The Extension Room — 30 Eastern Avenue   directions

We'll be kicking off the conference at The Extension Room in Toronto's famed Distillery District. Our guests of honour are the Toronto Kenjutsu collective, who will be performing live swordsmanship in the style of Katori Shinto Ryu during the party. Phillip Mendonça-Vieira serves as our interactive art ambassador for the evening via the world's first Instagram music visualizer. We're going to be doling out as much free sake as you can shake a stick at (via Toronto's famed Spring Water Sake Co.), and there will be the obligatory food + music + dancing that you'll come to expect throughout the weekend. Welcome, Samurai!

While there has been (and continues to be) a big shift from server to client, it seems not everyone is convinced. Twitter has just completed a major rewrite that moved most rendering back to the server and greatly pared down their client-side code. Facebook, Github, and 37s all handle generating dynamic content by rendering html snippets server side and injecting them into the live DOM. Are there apps where it makes more sense to render server side? Are server side renderers clinging to the past? What about rendering on both? What about server-client code re-use in general?

Jeremy Ashkenas, Tom Dale, Matt DeBergalis, Eric Ferraiuolo, Igor Minar

The Drake Hotel — 1150 Queen Street West   directions

Post-daytime sessions, we'll be herding you to Toronto's uber-hip Drake Hotel for some trendy + old fashioned eats and multimedia in a strolling dinner setting.

Twist Gallery — 1100 Queen Street West   directions

After dinner we'll be ushering you next door to Twist Gallery for a night of Tokyo-themed revelry in the form of music (with a live performance by Toronto's own Unsui, and a touch of j-rock), drinks, insane amounts of candy, pachinko machines, vintage arcade games, installation art, anime films, a hand-made purikura photo booth, and all other Shibuya-inspired kitsch we can land.

The number of client-side frameworks and libraries has exploded of late, but what is the true way? What do you really need from your client-side framework? Should templating be baked-in or swappable? Should rendering be managed automatically or do you need fine-grained control? Runloop or direct updates? Bindings or browser events? Does (file)size matter?

Yehuda Katz, Jeremy Ashkenas, Nick Small, Alex MacCaw, Igor Minar

Unspace HQ — 342 Queen Street West   directions

As per every conference we've run, we invite all of you to Unspace World Headquarters to hug it out on our modest roof (and by modest, we mean a 200 capacity deck with a full view of the Toronto skyline and a gregarious resident bartender.) We'll be dishing out nosh, music, prizes, specialty drinks, screening the obligatory Kurosawa films on the roof as wind permits, and beckoning TBA local entertainers and DJ's to bid us adieu in style.