Chain React (July 30–31, 2026)

🔥 Chain React 2026 Speaker Lineup 🔥 Some of the biggest names. From some of the biggest companies in React Native. We’ll be announcing speakers right here 👇

Chain React doesn’t end when the sessions do 🏨 The Cambria Portland is the official conference hotel, placing you in the Pearl District just 2 blocks from the venue. Speakers, staff, and the React Native community are all nearby throughout the week. And you’ll be surrounded by Portland staples like Deschutes Brewery, Good Coffee, and Screen Door within easy reach 🍽️ 🔗 Book while you can: choicehotels.com/reservations/g… #ChainReact2026 #ReactNative #Portland #ChainReact

Coming to Chain React Workshop Day: Past the Vibes: Build an Agent Harness for Your React Native App 🤖 "Stop writing prompts. Start building the loop that writes them for you." In this hands-on workshop, Giovanni Laquidara and Kourtney Meiss (@Amazon) will show you what it actually means by helping you build a harness of focused agents that can plan, implement, and verify each other's work. You'll start with a single agent and finish with a working pipeline you can run against your own React Native app. 🔗 chainreactconf.com/workshops 🎟️ Tickets: chainreactconf.com #ChainReact2026 #ReactNative #AI #AgenticAI

Coming to Chain React: AI-Powered Personalization in React Native: Building Intelligent Shopping Experiences at Scale 💥 How are modern React Native apps evolving from static interfaces into intelligent, adaptive experiences? Megha Hooli from @amazon will explore how AI-powered features like personalized recommendations, predictive sizing, and real-time adaptation are being built into large-scale React Native applications. Expect practical lessons from retail systems at scale and insights into the architectures that support AI-driven mobile experiences. 🚀 🎟️ Get tickets: chainreactconf.com #ReactNative #ChainReact2026 #MobileDev #Portland

THIS TIME NEXT WEEK: Chain React 2026 is officially LIVE! 🚀 Two days of mind-blowing React Native talks, world-class speakers, and the brightest minds in mobile development gathering in downtown Portland, OR. And to top off Day 1? We’re heading over to @Expensify’s breathtaking Portland office for the official Chain React Happy Hour 🥂✨ Portland in the summer + cutting-edge mobile dev + elite community networking = the ultimate tech conference experience! Presented by @infinite_red, @expo and The React Foundation. Last chance to grab your tickets—we can't wait to see you there! ⚛️ 🎟️ Register here: chainreactconf.com #MobileDev #ReactNative #ChainReact2026 #Portland

Coming to Chain React: Trailing React Native in a Legacy Mobile App ⚡ At @RegalMovies, React Native is shipping alongside native UI. Dustin Masters shares the journey of making that happen, including the mishaps, shenanigans, and hacks required to get it over the finish line. 🔗 chainreactconf.com/speakers/dusti… 🎟️ Tickets: chainreactconf.com #ChainReact2026 #ReactNative

This time next week, Workshop Day will be in full swing. ⚛️ There’s still time to grab your spot and spend the day building, experimenting, asking questions, and getting hands-on with React Native before the conference officially begins. Choose from: 🤖 Past the Vibes: Build an Agent Harness for Your React Native App, With Giovanni Laquidara & Kourtney Meiss (@Amazon) 🎤 Women in Tech Workshop: Putting Yourself Out There, With @_anniebabannie_ (@flydotio) & @brittanyellich (@bluesky) 📱 Applied Expo UI: When, Where, and How to Add SwiftUI and Jetpack Compose to your React Native App, With Keith Kurak (@expo) & @frankcalise (@infinite_red) ✨ Animations & Interactions, With @BBloniarz_ (@swmansion) The talks start the next day, but the learning starts here. 🎟️ Check out the workshops and get tickets: chainreactconf.com/workshops #ChainReact2026 #ReactNative #Portland #Workshop

Coming to Chain React: Your agents can run, now what? ⚡ As agents get better at mobile development, the bottleneck keeps moving further down the development loop. @maker__mark shares how @Chime is scaling its infrastructure to run at the speed of agents. 🔗 Session details: chainreactconf.com/speakers/mark-… 🎟️ Tickets: chainreactconf.com #ChainReact2026 #ReactNative #AI #PortlandTech

Want hands-on experience with Expo UI? ⚛️ Join Keith Kurak (@expo) and @frankcalise (@infinite_red) at our Applied Expo UI Intermediate Workshop. You'll explore how SwiftUI and Jetpack Compose can be used directly in React Native, work through practical platform-native UI examples, and learn when to fully convert a screen versus mixing native and cross-platform approaches. You'll also get hands-on with Expo Router features like form sheets and shared transitions, plus Android's Material dynamic colors. Don't miss it! 🚀 🔗 chainreactconf.com 📅 Workshops: July 29 #ChainReact #ReactNative #Portland #ExpoUI #UI #MobileDev

Coming to Chain React: How is your app actually doing in production? ⚡ If you've ever shipped a release and spent the next 24 hours wondering whether you improved the experience or accidentally made it worse, this talk is for you. @kadikraman from @expo explores the gap between the app you built and the app your users are actually experiencing, and how to use production data to improve performance. 🔗 chainreactconf.com/speakers/kadi-… 🎟️ Get tickets: chainreactconf.com #ChainReact2026 #ReactNative #Portland #MobileDev

In less than 2 weeks, Portland gets a little more React Native. ⚛️ Chain React is almost here, bringing together developers from across the ecosystem for workshops, talks, networking, and a few days of learning from some of the brightest minds in React Native. And when you're not at the conference? You'll be exploring one of the most unique cities in the US. Grab a coffee from a local café, hunt down your new favorite food spot, wander through Powell's City of Books, or simply enjoy Portland's parks, bridges, and summer atmosphere with fellow attendees. Not a bad way to spend a few days. There's still time to save your spot. Grab your ticket while you can 🚀 🎟️ chainreactconf.com #ReactNative #ChainReact2026 #Portland #DeveloperConference

Coming to Chain React: Hot Reload Over the Wire: Metro Internals for Remote Development ⚡ Hot reload feels instant... until your simulator isn't on the same network as your laptop. @ColinGrob from @tryrevyl explores what it takes to bring Fast Refresh and HMR to cloud-hosted simulators, diving deep into Metro, Expo, and the systems that power remote React Native development. 🔗 chainreactconf.com/speakers/colin… 🎟️ Get tickets: chainreactconf.com #ChainReact2026 #ReactNative #Portland

There's something powerful about spending a few days surrounded by people who care about the same things you do. ⚛️ At Chain React, you'll spend a few days learning from people doing incredible work across the React Native ecosystem, gaining fresh perspectives, and making connections that last well beyond the conference itself. You might arrive with questions. You'll probably leave with answers, ideas, and a notebook full of things to try. Don't miss out, join us in Portland in 2 weeks time! 👇 chainreactconf.com #ReactNative #ChainReact2026 #Portland #TechEvents #DeveloperConference

Coming to Chain React: Think Fast: OnDevice Vector Features ⚡ Did you know your phone could do that? @mazenchami from @infinite_red explores how to integrate on-device AI into React Native apps, delivering real-time, contextual intelligence with offline capabilities and no reliance on the cloud. If you're interested in what the next generation of mobile experiences looks like, this session offers a look at how phones can provide intelligent, contextual information in real time, even without a network connection. 🔗 chainreactconf.com/speakers/mazen… 🎟️ Get tickets: chainreactconf.com #ChainReact2026 #ReactNative #AI #Portland

Are you as excited as we are?!...Chain React starts in 2 weeks! 🙌 On July 29th, we launch with a hands-on workshop day, followed by two jam-packed days of React Native sessions on July 30th and 31st. After conference day one, we’ll keep the energy going at the official after party, hosted by our friends at @Expensify ✨️ This is your chance to dive deep into React Native, learn invaluable skills to elevate your career, network and make new friends with the most incredible community in tech (we're not biased of course..), and have the best time exploring beautiful Portland. We can't wait to see you there! ⚛️ 🎟️ Save your spot: chainreactconf.com #ChainReact2026 #ReactNative #Workshops

Coming to Chain React: Zero-Latency React Native: Designing Apps That Never Show a Loading Spinner ⚡ Users don't care about your network architecture. They care about apps that feel instant. @devagrawal09 from @codemod explores how optimistic UI and local-first sync can create seamless React Native experiences, from writing to a local store first to handling background synchronization and conflict resolution behind the scenes. 🔗 chainreactconf.com/speakers/dev-a… 🎟️ Get tickets: chainreactconf.com #ChainReact2026 #ReactNative #UI #MobileDev #Portland

Tick-tock.. ⏰️ In just over two weeks, the ultimate React Native reunion begins! If you're serious about mobile development, missing Chain React isn't an option. This is where the biggest breakthroughs are revealed first, straight from the innovators shaping the ecosystem. It's not just a conference, it's a chance to invest in yourself and your craft. Brought to you by @infinite_red, @expo and The React Foundation. Tickets are limited at this stage. Don’t get left behind! 🚀 👉 chainreactconf.com 📅 July 29-31, Portland, OR. #ReactNative #ChainReact2026 #MobileDev #Portland #PortlandTech

Coming to Chain React: The future of mobile development with Expo ⚡ The distance between an idea and a shipped app is shrinking. @ccheever from @expo explores how AI is changing the way mobile apps are built, what that means for React Native teams, and where Expo goes next as more of the development process becomes automated. 🔗 chainreactconf.com/speakers/charl… 🎟️ Get tickets: chainreactconf.com #ChainReact2026 #ReactNative #Expo #Portland #MobileDev

If React Native is a big part of your work, Chain React should be on your calendar. ⚛️ One workshop day. Two conference days. A whole lot of React Native. Spend a few days learning from people building in the ecosystem, diving into real-world lessons from React Native teams, and leaving with new ideas, practical takeaways, and approaches you can bring back to your own work. Plus, you'll be in Portland. Come for the React Native, stay for the coffee shops, food spots, and a city worth exploring after sessions. 🌲 🎟️ Secure tickets: chainreactconf.com #ReactNative #ChainReact2026 #Portland

Coming to Chain React: The UI Was Beautiful. The Frame Rate Wasn't. Here's Why We Didn't Fix It. ⚡ Performance problems don't appear overnight. Nick Kaffine from @ChalkboardHQ explores how developer-friendly architecture, fast iteration, and common React Native patterns can quietly create performance debt over time, why those issues often go unaddressed, and how to identify them before they become expensive to unwind. 🔗 chainreactconf.com/speakers/nick-… 🎟️ Get tickets: chainreactconf.com #ChainReact2026 #ReactNative

The talks are only part of the story. ⚛️ The real magic happens when a great session turns into a hallway conversation, a new idea, or a connection that lasts long after the conference ends. The recordings will be there later. The experience won't. 🎟️ chainreactconf.com #ChainReact #ReactNative