Gant Laborde
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what they talk about
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where they keep going back
- Connect.Tech3 editions2021–2024
- React Native EU3 editions2017–2020
- Chain React3 editions2017–2026
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on a stage with
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who talks about the same things
- Jani Eväkallio18 talks
- Christopher Chedeau18 talks
- Mo Khazali15 talks
- Ken Wheeler24 talks
- Kadi Kraman26 talks
- Jen Luker12 talks
| title | conference | date |
|---|---|---|
| Welcome | Chain React 2026 | 2026-07-29 |
Conference opens with a welcome that names the co-producers Infinite Red, Expo, React Foundation, explains on-site logistics (bathrooms, captioning code, Wi‑Fi… | ||
| The Reverse Magic Trick | App.js Conf 2026 | 2026-05-27 |
A live “reverse magic” demo wires a phone camera and human reviewers to AI image generation to recreate an audience volunteer holding a chosen card; the… | ||
| Live stream from Day 2 | App.js Conf 2026 | 2026-05-27 |
Day two stitches together practical launches and demos: an unofficial Expo Desktop: create app + pre-build CLI that cuts macOS/Windows setup from an hour to… | ||
| Keynote - Hacking AI How to Survive the AI Uprising | Devnexus 2026 | 2026-03-04 |
Walks through concrete attacks and defenses: jailbreaks like copyable DAN prompts and a greedy coordinate gradient exploit that is reported 100% effective… | ||
| Hacking AI - How to Survive the AI Uprising | Connect.Tech 2024 | 2024-11-18 |
Shows concrete attacks and defenses: early white‑text resume tricks fail but simple hidden tokens like greedy coordinate gradients and the Open Sesame… | ||
| Influence - Witchcraft and Wizardry | Connect.Tech 2024 | 2024-11-18 |
Specific language moves outcomes: saying because raises compliance cutting in line from ~60% to ~94% (a nonsense reason still works), matching requests yields… | ||
| The React Native Paradox | Chain React 2024 | 2024-07-17 |
History and timeline claim that React Native starts as a 2015 hackathon proof of concept and grows into production tooling used by Meta Amazon Microsoft and… | ||
| React Native Ignite: Building an AI app | App.js Conf 2024 | 2024-05-22 |
A working Expo React Native app that scans documents using react-native-mlkit document scanner and Google on-device ML Kit, detects rectangles, crops/rotates… | ||
| Live stream from Day 2 | App.js Conf 2024 | 2024-05-22 |
A tiny React Native layout bug actually reveals Yoga’s assumptions: text measured with a full-screen constraint because the icon size hasn’t propagated up the… | ||
| From Your Perspective - A Nerdy Journey | VueConf US 2024 | 2024-05-15 |
Client needs phone OCR to read insurance cards at weird angles; development takes about a month of math and ends with a working demo that warps photographed… | ||
| Two Keys to AI's Future | Vueconf.US 2023 | 2023-05-24 |
Two concrete claims: AI goes wide and needs a guide (service integrations, model CI/CD, A/B metrics) and AI goes far into edge devices (prediction: $12.22B… | ||
| AI in React JS | Connect.Tech 2022 | 2022-11-07 |
Live demos show client-side ML running in JavaScript with TensorFlow.js and TF Hub models (MobileNet, BlazePose) and a 4 MB NSFW model that hits ~93% accuracy… | ||
| Interview with Gant Laborde | React Advanced 2022 | 2022-10-21 |
Claims that Ignite Maverick v8 adds recipe sharing to help migrate to the new React Native architecture and shows concrete community adoption with 14,000 stars… | ||
| React Native: 2022 & Beyond | Reactathon 2022 | 2022-05-03 |
Roadmap for React Native upgrades and why they matter: React Native moves off the single-threaded JSON bridge toward JSI direct access, replacing serialization… | ||
| AI in Web: TensorFlow js | Devnexus 2022 | 2022-04-12 |
Uses TensorFlow.js and models from TensorFlow Hub (MobileNet SSD v2, BlazePose 3D) to run browser-side inference at roughly 34 FPS, with model sizes from ~2–20… | ||
| JavaScript on Apple TV | Connect.Tech 2021 | 2021-11-08 |
Demo shows JavaScript running on Apple TV via React Native with hot module reloading working on a real device, and basic UI built from… | ||
| Adventures in Javascript Machine Learning | Developers Summit 2021 | 2021-02-18 |
Claims that Google had over 4,000 TensorFlow models in production by 2017 and that ML can run on the client underpin concrete demos: a browser webcam sentiment… | ||
| JavaScript Machine Learning from Magic to Science | Devnexus 2021 | 2021-02-17 |
Uses TensorFlow.js and Google’s QuickDraw dataset to build a 10-class “sorting hat” classifier trained from ~10,000 sketches per class reduced to ~8–9k usable… | ||
| Artificial Intelligence vs. Natural Stupidity | HalfStack Online 2020 | 2020-10-02 |
A set of silly experiments applies practical models to toy problems: a pre-trained TensorFlow.js model predicts FizzBuzz by converting 1–100 into tensors and… | ||
| Who Said It? | React Native EU 2020 | 2020-09-03 |
An app called Who Said It exists as a working React Native game that records anonymous quotes, randomizes them for live team guessing, and enforces scoped… | ||
| Join the Revolution | JSDay 2019 | 2019-05-08 |
An open source indecent‑content checker NSFW JS gets trained for weeks on a home machine and runs entirely in the browser using TensorFlow.js (examples also… | ||
| Testing, Testing, 1, 2, NaN | React Alicante 2018 | 2018-09-13 |
Argues that testing myths are false and shows concrete tooling and tradeoffs: unit tests with Jest and fetch-mock, snapshot tests via Storybook, property… | ||
| Taming the Machine (feat. Nicolas Cage) | React Native EU 2018 | 2018-09-05 |
Live demo of a React Native camera app that runs iOS Vision classifiers via react-native-vision and a custom face model, trained by scraping celebrity images… | ||
| Interviews with Speakers | React Native EU 2018 | 2018-09-05 |
Facebook-led rewrite called Fabric promises a bottom-up architecture that lets native list views be driven synchronously from JS so apps get snappier… | ||
| React Native Ignite | React Finland 2018 | 2018-04-24 |
Clear claim: Ignite CLI scaffolds production React Native apps with opinionated choices that teams actually use. The demo shows a conference app and an ASCII… | ||
| Rapid React Native | React Native EU 2017 | 2017-09-06 |
Shows how the Ignite CLI scaffolds real React Native apps (generators for screens, FlatList grids, navigation), ties into Reactotron for state inspection, and… | ||
| React Native Panel With Various Speakers | Chain React 2017 | 2017-07-10 |
Discussion names concrete tradeoffs and fixes: package managers fight over Yarn vs NPM5 and symlink breakage (a homegrown tool patches resolution), static… | ||
| Coding Mobile with the Pros | React Amsterdam 2017 | 2017-04-21 |
Concrete tools and demos: Reactotron gives Reactotron snapshots and time‑travel debugging of sagas and API calls, Expo runs JS‑only apps via a Expo QR live… | ||
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