HALFSTACK 2018

About HalfStack

Started in 2010, London HalfStack has events at least once a month to discuss all things interesting in the desktop and mobile web world. The format includes meetups, panels, and conferences, and always a pub after each event.

For seven years, we've had regular JavaScript meetup events. And then we spend time discussing JavaScript at a pub and/or CodeNode. For the fourth time, we're flipping this around and bringing the talks to a pub in the Shoreditch area.

2017 HalfStack videos (free registration required)
2016 HalfStack recap
2016 HalfStack videos
2015 conference information
2015 HalfStack recap

Talks will include a variety of modern front-end development topics (2017's conference covered ES6, TypeScript, frameworks, WebGL, web audio/video, WebVR, speech recognition, JS poetry, and much more) from leading speakers based primarily in London. The Call for Papers will be open from March through mid July. We will let all potential speakers know our answer by mid-August.

All tickets include lunch, dinner, coffee, tea, drinks, great talks, conference t-shirt, swag, afterparty and more!

2017 Sessions

The 2018 schedule will be announced in mid-2018. For now, here are the details from HalfStack 2017.

Time	Speaker	Session
10:00	HalfStack	Doors open
10:30	Dylan Schiemann, SitePen	Welcome to HalfStack
10:40	Dominik Kundel, Twilio	Coffee.js? How I hacked my coffee machine using JavaScript
11:15	Jani Eväkallio, Formidable	Love poems to JavaScript, Part 1
11:20	Ada Rose Cannon, Samsung	Introduction to virtual reality and the web
11:55	Mihai Cîrlănaru	Empowering Web Applications with Speech Recognition
12:30	HalfStack	Lunch
13:15	Chris Heilmann, Microsoft	Sacrificing the golden calf of 'coding'
13:50	Forbes Lindesay, Changepage	Practical browser automation for fun and profit
14:25	Anna Migas	Make your animations perform well
15:00	HalfStack	Break
15:15	Niels Leenheer	Having fun with JavaScript and Bluetooth
15:50	Jani Eväkallio, Formidable	Love poems to JavaScript, Part 2
15:55	Jonathan Fielding, Beamly	Converting a JS library from ES5 to ES6, benefits and the pitfalls
16:15	Sean McGee, Esri UK	The Exciting World of 3D
16:50	HalfStack	Break
17:05	Jani Eväkallio, Formidable	Love poems to JavaScript, Part 3
17:10	Dylan Schiemann, SitePen	Fear and Loathing in JavaScript
17:30	Sandeep Singh	Data Visualisations and GraphQL
17:50	Alvin Ourrad, BBC News	Unidirectional data flows and WebGL
18:10	Ruth John	How to be a Web AV Artist
18:40	Dylan Schiemann, SitePen	Conference wrap up
18:45	HalfStack	Dinner / Afterparty start
19:30	Kitson Kelly	JavaScript Pub Quiz and Prizes
23:00	HalfStack	Finished

Tickets

A limited number of diversity tickets are also available thanks to our sponsors. Please contact us on Twitter for more information.