Web Unleashed 2025 // In-Person
Sessions
A Smart City Development Platform Built With LEGO® Bricks, AI, And The Blockchain
This session introduces a smart city development platform built with LEGO® bricks. You’ll see how LEGO® can be combined with sensors, code, AI, and the blockchain to build a city… Read more…
Adam Thomas
Humber Polytechnic
Accessibility Hacks for Startups & Small Teams
Forget the 200-page WCAG checklist. This session is a quick tour of high-impact, less-obvious accessibility hacks every small team can use. We’ll cover shortcuts, automations, tools and smart processes George… Read more…
George Zamfir
AI : The Head To Head Debate
AI coding tools promise a productivity revolution, but the data tells a more complicated story. Junior developer hiring has collapsed 60%. A rigorous study shows AI makes developers slower, not… Read more…
Angular Performance Tips – Techniques For Performance Excellence
In this presentation, Sonu Kapoor will speak about all the different techniques that can be used to maximize the performance of your Angular Application. This includes speaking about lazy loading… Read more…
Sonu Kapoor
Angular Consultant
Beyond Fast: The Trade-offs That Shape Web Performance
What is web performance, who is impacted, and what aspects are within our control?
Let’s team up and uncover some quick wins and forward-thinking decisions to balance our day-to-day work… Read more…
Beyond The Framework: Rediscovering The Web
We’re witnessing a fundamental shift in how we think about web development. After decades of working around platform limitations, a new generation of developers is asking: what if we worked… Read more…
Amy Dutton
RedwoodJS
Build Robust Components
We all enjoy simplicity, especially at times when we don’t want to put in more effort than necessary. Our users agree, and yet they are beholden to hundreds of papercuts… Read more…
Enrico Sacchetti
Hypercare
Building Effective Agents For Retail
AI is transforming every industry, and retail is one of the most compelling frontiers. It’s among the most operationally complex and fast-moving sectors, where store managers are juggling millions of… Read more…
Continuous AI
Continuous AI describes the use of automated AI to support software collaboration on any platform. Beyond code generation, Continuous AI investigates the use of AI to maintain documentation, triage issues,… Read more…
Peli de Halleux
Microsoft Research
Curious Findings
An exploration of “curiosity” – and its role in our work
Throughout our lives, we hear the word in various forms – as an adjective, a noun, a verb.
But… Read more…
Jason Pamental
Chewy.com
Developing UI Without The Grind
Bridging the gap between design and code shouldn’t be hard. In this talk, let’s explore what design systems are, why they matter, and how developers can use them to power… Read more…
Sarah Padovani
REDspace
DevSquares
In this riff on the classic game show, contestants join host Will Johnson and expert developer guests including Jason Lengstorf to play tic-tac-toe. Can they outsmart top industry devs to… Read more…
Does Our Technology Still Work For Us?
In the early days of the internet, we existed in a lovely symbiotic relationship with our technology. We created, and various technologies offered us an audience. We used technology to… Read more…
Bryan Robinson
When We Play
Empowering Developers With OpenAI SDK And MCP Servers
Software development is evolving rapidly, and the OpenAI SDK is leading the way by making it easy to integrate AI into applications. In this talk, you’ll learn how to get… Read more…
Pato Vargas
Cloudinary
Evolving CMS Workflows In The AI Age
The team at Cloudflare have observed the accelerating pace of content creation. As technology advances rapidly, so too has the volume of webpages marketing these innovations, think product pages, landing… Read more…
Kevin Herrera
Cloudflare
FAST FIVE : 5 Years Of Core Web Vitals
In November 2015, Core Web Vitals were introduced by Google to provide developers as well as stake holders, indicators and key metrics necessary to provide great user experiences on the… Read more…
Henri Helvetica
command-h
Fixing The Web’s Most Annoying UI Patterns
Pop ups, cookie banners, floating chat bubbles, and some horrors not even conceived yet have become the digital jump scares of the web. These patterns are often defended as “engagement… Read more…
Marco Donnici
Micruity
From Vibe Coding To Production AI Systems
Everyone’s using AI to code, but most teams are “vibe coding” their way into production—throwing prompts at ChatGPT and hoping for the best. The result? Hallucinations, broken deployments, and the… Read more…
Martin Laws
mlaws.ca
How To Think Like A Performance Engineer
As awareness and tooling around site speed have been improving at a very exciting rate, has performance testing actually become any easier? Any more straightforward?
As someone who spends every… Read more…
Harry Roberts
CSS Wizardry Ltd.
No Frameworks For Old Devs
Once upon a time, we built websites with just HTML, CSS, and a sprinkle of JavaScript. Then came the frameworks, the bundlers, the transpilers, and the Great NPM Dependency Flood… Read more…
Simon MacDonald
Sanity
Performance, Flexibility, And Chaos: Frontend Dev In The CMS Age
How do you build performant, flexible, well-architected UI in a space you don’t fully control?
When working within a CMS or platform like Shopify, the end user of your frontend… Read more…
Anne Thomas
Design Packs
Promptfessional Wrestling
Watch two brave contestants push Cloudflare’s multimodal playground to its limits in this high-stakes, laugh-out-loud competition where creativity meets cutting-edge AI. Each round tests a different skill: visual memory, storytelling… Read more…
Real-Time AI Components In Next.js: Copilot + Claude Meets MCP And CMS
Web development is entering a new era—where AI doesn’t just assist developers, it actively codes alongside them and syncs their work with real-time content workflows.
In this hands-on session, Joel… Read more…
Joel Varty
Agility CMS
The Upside Of Being Unreasonable
Jason Lengstorf’s career choices are strange. They might even seem unreasonable. Why drop out of college to pursue life as a musician? Why turn down his first salaried dev role… Read more…
Jason Lengstorf
CodeTV
The Whimsical Animation Toolkit
Animations and interactions are an absolutely critical part of the user experience. When done well, they can make our sites/apps feel polished and premium.
In this talk, Josh W. Comeau… Read more…
Josh W. Comeau
Whimsical Animations
Unbundled: Inspecting Frameworks In Production
Frameworks are a developer’s best friend, and it’s easy to get attached. That is, of course, until the next new shiny one comes along. And it’s easy to see why:… Read more…
Sean C Davis
Netlify
What’s New In React And NextJS In 2025
React and NextJS moved fast in 2025 and it can feel hard to keep up. In this talk, Shruti Kapoor will break down everything that changed, what’s new, what’s updated,… Read more…
Shruti Kapoor