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Brendan Eich and the Browser’s Second Draft
JavaScript gave web pages a pulse. Three decades later, its creator is trying to give web users more control over what the browser reveals, remembers, and decides.
Eric Bailey
Eric Bailey is a Boston-based accessibility advocate, designer, writer, developer, and speaker. As a staff designer on GitHub's Primer design system, he works to make component libraries genuinely usable for people relying on assistive technologies. He is the longtime lead redesigner and maintainer of The A11Y Project, has published more than 200 articles across publications like CSS-Tricks, Smashing Magazine, and the GitHub Blog, and is a fixture on the conference circuit. His guiding line: if it's inaccessible, it is neither radical nor revolutionary.
Hidde de Vries
Hidde de Vries is a Dutch front-end, design systems and web accessibility specialist who works on web standards for the Dutch government and sits on the W3C's Advisory Board. A co-editor of WCAG and WCAG-EM and a former Mozilla, W3C and Sanity contributor, he writes prolifically at hidde.blog about making technology work for humans, and is a regular conference speaker across Europe.
Lea Verou
Lea Verou is a Greek-American web standards leader, MIT researcher, and creator tools advocate whose fingerprints are on the web itself. She has designed web technologies now baked into every major browser, built 30+ open-source projects with nearly 2 billion npm downloads (including PrismJS and Color.js), authored the bestselling CSS Secrets (O'Reilly, 2015), and served as an elected W3C Technical Architecture Group member. A PhD candidate at MIT CSAIL in Human-Computer Interaction and Programming Language Design, she consults for Google, Mozilla, and Stripe, leads the State of HTML survey, and has delivered 100+ conference talks worldwide - always live-coding.
Paul Kinlan
Paul Kinlan is the Lead for Chrome and Web Platform Developer Relations at Google, where he has spent over 16 years championing the open web. From growing up watching his dad repair computers on the Wirral in North West England, to launching Google Web Fundamentals, killing the 300ms click delay, and shepherding tools like Lighthouse, Squoosh, and Workbox into developers' hands, Kinlan has been the web's tireless advocate inside one of its most influential companies. Now he is turning his lens toward AI's impact on the web through his newsletter and blog AI Focus.
Scott Jehl
Scott Jehl is a Senior Software Engineer on the Web Performance team at Squarespace, a 20-year veteran of the front-end web who helped define modern responsive and performant design. He authored 'Responsible Responsive Design' (A Book Apart, 2014) and co-authored 'Designing with Progressive Enhancement' (2010), created foundational open-source tools like Respond.js, loadCSS, and Picturefill, and recently led the effort that brought lazy loading to HTML video and audio elements - an official web standard as of March 2026. He speaks globally, teaches online, and believes the web should work fast for everyone, everywhere.
Una Kravets
Una Kravets is a Staff Developer Relations Engineer at Google Chrome, leading the UI & Tooling DevRel team. She is one of the most influential voices in modern CSS and web standards, having championed features like container queries, anchor positioning, scroll-driven animations, and customizable select menus. A prolific speaker at 80+ conferences worldwide, co-host of The CSS Podcast, and creator of CSSgram, Una bridges the gap between browser engineering and the developer community with a mission to make the web platform better for everyone.