React Summit US

React Summit US 2023

This Talk introduces the Epic Stack, a project starter and reference for modern web development. It emphasizes that the choice of tools is not as important as we think and that any tool can be fine. The Epic Stack aims to provide a limited set of services and common use cases, with a focus on adaptability and ease of swapping out tools. It incorporates technologies like Remix, React, Fly to I.O, Grafana, and Sentry. The Epic Web Dev offers free materials and workshops to gain a solid understanding of the Epic Stack.

Modern web development is fantastic. There are so many great tools available! Modern web development is exhausting. There are so many great tools available! Each of these sentiments is true. What's great is that most of the time, it's hard to make a choice that is wrong. Seriously. The trade-offs of most of the frameworks and tools you could use to build your application fit within the constraints of the vast majority of apps. Despite this, engineers consistently struggle with analysis paralysis.Let's talk about this, and a solution I am working on for it.

The Epic Stack

Kent C. Dodds

The rise of AI engineers is driven by the demand for AI and the emergence of ML research and engineering organizations. Start-ups are leveraging AI through APIs, resulting in a time-to-market advantage. The future of AI engineering holds promising results, with a focus on AI UX and the role of AI agents. Equity in AI and the central problems of AI engineering require collective efforts to address. The day-to-day life of an AI engineer involves working on products or infrastructure and dealing with specialties and tools specific to the field.

We are observing a once in a generation “shift right” of applied AI, fueled by the emergent capabilities and open source/API availability of Foundation Models. A wide range of AI tasks that used to take 5 years and a research team to accomplish in 2013, now just require API docs and a spare afternoon in 2023. Emergent capabilities are creating an emerging title: to wield them, we'll have to go beyond the Prompt Engineer and write *software*. Let's explore the wide array of new opportunities in the age of Software 3.0!

The Rise of the AI Engineer

Shawn Swyx Wang

React Summit

React Summit 2026

Coding with an agent tends to settle into the same loop: prompt, check, re-prompt and repeat, burning time and tokens each pass. There's a better way, and it starts before any code gets written. This talk puts two approaches head to head: the prompt-and-iterate loop most of us have fallen into, and spec-driven development. You'll see what each one produces, and what a spec gives you that prompting can't, including decisions you can review before any code exists and context your whole team can build on.

We Need More Than Prompts

Alex Garrett-Smith

TechLead Conference

TechLead Conf Amsterdam 2026: Adopting AI in Orgs Edition

88% of organizations now report using AI, yet only 39% capture meaningful enterprise value from it (McKinsey State of AI Survey, Nov 2025). The gap between "we use AI" and "AI transformed our business" has never been wider. In this talk, I'll dissect why most AI adoption metrics are vanity metrics dressed in executive clothing, drawing on strategic AI research and my own experience rolling out <a href="https://focusreactive.com/blog/category/ai/" target="_blank">AI-powered tools</a> across IKEA's global supply chain. You'll walk away with a practical framework for measuring what actually matters: workflow redesign depth, decision-quality uplift, and compounding capability gains, not chatbot logins per month or tokens burned by your teams.

Beyond the Hype Cycle: Driving real ROI with AI in Your Organization

HT Sahin

Manual coding as the primary activity in software development is ending. Developers will not spend most of their time writing code. They will review, steer and constrain what AI systems produce. The bottleneck shifts from typing syntax to defining context, boundaries and intent. When code can be generated instantly, the leverage moves to the system around it. Your internal developer platform, your golden paths, your compliance controls, your deployment standards and your observability become the real foundation of product development. Without a strong platform, AI accelerates fragmentation. Different tools, inconsistent environments and ad hoc processes will compound into chaos at machine speed. With standardized workflows and paved roads, AI becomes a multiplier for quality and consistency instead of risk. At the same time, each developer will likely be responsible for more software than ever before. As output increases, cognitive load must decrease. That means less variability, fewer bespoke setups and stronger defaults. The complexity of the systems must go down even if the volume of code goes up. Internal developer platforms are no longer a productivity initiative. They are a prerequisite for succeeding in the AI era of software development. If you are rethinking your Content experience platform for this AI-driven era, partnering with an engineering-led <a href="https://gitnation.com/contents/top-headless-cms-agencies-and-development-companies-in-2026" target="_blank">headless CMS agency</a> like FocusReactive turn these principles into a practical, scalable content platform.

Your Platforms Matter More Than Ever With AI

Jessica Andersson

<div>The role of engineers is evolving in the AI era. As development tools become more powerful and accessible, the expectations for engineers are shifting from simply writing code to creating meaningful impact across teams and organizations.</div><div> In this talk, Gregor will share the concept of the engineering multiplier: an engineer who amplifies the effectiveness of the people around them, takes ownership beyond implementation, and proactively drives the most impactful work.</div>

Why Engineers Must Become Multipliers in the AI-Era

Gregor Ojstersek

AI Coding Summit

AI Coding Summit 2026

Ishai, CTO at LearnrB, discusses the evolution and impact of AI code reviews in software development. The transition from experimentation to maturity with autonomous AI agents in code reviews is highlighted. Challenges in AI-driven code creation and review processes, as well as the benefits of AI code reviews for productivity and efficiency, are discussed. Common mistakes and challenges in AI code review adoption, along with the importance of adapting processes for AI advancements, are emphasized. The importance of enhancing AI code review processes, measuring their impact, and leveraging AI for productivity metrics is also explored.

AI code reviews often feel like tossing a coin. Heads - you get endless nitpicks about style. Tails - it finds real issues. And even when the signal is good, are we really getting quality and productivity benefits?The secret isn't the AI, it's how we're deploying it. This talk explores what actually drives value in AI-assisted code reviews: rich contextual integration, scalable specialization, and measurable impact on developer productivity. Learn to transform AI reviews from a compliance checkbox into a strategic advantage for your engineering organization.

Your AI Code Reviews Are Missing the Point (And How to Fix It)

Yishai Beeri

TechLead Conf London 2025: Adopting AI in Orgs Edition

Discussing the importance of adopting AI in legacy modernizations and the risks associated with outdated systems, challenges in legacy ecology, reliability rupture, and migration mutiny. Exploring Lean Tech at Theodos for maintaining agility and customer value, improving system architecture through visualizing endpoints and high-quality coding. Optimizing accuracy with agent coders, industrializing migration with LeanTech principles for 10x acceleration. Leveraging AI for product building, AI model evaluation, and the preference for Claude over GPT in migration.

Our world runs on IT built in the 80s and 90s by engineers who are now retiring. This is becoming very worrying for corporates who have critical systems running on legacy code that only a handful of people still understand.That's where GenAI arrives. With its almost magical transpilation abilities, it is the innovation that was needed to kickstart the legacy modernisations that had been postponed for too long.Having worked on critical modernisations for more than 15 years, I jumped on the opportunity to experiment with how LLMs can accelerate complex migration projects. I will share the concrete experience we have accumulated on a wide range of stacks (Swift-&gt;React-Native, Eclipse RCP -&gt; Spring Boot, Java 1.6 Spring -&gt; Java 21 Spring Boot, PHP ZF1 -&gt; Symfony 7), cover both the good surprises and the limitations that we uncovered, and share our current playbook to best leverage AI when migrating a legacy system.

AI-accelerated Legacy Modernisation

Fabrice Bernhard

React Summit 2024

Today's Talk covers native features in browsers, including upcoming ones and the Interop Project. Native features offer speed, compatibility, and improved debugging. Notable examples include dynamic viewport units, flexbox/grid gap, container queries, and motion path. The Interop Project ensures consistent web platform features across different browsers. Upcoming features like native CSS nesting and entry/exit animations are on the horizon.

Most developers closely follow the framework wars. So busy with these games, that we forget to check what new features HTML, CSS, and JavaScript offer us. Native modals, dynamic viewport units, and optional chaining are just some of the features you should use already! If you stopped following Web Platform development in 2015, it's time to refresh your knowledge. I will teach you to build applications tailored to 2024 and prepare you for the new Web Platform features that will appear in the coming years.

Webdevelopment Tailored for 2024

Andrzej Fricze

React Advanced

React Advanced 2023

During the Talk, the speaker discusses the power of streaming and its impact on music consumption and production. They also explore the challenges and benefits of incorporating streaming into software development, using examples from Spotify. The future of code development is envisioned as a streaming world, where code is always live and changes are instantly available to everyone. The speaker emphasizes the importance of treating components as complete products, prioritizing component reviews, and enhancing the workflow for forking and contributing to components.

What if you could use code the same way you use Netflix or Spotify?  Imagine your entire code base organized as small components on the cloud, where you can import only what you need into any workspace. In fact, you can create an ad hoc workspace where you can use and modify only the components you need and export them back. In order to use code on demand, components need to be independent entities, which means that they have to include their source code, configuration and dependencies. This allows you to version them independently and import them into small dynamic workspaces which are then made much easier to navigate, setup and build. Independent component versioning also makes for independent teams, because this separates publishing updates from consuming them.  When all your organization’s components are in the cloud, teams can discover them, discuss changes and visualize relationships, making collaboration between teams much simpler.  Alongside its many advantages, this paradigm shift brings about considerable challenges, which may explain why this is not the standard way to manage code today. This talk is about the tools and methodologies required to overcome these challenges.

Code on Demand: The Future of Code Collaboration

Gilad Shoham

React Summit Remote Edition

React Summit Remote Edition 2020

This Talk explores controlling apps with the mind and the future of UI and UX. It discusses the integration of VR and AR into UI and UX, the understanding of neurons and EEG headsets, connecting to Muse via Bluetooth, measuring brain waves and blink detection, feeding data to machine learning, and mind control with AR. The speaker emphasizes the importance of learning React Native, AR, React, Bluetooth, and drones for those interested in exploring these topics.

What is the future of user interactions? Will we continue using web and mobile or will we switch into VR and AR completely? What is our UX today on web and mobile and how it will change when the digital world will bridge into new dimensions. Would we still use keyboard and mouse or gestures or will we use something else? In this talk we will get a glimpse into the future where we will control apps with our thoughts. Literally. It’s not a thought experiment, but a journey into our brainwaves with consumer EEG headset. We will explore how we can use them and AI to create futuristic experiences, which will lay a foundation stone to our future interactions with the digital world.

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