Meet the speaker

Rob Richard

Senior Director, Front-End Engineering, 1stDibs

returning speaker

Rob is a front-end engineer at 1stDibs, an online marketplace for extraordinary design. He is also a member of the GraphQL Technical Steering committee, where he has been championing the @defer & @stream spec proposal.

2026 Sessions

GraphQL Specification

Lower Latency With Streaming GraphQL

Rob Richard

Sessions from previous editions

Keynote Session

TSC Panel

Michael Staib, Lee Byron, Kewei Qu, Rob Richard, Sasha Solomon

GraphQL SpecAny

State of @Defer and @Stream

Rob Richard

GraphQL Working Group

Lower Latency With Streaming GraphQL

Rob Richard

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