AmsterdamJs

The largest and longest-running JavaScript community in town
Apart from friendly evening meetups, starting from 2017 we kick-off an annual JavaScript Conference in the heart of The Netherlands, with the first edition coming on 8th of June!

First dedicated JavaScript conference in Amsterdam

Taking our biggest and longest-running JavaScript community forward, we're adding a new event to our family - a full-day conference covering the latest and greatest news and insights from the global JavaScript network.
Join us and a group of internationally known JavaScript enthusiasts to share inspiration and spend a great, summer day in one of the most unique Amsterdam locations.

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    Natura Artis Magistra

    The oldest Zoo in The Netherlands and one of the oldest nature parks of mainland Europe. Artis Royal Zoo is an unique place both for carefully treated animals and visitors of all ages.
    The Zoo territory includes few event spaces, aquarium, planetarium and 27 monumental buildings, most of which are used as enclosures for the animals, making Artis a unique cultural heritage of the 19th century.

Plantage Middenlaan 45
1018 DC Amsterdam
The Netherlands

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Speakers

  • Christian Heilmann

    Microsoft, London

    Chris Heilmann has dedicated a lot of his time making the web better. He wrote two and contributed to eight books on web development and wrote many articles and hundreds of blog posts for Ajaxian, Smashing Magazine, Yahoo, Mozilla, ScriptJunkie and many more.
    Currently working with the Microsoft Edge team as a Program Manager for Developer Outreach.

  • Michael Stanton

    Google, Munich

    Software Engineer and Manager on the V8 Javascript Execution Optimization team. I love the details of VM implementation, as long as I can relax with a scary mountain climb now and then.

  • Simona Cotin

    Microsoft, London

    Simona is an enthusiastic full stack developer building rich data visualization for network data. Communities power her up and that's why she is co-organising the AngularJS meetup in Dublin. Passionate about knowledge sharing, she has also worked on workshops for Women Who Code in Dublin and NgGirls in Copenhagen encouraging women to learn about programming.

  • Dustin Whittle

    Uber, San Francisco

    Dustin Whittle is a Developer Advocate at Uber where he spends his days helping developers build moving experiences using the Uber developer platform. Find out more at dustinwhittle.com.

  • Denis Radin

    Werkspot, Amsterdam

    Passionate about performance optimization, mastering workshop, hosting React Amsterdam. Launching JavaScript into space and stratosphere in spare time and believe this is a sunrise of interactive revolution. Blogging at PixelsCommander.com, and tweeting at @PixelsCommander.

  • Ahmed El Gabri

    Lightspeed, Amsterdam

    Senior front-end developer at Lightspeed, mainly focusing on front-end architecture & modular design systems.

  • Daijirō Wachi

    CoolGames, Amsterdam

    A Node.js Core Collaborator in The Netherlands. Walking with ECMA-402, @urlstandard, @electronjs and @nodefest.

  • Ádám Sándor

    Container Solutions, Amsterdam

    Adam moved from application development to a consultancy career in cloud native computing. He currently works at Amsterdam-based consultancy Container Solutions. He is helping companies succeed in improving their delivery of business critical software by combining his application development experience with knowledge of container-based infrastructure.

  • Hernán Magrini

    Udacity, Berlin

    Originally from Argentina, self-taught developer after doing a B.S. in Electronic Engineering. I co-founded and led the local Google Developers Group over 6 years ago, where I presented at multiple conferences focused in Web Applications and Performance. I've been working at Udacity for over a year leading our software development for the European branch, mainly focused in usability and performance, as well as shipping new features here and there.

  • Sam Bellen

    madewithlove, Hasselt

    I’m a front-end software engineer from Belgium with a special interest for the the web-audio-api and other exotic browser API’s.

  • Vasilika Klimova

    Artec3D, Moscow

    I started with the web page's markup, then I worked as full-stack developer on PHP / JavaScript. The last 4 years I have been engaged only in interfaces and tasks related to 3D.
    I am one of the organizers of the MoscowJS community, the speaker of various Russian conferences and I teach courses on the basics of markup and JavaScript programming.

  • Slobodan Stojanovic

    Cloud Horizon, Belgrade

    Programmer and entrepreneur from Belgrade, Serbia. For past 5 years worked as a CTO and a partner at Cloud Horizon, small Canadian-Serbian company that builds a web apps for a lot of interesting startups mostly from North America. Also an organizer of JS Belgrade meetups.
    Loves JavaScript and open source, especially playing with offline webapps, chatbots, serverless architectures and new things available in both browser and NodeJS.

  • Ivano Malavolta

    Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam

    Assistant professor in the Software and Services group of the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (The Netherlands). His research is positioned in the following research fields: empirical software engineering, software architecture, mobile software, robotics. Since more than 5 years he is teaching courses on data-driven software engineering and mobile applications development via web technologies.
    Ivano is a strong advocate of applying academic research results in real scenarios, and he is working on projects that have been awarded as the most innovative solutions in both national and international venues.

  • Roman Melnyk

    Liberty Global (Ziggo), Gelgrop

    Since being teenager I'm into programming. Now I'm doing it on professional basis for more than five years. I love web and I'm passionate to make it pretty, useful and convenient.

  • Johan Gorter

    AFAS, Leusden

    Frontend software architect at AFAS, enthusiastic about the possibilities of web technology, fan of Typescript and Virtual DOM, creator of maquettejs.

  • Ingrid Epure

    Intercom, Dublin

    Ingrid is an engineer currently working for Intercom in Dublin, Ireland. She has been coding for more than 12 years and discovered her passion for distributed systems and infrastructure 3 years ago. She is a conference speaker, an active member in the Python community and loves mentoring and helping with community-driven events.

  • Yoshua Wuyts

    Dat Project, Berlin

    Computer dad @dat_project.

  • Bart Jansen

    Microsoft, Amsterdam

    Technical Enthusiast and fan of JavaScript ever since script.aculo.us came out. Technical Evangelist at Microsoft & M.Sc. Electrical Engineer from Delft University of Technology.

  • Albert Brand

    Xebia, Utrecht

    Proud husband and dad. Pragmatic programmer. Xebia senior consultant. Scrum master.

  • Grigory Petrov

    Voximplant, Moscow

    Full-time software developer since the late nineties. Was involved in such software projects as Radmin, Advanced IP Scanner, NPTV. Frequent conference and meetup speaker with main areas of interest in software development management and cross-platform development. Works full-time as a technology evangelist at Voximplant, javascript-driven cloud telephony and video platform.

  • Rik Arends

    Makepad, Amsterdam

    As a web developer since the early 2000s, Rik has lived through the ups and downs of browsers all the way from IE3 to Chrome 58. After leaving self founded Cloud9 four years ago to explore the new possibilities that WebGL offers for UI, a continuous stream of WebGL-related projects have appeared, including a JavaScript trace debugger, a compile-to-JavaScript language and a live coding prototyping framework.

  • Ville Himberg

    Reaktor, Amsterdam

    Ville started his career at Reaktor as a software developer 10 years ago. He has seen Reaktor grow from a small Finnish engineering company to multinational digital powerhouse. Ville is passionate about company culture, branded services as marketing, and making sense of things. He is now the managing director of Reaktor Amsterdam and likes to bike everywhere full-speed.

Talks & Schedule

  • 08:30
    Registation & Welcome Breakfast
  • 09:30
    Conference Opening
  • 09:40
    Christian Heilmann
    Microsoft

    JavaScript Is a Buffet, Not the Enemy

    When you look at the JavaScript world these days you can get disheartened. On the one side there is an overwhelming offer of things you should know but are "considered harmful" by the time you have a chance to look at them. On the other side you have fire and brimstone talks about how relying on JavaScript makes you a terrible person. Let Chris set your mind at ease. Things aren't that grim or complicated.

  • 10:15
    Hernán Magrini
    Udacity

    The Road to Web Performance in 3 Critical Steps

    Assuming everyone uses the web with a 10 Mbps connection and a Macbook Pro it's rather utopian. At Udacity we have a daily traffic of millions of page views from people all around the globe and we always aim to serve the best experience possible even if you're browsing the sites with an old Android with a 3G connection. We'll see what critical steps we follow to make sure we are making our sites as fast as possible.

  • 10:50
    Coffee Break
  • 11:20
    Dustin Whittle
    Uber

    Javascript @ Uber

    Join this session for a deep dive on how Uber leverages javascript across its engineering orgs. From building frontend properties with a full javascript stack using express and react to the tools and infrastructure we use to automate best practices.

  • 11:55
    Lightning Talks

    Doctor Wombat

    Using Custom Vision API to make your own vision intelligence application

    Taming the async flow

    Space as a Service, in JS

  • 12:40
    Lunch
  • 13:40
    Michael Stanton
    Google

    V8 and How It Listens to You

    The JavaScript language gets ever more powerful, but more complex to implement and deliver good performance. V8 has a new compiler pipeline and a unified approach to collecting feedback about your application. I’ll explain how we do it and present some problems. For example, in complex systems, facile "solutions" often distort the environment in unexpected ways. Welcome to the jungle *__*.

  • 14:15
    Ingrid Epure
    Intercom

    The Art of Keeping Your Application Safe

    Let's talk about security. We can all agree it is very important, however the general feeling about it is that it's a difficult and intimidating area to approach. Furthermore, is very often seen as something only backend-related, however front-end plays an important role as well.

  • 14:50
    Coffee Break
  • 15:20
    Yoshua Wuyts
    Dat Project

    Browser Framework Fundamentals

    Ok, let's try a thing. Close your eyes for a bit. No peeking. Now I want you to imagine the last time you wrote some browser code. Perhaps a component of sorts. Remember what that was like? yeah. Ok. Now I want you to imagine that was the very last time you had to write that component. New framework in town? No problem, still works. Wouldn't that be nice?

  • 15:55
    Johan Gorter
    AFAS

    Benefits of Virtual DOM

    Virtual DOM is generally considered to give the best performance for web applications. How can this be given it is such an inefficient algorithm? I will give an overview of popular Virtual DOM implementations and I will introduce our Virtual DOM library, MaquetteJS. I will also show how Virtual DOM makes unit testing easy. I will demonstrate how we achieve 100% code coverage on all our visual components using fast-running NodeJS unit tests.

  • 16:30
    Coffee Break
  • 17:00
    Ivano Malavolta
    Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

    Are Service Workers Draining My Battery?

    Mobile web apps represent a large share of the Internet today. However, they still lag behind native apps in terms of user experience. Progressive Web Apps (PWAs) are a new technology introduced by Google that aims at bridging this gap, with a set of APIs known as service workers at its core. In this talk Ivano presents an empirical study that evaluates the impact of service workers on the energy efficiency of PWAs, when operating in different network conditions on two different generations of mobile devices. This talk presents the results of the first empirical investigation on PWAs, showing that the PWA and service workers technology is promising in terms of energy efficiency.

  • 17:35
    Sam Bellen
    madewithlove

    Changing Live Audio with the Web-Audio-Api

    As a guitar player, I usually use some effect-pedals to change the sound of my guitar. I started wondering: “What if, it would be possible to recreate these pedals using the web-audio-api?”

  • 18:10
    Closing Words
  • 18:30
    Afterparty till 21:00
  • Tigers Track

  • 10:15
    Ahmed El Gabri
    Lightspeed

    Automating Front-End Refactoring

    Refactoring or changing an API of a lib you maintain might not be a fun task. But sometimes it is required. If you are going to do it anyway, you don't want to do this manually anyway. So with the power of ASTs & codemods you can automate this & have confidence in the result

  • 10:50
    Coffee Break
  • 11:20
    Albert Brand
    Xebia

    WebAssembly - the Final Frontier

    The new kid on the block in browser land is WebAssembly. It allows precompiled code to run at native speed, connected via JavaScript to your browser. But how does it work? What are the (dis)advantages? Can we optimise our SPA with it? With many examples, I will talk you through the setup, pitfalls and rough edges.

  • 11:55
    Vasilika Klimova
    Artec3D

    WebGL Practical Application

    WebGL it's not so scary and difficult as many people think. Let`s have a quick tour over WebGL nature and ecosystem.

  • 12:30
    Lunch
  • 13:40
    Simona Cotin
    Arista Networks

    RxJS All Things

    Managing state in large application applications is hard. Managing async behavior is even harder. Let's talk about why reactive programming is awesome and how it can help with managing complexity, data and scaling your applications. Also, remember the callback hell?! Well, we once have been PROMISED that all will be good. And guess what, we OBSERVED we can do better. Let's deep dive into how observables are much better than promises.

  • 14:15
    Rik Arends
    Makepad

    Makepad - Rethinking Web UI's with WebGL

    This talk is about makepad, an experimental livecoding environment which renders every UI pixel using webGL and runs multithreaded. Makepad compiles JS to run on the GPU which opens up many powerful angles to styling and datavisualisation.
    In this talk i will showcase the editor, rendering architecture and goals of Makepad: find the fun of programming.

  • 14:50
    Coffee Break
  • 15:20
    Grigory Petrov
    Voximplant

    Porting Web SDK from JS into TS

    Typescript was warmly welcomed with all our developers from C++, Java and C# background. So it was only a question of time for our public JavaScript SDK to be completely rewritten in Typescript from scratch. In my talk I will focus on good and bad things that we experienced during development, and will tell how our initial thoughts played out.

  • 15:55
    Denis Radin
    Werkspot

    A Journey From Web to VR

    Virtual Reality is a powerful trend which is not that related to front-end development so far, however it would be beneficial for both technologies to have a possibility to put existing Web applications into virtual worlds. Talk is about approaches you might take to drop your existing Web app into VR in order to provide new experiences for customers and get some fun for yourself

  • 16:30
    Coffee Break
  • 17:00
    Ádám Sándor
    Container Solutions

    Why You Should Care About Docker

    Creating a stable and reproducible development environment can be a hassle. The more components you have the less feasible it becomes to run them all together on your laptop. Using Vagrant helps with reproducibility and isolation but putting all components on a single VM is very different from the way they will run in production. Docker comes to the rescue with lightweight containers that isolate each application component with minimal overhead.

  • 17:35
    Slobodan Stojanovic
    Cloud Horizon

    The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Serverless Galaxy

    What is Serverless, how it works and why are people talking about it? How many servers are there in Serverless computing? But most important of all, how and why Serverless can be important for you?
    Don’t panic! This talk will take you to the journey through the Serverless Galaxy with Node.js.

  • Lightning Talks

  • Daijirō Wachi
    CoolGames

    Doctor Wombat

    In the global OSS community, it often takes a time to solve users' problems, due to the differences of the time, language, environment and something the other things. The important thing in order not to waste time is to reduce the number of conversational balls at the issue thread. Daijiro will explain what we can do for them by referring to localization communities, tools, and npm doctor.

  • Bart Jansen
    Microsoft

    Using Custom Vision API to make your own vision intelligence application

    Not a Data Scientist, still a JavaScript enthusiast? You are in luck: I’ll be demoing a web application built on top of Microsoft’s new Custom Vision API. It allows you to train your images either programmatically or via a GUI, and with those REST endpoints you can easily add Artificial Intelligence to your (web) application.

  • Roman Melnyk
    Liberty Global (Ziggo)

    Taming the async flow

    The asynchronousity is inevitable. Managing async things might be messy as we don’t know neither when nor even whether the async action takes place.There are a lot of techniques for handling asyncronousity. Let’s align them and point out the main principles of designing the async data flow. Respecting these principles won’t make you spend weekends debugging.

  • Ville Himberg
    Reaktor

    Space as a Service, in JS

    JavaScript will be a space grade technology and run in the Hello World satellite that we are launching.

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