On the 19th of June, Sopra Steria will be hosting the third iteration of the Frontend
Festival! Join us for an evening of drinks, talks and workshops about various topics in the
world of opensource Frontend development.
Last year we had a blast and got together with over a hundred Frontend enthusiasts from around
the Utrecht area. Join us for dinner, get inspired by the talks and stay for the company.
Speaker schedule
The following schedule is not final and is subject to change.
17:00
Walk-in and dinner
18:30
Keynote
by Jad Joubran
19:15
Beyond Chatbots: Engineering AI Experiences That Users Actually Love
by Stacy Cashmore
19:45
Break
20:00
Welcome to the world of agentic frontend builders
by Roelant Dieben
20:30
DDD Full Stack – from Front to Back
by Frederieke Scheper & Peter Eijgermans
21:00
Wrap-up & Drinks
22:00
Closing
Speakers
Jad Joubran
Web Performance Consultant & Educator
Jad is an independent web performance consultant and educator. He has taught more than 15,000 developers through online platforms, in-person training, and university lectures. He's also the creator of learnjavascript.online and several other courses. Jad was recognized by Google with the Developer Expert award for his contributions to the web community. He focuses on making Modern Web development enjoyable, clear, and accessible.
Stacy Cashmore
Tech Explorer DevOps
Omniplan
Speaker, author, and software developer. Stacy has been developing solutions since the mid-1990s in various companies and industries ranging from facilitating contract jobbing to allowing consumers to close a mortgage without the help of a financial adviser – with lots in between.
She has a passion for sharing knowledge: using storytelling for sharing her experiences to help teams grow in the ways that they develop software and work together and performing live coding demonstrations to inspire others to try new technologies.
Stacy published her first book in 2022, aimed at helping developers get started building dynamic applications using C#, Azure Functions, and Azure Static Web Apps. She is currently busy updating it for a second edition with new SWA functionality and using .NET 9.
For her effort in the community, Stacy has been awarded the Microsoft MVP for Developer Technologies since 2020.
Peter Eijgermans
Sopra Steria
Peter Eijgermans is a long-time software developer and an adventurous and passionate CodeSmith Frontend at Sopra Steria (Ordina). He likes to travel around the world with his bike. Always seeking for the unexpected and unknown. For his job he tries out the latest techniques and frameworks. He loves to share his experience by speaking at conferences all over the World and writing for the Dutch Java magazine and DZone. He believes that you as the front-end developer are the spider in the web to bring the user, the team and the product together.
Frederieke Scheper
Java Architect and CodeSmith
Sopra Steria
With more than 20 years of enterprise Java experience, Frederieke has worked with all the usual technologies in the Java ecosystem. Her expertise includes reactive messaging systems, Kafka, JAX-RS, JSON binding, Java persistence, Spring, and various front-end technologies. Since functional languages emerged on the JVM, she began working on big data and fast data technologies using Python, Java, and Scala. Outside work, she is actively contributing to the Java Meetup in Groningen (NL).
Roelant Dieben
Cloud & AI architect
Sopra Steria
With over 20 years of experience developing software on the Microsoft stack, Roelant Dieben has a lot to share about stuff that has been obsolete for years. At Sopra Steria he is helping companies with their Azure cloud and AI challenges, he is a Microsoft Azure & AI MVP, and has a passion for machine learning & AI and application lifecycle management.