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Speakers

Want to learn shiny new front-end techniques and best practices around front-end? Our friendly, knowledgeable and approachable speakers will help and inspire you. You’ll have time to ask all your questions.

Our speakers and workshop teachers are the best in their fields, and they love to share what they know, how they work and what drives them. Let them help and inspire you. On top of that, they are all smashingly nice.

Vitaly

Our speakers rarely show slides: they show how they work — their setup, workflows and techniques for getting work done in live interactive sessions.

— Vitaly, the one who loves ironing, front-end, UX and has tons of crazy ideas.

Addy Osmani during SmashingConf 2022.

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  • Josh W. Comeau

    Josh W. Comeau

    Josh started tinkering with HTML, CSS, and JS back in 2007, and never stopped. He's worked as a software developer for orgs like Khan Academy, DigitalOcean, and Gatsby. He's also taught web development fundamentals at Concordia Bootcamps.

    In 2020, he went independent, creating online courses through his own custom platform, and is thrilled to have taught CSS principles to more than 10,000 JavaScript developers.

    Talk
    Getting Whimsical with JS
    On the web
    https://www.joshwcomeau.com/
  • Shaundai Person

    Shaundai Person

    Shaundai is a Senior Software Engineer at Netflix and TC39 Delegate based in Atlanta, GA, US. She is passionate about making programming interesting and approachable for all, and does that through her work as a course instructor, co-lead for React Robins, and technical blogger.

    In her spare time, Shaundai loves to go hiking, jogging, and listen to audiobooks.

    Talk
    Performance with React
    On the web
    https://linktr.ee/shaundai
  • Jake Archibald

    Jake Archibald

    Jake works on web standards stuff for Google Chrome, focusing on performance, and making the web more competitive with native platforms.

    Talk
    Bringing Page Transitions to the Web
    On the web
    https://jakearchibald.com/
  • Mystery Speaker

    Mystery Speaker

    Obviously, our Mystery Speaker is a bit of a… well, Mystery. In true smashing style, you can expect something wonderful. Make sure to set your alarm on day two of the conference, because you don't want to miss this.

  • Vitaly Friedman

    Vitaly Friedman

    Vitaly Friedman loves beautiful content and doesn’t like to give in easily. When he is not writing or speaking at a conference, he’s most probably running front-end/UX workshops and webinars. He loves solving complex UX, front-end and performance problems.

    On the web
    https://smashingmagazine.com