Frontend Forward: London Meetup

What you’ll learn

Next.js 16 changes how caching works. AI agents are moving from demos to production systems. Performance still determines whether users convert or bounce.

Three engineers who work on these problems daily will explain what's actually changing, what it means for how you build, and what matters when you're responsible for keeping systems fast and reliable at scale.

Talks & Speakers

You Can Just Ship Agents: Architecting for the Agentic Era

Dom Sipowicz, Vercel

Enterprises are moving fast from AI prototypes to production-ready agent systems. Solutions architect Dom Sipowicz explores how modern teams are building reliable, long-running, and observable agents without reinventing orchestration. Using the Vercel AI Cloud and the new Workflow Development Kit, Dom shows you how durability, retries, and human-in-the-loop approvals become first-class features of your architecture. Learn how these patterns make it possible to design, prototype, and scale agents with the same ease as any modern web application.

Performance as Revenue Foundation

Jakub Jabłoński, Blazity

Jakub is a staff engineer at Blazity with deep expertise in Next.js performance optimization. His presentation makes the case that web performance directly drives revenue, not just user experience. It starts with relatable problems like peak traffic failures during Black Friday, the gap between what Lighthouse tells executives and what real users actually experience, and how most performance issues come from a small subset of dynamic pages. The goal is to get heads nodding before diving into solutions.

This Is What Broke Cookie Banners

‍Christopher Burns

Christopher is the author of c15t, a framework focused on lightweight, performance-first web applications. Cookie banners frustrate users and erode trust across your application. Making consent a first-class part of your stack gives teams control, improves speed, and turns compliance into a feature, not an afterthought.

Whitepaper Premiere

Blazity will premiere The Revenue Cost of Slow: Why Performance Determines Profitability—a technical analysis of how page load times affect conversion rates, user retention, and revenue. Attendees get first access.

The research connects frontend performance metrics to business outcomes, with data from ecommerce, SaaS, and media publishing companies.

Location

Nags Head, 10 James St, London WC2E 8BT, Covent Garden

Central location. Close to Covent Garden tube station. The venue has a private event space.

Agenda

• 6:30 PM Doors open
• 7:00 PM Christopher Burns: This Is What Broke Cookie Banners
• 7:30 PM Q&A
• 7:45 PM Dom Sipowicz: You Can Just Ship Agents: Architecting for the Agentic Era
• 8:25 PM Q&A
• 8:30 PM Jakub Jabłoński: Cache Components and Partial Pre-Rendering in Next.js 16: The New Caching Paradigm
• 9:00 PM Q&A
• 9:15 PM Whitepaper premiere: The Revenue Cost of Slow
• 9:30 PM Networking