Fronteers NL at Capgemini Utrecht

On Thursday 12 September we are heading over to Utrecht where we are being welcomed by Capgemini for an interesting evening at their offices.
More info will be disclosed as we near the event date. So keep an eye out for updates!

Evening Program

• ​17h30 - Doors open & start of networking + food
• ​18h30 - Introduction by Fronteers NL & Capgemini
• 18h50 - Talk #1: Bart Kooijman about highly performant websites
• 19h30 - ----- Break -----
• 19h50 - Talk #2: Sanne Peters about efficient components in design systems
• 20h30 - Drinks and networking
• 21h00 - End

About Capgemini
Capgemini partners with companies to transform and manage their business by unlocking the value of technology.
Working at Capgemini also means working in the international heart of innovation. The premier league of technology. An employer with an eye for you and its sights set on the future, in which sustainability and diversity and inclusion play key roles.

Talk 1: Turbocharging your website: New developments in web performance
In this talk Bart Kooijman will share his and the industry’s latest learnings, tips, and tricks about building highly performant web sites. He will discuss some of the latest web platform API’s focused on improving performance such as the transition API, speculation rules API and Long Animation Frames API (LoAF). He will also share some of his own findings when it comes to optimizing NextJS based web app performance and how it is influenced by cloud infrastructure.

About Bart Kooijman
Bart Kooijman is a full stack developer and architect at Capgemini, specializing in building web-based commerce and marketing solutions using Java, Kotlin, HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. With a focus on content management, search, and web performance, Bart plays an important role in the development and optimization of three of the largest ecommerce sites in the Benelux.

Talk 2: Building efficient components in design systems
Building UI components is a common practice these days, but in design systems it is necessary to think deeper and better about component architecture and their re-usability. In this talk I will dive deeper into some of the practices and methods that we have adopted and developed to build components in the most effective way.

About Sanne Peters
Sanne is a Front-end architect and designer at Bankai BV. Coming from a bio-informatics background, she now mostly works at the intersection of design and development, building Design Systems. Besides that she also works on translating complex data into data visualizations.

About Fronteers
Fronteers is a Dutch community for front-end professionals. Our goal is to foster an inclusive and welcoming environment. If you have witnessed, or experienced any unacceptal behavior or remarks at one of our events, please reach out to someone in our team of event hosts/organisers.