ReactJS Göteborg

## 📅 Meetup Agenda

18:00 — Doors Open & Mingle
Casual arrival, food/drinks, networking.
18:30 — Welcome & Introduction (Stephen)
Short intro from Stephen.
18:35 — Talk 1: We Could Be Free: Making Software Sovereign
Mikael Vesavuori
Exploring software sovereignty, European independence, and future ecosystem models.
Ends: 19:20
19:35 — Break & Mingle (15 min)
Stretch legs, discuss first talk, refreshments.
19:50 — Talk 2: A Pragmatic Testing Strategy for React Native Apps
Simon Nielsen Kilborn
Balancing effort vs confidence in automated testing + Maestro demo.
Ends: 20:30
20:30 — Open Mingle / Networking
Stay, chat, debate sovereignty, testing, or cartoons — all valid.

The torches flicker in the great hall of software craft…
Tonight, we gather at a crossroads.
On one path lies sovereignty — the ancient question of who truly controls the tools that shape our world. From the early guilds of software makers, through empires of platforms and clouds, to a present moment where nations themselves question their digital independence… we are asked to decide:
Do we remain tenants… or do we become builders of our own realm?
On the other path lies confidence — not in kingdoms, but in code.
For what is software without trust?
What is velocity without certainty?
Here we explore the art of testing not as ritual, nor dogma, but as strategy — choosing wisely where to invest effort, and where automation becomes our most loyal companion. With tools like Maestro, we turn chaos into choreography.
Two talks.
One shared truth:
Power comes from understanding the systems we depend on —
and from choosing, deliberately, how we build and verify the future.
So step forward.
Ask questions.
Challenge assumptions.
And maybe — just maybe — we leave tonight a little more sovereign… and a little more confident in the code we send into the world.
/Stephen ...

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Talks:
We Could Be Free: Making Software Sovereign - Mikael Vesavuori

Software is a key resource for our modern society and the businesses in it—a resource that has since the beginning created tension between producers, distributors and consumers of it. Recently, our current political climate has triggered many organizations to investigate how ”sovereign” they are and how dependent they are on specifically US technology. However, the focus has often been myopic, with a dominant focus on individual aspects such as data residency, rather than looking at the wider implications on independence and sovereignty for software.

The presentation steps through the overall history of the software economy and reflects on the implications for a crippled Europe, lacking urgency and options in a truly dire time, before considering how China has tackled a similar challenge. Then we’ll proceed to look at new models, technologies, and concepts that change the playing field: novel business models, independent software, EU hyperscalers, microscaler clouds and more.

Mikael Vesavuori is Product Manager (AI, IAM, Storage) at evroc, Europe’s new hyperscaler cloud. He was previously Technical Standards Lead at Polestar and has a history with several of West Sweden’s largest companies. Outside of work, he builds open source, is a serial builder/founder as well as writes about software.

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A pragmatic testing strategy for React Native apps - Simon Nielsen Kilborn

Do you also struggle with getting the most out of your automated test? I will present my thoughts on how to reason about what and how to test, balancing effort and confidence. I will also demo a Maestro setup that you can try out for your application.