JSNation US 2026

Wes Bos is a Full Stack developer from Canada. Constantly learning, he creates web development courses focused on JavaScript, TypeScript, React, CSS, Node.js and whatever else comes his way. Wes is the co-host of the popular Syntax.fm podcast and has taught over half a million people JavaScript and has spoken at dozens of conferences around the world.

Daniel Ávila is a Chilean AI Software Engineer and open-source builder based in Grand Rapids, MI. He is the creator of Claude Code Templates (aitmpl.com), a component library for Claude Code with 111K+ npm downloads and 21K+ GitHub stars, featured in Anthropic's official documentation and part of the Claude Open Source Program. He is AI Tech Lead at Hedgineer, where he builds enterprise agentic systems for hedge funds in New York. Daniel has presented at major tech events across the US, Spain, Brazil, Peru, and South Korea.

Creator of Transformers.js. Bringing the power of machine learning to the web.

I'm a Senior Engineer based in Toronto, Canada. I work in the JavaScript SDK team at Sentry. I’m a GDE in Web Technologies. I created vee-validate and villus for Vue.js. I host the Untyped podcast. I write about Vue.js and the composition API and also TypeScript on my Blog. I am passionate about learning and teaching Vue.js and TypeScript.

Brad Westfall has been teaching Web Development since 2010 including bootcamp instruction, online videos, conference speaking, writing at CSS-Tricks.com, and corporate training for ReactTraining.com. He loves to connect with students by helping them achieve their technical goals and by distilling complex concepts into simple instruction.

Aviv Keller is a Node.js and Webpack collaborator, open source developer, and security researcher. Since joining the Node.js project in 2023 he's worked across core, triage, the website, and API documentation, and won the OpenJS Foundation's JavaScriptLandia "Outstanding Contribution from a New Arrival" award at JSConf 2025. As a part of the core team on webpack, another OpenJS project, he's led the initiative for a documentation redesign, and will even be one of the Google Summer of Code mentors this year. Outside of FOSS (but never far from!), his security research has earned recognition from Google, Apple, NASA, the UN, NVIDIA, GitHub, and over thirty other organizations, with several CVEs published across projects including JupyterLab, GoCD, and YARD.

Alex is Partner Program Manager on the Microsoft Edge team and Blink API OWNER. Before joining Edge in 2021, he worked on Chrome’s Web Platform team for a dozen years where he helped design many new features. He served as overall Tech Lead for Chromium’s Project Fugu, lead Chrome’s Standards work, and acted as a platform strategist for the web. He also served as a member of ECMA TC39 for more than a decade and was elected to three terms on the W3C’s Technical Architecture Group. His technical projects have included Fugu, Progressive Web Apps, Service Workers, and Web Components, along with ES6 features like Classes and Promises. Previously he helped build Google Chrome Frame and led the Dojo Toolkit project. Alex plays for Team Web.