AI has revolutionized web application internationalization. This talk demonstrates how modern AI technologies create a transformative shift in making web content globally accessible. Instead of traditional localization workflows costing thousands per language, we can now automate translation, transcription, and voice generation at a fraction of the cost. Through live demos and real-world examples, we’ll explore how this disrupts conventional approaches and empowers small teams to reach global audiences. The talk will also showcase practical implementation patterns attendees can apply to their projects.

Internationalization in JavaScript and on the web platform is very complicated, but also vastly important for us developers in order to build accessible and intelligible interfaces. Thankfully, Unicode Consortium's MessageFormat working group and TC39 have been hard at work standardizing the next generation of i18n tooling that aims to unify analogous non-standard tools in use today while approaching this problem from a fresh perspective.

Join me along this tour of i18n in JavaScript, discover some of the newest additions to the toolkit and learn about the ongoing MessageFormat proposal and how it aims to radically improve the developer experience.

In a period where the digital landscape is constantly evolving, the way we understand and interact with the web & internet is undergoing a profound transformation.

The web democratised how we connect with each other and how we exchange information. This talk takes a guided approach to introduce some of the concepts that could shape how we developers build for the web in the near future.

Looking into open standards that take into consideration the user’s data, identity and trust.

A reflection on how what I've learnt about Svelte in the last few weeks fits into the context of what I've learnt in the last 30 years of software development.

Although perhaps more suited to those new to Svelte or Svelte-curious, it will hopefully also still be of interest to a wider audience.