Your backlog is infinite, technical debt is accruing interest, and npm audit fix can only do so much. It is time to git stash of the daily grind and refactor your mental model. WebExpo 2026 will bring together the builders, the breakers, and the maintainers who are actually shipping the future of the web.
We are skipping the “Hello World” tutorials. This year, we will reverse-engineer historical glitches, construct AI servers from the ground up, and wrangle the mess of modern infrastructure.
Here are eight sessions that will help you deploy better code and optimise your career stack this spring.
The art of the code
Development is not just about tickets and pull requests; it is a canvas.
Switch Angel (Jade Rose) will headline our program with a keynote that will blur the line between programmer and performer. In Patterns for restarting the world, she will wield Strudel, a live-coding music environment, to construct high-energy electronic pop in real-time. She will challenge us to view software not as a static tool, but as an instrument to be tuned, mastered, and played. Expect a session that will harmonise human creativity with machine logic.
If you want to dirty your hands with the mechanics of AI, Ladislav Prskavec will provide the blueprint. In Under the hood of AI: building your own MCP server in Go, he will bypass the surface-level hype to engineer a Model Context Protocol server from scratch. Ladislav will demonstrate how to securely bridge AI clients with real-world data and APIs, leveraging the raw speed of Go to extend what your coding assistants can actually do.
Frontend sorcery & accessibility
The browser is evolving, and so must you.
Brecht De Ruyte will spotlight the latest standards from the W3C in Select it! Styling new HTML UI capabilities. He will dissect the new customisable select element, teaching you how to fuse anchoring, transitioning, and scroll snapping into a seamless UI. Brecht will empower you to abandon hacky workarounds and embrace a future where native HTML elements finally look the way you want them to.
Meanwhile, Eric Bailey will illuminate the often-misunderstood world of ARIA. In What I wish someone told me when I first started using ARIA, he will decode the complexities of accessible rich internet applications. Eric will navigate the pitfalls he encountered early in his career, equipping you with the foresight to architect inclusive experiences without the usual headaches.
Infrastructure & velocity
Speed matters. Stability matters more.
Cedric Clyburn will demystify the journey from local host to the cloud in Going from containers, to pods, to Kubernetes. He will champion Podman Desktop as the tool to bridge the gap between your laptop and production. Through live demos, Cedric will illustrate how to wrangle containers and Kubernetes without needing a PhD in orchestration, streamlining your workflow from day one.
On the performance front, Tejas Kumar will return to accelerate your understanding of the modern web. Prepare to turbocharge your applications and obliterate latency under the guidance of one of the industry’s most dynamic speakers.
Tejas is doubling down with a half-day premium workshop, Applied AI engineering: beyond the prompt. It is time to transition from “prompt engineering” to Context Engineering. Tejas will crack open the black box of AI, guiding you through the modern 2026 stack (including RAG and OpenClaw) to architect autonomous agents. If you are comfortable with TypeScript and ready to stop just using AI tools to start building them, this is your upgrade.
The weird, the broken, and the beautiful
Sometimes, you have to break things to understand them.
Krasimir Tsonev will invite you to embrace the chaos in JavaScript: weird by design and we ❤️ it. He will catalogue the strangest anomalies and most hilarious quirks of the language we all love to hate. From illogical equality checks to clipboard hijacking, Krasimir will celebrate the beautiful mess that keeps the web interesting.
He will also helm a half-day premium workshop, Inside React Server Components, where he will guide attendees to build an SSR app from the ground up, deconstructing the mechanics of React 18’s streaming capabilities without the usual abstractions.
Finally, Mia Bajić will excavate the digital past in The most bizarre software bugs in history. She will chronicle the glitches that defied logic and interrogate our obsession with testing. Mia will pose a critical question: what do these historic failures reveal about the systems we trust? It is a chance to learn from the errors of giants.
Ready to reboot your perspective?
WebExpo 2026 is your platform to connect, argue, and evolve. Secure your ticket today and prepare to have your mind patched, refactored, and deployed.