CITYJS 2021 — A JS Virtual in-Person-Event

Aristos Markogiannakis
CITYJS CONFERENCE
Published in
3 min readJan 23, 2021

CITYJS2020 was finally a go, during the first day we made available our event to over 3000 people and we introduced our very first interactive virtual event with 25 speakers from all 5 continents. Using Remo was a good way to get everyone on the same virtual room and get ourselves connected again. This year we are taking one step forward!

35 Speakers — 5 continents

We welcome back our CityJS alumni speakers, Maya Savin, Luciano Mammino, Matteo Collina, Dylan Schiemann, Debbie O’Brien. In addition to those speakers, we have added some well-known speakers such as:

  • Natalia Tepluhina — VueJS Core
  • Nader Dabit — AWS — React Native Elements Contributor
  • Guillermo Rauch — CEO at Vercel, NextJS
  • Beth Griggs — NodeJS TSC

plus many more.. you can see all of them on our website.

A virtual in-person event

We have teamed up with GatherTown to produce an ever closer experience to in-person-events for everyone. Inside our venue we will have two amphitheatres:

  • Main JS Stage — Speakers such as Guillermo Rauch, Gleb Bahmutov, Natalia Tepluhina, Debbie O’Brien, Dylan Schiemann will be sharing the latest in our beloved JS Language.
  • Expo Tools Stage — companies such as CircleCI, CouchDB, Auth0, Clerk will present their latest toolkit

In addition, we will have 5 workshops in the following areas

  • TypeScript Starter by Tamas Piros (Cloudinary and Author of Introduction to TypeScript) — 4 hours in order to get you in speed
  • Diving into TypeScript by Ethan Arrowood (Microsoft)
  • Svelte from Zero to Hero — 4 hours from zero to hero by Tan Li Hau (Svelte Contributor)
  • NodeJS Streams — 4 hours workshop by Luciano Mammino (Author of NodeJS Design Patterns — Top 4 NodeJS books for this year)
  • Implement Security in NextJS — 4 hours workshop by ClerkDev team
  • Authentication, authorisation and security for modern client-side applications by Kati Frantz
  • Building Fullstack with React, Express, Apollo by Eric Bishard (Couchbase)

More will be added later on…stay tuned!

Virtual In-Person Event

We will be using the virtual in-person conference platform Gather Town, which has been garnering excellent reviews recently and brightening up online conferences and meetings across the globe.

https://www.youtube.com/embed/miYv0BvDuVE

We have teamed up with a team of architects to help us design our own custom layout that will help us provide the best experience.

The Auditorium of the conference
The lounge area of the conference

Prices

We kept our prices low this year down to 30 pounds per person for 3 days, as you know this event is a non-profit. All funding and money we make from tickets go towards the production of the event which includes licenses for software, online tools

You can get your tickets on our website

CityJS is a GO!

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Aristos Markogiannakis
CITYJS CONFERENCE

CityJS Conference Founder/Organiser - Developer - Lecturer