October 25 - 28, 2024
London, UK & Online
React Advanced Conference 2024
We will be diving deep
Get ready for an annual deep dive into the latest trends in React and Web development. Learn from engineers behind the framework ecosystem and early adopters at the main React Conference in the UK.
The concept of the event is both about covering all you need to catch up on in the React ecosystem, combined with deep technical exploration of the latest architectural trends, new feature adoption, and efficient ways to solve complex problems.
Engage in discussion rooms, hallway track with experts, hands-on practical workshops, and tens of insightful talks. Engineers of any level are welcome but be prepared for hardcore.
Tejas Kumar
Consultant, Germany
Talk: React Server Components in AI Applications
Tejas Kumar is an international keynote speaker, best selling author, and host of the developer-loved ConTejas Code podcast with an engineering background spanning 23 years, from design to frontend to backend to devops. Today, Tejas shares talks at large with developer communities worldwide, equipping them to do their best work.
Mark Erikson
Replay.io, USA
Talk: Designing Effective Documentation: Lessons Learned Building the Redux Docs
Mark Erikson is a Senior Front-End Engineer at Replay, and lives in southwest Ohio, USA. Mark is a Redux maintainer, creator of Redux Toolkit, and general keeper of the Redux docs. He tweets at @acemarke, and blogs at https://blog.isquaredsoftware.com. He spends much of his time answering questions about React and Redux anywhere there's a comment box on the internet, and usually hangs out in the Reactiflux chat channels.
Medhat Dawoud
Miro, The Netherlands
Talk: Building a Fast Website for Every Single Visitor
Medhat is a Senior Software Engineer at Miro and a Google Developer Expert in Web Performance with extended experience in several web technologies, through his writings on his blog, online video courses, and talks he likes to share learnings, tips to write cleaner/reusable code, and useful DevTools, also he likes to speak about web performance and how to ship a fast and accessible web application to everyone
Debbie O'Brien
Microsoft, Spain
Senior Program Manager at Microsoft. Over 10 years experience in Frontend development. Google Developer Expert in web technologies, GitHub Star and Cloudinary Media Developer Expert, an Auth0 Ambassador and Nuxt Ambassador and previous Microsoft Most Valuable Professional in developer technologies. International Speaker. Teacher at Vue School and Jamstack Explorers. Writer for Ultimate Courses.
Swizec Teller
Tia, USA
Talk: Scaling Fast – Engineering Lessons From ~15 Years of Tech Startups
Swizec is a software engineer, author, and conference speaker. He's published books on modern web technologies, data visualization, and productivity, and has trained engineering teams at companies big and small. He’s on a mission to distill 20 years of tacit experience into actionable steps.
Roy Derks
Vandebron, Netherlands
Roy Derks is a developer, author and public speaker from the Netherlands. His mission is to make the world a better place through tech by training and inspiring developers worldwide. Currently he is working with StepZen on a mission to make GraphQL adoption easy and scalable.
Aleksandra Sikora
EdgeDB, Poland
Talk: Role of Databases in React Apps
Aleksandra is a full-stack engineer currently working on developer experience at EdgeDB. Previously a tech lead for the Hasura Console and a lead maintainer of Blitz.js. Deeply passionate about open-source, TypeScript and dedicated to staying up to date with the JavaScript ecosystem. In love with all things climbing — hiking, via ferratas, rock climbing.
Nadia Makarevich
DeveloperWay, Australia
Talk: How React Compiler Performs on Real Code
Nadia is a Frontend Architect, experienced coder and tech blogger. She loves debugging mysterious bugs, solving hard problems with simple solutions and writing articles, that make complicated advanced concepts easy to understand. She managed to escape from locked down Australia in the middle of the global pandemic and now enjoys the life of a digital nomad all over the world.
Lenz Weber-Tronic
Apollo GraphQL, Germany
Talk: Beyond React Testing Library: Testing React Libraries (and library-like code)
Lenz Weber-Tronic works as a Senior Staff Software Engineer at Apollo GraphQL, where he is part of the team maintaining the Apollo TypeScript Client.
He is a maintainer of Redux Toolkit and if he’s not currently trying to summon elder gods with weird TypeScript incantations he can usually be found on StackOverflow answering questions on Apollo and Redux usage or opening random PRs on GitHub.
Theodore Vorillas
Proxima Analytics, Greece
Talk: Chat With Your Components
I’m Theodore, a software engineer, educator and speaker based in Athens, Greece. I’m currently working as an independent engineer, helping companies build and promote their products. In the meantime, I’m also developing Proxima Analytics - an open source, privacy-first analytics platform.
Alexandre Moureaux
BAM, France
Talk: Performance Testing Is Hard. Can AI Help?
Hi, I'm a tech lead at BAM where I've been developing React Native apps for 8 years. My obsession is mobile apps performance 🚀. I truly believe it's our responsibility to develop performant apps, as one way to fight against climate change!
Cedric van Putten
Expo, Netherlands
Talk: Breaking through the Browser Barrier (With Expo)
Cedric is an engineer at Expo, primarily focusing on devtooling and developer experience. If you interacted with the Expo CLI, tried to set up a monorepo, used the Expo Tools vscode extension, tried out a Snack, or found Expo Atlas, you've already used some of his work.
Thomas Ballinger
Convex, USA
Talk: Rendering Data That Disagree
Tom Ballinger is a software engineer at Convex. He's taught compiler and computer architecture courses and facilitated at the Recurse Center primarily by goading people into writing BitTorrent clients. He's going to switch from vim to VSCode any day now.
Mo Khazali
Theodo UK, UK
Talk: Understanding the New Event Loop in React Native
Mo is the Head of Mobile and a Tech Lead at Theodo UK, having worked on several projects with startups and established enterprises to create cross-platform mobile application in React Native. He's passionate about React Native, MobileDevOps, and pushing the boundaries of combining code across web and mobile.
Before joining Theodo, Mo was a full-stack developer at Nasdaq. He is a graduate from the University of Edinburgh.
Elian Van Cutsem
Astro, Belgium
Talk: Diving Into Server Islands
Former Astro core team and Astro Maintainer Elian, works in the Developer Experience field. Specifically focusing on user experience, documentation, developer guidance, and developer education side of things. After hours, he helps organize BeJS, React Paris, React Brussels, and React Africa. Next to that, he organises the Devs.gent meetups in his hometown. Known for his passion, puns, and innovative approach to delivering exceptional user experiences, Elian brings a unique blend of technical expertise and creativity to his talks. Guaranteed fun on stage.
Bret Little
Shopify, USA
Talk: Turning It up to Eleven
I work at Shopify on Hydrogen, an open source e-commerce framework built on top of Remix. Previously I worked on Lightning Web Components and the Lightning Web Runtime at Salesforce, and I was a core team member of Single-spa, a JavaScript router for micro front-ends. Outside of web development, you'll find me canoeing and backpacking in New England.
Simeon Griggs
Sanity, UK
Talk: Prioritise Content Over Components
With relentless positivity and genuine enthusiasm, Simeon is a Principal Educator at Sanity. He aims to bridge the gap between developers and content creators by presenting the benefits of and inspiring solutions with structured content.
Devlin Duldulao
Packt Book Practical Enterprise React Co-author, Norway
Talk: Is Bun 'Actually' Faster?
Co-authored the Packt book Practical Enterprise React; Devlin has been using HTML, CSS, and TypeScript to build web apps and mobile apps for their customers for years. He has been a Microsoft MVP and an on-site React trainer for 7 years.
Evyatar Alush
Meta, Israel
Talk: CSS Is More Powerful Than You Think! Building React Search in CSS
Evyatar is a Front End Engineer at Meta. He is a strong advocate for open source software and is the author of several high-profile projects, including Vest validation framework and emoji-picker-react. Evyatar is passionate about API design, dev ergonomics, and building tools for developers.
Vinicius Dallacqua
Volvo Cars, Sweden
Talk: Long Frames and INP – Understanding the Post Load Performance
Brazilian born, previously Spotify and Klarna, currently working with different teams driving development and tooling at Volvo Cars. Working on the web direct sales platform and help driving the performance culture by building tooling and spreading knowledge.
Carly Richmond
Elastic, UK
Talk: Observability for React Developers
Carly is a Principal Developer Advocate and Manager at Elastic, based in London, UK. Before joining Elastic in 2022, she spent over 10 years working as a technologist at a large investment bank, specialising in front-end web development and agility. She is a UI developer, who occasionally dabbles in writing backend services, a speaker and a regular blogger. She enjoys cooking, photography, drinking tea, and chasing after her young son in her spare time.
Rohit Singh
Tria (Prev Threely), India
Talk: Gain Performance! Take Your Run Time to Build Time
I'm a Frontend Engineer mainly involved with building dev-tools and universal component libraries using React Native. My major contributions are towards building NativeBase and gluestack-ui. When I'm not coding, I enjoy playing guitar, singing, and gaming. And I'm a big time nature lover!
Jerel Miller
Apollo GraphQL, USA
Talk: GraphQL in the World of React Server Components
Jerel is a Principal Software Engineer at Apollo GraphQL maintaining the Apollo TypeScript Client living in beautiful Colorado, USA. He loves the art of software development and finding creative solutions to challenging problems.
Dipanshu Gupta
Red Hat, India
Talk: Server-Driven UI: Building Dynamic React Applications
I am a Software Engineer at Red Hat, specializing in front-end development for cloud-native applications. My work focuses on building intuitive and performant user interfaces for OpenShift AI and other open-source projects. I am passionate about using React and related technologies to create seamless user experiences that empower developers and the community.
Szymon Chmal
Callstack, Poland
Talk: Astro – Island Technology in the Name of Optimization
I'm all about writing code that not only works but works efficiently. I enjoy sharing my knowledge through conference talks, articles, and mentoring. When I'm not deep into React, React Native, or Node.js, you’ll likely find me organizing GDG Toruń meetups, where we exchange ideas and experiences. I don’t believe in sticking to just one "perfect" library or framework; every tool has its own strengths, and there’s no one-size-fits-all solution. I’m also passionate about contributing to open-source projects like Astro, with the goal of making the web a better place.
Gil Eckstein
Wix, Israel
Talk: Scaling React Performance: From Basic to Advanced Code-Splitting Techniques
I'm a Performance Architect @ Wix Viewer. For the last 7 years, I’ve been a part of building the application that renders Wix websites With over 10 years of experience in software development, I started my career in networking and Linux but was always passionate about web development. In the last 3 years, I have been a part of the performance team, where we improve the performance of Wix websites, and make sure Wix websites are the fastest in the world. In my free time, you can find me working out at the park, playing basketball, and also working and maintaining my own NBA website.
Dara Olayebi
Spotify, UK
Talk: React's Secret Weapon: Leveraging Concurrent Features for Top-Notch Performance
Dara is a Software Engineer currently working at Spotify where she develops tools and services that provide internal teams with access to user account data. She began her career as a Frontend Engineer in the finance sector, and recently transitioned into full-stack development. With over 6 years of hands-on experience, Dara is particularly passionate about merging her creative and technical skills to design and build user-centric products that foster community. Outside of work, she loves to mentor other women who are at an early stage in their tech careers.
Nina Torgunakova
Evil Martians, Portugal
Talk: 5 Best Practices for Preventing Chaos in Tailwind CSS
Frontend Engineer at Evil Martians, a product development consultancy. My great inspiration is to shape thoughts into easy-to-use products and articles, and I love to speak publicly. I'm passionate about learning different front-end technologies, and always try to see both pros and cons of using them.
Ian Schwartz
Cargurus, USA
Talk: Increasing Your Sphere of Influence as a Staff Engineer
Ian Schwartz is a Principal Developer at Cargurus with nearly a decade of experience in JavaScript, and more recently, TypeScript. His passion lies in functional programming, which he loves to integrate with React to build robust and scalable web applications. With a strong background in modern JavaScript frameworks and libraries, He is dedicated to pushing the boundaries of what's possible in web development while fostering a collaborative and innovative environment. He has a dog that looks like a cow.
