The frontend and mobile landscape is constantly shifting, with new architectures, tooling, and best practices reshaping how teams build for the modern web and mobile platforms. From large-scale UI migrations to Server-Driven UI and Micro-Frontends, developers are tackling the challenges of performance, maintainability, and scalability in innovative ways.
This track will explore real-world lessons from companies optimizing frontend experiences at scale, managing complex design systems, and accelerating mobile development workflows. Whether it's rethinking how UI updates are delivered, navigating technical migrations, or improving speed and efficiency across massive codebases, you'll gain practical insights from engineers solving these problems today.
Join us to discuss the latest frontend and mobile trends, the challenges teams face, and the strategies shaping the next generation of user experiences.
From this track
So You’ve Decided To Do a Technical Migration
Wednesday Apr 9 / 10:35AM BST
It seems like there’s always a hot new library or framework promising great things. But people often forget about the pain and effort required to move from an old technology to a new one. How long will it take? If you finish, will it be worth it?
Sophie Koonin
Web Engineering Lead @Monzo, Writer, Speaker and Web 1.0 Enthusiast
Scaling the BBC Design System: Tooling, Community, Governance and Gardening
Wednesday Apr 9 / 11:45AM BST
Do you have experience managing or contributing to a Design System that has to support multiple teams, disciplines’ priorities and competing product requirements? Wondering how to meet the long-term goals of the system without getting in the way of your stakeholders’ needs?
Sophie Beaumont
Software Engineering Manager @BBC
Mobile Server-Driven UI at Scale
Wednesday Apr 9 / 01:35PM BST
Delivering changes to mobile applications is always painful: dealing with store reviews, users that don't update their apps and multiple concurrent versions being used at the same time.
Rafael Ring
Senior Staff Software Engineer, Mobile Platform Team @Nubank, 10+ Years Working Full Stack
Speed at Scale: Optimizing the Largest CX Platform Out There
Wednesday Apr 9 / 02:45PM BST
In a world with a wide variety of network connections, any user can have a slow experience, and apps that delight users on fast connections can barely be usable on slow ones.
Matheus Albuquerque
Staff Software Engineer @Medallia, Google Developer Expert in Web Technologies, Programme Committee @React Summit US, Mentor @TechLabs, International Speaker, Technical Reviewer
The Ideal Micro-Frontends Platform
Wednesday Apr 9 / 03:55PM BST
Micro-frontends can help organizations scale frontend development, but without the right foundations, they often lead to unnecessary complexity and performance issues. How can you implement them effectively while avoiding common pitfalls?
Luca Mezzalira
Principal Serverless Specialist Solutions Architect @AWS, Author of “Building Micro-Frontends”, International Speaker
