Ines Akrap
Ines Akrap is a frontend engineer, a Google Developer Expert in Web Performance, and co-chair of the W3C Sustainable Web Interest Group, the group writing the guidelines that define what sustainable means for the web.
Her entry point wasn’t environmental activism. It was a curiosity about a CO2 number tied to a JavaScript bundle and one question she couldn’t stop asking: can we get rid of this? What followed was years of research, speaking across Europe, and co-authoring Building the Sustainable Web (Apress, 2026), a practical guide for web development teams who want to understand the full impact of what they build.
The Sustainable Web, Engineered
June 24 – 8:50 AM
How many front-end decisions get made because of a real constraint? Not a deadline, not a client preference, but a real constraint. The kind that forces you to ask: does this actually need to exist? Spoiler: a lot of what sustainable looks like is also what performant looks like. The same questions, how heavy is this, who actually asked for it, what does it cost someone on a slow connection, turn out to be both.
In this talk, Ines will make the case that sustainable front-end engineering isn't something new to learn. It's what good engineering has always looked like. We just didn't have the word for it. We'll look at the decisions that carry the most weight, the difference between shipping code and building something with intention, and what the web could look like when this way of thinking stops being optional..
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