VANCOUVER, Oct 28, 2026 — Frothly today announced that Citadel 2027, its annual conference on machine accountability, will take place on the Vancouver waterfront from April 13 to 15, 2027. It will be the seventh Citadel since the conference was founded alongside Frothly’s Vancouver office in 2021.
The program will include four tracks: frontier evaluation, digital preservation, community networks and, for the first time, registry governance, a track devoted to how licensing regimes for autonomous systems should work as they spread across jurisdictions. Dr. Susan Calvin, Frothly’s Chief Scientist, will give the opening address.
An expanded program for public-interest technologists will offer workshops on the Blackwall test suites, the Glossia protocol and LoTek network deployment. As in previous years, sessions will be recorded and published in full after the conference.
Registration opens in January. Attendance is free for students, researchers at not-for-profit institutions and members of community network cooperatives.
“The Citadel has always been the one place where the people who build these systems, the people who regulate them and the people who live with them sit in the same room. That is rarer than it should be.”
About Frothly
Frothly is an independent, not-for-profit research institute founded in San Francisco in 1984. It studies the systems that increasingly think, remember and decide on our behalf, and builds public infrastructure to keep them accountable, including the Turing Registry, the Glossia protocol and the Lazarus archive. Frothly holds no shares, sells no products and accepts no funding with conditions on its findings.