Fission believes the future of the Internet and equitable access to computation at scale demand a distributed and decentralized web. And all systems have limits that must be navigated.
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 and quality of our connectivity.
Novel approaches to the Future of Computing — programming languages, networks, interfaces, 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 causal islands together. Learn from diverse and unique perspectives across disciplines, discover exciting new areas of research and development, and make plans for ongoing collaboration.
Join Fission and our partners as we build the future of computing, today.
Our inaugural Causal Islands conference will take place in Toronto, ON at the historic Paradise Theatre in the Bloorcourt Village neighborhood. Built in 1937, the theatre features an Art Deco style bar and an award-winning restaurant.
Nestled on Lake Ontario’s northwestern shore, Toronto is a diverse and creative metropolis and the 3rd largest tech hub in North America.
Discover more about Toronto Check out the venueBrooklyn is the co-founder and CTO of Fission. She is a functional programmer focused on distributed systems, formal verification, and PLT & VM design. Her deep interests lie in functional programming, programming language theory, principled software, scalable and fault tolerant systems, and developing teams and she is a sought after speaker and panelist at various conferences.
Zeeshan has a B.A. in Moving Image Arts, an M.M. in Music Technology, and is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University under Frank Pfenning, focused on programming languages/PLT. He is the co-founder and co-organizer of Papers We Love and the PWL conference. Zeeshan is an applied researcher at Fission working on distributed systems, edge and multi-tier computing, identity, and storage.
Chad is an experienced technologist, software developer, author, public speaker and senior technology leader. He is currently the Partner and CTO of BlueYard Capital. Previously Chad was Director of Ruby Central and founded the International Ruby Conference and International Rails Conference.
We aim to make Causal Islands inclusive and accessible to everyone. Creating an accessible event benefits individuals with visible or known disabilities and also helps to ensure that everyone, including individuals with non-obvious disabilities and/or chronic health conditions, and people of all ages and body types, are able to fully engage in the program.
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