React brings together a small but highly influential group of developers to explore and discuss the fundamental principles of the Reactive Manifesto and why they are important for the new generation of systems being developed. There is no call for papers - instead React invited some of the best speakers and thinkers from the industry to share their wisdom about specific traits of the manifesto. So instead of some random selection of loosely connected talks, React presented a coherent journey through the reactive programming stack, trait by trait, UI to database.

Martin Thompson, High-Performance & Low-Latency Computing Specialist and Jonas Bonér, Co-founder & CTO Typesafe presented the React 2014 conference introduction.