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About O'Reilly Fluent Conference

What you'll find at Fluent | The Fluent experience | Who is Fluent for? | What people are saying about Fluent | Program Chairs & Committee

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The O'Reilly Fluent Conference was first launched in 2012 as a new event for developers working with JavaScript, HTML5, and other web technologies. Since its initial launch, Fluent has expanded to include all areas of the web as it has grown up, from frontend technologies/frameworks and backend systems to web design, web performance, security, and more.

These technologies have become central to all kinds of development, beyond just building websites. If you're building web applications, designing for mobile devices, or working with the web's evolving infrastructure, you need to keep up with the proliferation of new technology that's driving the web forward in all the forms it takes.

At Fluent, you'll immerse yourself in learning and engage with the wider web community. Fluent's speakers are people who are working with—and sometimes building—the same technologies you use. Fluent offers a variety of forums for learning, from immersive tutorials and sessions with experts to the "hallway track" between sessions where attendees informally connect and share questions, knowledge, and perspectives with their peers.

If you're working on the modern web—whether you're independent or part of a large team—and you want to gain hands-on learning, make meaningful connections, and share ideas across communities, then Fluent is the place for you. If you want to grow more fluent in speaking the language of the global, expanding, maturing web, we invite you to join us at Fluent!

What you'll find at Fluent

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Thousands of JavaScript developers, web developers, mobile app developers, software and performance engineers, and a wide range of other people who work on the modern web come together at Fluent.

Fluent is a place to find your tribe and to connect with other communities and people you've always wanted to meet. Whether you're a regular at conferences and your local meetup or you're completely new to the conference scene, Fluent provides different opportunities for you to interact with people in the wider web community.

The Fluent experience

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  • One day of in-depth tutorials
  • Two days of keynotes and sessions that explore state-of-the-art, real-world case studies, technology introductions, and best practices
  • Two-day hands-on training courses, limited in size to maximize interaction with expert instructors
  • Networking opportunities with hundreds of other frontend and backend developers and technologists
  • Multiple occasions—including the hallway track, Expo Hall, and after-hours events—for attendees, speakers, exhibitors to engage with each other on issues that matter most to them on the web

Who goes to Fluent

Everyone involved in building the modern web, from beginners to seasoned veterans:

  • Frontend developers
  • Backend developers
  • Web developers of all backgrounds
  • Mobile app developers
  • JavaScript developers
  • UI/UX engineers
  • Web designers
  • Project managers
  • Information architects
  • Software engineers

What people are saying about Fluent

Fluent is one of the best informational and networking events in technology. From the keynote presentations to the after-hours meet and greets, every event was well thought out and executed. I will be back next year."
–Aaron Biggs The University of Oklahoma
The O'Reilly Fluent conference was a great experience! I learned a lot about where Javascript is going, and can't wait to try out some of the new technologies that were presented. Looking forward to next year!"
–Eric Ranschau Associate Solutions Architect Olson
Awesome experience at Fluent, learnt so much thanks to all the great speakers. Now to find all the pieces of my exploded brain!"
–Werner van Deventer, @brutaldev
We couldn’t be happier with the results."
–Kacie Hendrickson, Fastly (Fluent 2014 sponsor)
Fluent is the best place to see the current state of the web and where it is headed in the future."
–Dan Goodwin, MCNC
Fluent was one of the best parts of the year. The information you will take away from this conference will set you up for the whole year and beyond. I will take away so much from this event and excited to implement all the neat ideas in my workplace!"
–Daniel Wetteroth, Oppenheimerfunds
Great to see women developers rocking at #fluentconf. @LeaVerou preso on RegEx was awesome. I really needed that."
–Brendellya Thomas, @brendellya
I loved the networking that I got while I was there. I have never had a chance to rub shoulders with so many of the leading JS engineers. Fluent conference solidified itself in my mind as a great center for modern web development and disruption."
–Aaron Frost
The conference was a difference maker / eye-opener for me. The richness of the community is something that cannot be comprehended from a remote location. Working and talking with the folks who know today and are our visionaries makes me very excited to be a part of the community."
–Don Schaefer, ePlus

Program Chairs

Rachel Roumeliotis

Rachel Roumeliotis, a Strategic Content Director at O'Reilly Media, Inc., leads an editorial team that covers a wide variety of programming topics ranging from full-stack, to open source in the enterprise, to emerging programming languages. She is a Programming Chair of OSCON and O'Reilly's Software Architecture Conference. She has been working in technical publishing for 10 years, acquiring content in many areas including mobile programming, UX, computer security, and AI.

Ally MacDonald (O'Reilly)

Ally MacDonald

Ally MacDonald is an editor at O'Reilly Media focusing on web and programming content, especially JavaScript and server-side web technologies. Before coming to O'Reilly, she worked in higher education publishing with a focus on computer science topics.

Kyle Simpson (Getify Solutions)

Kyle Simpson

Kyle Simpson is an evangelist of the open web, passionate about all things JavaScript. He writes books, teaches JavaScript, speaks, and contributes to the world of OSS.

Tammy Everts (SOASTA)

Tammy Everts

Tammy Everts is chief experience officer at SpeedCurve, where she helps companies understand how visitors use their websites. She has spent the past two decades studying how people use the web. Since 2009, she’s focused on the intersection between web performance, user experience, and business metrics. Tammy's book, Time Is Money: The Business Value of Web Performance (O’Reilly, 2016), is a distillation of much of this research (but there’s always more to be learned). She cocurates (with Tim Kadlec) WPO Stats, a collection of performance case studies.

Program committee

  • Aaron Peters, TurboBytes
  • Adam Baldwin, &Yet
  • Alicia Sedlock, Society of Grownups
  • Andy Davies, NCC Group
  • Aure Moser, Mozilla
  • Barbara Bermes, Mozilla
  • Ben Henick, Independent
  • Ben Vinegar, Sentry
  • Betty Tso, Amazon
  • Billy Hoffman, Rigor
  • Brian Anderson, O'Reilly
  • Brian Belhumeur, Craigslist
  • Brian Rinaldi, Telerik
  • Chris Love, Independent
  • Courtney Nash, O'Reilly
  • Doris Chen, Microsoft
  • Elijah Manor, LeanKit
  • Emily Nakashima, Bugsnag
  • Estelle Weyl, Instart Logic
  • Fred Beringer, Shutterfly
  • Harald Kirschner, Mozilla
  • Henri-Robert Brisard, Forge
  • Holly Schinsky, PhoneGap at Adobe
  • Kent Dodds, Paypal
  • Kim Crayton, Independent
  • Jarrod Overson, Shape Security
  • Jeroen Tjepkema, MeasureWorks
  • Mary Treseler, O'Reilly
  • Meg Foley, O'Reilly
  • Miguel Grinberg, Rackspace
  • Mike Amundsen, API Academy
  • Mike Hostetler, Rent Like a Champion
  • Nic Jansma, SOASTA
  • Pat Meenan, Google
  • Peter Cooper, Cooper Press
  • Rachel Andrew, Independent
  • Raymond Camden, IBM
  • Shelley Powers, Independent
  • Stoyan Stefanov, Facebook
  • Tim Kadlec, Akamai

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