Schedule

May 17-19, 2023
The agenda for the 4th annual US React Native conference hosted in Portland, Oregon. Hear from experts from top companies paving the way in React Native.
Events for workshop ticket-holders
7:30 am
7:30 am
9:00 am
PST
Registration & breakfast
Lightning talk
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Check-in for attendees begins at 7:30 am. Breakfast and coffee will be available until 9 am.
Courtyard Portland City Center
550 SW Oak Street
Portland, Oregon 97204
9:00 am
9:00 am
5:00 pm
PST
Leveling up on the New Architecture
Lightning talk
Lizzi Lindboe
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Infinite Red
Explore the New Architecture in-depth and equip yourself and your team with knowledge about its impact, as well as common troubleshooting tactics. Gain the confidence to seamlessly adopt it in your app.
Courtyard Portland City Center
550 SW Oak Street
Portland, Oregon 97204
9:00 am
9:00 am
5:00 pm
PST
React Native essentials
Lightning talk
Mazen Chami
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Trevor Coleman
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Infinite Red
Leverage your existing skills to build mobile apps through a hands-on coding session, taking ideas from sketches to code.
9:00 am
9:00 am
5:00 pm
PST
Testing React Native apps
Lightning talk
Josh Justice
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Test Double
Explore popular testing tools and learn how to troubleshoot and use mental models to gain confidence in deciding what and how to test
Courtyard Portland City Center
550 SW Oak Street
Portland, Oregon 97204
10:00 am
10:00 am
10:30 am
PST
Morning break
Lightning talk
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,
Take a break to stretch your legs or grab a cup of coffee, tea, or water. Talks resume in 30 mins if you plan to leave the venue!
Courtyard Portland City Center
550 SW Oak Street
Portland, Oregon 97204
12:00 pm
12:00 pm
1:30 pm
PST
Lunch break
Lightning talk
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Lunch is provided on-site. Vegetarian, vegan, and gluten-free options will be available.
Courtyard Portland City Center
550 SW Oak Street
Portland, Oregon 97204
3:00 pm
3:00 pm
3:30 pm
PST
Afternoon break
Lightning talk
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,
Quick break to stretch your legs again and grab a snack between talks.
Courtyard Portland City Center
550 SW Oak Street
Portland, Oregon 97204
5:00 pm
5:00 pm
PST
Workshop wrap-up
Lightning talk
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Main conference, day one
7:30 am
PST
Registration & breakfast
Lightning talk
Check-in for attendees begins at 7:30 am. Breakfast and coffee will be available until 9 am.
8:45 am
PST
Welcome
Lightning talk
Ken LaFrance
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Professional Emcee
Emcee
Morning introduction from our emcee, Kenneth LaFrance.
9:00 am
PST
Simple by default
Lightning talk
Theo Browne
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,
Ping.gg
Speaker
This talk will propose a new model for how we think about "complexity" as we build. If you've ever struggled to convince someone to adopt React, RN, Next.js, etc., this talk is for you.
9:30 am
PST
The past, present, and future of React Native at Expensify
Lightning talk
Andrew Gable
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,
Expensify
Speaker
The past, present, and future of how Expensify sees React Native.
10:00 am
PST
Morning break
Lightning talk
Take a break to stretch your legs or grab a cup of coffee, tea, or water. Talks resume in 30 mins if you plan to leave the venue!
Coffee & Pair Programming with Test Double
Pair over coffee with one of Test Double’s agents during the break, get a Linkedin or resume review, or grab a coffee to recharge and chat.
Reservations
10:30 am
PST
Building a 5-star app
Lightning talk
Kadi Kraman
,
,
Formidable
Speaker
In this talk, we explore how to leverage tech, UX, and psychology to enhance your app and give it the best possible chance of reaching the top of the app stores!
11:00 am
PST
Outrage-driven development to take your React Native app Up a level
Lightning talk
Mark Rickert
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,
Infinite Red
Speaker
Let’s face it, we all have a little bit of outrage inside us. But did you know you can channel that energy into creating amazing React Native apps? Join this talk to learn the basics of “Outrage Driven Development” (ODD) and discover how to become an ODD developer. Don’t suppress your outrage any longer - let’s turn it into a productive force and become ODD masters together! Get ready to revolutionize your app development game with the power of ODD.
11:30 am
PST
Signed, sealed, deployed: shipping React Native apps
Lightning talk
Cecelia Martinez
,
,
Ionic
Speaker
This talk is a crash course covering the process of building and shipping apps and a review of common tools in the React Native ecosystem so you can feel confident deploying and getting back to developing.
12:00 pm
PST
Lunch break
Lightning talk
Lunch is provided on-site. Vegetarian, vegan, and gluten-free options will be available.
1:30 pm
PST
Server-Driven UI
Lightning talk
Naoya Makino
,
,
Mercari
Speaker
Dynamic and Scalable User Experiences
1:40 pm
PST
Building NTWRK’s livestream shopping application with React Native
Lightning talk
Nick Alekhine
,
,
NTWRK
Speaker
Learn about the team's process at NTWRK building a React Native app and discover how React Native can be reliably used to build complicated applications that heavily lean into media and real-time mechanics.
1:50 pm
PST
Incorporating screen readers into React Native development for improved accessibility
Lightning talk
Chris DeMars
,
,
Split
Speaker
VoiceOver is a screen reader built into every Mac and iOS device, allowing users with visual impairments to navigate and interact with their devices using only sound. In this talk, we will explore how to utilize VoiceOver on an iPhone to improve the accessibility of a React Native mobile application. By implementing VoiceOver in a React Native app, developers can ensure that their app is accessible to a wider range of users. We will cover best practices for testing and debugging with VoiceOver, as well as strategies for ensuring a seamless and intuitive user experience for all users.
2:00 pm
PST
Gateway to React: the react.dev story
Lightning talk
Rachel Nabors
,
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Developer Education Renegade
Speaker
A behind-the-scenes look at the design and development of the all-new React docs at react.dev and how it changes how people learn to code.
2:10 pm
PST
Reviving a Codebase: Our 3-Week React Native Rescue Mission
Lightning talk
Jenn Robison
,
,
Imagine Pediatrics
Speaker
Join me in this 10-minute talk as I share my experience of navigating the challenges of rewriting an app's codebase in just three weeks using React Native. By some this could be seen as Mission Impossible, but this is a tale of a success; a rescue mission to create a thriving codebase! I'll delve into the steps we took to identify the need to re-write, the obstacles we were facing without, as well as the process we took to feel empowered in our code base.
2:30 pm
PST
From Codegen to your first PR in Core
Lightning talk
Riccardo Cipolleschi
,
,
Meta
Speaker
A walkthrough of Codegen, a pillar of the New Architecture, and how you can contribute to the React Native repository.
3:00 pm
PST
Afternoon break
Lightning talk
Quick break to stretch your legs again and grab a snack between talks.
Coffee & Pair Programming with Test Double
Pair over coffee with one of Test Double’s agents during the break, get a Linkedin or resume review, or grab a coffee to recharge and chat.
Reservations
4:00 pm
PST
Not your grandparents’ Expo
Lightning talk
Keith Kurak
,
,
Expo
Speaker
Learn how today’s Expo adapts as you need to customize your native projects, speeds up local development, and provides complex build setups to a simple configuration file.
4:30 pm
PST
Building for Microsoft: stories from React Native Windows maintainers
Lightning talk
Chiara Mooney
,
,
Shiven Mian
Microsoft
Speaker
An inside look at the journey and challenges of building and consuming React Native Windows by Microsoft developers.
6:00 pm
PST
Afterparty at the Bank of Expensify
Lightning talk
Our platinum sponsor, Expensify, is hosting an afterparty for all attendees. Meet everyone at the Bank of Expensify downtown at 6 pm (just a short walk from the Armory!)
Main conference, day two
7:30 am
PST
Breakfast
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Get here early to grab a coffee and breakfast before heading into the theater for a full day of talks.
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8:45 am
PST
Welcome
Ken LaFrance
,
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Professional Emcee
Emcee
Morning introduction from our emcee, Kenneth LaFrance.
The Armory
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Professional Emcee
128 NW 11th Ave
Portland, OR 97209
9:00 am
PST
The work that you don't see
Lorenzo Sciandra
,
,
Microsoft
Speaker
React Native is often subject to drama and a lack of communication, leading to a lack of trust. In my conference talk, I'll shed light on the under-appreciated work of developers improving the technology, with the hope of restoring your faith in its future.
9:30 am
PST
The performance myths of React Native
Ankita Kulkarni
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Educator
Speaker
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,
Educator
This talk will discuss React Native performance myths and compare real-world React Native apps with pure native development to bust them.
10:00 am
PST
Morning break
,
,
Take a break to stretch your legs or grab a cup of coffee, tea, or water. Talks resume in 30 mins if you plan to leave the venue!
Coffee & Pair Programming with Test Double
Pair over coffee with one of Test Double’s agents during the break, get a Linkedin or resume review, or grab a coffee to recharge and chat.
Reservations
10:30 am
PST
From Electron to React Native
Christoph Purrer
,
,
Meta
Speaker
Why and how we migrated the Messenger desktop app from Electron to React Native, and the challenges and lessons learned along the way.
11:00 am
PST
0 to 1 (Million Downloads): PUMA's Mobile Success Story
Rob Walker
,
,
Formidable
Speaker
The Armory
,
,
Formidable
128 NW 11th Ave
Portland, OR 97209
Learn from our experience scaling the PUMA App from zero to a million downloads over 6 months. We will review the tools, tasks, and processes used to get and keep the app working effectively.
11:30 am
PST
Wait, you’re shipping React Native to the web?!
Taz Singh
,
,
Guild
Speaker
In this talk, he’ll dive into the skepticism of building React Native Apps for the Web, including everything from design systems and navigation to ExpoGL and Reanimated, from how they’ve successfully built Guild on top of this architecture.
12:00 pm
PST
Lunch break
,
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Lunch is provided on-site. Vegetarian, vegan, and gluten-free options will be available.
1:30 pm
PST
Trivia Show
Jack Herrington
,
Robin Heinze
,
Mike Hartington
Panelist
Join us for a fun trivia show after lunch! Our emcee will ask our panel a wide variety of questions. Some of them expected. Others... Not so much!
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Robin Heinze
,
Mike Hartington
2:30 pm
PST
I literally just showed you
Michael Liendo
,
Ashish Nanda
,
Amazon AWS
Speaker
The Armory
,
Ashish Nanda
,
Amazon AWS
128 NW 11th Ave
Portland, OR 97209
3:00 pm
PST
Afternoon break
,
,
Quick break to stretch your legs again and grab a snack between talks.
Coffee & Pair Programming with Test Double
Pair over coffee with one of Test Double’s agents during the break, get a Linkedin or resume review, or grab a coffee to recharge and chat.
Reservations
4:00 pm
PST
Scaling teams with federated super apps
Michał Pierzchała
,
,
Callstack
Speaker
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,
Callstack
Find out if and how we can overcome challenges from moving fast and efficiently in big teams on a large product with complex functionality.
4:30 pm
PST
Default to performance
Colin Gray
,
,
Shopify
Speaker
How Shopify uses multiple strategies for building React Native screens at scale.
May 17 — 19, 2023
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