EmberFest is the European Community Ember Conference. If you’re looking for updates on the latest and greatest in Ember and Glimmer this is the place to be. EmberFest is also a great opportunity to get in touch with the European Ember Community (and friends from abroad) and hiring Ember talent.
Thursday, September 18
Times are local to Brussels (CEST)
| 09:00—10:00 | Doors open & Breakfast |
| 10:00—10:30 | Opening Keynote – Yehuda Katz |
| 10:45—11:15 | Building Products for the Next Billion: Frontend Lessons from the Edge – Roosevelt Elias |
| 11:30—12:00 | Multi-framework mashup - making other frameworks work in Ember – Nick Schot |
| 12:00—13:30 | Lunch |
| 13:30—14:00 | WarpDrive | The Making of a Polaris Application – Chris Thoburn (aka. runspired) |
| 14:15—14:45 | The Frontend City – Thomas Gossmann |
| 15:00—15:30 | Agent Tomster: Ember, GenAI & the Future of Frontend Engineering – Alon Bukai |
| 15:30—16:00 | Snack break |
| 16:00—16:30 | Getting Tech Work the Attention It Deserves (No More Excuses!) – Aoife Hannigan |
| 16:45—17:15 | Unlocking Ember’s future with the Ember Initiative – Chris Manson – , Marine Dunstetter |
| 17:30—18:15 | WarpDrive Workshop – Chris Thoburn (aka. runspired) |
Friday, September 19
Times are local to Brussels (CEST)
| 09:00—10:00 | Doors open & Breakfast |
| 10:00—10:30 | Layers of Accessibility for Scale & Profit – Melanie Sumner |
| 10:45—11:15 | WarpDrive: Set Data to Stun – Krystan HuffMenne |
| 11:30—12:00 | Lies, Damned Lies, and Virtual Modules – Gabor Babicz |
| 12:00—13:30 | Lunch |
| 13:30—14:00 | Everywhere – there are no limits – Preston Sego (aka. nullvoxpopuli) |
| 14:15—14:45 | So you want to change Ember? – Anne-Greeth Schot-van Herwijnen |
| 15:00—15:30 | A Practical Intro to ReactiveResources & Schema‑Driven Data Handling – Mehul Kiran Chaudhari |
| 15:30—16:00 | Snack break |
| 16:00—16:30 | Lightning Talks |
| 16:45—17:15 | ember(): adventures with Ember in an imperative world – Arne Bertrand |
| 17:30—18:00 | Closing Keynote – Edward Faulkner |
| 18:30—23:00 | Party at the venue 🎉 |
This year’s EmberFest will take place at the Royal Flemish Theater (KVS) in the heart of Brussels. We will be based in the building's TOP and TOPBAR gorgeously renovated event rooms.
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