Hugo Sousa

We love this community. ZurichJS is all about the people, the moments, the vibe. And Enrique, our photographer, captures it beautifully. We’ve got hundreds of incredible photos and videos from past meetups—but for months, we didn’t have a good way to show them off. We wanted to, we just didn’t have the time to build something that would do it justice. Then I went to CityJS London and saw a live demo from the ImageKit team. They dropped into a Next.js project and had real-time, responsive, optimized media flowing in minutes. I had a chat with them right after. I asked, “Could I get this running for ZurichJS in a weekend?” They said yes—and we did it. In this talk, I’ll walk through: - Why our old static image setup wasn’t cutting it - What limitations we hit with Next.js asset handling - How we rebuilt the ZurichJS media experience using ImageKit - What worked, what didn’t, and what surprised us And the best part? The ImageKit team will join us live at the end for a quick-fire 5-minute Q&A, so you can pick their brains directly and see what’s coming next.