React India 2026:
the full lineup.
22 speakers. 4 hands-on workshops. 21 talks across three days in Goa. Here is everything that is confirmed for the final React India — and why the theme this year is the frontend meeting the agent.
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Speakers
21
Talks
4
Workshops
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Days · Oct 29–31
React meets the agent
Every edition of React India has picked up a piece of where the ecosystem is headed. In 2019 it was hooks landing. In 2024 it was Server Components and the framework wars. For the final edition in 2026, the through-line is unmistakable: the frontend is no longer the last mile — it is a boundary that has to serve two users at once.
A growing share of talks this year sit on that boundary. React components running inside chat clients. Agents completing tasks through MCP tools instead of tapping buttons. Design systems that have to survive AI-generated PRs. Observability streams that triage themselves into reviewable fixes. If you build for the web and you have been quietly wondering what your job looks like on the other side of this shift, the answer is on stage this year.
Laptops open. Real code, not slides.
Four hands-on workshops open the week, all in-person and sized for small cohorts. Two dig into the same MCP thread from different angles, one is the awkward “adulting” talk your vibe-coded app needs, and the fourth closes the day with a 90-minute capstone on agentic React dev from cloud LLMs down to on-device inference.
10:00 AM - 12:30 PM IST
Apurv Khare
MCP Apps with React: Build Interactive UI That Runs Inside Claude and ChatGPT
Start from a working MCP server, fill the marked gaps in a React view, and understand every hook and message in the official SDK by the end. Runs locally against a real MCP Apps host — no paid AI account, API key or tunnel required.
1:30 PM - 3:30 PM IST
Hadar Geva
Your Component Renders in React. Soon It Needs to Render in ChatGPT.
Take a familiar React component, pull its contract out of the framework, run it behind a thin adapter in vanilla JS / React / Vue, then serve that same unit to an LLM as an MCP-UI resource. Same contract, new consumer.
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM IST
Vilva Athiban P B
Prod Your Vibe: Localhost Is Not a Business Model
The awkward "adulting" talk your vibe-coded app needs — from localhost to a real DigitalOcean Droplet with a real domain, real HTTPS, and slightly fewer ways to get hacked. No DevOps experience required.
6:15 PM - 7:45 PM IST
Sahil Sharma & Sumit Kumar
Inference at the Edge of Your IDE: Agentic React Development from Cloud LLMs to On-Device Models
A 90-minute capstone from two Brevo staff engineers on wiring agentic loops into your React dev workflow — from cloud LLMs to models running on the laptop in front of you. Compare latency, cost and privacy trade-offs live, then wire one into a real code-review and feature-build loop.
Workshop seats are limited by design. Combo tickets bundle a workshop with both conference days — see the workshops page for takeaways, prerequisites, and speaker bios.
The keynote, and the first look at 2026.
Day 1 opens with Seth Webster — the new Founder & Executive Director of the React Foundation and Chief Developer Evangelist at Expo — setting the tone for both the day and the edition. Ten talks follow, running from metadata-driven ERPs to design systems that hold the line against AI-generated PRs.
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM IST
Seth Webster
Opening Keynote
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM IST
Pramida Tumma
Forms You Didn't Write: Rendering an Entire ERP in React, and Letting AI Fill It In
Metadata-driven form generation for 300+ ERP screens in 10 Indian languages. Runtime Zod schemas, safe formula parsing (no eval), structured AI-generated field updates, and production bug handling from real users.
11:00 AM - 11:30 AM IST
Apurv Khare
Design to Code: Building a Design System MCP Server
Building MCP servers that bridge design systems and code generation — Figma API integration, design token extraction, component generation, and automated design-to-code workflows for scalable UI systems.
11:55 AM - 12:25 PM IST
Vilva Athiban P B
Building an AI Agentic App with MCP-Powered Backend
Wiring a React frontend to an MCP-powered backend so an agent — not a form — drives the workflow. Tool discovery, prompts as protocol, and the state-shape decisions that keep an agentic UI legible.
12:25 PM - 12:55 PM IST
Smile Gupta
When React Meets Distributed Systems
Integrating React applications with distributed systems architecture — eventual consistency, distributed state management, cross-system synchronization, and consistency models. Patterns pulled from high-scale checkout and payment systems.
2:00 PM - 2:30 PM IST
Mark Erikson
A Guide to React Compiler Rendering
A solid mental model for when, why and how React renders — then a demystified read of exactly what code the Compiler rewrites your component into, and the little-known optimization trick it depends on. Leave with an accurate mental model of React with and without the Compiler.
2:30 PM - 3:00 PM IST
Anannya Roy Chowdhury
How Many Agents Are Too Many? The Hidden Cost of Multi-Agent Systems Leaking into UI
An architectural analysis of multi-agent systems in production. Counters the 'more agents = better' misconception with real failure modes — flickering states, race conditions, UI jitter — and a decision framework for single vs. multi-agent designs.
3:00 PM - 3:30 PM IST
Tapas Adhikary
The Next User of Your React App Might NOT Be Human
We've always built React UIs for humans. Agents are becoming a new kind of user — one that may not need buttons, forms, or navigation. What that shift means for frontend architecture and how you decide what to build for humans vs. agents.
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM IST
Vineeth Pawar
Design Systems That Hold the Line: Figma MCP, Code Connect, and Drift Detection for AI-Generated React
Most AI-in-React talks stop at generation. This starts at the harder problem — keeping an AI-assisted workflow aligned with a real design system across many commits. A hardened loop of Figma MCP, Code Connect, lint enforcement, and an MCP-driven screenshot-diff agent that flags drift inside the PR.
4:20 PM - 4:50 PM IST
Patryk Tomczyk & Stanley Swiatkiewicz
Fire-and-Forget AI Engineering: Enterprise Software with Zero Human Coding
A brutally honest field report from 12 months shipping a production-grade open-source ERP/CRM framework where 100% of the code is written by AI agents. Humans write the spec, verify results, and never touch the keyboard to code.
4:50 PM - 5:20 PM IST
Harshita Kanal
Beyond ARIA: Building Accessible AI Interfaces with Skills and MCP
Making streaming AI responses work with screen readers via sentence-boundary buffering. AI Skills as accessibility primitives — simplification, description, and voice navigation. MCP tools as an accessibility surface: expose actions and agents can complete tasks without users touching the UI.
Where the frontier bends.
Day 2 leans into the harder edges — a JavaScript-less future, AI codemods that migrated 10,000+ components at Meta, React embedded in a Preact host, and two remote-delivered talks beamed in from Adobe and Emergent Labs. It closes on a note that has been humming under the whole edition: software leaving the app, and what that means for the frontends we spent a decade building.
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM IST
Ameer Sami
A JavaScript Less Future
Browsers now ship popover, anchor positioning, Navigation, View Transitions, interpolate-size, :has() and more — each replacing something we used to need JavaScript for. What that shift means for the future of React development, and what to stop shipping in your bundles.
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM IST
Shubham Chaurasia
Beyond Vibe Coding: Class to Function Migration with AI Codemods
Production-scale React component migration using AI-assisted codemods — 10,000+ components migrated at Meta with 99.6% success. Covers automated refactoring patterns, AI codemod generation, validation strategies, and lessons learned from a large-scale migration.
11:00 AM - 11:30 AM IST
Gaurisha R Srivastava
Everything Is Green. So Why Is My AI Broken?
Your tests pass, your build is green, your metrics look fine — and the AI feature is still shipping wrong answers. Why traditional signals miss AI regressions, and the evaluation harness that catches them before your users do.
11:55 AM - 12:25 PM IST
Faris Aziz
Building Resilient UIs with React
What resilience actually looks like at the component boundary — error boundaries, graceful degradation, timeouts, retries, and the tradeoffs that keep a UI usable when its dependencies are not.
12:25 PM - 12:55 PM IST
Navya Agarwal
LLM-First UI: A Type-Driven Approach to AI-Generated Interfaces
AI-generated UI is brittle and inconsistent. At Adobe we built a declarative, type-safe UI system where the AI declares what it needs, not how to build it. A look at the A2A and A2UI protocols and what changes when the model stops writing JSX.
2:00 PM - 2:30 PM IST
Vishnudhasan Govindarajan
React Meets Physics: Designing Interfaces with Resistance, Weight, and Motion
Modern UI is no longer just visual. Using WebGPU in React to build physically-aware interfaces — GPU-powered animations, touch resistance, gaze interactions, and haptic-style feedback loops running at 120 FPS.
2:30 PM - 3:00 PM IST
Santosh Viswanatham
Self-Healing Frontends: Turning Observability Alerts into Fixes
A build-it-with-me walkthrough of a self-healing incident-response workflow for production React apps. Wire your observability stack into an agent that triages regressions, missing null guards, and broken API contracts into a reviewable PR before a human is even usefully awake.
3:00 PM - 3:30 PM IST
Saman Abaasi
When React Is a Guest: Building Production Components
Form-JS renders in Preact. I had five React components I wasn't going to rewrite. So I made React live inside Preact. Two reconcilers, one DOM, every failure mode you can imagine — and the production bridge pattern that finally made it stable.
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM IST
Keren Fanan
Software Is Leaving the App (And Your Frontend Isn't Invited)
In a few years, most of your users won't open your app. They'll consume your product from inside an AI client, and what lands there is a paragraph a model wrote about it. Your design system, your onboarding, years of frontend craft — summarised by a model that never saw your brand guidelines.
4:20 PM - 4:50 PM IST
Shubham Gautam
React vs. Real-Time: Build Real-Time Features Without Fighting the Framework
What if React isn't the source of truth — time is? In building a real-time timeline engine we let sound, not state, drive the app. Rethinking control unlocks seamless sync, smooth visuals, and genuinely real-time experiences in React.
2 of the 21 talks are delivered remotely onto the main stage — you will notice a Remote pill on the schedule card and the speaker tile.
What ties the lineup together
Read the schedule end-to-end and a few threads pop out. The first is MCP everywhere — MCP servers, MCP-UI resources, MCP as an accessibility surface. The second is agents as a new kind of user — Tapas Adhikary and Keren Fanan both frame it explicitly, Anannya Roy Chowdhury pushes back on the multi-agent hype, and Navya Agarwal shows what a type-safe LLM-first UI actually looks like at Adobe.
The third thread is quieter but useful: what React does not need to do anymore. Ameer Sami's “A JavaScript Less Future” and Mark Erikson's guide to React Compiler rendering both push in the same direction — the framework is doing more, the browser is doing more, and there is a growing pile of hand-written code that can quietly retire.
This is the last one.
React India 2026 is the Final Edition. Oct 29–31 in Goa, in-person, with combo tickets that bundle a workshop with both conference days.