Frameworks ’26 — Speakers
Visual concept preview of the Event Conference template's Speakers page: The full speaker lineup by room, how blind review works, and past editions. The sections below are a non-interactive composition of open-registry blocks.
Every talk on this list was proposed blind, read by nine working engineers and designers, and accepted on the strength of the trade-off it names. Eleven of these speakers have never keynoted anywhere.
Proposals arrive with the speaker’s name, employer, and links stripped out. The committee reads the argument and the trade-off, scores it, and only afterwards finds out who wrote it.
It is slower and it is far more work, and it is the reason a first-time speaker from a four-person studio has opened Main Stage two editions running.
We rejected a proposal from someone on our own committee this year. That is the entire point of doing it blind.
Amara Diallo, programme chair
Six things people wrote to us after Frameworks ’25, lightly trimmed and otherwise left alone.
The Systems room ran a live terminal on every talk. Watching someone actually break their own build in front of nine hundred people did more for me than a year of blog posts.
I came on a community pass with no employer behind me and nobody treated me differently. The badge has your name on it and nothing else, and that changes every conversation.
Every speaker was still in the building at six. I got twenty minutes with the person whose migration we had copied wholesale, and she told me which half of it not to.
Captions in all three rooms, a quiet room with nothing programmed in it, and a step-free route to every seat. I did not have to ask for any of it in advance.
The workshop had twenty-four people and one machine each. Three hours later my laptop was serving the thing we had spent two sprints failing to serve.
No sponsor stage, no lanyard logo, no keynote that was secretly a launch. It is a conference that behaves as if your attention costs something.
Wave two is on sale now, and the community allocation is still open for students, maintainers, and first-time speakers.