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2026 On est de retour!

La convergence des technologies anarchistes de Montréal est un rassemblement annuel à l'intersection de l'anarchisme et des technologies.

MATC 2026 Flyer

Vous filez à toute allure vers les confins de cette machine tentaculaire qui exploite notre attention, dépassant les tapis roulants où défilent des préférences soigneusement emballées dans des boîtes scintillantes. De cette distance, le réseau de câbles entrelacés prend une forme sinistre. L'apparence unique des contenus cache les expériences conditionnées qu'ils renferment. En atteignant les limites de la réalité augmentée, vous découvrez que derrière chaque curseur clignotant et chaque lueur d'écran LCD se cache un individu avec ses rêves et ses désirs.

Voici donc un peu de copier-coller avant que vous ne partiez. Voici ce que nous avons tenté de faire et ce que nous voulons essayer ensuite. Voici les plans du monde que nous voulons démanteler et les aperçus d’un monde que nous pourrions souhaiter, reflétés dans les éclats de verre et les liens que nous avons tissés à partir des débris du capitalisme.

16-17 octobre 2026

16-17 octobre 20256

Au Batimenet 7 à Tiohtia:ke Montreal

Bienvenue aux informaticien-ne-s anarcho-curieux-ses, aux anarchistes techno-curieux-ses et tout le monde entre les deux.

Dons

Merci de donner à la table d’accueil afin d’aider à couvrir les coûts de l’espace et des services fournis par le Bâtiment 7! Donnez généreusement si vous avez les moyens. Les profits de la vente des breuvages iront aussi au B7.

Votre support nous aidera à organiser les futures éditions de l’événement.

Contact

🗯️ https://kolektiva.social/@MTL_ATC <-- Voir ici pour les mises à jour!

📧 mtl-atc@riseup.net

Location

L'édition 2026 de la convergence technologique anarchiste de Montréal aura lieu au Batiment 7 dans le quartier Pointe St-Charles.

L'adresse est:
1900 Rue Le Ber
Montreal, QC
H3K 2A4

Information sur l'accessibilité

Masques!

Le port de masques respiratoires de type K95/N95 à l'intérieur est fortement recommandé ! Nous en aurons un stock limité à la table d'accueil.

Accessibilité du batiement

Toutes les salles que nous utilisons cette année sont accessibles aux fauteuils roulants, mais veuillez consulter la page Accessibilité physique de Batiment 7 pour plus d'informations.

Nourriture

Un repas végane sera fourni à contribution volontaire. Le Bâtiment 7 héberge aussi un bar (Sans Taverne) et une épicerie (Épicerie le Détour) si vous cherchez du café, des brevages ou de la nourriture.

Anti-conférence

Il y aura, en particulier le dimanche, une pièce disponible pour tenir des "anti-conférences". Amenez vos propositions de dernière minute et les sujets dont vous voudriez parler suite aux ateliers auxquels vous aurez participé.

Horaire

Samedi les activités aura lieu 11h à 18h

Dimanche les activités aura lieu 11h30 à 18h

Consultez les descriptions complètes des activités ci-dessous ou cliquez sur les liens.

Saturday Samedi Schedule

Sunday Dimanche Schedule

Samedi, 17 octobre, liste des activités

Dimanche 18 octobre, liste des activités

Descriptions des activités (Samedi)

Portes / Bienvenue!

Tapage, Samedi 11:00 - 11:30

Rising Against Big Tech: From Common Blockers to Collective Solutions

Tapage, Samedi 11:30 - 11:55

This discussion will introduce the work of the Rise Against Big Tech (RABT) coalition. We'll explore experiences of migration, technological autonomy, and community controlled infrastructures. Making the case for moving away from Big Tech is one thing, but actually doing it is another.

3D Printing Definitely Useful Things

Upstairs, Samedi 11:30 - 12:55

This will be a workshop on functional 3D printing, specifically with Filament Deposition Manufacturing, and with and for open source stuff. We will discuss how to print good functional parts with low cost of materials and parts, and cheap machines, and what the participants hope to or are doing with FDM. It will be about electronics enclosures, mounting brackets, cat feeders, HVAC equipment, shoes, scientific apparatus, stuff like that. In general, if the color matters much it's probably not my department. There will be a zine with all the details freely available, this is the workshop of the zine.

Qubes OS user meetup

Salle Anti-conference, Samedi 11:30 - 12:25

Do you use Qubes OS and wanna meet others who do? Maybe share workflow tips or setup inspo? Maybe you don't use it but are curious about i>

Making our data ungovernable: Autonomous infrastructure in an age of mass surveillance

Tapage, Samedi 12:00 - 12:55

Having to choose between convenient, heavily-surveilled, cloud-based platforms and limited, sometimes vulnerable softwares that are geared toward movement organizers feels like an impossible decision. But what if there was another way?

Autonomous infrastructure is infrastructure that is managed and maintained by the community that uses it. In this talk, we’ll cover a brief history of tech-fueled state repression & its mechanisms, and some of the realized digital dreams for liberatory technologies that have emerged as a counter to this techno-dyistopian hellscape. We’ll discuss the possibilities, strategies, and considerations for creating these infrastructures within our communities, and make a case for why the medium-level-technical-bravery required to build servers is well worth the reward.

This presentation will be followed by a workshop on sunday, where we’ll teach attendees to apply these lessons and put these tools into action for their own networks.

What happened to Autistici/Inventati and how to make sure it doesn't happen again

Tapage, Samedi 14:00 - 14:55

Last August, Autistici/Inventati (A/I) was added to the specially designated global terrorist list by the American government for providing services to anti-fascists and Palestinian activists, forcing them to shut down.

This facilitated discussion aims to examine what happened, debate on the root causes of this issue and share ideas on how to organise so this situation doesn't happen again.

Get on the Fediverse now!

Upstairs, Samedi 14:00 - 14:55

Have you ever dreamed of a social platform run by real people, free of corporate domination? The Fediverse is a federation of independent social networks connected with open standards across the Internet. In this workshop, we'll go through the process of picking a server, setting up an account, connecting to friends and family, and setting up a profile. We'll especially focus on how anarchists can connect and congregate on a network we make for ourselves.

Conversion de véhicule à l'huile végétale - Waste vegetable oil conversion

Upstairs, Samedi 15:00 - 15:55

Une présentation sur comment convertir un véhicule diesel pour fonctionner à l'huile végétale avec des études de cas locales. La présentation sera suivie d'une démonstration concrète d'un véhicule converti.

No more NoBlogs - Let's build something different

Tapage, Samedi 15:00 - 15:55

The sanctioning of A/I and subsequent shuttering of NoBlogs crippled the ability for anarchist collectives around the world to safely publish material about their work. It is likely that many are already working on potential replacements to fill the gap NoBlogs left behind.

We believe that the attack on A/I demonstrates a novel threat model that any future replacement to NoBlogs must account for, and a failure to do so could pose a massive risk to anarchist formations globally. Join us for a group discussion on alternative approaches to building more resilient forms of anarchist infrastructure. We will share our progress on our own proposal for “non-custodial infrastructure” as a potential way forward, and we invite you to bring your own ideas, perspectives, and proposals for how we can restore publication capacity to NoBlogs’ former users in a way that can architecturally guarantee higher degrees of security and resilience.

Building grassroot communication infrastructures between autonomous spaces in the Netherlands

Tapage, Samedi 16:00 - 16:55

Presentation and discussion of community organising efforts in the Netherlands for grassroots communication infrastructures linking autonomous spaces and providing public services. Our aim is to collectively reformulate our communication needs and relationship to everyday technologies that we rely on. We need to be able to use existing hardware and legacy protocols as well as adopt to novel developments in the information environment. Meanwhile, we need to cater for both usability and security concerns. Deployment and development needs to happen through the involvement of a wide range of different people including but not limited to techies. The technology has to align with our political values, in terms of intentional outcomes being reflected in design choices and documentation efforts. For these reasons we focus on the Reticulum Network Stack that is so much more than a LoRa messaging protocol.

OSINT CTF

Upstairs, Samedi 16:00 - 17:55

Calling all google dorks and OSINT nerds, the second annual MATC OSINT CTF is here. Come test your chops on a friendly Capture The Flag game, as we hunt down tasty morsels of intel about [REDACTED] on the open internet. Come as a team or an individual. Bring a computer and your sharpest search queries or your slickest CLI tools. We'll have prizes for teams and individuals at all levels. Everyone welcome. Sign up at the door.

Dispelling misconceptions in privacy and security

Tapage, Samedi 17:00 - 17:55

Information security is a complicated subject and is filled with misinformation. Even some accurate information doesn't relate to us! In this talk, we'll explore the differences between privacy, security, and anonymity, and how they relate to each other; address some misconceptions about how to improve one's security model; and then cover some specific tooling recommendations as well as lesser-known issues with them for folks' considerations against their threat model. The end of the presentation we'll open up the floor for folks to chat, ask questions, etc, in a more collaborative approach to this topic.

Descriptions des activités (Dimanche)

Infrastructure against occupation - The role of tech infrastructure in the Twin Cities anti-ICE resistance

Tapage, Dimanche 12:00 - 12:55

When Trump’s DHS unleashed their full-scale occupation of Minneapolis and St Paul, networks of organizers, hackers, and technologists built out extensive technical capacity for occupation resistance. This included systems for secure communications, locating abductees, and tracking ICE personnel, drones, and vehicles using sophisticated data aggregation and analysis. This technical capacity has remained critical to the resistance against ICE in the United States, especially as organizers in other cities are attempting to reimplement similar infrastructure.

As part of our work with Movement Infrastructure Research, we visited the Twin Cities during the height of "Metro Surge" to study and support this infrastructure directly. This talk will provide a comprehensive outline of these systems as they operated during peak ICE activity, how they were effective, how they fell short, and how they could be reapplied to combat fascism in interregional and international contexts.

Leaving the GAFAM: How to use tools like Nextcloud and Cryptpad

Upstairs, Dimanche 12:00 - 12:55

A lot of people still have their files in places like Google Drive or Microsoft OneDrive despite recent evidence that these organizations (the GAFAMs) collaborate openly with the american fascist regime. They either don't know that alternatives exist, or are afraid that it will too difficult to make the change. This workshop aims to show that it's possible to kick the fascists GAFAMs to the curb and that easy-to-use alternatives exist. Two alternatives will be presented: Nextcloud and Cryptpad.

Putting a face on the crisis: Challenges and opportunities in repurposing registry data for militant purposes

Tapage, Dimanche 14:00 - 14:55

Housing is not in crisis, rather it’s under attack, and those attacking it have names and addresses. This presentation will discuss the use of data and digital technologies to promote new modes of "watching the watchers" in the context of housing. While earlier, more traditional forms of sousveillance have typically relied on audio-visual technologies — cop-watching being a paradigmatic example — more recent initiatives, by contrast, have started exploring the use of digital networks and databases. Using the case of Fuck my Landlord — a tool designed to help tenant activists in Montréal, Québec and Sherbrooke research property portfolios, landlords and the complex corporate ownership networks behind them — this talk aims to contextualize the rise of such initiatives and to discuss the sociotechnical challenges specific to such data-based initiatives.

Tor AMA for anarchists

Upstairs, Dimanche 14:00 - 14:55

Ask me anything about Tor, hosted by Tor developers. Learn about the Tor anonymity network, what software you can use to access it, basic guidelines for using it, and why it's an important tool for anarchists. Bring your questions about online opsec, anonymity, contributing relays, and circumventing censorship. All skill levels welcome, no questions are too basic or too niche!

Building an Anarchist Critique of Technology

Unconference Room, Sunday 14:00 - 14:55

How do anarchists relate to technologies that are built on authority, extraction, and ecocide? How do we decide what tools are worth using>

A tangled web: Network science and networks of liberation

Tapage, Dimanche 15:00 - 15:25

A generation ago, radicals inspired by new developments in scientific knowledge and technology imagined self-organized, decentralized networks as the basis for a new antiauthoritarian politics. Today, talking about networks can often feel banal. But meanwhile, the serious academic study trying to find shared properties in many different kind of networks (social, biological, technological, etc.) had only just begun, enabled by access to data and improved computational tools. This talk will provide an short overview of some of the interesting findings from the field of network science, including some troubling ones, and in light of that, discuss how we can think of liberatory possibilities of networks.

Making our data ungovernable: Launch self-hosted apps using co-op cloud

Upstairs, Dimanche 15:00 - 15:55

Want to host a website, file-sharing and syncing platform, community wiki, and more all on the same server for your household or an entire community? In this workshop, participants will learn the basics of hosting software using Co-op Cloud, an open source platform for public interest infrastructure.

This workshop is a hands-on follow-up to Saturday’s making our data ungovernable talk. By the end, participants will be able to protect and secure their data through self-hosting. Those who have preexisting servers and domains will be able to leave the workshop with permanent tools for their communities to use; otherwise students will practice on temporary servers. Students will learn to configure services like NextCloud, Jitsi, or Wordpress and be able to access them on the web. Day one participation encouraged but not required. Bring a laptop, a friend, and a pre-existing server linked to a domain if you have one.

Lightning talk: Send in the hounds

Tapage, Dimanche 15:30 - 16:55

We all know that the police are the dogs of the bosses, but now the robots are the dogs of the bosses too. This talk discusses how the Boston Dynamics SPOT robots are being applied in industrial applications.

Don't get bit!

Lightning talk: GrapheneOS distros - A template for getting secure devices in the hands of activists

Tapage, Dimanche 15:30 - 16:55

There is clear and growing evidence in charging documents and firsthand reports that cellphone data is playing a key role in political prosecutions such as the Prairieland defendants, the Cop City RICO case, and student protesters at Stanford, University of Michigan and elsewhere. Dissidents need protection against all of these threats.

Movement Infrastructure Research (mirnet.org) presents provisioning tools and a prototype model for securing and distributing GrapheneOS devices at community-scale.

Tapage, Dimanche 15:30 - 16:55

Quit social media! A guilt-free talk on malicious and addictive social technologies: how to talk about them, how they affect us, and simple ways to break their behavioural patterning. You already want to. Then, a call to affirm life through boredom, yearning, and the unknown.

Lightning talk: OFFDEM reportback

Tapage, Dimanche 15:30 - 16:55

Le mois passé nous avons mené un atelier OFFDEM sur la question démilitaire et le logiciel libre en OFF de BalCCon en Serbie, dans les Balkans une zone frontalière aux tensions européenens et mondiales. Nous aimerions vous faire un petit compte rendu de nos impressions par la voix d'une personne basée à MTL. https://oxygen.offdem.net/pub/call-for-presence

A month ago, OFFDEM workshop about demilitary free software issues took place in Serbia during the BalCCon, in the Balkans a Borderland to European and international tensions. We wish to bring you a short update from our work and our feelings after the event, brought by the voice of a MTl person.

Reticulum networks for anarchists

Upstairs, Dimanche 16:00 - 16:55

We are anarchists interested in building resilient and autonomous mesh networks using Reticulum, over LoRa (inexpensive accessible long-range radio), over the Internet, over whatever we can imagine. This will be a drop-in workshop/demo/hacking hangout. Come if you are curious, or if you are already doing stuff with Reticulum bring your hardware and join our network!

Bringing a laptop or android phone is helpful, but not necessary!

OSINT CTF prize ceremony

Tapage, Dimanche 17:00 - 17:25

A prize ceremony for the winners of yesterday's CTF!