Speakers
Want to learn the latests about front-end and design? Get inspired and see how you can implement things yourself? Our friendly, knowledgeable and approachable speakers will help and inspire you.
Our speakers and workshop teachers are the best in their fields, and they love to share what they know, how they work and what excites them. On top of that, they are all smashingly nice, and really want to help!
Wowsa! Smashing Conferences you really blew my mind! I got to meet genuinely amazing and lovely speakers and the whole team who creates this exceptional conference. I wasn't expecting so much fun, connection, motivation and support.
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Jake Archibald
Jake Archibald is a developer at Mozilla working on web standards and developer relations. He’s known for his work on browser performance, PWAs, and for explaining how the web actually works without putting audiences to sleep.
Jake regularly speaks at conferences and helps shape the modern web from both the spec and developer side.
- Talk
- Customisable <code><select></code> and the friends we made along the way
- On the web
- https://jakearchibald.com/
- On LinkedIn
- jake-archibald/
- On Bluesky
- @jakearchibald.com
- On Mastodon
- mastodon.social/@jaffathecake
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Emma Bostian
Emma Bostian is an Engineering Manager at Spotify. She is an instructor at LinkedIn Learning and Frontend Masters and Co-Host of the Ladybug Podcast. Originally from New York, Emma currently lives in Stockholm, Sweden with her husband and two children.
- Talk
- The Joy of Being Wrong
- On the web
- https://technicalinterviews.dev
- On LinkedIn
- emmabostian
- On Bluesky
- @emmabostian.bsky.social
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Vitaly Friedman
Creative Lead and Co-Founder of Smashing Magazine
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
- On LinkedIn
- vitalyfriedman
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Mystery Speaker
Obviously, our Mystery Speaker is a bit of a… well, Mystery. In true smashing style, you can expect something wonderful. It’s someone worth waking up for. Something unexpected, a little magical, and very much unmissable.
So yes, set that alarm for Day Two. Grab a coffee. Be curious. You won’t want to miss this.
- Talk
- Mystery Speaker