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August 31, 2023

Fermyon @ WasmCon '23

Karen Chu

fermyon conference webassembly developer Linux Foundation

Next week is the inaugural WasmCon event in Bellevue, WA on Sept 6-7 and Fermyon is coming in full force! From hosting a workshop, to throwing a cocktail party, to giving several presentations, we’ve got a full plate each day so check out the daily schedule to find out exactly what we’ll be up to and where —

Wednesday September 6 — WasmCon + A Fermyon Cocktail Affair

• Fermyon Sponsor Booth @ 8:00 AM – 6:30 PM

  • Location: across from the registration area
  • What we’ll have: t-shirts, stickers, demos, Finicky Whiskers, & new tech to try out

• Workshop @ 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM: Getting Started with Serverless WebAssembly and Spin

  • Speakers: Radu Matei, Kate Goldenring, & MacKenzie Adam (Olson)
  • Location: Grand Ballroom J (Second Floor)

• Keynote @ 1:15 PM - 1:25 PM: Welcome & Opening Remarks

  • Speaker: Michelle Dhanani
  • Location: Grand Ballrooms A-D

• Panel @ 4:30 PM - 5:05 PM: Unraveling the Magic of Two Hot Trends: WebAssembly and Generative AI

  • Speakers: Larry Carvalho (RobustCloud), Radu Matei (Fermyon), Aparna Sinha (PearVC), & Tyler McMullen (Fastly)
  • Location: Grand Ballroom I

• A Fermyon Cocktail Affair @ 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM

  Join the Fermyon team at Civility & Unrest after the WasmCon booth crawl for an evening event of libations, light bites, and conversations about the latest developments in WebAssembly! WasmCon registration is not required.

Thursday September 7 – WasmCon

• Fermyon Sponsor Booth @ 8:00 AM – 4:50 PM
  • Location: across from the registration area
  • What we’ll have: t-shirts, stickers, demos, Finicky Whiskers, & new tech to try out
• Keynote @ 9:00 AM - 9:05 AM Welcome Back
  • Speaker: Michelle Dhanani
  • Location: Grand Ballrooms A-D
• Keynote @ 9:35 AM - 9:45 AM Details TBD
  • Speaker: Radu Matei
  • Location: Grand Ballrooms A-D
• Talk @ 11:00 AM - 11:35 AM Taking WASI-Cloud-Core for a Spin
  • Speakers: Jiaxiao Zhou (Microsoft) & Joel Dice (Fermyon)
  • Location: Grand Ballroom G
• Talk @ 1:30 PM - 2:05 PM Introducing Componentize-Py: A Tool for Packaging Python Apps as Components
  • Speaker: Joel Dice
  • Location: Grand Ballroom F

Friday September 8 – Bytecode Alliance Componentize “The World” Hackathon

Join the Bytecode Alliance and fellow community members as we explore the WebAssembly Component model and help port popular language frameworks from Rust, JavaScript, and potentially other languages into WebAssembly components. The free event will take place in Redmond, WA following WasmCon — make sure to RSVP here.