The CCP9 (Collaborative Computational Project for the Study of the Electronic Structure of Condensed Matter) community conference took place between the 7th and 9th of September 2022 at the Crown Plaza Hotel in Manchester. The conference was attended by Professor Matt Watkins and Chris Dickens, a PhD student in the School of Mathematics and Physics at the University of Lincoln. The conference included a series of invited talks from more senior members of CCP9 as well as an array of 15 minute lightning talks from PhD and Postdoc researchers from across the country working in relevant areas. There was also a poster presentation where Chris presented work on copper-based ternary semiconductors.