
Welcome words by our MCs
Tim Kadlec; Phil Hawksworth MCs

How Fast Is Fast Enough?
Tammy Everts Chief Experience Officer SpeedCurve
It sounds like a simple question, but if you've been working in performance long enough, you know the answer is far from straightforward. In this Day 1 keynote, Tammy asks questions—from neuroscience to business metrics—that get you thinking about how you create, measure, and report your performance goals.

How to Think Like a Performance Engineer
Harry Roberts Consultant Web Performance Engineer
As awareness and tooling around site speed have been improving at a very exciting rate, has performance testing actually become any easier? In this talk, we'll look at practical tools and workflows so every test has a purpose and provides actionable, reliable data.

Accessibility and Performance
Marcy Sutton Todd Senior Engineer Khan Academy
What if performance meant more than speed — what if it included how intuitively and equitably people can interact with your website? This session takes a practical look at how designing for accessibility contributes to more responsive, usable experiences, especially for disabled users, with ways to measure beyond load speed.

Big Data, Zero JS: Cross-Browser Virtual scrolling
Michael Hladky CEO PushBased
CSS content-visibility is a powerful tool that bypasses unnecessary rendering for offscreen content, drastically improving load times and responsiveness. This talk demonstrates benchmarks, practical techniques for content‑rich environments, and case studies.

Fast, green, responsible
Ines Akrap Solutions Engineer Storyblok
Performance work has always been about speed, but speed is only part of the story. This session explores why faster sites are greener sites, practical principles from the W3C Sustainable Web Guidelines, and ideas like carbon‑aware websites that adapt to grid intensity.

Modern Performance Workflows
Umar Hansa Independent developer
Covers recent browser DevTools features and how AI assistance in DevTools can speed up your debugging workflow. Learn about automated workflows using coding agents, DevTools protocol automation, MCP, and CI/CD integration to catch performance issues before production.

Making Performance Allies
Ethan Gardner Engineer Flexion / Independent
Web performance data often serves as a proxy for key business metrics. This talk offers practical tips on presenting engineering data as competitive advantage to build alliances and make performance optimization a strategic priority.