Brussels / 31 January & 1 February 2026

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Ben Pate

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Ben Pate is a humanist and technologist with hyper-fixations in decaffeinated tea and imported chocolate. He is also a veteran startup founder and CTO whose work is driven by a love of software and of the passionate early days of the Internet - when we believed that our new technology would open doors and level the playing field between the large middlemen and individual creatives.

Ben is now the creator of Emissary - a programmable ActivityPub server that enables developers to launch custom Fediverse applications in weeks, using only HTML and JSON.

He lives with his family in Denver, Colorado, and is a fantastic drummer, atrocious guitar player, and can't wait to get home for snowboarding season.


Events

Title Day Room Track Start End
Emissary and the Fediverse
Saturday H.2215 (Ferrer) Social Web 18:30 19:00