2026 WebKit Contributors Meeting
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WebKit Contributors
Meeting 2026
📍 Apple Developer Center, Cupertino
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🥃 EVENING RECEPTION
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The 2026 WebKit Contributors Meeting will be held in Cupertino on October 20th-21st.
All attendees are invited to propose a talk for the event.
If you have a topic idea to present, please include it with your registration. Presentation time can range from 20-40 minutes, allowing time for discussion and breaks between. The second day will include time for a lightning round of 5-10 minute talks with a short time for discussion between.
Health & Safety
For the safety of everyone at the meeting, in-person attendees will be encouraged to wear a mask indoors except while eating and drinking. If you are feeling ill, we encourage you to join remotely using WebEx. We also strongly encourage testing for COVID prior to attending in-person and attending online if you receive any positive result.
You must register in advance to attend.
Registration is closed.
Location:
Apple Developer Center
10500 N Tantau Ave
Cupertino, California, 95014
When:
October 20-21, 2026
Schedule
Day One – Oct 20, 2026
| Time (PT) | Session | Presenter(s) |
|---|---|---|
| 8:00 AM | Breakfast and registration | — |
| 9:00 AM | In-person Welcome | Saron Yitbarek |
| 9:10 AM | Igalia and WebKit (Talk) | Mario Sánchez Prada |
| 9:50 AM | SONY’s 2026 updates (Talk) | Stephan Szabo |
| 10:05 AM | Break | — |
| 10:20 AM | Apple’s Goals for WebKit (Talk) | Beth Dakin |
| 11:10 AM | Memory Safety Roadmap – Year 3 (Talk) | Adrian Taylor, Geoff Garen |
| 11:40 AM | CSS Anchor Positioning (Talk) | Kiet Ho |
| 12:00 PM | Lunch | — |
| 1:00 PM | Layout Formatting Context Updates (Talk) | Sammy Gill |
| 1:30 PM | WebKit Site Isolation Progress and Plans (Talk) | Alex Christensen |
| 2:00 PM | WebGPU: Present and Future (Talk) | Mike Wyrzykowski |
| 2:30 PM | Securing the Web and AI (Talk) | Jonathan Bedard |
| 3:00 PM | Break | — |
| 3:30 PM | Safari MCP at the Protocol Level: Agent Browser Control on WebKit’s Existing Stack (Talk) | Blaze Burg |
| 4:00 PM | AI Panel (Panel) | Beth Dakin, Blaze Burg, Cameron McCormack, Devin Rousso (Moderator: John Wilander) |
| 5:00 PM | END OF TALKS | — |
| 6:00 PM | Dinner Social (Bowlmor) — Shuttle from Apple’s Developer Center | — |
| 8:00 PM | END OF DAY — Shuttle back to Apple’s Developer Center | — |
Day Two – Oct 21, 2026
| Time (PT) | Session | Presenter(s) |
|---|---|---|
| 8:00 AM | Breakfast | — |
| 9:00 AM | In-person Welcome | Saron Yitbarek |
| 9:10 AM | CMake builds for Apple platforms (Talk) | Elliott Williams |
| 9:40 AM | Are We LBSE Yet? Closing the Gaps on WebKit’s New SVG Engine (Talk) | Nikolas Zimmermann |
| 10:10 AM | WPE Android: Rebuilding the port on the new WPE Platform API (Talk) | Alex G. Castro |
| 10:40 AM | Web Inspector (Talk) | Devin Rousso |
| 11:10 AM | Birds of a Feather | — |
| 12:00 PM | Lunch | — |
| 1:00 PM | An update on Spatial CSS (Talk) | Aleksei Marchenko |
| 1:30 PM | Cloud Gaming Platform 2026 Update (Talk) | Xingri |
| 2:00 PM | SP3 Optimizations (Talk) | Nathan Solomon, Andrew Fryer |
| 2:20 PM | Break | — |
| 3:00 PM | 25th WebKit Anniversary Fireside Chat (Fireside Chat) | Maciej Stachowiak, Darin Adler (Moderator: Beth Dakin) |
| 4:00 PM | Break | — |
| 4:15 PM | JetStream3 improvements and profiling with samply (Lightning Talk) | Yusuke Suzuki |
| 4:25 PM | HTML in Canvas (Lightning Talk) | Said Abou-Hallawa |
| 4:35 PM | Top-Level Await (Lightning Talk) | Kai Tamkun |
| 4:45 PM | Interop (Lightning Talk) | Yulun Wu |
| 4:55 PM | CSS initial-letter Support Status & Update in WebKit (Lightning Talk) | ChangSeok Oh |
| 5:05 PM | Demo: Memory tooling for JS (Lightning Talk) | Justin Michaud |
| 5:15 PM | END OF DAY | — |
Cost: Free
Contacts:
discussion: webkit-dev@lists.webkit.org
organizers: Saron Yitbarek, Jon Davis, and Jen Simmons.