july 30 - 31, 2026 • the armory

speakers

Charlie Cheever
The future of mobile development with Expo
Charlie Cheever
Expo

We'll look at where Expo and mobile development go next as AI takes on more of the loop, from generating a React Native app to building, updating, and shipping it, with less and less manual work in between.

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Seth Webster
Go All The Way
Seth Webster
React Foundation

What happens when building gets easy and launching stops being the hard part? What's actually left? This talk is for people who already know how to ship — and aren't sure that's the question they should still be asking.

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Kadi Kraman
How is your app actually doing in production
Kadi Kraman
Expo

This talk is about the gap between the app you built and the app your users are experiencing.

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Mazen Chami
Think Fast: OnDevice Vector Features
Mazen Chami
Infinite Red

Integrate on-device AI qualities into your React Native apps.

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Kacper Kapuściak
Haptics: Untapped Potential
Kacper Kapuściak
Software Mansion

In this interactive talk, I’ll go through haptics in mobile development. We’ll start with the complete basics, including how it works under the hood, and then move into design principles that help you build the intuition behind well designed haptic experiences.

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Bruno Bodian
React Native Tooling: The Invisible Infrastructure Behind Your Apps
Bruno Bodian
Doctolib

React Native developers focus on components and features, but rarely understand the tooling infrastructure that makes development possible. This talk demystifies the complete RN tooling ecosystem.

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Zeya Peng
One Engine to Animate Them All: Rewriting React Native's Animated in C++
Zeya Peng
Meta Platforms Inc.

We rewrote React Native's native animated system in C++ -- converging four platform-specific implementations into one engine so that every feature and fix only needs to be written once. This talk covers the journey: why we built it, what bugs we fixed, and what it unlocks for your apps.

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Mark Goldstein
Your agents can run, now what?
Mark Goldstein
Chime

As agents get better at mobile development, the bottleneck keeps moving further down the development loop. Join us to learn how we're scaling our infra at Chime to run at the speed of agents.

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Chris DeMars
Silent Execution: Defending Against Install-Time Supply Chain Attacks
Chris DeMars
TuxCare

This 15-minute technical deep dive breaks down the mechanics of install-time malware, analyzes why standard audit tools often miss these exploits, and provides a concrete roadmap for hardening your local environment and CI/CD pipelines using script-blocking strategies and behavioral monitoring.

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Jay Meistrich
Fast by Default: Performance Starts with State
Jay Meistrich
Legend

An advanced performance focused talk about how to make super fast React Native apps: why React Native apps get slow, why that usually starts with state architecture, and how fine-grained state can improve rendering, developer experience, and sync all at the same time.

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Dev Agrawal
Zero-Latency React Native: Designing Apps That Never Show a Loading Spinner
Dev Agrawal
Codemod

Demonstrates how to architect a "Zero-Latency" app using optimistic UI and local-first sync. It covers writing to a local store first, handling background synchronization, and gracefully managing conflict resolution for an uninterrupted user experience.

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Nick Kaffine
The UI Was Beautiful. The Frame Rate Wasn’t. Here’s Why We Didn’t Fix It.
Nick Kaffine
Chalkboard

This talk breaks down how a React Native app optimized for developer experience, iOS-heavy users, fast iteration, and polished, visually rich UI ended up with user-visible performance issues that we never fixed. Not because we ignored them, but because we never made them measurable enough to compete with feature work.

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Megha Hooli
AI-Powered Personalization in React Native: Building Intelligent Shopping Experiences at Scale
Megha Hooli
Amazon

This session explores how modern React Native applications are evolving from static interfaces into intelligent, adaptive systems powered by AI. Drawing from real-world experience in building large-scale retail systems, the talk will walk through how to integrate personalization, recommendation engines, and predictive intelligence into React Native apps.

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Colin Grob
Hot Reload Over the Wire: Metro Internals for Remote Development
Colin Grob
Revyl

Hot reload is React Native's superpower - until the device isn't on your local network. We'll go inside Metro's bundle resolution, the HMR WebSocket protocol, and Expo's dev client deep-linking to show how we made it work on cloud-hosted simulators at Revyl - with a live demo.

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Gabriel Donadel
Prompt once, integrate everywhere: Scaling Expo Brownfield Across 100+ Open-Source Native Apps
Gabriel Donadel
Expo

This talk walks through the new features of Expo Brownfield and how we fine-tuned a skill to help automate the full integration process. Come see what broke, what surprised us, and what a repeatable path to React Native adoption really looks like at scale.

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Perttu Lähteenlahti
Making React Native apps first-class citizens in iOS with App Intents
Perttu Lähteenlahti
RevenueCat

App Intents are Apple's framework for exposing your app's actions and content directly to system experiences across iOS, watchOS, and beyond. But how do you add this native functionality into your app?

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Szymon Chmal
Giving agents hands and eyes in React Native
Szymon Chmal
Callstack

In this talk, I will show what changes when agents can both observe and act inside a running React Native app, and how this unlocks a new kind of development workflow where agents do not just write code, but actively work with it.

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Isabela McLenachen
Automated Visual Regression and Accessibility Testing Made Easy
Isabela McLenachen
Disney

In this talk, we’ll explore how you can easily create a consistent suite of automated visual regression and accessibility tests, dynamically generated from your site, that run on any local or CICD environment using Playwright and Docker.

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Erik Hanchett
How I Learned React Native with AI
Erik Hanchett
AWS

Learning React Native in 2026 can be overwhelming. There are so many resources that it's hard to know where to start. In this talk, I share my real experience going from frontend React web development to learning React Native for the first time, using AI as my primary guide.

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Alex Lanclos
Skylight - Our app from past to present
Alex Lanclos
Skylight

The long 3-year journey from a pure JavaScript hellscape to a best-in-class React Native implementation.

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Dev Agrawal
Delete Your Global State: Using SQLite as the Ultimate State Manager
Dev Agrawal
Codemod

React Native developers have spent years debating Redux vs. Zustand vs. Context. But what if the best global state manager isn’t just a JavaScript library? In this talk, we’ll explore a paradigm shift: treating on-device SQLite as your app's single source of truth. We’ll show how combining reactive database queries with a background sync engine eliminates the need for complex client-side state management, handles offline mutations effortlessly, and provides a much simpler mental model for building data-heavy mobile apps

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