iJS New York 2026: Dates, Tracks, Tickets and How Much Is Actually AI

TL;DR: The International JavaScript Conference (iJS) New York 2026 runs September 28 to October 2, 2026 at the New York Marriott at the Brooklyn Bridge, with the main conference and expo on September 29-30, workshops on September 28 and October 1, and a two-day bootcamp on October 1-2. Seven tracks, a published speaker list, and passes from $719 for a single day to $2,429 for All Access. The thing worth knowing before you book: of the eighteen sessions the organiser puts on its own homepage, eleven are about AI. This is still a JavaScript conference, but it is a JavaScript conference in 2026, and that means something specific.

I run ZPlatform’s AI events hub, which is why a JavaScript conference is on it at all. iJS has been running for years as a straightforward full-stack JS event, and I went into this programme expecting to write a short listing about a conference with an AI track bolted on. That is not what the 2026 lineup is. The AI content has moved out of its own corner and into Angular, Node, accessibility and API design sessions, which is a much more interesting signal about where front-end work has gone.

Whether that makes it a better or worse conference depends on what you were hoping to buy. This guide gives you the dates, the day structure, every ticket tier with real numbers, an honest count of how much of the programme is AI, and the one cheap upgrade the ticket page under-sells.

All figures come from the official iJS New York site, its programme and its ticket page, checked on September 9, 2026.

I Counted the Sessions: Eleven of Eighteen Are About AI

Rather than characterise the programme, here is the count. The organiser highlights eighteen conference sessions on the New York homepage. Eleven of them have AI, agents or LLMs in the title or the abstract.

They are not clustered in one track either, which is the part worth paying attention to:

• Angular: “Signals, Standalone, and Super-Brains: Teaching AI to Migrate Angular Apps While You Sleep” (Hrushikesh Pokala, Equifax) and “Human + AI Shared State Management: Extending Frontend Patterns into Agentic Systems” (Chao Zhang, Google DeepMind)
• Node.js and backend: “The Good, the Bad, and the Agentic: Node.js Backends are the new Wild West” (Laurie Lay, Ippon Technologies) and “Contract-First APIs in the Age of AI Agents” (Chad Green)
• Generative AI: “Agentic UI Without a Backend LLM” (Navya Agarwal, Adobe), “Engineering Interactive AI with WebMCP and MCP Apps” (Gil Fink, sparXys), “Unlocking Agentic Engineering with Spec-Driven Development” (John Riviello, Comcast), and “Designing with Intent: A New Layer for AI-Generated UI” (Selam Moges)
• Architecture and performance: “Accessibility in the Age of AI: The Robots Are Also Blind” (Nick Daniel)

The remaining seven are ordinary, good JavaScript sessions: React at 60 frames per second, web components reactivity, JavaScript decorators, browser performance APIs, UI compilers, MySQL-backed REST services in Node, and backend boundaries for frontend developers.

So the honest summary is not “this is now an AI conference”. It is that roughly 60 percent of the highlighted programme assumes agents are part of your stack, and the AI material has stopped being a track you can avoid and become a lens applied to Angular, Node and accessibility. If you want two days of pure JavaScript craft with no LLMs in the room, this is not that conference any more. If you write front-end code that has to talk to models, this is unusually well aimed.

What Are the iJS New York 2026 Dates and Venue?

iJS New York 2026 runs September 28 to October 2, 2026 at the New York Marriott at the Brooklyn Bridge, 333 Adams St, Brooklyn, New York 11201. The event is hybrid, with a separate remote ticket covering live streams, virtual Q&A and online-only content.

Day	Date	What runs
Monday	September 28, 2026	Power Workshop day
Tuesday	September 29, 2026	Conference day 1 and expo
Wednesday	September 30, 2026	Conference day 2 and expo
Thursday	October 1, 2026	Power Workshop day and bootcamp day 1
Friday	October 2, 2026	Bootcamp day 2

The two conference days are Tuesday and Wednesday. Everything on either side is optional depth, and the ticket tiers are built entirely around how many of the four workshop-or-conference days you want.

The venue is well chosen for a conference where people travel in. 333 Adams St is in downtown Brooklyn, a short walk from Jay St-MetroTech on the A, C, F and R lines. From JFK you take the AirTrain to Howard Beach and then the A train straight there, with no detour through Manhattan. From LaGuardia it is the Q70 bus and three subway changes, so if you are landing at LGA at rush hour, take a car. The hotel runs two restaurants and has roughly 39,000 square feet of event space, which is the right scale here: an expo you can walk in an hour, not a floor that eats a day.

Quick facts:

Detail	Information
Event	International JavaScript Conference (iJS) New York 2026
Dates	September 28 to October 2, 2026
Conference and expo	September 29 to 30, 2026
Power Workshops	September 28 and October 1, 2026
Bootcamp	October 1 to 2, 2026
Venue	New York Marriott at the Brooklyn Bridge, 333 Adams St, Brooklyn, NY 11201
Format	Hybrid, on site or remote
Tracks	7
All Access price	from $2,429 (regular $2,699)
Parallel-conference upgrade	$250
Organiser	S&S Media / devmio
Official site	javascript-conference.com/new-york

The Seven Tracks, and the One Session Arguing the Other Way

The homepage lists seven tracks:

1. Angular Development
2. React.js & Next.js Development
3. Node.js & Backend
4. Generative AI in JavaScript
5. Web Architecture & Performance
6. JavaScript Testing & Security
7. DevOps & CI/CD

The programme filter labels a few of them slightly differently, so “Generative AI in JavaScript” shows up there as “Generative AI & Large Language Models” and “Web Architecture & Performance” as “Architecture, Optimization & Performance”. Same seven tracks, two sets of names, which is worth knowing when you are filtering the schedule and cannot find a track you saw on the homepage.

The session I would single out is filed under generative AI and argues against most of the rest of it. Barry Stahl is presenting “When You Don’t Need an LLM: Deterministic Intelligence for Real World Apps”. A conference that puts eleven AI sessions on its homepage and also programmes a talk about not reaching for a model is doing something most events in 2026 do not, and in a room full of people about to add an LLM to a form validator it may be the most useful hour of the week.

The other one I would not miss is Gil Fink on WebMCP and MCP apps. WebMCP is the piece of the agent story that lands directly in the browser rather than on the server, and it is early enough that a good session on it saves you a month of reading. For background on that layer before you go, our MCP servers report covers the wider ecosystem and its security signals.

Which Bootcamp Is Worth Four Days of Your Week?

Six workshop and bootcamp slots are announced, and four of the six are AI-focused.

“Hands-On Bootcamp: Vibe Coding & GenAI Development” with John Davies of Incept5 runs across both bootcamp days. Davies teaches the same curriculum on the JAX and MLcon circuits, so it is road-tested rather than a one-off.

“Professional Agent Development in Practice: A Deep Dive into LangChain” with Nir Kaufman of Tikal is the other two-day bootcamp, and it is the more specific of the pair. If your team has already decided on LangChain, this is the one.

The two non-AI options are the ones I would pick if I already build agents daily. Gil Fink’s “Mastering Web App Architecture” runs on the Monday, and Matheus Albuquerque’s “React Workshop: Internals and Advanced Performance Patterns” is the deep React option. Albuquerque also has two conference sessions on browser performance APIs and UI compilers, which tells you where his depth is.

One scheduling trap: bootcamp day one and the Thursday workshop day are both October 1. Book the bootcamp and Thursday is gone.

iJS New York 2026 Ticket Prices Explained

Every price is in USD and already includes the 10 percent group discount for bookings of three or more.

Ticket	Current	Regular	What you choose
All Access (Conference + Bootcamp)	$2,429	$2,699	4 days (Tue-Fri) or 5 days (Mon-Fri), with an optional workshop day
4-Day Pass	$2,159	$2,399	Four days, workshop chosen at checkout. Bootcamp not included
3-Day Pass	$1,709	$1,899	Any 3 of the 4 conference or workshop days
2-Day Pass	$1,349	$1,499	Any 2 of the 4 conference or workshop days
Conference Day	$719	$799	One conference day, Tuesday or Wednesday
Workshop Day	$719	$799	One workshop day, Monday or Thursday

Every tier includes one year of devmio Fullstack access, and the multi-day tiers add six months of access to session recordings.

The organiser marks the 4-Day Pass as its best offer. I disagree, and the reason is the bootcamp exclusion. The 4-Day Pass at $2,159 explicitly does not include the bootcamp, while All Access at $2,429 does, and $270 for two full days of instructor-led material is well under the $719 a single day costs anywhere else on the table. If you are already spending over two thousand dollars, All Access is the better end of that decision.

At the other end, the 2-Day Pass at $1,349 is the honest minimum. It buys the actual conference, Tuesday and Wednesday, and nothing else. That is a legitimate purchase and it is what most first-timers should buy, as long as they know the workshops are where the depth is.

There is no published early-bird cutoff. The discounts are framed as running until the conference starts on September 28, which means no deadline is forcing your hand and the real constraint on booking is Brooklyn hotel availability.

The Three-Conference Badge the Ticket Page Under-Sells

One line in the specials list: upgrade your ticket for $250 and get access to parallel conferences.

Those parallel conferences are DevOpsCon New York 2026 and MLcon New York 2026, both running in the same hotel on the same five days.

For a JavaScript attendee this is a better deal than it looks. MLcon is where the model-side sessions live, so if the iJS agent sessions leave you wanting the layer underneath, that is $250 away. DevOpsCon carries the deployment and security material, including an AI Platform Engineering Day on the Monday. Added to a 2-Day Pass, $250 turns $1,349 into a cross-disciplinary week for $1,599.

The counter-argument is the obvious one. Three parallel programmes means more sessions you will miss and a temptation to room-hop that produces the first ten minutes of a lot of talks. Pick iJS as your home programme and use the upgrade for two or three named sessions elsewhere.

Who Should Book iJS New York 2026?

Book it if you write front-end or Node code and your roadmap now includes agents, LLM-backed features, or AI-assisted development. That is the exact intersection this programme is aimed at, and it is served better here than at a general AI conference where nobody talks about component state or accessibility.

Three caveats.

The programme is still filling. The organiser says sessions, workshops and speakers are still being added. The eighteen highlighted sessions are up and named, so this is not a blind purchase, but the final timetable can move.

The audience data is not New York specific. The published participant split of 42 percent operations and SRE, 33 percent developers, 11 percent architects and 14 percent leadership appears identically across S&S Media’s other conference sites. Read it as a portfolio average, not a measurement of this room.

The AI weighting is a real trade. Eleven of eighteen highlighted sessions is a lot. If you were sending a junior developer to level up on core JavaScript, the ratio works against you and a smaller, more focused event would serve them better.

My framing: buy All Access at $2,429 with the $250 upgrade if this is your main conference of the year and you want a bootcamp. Buy the 2-Day Pass at $1,349 plus the upgrade if you want the conference and the choice of three programmes without the week off work. Go remote if travel is the constraint. Skip it if what you wanted was a JavaScript craft conference with no models in the room, because that is not what 2026 iJS is.

iJS New York 2026: Quick Answers

When and where is iJS New York 2026?

September 28 to October 2, 2026 at the New York Marriott at the Brooklyn Bridge, 333 Adams St, Brooklyn, NY 11201. Conference days and expo are September 29 and 30, workshops are September 28 and October 1, and the bootcamp runs October 1 to 2.

How much does an iJS New York 2026 ticket cost?

From $719 for a single conference or workshop day up to $2,429 for All Access, against regular prices of $799 and $2,699. The 2-Day Pass is $1,349 and the 3-Day Pass is $1,709. All prices include the 10 percent group discount for three or more tickets.

Is iJS New York 2026 still a JavaScript conference?

Yes, but with a heavy AI weighting. Eleven of the eighteen sessions the organiser highlights involve AI, agents or LLMs, and they are spread across the Angular, Node and architecture tracks rather than confined to the generative AI track.

What tracks does iJS New York 2026 cover?

Seven: Angular Development, React.js & Next.js Development, Node.js & Backend, Generative AI in JavaScript, Web Architecture & Performance, JavaScript Testing & Security, and DevOps & CI/CD. The programme filter uses slightly different labels for some of them.

What is the $250 upgrade on the iJS ticket page?

It adds access to the two conferences running in parallel at the same venue, DevOpsCon New York and MLcon New York. One badge, three programmes.

Is there an early-bird deadline for iJS New York 2026?

No fixed date is published. The discounted prices are framed as running until the conference starts on September 28.

Can I attend iJS New York 2026 online?

Yes. A separate remote ticket covers live streaming of all sessions, virtual Q&A and exclusive online content, and multi-day on-site tiers include six months of session recordings plus one year of devmio Fullstack access.

Where I Land

iJS New York 2026 is a JavaScript conference that has stopped treating AI as a track and started treating it as a property of the platform. Eleven of eighteen highlighted sessions, spread across Angular, Node, accessibility and API design, plus one talk arguing you often should not reach for a model at all.

The useful detail is the bootcamp line in the pricing. The tier the organiser badges as best value is the one that excludes the bootcamp, and $270 more buys it back along with two days of instructor-led work. When a conference’s own “best offer” label sits on the tier with a gap in it, read the inclusions column rather than the badge.

Your concrete next step for iJS New York 2026: open the official iJS New York ticket page, decide between the 2-Day Pass and All Access based on whether you want a bootcamp, and add the $250 parallel-conference upgrade either way. Before you go, browse the AI tools I have actually tested so the agent sessions land with more context, and subscribe for AI event and deal alerts to catch the next round of conference pricing.