactly the people with access to the resource. 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The other adoption gap we identify is a choice stigma paradox in which the optionality of metadata-private features enables acceptance but at the same time leads to social stigma, with users worrying about appearing suspicious for choosing increased privacy.  \nBuilding on these insights, I discuss what these findings mean for deploying metadata privacy in practice - including why universal defaults may succeed where optional features fail.", "description": "", "recording_license": "", "do_not_record": false, "persons": [{"code": "YYU9G9", "name": "Tom Biselli", "avatar": "https://cfp.2026.matrix.org/media/avatars/LXF9YT_DS3wJGc.webp", "biography": "Tom Biselli is a postdoctoral researcher in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) at Aalborg University with an interdisciplinary background in computer science, psychology, and cognitive neuroscience. 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Always with one goal in mind: Target individuals instead of businesses and therefore as a non profit project. In this talk I would like to outline how I have different user groups in mind when designing new features, how to make user discovery or end to end encryption easy to use but also powerful.", "recording_license": "", "do_not_record": false, "persons": [{"code": "FTE3JY", "name": "Krille (Christian K.)", "avatar": "https://cfp.2026.matrix.org/media/avatars/SBTJKK_GKf6zsL.webp", "biography": "German coffee-to-code-converter. 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For us, it is the architecture.\n\nAxiom is Labrys\u2019 operational platform, built for military clients and the most hostile threat models you can name: encrypted communications, verified media, shared mapping and live location. Underneath it, Matrix is NOT just the messenger. It is the transport. Homeservers, rooms and events carry the rest of the system, including across networks that never touch the public internet.\n\nThis talk covers what had to move inside the boundary, why using Matrix as a transport is particularly useful in isolated networks, and what we learned from taking a live platform off the internet.", "description": "", "recording_license": "", "do_not_record": false, "persons": [{"code": "ZXFL37", "name": "Dan Woodel", "avatar": null, "biography": "Dan is a cryptographer and systems architect who has spent 15 years building high-security platforms. He started in offensive security, designing rootkit malware from a young age and developing low-level systems. 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This sets the stage for an audience that may know NeoBoard from previous conferences but wants to understand where the product is in mid-2026. \n\nThe deployment at \"DAP Digitaler Arbeitsplatz f\u00fcr Lehrer in Baden-W\u00fcrttemberg\" for 86K users will be NeoBoard's largest public-sector deployment, and sits within the broader openDesk ecosystem already serving tens of thousands of users across German public institutions. We will share lessons from the discovery and evaluation process, what it takes to deploy a Matrix-based tool at this scale, and what the education sector demands from a collaborative whiteboard.", "recording_license": "", "do_not_record": false, "persons": [{"code": "DRJHFG", "name": "Hato Nordeck", "avatar": "https://cfp.2026.matrix.org/media/avatars/LBNZBA_IkZbdWd.webp", "biography": "CEO of Nordeck. 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It's simple and flexible enough for casual chatters as well, and can seamlessly transition into a sleek mobile-friendly adaptive UI for narrow screens.\n\nRobrix runs smoothly and consistently across mobile & desktop platforms, thanks to the underlying Makepad UI toolkit and Robius abstraction crates, which we also wrote ourselves in Rust. After several years of hard work on those components, we have finally reached the milestone of publishing Robrix to major app stores.\n\nJoin us to learn more, see some fun live demos, and give it a try yourself. We'll also preview some of our future ideas, such as making Matrix the best medium for coordinating and managing multi-agent workflows (even better than Telegram!).", "description": "[Robrix](https://github.com/project-robius/robrix) began as a flagship application test case and driver for the cross-platform development of [Makepad](https://github.com/makepad/makepad) and [Robius](https://github.com/project-robius), but has since become a real project in its own right. While it's not yet 100% complete, we've achieved near feature parity with other big Matrix clients, and that gap is closing every week.\n\n### First half: current state + demo \nIn the first half of this talk, we'll give an overview and live demo of Robrix's current design and core Matrix functionality. Beyond the goals of flexibility and productivity for users who want it, we also prioritize consistency: all UI experiences and features are available on **every device** and **every platform** \u2013 we don't restrict features just because you're on your phone.\n\nWhile Robrix itself is platform-independent (aka, easy to contribute to! \ud83d\ude0a), it runs natively on iOS, Android, macOS, Windows, and Linux (X11 & Wayland). Web/WASM and HarmonyOS/OpenHarmony are mostly supported but need a bit of TLC. Importantly, since we control the entire stack, we can achieve deep integration with underlying OS services and platform features, all without a heavyweight framework or web engine like Electron. Integration layers can even be customized, allowing us to improve upon known limitations of other frameworks like Flutter.\n\nPublishing Robrix to app stores has also validated our earliest objective: one can successfully distribute cross-platform Rust apps through platform-native channels despite bypassing those platforms' native UI frameworks and build systems.\n\n### Second half: future & in-progress work  \nIn the second half of this talk, we'll explore some potential future directions. One example is leveraging Matrix as the medium for coordinating and managing multi-agent workflows, which are becoming increasingly popular. We envision an agent being able to generate or download dynamic \"mini-apps\" written in *Splash*, Makepad 2.0's UI scripting language, that can be safely interpreted in a streaming manner within a resource-isolated sandbox.\n\nThis would enable an agent to create things like a **custom interactive status dashboard** _directly within a room_, which would be accessible on any device, even restricted systems like iOS. We could even inject custom dependencies, such as the Matrix Widget API, into a custom Splash mini-app to enable it to access room info, user context, and timelines with the existing capability-based permissions model.\n\nThis combination of Robrix's rich UI and the Matrix Widget API could elevate Matrix to become the ideal choice for agent coordination, surpassing Telegram, the de facto choice for chat-room-like coordination between agents.\n\nBeyond that, we'd also like to experiment with integrating *on-device* models for simpler, more practical utility features, e.g., summarizing a few weeks of missed messages in an E2EE room (preserving privacy) or answering user questions based on room history.", "recording_license": "", "do_not_record": false, "persons": [{"code": "DQRAKH", "name": "Kevin Boos", "avatar": "https://cfp.2026.matrix.org/media/avatars/JNA9PR_IrmIeyI.webp", "biography": "I'm a huge fan of Matrix, Rust, systems development, safe programming languages, and all things open source. I'm the creator and main dev of Robrix, a big contributor to the Makepad UI toolkit, and the tech lead of Project Robius. I also heavily use (and unwittingly test out) the matrix-rust-sdk. I was honored to be a part of the first Matrix Foundation Governing Board.\n\nI'm currently a principal engineer at Futurewei Technologies and live in the Seattle area with my wife and (very old) pup, though I'm originally from Texas. Off the clock, I'm mostly into playing jazz, going backpacking in the wilderness, and otherwise recouping lost time from spending wayyy too long doing a PhD.", "public_name": "Kevin Boos", "guid": "a23eb756-5477-5675-bec5-aa7b660b7697", "url": "https://cfp.2026.matrix.org/matrix-conference-2026/speaker/DQRAKH/"}], "links": [], "feedback_url": "https://cfp.2026.matrix.org/matrix-conference-2026/talk/PUQNED/feedback/", "origin_url": "https://cfp.2026.matrix.org/matrix-conference-2026/talk/PUQNED/", "attachments": []}, {"guid": "eed8f269-c7d1-5e3e-a51a-7635ba27dca6", "code": "NBEB99", "id": 102410, "logo": null, "date": "2026-10-21T15:45:00+02:00", "start": "15:45", "end": "2026-10-21T16:10:00+02:00", "duration": "00:25", "room": "Peter", "slug": "matrix-conference-2026-102410-as-a-server-administrator-i-want-to-run-element-successfully-in-my-organisation-community", "url": "https://cfp.2026.matrix.org/matrix-conference-2026/talk/NBEB99/", "title": "As a [server administrator], I want to [run Element successfully in my organisation/community]", "subtitle": "", "track": "Matrix Inside", "type": "Talk", "language": "en", "abstract": "Introducing a new communication tool into an existing organisation or community usually means training users and addressing their common pain points as best as possible. 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This includes concrete user-facing features like QR code login and many features introduced with Matrix Authentication Service, but also leveraging new features in the Matrix spec like extensible profiles.", "description": "", "recording_license": "", "do_not_record": false, "persons": [{"code": "GKBH3G", "name": "Quentin Gliech", "avatar": null, "biography": "Quentin is a software engineer working in the backend team at Element, specialized in everything related to authentication and identity.", "public_name": "Quentin Gliech", "guid": "e29464bc-f742-57d1-9543-3891fdaff6e4", "url": "https://cfp.2026.matrix.org/matrix-conference-2026/speaker/GKBH3G/"}], "links": [], "feedback_url": "https://cfp.2026.matrix.org/matrix-conference-2026/talk/NBEB99/feedback/", "origin_url": "https://cfp.2026.matrix.org/matrix-conference-2026/talk/NBEB99/", "attachments": []}, {"guid": "3430de61-b448-5e2b-b4ec-b8c90e523784", "code": "QXZEQJ", "id": 100709, "logo": null, "date": "2026-10-21T16:45:00+02:00", "start": "16:45", "end": "2026-10-21T17:10:00+02:00", "duration": "00:25", "room": "Peter", "slug": "matrix-conference-2026-100709-from-helplessness-to-sovereignty-matrix-as-a-use-case-for-fairer-information-infrastructure", "url": "https://cfp.2026.matrix.org/matrix-conference-2026/talk/QXZEQJ/", "title": "From helplessness to sovereignty: Matrix as a use case for fairer information infrastructure", "subtitle": "", "track": "Digital Sovereignty", "type": "Talk", "language": "en", "abstract": "The privacy paradox (the theory that people say they care about their privacy but behave as if they do not), assumes that user behaviours are irrational, uninformed, and based on choosing convenience above their own data protection.\nMy research points to a different perspective: people do care, and they also behave inconsistently, but not always out of convenience. At its core, it seems that people behave inconsistently because they feel they have no agency and that \u201cthere is no point\u201d in trying to protect their personal information. In this sense, we all live more in a state of privacy helplessness than in a paradox \u2013 a paradox implies a choice we don\u2019t all have.\n\nRegulations like the GDPR can\u2019t be the sole solution for such a widespread and structural issue, nor are they a substitute for measures which focus on actual empowerment. Geopolitical considerations are also leading private organisations and governments to more carefully ownership and control of their data, which leads to questions around autonomy and digital sovereignty.\n\nIn this talk I will go through the reasons why decentralised, end-to-end-encrypted public infrastructure, built on open standards, could be the structural answer to these problems. Matrix is one of the few working examples of this kind of technology being deployed in the public sector at scale. Matrix based communications are a key case study to show why open technology is essential to address individual concerns around helplessness, as well as national level issues associated with digital sovereignty (or lack of it).", "description": "", "recording_license": "", "do_not_record": false, "persons": [{"code": "JFWGPB", "name": "Denise Almeida", "avatar": "https://cfp.2026.matrix.org/media/avatars/KGKQMQ_gOqzsbl.webp", "biography": "I am the Head of Policy and Compliance at Element, as well as the Data Protection Officer for both Element and the Matrix.org Foundation. I have recently completed my doctorate at UCL, on the topic of technology worker's attitudes and behaviours towards privacy and change. 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On June 3, the European Commission has published a tech sovereignty package. What\u2019s included in the package? What\u2019s positive? What the Commission didn\u2019t get quite right and can it be fixed? And what\u2019s in it for Matrix and Free and Open Source Software in general? The talk will provide a gentle introduction into some of the elements of the tech sovereignty package and try to answer all these questions.", "description": "", "recording_license": "", "do_not_record": false, "persons": [{"code": "JTRYJ7", "name": "Marcel Kolaja", "avatar": "https://cfp.2026.matrix.org/media/avatars/YDKHSC_V30ysxe.webp", "biography": "Marcel Kolaja is the Policy and Advocacy Director for Europe at Access Now, an organization defending and extending the digital rights of people and communities at risk. He leads a team of digital rights policy experts and drives the advocacy agenda at the intersection of human rights and digital technologies in Europe.\n\nFrom 2019 through 2024, Marcel served as a Member of the European Parliament. Throughout his tenure, he was also a Member of the Bureau of the European Parliament: from 2019 through 2022 as Vice-President and from 2022 through 2024 as Quaestor.\n\nIn his work in the European Parliament, Marcel focused mainly on topics related to fundamental rights and consumer protection in the digital age, privacy protection, cybersecurity, encryption, transparency, Free and Open Source Software, artificial intelligence, the Digital Single Market, and media freedom. Legislative acts that Marcel directly worked on include the Artificial Intelligence Act, the Digital Services Act, the Digital Markets Act, the Child Sexual Abuse Regulation, the Product Liability Directive, the Cyber Resilience Act, the Media Freedom Act, the Political Advertising Regulation, the European Digital Identity, and more.\n\nMarcel graduated from the Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University in Brno. He had been working in various capacities in the IT industry in technical and managerial roles before he was elected Member of the European Parliament.\n\nIn his free time, he enjoys spending time in the mountains and nature.", "public_name": "Marcel Kolaja", "guid": "e23d6b6f-0703-54c0-bb06-7955b35d4f08", "url": "https://cfp.2026.matrix.org/matrix-conference-2026/speaker/JTRYJ7/"}], "links": [], "feedback_url": "https://cfp.2026.matrix.org/matrix-conference-2026/talk/HCZ83N/feedback/", "origin_url": "https://cfp.2026.matrix.org/matrix-conference-2026/talk/HCZ83N/", "attachments": []}, {"guid": "0d58e4c6-483f-50b2-aae0-ebc8ece70243", "code": "MFBXVD", "id": 100495, "logo": null, "date": "2026-10-21T17:45:00+02:00", "start": "17:45", "end": "2026-10-21T18:10:00+02:00", "duration": "00:25", "room": "Peter", "slug": "matrix-conference-2026-100495-digital-sovereignty-is-no-longer-a-buzzword-it-s-procurement-policy", "url": "https://cfp.2026.matrix.org/matrix-conference-2026/talk/MFBXVD/", "title": "Digital Sovereignty Is No Longer a Buzzword \u2014 It's Procurement Policy", "subtitle": "", "track": "Digital Sovereignty", "type": "Talk", "language": "en", "abstract": "Just days before this conference, the European Commission adopted the **European Technological Sovereignty Package**, placing open source explicitly at the centre of Europe's digital strategy for the first time. The timing is not coincidental. It is the political response to a structural dependency Europe can no longer afford to ignore: critical infrastructure \u2014 including healthcare \u2014 running on platforms controlled by others.\n\nThis talk makes a practical argument: digital sovereignty has moved from political rhetoric to **procurement reality**. Across Europe, more than 20 governments have already chosen Matrix as their foundation for sovereign, vendor-agnostic communication \u2014 from Germany's Bundeswehr and BundesMessenger to France's Tchap and LaSuite, Sweden's SAFOS Chatt, and the European Commission itself. This is no longer a pilot phase. It is production infrastructure.\n\nHealthcare is where the argument becomes hardest \u2014 and most compelling. Germany's **TI-Messenger**, mandated by gematik and built on the Matrix open standard, connects over 150,000 healthcare organizations and reached 74 million statutory insured citizens in July 2025, making it the largest Matrix deployment worldwide. Yet real-world adoption reveals a tension that no technical standard alone can resolve: clinical staff default to WhatsApp not out of ignorance, but because it works and patients are already there. Studies show 82% of healthcare organizations carry significant shadow IT exposure, and the NHS has internally described WhatsApp use as a *\"privacy and clinical safety timebomb\"*. The problem is not the technology. It is incentives and governance.\n\nDrawing on experience as a healthcare IT vendor building on the Matrix protocol, this talk examines **three dimensions of sovereignty** \u2014 data, infrastructure, and protocol \u2014 and shows how Matrix uniquely addresses all three simultaneously, in contrast to WhatsApp, Signal, and Microsoft Teams. It traces lessons from government deployments to their implications for regulated healthcare, and covers the regulatory drivers now turning sovereignty from aspiration into obligation: NIS2 designates healthcare as an \"essential entity\" subject to proactive audits and fines up to \u20ac10 million; the EHDS mandates structured interoperability; and the EU Technological Sovereignty Package is beginning to shape procurement criteria directly.\n\nThe talk closes with a challenge to the Matrix community: the TI-Messenger specification is a blueprint, not a ceiling. Building shared certification frameworks for healthcare across Europe \u2014 and treating interoperability between Matrix vendors as a competitive strength rather than a threat \u2014 is the next step. The window, opened by this week's EU package, will not stay open indefinitely.\n\n**Attendees will leave with:** a clear framework for positioning Matrix in regulated procurement; an honest account of where adoption stalls and why; and a concrete call to action for the Matrix ecosystem in European healthcare.", "description": "The presentation argues that digital sovereignty in healthcare IT has shifted from an abstract ideal to a concrete procurement requirement, using the Matrix protocol as the case study for sovereign communication. It builds the case in three acts:\n\n1. The problem \u2014 clinical staff still default to WhatsApp despite sovereignty rhetoric; sovereignty means independence, not isolation.\n2. The evidence maps the three layers / four platforms of the sovereign-communication landscape, shows 20+ European governments have already mandated it, identifies the four drivers (regulatory, security, cost, geopolitical) turning it into an obligation, and shows what sovereignty requirements look like inside an actual tender.\n3. The complication and the ask \u2014 reach still lag adoption, an August 2026 inflection point in uptake, reasons adoption remains slow, the risk that no single vendor controls the standard, and closes with four concrete asks for stakeholders before the policy window closes.", "recording_license": "", "do_not_record": false, "persons": [{"code": "HHFWGV", "name": "Jens-Uwe Thieme", "avatar": "https://cfp.2026.matrix.org/media/avatars/HDQSLH_mUy2dBN.webp", "biography": "**Jens-Uwe Thieme** works as General Manager at **CompuGroup Medical**, one of Europe's leading healthcare IT companies, where he focuses on secure messenger solutions built on the Matrix protocol. 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The same questions that shaped our cryptographic foundation led us to ask **harder** ones about the **backend**: what would a homeserver look like if security and formal verifiability were first-class requirements from day one, not afterthoughts? We have been exploring that question, and in this talk we want to share what we have learned so far, the decisions we faced, and where those explorations have taken us.\n\nJoin our journey.", "description": "", "recording_license": "", "do_not_record": false, "persons": [{"code": "TGK8SU", "name": "Bjoern Reiners", "avatar": "https://cfp.2026.matrix.org/media/avatars/KCBYCD_27pzZx9.webp", "biography": "Bj\u00f6rn is a Product Manager at BWI GmbH, Germany's IT service provider for the Bundeswehr, where he leads the BundesMessenger, the sovereign Matrix-based communication platform for the German armed forces. 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I helped or am still helping other institutions (like TU Vienna, University Vienna, FWF) to get their Matrix deployments and/or infrastructure off the ground.\n\n(You can reach me at @janonym:matrix.org, @jan.krammer@fairkom.eu or just with good old mail at jan.krammer@protonmail.com / jan.krammer@fairkom.eu)", "public_name": "Jan Krammer (Janonym)", "guid": "3177b682-3817-5f00-8550-72b8a8c7d588", "url": "https://cfp.2026.matrix.org/matrix-conference-2026/speaker/997TRG/"}, {"code": "3VC9PC", "name": "Philipp Monz", "avatar": "https://cfp.2026.matrix.org/media/avatars/SRU9XQ_a04PjJb.webp", "biography": "I am part of the fairkom team, where I work as a software developer on various open source projects, including SchulchatRLP, DisplayEurope, Termino, and more.\n\n@monz:fairchat.eu", "public_name": "Philipp Monz", "guid": "e996f79f-a4eb-50d3-9089-8085fb5c0472", "url": "https://cfp.2026.matrix.org/matrix-conference-2026/speaker/3VC9PC/"}], "links": [], "feedback_url": "https://cfp.2026.matrix.org/matrix-conference-2026/talk/37GLHX/feedback/", "origin_url": "https://cfp.2026.matrix.org/matrix-conference-2026/talk/37GLHX/", "attachments": []}, {"guid": "53de98a1-ff8f-5ed8-b851-d7f1b4271ef0", "code": "KS3A8F", "id": 101713, "logo": null, "date": "2026-10-22T16:15:00+02:00", "start": "16:15", "end": "2026-10-22T16:40:00+02:00", "duration": "00:25", "room": "Katherine", "slug": "matrix-conference-2026-101713-starting-a-sovereign-chat-project-in-the-dutch-government-early-lessons", "url": "https://cfp.2026.matrix.org/matrix-conference-2026/talk/KS3A8F/", "title": "Starting a Sovereign Chat Project in the Dutch Government: Early Lessons", "subtitle": "", "track": "Public Sector", "type": "Talk", "language": "en", "abstract": "How do you start a sovereign, secure chat project in the public sector? 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Soon enough, hundreds of servers were running this mysterious new software - and the momentum didn't drop. Today, more than one and a half thousand servers on the public federation run [Continuwuity](https://continuwuity.org/). \n\nThat leads to some questions. Where did it come from? What happened? Where is it going? Well, We've got anwers for all of that. Right here. Exclusively. This is a breakdown from the team behind the ~~mystery~~ well-regarded open source project, going over all of that and more. You know you're interested.", "description": "", "recording_license": "", "do_not_record": false, "persons": [{"code": "Q39ZAA", "name": "Jade", "avatar": "https://cfp.2026.matrix.org/media/avatars/PXVLF3_vDsbl1z.webp", "biography": "[Jade](https://jade.ellis.link/) is known in the Matrix ecosystem for co-founding [Continuwuity](https://continuwuity.org/), an upcoming Matrix server. 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Nevertheless, adoption has not yet reached the level required to achieve strong network effects.\nInstead of operating two independent communication ecosystems, we are pursuing a convergence strategy: a unified communication platform that preserves existing integrations and workflows while modernizing the backend infrastructure and enabling interoperability across user groups.\nThis talk presents the architectural challenges, migration strategy and interoperability concepts for transforming a nationwide, mission critical healthcare communication ecosystem towards a Matrix based future.", "description": "", "recording_license": "", "do_not_record": false, "persons": [{"code": "AWEBQ8", "name": "Jan Kohnert", "avatar": "https://cfp.2026.matrix.org/media/avatars/YUPTJL_ySnXKKz.webp", "biography": "Produkt Owner TI-Messenger at gematik and Matrix enthusiast", "public_name": "Jan Kohnert", "guid": "0aaed660-ca3f-54d9-a368-7466efcf4164", "url": "https://cfp.2026.matrix.org/matrix-conference-2026/speaker/AWEBQ8/"}], "links": [], "feedback_url": "https://cfp.2026.matrix.org/matrix-conference-2026/talk/HVRHVW/feedback/", "origin_url": "https://cfp.2026.matrix.org/matrix-conference-2026/talk/HVRHVW/", "attachments": []}, {"guid": "10546b52-6900-5f31-bc66-2165bc0a9c44", "code": "AWDD8K", "id": 102356, "logo": null, "date": "2026-10-22T12:15:00+02:00", "start": "12:15", "end": "2026-10-22T12:40:00+02:00", "duration": "00:25", "room": "Peter", "slug": "matrix-conference-2026-102356-ti-messenger-goes-europe-austrian-healthcare-adopts-matrix-protocol", "url": "https://cfp.2026.matrix.org/matrix-conference-2026/talk/AWDD8K/", "title": "TI-Messenger goes Europe: Austrian healthcare adopts matrix protocol", "subtitle": "", "track": "Healthcare sponsored by CGM", "type": "Talk", "language": "en", "abstract": "Famedly talks about the developments in the Austrian healthcare market and the adoption of matrix as the messenger protocol of choice. 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This was achieved through a collaboration between industry partners Famedly and x-tention, alongside \"Medspeak,\" a grassroots Matrix server initiative hosted by two local physicians.\n\nSimultaneously, Austria's national regulatory authority (Elga GmbH) began drafting a standardized specification for adopting the Matrix protocol in healthcare communication nationwide. Famedly was awarded the contract to consult on the foundational version of this specification. Currently, the State of Vienna is conducting a major pilot to validate this standard, working closely with industry partners such as Famedly, x-tention, and Cloudflight.\n\nThis talk explores the evolution of Austria's transition toward a unified, Matrix-based healthcare communication infrastructure, offering unique insights and lessons learned from Famedly\u2019s perspective as a driving industry partner.", "recording_license": "", "do_not_record": false, "persons": [{"code": "BDMVAD", "name": "Phillipp Kurtz", "avatar": null, "biography": null, "public_name": "Phillipp Kurtz", "guid": "a4ae4010-5e14-5f9f-ba87-6a3899a5e44e", "url": "https://cfp.2026.matrix.org/matrix-conference-2026/speaker/BDMVAD/"}], "links": [], "feedback_url": "https://cfp.2026.matrix.org/matrix-conference-2026/talk/AWDD8K/feedback/", "origin_url": "https://cfp.2026.matrix.org/matrix-conference-2026/talk/AWDD8K/", "attachments": []}, {"guid": "2f3234ce-61ff-508f-acbc-48b6bf17bc3c", "code": "8LWQES", "id": 100595, "logo": null, "date": "2026-10-22T12:45:00+02:00", "start": "12:45", "end": "2026-10-22T13:10:00+02:00", "duration": "00:25", "room": "Peter", "slug": "matrix-conference-2026-100595-side-effects-include-data-breaches-gdpr-fines-and-a-group-chat-with-47-nurses", "url": "https://cfp.2026.matrix.org/matrix-conference-2026/talk/8LWQES/", "title": "Side Effects Include: Data Breaches, GDPR Fines, and a Group Chat With 47 Nurses", "subtitle": "", "track": "Healthcare sponsored by CGM", "type": "Talk", "language": "en", "abstract": "Side effects of modern healthcare communication: data breaches, \u20ac1.2 billion in GDPR fines last year, and a group chat with 47 nurses. The treatment is a messaging app. The one you're thinking of isn't it.\n\nWalk into any ward, GP surgery, home care team, or therapy practice in Europe and you'll find the same thing: clinicians on WhatsApp. Not because they don't know better \u2014 because it works, it's fast, and the secure alternative breaks the workflow. This talk is a frank look at why Europe's most-used clinical tool isn't a clinical tool.\n\nThe answer cuts across the entire care continuum: from large hospital trusts wrestling with security friction to mobile nurses no IT policy ever quite reaches. GDPR enforcement is tightening. AI may be the first thing that genuinely tips the balance between convenience and compliance. This talk takes a European perspective and asks what it will genuinely take to move healthcare off WhatsApp: better products, smarter regulation, open standards, or all three.\n\nThe side door works. The fortress doesn't.", "description": "This is a talk about three people.\n\nAmira is a home care nurse. Her \"ward\" is eleven living rooms and a car. Nobody from IT has ever been in any of them. Mateo is a hospital nurse on night shift \u2014 issued a phone, a pager, and a login that expires every 8 hours. Dr. Chen is a doctor. Always reachable, never has time.\n\nThree people, three employers, three different IT policies. Same behaviour: they all use WhatsApp. Not because they don't know better. Because the secure alternative is slower, harder, and breaks the workflow that actually keeps patients safe.\n\nThis talk walks through the data. What the research says about clinician use of consumer messaging apps. What regulators have actually done about it (\u20ac1.2B in GDPR fines last year, healthcare enforcement up 26%). And why dedicated solutions built on open standards like Matrix \u2014 including the CGM Messenger and CGM TI-Messenger shipping into European healthcare \u2014 are still sitting at ~20% adoption. Every country, same pattern. The fortress works. The side door works better. And patients got better care through the side door.\n\nThe talk closes on AI. Ambient documentation, intelligent message routing, AI-assisted triage. The first time convenience and compliance may be pointing in the same direction. But AI processing patient data inside messaging platforms also raises urgent new questions about data sovereignty and consent. We can't skip the conversation just because the technology is finally convenient.\n\nFor Matrix developers shipping healthcare products, healthcare IT professionals, and policy makers who want to know what it will genuinely take to move healthcare off WhatsApp \u2014 and what role open protocols play in getting there.", "recording_license": "", "do_not_record": false, "persons": [{"code": "WDECB9", "name": "Patrice Zoe Brend'amour", "avatar": "https://cfp.2026.matrix.org/media/avatars/Q8KK8D_svFZYBf.webp", "biography": "**Patrice Zoe Brend'amour** works at **CompuGroup Medical (CGM)**, Europe's leading healthcare IT company, and is a Vienna-based technology leader with extensive international experience spanning **Germany, the United States, and Austria**. Having led diverse, globally-distributed teams across the **US, South Africa, and Europe**, she brings a unique perspective to healthcare product management - understanding firsthand the complexities of cross-border collaboration and the critical need for secure, seamless communication infrastructure in clinical settings.\n\nHer career has focused on **shipping healthcare products** while managing international development teams, navigating diverse regulatory environments, and fostering collaboration across time zones and cultural boundaries. 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