GitNation's 2026 Calendar Is a Map of Where JavaScript Is Heading

JSNation - Amsterdam, June 11 & 15

JSNation is the broadest of GitNation's events. Around 1,500 developers gather at the Kromhouthal - a former ship engine factory that's become one of the more distinctive conference venues in European tech - and another 10,000+ join online.

JSNation hosts workshops, discussion rooms, and the annual JavaScript Open Source Awards, now in its seventh edition. The awards focus on open-source projects rather than companies or products, and the community votes - which gives it more weight than most industry recognition programs.

For JavaScript and full-stack engineers, this tends to be where you hear about tools and patterns before they go mainstream. Core team members from major frameworks regularly attend, so the conversations are closer to the source than at most events.

React Summit - Amsterdam, June 12-16

React Summit runs immediately after JSNation at the same venue - a deliberate overlap that lets engineers attend both without doubling their travel. With 60+ speakers and more than 10,000 developers across in-person and online formats, it's the largest React conference in the world.

The 2026 edition is focused on where React is right now: Server Components in production, the new React Compiler, performance at scale, and what AI integration actually looks like in a real front-end codebase. These aren't future-looking topics - they're things senior engineers are dealing with today.

GitNation also runs the React Open Source Awards at React Summit - now in its seventh year, and one of the longer-running recognition programs in the ecosystem.

TechLead Conf - Amsterdam, June 11-12

TechLead Conf is smaller by design, and it targets a specific audience: technical leads, staff engineers, and engineering managers who are still close to the code.

The 2026 edition focuses on AI adoption inside engineering organizations: how to measure its actual impact, how to manage technical debt when tools are changing fast, and what engineering career growth looks like in this environment. Day one is structured talks and case studies. Day two is an unconference - attendees set the agenda.

The sessions tend to be more candid than at larger events.

AI Coding Summit London - July 6-7

The AI Coding Summit is GitNation's newest series, and it's a departure from their JavaScript roots. It lands in London on July 6–7, with a live gathering at The Trampery in Old Street and a global stream running alongside.

The focus is specific: AI as a change to the practice of software development, not as a business strategy. Coding agents, context engineering, AI-assisted code review, agentic workflows - the kinds of topics practitioners are navigating without much established guidance yet. Kent C. Dodds is among the confirmed speakers, with a talk titled "The Last Software Engineer."

GitNation has been clear about the format they're after: no hype, practitioner-led, focused on workflows that actually hold up in production.

AI Coding Summit NYC - November 16-17

The New York edition runs in November, co-located with JSNation US. It covers similar ground to London but is built around the East Coast developer community. A developer flying in for one gets full value from both.

A Few Things Worth Knowing About GitNation

For every conference, GitNation offers 100 scholarships to attendees from underrepresented or underfinanced backgrounds, and runs mentorship programs to help first-time speakers get on stage. They also offer a Multipass - a subscription giving access to all remote conferences, past recordings, and a 20% discount on in-person tickets.

Perhaps most unusual is GitNation Citizenship: free lifetime access to all their events, granted to individuals who've made exceptional contributions to the open-source community.

As media partners across React Summit, TechLead Conf, JSNation, AI Coding Summit London, and AI Coding Summit NYC, we're looking forward to following the conversations that emerge from each of them and sharing the ideas that continue shaping the global developer community.