04–05 April 2019, Kraków
App.js Conf
The very first Expo & React Native conference in Europe
The regular price of a conference ticket
is €202,95 (VAT included).
Conference ticket does not include workshops.
EXPO
BEYOND REACT NATIVE
A hands-on two-day conference with workshops and talks on React Native from Expo and Software Mansion.
Mobile apps are everywhere, React Native helps to build them easier. But is there a life beyond React Native? If you want to know how to speed up mobile apps development, join us at our event!
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WORKSHOPS

Without navigation, your app would just be a single screen. Navigation is a central concept to mobile apps – tab bars, drawers, modals, and transitioning to new screens, in general, are all navigation concepts. In this…

Are you completely new to React and React Native? This is the workshop for you. We will get you up and running, teach you how to use the core components like View, Text, Image, ScrollView, and TextInput, you will learn how to…

Gestures and animations are a broad subject where an advanced development and a complex logic meets very high UX requirements, and these encounters appear to…

React Native’s libraries ecosystem constantly grows and you can achieve more and more just writing JS code. However, sometimes you may encounter an API or a library that hasn’t been exported to RN environment yet. What to do?

In this workshop we’ll build “Traveler“, a serverless GraphQL React Native app that includes features like user-authentication & fine-grained access control.

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Who’s speaking?
Charlie Cheever
Expo

Charlie Cheever
Charlie Cheever is the cofounder of Expo. He previously cofounded the knowledge sharing community Quora and worked at Facebook and Amazon. He grew up in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA, and learned to program to make computer games.Brent Vatne
Expo

Brent Vatne
Engineer that works at Expo, contributes to React Native, and maintains of React Navigation. Lives in Vancouver, BC, Canada.Krzysztof Magiera
Software Mansion

Krzysztof Magiera
Ex-facebooker and co-creator of React Native. Now as a head of mobile at Software Mansion working on performance-focused improvements for animations and gesture handling to React Native and Expo.Nader Dabit
Amazon Web Services

Nader Dabit
Nader Dabit is the author of React Native In Action, the host of React Native Radio & works as a Developer Advocate for Amazon Web Services. He has been developing applications with React Native since April 2015. In addition to developing React Native applications, he has also trained companies like American Express, Amazon, Intuit, Visa, Microsoft & ClassPass how to build production-ready React Native applications.Peter Piekarczyk
Draftbit

Peter Piekarczyk
One of Expo's first users! Engineer at Draftbit making it easy for non-technical folks to build Expo apps. Addicted to coffee and early morning road cycling. Lives in Chicago, IL.Evan Bacon
Expo

Evan Bacon
Lego prodigy from the most American of states, Texas. After impressing Expo with the games he built and shared on Twitter, he joined the company and continued working on Expo graphics libraries as well as AR APIs, other projects that push the limits of what can be done with React Native, and making Expo play nicely with Firebase. Lives in Palo Alto, California.Stanisław Chmiela
Software Mansion

Stanisław Chmiela
Ville Immonen
Expo

Ville Immonen
Jovial yet stoic Finnish engineer at Expo with a passion for working on developer tools. Prior to working with Expo he founded Reindex, a hosted GraphQL service. He now works on Expo developer tools such as expo-cli and its accompanying web interface. Lives in Helsinki, Finland.Quinlan Jung
Expo

Quinlan Jung
An eccentric computer scientist with a MSc from Stanford and experience working at Amazon prior to joining Expo. Highlights from her time at Expo including rebuilding the user account system from scratch to improve reliability and designing and building release channels. Most recently she has been working on self-hosting Expo apps. Lives in Palo Alto, California.Satyajit Sahoo
Callstack

Satyajit Sahoo
Talented engineer with an eye for design that works at the Polish software development agency Callstack. He works on the in-browser React Native development environment Snack and other client projects for Callstack. He also contributes to React Native and React Navigation, and maintains react-native-paper, react-native-tab-view, and linaria, among other projects. Lives in Wrocław, Poland.Tomasz Sapeta
Software Mansion

Tomasz Sapeta
True JS lover, scuba diver & a photographer devoted to bicycle training but first of all Software Mansioner for more than three years. Crafted multiple apps with React & React Native. Co-creator of projects used by more than a million people. Deeply involved in Expo’s development – SDK (WebGL and MediaLibrary in particular). Shares his knowledge at various workshops.Michał Osadnik
Software Mansion

Michał Osadnik
AGH UST Computer Science Student and a Software Mansioner who spent last year on developing mobile apps in react-native and contributed into react-native-gesture-handler and react-native-reanimated. React Native lover. Rides a bike, plays guitar, loves literature and poetry from 19th & beginning of 20th centuries as well as theoretical computer science and movies which everyone considers boring. Knows how to tame mobile devices (both iOS and Android). Gets satisfaction from making things work and discovering how they work.William Candillon
Independent developer

William Candillon
Independent software engineer. Author of youtube vlog series “Can it be done in React Native?”Tomasz Sochacki
DreamLab

Tomasz Sochacki
IT manager at DreamLab – IT development hub for Ringier Axel Springer Polska and RASM AG. He gained his professional experience in companies like Microsoft, HP and Axel Springer in different IT roles. Currently responsible for mobile apps development in RASP -, he's turning a mobile strategy into everyday reality for millions of users.Michał Czernek
DreamLab

Michał Czernek
Mobile Developer with Android at heart. Spent a recent few years developing and delivering native apps for multiple companies. He has recently turned to React Native and shipped his first commercial RN app with his team at DreamLab. Addicted to sweets and fruits, tries to burn all that energy playing squash and football.Catalin Miron
Skype

Catalin Miron
React, React Native, GraphQL and OS enthusiast. Currently working for Skype.Josh Hargreaves
Bloomberg

Josh Hargreaves
Mobile developer from the UK working at Bloomberg in New York. Keen athlete and marathon runner. Loves all things react-native and really excited about the future of mobile.




Sponsors
is the company that stands behind the free, open source project that extends React Native – a popular library that lets you control the native UI components on iOS and Android using JavaScript.
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The conference will take place at Qubus Hotel Kraków, located next to Vistula River and the beautiful old Jewish district of Kazimierz.

Qubus Hotel Kraków
Nadwiślańska 6
30-527 Kraków

Software Mansion
Kraków, Poland
contact@appjs.co