Frontrunners Conference

March 21, 2025

Announcement! We are on for March 21, 2025! Our CFP is already open, and tickets sales will be posted very soon!

Frontrunners is a JavaScript and web developers conference held annually in the Washington, DC area. We feature a full day of interesting presentations from excellent speakers on a variety of topics of interest to web developers.

Come discover how the best minds use the latest technologies to build solutions for the web. Network with other DC area web developers, and discuss the newest emerging trends and techniques.

Submit a Talk Now for 2025

Our CFP is open! We expect over 250 developers to attend Frontrunners. This is a great opportunity to reach a large and influential audience of DC web developers, and have a great time, too!

Where?

Frontrunners 2025 will be held at GMU's Van Metre Hall in Arlington, Virginia, a fantastic facility for both speakers and attendees.

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Frontrunners 2024 was Awesome!

Frontrunners 2024 was a blast, even bigger and better than 2023! Thank you to all of our speakers, attendees, volunteers and sponsors for making it fantastic! To see for yourself, check out our 2024 Videos.

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2024 Speakers

Jen Ozmen

Trusted Types: DOM XSS Protection at Scale

Chris Lorenzo

SolidJS: The Universal Renderer

Jim Becker

EASILY level up your website using the ChatGPT API and NextJS

Tim Simms

Spinning up Node.js in the Browser

Jacob Yacovelli

Simpler Enterprise Angular Components with Smart Directives

Jessica Kerr

Observability for the Front End

Aaron Shim

Trusted Types: DOM XSS Protection at Scale

M. Scott Ford

Lessons Learned Migrating from Jekyll to Next.js with Help From Playwright

Nathan E. Lilly

Hand-coded Artisanal Data-Visualization

Laura King

Simpler Enterprise Angular Components with Smart Directives

Brian Childress

Simplicity: The Key to Software Success

Alec Barrett

Build your own devtools

Shri Khalpada

Where Numbers Meet Art: Building Data Visualizations In The Modern Web

Dillon Mulroy

Melange: The Next Frontier in Type-Safe Web Development

Michael Schoonmaker

We're Snaking it Live!

Emcees

Casey Watts!

Emcee

Kadi McKean

Emcee

Steve Chen

Emcee

Sponsors

Gold

For sponsorship information visit our sponsorship page, or email us at info at frontrunners dot tech.