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2026 SPEAKERS

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Confirmed Speakers will be listed below when we are closer to the festival.

In the meantime, enjoy watching prior speakers from 2024 and 2025.

Blue Sky Rangers – Intellivision Programmers

Blue Sky Rangers

Epic Kludges That Saved the Day

Bill Fisher | Founder, Quicksilver Software, Inc.

INTERCAL Compiler Restoration and the Importance of Preserving Ephemera

Sean Haas | Advent of Computing

State of FujiNet

Thomas Cherryhomes | Firmware Developer of FujiNet

Digital Archaeology - AD&D Treasure of Tarmin, Part 2: Claude is My Copilot

Sean Harrington | Aquarius+ Evangelist

Resurrecting the Computer Museum of America: A Partnership Between Two Universities

Jim Trageser - Former Executive Director, Computer Museum of America

Graphic Design Software & Tools for Microcomputers

Froyo Tam | Pepsico

How The Golden Age of Adventure Games Were Built

Ralph Caraveo | Software Engineer

Cybermania ’94: The First Game Awards

Andrew Zucker | formerly of Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences

Modern Computing: A 1974–Global Journey

Douglas Westfall | The Paragon Agency, Publishers

Sea Stories from the Carrier Landing Computer

Steve Botts | KD6VKF

ACP, Vista, Rana & Indus: Startup Stories (1978–83)

Christopher McDivit | Early ACP Employee

VCF SoCal Retro Game Show

Please Note: The lists, dates, and times of Exhibitors, Vendors, Speakers, and Other Activities can change depending on the different participant's own personal situations, festival changes, and other circumstances.