Speakers
Amy Palamountain GitHubBuilding native applications with JavaScript and Atom Shell
Amy Palamountain
Amy is a programmer. Skier. GitHubber. Morrissey lover…. word to your mother.
Jake ArchibaldGoogleModern progressive enhancement
Jake Archibald
Jake works in Google Chrome’s developer relations team, writing specifications such as ServiceWorker, and apps such as SVGOMG. He’s a big fan of time-to-render optimisations, and all of that responsive stuff.
Paul LewisGooglePerformance on RAILs
Paul Lewis
Paul works on the Google Chrome team as a Developer Advocate. He spends his days profiling runtime performance issues, and helping developers to build faster sites and apps. Do not be fooled by his extreme baldness; it's a solar panel for his cunning and guile.
Rebecca MurpheyBazaarvoiceJavaScript All The Things
Rebecca Murphey
Rebecca is a staff software engineer at Bazaarvoice, where she leads a team that oversees third-party JavaScript application development. She is a frequent speaker on the topic of code organization and best practices at various JavaScript conferences, including Front-End Ops Conf, the 2014 jQuery Conference in San Diego, JSConf US 2013, JSConf US 2011, JSConf EU 2010, Full Frontal 2012, Fronteers 2012, and many others. She lives in Austin, TX, with her partner, their son, and their dog. She blogs at rmurphey.com.
Soledad PenadésMozillaHands on Web Audio
Soledad Penadés
Soledad works as devevangineer at Mozilla. Building real time audio + graphics experiments; breaking half the browsers in the process.
Jakob MattsonFishBrainForgotten Funky Functions
Jakob Mattson
Jakob is a JavaScript guy and a small company-junkie. He has an obsessive-compulsive disorder when it comes to npm modules, with 65 published and counting. He believes code should do one thing and do it well. He believes people should do the opposite, which is why he is an entrepreneur, a developer, a manager, a wannabe guitarist, a rubics cube speed-solver, a snowboarder and a dog owner. His heaven is where he get to try a lot of things - and is right 51% of the time.
Tara Jane FeenerFiftyThreeCreating Expressive UI with ReactJS
Tara Jane Feener
Tara works as a design focused web engineer at FiftyThree working primarily on Mix: FiftyThree’s creative collaboration platform for Paper. Previously found prototyping future web tools at Adobe in San Francisco. Passionate about ReactJS, coffee, even numbers, art, culture, fashion and pizza.
Kate HudsonMozillaAdvanced front-end automation with npm scripts
Kate Hudson
Kate is a web engineer at Mozilla. She’s passionate about making the web better with open source, and lately she’s been working on hybrid app development with Android and React.
Felix PalmerPiste.ioThrough the looking glass - programming on the GPU using WebGL
Felix Palmer
Coming from a physics background, Felix got into software by writing games in Flash. Since then he has spent time working in London and Silicon Valley, working with a wide range of technologies, from mobile to cloud, server to web. He enjoys combining the visual with the technical and is excited about the opportunities WebGL brings. He is the creator of www.piste.io. Currently he lives in Prague, spending his time building things with WebGL, speaking at conferences, and writing on www.pheelicks.com.
Franziska HinkelmannTNG Technology ConsultingA Trip to the Zoo: SpiderMonkey, SquirrelFish, Nashorn, and V8
Franziska Hinkelmann
Franziska has a PhD in mathematics and works for TNG Technology Consulting GmbH. She contributes to several open source projects, regularly teaches Node.js courses at the International Summer University for Women in Informatics, and organizes the PHP User Group Munich.
Bert BelderStrongloop / Node.js coreThere are no promises in node.js
Bert Belder
Bert has been involved with node.js as a core contributor since the early days. During that period he ported node.js to windows, wrote the underlying platform library (libuv), served on the technical committee and was deeply involved with setting up the node.js foundation. Bert worked at a number of startups associated with node.js, and eventually co-founded StrongLoop which empowers enterprises to leverage the power of node.js.
Matthew PodwysockiMicrosoftAsync and Streaming Programming in JS - We're All Wrong
Matthew Podwysocki
Matthew is a Principal Software Engineer and self described open sourcerer at Microsoft. He currently works on the Reactive Extensions for all languages in addition to the Thali Project focusing on the Internet of Things. He is a popular speaker at conferences in addition to being a conference organizer. When not focusing on streaming all the things, he spends his time focusing on STEM and teaching the next generation of software developers.
Zeno RochaLiferayAugmented reality with JavaScript
Zeno Rocha
Zeno Rocha is a Developer Advocate at Liferay, Inc. He dedicates a lot of his time traveling to show how awesome HTML5 and Web Components are, contributing to hundreds of open source projects, and creating tools to help developers build great applications. Besides that, he's a member of the Google Developers Expert program and co-founder of BrazilJS Foundation. Prior to Liferay, Zeno worked as a software developer at Petrobras (the largest company in Latin America) and Globoesporte.com (the most accessed sports website in Brazil).
