Alexander Vassbotn Røyne-Helgesen
Driving Growth Through Technology & Leadership | Technology leader and Frontend expert with nearly 30 years of experience | Speaker | Event Organizer
Driver vekst gjennom teknologi og lederskap | Teknologileder og Frontend-ekspert med nesten 30 års erfaring | Foredragsholder | Event manager
Oslo, Norway
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Alexander is an experienced technology leader and frontend expert with nearly 30 years of experience in technology development and leadership. Throughout his career, Alexander has led cross-functional teams in complex projects, combining technical expertise with strategic leadership. His leadership style values continuous learning, innovation, and fostering a culture that supports both professional growth and personal well-being.
Alexander is known for his innovative mindset and ability to challenge the status quo. He strongly believes that long-term value creation in the technology industry requires a combination of strategic thinking, professional competence, and a human-centric approach.
In addition to his technology career, he is a passionate advocate for open source and continuously explores emerging technologies.
When he's not coding or leading projects, Alexander is a bon vivant who loves cooking, whisky, and cigars – and he has a notorious love for coffee.
He is available as a speaker and advisor for those seeking to build sustainable, technology-driven organizations.
Alexander er en erfaren teknologileder og frontend-ekspert med nesten 30 års erfaring innen teknologiutvikling og ledelse. Gjennom sin karriere har Alexander ledet tverrfaglige team i komplekse prosjekter, der han har kombinert teknisk innsikt med strategisk ledelse. Han har en lederstil som verdsetter kontinuerlig læring, innovasjon og det å skape kultur som støtter både faglig utvikling og personlig trivsel.
Alexander er kjent for sin innovative tankegang og evne til å utfordre status quo. Han mener sterkt at langsiktig verdiskaping i teknologibransjen krever en kombinasjon av strategisk tenkning, faglig kompetanse og menneskelig fokus.
Ved siden av sin teknologikarriere er han en ivrig tilhenger av åpen kildekode og utforsker stadig nye teknologier.
Når han ikke koder eller leder prosjekter, er Alexander en livsnyter som elsker matlaging, whisky og sigarer – og han har en notorisk kjærlighet for kaffe.
Han er tilgjengelig som foredragsholder og rådgiver for dem som søker å skape bærekraftige, teknologidrevne organisasjoner.
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Building a Better Competence Environment: Focusing on Collaboration and Innovation en
This session is the result of my reflections on how to transform a struggling competence environment into a market-leading one. I believe that the connection between collaboration, culture-building, and an innovation/product-oriented perspective can provide a structured path forward.
Trusted Data for developers - or, how to start the apocalypse en
Hey you. Yes, YOU! The developer reading this summary. Are you ready to summon the four horsemen and start the apocalypse? Start the next nuclear disaster? Kill patients? Make banks bankrupt? Do I have your attention now? Yes? Good. Because everything is going to go to hell if you don't get your act together!
Hvordan bør man drive fagarbeid i en liten tue i et stort konsern? en
Dette er en kombinasjon av råd og rant på hva man kan eller ikke kan gjøre når man driver fagarbeid! Jeg loser deg igjennom mine erfaringer på hva som fungerer, og ikke fungerer. Jeg vil også komme med gode eksempler å gjøre ting på, og kanskje samtidig overbevise DEG om at dette er en god måte å gjøre ting på!
Make your application secure, with minimal effort! en no
I will show you tips and tricks on how you can make YOUR webapp more secure. It takes minimal effort, and it is very easy!
This is a semi frontend channeled talk, but the message is fully translatable into backend
A bleak future with AI? What the science fiction-scene has warned us against! en
I address grim predictions and outcomes that the science fiction-scene has shown us for decades, with examples from movies and books of what can happen if AI runs amok!
What can we do to make Open Source more sustainable? en
Open Source projects are more and more often victims of their own success. Those responsible for the packages end up spending thousands of hours a year maintaining and supporting packages that have somehow gotten into the global infrastructure we use to build our products and services.
Absolutely free, and usually only with outrage as the open source world's salary. It is not sustainable. Not in the long run.
This is a massive challenge, across both companies and national borders. We as developers are definitely in a position where we can contribute, but what is really the right way to do it? How can we ensure the Open Source culture with contributions? How can we make it sustainable? These are questions I will try to answer!
From nothing to state of the art, how we build design systems, for all! en
tl; dr; A talk on how we build / built a design system, with focus on technical distribution, a11y and documentation.
This talk deals with how we build design systems at the current client, and how we got to where we are now.
We look at the needs of all types of personas / consumers of the design system and how a design system helps with development, a11y, business knowledge and content. Are you a content manager or a developer? A design system is both for you and for the end user!
The technical perspective of communicating design with a design system en
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Today, more and more development is done in tight relation with designers and UX-designer, triggering the need for a design system that is tightly coupled with both design and code. Up until recent years, the design communication has gone one way, from the designers to the developers.
This talk covers the process I came up with on securing design/develop communication both ways when building a design system. We will cover generation of preprocessor styles with design tokens, generating sketchfiles with for the designers and how we generate our design systems continuously.
I will also cover the importance of a design system and on how we make sure the documentation is clear, understandable and how we emphasize the end user AND the user of the design system. With weight on accessibility for the end user, how we create documentation examples and the technical aspects tied into the design system.
Future Interfaces - What the syfy-scene promised us, and how far are we? en
This is a small talk about how we imagined the future interface would be in fiction, visions of the future and in films about the future. What have we been promised and how far have we come?
Has 20 years of experience lead to this?! en
tl;dr; A talk/rant/beer in hand talk about my experience with frontend, from the 90s to today
For over 24 years I have played, enjoyed and gotten grey hairs doing frontend. I share my experiences around this, all the good and bad stuff.
This talk is also to summarize where we come from within frontend development, and where we are heading. So if you are into some frontend nostalgia, this talk is for you
Fix your god damned typography! en
This talk will demonstrate the pains a developer have with the designer when the developer implements typography design.
Ever wondered why the distance between a title and the text says 30px in the sketch, but it won't line up with your html and css? Well, this talk will make you understand why, and how to fix this :)
First publicly presented at Booster Conference 2023 in Bergen, Norway
How we built design systems at If en
Today, more and more development is done in tight relation with designers and UX-designers, triggering the need for a design system that is tightly coupled with both design and code.
Until recently, communication has gone one way, from the designers to the developers. This talk covers the process that we developed to ensure that the conversation around a design system runs in both directions, between design and development.
Enabling developers and designers to speak the same language en
Today, more and more development is done in tight relation with designers and
UX-designers, triggering the need for a design system that is tightly coupled
with both design and code.
Up until recent years, the design communication has gone one way, from the
designers to the developers. This talk covers the process I came up with on
securing design/develop communication both ways when building a design system.
Design sketch and front-end implementation, where does it blow up? en no
A lecture that deals with the common pitfalls, and how to get out of them, when communicating between developers and designers
Designskisse og frontendimplementering, hvor skjærer det seg? en no
Et foredrag som omhandler det vanlige fallgruvene, og hvordan komme seg ut av dem, når man kommuniserer mellom utviklere og designere
A better frontend developer experience? en
tl;dr; A talk about how to improve your frontend developer experience based on my 24+ years of experience within the field. YMMV.
I will share with you what makes my frontend developer experience great, based on my a life time of trial and error. I will show you practical tips and tricks, dos and don'ts and hopefully a way for you to improve your frontend developer experience.
I will cover the importance of standards, why you should embrace automation, how you use your code to extrapolate things from and why you should care to minimize code.
This talks is for everyone that codes with frontend, and most of it could be used for your backend experience as well. Hope to see you there!
Gjør applikasjon sikker, med enkle grep! en no
Jeg kommer til å vise tips og triks på hvordan du kan gjøre din webapp sikrere. Det er ikke mye som skal til!
The Joy of Building: How I Stopped Wasting Time and Made My Own Tools en
This is a talk about frustration. About wasting hours in broken workflows and clunky tools. But more than that, it's a story about reclaiming time by building better things. From tailor-fit build systems to color generators and cosmic visualizations, I've spent my career crafting tools not just to solve problems, but to remove them entirely. This talk explores the philosophy, joy, and productivity behind custom tooling and the quiet power of solving your own pain points instead of tolerating them.
A not so brief history of frontend en
From simple HTML pages to cool app-like experiences powered by AI, the journey of frontend development is basically the story of the web. This talk will cover the key moments that shaped what we do: the creation of browsers, the wild browser wars, the emergence of JavaScript and CSS, the social revolution of Web 2.0, the game-changing iPhone, the rise of frameworks like React, and the current era of TypeScript, design systems, and WebAssembly.
Frontend is more than just code; it's all about creativity, business, and community that keeps changing how we create for the web.
Devdays Europe 2026 Upcoming
Software Development Conference Created for Developers, by Developers
DevDays Europe – software development conference bringing together internationally recognized speakers and developers to encourage excellence and innovation in the software development community. At this conference, we cover the emerging technologies and best practices in the software development industry – regardless of technological platform or language – without commercial hype.
At DevDays Europe you will learn about the latest tech advances from international experts flown in specifically for the event and about recent changes in your local development community from the peers.
Bergen Open Source Upcoming
Bergen Open Source is a yearly tech-conference in Bergen by students and other volunteers. The key focus is free open source and open data.
javaBin Meetup
JavaBin is one of Norway's largest community groups, run by passionate volunteers from across the country. We have chapters all over Norway, Stavanger, Bergen, Trondheim, Vestfold, Sogn, Tromsø, Sørlandet, and Oslo. Every single month, cool things happen under the javaBin umbrella, meetups, student events, events for kids, and much more exciting stuff!
Every year in September, it's time for JavaBin's big happening, JavaZone. That's right! One of the world's largest Java conferences is run by a volunteer organization! About 3,100 participants, 200 speakers, 50 partner companies, and generally a great atmosphere!
Join a javaBin event! And if you're extra interested, you can talk to us and become one of the organizers. We are over 50 people from all across the country who help create awesome events for our nearly 3,000 members!
NDC Oslo 2025 Sessionize Event
#HelloStavanger 2024 Sessionize Event
Knowit Objectnet Fagseminar Høst 2023 Sessionize Event
Booster Conference 2023
Booster is a software conference for the entire team. That means if you’re a developer, project manager, architect, UX professional, tester or security professional, we have something for you!
Our goal is that you come back from the conference with real knowledge you can use. That’s why interactive, hands-on workshops fill up most of the hours of the conference. We also have lightning talks, a few short talks, a couple of keynotes and open spaces.
We focus on long breaks for networking, provide excellent coffee and good food.
Knowit Objectnet Fagseminar vår 2023 Sessionize Event
NDC Oslo 2022 Sessionize Event
JavaZone 2021
JavaZone is the biggest community-driven Java conference that has been organized in Oslo, Norway since 2001. It is organized on a voluntary basis by a group of people from javaBin, the Norwegian Java User Group, working around the year and putting many hours to create an amazing conference experience for you.
Our goal is to organize a community-driven conference for developers where they can learn new things, share knowledge, and socialize.
We are happy to see the event grow bigger and better every year. In 2019 we hosted over 3200 participants and 160 speakers across 7 parallel tracks over the course of two days. In addition, we also offered a selection of 11 workshops held on the day before the conference started.
Design Systems Day 2020
Design Systems Day 2020 brought together designers and managers with extensive hands-on experience with successfully launching and growing design systems.
Just like at our 2019 event, the speakers work with design systems at companies large and small, in public organizations, and at research institutes. Our speakers delved into the practical realities of design systems. We learned about what works, what doesn't, what's easy and what's really hard about design systems.
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