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Join us for about tree hours of high-level talks, demos, discussions and tips & tricks about the Why and How of performance by our amazing experts. Hosted by Smashing Magazine’s Vitaly Friedman. See you there!

Our speakers…

  • are knowledgeable and experienced
  • provide practical take-aways and examples you can use in your own projects
  • show how they work, not just talk about it
  • can’t wait to share their knowledge and
  • are smashingly nice

  • Addy Osmani

    Addy Osmani

    Addy Osmani is an engineering leader working on Google Chrome. He leads up Chrome's Developer Experience organization, helping reduce the friction for developers to build great user experiences. Addy's books include Smashing's Image Optimization, Learning JavaScript Design Patterns (2nd edition now out!), Patterns and Software Engineering: The Soft Parts.

    Talk
    Picture Perfect - Optimize Images for Core Web Vitals
    On the web
    https://addyosmani.com/
  • Robin Marx

    Robin Marx

    Robin Marx is currently a researcher at KU Leuven, Belgium, but will soon join Akamai as a Web Performance Expert. He’s the author of various papers on HTTP/2, HTTP/3 and QUIC and has been a contributor in the IETF QUIC working group for multiple years.

    He focuses on creating tools for the QUIC and HTTP/3 protocols that help others debug their behavior and performance. He often talks about web performance at international conferences, making the complex situations more insightful to the wider public. On the weekends, he likes to hit other people with longswords.

    Talk
    HTTP/3 Demo
    On the web
    https://www.linkedin.com/in/rmarx/
  • Tammy Everts

    Tammy Everts

    Tammy has spent the past two decades studying how people use the web. Her book Time Is Money: The Business Value of Web Performance (O’Reilly) is a data-driven exploration of the intersection between performance, user experience, and business.

    Tammy is Chief Experience Officer at SpeedCurve, where she helps companies understand how visitors use their websites. She is a frequent conference speaker, co-curator of WPO stats, and co-chair of the annual performance.now() conference.

    Talk
    The Impact of Performance
    On the web
    https://tammyeverts.com
  • 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.

    Talk
    Smashingly Fast Quiz 🚄
    Talk
    Panel Discussion
    On the web
    https://smashingmagazine.com