Our Speakers for 2026
Meet the Speakers for CityJS London 2026!
Our lineup has been carefully selected through our CFP process, prioritizing current industry needs, emerging skills, and trending topics. Talks will be organised into dedicated tracks to ensure an optimal schedule and a great experience for all attendees.
Each talk includes topic tags to help you quickly understand the focus and relevance. Expect a diverse range of content, including the latest trends in JavaScript, AI, and more.
Talks
Find out more about our amazing speakers
Tejas Kumar
Director, Developer Relations @ IBM
The New UX
Matteo Collina
Platformatic Co-Founder & CTO- Node.js TSC member
The state of NodeJS
Douglas Crockford
JSON Creator
JavaScript: The Best Part
Anna Henningsen
Staff Engineer @ MongoDB
Segmentation fault! Low-level debugging for JS developers
Rich Harris
Vercel
Sara Vieira
Senior Frontend Developer
Main stage MC
Kitze
Sizzy
From Vibe Coding to Vibe Engineering
Alicia Spivak
How to choose the right AI model for your project
Luca Mezzalira
Software Architect @AWS
The Dark Side of Micro-Frontends
David Whitney
Director of Architecture at NewDay
The Future of the AI Bubble (Panel)
David Benson
Development Consultant Disaster and Design
The Future of the AI Bubble (Panel)
Ruben Casas
Staff Engineer @ Postman
React Beyond Components: The Rise of Generative UI
Alvin Bryan
Developer Advocate at Yoto
A personal AI agent, off cloud, for $100
Alexander Cheprasov
Senior Software Engineer, Valstro (UK) Ltd
JSBT: A Binary Serialization Format for Real JavaScript Object Graphs
Aprajita Verma
Mycom, Frontend Architect
WebAssembly + JavaScript: Partners, Not Competitors and Why now is the right time to pay attention
Daniel Roe
Framework Lead @ Nuxt
Beyond the Framework
Eduardo Aparicio Cardenes
Senior Software Engineer at Happening
From Isolation to Acceleration: Building the fastest payment platform on an iFrame
Scott Spence
XtendOps
Pigeon-Driven Development
Zbyszek Tenerowicz
LavaMoat R&D team Lead at Consensys
Effortlessly defend your dev machine from North Koreans on NPM
Nkechi Anyanwu
Vouchsafe
From Executor to Orchestrator: Building in the Age of AI Agents
Carly Richmond
Senior Developer Advocate at Elastic
OTel You It's Not Just for Backend!
Steven Goodwin
Unemployable computer geek
Code Golf - Getting A Hole-in-One-(Liner)
Ananya Kittane Yogananda
Senior Engineer - Web standards technologist, Samsung R&D Institute UK
Off-the-main-thread : Building fast, smooth and future-proof web apps.
Trust Jamin Okpukoro
Uploadcare, Developer Advocate
Replacing form libraries with native web APIs
Nico Martin
Hugging Face - Machine Learning Engineer
Look ma, no hands! Multimodal AI-Agents in the browser
Paul Ibeabuchi
Supabase
Securing AI-Generated Code with Semgrep
Erik Rasmussen
Attio, Product Engineer
Ripple: the Good Parts of React, Svelte, and Solid
Chris Noring
Microsoft
Improve your e-commerce with Agents and Model Context Protocol.
Alexander Günsche
Senior Solutions Architect at AWS
Embeddable Agentic SaaS with A2UI and Microfrontends