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.

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.

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.

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.

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!

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.