React Universe Conf 2025 Keynote

Mike Grabowski

CTO & Founder at Callstack

CTO and Founder at Callstack. Developer Experience is my passion. In the past, I worked on “react-native link”, “auto-linking” and the CLI. When not coding, I am probably on a race track!

Michał Pierzchała

Principal Engineer at Callstack

Principal Engineer at Callstack. Passionate about building mobile and web experiences, high quality JS tooling and Open Source. Core React Native Community & Jest contributor. Space exploration enthusiast.

Riccardo Cipolleschi

Software Engineer at Meta

Riccardo is a Software Engineer with 7 years of experience in iOS development. He joined Meta and the React org in March 2022. Since then he mainly worked on the Open Source build system for iOS and on the rollout of the New Architecture in the Open Source. In his free time, he writes technical articles on Swift, runs, plays tennis and drums.

React Universe Conf 2025 Keynote

React Native is entering a new era. At React Universe Conf 2025, three leading voices in the community, Mike Grabowski (CTO & Founder, Callstack), Riccardo Cipolleschi (Software Engineer, Meta), and Michał Pierzchała (Principal Engineer, Callstack), share insights on the past, present, and future of React Native.

▪ Mike reflects on React Native’s evolution from its early beginnings to today’s global scale, powering millions of apps and 30% of top finance apps worldwide.

▪ Riccardo introduces 2025 as the “Year of Stability,” unveiling predictable release cycles, stable APIs, Android 16 support, iOS build performance improvements, and a call to migrate fully to the new architecture.

▪ Michał looks forward, presenting Rock, Callstack’s React Native enterprise framework, and a broader ecosystem of tools for scaling apps, securing microfrontends, and advancing cross-platform development.

This keynote sets the tone for React Native’s next decade of growth: stability, scalability, and an ecosystem ready for enterprise adoption.