Next Tuesday, 6 October, hundreds of people who build the web meet at O2 Universum in Prague. We spend the whole year preparing FrontKon, one of the largest events for web developers in Czechia, and now it is all coming to a head.
I found a moment to show you where all that energy went this year.
Being among your own people and comparing notes with them matters more this year than it ever did.
One practical note before we start: all Monday workshops run in English, and so do the talks from the international speakers. A good part of the Czech line-up is, unsurprisingly, in Czech.
Development is going through… something. Some call it a crisis, some a rebirth
Agents made us faster and threw our whole craft into the air at the same time. Nobody quite knows what being a developer means today, how much code we still have to read, or what to do about software that grows faster than our ability to understand it.
I wrote about it in AI restart: five questions the developer community has to answer. It is full of questions the community has no settled answers to.
Which is exactly why this year’s programme looks the way it does. The article asks. FrontKon goes looking for answers.
Two panels, where it will boil over
These two blocks are the heart of the conference for me. I moderate both together with Robin Pokorný — you may know us from the FrontKec podcast.
- 14:00 — Panel Discussion: “Agent-Based Development in Practice”. Kamil Tomšík, Petr Glaser and Sylwia Laskowska see handing work to agents very differently, which is exactly what I want from a panel, both as an audience member and this time as a host.
- 16:15 — Panel Discussion: “The Present and Future of Work in IT”. This one will be even denser, I suspect. Marketa Krejčí brings the HR view, Riki Fridrich the view of an experienced developer, and Petr Burian, former CTO of Livesport, the manager’s. Do not expect a forecast. Expect three angles on a change we are all already living through.
Agentic development is knocking from every direction, though, not just in the panels. In the programme committee we tried hard to keep it free of bullshit and close to daily practice.
Where AI shows up in the programme
AI leaked into the whole schedule this year. The ones I am most curious about:
- Sara Polak: What Archaeology and Anthropology Can Teach Us About AI. The widest lens of the day, right after the doors close — why some societies absorb a new technology and others come apart around it.
- Palo Otčenáš: Agents in CI: How Autonomous AI Cleans Up 3,000 Feature Flags. The most concrete agentic case study on the schedule, including the finding that the hardest part was not technical.
- Martin Krištof: Stop Writing Playwright Tests: Let AI Generate Them. A live demo of an agent exploring an app, writing the tests, and repairing them once the UI moves.
- Libor Vaněk: The Real Cost of AI. The GPU bill nobody puts on a slide. Libor sees it every month and will tell you a thing or two about it.
- Robin Pokorný: AI Made Every Developer a Tech Lead. Now What?. The decisions tech leads used to own have landed on everyone. Robin suggests what to borrow from staff+ engineers.
- Tejas Kumar: Frontend After AI: The New UX. The closing question of the day, from the always excellent Tejas: what are carousels and tabs for when an agent is the one using your interface?
- Jan Kryšpín: AI-powered Design System Development. Custom rules and skills for agents, design review in Figma. If you are working out how to collaborate with designers in the agentic era, this is your slot.
Six names I want to point you to, even though none of them will mention LLMs
- Riki Fridrich: Alzheimer – Bad for Humans, Great for Code. Riki can take a deep JavaScript topic and make it fun. A safe bet at FrontKon.
- David Maixner and Martin Kocourek: Everyone wants a fast website. Until they have to remove something from it.. Performance is not Lighthouse, it is a negotiation with marketing, product and editors. And this one comes from a real rebrand of a large gambling operator.
- Kateřina Boušková: 7 Stage Fuck-Ups. The one talk you can use at a meeting, at a conference. Or at a wedding.
- Sylwia Laskowska: Your Browser Is a Compute Platform (And You’re Using It for Forms). WebAssembly, WebGPU, and the question of how much power we leave sitting idle in the browser.
- Karel Navrátil: I Will Destroy Your Code and Probably Your Life. Karel has been the community star of the last few editions. A practising lawyer who is also a frontend designer, and one of our best-rated speakers. I would not miss this one.
Half the value of a conference happens in the hallway. That part does not come with the recording.
The full programme is on the FrontKon site.
Workshops with seats left
On Monday 5 October, the day before the conference, we run full workshops. Small groups, English, € 219. Two are already sold out, four still have room:
- Riki Fridrich, 9:00: Karpathy LLM wiki: long-term memory for you or your project. You build a knowledge wiki you own, rather than one tied to a single model. I would take this one for myself.
- Artem Zakharchenko, 9:00: React Component Testing with Vitest Browser Mode. The author of Mock Service Worker will ruin JSDOM for you permanently, then show how components are tested in 2026.
- Manuel Matuzović, 14:00: Testing Accessibility with LLMs. Accessibility in React and Next.js from someone who has written one of the best blogs on the subject for years.
- Kamil Tomšík, 14:00: Development with local LLMs: Privacy & Performance in Practice. When a local model makes sense, what hardware to buy, and where the limits are.
No ticket yet?
Standard tickets are gone, late bird is € 219. Companies can buy their people ten tickets for the price of nine.
- When: Tuesday 6 October 2026 (workshops on Monday 5 October).
- Where: O2 Universum, Prague.
- What you get: three stages, 25 talks, recordings, food and drink.
I am not going to tell you your career depends on showing up. But I spent months on this programme and I believe in it. Come and talk about agents, about reading code, and about what is left of this job in a year or two.
See you there?