Developer Summit 2025

Roku held its annual developer summit online on September 16–17, 2025. The Developer Summit opened with the keynote address, which included a welcome address from CEO Anthony Wood, the traditional recap of the past year in streaming and key industry trends, new product and feature announcements, and a summary of new features recently added to the Roku Developer Portal.

Announcements made during the keynote included: Roku Cloud Emulator (scheduled for release in 2026), Phased App Rollout, and Optimized data transfer and reference handling APIs.

After the keynote, a series of panel discussions were held over two days that included: Developer Tools, App Performance, Platform Stability, Beta Program, Community Tools, Content Discovery, Audience Growth, Roku Pay, Localization, and SceneGraph.

Keynote

Panels

Developer Tools

App Performance

Platform Stability

Beta Program

Community Tools

Content Discovery

Audience Growth

Roku Pay

Localization

Media

SceneGraph