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Devlin Duldulao
Devlin Duldulao

Co-author of the Packt book Practical Enterprise React, Devlin has been using HTML, CSS, and TypeScript to build web and mobile apps for customers for years. He has been a Microsoft MVP and an on-site React trainer for eight years.

Talks#

Next.js, React Server Components, and TanStack Start: Building Fast, Modern Web Apps

2025-05-2711:00-12:30

In this session, we’ll cover the latest updates in React frameworks to help you build fast, interactive applications. We’ll start with a quick overview of today’s web landscape and how different frameworks handle rendering strategies.

First, we’ll look at React Server Components (RSC) in Next.js 15, showing how RSC boosts app performance by rendering on the server and streaming components to the client in real-time. With the strategic use of modern React 19 features to optimize load times and interactivity, we’ll demonstrate how RSC can make your app more responsive.

Next, we’ll cover TanStack Start, which provides robust support for full-stack React apps. With type-safe routing via TanStack Router, smooth client-server communication, and built-in support for Server-Side Rendering (SSR) and RSC, TanStack Start enables fast, scalable applications. We’ll share real-world examples and demos to show how its server functions, streaming capabilities, and flexible deployment options—whether serverless or CDN-based—create a strong foundation for modern apps.

We’ll finish with a 15-minute Q&A. By the end, you’ll be up to speed on these tools and frameworks, helping you keep your React projects fast, interactive, and ready for the future.

Development

QA

2025-05-2711:00-12:30
Development

Workshop#

Hands-on React Server Components, Server Actions, and Forms in the Next.js App Router

2025-05-2609:00-17:00

In this workshop, we will explore React's latest features: Server Components, Server Actions, and Forms. Discover how to optimize server-side rendering, build smooth user experiences with React Suspense and Transitions, enhance application interactivity with Server Actions and multiple new React 19 hooks, and create robust forms for efficient data handling and validation.

Content and procedure#

With the introduction of Server Components and the Next.js App Router come new patterns and strategies for developing performant and interactive apps. In addition, React 19 brings new hooks and API’s. It’s all very exciting, but can be confusing to grasp and keep up with.

To cover all the concepts, we will be building an interactive CRUD app for managing contacts. Through the development process we will be learning each relevant concept step by step, and for each step use it to implement a feature in the application, until the application is completed.

Who should join the workshop?#

Designed for developers of all levels, this workshop provides practical skills to build scalable, performant web applications. Ideally you have some experience with React and JavaScript already.

Development

Aurora Scharff
Aurora Scharff

Aurora Scharff is a web developer from Norway. She holds a bachelor's degree in Robotics and Intelligent Systems and is knowledgeable in engineering mathematics, robotics, algorithms, data structures, and computer architecture. After working for a few years at a financial technology startup, she continues developing as a consultant at Inmeta. Aurora is actively building with React Server Components in her current consultancy project and is eager to share her knowledge.

Talks#

Next.js, React Server Components, and TanStack Start: Building Fast, Modern Web Apps

2025-05-2711:00-12:30

In this session, we’ll cover the latest updates in React frameworks to help you build fast, interactive applications. We’ll start with a quick overview of today’s web landscape and how different frameworks handle rendering strategies.

First, we’ll look at React Server Components (RSC) in Next.js 15, showing how RSC boosts app performance by rendering on the server and streaming components to the client in real-time. With the strategic use of modern React 19 features to optimize load times and interactivity, we’ll demonstrate how RSC can make your app more responsive.

Next, we’ll cover TanStack Start, which provides robust support for full-stack React apps. With type-safe routing via TanStack Router, smooth client-server communication, and built-in support for Server-Side Rendering (SSR) and RSC, TanStack Start enables fast, scalable applications. We’ll share real-world examples and demos to show how its server functions, streaming capabilities, and flexible deployment options—whether serverless or CDN-based—create a strong foundation for modern apps.

We’ll finish with a 15-minute Q&A. By the end, you’ll be up to speed on these tools and frameworks, helping you keep your React projects fast, interactive, and ready for the future.

Development

QA

2025-05-2711:00-12:30
Development

Workshop#

Hands-on React Server Components, Server Actions, and Forms in the Next.js App Router

2025-05-2609:00-17:00

In this workshop, we will explore React's latest features: Server Components, Server Actions, and Forms. Discover how to optimize server-side rendering, build smooth user experiences with React Suspense and Transitions, enhance application interactivity with Server Actions and multiple new React 19 hooks, and create robust forms for efficient data handling and validation.

Content and procedure#

With the introduction of Server Components and the Next.js App Router come new patterns and strategies for developing performant and interactive apps. In addition, React 19 brings new hooks and API’s. It’s all very exciting, but can be confusing to grasp and keep up with.

To cover all the concepts, we will be building an interactive CRUD app for managing contacts. Through the development process we will be learning each relevant concept step by step, and for each step use it to implement a feature in the application, until the application is completed.

Who should join the workshop?#

Designed for developers of all levels, this workshop provides practical skills to build scalable, performant web applications. Ideally you have some experience with React and JavaScript already.

Development

Zak Allal
Zak Allal

Renaissance polymath. MD.

Talks#

GrayWall Strategy: Securing Your Frontend from Pentesters and Reverse Engineers

2025-05-2813:30-15:00

This talk will share strategies on how to harden your frontend to block pentesters and reverse engineers by reducing what’s exposed to the client. We’ll walk through concrete steps, like cutting down API exposure by handling data in memory on the server side instead of sending it to the client, using Go with Cap'n'Proto for fast, secure in-memory operations. We'll cover how compiled languages and a binary server will make your server and application more secure and safer. We’ll cover how server-side rendering can reduce attack surfaces, and how switching from traditional HTTP APIs to gRPC and WebSockets limits what attackers can reverse-engineer. You’ll also see a real example of how we rebuilt a system after a ransomware attack, shifting from a vulnerable API setup to a secure, server-focused architecture.

Development

QA

2025-05-2813:30-15:00
Development

Workshop#

Designing and Implementing Practical Industry Level Frontend AI solutions

2025-05-2609:00-17:00

This workshop provides an intensive, hands-on experience focused on selecting, implementing, and optimizing AI-driven features in modern applications. You’ll learn how to choose the best Large Language Model (LLM) knowledge retrieval method, whether prompt engineering, Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), or fine-tuning, by understanding their specific strengths, limitations, and ideal use cases. We’ll dive into concrete applications in sectors like healthcare and government, and explore how to choose high-performance, real-time backend languages tailored for AI applications. Should you go with Go, Rust, Zig, Nim, or Swift? Through benchmarking and performance analysis, you’ll be prepared to justify your language choice, from developer experience and prototyping speed to overall system performance, ensuring a fast and responsive AI-powered application.

Takeaways#

By the end of this workshop, you’ll be able to:

  • Select the most effective LLM knowledge retrieval technique for your use case, with a clear understanding of the pros and cons of each option.
  • Build secure, privacy-compliant browser extensions using locally loaded language models on the browser.
  • Design a UI component that enhances user experience through adaptive predictive text.
  • Choose the best high-performance systems language for real-time AI backends, using developer experience, prototyping speed, and benchmarking metrics to guide your choice.

Content Outline#

  • Optimizing AI Integration for UI: We’ll break down advanced AI strategies for user interfaces by comparing prompt engineering, RAG, and fine-tuning. Each method is examined through hands-on use cases with a straightforward pros-and-cons analysis, helping you pick the best approach for your needs and align each technique with real-world applications for optimal performance.
  • Browser Extension for Data Interaction: Build a browser extension that directly interacts with displayed data and leverages a local language model layer. Focused on privacy-compliant use cases in critical sectors like healthcare and government, this segment demonstrates how to meet data security requirements by running models directly within the browser, achieving both usability and data ownership.
  • Adaptive Text and Predictive Prompts: Implement adaptive text prediction and ghost prompts that adjust to user input, inspired by tools like GitHub Copilot and Gmail’s Smart Compose. This part emphasizes customization of predictive elements tailored to your application’s requirements, enhancing user engagement and responsiveness.
  • Choosing the Right Language for Real-Time AI Backends: We’ll review the top contenders for real-time AI backend development, prioritizing safe, compiled languages over JavaScript, PHP, and Python. You’ll get a detailed look at the performance and safety advantages of Go, Rust, Nim, Zig, and Swift, with guidance on benchmarking to select the ideal language for high-performance, real-time AI applications.

Target Audience: intermediate/advanced#

This workshop is for developers familiar with basic AI concepts and have proficient experience with one or more web frameworks, and master proficiently in one or more programming languages, and want to deepen their skills in AI-driven UI customization. Also suitable for project managers and architects and senior developers looking to broaden and discover new ideas and applications.

Not for: Those with no prior experience in AI, backend languages, or web development basics, or those looking exclusively for beginner-level or purely theoretical content.

AIDevelopment

Thaís Santos#

Master of design systems

Thaís Santos
Thaís Santos

Design Systems crusader | Blockchain enthusiast | Making the IT world better one component at a time

Talks#

Evolving Design Tools and the Future of Digital Product Design

2025-05-2713:30-15:00

The designers' toolbox has evolved significantly over the years, much like JavaScript technologies. It has progressed from creating static JPEG images for website designs to prototyping interfaces and handing over full code directly from design tools. These platforms have revolutionized how designers visualize interactions and embraced the concept of components, aka design systems, to ensure consistency and efficiency. By allowing designers to distribute reusable elements and styles much like developers do, these tools have advanced to close the collaboration gap between the two disciplines. In this talk, we'll explore the contemporary workflow of designers, highlighting the dynamic collaboration facilitated by tools like Figma. Looking ahead, as the trend of integrating 3D elements into digital interfaces grows, we'll discuss how upcoming platforms such as Unity are becoming increasingly relevant. Finally, we'll spotlight the rapid advancements in AI and their transformative effects on the design landscape. Join us to gain a comprehensive understanding of the current state and future direction of digital product design, and learn how to effectively navigate and integrate these innovations into your workflow.

DesignAI

QA

2025-05-2713:30-15:00
DesignAI

Workshop#

Design Systems for Legacies

2025-05-2609:00-17:00

Over the past few years, numerous workshops and talks have explored the implementation of Design Systems from scratch. While these sessions have been invaluable for education and promoting the benefits of a Design System philosophy, it's important to recognize that not all projects begin anew. More often than not, we need to integrate a Design System into existing tech stacks. This process involves not just introducing a new library of components but also establishing a comprehensive workflow to enhance collaboration and communication among stakeholders.

In this workshop, we will explore the realities of implementing and integrating design systems into existing codebases. We’ll discuss how to engage stakeholders in conversations about design system practices, effectively transfer essential elements like design tokens from design teams to front-end developers, ensure consistent documentation across all teams, manage legacy templating, and more.

This workshop isn’t about starting a design system from scratch. We will focus on real-world use cases and strategies for overcoming the challenges of integrating your new design system into legacy projects.

The workshop draws on our experiences as designers and developers in implementing Design System components and infusing the Design System philosophy into legacy projects. Join us to learn practical strategies for seamless integration and to foster a collaborative design culture within your organization.

Takeaways#

  • A reminder of what Design Systems are, their goals, and how to implement them
  • Tools around DS for Designers and Developers
  • Workflows to pass data and enforce communication
  • Frameworks you want to use: documentation, design, tokens, components
  • Topography of legacies and their DS compatibility
  • Use cases

Who should join the workshop?#

You’re a Designer, Tech Leader, Architect, or Tech Writer working within a Design System-compatible ecosystem, but you’re facing challenges in implementing a Design System philosophy due to legacy stacks, components, and stakeholders. We’ve got you covered with practical strategies and frameworks to help you move forward. Bring your own use cases, and we’ll work through them together!

Design

m4dz 🎙🥑
m4dz 🎙🥑

CTO at Zenika. m4dz is a curious animal. Former Frontend Dev, Devtools enthusiast, he has made the Developer eXperience (DX) his cherished topic. All the Web technologies are under his radar to get things ever simpler. His moto: "Developers are users just like you." As a life-long dreamer his favorite book will ever remains "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland".

Talks#

You weren’t ready for Design systems

2025-05-2713:30-15:00

And suddenly, Design systems emerged—promising innovation, collaboration, and a bridge between designers, developers, accessibility experts, and security specialists... the stakes for frontend delivery are huge.

On a homogeneous full-stack JS/TS app, the technical challenge is relatively straightforward. With older backends boasting a solid API, a Backend for Frontend can do the trick, given a bit of sweat. But what about all the rest?

Join us for insights from implementing a Design System architecture within an aging backend (18 years old, aged in Python casks) that wasn’t intended for a complete rewrite but still manages server-side view rendering (HTML) and frontend asset delivery—all without sacrificing developer experience!

Integrating modern frontend tools—Vite.js, Stimulus, Storybook...—into an old Django setup: we’re closing that time loop and jumping on board! You weren’t ready for Design systems, but we made it happen anyway!

Design

QA

2025-05-2713:30-15:00
DesignAI

Workshop#

Design Systems for Legacies

2025-05-2609:00-17:00

Over the past few years, numerous workshops and talks have explored the implementation of Design Systems from scratch. While these sessions have been invaluable for education and promoting the benefits of a Design System philosophy, it's important to recognize that not all projects begin anew. More often than not, we need to integrate a Design System into existing tech stacks. This process involves not just introducing a new library of components but also establishing a comprehensive workflow to enhance collaboration and communication among stakeholders.

In this workshop, we will explore the realities of implementing and integrating design systems into existing codebases. We’ll discuss how to engage stakeholders in conversations about design system practices, effectively transfer essential elements like design tokens from design teams to front-end developers, ensure consistent documentation across all teams, manage legacy templating, and more.

This workshop isn’t about starting a design system from scratch. We will focus on real-world use cases and strategies for overcoming the challenges of integrating your new design system into legacy projects.

The workshop draws on our experiences as designers and developers in implementing Design System components and infusing the Design System philosophy into legacy projects. Join us to learn practical strategies for seamless integration and to foster a collaborative design culture within your organization.

Takeaways#

  • A reminder of what Design Systems are, their goals, and how to implement them
  • Tools around DS for Designers and Developers
  • Workflows to pass data and enforce communication
  • Frameworks you want to use: documentation, design, tokens, components
  • Topography of legacies and their DS compatibility
  • Use cases

Who should join the workshop?#

You’re a Designer, Tech Leader, Architect, or Tech Writer working within a Design System-compatible ecosystem, but you’re facing challenges in implementing a Design System philosophy due to legacy stacks, components, and stakeholders. We’ve got you covered with practical strategies and frameworks to help you move forward. Bring your own use cases, and we’ll work through them together!

Design

Georgios Diamantopoulos#

Georgios Diamantopoulos
Georgios Diamantopoulos

As an engineer, Georgios prides himself for being pragmatic and a generalist - engineering at its best is meant to bring an intention to life. To build a system that fulfills specific requirements over time. With over 12 years of experience working with or for startup organizations, he really knows what it takes to kickstart a project without sacrificing long-term goals like maintainability or scalability. Since he co-founded Zero to MVP in 2019, Georgios and his team have built over 25 systems that can pivot and scale.

Talks#

Mysterious talk

2025-05-2809:00-10:30

QA

2025-05-2809:00-10:30

Workshop#

Human and machine: Undoing the impact of living a tech-native life

2025-05-2609:00-17:00

Living a tech-native life comes with a cost to ourselves. There is plenty of research showing that our spine and joint health is deterioring faster than ever, due to our continuous use of electronic devices. This effect has been described by health professionals as an epidemic, and sitting is being described as worse than smoking. Given this background, what can we do to live a lifetime of ability free of pain and injuries?

This workshop has been designed to allow you to create habits that propel you to the right direction. It is based on 20% of theory and 80% of practice so you can try out the ideas. By joining this workshop, you will gain the following learnings:

  • A fundamental understanding of key anatomical facts about the different systems that suffer when we deprive ourselves of movement.
  • Awareness exercises to train your preprioception (your ability to understand what is going on with your body).
  • Simple but effective joint mobility and movement exercises to reset your body on a daily basis, from the imprints of stress and the sitting posture.

Quick FAQ#

1. Are there physical requirements to join the workshop?

Any fitness level is appropriate, because none of the exercises shown in the workshop will be particularly demanding. If in doubt, please consult your physician. Other than that, come along!

2. What should I wear?

Please wear a comfortable outfit that allows you to move freely.


Jecelyn Yeen
Jecelyn Yeen

Chrome DevTools at Google. Web debugging and testing.

Talk#

Mysterious talk

2025-05-2709:00-10:30
Development

Barry Pollard
Barry Pollard

Working on making the web faster in the Google Chrome team. Web performance nerd working on the Core Web Vitals initiative helping web developers make their websites faster and better!

Talks#

Mysterious talk

2025-05-2709:00-10:30
Development

QA

2025-05-2709:00-10:30
Development

Charlie Gerard#

Hardware and JavaScript applied

Charlie Gerard
Charlie Gerard

Senior dev. Also a Google Developer Expert and published author. Very much into creative technology and HCI, mostly in JavaScript.

Talks#

Mysterious talk

2025-05-2715:30-17:00
AIDevelopment

QA

2025-05-2715:30-17:00
AIDevelopment

Tero Parviainen#

Generates music

Tero Parviainen
Tero Parviainen

Software developer, music hacker. One half of Counterpoint.

Talks#

Mysterious talk

2025-05-2715:30-17:00
AIDevelopment

QA

2025-05-2715:30-17:00
AIDevelopment

Olavi Haapala
Olavi Haapala

Software Developer at Iltametsuri helping clients build fast and accessible experiences on the web. Passionate about web performance and accessibility.

Talks#

Mysterious talk

2025-05-2809:00-10:30

QA

2025-05-2809:00-10:30

Eeva-Jonna 'Eevis' Panula#

Eeva-Jonna 'Eevis' Panula
Eeva-Jonna 'Eevis' Panula

Eevis is a software developer and accessibility specialist based in Finland. She loves sharing information about topics like accessibility, React and GraphQL, and is active in different communities aiming to increase equality in the tech field in Finland. When not coding, she explores the world around her with a kayak.

Talks#

Mysterious talk

2025-05-2811:00-12:30
Development

QA

2025-05-2811:00-12:30
Development

Marianna Österlund#

Marianna Österlund
Marianna Österlund

Marianna is an accessibility specialist at Selko Digital Oy in Finland. She is a young – yet enthusiastic envoy for a better and more inclusive Internet. For her, accessibility is equality and good service for everyone. She is a many-sided accessibility expert who aims to understand the different types of users, their needs and how to address them in web content.

Talks#

Mysterious talk

2025-05-2811:00-12:30
Development

QA

2025-05-2811:00-12:30
Development

Jussi Eronen#

Jussi Eronen
Jussi Eronen

Jussi is dedicated to keeping the internet safe. He works as a leading cybersecurity expert at the Cybersecurity center of Traficom.

Talks#

Mysterious talk

2025-05-2813:30-15:00
Development

QA

2025-05-2813:30-15:00
Development

Rachel Nabors
Rachel Nabors

Former React Core team member. Interactive storyteller. Infinite learner. Lightning before the thunder. Author of Animation at Work, Google Dev Expert—Formerly W3C, MSFT. INFJ singleton

Talks#

Mysterious talk

2025-05-2815:30-17:00
AI

QA

2025-05-2815:30-17:00
AI

Stephanie Nemeth
Stephanie Nemeth

Creating weird wonderful useless things with Raspberry Pi, Arduinos and LEDs. Engineer @ GitHub

Talks#

Mysterious talk

2025-05-2815:30-17:00
AI

QA

2025-05-2815:30-17:00
AI