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.

Kent C. Dodds is a world renowned speaker, teacher, and trainer and he's actively involved in the open source community as a maintainer and contributor of hundreds of popular npm packages. He is the creator of EpicReact.Dev and TestingJavaScript.com. He's an instructor on egghead.io and Frontend Masters. He's also a Google Developer Expert. Kent is happily married and the father of four kids. He likes his family, code, JavaScript, and Remix.

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.

Rachel White is a technologist, artist, and pretend-cyborg currently working as a Technical Evangelist at Datadog. Previously at American Express, Microsoft, IBM, and Adobe, she has spoken internationally about Node.js, JavaScript, Creative Coding, IoT, Artificial Intelligence, NodeBots, and hardware, and served as co-chair of the Node.js Community Committee. As a former artist in residence at Pioneer Works, she created a series visualizing modern cybernetic augmentation using today's hardware and special effects makeup. Outside of tech she's into glitch art, 80s horror, and indie games — her aesthetic is fog machines, laser lights, and broken VHS tapes.

Thomas Steiner is an Engineer at Google, focused on Web AI, WebAssembly, and Project Fugu. He's an alum of University of Lyon (Postdoc), Polytechnic University of Barcelona (Ph. D.), and University of Karlsruhe (MA). Thomas toots as @tomayac@toot.cafe.

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.

Carmen Huidobro is a developer advocate and dev education enthusiast. She thrives on lifting others up in their tech careers and loves a good CSS challenge. Always excited to talk about teaching tech, especialmente en Español, oder auf Deutsch.

Amanda leads Developer Relations at Vapi, where she supports developer education and community facing initiatives for developers building with Voice AI. Previously, she cofounded the MCP server builder community and worked on MCP integrations at Apollo GraphQL, and built the developer community at Wix. In a past live before devrel, Amanda worked as a full stack developer. Her current tech interests span voice AI, agentic systems, and developer tooling, with a focus on hands-on content. When she's not building for developers, she's cooking, reading, or getting outside with her dogs.

I’m Theodore, a software engineer, educator and speaker based in Athens, Greece. I’m currently working as a lead software engineer for Workable.

Tech leader leveraging AI to solve real business problems. Built and scaled AI solutions across multiple ventures - from custom agent architectures to enterprise RAG systems and local AI deployments. My biggest passion is teaching others how to leverage AI effectively. I run a private AI community and a YouTube channel breaking down complex AI concepts into practical, hands-on guides. My content mostly covers building AI agents and leveraging AI coding assistants in ways that actually scale.

Maurice de Beijer is an independent software consultant and trainer. He specializes in TypeScript, ECMAScript, React and Svelte. His work includes popular collaboration software as well as a large, global, safety application for the oil and gas industry. He has a preference for working with startups and smaller, more dynamic companies. Maurice is also active in the open source community. He teaches ECMAScript, TypeScript, React, Cypress, Playwright and RxJS courses. Since 2005, he has received Microsoft’s Yearly Most Valuable Professional Award. Further, Maurice is active in the Dutch dotNed user group and helps organize its meetings.

Nick is an empathetic community member, full-stack developer, avid climber and cyclist. He is currently a Senior Developer Advocate at Viam where he helps people build and manage their hardware projects from anywhere in the world. He is an invited expert with TC53 to help shape the future of JS on things. In his free time, he tinkers with home automation and robots built with JavaScript. His mustache is a figment of your imagination.

Daniel Sogl is a Consultant at Thinktecture AG and a Microsoft MVP for Developer Technologies – Web Development. He helps companies design and implement complex web applications, with a strong focus on modern web technologies with Angular as well as Generative AI and AI-assisted software development. Knowledge sharing is one of his core passions – as a speaker, trainer, and author, he regularly contributes to conferences, workshops, and publications. His mission is to foster technical excellence and empower teams to build sustainable, future-proof software solutions.

I'm Rumen and I'm a self-taught software engineer from Sofia, Bulgaria. After graduating with a business degree and working as a sales rep for a few years I decided I'd much rather be involved in building digital products than selling them. Ten years later this is the best decision I ever made.

Aviv Keller is a Node.js collaborator, webpack TSC member, open source developer, and security researcher. Since joining Node.js in 2023, he's contributed across core, triage, the website, and API documentation, and is now heading the project's ongoing documentation redesign, all work that earned him the OpenJS Foundation's JavaScriptLandia "Outstanding Contribution from a New Arrival" award at JSConf NA 2025. On the webpack TSC, another OpenJS project, he led the website redesign, mentoring three students through Google Summer of Code and representing webpack as its delegate to the 2026 GSoC Mentor Summit. Beyond FOSS (though never far from it), Aviv is a top security researcher, who has been recognized, Google, Apple, NASA, the UN, NVIDIA, GitHub, and more than thirty other organizations, with published CVEs across projects including JupyterLab, GoCD, and YARD.

Michael Madsen is an Application Architect at Cisco with a serious knack for all things front-end web and AI engineering. He's currently diving deep into the exciting world of Generative UI (genUI), helping to shape how we interact with technology. With a career dedicated to building robust and innovative applications, Michael brings a wealth of experience to the table. When he's not busy architecting the next big thing, you can find Michael embracing the stunning Utah mountains – whether he's shredding trails on his mountain bike or exploring new heights on a hike. A dedicated family man, he's often found playing with his five kids, and when they're all tucked in, he loves to unwind with some hands-on woodworking or tinkering in his home lab.

James is on the Workers team @Cloudflare and a contributor to Node.js core. His contributions include features such as HTTP/2, the WHATWG URL implementation, and, most recently, an implementation of the QUIC protocol.

I am a Senior Frontend Engineer with 10+ years of experience developing web applications and SDKs. Over the past 6 years at SAP, I have worked primarily with JavaScript, TypeScript, and Angular to build applications from scratch, participate in system design, and deliver complex production features. My day-to-day work involves close collaboration with engineering, product, and UX teams across the entire feature lifecycle.

Highly specialized in FE development space in silicon valley, worked on many big tech companies including Google, Deepmind, Meta, Tiktok, Linkedin etc.

Francisca Medina (frani.be) is a front-end developer, UX strategist, and lecturer at the **Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (PUC)**, the country's leading university and a benchmark for excellence across Latin America, where she teaches **Creative Programming for Design**, **Generative Artificial Intelligence** and **Computational Thinking**. Her work lives at the intersection of logic and aesthetics: she transforms code into a tool for sensory artistic expression. She is a **Google Women Techmakers Ambassador** and has spoken at international stages including **JSConf Budapest** (Hungary), **Nerdearla** (Argentina), **CaribeConf** (Colombia), **JSConf Chile**, and other. She believes code can be beautiful, useful, and deeply human. And that JavaScript, truly understood, is the infinite brush of the algorists of the future.

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.

I'm a software engineer from Paris, based in New York. I run Cyborg and spend most of my time building things (some ship, most don't). I really enjoy working on performance optimization and applied cryptography, and sometimes I write. Outside of being an absolute nerd, I'm a big football/soccer fan (Allez les Bleus & Ici c'est Paris!) and an avid snowboarder.

I've been building digital products since I was 14, driven by a deep curiosity to turn ideas into tools that solve real problems. One of my first personal projects was an AI tutor I built to prepare for Greece's national exams. Using it daily helped me score in the top 0.1% nationwide without external instruction. I documented the journey in a YouTube video that's now been viewed over 70,000 times. I now work as a software engineer and DevRel at NOFire AI.

My name is Mat "Wilto" Marquis and I believe in the web. I'm an independent consultant that specializes in fast, flexible, performant websites. I'm the creator of JavaScript for Everyone and a frequent guest author for Piccalil.li and CSS-Tricks. In the past I’ve been a member of the jQuery Team, editor of the HTML Specification, two-time A Book Apart author, speaker at conferences like An Event Apart, Smashing, and Beyond Tellerrand, and authored the Google Chrome team’s official guidance around writing JavaScript and using images. I’ve even been in a movie — What Comes Next is the Future (2016) — to discuss the role I played in web standards and how I hoped to change them. I’ve got an IMDB page and everything!