Wednesday
Room 7
13:40 - 14:40
(UTC+02)
Talk (60 min)
Lightning Talks 1
Lightning talks (approx 10-15 minutes each)
Talk 1: When the code is not working for you - Helén Persson
Code can be running fine, but still not work great for us as humans. Maybe you have inherited a piece of legacy code? Maybe you are drowning in Dependabot alerts? Lets talk about how you can leave the code base better than when you found it.
Talk 2: Designing the In-Between States with Async React - Aurora Scharff
A surprising amount of user experience happens in the in-between moments: loading screens, errors, and pending states. These gaps between user action and final render are easy to overlook, yet they strongly influence how polished a React application feels and its perceived performance.
This session takes a practical engineering view on architecting these moments with Async React and modern Next.js 16: what's feasible, where designer-engineer collaboration matters, and how the ecosystem tools help. It covers reusable patterns for skeletons, error boundaries, view transitions, and design-layer components that own their loading states, and shows how small architectural decisions shape a smoother, more intentional product experience.
Talk 3: Reinventing the wheel considered useful - Erik Schierboom
Programmers are taught not to reinvent the wheel. This "wisdom" is rarely questioned, but there are very good reasons to go against this advice!
In this lightning talk, you'll learn why reinventing the wheel can actually make your software more secure. You'll also see how reinventing the wheel is a great way to improve your skills, which is becoming even more important with the advent of AI-assisted code generation.
Talk 4: Good enough - A love letter to failure - Elin Brusberg
This society is tough, getting tougher.
You may feel that more is required of you every day, and you are probably not wrong. I would argue though that the path to excellence lies not in perfection but in failure, and if you truly want to be better in life and work you need to switch focus and lean into the unpredictability of life.
Together we will reflect on tech failures and learn from them. What mistakes can you not come back from? When can a failure be a stepping stone to achieve your goal? What can you do to get less of the first and more of the second?
Maybe you will disagree with me and maybe you will see that failure not only is an option - it's a good one.
Helén Persson
Helén has a master's degree in High Energy Particle Physics and found the joy of programming during her time at university. Initially the plan was to become a data scientist but life took a different path and she is currently working as a frontend developer at NRK. Helén is passionate about how science and software can make the world a better place, one small step at the time.
Aurora Scharff
Aurora Scharff is a DX Engineer at Vercel and the React Certification Lead at certificates.dev. She specializes in education and community engagement around React and Next.js, developing high-quality learning resources, creating demo applications, and speaking at conferences worldwide.
Erik Schierboom
Erik is a software developer with a passion for teaching. He loves learning new programming languages and tries to learn one each year. He's built websites, mobile apps and open-source libraries, mostly in the education space. In the last 5 years he's worked at Exercism to build the optimal learning experience for 70+ programming languages.
In his spare time Erik likes to watch movies, play video games, read books and cook nice meals.
Elin Brusberg
Elin is a Technology Leader at Gnist Consulting
She has worked as a developer for many years, but now she focuses on helping other developers shine and deliver.
She spends most of her days supporting the team and working long term on strategy.
She is occasionally lucky to share her experience with a wider audience, such as this.