The main JS conference of 2023

Wes Bos is a Full Stack developer from Canada. Constantly learning, he creates web development courses focused on JavaScript, TypeScript, React, CSS, Node.js and whatever else comes his way. Wes is the co-host of the popular Syntax.fm podcast and has taught over half a million people JavaScript and has spoken at dozens of conferences around the world.

Jake works on web standards stuff for Google Chrome, focusing on performance, and making the web more competitive with native platforms.

Creator of Webpack and Turbopack. Father of two children. Likes to play board games.

Jecelyn Yeen is a DevRel engineer at Google working on Chrome DevTools and Browser Automation. Her work focuses on understanding and activating the ecosystem around developer tooling.

When she’s not coding (and avocado-ing), she’s jumping into mysterious sea waters in search of narwhals and mermaids.

As CTO, Miško oversees the technology division that powers the Builder.io applications and software. Before joining Builder.io, he created Open Source platforms for Google, including Angular, AngularJS and was co-creator of Karma. While at Google, he brought a testing culture there with his blog. Before focusing on making the web better, he believes testing is the key to success.

Miško started his career designing digital circuits and moved to databases, full-stack development and finally, front-end frameworks, giving him a unique perspective. He understands all of the layers from the web down to a transistor. In addition to Google, he worked for tech powerhouses Adobe Systems and Sun Microsystems.

He holds an MS/BS from Rochester Institute of Technology and an MBA from Santa Clara University.

As a JavaScript performance enthusiast, and fine-grained reactivity super-fan, Ryan is obsessively passionate about the future of JavaScript frameworks. He is the creator of SolidJS, and a maintainer of Marko.

Matteo is the Co-Founder and CTO of Platformatic.dev with the goal to remove all friction from backend development. He is also a prolific Open Source author in the JavaScript ecosystem and modules he maintain are downloaded more than 12 billion times a year.

Previously he was Chief Software Architect at NearForm, the best professional services company in the JavaScript ecosystem. In 2014, he defended his Ph.D. thesis titled "Application Platforms for the Internet of Things".

Matteo is a member of the Node.js Technical Steering Committee focusing on streams, diagnostics and http. He is also the author of the fast logger Pino and of the Fastify web framework.

Matteo is an renowed international speaker after more than 60 conferences, including OpenJS World, Node.js Interactive, NodeConf.eu, NodeSummit, JSConf.Asia, WebRebels, and JsDay just to name a few. He is also co-author of the book "Node.js Cookbook, Third Edition" edited by Packt.

In the summer he loves sailing the Sirocco.

Zach is a builder for the web. He created Eleventy (11ty), an award-winning open source site generator now full-time sponsored by Netlify. At one point he became entirely too fixated on web fonts. He has given 62 talks in eight different countries at events like Jamstack Conf, Beyond Tellerrand, Smashing Conference, CSSConf, and The White House. Formerly part of Filament Group, NEJS CONF, and NebraskaJS.

Co-Host of @noplanstomerge podcast | Creator of LaravelLivewire & AlpineJS

Maya is Senior Software Engineer in Microsoft, working extensively with JavaScript and frontend frameworks and based in Israel. Maya is also a published author, international speaker and an open-source library maintainer of frontend and web projects. As a core maintainer of StorefrontUI framework for e-commerce, she focuses on delivering performant components and best practices to the community while believing a strong Vanilla JavaScript knowledge is necessary for being a good web developer. She can be reached at her blog, on Twitter @mayashavin.

CEO Theatre.js, designing a design tool – blurring the line between designer/developer, author/consumer, and artist/scientist.

Cecelia Martinez is a Developer Advocate for Appflow at Ionic, a company that helps web developers build cross-platform applications using modern technology. She is dedicated to creating better, more inclusive developer experiences for all. Previous companies include Cypress and Replay, with areas of expertise including web & mobile development, testing, developer tools, and open source. She is a Lead Volunteer with Women Who Code FrontEnd, Chapter Head of Out in Tech Atlanta, and a GitHub Star.

Erick Wendel is a professional content creator and Node.js core committer. He has given more than 100 tech talks in over 10 countries around the world. He has been recognized with the most important awards in software development for JavaScript: Microsoft MVP, GoogleDevExpert, and GitHub Stars. He has trained more than 100K people around the world as a professional instructor and content producer at his own company erickwendel.com.

• TC39 delegate, working on JavaScript feature proposals.
• Hemanth is a FOSS philosopher and a Senior Engineering Manager at PayPal.
• Google Developer Expert for Web && Payments.
• Member of Node.js Foundation.

Emanuele Stoppa is an Italian Senior Software Engineer, currently living in Ireland. Active contributor to the Rome project. He has more than ten years of experience in the field. He worked in many fields in the industry - fintech, travel, e-commerce, etc. - and is passionate about open source.

Dan Shappir is the Performance Tech Lead at NEXT Insurance, and previously held that position at Wix.com. Dan has over 25 years of software development experience, and has worked on systems ranging from multiuser games to missile trajectory simulations to designing and building large-scale Web applications used by hundreds of millions of users. He is a frequent speaker at technical conferences, a host and panelist on the JavaScript Jabber podcast, and an Invited Expert on the W3C Web Performance Working Group. Dan holds an MSc in Computer Science.

Elliott lives in the beautiful city of Denver, Colorado, where he spends his free time doing Dangerous Outdoor Activities. During the day, he works as a Growth Engineer at Vercel, and, when he can, he helps maintain the world's best web framework, SvelteKit.

Hi, I'm Nikhil Kumaran S, Frontend developer with expertise in Reactjs. I currently work at Cloudera. I have a passion for knowledge sharing. I share my knowledge by writing blog posts, giving tech talks at conferences, and mentoring people on Frontend development.

Kathleen is a software engineer, designer, and conference speaker, who has deep industry experience that fuels her passion for making apps beautifully accessible. She’s currently a Senior Design Systems Engineer at Northwestern Mutual, she's also a Color Module Specification Editor for the W3C Design Tokens Community Group. She is the Creative Director for the CXsisters network in her spare time and the best lanterne rouge cyclocrosser you’ll ever meet.

Luciano was born in 1987, the same year Super Mario Bros was released in Europe, which, by chance is his favorite game! He started coding at the age of 12, hacking away with his father's old i386 armed only with MS-DOS and the QBasic interpreter and since then he has been professionally a software developer for more than 14 years. He is currently a senior Architect at fourTheorem where he is helping companies to get the best of the cloud, AWS and serverless. He loves the full-stack web, Node.js & Serverless and co-authored "Node.js design patterns", maintains fstack.link and co-hosts awsbites.com.

My name is Dan Erez and I'm a seasoned software engineer and tech lead. I've worked in enterprises and startups (one acquired by VMWare) and lately been working on cloud/serverless and DevOps innovations. I also write technical blog posts (e.g., medium.com/@dan.erez/) and speak at conferences around the world.

Aakansha is an open-source enthusiast, Javascript, and React fan. She is one of the organizers of FOSS United meetups in Bangalore. She is a big foodie, and loves traveling and spending time with her family.

Fun Fact: She broke GitHub with her first PR of ~5k lines of code.

dr. Robin Marx is a Web Performance Expert at Akamai Technologies. He focuses on the performance and workings of modern Web protocols like HTTP/2, HTTP/3 and QUIC and has been a contributor in the IETF QUIC working group for multiple years.

Robin often talks about web performance at international conferences, making the complex situations more insightful to the wider public. On the weekends, he likes to hit other people with longswords.

Barry Pollard is a Web Performance Developer Advocate in the Google Chrome team, working on Core Web Vitals and the Chrome User Experience Report (CrUX). He is one of the maintainers of the HTTP Archive and it's annual Web Almanac publication. He's also the author of HTTP/2 in Action from Manning Publications.

Luca is the Co-Founder and CEO of Platformatic.dev, on the mission to evolve and make frictionless backend development. Luca’s passion for the tech industry started at the young age of just 6 years old when he began coding. Since then Luca founded and successfully exited 3 companies. While managing large teams, he has designed and delivered large-scale real-time systems for some of the industry leaders in gaming, banking and mobile technologies. Before his last role as CTO at mobileLIVE, he was VP of Engineering at CTO.ai, after leading the technology strategy and vision at Telus Digital as Chief Architect. Luca’s core focus is on creating business value through building out, architecting and overseeing Cloud Technology, Big Data , AI, APIs, Micro-Front-ends and large distributed systems.

Jorrik’s first lines of code were in the days jQuery ruled. That didn’t scare him. Now he has 6+ years of frontend experience using React and Vue during his day job. In the evening and night hours, a lot of fun projects and other libraries passed his ‘git clone’. When not coding he gets his fair share of laughs going to comedy shows.

Phil is a developer advocate for Sonar and Google Developer Expert living in Melbourne, Australia. He loves working with Ruby or JavaScript to build web applications and tools to help developers. He once helped build a website that captured the world's favourite sandwich fillings. He has too many GitHub repositories.

Away from the keyboard, Phil listens to ska punk, hangs out with his miniature dachshund (also called Ruby), and is on a mission to discover the world's best beers.

Phil tweets at @philnash and you can find him elsewhere online.

Henri is a developer who has turned his interests to a passionate mix of site performance engineering with pinches of user experience. This led to him joining WebPageTest by Catchpoint as Head of Developer Community.

When not reading the deluge of daily research docs and case studies, streaming, or profiling sites in his favourite tool, Henri can be found contributing back to the community as he presides over the Toronto Web Performance Group meetup + Jamstack Toronto meetup, curating conference content or volunteering his time for lunch and learns at various bootcamps.

Otherwise, Henri is focusing on running the fastest 5k possible (surprise surprise), encouraging a healthy lifestyle and sharing it all via #devsWhoRun.

I'm a senior full-stack developer with a favorite kid named Security. For over ten years now, I've enjoyed writing clean code, simplifying complex problems, leading feature development, and influencing innovation every day. When I’m not busy with code, you’ll find me talking about application performance, building confidence in code-bases, product architecture, developing organizational culture, and other nerdy dev stuff. Besides all that, I'm a father of two, a hobbyist photographer, lego builder, and food creator.

Giulio is an Italian software engineer working at Flux and contributing to open source with Poimandres. He's deeply passionate about pushing the web platform to its limits, building things like custom React reconcilers, real-time computer vision on Web Workers and flex layout engines for THREE.js.

Akash is a software engineer at Razorpay who loves building innovative products on the web with great user experience. He is also an open-source enthusiast and the author of Blaze, Diode and Slant it projects. His recent fascination has been dabbling with creating languages and parsers. Akash is always open to talk about front-end development, UI design and building products.

Olena is a seasoned expert in data, sustainable software development, and teamwork. With a background in software engineering, she's led teams and developed mission-critical applications at Nokia, HERE Technologies, and AWS. Currently, she works at Aiven where she supports developers and customers in using open-source data technologies such as Apache Kafka, ClickHouse, and OpenSearch. She is also an international public speaker and regularly present at conferences around the world. She holds AWS Developer and Solutions Architect certifications, and is also a Confluent Catalyst.

Michael Hablich is a Product Manager at Google working on Chrome. There he focuses on removing friction for developers that need to test and debug web applications. In the past he worked as a developer, tester, agile coach, program manager, and engineering manager. He enjoys spending time with his daughters, rock climbing, and scuba diving.

Mike is a developer, Google Developer Expert, and Director of Developer Relations at Ionic who's been working in the mobile landscape for most of his professional career. When he's not working Ionic itself, Mike works with community members and helps them succeed at mobile. In his spare time, he’s an aspiring woodworker, occasional musician, and craft beer lover.

Ivan is a Google Developer Expert, web performance consultant, and full-stack software engineer. His web performance experience has helped clients like Google, Framer, Appsmith, and many more. He currently runs the web performance consulting agency PerfPerfPerf.

Outside of work, Ivan enjoys exploring modern art, discovering lesser-known electronic and techno artists, and obsessing over serif typefaces.

Rafael is a Staff Engineer at NearForm, working full-time on the Node.js runtime as a TSC (Technical Steering Committee) member, especially in the security working group.

He's also the maintainer of popular JavaScript libraries such as Fastify and Clinic.js, and he's specialized in performance enhancements and software architecture optimization.

Jaxon has 25 years of experience architecting, designing, and developing enterprise software. He is the founder of three technology startups and has consulted with multiple Fortune 500 companies on IoT and Digital Transformation initiatives. A partially-reformed developer, he understands what it’s like to wrestle with technology instead of benefiting from it, and believes passionately that if the Jetsons never had an episode where a config file error brought down the food-o-matic, it surely should not be a problem now.

Elena is a Software Engineer at Sonar, which provides tooling around code quality and security. Her main project is a static code analyzer for JavaScript and TypeScript used by SonarQube, SonarCloud, and SonarLint. Elena focuses on the clean code and tries to ensure the precision of the developed analyzer.

Hidde (@hdv) is a web developer in developer relations. He is interested in web standards, browsers and authoring tools, as well as how they can work together to build a web that puts people first. Hidde writes about these things and more on hidde.blog.

Tejas Kumar is an international keynote speaker with an engineering background spanning 22 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.

35 years of experience have not dulled the fascination Gil Tayar has with software development. His passion is distributed systems and figuring out how to scale development to big teams. Extreme modularity and testing are the main tools in his toolbelt, using them to combat the code spaghetti monster at companies like Wix, Applitools, and at his current job as software engineer at Microsoft.