Jun 12, 2026 · 38 min · 11 segments
What makes Chain React more than just another tech conference? Robin, Mazen, and Gant Laborde of Infinite Red share behind-the-scenes stories, community highlights, AI trends, and what React Native…
Gant LabordeGuest
Robin HeinzeHost
Mazen ChamiHostJamin HolmgrenHost
So, as you know, Infinite Red goes back to just mobile app development before React Native was a thing.
And once we went all in on React Native, also the same time as we formed the incorporation, we were looking at how to meet more people and create a community that with JavaScript meeting mobile, because the mobile community was interesting and sort of diversified.
And the JavaScript community was extremely opinionated and a little bit dangerous and viscous and, you We had a whole bunch of wild opinions fighting all the time.
And this is a sort of around the time that React started to win in the front end frameworks world.
And so you saw this gluing together of JavaScript developers and mobile developers, and it made its own small communities.
And we kind of brought those together and said, how about a conference? So we put on the very first React Native Conference.
We took two years of trying to get people together before we threw the first conference.
We had speakers from large corporations, and we were like, wow, I can't believe, you know, Microsoft is really getting into React Native.
So, as you know, Infinite Red goes back to just mobile app development before React Native was a thing.
And once we went all in on React Native, also the same time as we formed the incorporation, we were looking at how to meet more people and create a community that with JavaScript meeting mobile, because the mobile community was interesting and sort of diversified.
And the JavaScript community was extremely opinionated and a little bit dangerous and viscous and, you We had a whole bunch of wild opinions fighting all the time.
And this is a sort of around the time that React started to win in the front end frameworks world.
And so you saw this gluing together of JavaScript developers and mobile developers, and it made its own small communities.
And we kind of brought those together and said, how about a conference? So we put on the very first React Native Conference.
We took two years of trying to get people together before we threw the first conference.
We had speakers from large corporations, and we were like, wow, I can't believe, you know, Microsoft is really getting into React Native.
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