09:30
Portrait of Tim Kadlec; Phil Hawksworth

Welcome words by our MCs

Tim Kadlec; Phil Hawksworth MCs

09:40
Portrait of Tammy Everts

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.

10:00
Portrait of Harry Roberts

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.

11:30
Portrait of Marcy Sutton Todd

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.

12:20
Portrait of Michael Hladky

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.

14:40
Portrait of Ines Akrap

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.

15:30
Portrait of Umar Hansa

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.

17:10
Portrait of Ethan Gardner

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.