Convince Your Boss

It focuses on the practical side of JavaScript: performance, architecture, maintainability, and the day-to-day decisions that shape products long after they ship.

The conference covers modern frontend challenges as they exist in real products. This includes:

• Performance and loading behavior in real browsers
• Accessibility as part of everyday development
• Managing complexity in growing UI codebases
• State, architecture, and long-term maintainability

ZurichJS Conf treats JavaScript as a full-stack language. Talks cover:

• Backend architecture and system boundaries
• APIs and data contracts
• Performance across the full request lifecycle
• Tooling, testing, and reliability
• Operating JavaScript systems in production

Many sessions focus on how frontend and backend choices affect each other. That leads to clearer APIs, fewer integration issues, and better collaboration across teams.

ZurichJS Conf speakers are experienced engineers who actively build and maintain real systems. Many of them work on production applications, developer tooling, frameworks, well known tech podcasts and libraries used by teams every day.

What makes this valuable:

• Talks are based on real-world constraints, not idealized setups
• Speakers share trade-offs and failures
• You hear what actually worked and what didn't in production

This means learning directly from people who have already solved problems similar to the ones we face, and understanding the consequences of technical decisions over time.

ZurichJS Conf is not just about listening to talks — it's about direct access to the people shaping the tools, practices, and standards of the JavaScript ecosystem.

Attendees have dedicated opportunities to:

• Interact directly with speakers during breaks and social events
• Ask in-depth questions about real-world architecture and trade-offs
• Get feedback from people who are recognized voices in their stack or field
• Build relationships with engineers influencing frameworks, tooling, and best practices

Many speakers are the main contributors, maintainers, or thought leaders behind the technologies teams rely on daily. Having direct conversations with them provides context, insights, and perspectives that go far beyond what's possible through talks, blog posts, or documentation alone.

This access turns the conference into a high-value knowledge exchange — not just passive learning, but active engagement with the people defining where the ecosystem is heading.

• More maintainable codebases
• Better performance and reliability
• Smarter architectural decisions
• Reduced technical debt
• Stronger collaboration across frontend and backend

After the conference, attendees can bring the most relevant insights back to the team with concrete examples, ideas, and improvements we can realistically apply.

ZurichJS Conf helps teams build systems that last across frontend and backend. That's good engineering. And good business.