"Optimizing Agents for Front-End Experimentation" by Ben Odisho & Mike Bosch

Get ready, React Chicago community! 🚀
We're back with another evening of great talks, great people, and great conversation. Join us at the iconic Merchandise Mart for an evening focused on one of the most exciting frontiers in front-end development right now: AI agents and experimentation.

Featured Talks

🎤 Optimizing Agents for Front-End Experimentation
Speakers: Benjamin Odisho & Mike Bosch
Benjamin and Mike will dive into how teams are leveraging AI agents to supercharge front-end experimentation workflows. Expect practical insights, real-world patterns, and plenty of takeaways you can bring back to your own codebase.

🎤 "I Wanna Go Fast": Exploring Lazy Loading on the front-end by Krystian Szorc
Channeling his inner Ricky Bobby, Krystian will explore how lazy loading can dramatically speed up your front-end. He'll walk through the patterns, pitfalls, and practical techniques for deferring what you can and shipping only what users actually need, when they actually need it.

🎤 "How to Improve React Page Performance" by Gavin Lewis and Krish Bavana
Gavin and Krish will share battle-tested strategies for squeezing better performance out of your React apps. From identifying common bottlenecks to applying targeted optimizations, you'll leave with a practical checklist you can run against your own pages on Monday morning.

🎤 "Teaching a coding agent to write on-demand data apps in React" by Rohit Pujari
Coding agents generate React fine until the app has to query production data, respect permissions, and not hallucinate a column. In this talk I'll discuss why prompt-only agents drift, and how treating a React app as a typed intent graph makes generation safe.

What to Expect
• 🍕 Food & drinks provided
• 🤝 Networking with Chicago's React community
• 💡 Talks from local engineers building cool stuff
• 🏢 No building security check-in needed, we'll meet you by the elevator on the 18th floor and get you settled

Logistics
When you arrive at the Merchandise Mart, head up to the 18th floor. We'll have someone stationed by the elevator to greet you and point you toward the room, which will be set up right by the door for easy access.

RSVP
Save your spot now! Whether you're a seasoned React veteran or just getting started, all are welcome. This is one of Chicago's biggest front-end communities (5,000+ strong) and we'd love to see you there.

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