Why can't technology companies avoid central points of failure? A casual chat about the clothes the emperor isn't wearing and an introduction to a real-world battle-tested anti-fragile approach to building and deploying applications: Pear.

Silicon Valley is buzzing again. Dozens of nightly AI meetups, packed co-working spaces, and a lot of hype. But the real action isn’t in a postal code. It’s on GitHub.
This talk breaks down why JavaScript is powering the AI boom globally, and why you don’t need a Valley badge to be part of it. Just open an issue and commit.
AI-assisted development is becoming part of modern workflows. The goal isn’t to redefine open source. It’s to make sure that as tools evolve, accountability, transparency, and maintainership stay intact.

Serverless reduced operational burden, but it never truly removed infrastructure. This talk explores superpositioned infrastructure and how Module Federation turns distributed JavaScript into a runtime-defined system, where compute and code are decoupled and services can be composed dynamically instead of being pinned to a single deployment surface.

Letting AI generate your UI is fast and fun right up until you need it to implement something specific. Throw in strict design systems, your company's existing component library and responsive breakpoints, and the whole process usually falls apart. The good news is that there is a solution. We'll explore what works and what doesn't with agentic coding.