Get ready to shred your React and frontend limits at React Norway 2026. On June 5th, we’re turning Rockefeller — the legendary heart of Oslo's music scene — into an epicenter of React revelations. This isn’t your usual developer conference. It's loud, it's live, and it's unapologetically authentic.
Secure your spot in the pit; let’s React and rock🤘
Industry leaders, React experts, and the voices shaping tomorrow’s web—live on stage.
Jack Herrington
Principal Full Stack Engineer
Sébastien Morel
Chief Technology Officer @ Crystallize
Aurora Scharff
DX Engineer @ Vercel
Nico Martin
Machine Learning Engineer @ Hugging Face
Robert Balicki
Staff Engineer @ Pinterest
Costa Alexoglou
Software Engineer @ Grafana Labs
Neha Sharma
Solution Architect @ Amazon
Ramona Schwering
Developer Advocate @ Auth0
Dominik Dorfmeister
Frontend Engineer @ Sentry
Dora Makszy
Head of Design @ Element Logic
Datarock
Iversen
God bedring
Schedule
8:00 AM CET
8:00 AM CET
Signing up + Coffee Start
9:00 AM CET
9:00 AM CET
Welcoming Talk
9:30 AM CET
9:30 AM CET
React with Caution: How to Hack Your React App (And Fix It Too)
Ramona Schwering|Developer Advocate @ Auth0
React has your back, at least on paper. With almost no CVEs in recent years, React Core stands out as one of the most secure frontend frameworks available. But security isn’t automatic.
In this practical, hands-on session, Ramona will actively hack a React application to expose real-world threats like XSS, injection attacks, and subtle frontend vulnerabilities. You’ll learn where React protects you by default, where it doesn’t, and how to become the final line of defense for your users.
10:00 AM CET
10:00 AM CET
Rockin' With TanStack Start and AI!
Jack Herrington|Principal Full Stack Engineer
Let your application fly with an all-new TanStack Start, an all-new client-first full-stack framework in combination with TanStack AI, the cutting-edge AI integration platform that makes it simple to bring AI into your applications, not just with chat but with full multimedia capabilities, image and video generation, and more!
10:30 AM CET
10:30 AM CET
Coffee Break and Networking
11:00 AM CET
11:00 AM CET
So, You Want to Build a Pair-programming App with JavaScript, Good luck
Costa Alexoglou|Software Engineer @ Grafana Labs
In this talk, together with Costa, you will explore lessons learned from maintaining one of the few open-source remote pair-programming apps designed for super-low latency.
Lessons like local caching in desktop apps and how it works, syncing state across different windows, measuring video latency hacks, and things he and his team wish they had known before they started, like how much they hate WebKit.
11:30 AM CET
11:30 AM CET
No Researchers Were Harmed in the Making of This Test Suite
Dora Makszy|Head of Design @ Element Logic
What if UX research could move as fast as your sprint cycles? In this talk, you’ll see how an automated, self-service testing framework built with Figma Make captured real user behavior at scale, delivering quantitative insights in days, not weeks. It’s a practical blueprint for embedding fast, “good enough” UX validation directly into modern product teams without slowing development down.
12:00 PM CET
12:00 PM CET
Dead Code Shouldn’t Exist: How We Removed 28k Lines of Code, One Knip at a Time
Dominik Dorfmeister|Frontend Engineer @ Sentry
How much of your codebase is just sitting there unused? In this session, you’ll see how Sentry used Knip to uncover and safely remove dead files, exports, and dependencies; and what they learned from the messy edge cases along the way. Expect practical tactics you can apply immediately to declutter your frontend and keep it lean.
12:30 PM CET
12:30 PM CET
Lunch
13:30 PM CET
13:30 PM CET
Architecting Observability in Modern React Apps
Neha Sharma|Solution Architect @ Amazon
Frontend observability goes far beyond console logs and error boundaries. In this talk, you’ll learn how traces, metrics, logs, and correlation IDs fit into a modern enterprise observability strategy, and how to design React systems that are measurable and resilient from day one. Expect concrete patterns for integrating observability into CI/CD and building a culture of visibility across teams.
14:00 PM CET
14:00 PM CET
Designing the In-Between States with Async React
Aurora Scharff|DX Engineer @ Vercel
Some of the most important UX moments happen between click and render. In this session, you’ll explore how Async React and Next.js 16 help you architect loading states, errors, and transitions with intention; not as afterthoughts. Expect practical patterns for skeletons, error boundaries, and design-owned loading components that make your app feel faster, smoother, and more polished.
14:30 PM CET
14:30 PM CET
Look ma, No Hands! Multimodal AI-Agents in the Browser
Nico Martin|Machine Learning Engineer @ Hugging Face
In this talk, together with Nico, we’ll explore how to build multimodal AI agents that understand voice, interpret images, hold short-term memory, and respond intelligently - all running entirely in the browser. No server, no cloud APIs, and no installation. Using modern tools like WebGPU and WebAssembly, we’ll see how far the open web has come in enabling real-time, privacy-preserving AI experiences.
15:00 PM CET
15:00 PM CET
Coffee Break and Networking
15:30 PM CET
15:30 PM CET
iIsograph — a Compiler for Your UI
Robert Balicki|Staff Engineer @ Pinterest
Tired of boilerplate and guessing whether your data fetching is actually correct? This talk introduces Isograph, a compiler-driven framework that scans your codebase and generates exactly the queries and runtime artifacts your UI needs; no more, no less. With simple annotations for dynamic loading, pagination, and component-level code splitting, you’ll see how a compiler can eliminate whole classes of mistakes while making data-driven React apps more stable and performant by default.
One day of world-class React talks by day, and rock & roll energy by night. Stick around for the afterparty with drinks, networking, and live concerts.
Lay your best solo over our backing track (in Eb tuning), and you could score a Hotel Night +React Norway Festival ticket or a React Norway Festival ticket. How to enter: 1. Download the track 👉 2. Record your solo (any instrument) 3. Post it, tag @ReactNorway or @Crystallize, use #ReactNorway2026, #RN2026 hashtags 4. Fill in the form (click on the button below)👇
That’s it. We’ll feature the standouts and DM winners. 📢Rock on!
Rockefeller will host our next React Norway — a legendary downtown Oslo concert hall inside the historic Torggata Bad, first opened in 1986. The venue fits about 1,300 people.
Known for its year-round shows featuring Norwegian and international headliners — and festivals like Inferno — Rockefeller brings professional-grade production and electric city-center energy to our new format.
Comfort Hotel Xpress Youngstorget is located just a few steps away from the Rockefeller and a 10 min. walk from the train station (Oslo S). We are happy to announce that attendees receive a 15% discount for bookings in the period 03.06.2026-06.06.2026. You will receive details for booking in the confirmation e-mail when you buy your Rock & React ticket. Please note that this offer is subject to availability.
React Day Norway was first arranged in 2019 at the beautiful seaside hotel Farris Bad. The conference was presented and organized by Crystallize as a community event. The day was packed with great talks from The New York Times, Slack, and Dropbox - to name a few. We wanted to keep the event small so everyone had the opportunity to talk and connect; speakers, sponsors, and attendees. The day ended with a BBQ at the terrace overlooking the sea and everyone enjoying the lovely Norwegian summer. The event was a huge success!
2021 Online
Sadly we had to cancel the 2020 event due to the pandemic and almost canceled 2021. The change of format came to the rescue. Again, a great lineup with speakers from Mailchimp, Tinder, Auth0, etc, and over 600 online attendees watching the live streams. BTW, you can still watch all the talks on our YouTube channel (or here on the website).
2022 In-person, Again.
Great talks, ReactShorts, amazing bike show, BBQ and after-party, and most engaging networking at the spectacular venue of Farris Bad Hotel in Larvik, Norway… that pretty much sums up 2022 React Norway.
2023 Setting a Standard
In 2022, you had come for React and stayed for Brunost. In 2023 we all savored the creamy delight of Brunost (thanks to our official Brunost sponsor TINE) as we sliced into new React realms! A standard has been set.
2024 React the Viking Way!
With all the talks, brunost, bikes flying around, and fantastic food, it was challenging to top last year’s event. It was a challenge worth of Viking sagas. Thankfully, we like challenges, and we threw more brunost in the loop🤘
2025 Reboot your dev game!
Bigger venue, same core: React, Reload, Repeat. Old-school, pixel art style for a bigger venue of Scandic Holmenkollen Park Hotel in Oslo. 350 people enjoyed 13 well-known speakers and a few n00bs in engaging talks.