We highlight thirteen conference talks that dazzled us, inspired us, and drove our careers forward

Una's picks * Simon Swain on his JS Cavas Cold War * Mark Robbins — CSS & Email * Brenna O’Brien — JS Community: The Good Parts * Dan Mall — Proper Etiquette for the Adv. of Design * Camille Fournier — Cloning Yourself Isn’t an Option * Bruce Lawson — How to Destroy the Web * Jake Archibald — Building Progressive Web Apps

Chris' picks * Paul Irish - Web Application Development Workflow * Addy Osmani - Gone in 60 FPS * Jaffar Hussein - Async Programming in ES7 * Elijah Manor - Eliminate JavaScript Code Smells * Monica Dinosaurescu - Practical Lessons from a year of building web components * Paul Lewis - High Performance Web Interfaces