React Summit Asia 2027

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.

React library author, maintaining three state management libraries, Zustand, Jotai, Valtio, and React Server Components framework, Waku. More links: https://daishikato.com

Boshen Chen is the creator of the Oxc project. He works at VoidZero, where he is helping improve the JavaScript ecosystem with high-performance tooling written in Rust.

Aurora Scharff is a DX Engineer at Vercel and the React Certification Lead at certificates.dev. She specializes in education and community engagement around React and Next.js, developing high-quality learning resources, creating demo applications, and speaking at conferences worldwide to support and advance modern web development practices.

Li Hau recently joined Simular, where he is building AI agents that can use computers to help people get work done. Before Simular, he was a frontend developer at Shopee and a core maintainer of Svelte. His work sits at the intersection of frontend systems, developer tools, and AI-assisted workflows. He is interested in practical AI: tools that help people understand systems, move faster, and solve problems that used to be out of reach.

Executive Director of the React Foundation, Chief Developer Evangelist @Expo and hands-on builder of developer tooling.

Previously a Staff Engineer at Meta, he created Docusaurus 2, one of the company’s most popular open-source projects. He now explores the intersection of AI, frontend engineering, and design.

Vishnu is a builder who loves creating things that make people say, “How did I live without this?” His work spans AI engineering, on-device AI, developer tools, web performance, data platforms, and consumer products used by millions. Over the years, he has built across the stack, from scalable backend systems and modern web applications to AI-powered experiences that bring advanced technology closer to everyday users. Equal parts engineer and product thinker, he is passionate about turning messy, complex challenges into simple experiences that just work. He enjoys sharing stories, lessons, and occasional scars collected while building products in the real world through conferences, communities, and meetups.

Fadila Fidina is a Senior Software Engineer at Atlassian, specialising in frontend engineering and delivering customer impact through experimentation. She’s passionate about crafting delightful user experiences and deeply values collaboration and people. When not at the keyboard, Fadila bakes, paints, and photographs — exploring the creative side of life in all its forms.

Shashank Upadhyay is a software engineer working on frontend infrastructure for a large Next.js micro-frontend application built with Module Federation. After cutting its production build from 57 to 26 minutes with CPU profiling, he sent the fixes upstream to Module Federation and webpack and wrote up the method on his blog.