93 Feet East, London
Wednesday 13th November 2024
Afterparty
200 Front-end / Web / JavaScript / Mobile / IoT developers and decision makersMostly from the greater London area and the UK

What to Expect

HalfStack events are fun, creative single track JavaScript events hosted in relaxed environments. HalfStack provides authentic, high value experiences for all attendees.

The priority for HalfStack is the attendee experience, with great food, drinks, talks, swag, and community. Hosted by London’s longest-lived JavaScript meetup group, HalfStack now runs events in Belgrade, Charlotte, London, Newquay, New York, Phoenix, Tel Aviv, and Vienna!

HalfStack carefully curates talks that inspire and inform the audience in a highly interactive and entertaining manner. Each HalfStack event provides an intimate feeling where each attendee has time to meet one another.

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Call for Proposals

Visit our CfP page for more information on proposing your amazing HalfStack session!

Fair Pricing

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Our Illustrious Speakers

Each of our events has between 8 and 12 sessions. We update our speaker information regularly. We usually save a few details to give you some surprises on the day of the event, including the order of the sessions.

  • Rowdy Rabouw
    Beats in the Browser

    Javascript is extremely versatile. We use it to build front-end, back-end, desktop, and mobile apps. But did you know you can even create music with it?! Rowdy will show you how easy and fun it is to code your own music with the Web Audio API. As a bonus, he will throw in the Web MIDI API and Web Bluetooth API to really get the party started. Let’s turn up the bass!

  • Ramona Schwering
    Plants vs Thieves

    Inspired by the game Plants vs. Zombies, Ramona will help us create a secure environment for your web application through test automation.

  • Nico Martin
    From ML to LLM: on-device AI in the browser

    Machine learning models are interpreting the world and generative AI is taking over more and more of our tasks. What if we could use all this magic directly on our devices? With WebAssembly and WebGPU, we have the tools to make all this possible. It's time to get ready for some unexpected examples of how to use AI in the browser!

  • Carly Richmond
    Is it (F)ake?! Image Classification with TensorFlow.js

    Carly loves baking shows. And there's a particular one that circulates in social media that you need to determine if it's real or a cake. She struggles to pick which one is the cake that leads her to build a model to better find the cakes using JavaScript. In this talk, let's test your cake identification skills against the machine learning model Carly made and use the pre-existing models.

  • Tiger Oakes and Daphne Oakes
    How to automate your murder mystery: immersive games in your home

    Have you hosted a murder mystery party but dreaded the paper puzzles and constant character confusion? For Halloween, Tiger and Daphne tricked out their party with Node.js by building an electromagnetic chest, IoT-powered dramatic deaths, and a digital character sheet They relied on JavaScript to enhance the immerse role-playing game and elevated their home into an escape room. Come learn how to use your programming skills to become the ultimate party host!

  • Joe Hart
    To be revealed

    Previously Joe has delighted HalfStack community with voice-based Flappy Bird, head-to-head Tetris, and other hilarious game adventures. We'll soon reveal Joe's session details.

  • Jo Franchetti
    To be revealed

    Jo has amazed the HalfStack community with the LED Christmas jumper, LED mask captioning, and a serverless seance. We'll soon reveal Jo's session details.

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