ATL BitLab

Want to help improve Atlanta's bitcoin + freedom-tech community space? Join us for lab build-out day to help us improve the Lab. You can earn store credit on the ATL BitLab store (useful for memberships and merch) by helping contribute.

Kinds of things we might be working on:

• Organizing and tidying
• Hanging pictures
• Upgrading AV system
• Network management
• Etc.

No special skills needed. Just come ready to contribute!

Bitcoin Builders is a meetup for people exploring Bitcoin from a product perspective.

This event is about the tools, apps, and services that make Bitcoin usable, expressive, and valuable to real people—not just protocol theory. We’ll still talk plenty of tech, but the focus is on user-facing ideas, product decisions, and real-world experimentation rather than deep consensus or protocol minutiae.

What We’ll Explore

• Native apps, web apps, and services built on or around Bitcoin
• Novel ways of interacting with Bitcoin and Lightning
• Product design challenges in bitcoin and freedom tech
• Early-stage experiments, side projects, and in-progress work
• Lessons learned shipping (or trying to ship) Bitcoin products

Who This is For

• Entrepreneurs & founders
• Product managers & designers
• Developers & technologists
• Bitcoiners and freedom-tech enthusiasts
• Anyone curious about building real products in the Bitcoin ecosystem

If you like demos, rough edges, and learning how things actually get built—this meetup is for you.

Format
Each event will feature five 15-minute demo slots.
Presenters will walk through something they’ve been working on recently—this can be polished or scrappy, shipped or experimental.
Expect:

• Live demos
• Short talks
• Q&A and discussion
• Constructive feedback from other builders

Schedule
6:00pm – Doors open, networking & beverages
6:30pm – Presentations begin
7:50pm – Wrap-up
8:00pm – Group heads to a nearby restaurant for dinner 🍽️

AI agents are the next frontier — and the people who learn this now will be miles ahead as they become the norm.

OpenClaw is an open-source framework for building your own personal AI agent. One that runs on your hardware, follows your rules, and supercharges your productivity.

Imagine an assistant that can manage your calendar, draft emails, automate repetitive tasks, and integrate with all your tools — without handing your data to a third party.

But here's the thing: if you set it up wrong, you're giving an AI the ability to act on your behalf. That's powerful — and risky if done carelessly.

In this paid hands-on workshop, you'll learn how to do it right:

• ✅ Set up OpenClaw from scratch on your own machine
• ✅ Configure your agent with the right permissions and guardrails
• ✅ Connect it to your tools (calendar, email, messaging, and more)
• ✅ Understand the security model — and avoid common mistakes
• ✅ Build automations that actually save you time

Your instructors:
Stephen DeLorme — Co-founder of ATL BitLab, open source contributor
Alex Lewin — Software engineer and AI builder

What you will need:
💻 Computer (we can provide hardware or make arrangements for you to bring your own)
🧠 Curiosity

Lunch provided!