React Summit 2026

Kitze loves to rant about webdev. He is the founder of founded Sizzy - the browser for developers. He created React Academy to teach web development. He's the creator of Zero To Shipped - the interactive video course for mastering Fullstack Development. He's documenting his journey on YouTube, steams on Twitch and has a blog that he maintains one in a blue moon. He made Benji, Twizzy, ok-google.io, JSUI, Glink, showGPT and etc.

I own and make video tutorials teaching web development for Level Up Tutorials, releasing a new premium series every month. I also co-host Syntax.fm with Wes Bos. Syntax is a popular, light hearted web development podcast that teaches full stack topics while staying fun. I enjoy breaking also known as breakdancing, and have been dancing for over 15 years doing shows for professional NFL and NBA teams. I'm inspired by a hot cup of green tea, excellent music, and Shaw Bros. kung fu movies.

Dominik is a Frontend Engineer, React-Query maintainer working at Sentry, who blogs about all things React and TypeScript (https://tkdodo.eu/blog/).

As a Solutions Architect for the FireTV Appstore, I guide amazon's partners in developing and hosting applications tailored for FireTV. I work collaboratively with engineering, product, marketing, and business teams—both within Amazon and across amazon's partner organizations—to drive innovation and success.

Kadi is a Software Developer at Expo, working on tools and experiences to help developers get the best out of building React Native apps with Expo. She is also an enthusiastic teacher, and has created React Native courses for Frontend Masters and Egghead.

American expat living in Spain, author of Redux Form, Final Form, and currently building the best CRM in the world at Attio.

David is a design engineer and creator of React Bits, building animated, highly customizable React components and contributing actively to open source tools that help developers build faster and more creatively.

Aurora Scharff is a software developer and Microsoft MVP from Norway. She serves as a consultant at Crayon Consulting, while also contributing as React Certification Content Owner at certificates.dev. She focuses on web development with extensive experience in React and Next.js, including active use of React Server Components. Aurora shares her knowledge through workshops, technical blog posts, social media, demo applications, and supporting fellow developers. She regularly presents internationally at recognized conferences, contributing to the global developer community through both her speaking engagements and educational content creation.

Younes Jaaidi is a Software Cook who enjoys whipping code until tests pass. Raised in the eXtreme Programming kitchen some 20 years, he now teaches and coaches teams — perhaps yours next — to cook better software using ingredients such as Test-Driven Development, Charted Coding, and Collective Ownership. He's also an Angular Google Developer Expert, an Nx Champion, and a mediocre sailor. His favorite spice: sleep 300 && git reset --hard

Krasimir Tsonev is a coder with over 20 years of experience in web development. Author of books on JavaScript he works at Antidote.me where he helps people reaching clinical trials. Loves React and its ecosystem.

Jemima Abu is a self-taught front-end developer, Google Developer Expert, Microsoft MVP, and Certified Professional in Accessibility Core Competencies. She is passionate about diversity in technology and accessibility in web development.

Nathaniel is a Developer Evangelist at Twilio working to create magical moments for developers with their products. He is a die hard fan of JavaScript, sports, superheroes and mixed martial arts. His life goals are to have Batman's brains, Deadpool's humour, T'Challa's fashion sense, Killmonger's Wokeness, and Thanos' determination! He serves the Javascript community in the UK and the rest of Europe.

Freelance Frontend Architect | Helping You Build Scalable, AI-Ready, Frontend Architecture. Digital nomad from Spain. As a Freelance Frontend Architect, I design and build robust, maintainable applications using React, Angular and Vue—with a strong focus on architecture, testing, and software craftsmanship. I specialize in DDD, Hexagonal Architecture, and Modular Design Systems. International speaker and Codemotion committee member and ambassador, and a published book author, I’m passionate about empowering teams and sharing knowledge through talks, workshops, and open-source contributions. For me, code is not just a tool—it’s a craft.

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.

Senior Web Developer & Engineering Manager based in Berlin with over 12 years of hands-on experience. I’m passionate about teaching and sharing knowledge—producing video tutorials and leading code courses at top programming schools. In my free time, I give back to the open-source community by maintaining projects like redux-offline, dracula-ui and clipboard.js,

Kiril Peyanski is a Principal Software Engineer focused on the intersection of design systems, user experience, and AI-assisted interface design. He explores how both humans and LLMs can shape the next generation of front-end architecture.

Passionate Code Wizard at ING 🦁 | AI & JavaScript Enthusiast 😍 | Lifelong Learner 🌀 | Public Speaker 😊 | Family Lover 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦

Tech Lead • Front-End Advocate • Mentor & Educator • Tech Blogger • Published Author • 100+ IT Certifications • 30K+ Followers • Docker Captain • Expert in React.js, Next.js, Angular, DevOps, Web Accessibility & Security Kristiyan Velkov is a seasoned software developer and technical leader with more than 10 + years of expertise in JavaScript and open-source development. His comprehensive skill set includes: JavaScript, TypeScript, React.js, Angular, Vue.js, Next.js,DevOps,Web accessibility,Security and DevOps. A lifelong learner, Kristiyan has earned over 100 IT certifications. With experience at some of the world’s leading IT organizations, Kristiyan thrives as a technical lead, driving innovative projects and mentoring teams to achieve growth and excellence. His thought leadership has garnered a significant following: - 30,000 LinkedIn connections - 7,000 Medium subscribers - 100,000+ monthly readers - 4 IT books.

Raju Dandigam is an Engineering Manager and Staff Engineer with nearly 15 years of experience in web and frontend engineering, scalable application architecture, and AI-powered product development. He currently works at Navan (formerly TripActions), where he leads and builds large-scale web platforms used by millions of users. Raju is an active conference speaker, published technical author, and community contributor. He has spoken at international JavaScript and testing conferences, serves as a judge for global hackathons and industry awards, reviews technical books and papers, and mentors developers worldwide. His interests include modern web architectures, frontend scalability, testing strategies, and practical applications of AI in software engineering.

Michal Ziso is an Earth & Space architect and systems thinker focused on how humans operate inside complex, high-risk environments. Her work explores responsibility, leadership, and human performance in chaotic systems operating at the edge. She is the founder of theZISO Creative Disruption platform, where she leads design, research, and advisory work that bridges the inherited world and the emerging. She is a global speaker reaching over 200K humans on stages such as TEDx, NASA, Dubai Future Forum, YPO and more.

Shubham Gautam is a Senior Software Engineer at Headout, where he builds large-scale, performance-sensitive frontend systems powering global travel experiences. His work spans AI-assisted media pipelines, browser-based multi-track audio engines, and TypeScript-first architectures designed for reliability and scale. He has led initiatives across frontend infrastructure, design systems, real-time synchronization layers, and conversion-focused product engineering, balancing architectural rigor with measurable business impact. Shubham enjoys exploring the intersection of deterministic systems, browser performance, and modern React tooling.

Ryan has been building for the web for 25 years. He created rari, a React Server Components framework running on a Rust runtime that delivers 46.5x higher throughput and 9.1x faster response times than Next.js. He believes performance shouldn't be an afterthought and that the web deserves frameworks that are both fast and beautiful to work with.

Senior Full Stack Engineer @Factify With a great passion for designing for scale, understanding how things work and public speaking. I enjoy building systems that are both elegant and performant. When I'm not behind a keyboard, I'm probably surfing or playing guitar.

Rachel Kaufman is a full-stack software engineer working in the martech space. She loves writing unit tests (seriously), strongly-typed languages, and the Oxford comma. She’s also a lead organizer with Women and Gender eXpansive Coders DC, a group for women and nonbinary people in tech in the Washington, DC area.

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.