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React Day Berlin

  • 800
    React fans
    attending in-person
  • 5K
    Enthusiasts
    joining in remotely
  • 35+
    Speakers & trainers
    sharing insights
December 2&5, 2022
Berlin, Germany & Remotely
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Welcome to the Web of tomorrow

Are you into React, React Native, GraphQL and ready to learn from the scene’s experts?

Explore the React universe with us! Focusing on in-depth talks, career-boosting workshops, and networking opportunities, the React Day Berlin conference provides space for everyone to make friends and collaborate on stellar apps.

Join our fourth edition in 2022 to celebrate all things React, and meet devs from industry-leading companies as well as the creators of your favorite open source projects. This year's program will help you become more efficient at solving technical issues, but it will also fill your knowledge gaps in team leadership and help you build engineering soft skills.

Since 2017, the GitNation team has been running various React.js events for people passionate about Open Source, JavaScript, and Front End engineering. React Day Berlin is going to unite 800 of them in the German capital and 5 thousand more online.

This year, you can expect the authors and core teams of the following libraries / projects:
  • React 18

  • React Native

  • Webpack

  • TypeScript

  • Next.js

  • Cloudflare Workers

  • GraphQL

  • Gatsby

  • Jotai

  • Bun

  • React Flow

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.

2.12

Remote +
In-person day

Welcoming guests in Berlin and streaming online with hybrid networking and inclusive interactivity: Remote - 4:20am PST / 7:20am EST / 12:20pm BST / 1:20pm CET;
In-Person - 9am CET

5.12

Remote Day

Streaming both tracks with speaker QnA's online across time zones - 7am PST/ 10am EST/ 3pm BST/ 4pm CET

Program

Growing to Senior
Case Studies
Architecture
Techniques
Design Systems
Accessibility

Speakers

Diversity, sharing of ideas, and critical thinking are the core values when it comes to selection of our speakers. Both React’s pros and its rising stars will take over two stages at React Day Berlin.

They’ll shed light on all things puzzling your mind, be it architecture, Design Systems, GraphQL, Reason or other.

Team Work
Emma Bostian
Spotify, Sweden
Talk: Building High-Performing Cross-Cultural Teams

Emma is an American Software Engineer turned Engineering Manager working at Spotify in Stockholm, Sweden. She's a LinkedIn Learning and Frontend Masters instructor as well as a new mom.

Turbopack
Tobias Koppers
Vercel, Germany
Talk: Turbopack. Why? How? When? and the Vision...

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

Bun
Jarred Sumner
Oven, USA
Talk: How Bun Makes Building React Apps Simpler & Faster

Creator of Bun.

Jotai
Daishi Kato
Zustand & Jotai Author, Japan
Talk: Jotai Atoms Are Just Functions

I am a freelance programmer based in Tokyo. I work on Zustand core team and various open source projects primarily with JavaScript and React. Author of Jotai, valtio, etc. https://contact.axlight.com

Nextra
Shu Ding
Vercel, Germany
Talk: Nextra 2.0: Create a Full-Featured Documentation Site in 5 Minutes

Shu is a designer and engineer at Vercel building Next.js. He is the creator and maintainer of OSS like SWR and Nextra. Besides JavaScript, he also enjoys generative art and algorithm challenges.

Build Tools
Jonny Burger
Remotion, Switzerland
Talk: The State of React Tooling

Creator of the Remotion, the framework for making videos in React.

GraphQL
Naz Delam
LinkedIn, USA
Talk: Power Up your GraphQL Apps with CDNs

Naz is a software engineering manager at LinkedIn, ex at Netflix and Technology Career Coach at Mentorcruise. She is passionate about UI Engineering, Career Development and growth skills. Prior to Netflix, she worked in the Finance industry as a Software Architect. Naz is dedicated to advancing and growing careers of many engineers across the world 🌎 . She is an active Career Coach on MentorCruise. She also volunteers with Hour of Code teaching high school girls how to code and serves as a member of MentorCruise and BuiltByGirls to coach engineers. When she’s not working, you’re most likely to find her exploring the world 🌱, playing games, or curled up with a good book and a cup of coffee. 📚☕

Nik Graf
Serenity, Austria
Talk: The Weird Things About React

Nik is the founder of Serenity and is passionate about cryptography, CRDTs, GraphQL and React. He co-created several popular open source projects like DraftJS Plugins and Polished and participated in Stripe’s Open Source Retreat. In his spare-time he enjoys ski touring, cycling and organising the ReactJS Vienna meetup.

React Native
Vladimir Novick
Independent Consultant, Israel
Talk: Run Games Within Your React Native Apps

Vladimir is Software Architect and Independent Consultant, worldwide speaker, published author. He brings years of experience in JavaScript ecosystem and is one of early React and React Native adopters. On daily basis Vladimir works in Web, Mobile, VR/AR and Blockchain fields for a range of clients in various industries.

Animations
Elizabet Oliveira
Elastic, Distributed, Portugal
Talk: Emotional & Functional UI Animations in React

Elizabet is a designer who likes to code. As a ReactJS enthusiast, she built and maintains React-Kawaii. A React library of fun kawaii characters that won "Fun Side Project of the Year" in React Amsterdam Open Source Awards 2018. Besides that, her passion for music and past experience as the first female rapper in Portugal under a major deal, led her to start Cassette Tape. The HTML5 based looper and recorder has granted her a spot in Google I/0 Dublin, in 2016. Also, a big fan of open-source, she has recently released a song for the designer/dev community called "Fork This" (2020).

Elizabet currently works as Senior Product Designer for Elastic. Her mission is to bridge the gap between front-end and design.

Mitosis
Sami Jaber
Builder.io, Canada
Talk: It's Time to De-Fragment the Web

Following a stint in data engineering, I have spent the past 6 years focused on web development. After building elegant & highly performant user experiences as the Web Team Lead @ Unsplash, I have now shifted focus to developing web SDKs & maintaining OSS @ Builder.io

I am currently the core maintainer of Mitosis, a trail-blazing open-source project that allows engineers to write their components once and build them for every web framework out there.

React
Manjula Dube
Vanguard, Germany

Manjula loves contributing to OSS in her free time. She loves teaching and believes it is best way to learn more and more. She is one of the organisers for React India.

Concurrent React
Andreas Roth
Esveo, Germany
Talk: Staying Safe In a Concurrent World

Andreas is a developer, trainer and consultant for all things around the web. His favorite topics include TypeScript, React and GraphQL while still having an eye for the complete ecosystem.

TypeScript
Josh Goldberg
Open Source Developer, USA
Talk: Statically Detecting React App Bugs with TypeScript and ESLint

Hi, I'm Josh! I'm a frontend developer from New York with a passion for open source, static analysis, and the web. I'm a full time open source maintainer and work on projects in the TypeScript ecosystem such as typescript-eslint and TypeStat. I'm also the author of the Learning TypeScript book, published by O'Reilly. My work focuses on bringing accessible education to the masses in a sustainable way.

Fullstack
Aleksandra Sikora
Blitz.js, Poland
Talk: Take a Rest From REST (And GraphQL)

Aleksandra is a software engineer based in Wrocław, Poland. She's worked as a full-stack developer with many different languages such as Elixir, Golang, Python, and TypeScript. She was previously a tech lead for the Hasura Console, and now she's a lead maintainer of Blitz.js.

Design Systems
Matheus Albuquerque
Medallia, Czech Republic
Talk: Consistent UX at Scale: Lessons Learned When I Wore the DesignOps Hat

I'm a Sr. Front-End Engineer at Medallia, building their surveys platform and helping them shape the customer experience market with React.

My areas of interest include JS and compile-to-JS languages, DX, and performance optimization. Aside from public speaking about these, I also volunteer at TechLabs, teaching front-end development.

React Flow
John Robb
React Flow, Germany
Talk: Making an Open Source Library Financially Sustainable

John (he/him) is the community manager at React Flow, a flexible library for building node-based UIs.

React Native, Kotlin
Erik Ziegler
Voize, Germany
Talk: React Native Kotlin Multiplatform Toolkit

Erik is the Co-Founder and CTO of voize - an app that allows healthcare workers to create medical records using speech recognition. He loves to build products that make people's lives easier and has an eye for details and design.

Machine Learning
Shivay Lamba
Meilisearch
Talk: Using MediaPipe to Create Cross Platform Machine Learning Applications with React

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.

Digital Ecology
Katarzyna Wojdalska
ec0lint, Poland
Talk: Digital Ecology: How Can You Mitigate the Carbon Footprint of Websites?

Katarzyna is the Co-founder and CEO of ec0lint - a tool for frontend developers that mitigates the carbon footprint of websites. On top of that, she works as a Project Manager in the nanotechnology company Nanores. Her focus lies on diamonds and vacuum sensors. Katarzyna enjoys cooking Asian food and visiting art exhibitions in her free time.

Gamedev
Hendrik Demmer
PlayPack, Germany
Talk: 3+ Uses of React at a Game Studio

Game developer with a healthy curiosity for the web. Worked at Wooga for a few years, then freelanced in several game studios. Now in charge of making tech work at PlayPack here in Berlin.

Performance
Egor Ogarkov
JetBrains, Germany
Talk: Less Struggle With Lifetimes

Software Engineer at JetBrains and programming languages polyglot. I do like brining things from other languages and environments and mixing them together to create new ideas. Before I became an engineer, I played DotA and DotA 2 professionally ;)

Giorgio Boa
Flowing, Italy
Talk: Get Rid of Your API Schemas With tRPC

Giorgio Boa is a full stack developer and the front-end ecosystem is his passion. He started to develop applications in 2006 and in 2012 he falls in love with JavaScript. He is also active in open source ecosystem, he loves learn and studies new things. He is very ambitious and he tries to improve himself every day.

React
Brendon Co
Standard Chartered, Singapore
Talk: Introduction to Library Market Place

Originally from Singapore. Brendon is an expert UI expert at Standard Chartered and published multiple books in amazon and leanpub. In his free time, he writes about Remix starterkit, Micro Frontend book and sell UI components.

Code Quality
Alex Moldovan
CodeSandbox, Romania
Talk: Fighting Technical Debt With Continuous Refactoring

Alex is Frontend Engineer at CodeSandbox with a passion for both dev tools and user experience. He is also the organizer of JSHeroes, the biggest JS/Frontend conference in Romania.

User Experience
Nikhil Sharma
Postman, India
Talk: Wait, React Is Multi-Threaded?

Nikhil is a Software Engineer at Postman, based out of Bangalore, mostly handling stuff around Postman's design system. He is super excited about open source, React, and its internals. He loves to talk about design systems and performance in general. He is super passionate about sharing his experience and learnings mostly via LinkedIn and Twitter.

Bruno Paulino
N26, Austria
Talk: Supercharging Your Dev Experience With Turborepo

Bruno is a passionate Software Engineer who loves crafting solutions that can help ease our lives and make it more fun. He is mainly interested in Web development, currently working with TypeScript, Elixir and React.

Design Systems
Kamlesh Chandnani
Razorpay, India
Talk: The Sorcery of Building a Cross Platform Design System Architecture

Kamlesh is a Principal Frontend Engineer at Razorpay working on Design System and Frontend Infrastructure. Recently he has developed a fascination for interior designing and has a zest for home decor.

a11y
Alessandro Senese
Formidable, UK
Talk: How to Start Your Journey Into Mobile Accessibility?

Hi, I'm Alessandro, a software developer from London. I build a mobile app at Formidable using React Native. I truly believe it is our responsibility to push for accessibility to be considered first-class citizens in our development flow.

React Native
Nicola Corti
Meta, UK
Talk: Bringing the New React Native Architecture to the OSS Community - Fall Edition

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.

React Native, Kotlin
Leon Kiefer
voize, Germany

Leon is the Technical Lead at voize. He is a passionate open source developer, likes to write Kotlin and is a certified Software Architect and LPIC-1 Linux Administrator.

Web Development
Riaz Virani
Find Niya Software, Canada
Talk: Writing Chrome Extensions in React

Riaz Virani has over a decade of experience in building products and engineering teams. He was most recently CTO at LoadUp Technologies, which topped out at 118 on the Inc 500 Fastest Growing privately-held companies in 2019. Prior to that, Riaz worked in web performance, machine learning, and consulting.

Codemods
Konstantin Klimashevich
Xebia, Netherlands
Talk: How I Automated Code Changes for 100 Repositories: Getting Started With Codemods

Konstantin works for Xebia 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.

React Native
Moataz Nabil
Bitrise, Germany
Talk: A Nutshell Guide to React Native DevOps

Moataz has over 12 years of experience in testing and development roles across industries such as agriculture, telecom, healthcare, fashion, and food delivery. Moataz is currently a Developer Advocate at Bitrise, helping mobile engineers deliver fast, reliable, and secure mobile apps. He also helps companies build their own developer productivity teams. As well as being an AWS Community Builder, he also teaches on TAU and Udemy. His experience includes building automation projects for large and distributed projects from scratch.

Storyblok
Arisa Fukuzaki
Storyblok, Germany
Talk: Let’s Remix to Localize Content!

Arisa is a Frontend Developer who became a DevRel Engineer. She works at Storyblok to share and improve better DX through talks, maintaining SDKs, and tutorials. Her mission is to learn, speak, connect and help. In her private time, she is a GDE, an Aikido fighter, a GirlCode ambassador, and a longboarder.

Nord Security
Illia Kibalnyi
Nord Security, Ukraine, Germany
Talk: Generic Components with TS and React

~10y of experience as a full stack engineer with a focus shifted from the backend to the frontend since ~5 years ago. For the past 5 years live in Berlin, Germany. Like strict typing, functional programming, tech in general, traveling, and gaming.

Shopify
Hussien Khayoon
Shopify, Canada
Talk: Lessons Learned From Troubleshooting a Shopping Cart Issue

Hussien is a Staff Developer at Shopify. He has over 10 year of Fullstack experience with a particular soft spot for React. He also mentors for a coding bootcamp and loves helping beginners break into tech.

Torii
Cristobal Chao
Torii, USA
Talk: Accelerate Innovation

Cristobal Chao is a software engineer, UX specialist and founder of Torii Studio, a studio that helps small to large companies implement front-end processes and systems that are easier to scale efficiently while building beautiful UI/UX products. Prior to forming Torii Studio, Mr. Chao worked as a Software Engineer in companies like Google and Oracle. Also, he worked as the first software engineer for Hattery Labs, a front-end consultancy acquired by Google in 2013. At Google, he worked as part of the Material Design team building the first two versions of Material Design, as well as evangelizing the systems across Google Search, Maps and Google for Work.

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Meet your MCs

Catalin Miron
Czech Republic

I'm a nomad developer, currently living in Prague, Czech Republic. I love giving life to UI through animations. I'm a speaker, YouTuber, father of 2, React & React Native enthusiast, Open Source contributor and coffee geek. In my free time I help others to succeed.

Eli Schutze
Twitter, UK

Software engineer based in London. Originally from Nicaragua, Eli is also a speaker and community organiser, so when she’s not working you can find her at tech events, teaching people to code or tweeting.

Jani Eväkallio
Software Engineer, UK
Kevin Lewis
Developer Advocate, Germany

Experienced Developer Advocate. Director @YouGotThisConf Advisor @PlayBattlesnake Boardgamer. Civic Tech Nerd. 2x Dad.

Committee

Sara Vieira
Remote, Germany

Sara is a developer at Remote. Author of The Opinionated Guide to React. GraphQL and Open Source enthusiast. Conference Speaker and Airport expert. She's also a fan of horror movies, has talents such as banging sticks into a drum kit and saying the wrong thing at the wrong time.

Robin Pokorny
Klarna, Germany

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.

Bogdan Plieshka
Zattoo, Germany

Leading Web Platform development at Zattoo. Preaching automation, fighting for performance and common sense, forcing accessibility.

Aashima Ahuja
Freelance Consultant, Netherlands

I am a frontend engineer working in Miro. I am a JS enthusiast. I love talking about the Web and exploring new technologies. I believe knowledge grows with sharing , so I love to spread my knowledge about frontend.

Konstantin Klimashevich
Xebia, Netherlands

Konstantin works for Xebia 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.

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Location

Visit a monument to the future

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, Germany’s capital, is one of the busiest European tech centers, and the best React talent gravitates towards the city. With an international airport and modern train infrastructure, you’ll easily get there from anywhere.

Oberbaum Bridge

Museum island on Spree river in center Berlin

Berlin skyline with Spree river at sunset

Brandenburg gate at the sunset

Discussion Rooms

Join discussions focusing on specific technologies. Hang out with developers that are on the same page, but also those that disrupt the industry. Discussion rooms on December 2 will be held in a hybrid format.

Growing to Senior / Dec 2, 14:40 CET

Aleksandra Sikora

Nicola Corti

Giorgio Boa

Hussien Khayoon

Sami Jaber

Nik Graf

Bruno Paulino

Open
Performance / Dec 2, 15:40 CET

Tobias Koppers

Shu Ding

Open
TypeScript in React / Dec 5, 16:41 CET

Josh Goldberg

Riaz Virani

Open
Career Advice & Soft Skills / Dec 5, 17:15 CET

Shivay Lamba

Naz Delam

Bruno Paulino

Katarzyna Wojdalska

Josh Goldberg

Open
Design Systems / Dec 5, 19:10 CET

Kamlesh Chandnani

Open

Workshops

Do you see yourself leading amazing projects? Then you’d better not miss our workshops. Our instructors will help boost your skills and show you new dimensions of React and JavaScript problem-solving.

React-fuel
for a great party

Fun is relative, but there’s no chance to be bored in Berlin, one of the party capitals of the world. Our afterparty will make React Day Berlin the tech event of the year!

Polyop
WebGL, React, Web Audio API, and Web MIDI API, UK

An electronic music and audiovisual group from London, established by producer Jack Driscoll and visual artist Alex Kempton in 2016. The visuals in their show have been created entirely in Javascript using WebGL. Polyop have developed a spectacular audiovisual show set in an alternate universe. The show follows a mysterious demi-god across the polyhedral-plane, inhabited by strange planets, entities and nomad aliens, to the sound of 90’s techno breakbeat and acid performed live on hardware synthesisers and drum machines.

Silent Disco

Dance like nobody's watching! Get to know your fellow developers on the dance floor. Show everyone your favorite moves while dancing to the beat of your drum.

Remote After-party

Hang out with thousands of international attendees in the cloud and participate in many fun activities like discussions, networking, and games.

Giving back to community

Every year, we try our best to make the event accessible and inclusive for a diverse audience. We would like to especially thank the following partners who have supported this initiative and helped us provide Diversity Scholarships for people from the groups that are underrepresented in tech.

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