Jack into the 6th edition of React Day Berlin in 2024. This year we will cover a wide range of topics with significant focus on AI integrations and framework updates as React 19 and React compiler. It's time to hack the future.
React Day Berlin 2024 AI, compiler etc
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800Devs
attending in-person -
5Kjoining
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45+speakers & trainers
sharing insights
Meet React heroes
Dive into cutting-edge talks, level up your tech stack with hands-on workshops, and forge connections in a network of React enthusiasts.
13.12
Remote +
In-person day
Welcoming guests in Berlin and streaming online:
In-Person - 9am CET
Remote - 4:20am PST / 7:20am EST / 12:20pm BST / 1:20pm CET;
16.12
Remote Day
Streaming both tracks with speaker QnA's online across time zones - 7am PST/ 10am EST/ 3pm BST/ 4pm CET
10+
Free Remote + Pro workshops
Learn new tech and figure out the best practices with our expert trainers during 10+ Free & Pro workshops organized before and after the main conf day.
Program
Speakers
At React Day Berlin, we gather top experts and rising stars to explore cutting-edge topics in AI, React 19, and more. Join us as they uncover the latest in Architecture, Design Systems, and Performance on two dynamic stages.
Sara is a developer relations engineer at Orama. Author of The Opinionated Guide to React. Open Source enthusiast. Conference Speaker. Talk to her about Retro Games or Airports.
Dominik is a Frontend Engineer, React-Query maintainer and Tech Lead at Adverity (https://adverity.com), who blogs about all things React and TypeScript (https://tkdodo.eu/blog/).
Tapas Adhikary is a Tech Educator at tapaScript, and the Co-Founder of CreoWis Technologies, a cutting-edge tech firm. He is also the founder of the ReactPlay Open Source community. Besides, he is a public speaker, a YouTuber, and a Tech Blogger on freeCodeCamp. He has vast experience in full-stack engineering and building SaaS solutions.
Johnny loves (board|electronic) games, programming with a lot of parentheses and cycling. After receiving his MSc from Oxford, a short stint in San Francisco, an even shorter in London, he ended up home near Frankfurt. He famously got fired from Twitter in 2022, worked as Staff Engineer for Sizzle.gg afterwards and is now building the editor at Synthesia.
Aurora Walberg Scharff is a web developer from Norway. She holds a bachelor's degree in Robotics and Intelligent Systems, with knowledge of engineering mathematics, robotics, algorithms, data structures, and computer architecture. After working for a couple of years at a financial technology startup, she continues developing as a consultant at Inmeta. Aurora is actively building with React Server Components in her current consultancy project and is eager to share her knowledge.
Naman works on design systems at Meta, maintains StyleX and is a contributor to React Strict DOM.
Previously, he has dabbled in film-making in India, and spent a year working for a start-up in Spain.
Shivay Lamba is a software developer specializing in DevOps, Machine Learning and Full Stack Development.
He is an Open Source Enthusiast and has been part of various programs like Google Code In and Google Summer of Code as a Mentor and has also been a MLH Fellow. He is actively involved in community work as well. He is a TensorflowJS SIG member, Mentor in OpenMined and CNCF Service Mesh Community, SODA Foundation and has given talks at various conferences like Github Satellite, Voice Global, Fossasia Tech Summit, TensorflowJS Show & Tell.
Carly is a Principal Developer Advocate and Manager at Elastic, based in London, UK. Before joining Elastic in 2022, she spent over 10 years working as a technologist at a large investment bank, specialising in front-end web development and agility. She is a UI developer, who occasionally dabbles in writing backend services, a speaker and a regular blogger. She enjoys cooking, photography, drinking tea, and chasing after her young son in her spare time.
Nicolas is a developer at Pigment. He is the author and main contributor of the JavaScript open source library fast-check.
Elizabet Oliveira, a former hip-hop artist and now a design engineer at Xata, is known for combining creativity and design in open-source projects. She created the award-winning React-Kawaii library and was the lead designer for "Elastic UI," a popular design system at Elastic. Famous for her unique presentations, including her "Fork this" rap song, Elizabet aims to bridge the gap between front-end development and design.
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.
Lead DevRel at React Bricks and Astro Maintainer
Former Astro core team and Astro Maintainer Elian, works in the Developer Experience field. Specifically focusing on user experience, documentation, developer guidance, and developer education side of things. After hours, he helps organize BeJS, React Paris, React Brussels, and React Africa. Next to that, he organises the Devs.gent meetups in his hometown. Known for his passion, puns, and innovative approach to delivering exceptional user experiences, Elian brings a unique blend of technical expertise and creativity to his talks. Guaranteed fun on stage.
Steve Ruiz has a background in fine art and is currently founder and CEO of tldraw. He has become known for his build-in-public style on social media, where he shares the iterative creation process that originally brought tldraw to life.
Lenz Weber-Tronic works as a Senior Staff Software Engineer at Apollo GraphQL, where he is part of the team maintaining the Apollo TypeScript Client.
He is a maintainer of Redux Toolkit and if he’s not currently trying to summon elder gods with weird TypeScript incantations he can usually be found on StackOverflow answering questions on Apollo and Redux usage or opening random PRs on GitHub.
Brad Westfall has been teaching Web Development since 2010 including bootcamp instruction, online videos, conference speaking, writing at CSS-Tricks.com, and corporate training for ReactTraining.com. He loves to connect with students by helping them achieve their technical goals and by distilling complex concepts into simple instruction.
Hi! My name is Artem. I'm a self-taught software engineer. I've built this thing called Mock Service Worker, which has changed the lives of developers all around the world. I'm extremely thankful for that. I love testing, and I love writing and teaching about it even more. And coffee, yes, I like that one as well.
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.
Siddharth builds tools for developers. In the past, he worked on Design Systems at Auth0 and as the frontend architect at Practo. He loves talking about design, performance and open source.
Dora Makszy, an experienced product design lead, focuses on seamless product delivery through efficient collaboration with cross-functional teams, especially developers. With over 17 years of international experience in various roles (developer, business analyst, manager and mainly a designer), she has a comprehensive understanding of the entire process.
Will is dedicated to improving the developer experience for everyone. He has worked in design systems, React, and full-stack TypeScript development, and now builds developer tools full-time as an independent developer.
Miraan is the founder at Hypertune. He was previously at Meta where he led teams across frontend, mobile, backend and machine learning.
Mo is the Head of Mobile and a Tech Lead at Theodo UK, having worked on several projects with startups and established enterprises to create cross-platform mobile application in React Native. He's passionate about React Native, MobileDevOps, and pushing the boundaries of combining code across web and mobile.
Before joining Theodo, Mo was a full-stack developer at Nasdaq. He is a graduate from the University of Edinburgh.
Anisha is a React Native Developer Advocate at Amazon where she is focused on enabling and supporting app developers around the world.
Darko is a webdev nerd who loves the web platform. He is passionate about technical challenges, open-source software, and Linux. Since 2017, he has been active in the Macedonian IT community, organizing events, conferences, lectures, mentorships, and digital content creation. Currently, he's a part of the DevRel team at SuperTokens.
VP R&D @ Fijoya. An experienced manager and engineer, with more than two decades of experience in the world of development, from enterprise companies to early stage startups
Passionate about web development for a long time, I have been involved in open source for the companies I worked for with a lot of satisfaction. Always curious to learn new things, not limited to typing code on a keyboard. I am actually looking for better ways to design and model software, as well as working in teams.
Web developer with an interest in UX design. Freelancer. Creator of https://svg-tutorial.com/
Senior Frontend Engineer at Uberall. I strive to understand how things work under the hood to unravel their mysteries, especially in JavaScript. I'm based in Berlin and if you're also living in Berlin, there's a good chance we might bump into each other at an indoor cycling class!
Daniel is a Lead Frontend Engineer in Design Systems at Personio based in Madrid, Spain. Previously he was a core maintainer of Shopify's Hydrogen framework and had his own company yellowme.mx for seven years. Outside of work, He is into electronic music, guitars and tennis.
Sergey is a software engineer at FocusReactive. Loves to understand how things work and is passionate about website performance.
I’m an Area Tech Lead at Grammarly. I have 12 years of experience building web-based applications that millions of users use. In my spare time, I contribute to open-source, write technical articles, give public talks, and serve on the program committee of fwdays conferences.
Workshops free & pro
Mocking Techniques in Vitest (remote)
November 11-12, 16:00-20:00 CET.
Remote via Zoom.
Advanced React Workshop: What's New in React (remote)
November 13-14, 16:00-20:00 CET.
Remote via Zoom.
Grounding AI Applications with React, JavaScript, Langchain and Elasticsearch (in-person workshop pass)
December 12. Venue in Berlin (tbc).
The workshop is included in the Combo ticket (in-person conference attendance + workshop pass).
Hands-on React Server Components, Server Actions, and Forms (in-person workshop pass)
December 12. Venue in Berlin (tbc).
The workshop is included in the Combo ticket (in-person conference attendance + workshop pass).
Astro: All Hands On
Date & time: TBC. Remote via Zoom.
Build Privacy focused React Applications with Ollama, NextJS/React and LangChainJS
December 4, 16:00-20:00 CET. Remote via Zoom.
Production-ready Next.js App with Cursor AI
December 5, 15:00-19:00 CET. Remote via Zoom.
React Patterns Made Simple
December 10, 16:00-20:00 CET.
Remote via Zoom.
Meet your MCs
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.
Kevin runs Developer Relations at Directus and is Director of You Got This - a learning hub to help developers improve their core skills. He is an avid boardgamer, tired dad, and shameless Disney adult. He is based in Berlin with his partner and two kids.
Kim is a Developer at Zattoo. She’s a full-time cat mom, part-time master’s student, quarter-time dancer, and a proud “Zillennial,” who loves talking about memes, pop culture, music, and her cats.
Jani Eväkallio is a full-stack software engineer living the startup life in London.
Committee
Robin is a Lead Engineer at Klarna. He started with CSS during the Responsive revolution, moved to JavaScript just when React dropped, and now designs full-stack systems for 1M cardholders. As a developer who specialises in TypeScript, he helps to find solutions by applying functional programming principles. Robin organises several meetups.
Sara is a developer relations engineer at Orama. Author of The Opinionated Guide to React. Open Source enthusiast. Conference Speaker. Talk to her about Retro Games or Airports
Johnny loves (board|electronic) games, programming with a lot of parentheses and cycling and creating Communities on Twitter. After receiving his MSc from Oxford, he went to San Francisco only to be kicked out a year later due to not receiving another visa, he then tried building two startups in Berlin, after which he decided to join another startup in London, only to be relocated to Germany again by 2020, where he now is working remotely, specifically the communities team. In his free time he runs Kronberger Spiele, publishing games since 2003.
Michele is an independent Full Stack developer who's been working with React Native since 2018. He rebuilt JustWatch's mobile apps, where he formerly led the TV apps team. He's been a member of the Program Committee for React Day Berlin since 2023.
Konstantin works for Uber as an IT professional with 10+ years of experience in software development, analysing, designing and developing enterprise applications, social games and services. In his spare time he's passionate about running, race cars and JavaScript.
Leading Web Platform development at Zattoo. Preaching automation, fighting for performance and common sense, forcing accessibility.
Aleksandra is a full-stack developer based in Wrocław, Poland. Previously a tech lead for the Hasura Console and a lead maintainer of Blitz.js. Deeply passionate about open-source, TypeScript and dedicated to staying up to date with the JavaScript ecosystem. In love with all things climbing — hiking, via ferratas, and rock climbing.
Shopify Engineer, working on frontend and open source. Originally rails dev.
Roy Derks is a developer, author and public speaker from the Netherlands. His mission is to make the world a better place through tech by training and inspiring developers worldwide. Currently he is working with StepZen on a mission to make GraphQL adoption easy and scalable.
Nicola Corti is a Software Engineer in the React Native team @ Meta, building tooling and infrastructure to support mobile engineers in the open-source space.
He's a Google Developer Expert for Kotlin and has been working with the language since before version 1.0. He's the maintainer of several open-source libraries, and he's the host of the Developers' Bakery podcast.
Furthermore, he is an active member of the developer community. His involvement goes from speaking at international conferences to being a member of CFP committees and supporting developer communities across Europe.
In his free time, he also loves baking and running marathons.
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With the ever-growing JS ecosystem, it’s only appropriate that we are hosting React Day Berlin in Kosmos, the amazing Space Age theatre from the 1960s. It is situated in the hip neighborhood of Friedrichshain full of great restaurants, bars, clubs and little shops, and the building was built with unconventional visionaries in mind.
Explore a major EU tech hub
Berlin is the tech powerhouse of Europe and a magnet for React's top talent. Thanks to its international airport and streamlined train infrastructure, it's easy to reach from anywhere in the world.
Convince your boss
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Alexandra Cárdenas, a visionary artist from Bogota, Colombia, seamlessly merges composition, programming, and improvisation in her live coding practice to create captivating experimental electronic music. Her artistic journey is driven by a fascination with the algorithmic behavior of music, exploring the limitless possibilities of musicality within code. As a core member of the international Live Coding and Algorave communities, she co-founded diverse TOPLAP nodes, including Toplap Mexico and Toplap Berlin. Enchanting audiences worldwide with her technical mastery and creative expression, Alexandra teaches and performs using the free, libre, and open-source live coding languages SuperCollider and TidalCycles.
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— Kheir Eddine (@reddines) December 8, 2023
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