The speaker lineup for JSConf 2025 is here, and it’s packed with fresh ideas, sharp insights, and plenty of JavaScript brainpower. Join us October 14–16 in Chesapeake Bay, Maryland, where engineers, open source leaders, and community voices will take the stage to tackle topics like frontend performance and accessibility, AI, compilers, and the future of open source. See below for more details on the talks.

Keynote Speakers

• Evan You - Founder & CEO, VoidZero
• Charlie Gerard - Senior Research Engineer, CrowdStrike
• Jarred Sumner - Founder & CEO, Bun
• Lizz Parody - Developer Advocate Lead, NodeSource
• Chris Gervang - Senior Visualization Engineer, Joby Aviation
• Sarah Drasner - Senior Director of Engineering, Google
• Joe 'Sepi' Crane-Messina - Program Director, Open Technology, IBM
• Rachel White - Technical Evangelist, DataDog
• James Snell - Principal System Engineer, Cloudflare
• Robin Bender Ginn - Executive Director, OpenJS Foundation

And don’t forget to register for the event to secure your spot.

Breakout Speakers

These sessions were selected from hundreds of CFP submissions and showcase the creativity, technical depth, and community spirit of the JavaScript ecosystem. Expect deep dives into performance, AI, security, accessibility, and the open source work powering it all.

Performance & Optimization

• Ben Michel, Datadog: Reviving Powerful Audio Libraries in the Browser with WASM & JavaScript
• Bryan Hughes, Speakeasy: Creating Radical Performance Improvements: Rust Is Not a Silver Bullet 
• Jenna Zeigen, Notion: Several Components are Rendering: Client Performance at Scale

JavaScript Framework

• Brian Muenzenmeyer, Author, Node.js: Node.js - You Don't Need a Dependency
• Dan Shappir, Sisense: The hidden framework revolution: the comeback of RPC
• Ezekiel Keator, PayPal: Framework-Agnostic Feature Flags
• Filip Sodic, Wasp: Treat the Compiler With Compassion
• Lara Newsom, Cisco: Signals Through Time and JavaScript
• Matheus Albuquerque, Medallia: Compilers, User Interfaces & the Rest of Us
• Michael Dawson, Red Hat: Node.js - What’s new and what’s next

Security & Privacy

• Aaron Shim and Jen Ozmen, Google: Securing Frontends at Scale: Paving our Way to the Post-XSS World
• Kim Maida, FusionAuth: Modern Auth in the Front-End: 3 Secure App Architectures
• Marco Ippolito, Node.js TSC: One Config File To Rule Them All

AI & Emerging Tech

• Ayşegül Yönet, ARtistus, LLC: Unleashing AI and 3D with WebGPU
• Aileen Villanueva Lecuona, Orama: Let's Build Your Personal AI Agent in JavaScript
• Minko Gechev, Google: LLM-first Web Framework
• Rizel Scarlett, Block, Inc.: How to Vibe Code Responsibly (with a little help from MCPs)
• Ryan Roemer, Nearform: AI vs. The Law

Open Source, Community & Culture

• Allison McMillan, Tavlin Consulting: Beyond Code: Crafting effective discussions to further technical decision-making
• Allison Vorthmann, HeroDevs: Respect the Old Code: Lessons from the OSS Graveyard
• Dave Kiss, Mux: The most annoying video player of all time
• Ethan Arrowood, Harper: Inside the Push for JavaScript Interoperability: Open Source Collaboration in Action

UI/UX & Accessibility

• Alyssa Nicoll, Progress: Web Animations: Subtle, Sexy, and Smart
• Bekah Suttner Cheek, Fastly: Microfrontends at Fastly: shipping user experience, not the org chart
• Navya Agarwal, Adobe: Case Study: Building Accessible UI using GitHub Copilot

Developer Tools & Practices

• Abhijeet Prasad, Sentry: Module Customization Hooks by Example
• Kilian Valkhof, Polypane: Stop using JavaScript for that: moving features from JS to CSS and HTML
• Tracy Hinds, Fastly: The Battle of the Bots vs the Open Web
  

We can’t wait to welcome this exceptional group of speakers and our global JavaScript community. Be sure to register now to secure your spot. See you in October!