Upcoming Web Design Events (Jun. 2014 – Dec. 2014)
This year has brought a number of changes in the conference scene around the world. Quite a few established conferences have taken their last bow, and a whole bunch of new conferences have appeared — and I’m not just talking about the Smashing conferences! There’s even a conference for developing applications of the not-yet-released Google Glass.Many exciting conferences have already featured some of the industry’s most illustrious speakers in the first half of 2014, however, there are quite a few more to come! Take a look at today’s round-up of conferences taking place this year from June onwards, and remember, since most events are a bit light on the design aspect, it may be a good idea to visit those conferences that focus specifically on visual and artistic technologies.
Conferences are about gathering information and knowledge, but also opportunities to get to know other like-minded folks in the web design community. Keep in mind that there’s always a benefit to attending any event, and a strong chance that you’ll be exposed to a large amount of new information, so be prepared to absorb the latest techniques brought to you by distinguished authors and speakers!
Also, I’d like to thank everyone for leaving comments in the previous round-up — they were truly helpful! I admit, I may have missed or forgotten to mention a conference (or two) in today’s round-up, but please don’t hesitate to leave a comment below in the comments section and I’ll be sure to add it on to this list as soon as possible!
The list is quite lengthy, so let’s dive in.
June 2014
Kerning 2014“Kerning features a day of workshops and a Conference day full of talks. Kerning offers a very interesting chance to meet developers, gurus, managers and innovators from all over the world. Kerning is a non-profit event.”
- When: Jun. 5-6, 2014
- Where: Faenza, Italy
“Get in touch with other campers and most importantly be open for new ideas and topics. Be proactive, you are the UXcamp! We want this event to cover the breadth of Europe and take a full international focus and we’re relying on each attendee to help make it so.”
- When: Jun. 7-8, 2014
- Where: Berlin, Germany
“The M-Enabling Global Summit is the only program exclusively dedicated to promoting mobile accessible and assistive applications and services for senior citizens and users of all abilities, a market of more than one billion users worldwide, with considerable untapped potential.”
- When: Jun. 9-10, 2014
- Where: Arlington, USA
“A community of higher education, web and other professionals from Penn State and around the world who engage, interact and share knowledge about the web. With Will Wheaton!”
- When: Jun. 9-11, 2014
- Where: Pennsylvania State College, USA
“QCon aims to empower software development by facilitating the spread of knowledge and innovation in the enterprise software development community.”
- When: Jun. 9-13, 2014
- Where: New York, USA
“Design compelling experiences through successful UX strategy. Learn how UX-driven innovation can change your business.”
- When: Jun. 10-12, 2014
- Where: San Francisco, USA
“Ready to Inspire is a brand new conference about the craft of web design, type and code. It has workshops, live music, meetups and parties, but above all an exciting lineup of today’s craftspeople and mind blowing new faces.”
- When: Jun. 10-13, 2014
- Where: Leiden, Netherlands
“We’re bringing together figure heads from all areas of design, all around the world. From bespoke furniture, to mass produced toys, to user interface and back round to motorsports.”
- When: Jun. 11, 2014
- Where: Aarhus, Denmark
“A hands-on introduction to the techniques you can use to run a successful user engagement and testing programme for your sites or applications.”
- When: Jun. 11, 2014
- Where: Manchester, England
“If you’re designing, building, sketching, structuring, strategizing or engineering solid experiences for web, print, retail or branding, then you’re creating rad things. And our theme this time around is “Creating Rad.” Remember those old skateboard movies? Those were rad.”
- When: Jun. 11-14, 2014
- Where: Charleston, USA
“Run by top developer talent, community groups and expert event specialists, the British progeny of Devoxx returns to London for a 2-day conference focused on Java, web, mobile and JVM languages.”
- When: Jun. 12-13, 2014
- Where: London, England
“Two days full of diverse topics and lectures around Publishing with some of the best speakers from Germany.”
- When: Jun 12-14, 2014
- Where: Berlin, Germany
KiwiParty is free event organized by Alsacréation to discuss Accessibility, Ergonomy, new technologies and standards.
- When: Jun. 13, 2014
- Where: Strasbourg, France
“The InDesign event of the year! Find answers and valuable insight on publishing for eBooks, print, iPad/tablets, interactive documents, and more! Be inspired by fresh ideas and new products.”
- When: Jun. 15-18, 2014
- Where: Chicago, USA
“Web Design Conferences. Mobile App Developer Events. Tech Workshops.”
- When: Jun. 16-20, 2014
- Where: Las Vegas, USA
“Businesses have long been searching for a platform that empowers them to take control of their own web presence, to stay ahead of the technology curve, and to avoid lock-in by proprietary software. Come join us for breakfast as our panel looks to address the latest with Drupal in Business.”
- When: Jun. 17, 2014
- Where: Philadelphia, USA
“Imagine a world where you can change “difficult” conversations into productive relationships. Where you feel confident about your contributions without trying to be perfect. Where your work aligns with your values. Join #dareconf organiser Jonathan Kahn to learn practical skills and techniques you can apply to your work tomorrow.”
- When: Jun. 17, 2014
- Where: London, England
“Apps World, one of the world’s leading multi-platform events in the apps industry brings you Enterprise Apps World. A two day show, co-hosted with Cloud World Forum, that will look at all the implications of going mobile in the workplace and how enterprise apps can help. ”
- When: Jun. 17-18, 2014
- Where: London, England
“The Smashing Conference finally crosses the Atlantic with 2 days, one track, 18 brilliant speakers, and hands-on, practical and useful talks. Big Apple, here we come!”
- When: Jun. 17-18, 2014
- Where: New York, USA
“Internet World is the founding event of London Technology Week. It is a b2b exhibition designed to provide solutions for businesses to define and deliver digital strategy.”
- When: Jun. 17-19, 2014
- Where: London, England
“Interlink Conference is a hand-crafted event created for all types of creative web professionals. Explore the intersection of web design, code, ball hockey and content during 3 empowering days of curated talks and workshops in the city of Toronto.”
- When: Jun. 18-20, 2014
- Where: Toronto, Canada
“Congility is definitively Europe’s foremost content strategy conference for component and structured content and is gearing up for its 7th year. Learn more about giving content agility and how it can benefit you and your organisation.”
- When: Jun. 18-20, 2014
- Where: Greater London, England
“GOTO Amsterdam offers ideal opportunities for learning, networking and tracking innovation occurring in the Java, Mobile, Cloud, OpenSource, Lean/Agile, Architecture, New Languages & Process communities. The conference includes a total of 10 tracks with over 50 presentations being showcased in Amsterdam.”
- When: Jun. 18-20, 2014
- Where: Amsterdam, Netherlands
“Ruby Lugdunum (aka RuLu) is a two-day conference dedicated to exploring the Ruby language and basking in warmth of the amazing Ruby community. RuLu 2014 takes place in Lyon, France on June 19th and 20th. Don’t miss it!”
- When: Jun. 19-20, 2014
- Where: Lyon, France
“From the organisers of UX Cambridge comes another practical UX conference. Now in its second year we expect UX Scotland to be even bigger and better than our 2013 event.”
- When: Jun. 19-20, 2014
- Where: Edinburgh, Scotland
“Front End North is a conference for front end developers, designers and people who make things for the web.”
- When: Jun. 19-20, 2014
- Where: Manchester, England
“WebVisions explores the future of design, content creation, user experience and business strategy in an event that inspires learning, collaboration and entrepreneurism. Since 2001, we’ve built a loyal audience of designers, developers and industry leaders.”
- When: June 19-22, 2014
- Where: Barcelona, Spain
“The conference for web designers and developers, presented by .net magazine and creative bloq.”
- When: June 20, 2014
- Where: New York City, USA
“After the first and second Belarusian mobile development conferences successfully organized in 2011 and 2012, the mobile development community got much more active and requires the conference to become an annual tradition. This is the biggest mobile development industry conference in Belarus and Russian-speaking countries.”
- When: Jun. 20-21, 2014
- Where: Minsk, Belarus
“Nielsen Norman Group’s Usability Week helps you get up to speed on user experience best practices, so you can plan, create and manage successful user interfaces with 6 days of in-depth, full-day courses, proven methods, best practices and practical skills and expert instructors.”
- When: Jun. 21-27, 2014
- Where: San Francisco, USA
“When you’re creating digital services, content seems like a problem. Who’s going to commission, create, edit, structure, and maintain it? Join Jonathan Kahn to learn practical techniques to turn content from a problem that everyone tries to avoid into an opportunity for collaboration.”
- When: Jun. 24, 2014
- Where: London, England
“Velocity is about the people and technologies that keep the Web fast, scalable, resilient, and highly available. From ecommerce to mobile to the cloud, Velocity is where the future of the Web takes shape.”
- When: Jun. 24-26, 2014
- Where: Santa Clara, USA
“The premier mLearning conference and expo … mLearnCon is focused on every aspect of mobile learning including management strategies, platforms, operating systems, authoring tools and technologies, content design and development, and best practices.”
- When: Jun. 24-26, 2014
- Where: San Diego, USA
“Open Source Bridge is an annual conference focused on building open source community and citizenship through four days of technical talks, hacking sessions, and collaboration opportunities.”
- When: Jun. 24-27, 2014
- Where: Portland, Oregon
“Be inspired by the tech world’s latest web, mobile and social breakthroughs to create simple, life-improving technologies and viable businesses among a rich and diverse community of cutting edge developers.”
- When: Jun. 25-26, 2014
- Where: San Francisco, USA
Uberall is Vienna’s App Business conference that addresses the interest of CeEO and Students in the industry alike. Network, find out about future trends and learn about past mistakes in the mobile digital realm.
- When: Jun. 25-26, 2014
- Where: Vienna, Austria
“Ibuildings is proud to organize the third Dutch Mobile Conference on June 27 and 28, plus a pre-conference tutorial day on June 26. Both programs will be completely in English so the only Dutch thing about it is the location. Keywords for these days: Know-how, Technology, Best Practices, Networking, Tips & Tricks.”
- When: Jun. 26-28, 2014
- Where: Amsterdam, Netherlands
“A 2-day not-for-profit by-the-community and for-the-community international conference about the New Worlds of JavaScript.”
- When: Jun. 27-28, 2014
- Where: Lisbon, Portugal
“This year tiConf EU moves to Amsterdam, the vibrant and famous capital of The Netherlands. We’ve gone bigger and better this year with the amazing Tobacco House venue right in the heart of the city, a stone’s throw away from the Canals, the Flower Market and the Red Light District. As always, we’ve got an amazing line up of speakers who’ll be talking about everything about Titanium, Mobile Development, Cloud and JavaScript.”
- When: Jun. 28-29, 2014
- Where: Amsterdam, Netherlands
“In this 2 day Introduction to iOS Development course, you will learn how to write and deploy applications that run on the iOS devices (iPhone, iPod Touch & iPad).”
- When: Jun. 30 — Jul. 1, 2014
- Where: London, England
“JavaScript is the only language that allows consistent and continuous development of Web apps from UI to server-side. enterJS discusses the resulting challenges businesses face in a series of talks and workshops.”
- When: Jun. 30-Jul. 2, 2014
- Where: Cologne, Germany
July 2014
Content Strategy Forum Conference 2014“We are at a turning point. With Big Data rapidly gaining ground and the Internet of Things knocking at our door, corporate communications and marketing face new challenges. Which role will content play in a digital world dominated by ultra high-speed computers and powerful algorithms?”
- When: Jul. 1-3, 2014
- Where: Frankfurt, Germany
“Join us on July 2nd and 3rd 2014 for two days and 4 Workshops in Zürich, Switzerland where we’ll cover many aspects of Responsive Design!”
- When: Jul. 2-3, 2014
- Where: Zurich, Switzerland
“NodeConf has a hands-on format. You are introduced to topics by mentors and participate is short workshops where you gain experience in each topic. The content will cover a broad range of topics from hardware to web applications.”
- When: Jul. 3-6, 2014
- Where: Petaluma, USA
The Confitura Conference in Warsaw is Back. So far, no speakers have been announced.
- When: Jul. 5, 2014
- Where: Warsaw, Poland
OdessaJS is back with 18 inspirational speakers.
- When: Jul. 5-6, 2014
- Where: Odessa Oblast, Ukraine
“Sketching is a core skill and tool of any designer. It is a quick and cheap way to ideate, develop and iterate on possible design solutions, both alone and with a group. Take a closer look at when and how to use sketching in the design process, how to make your sketches communicate more clearly and efficiently and how to run a collaborative sketching session with a group of people.”
- When: Jul. 9, 2014
- Where: London, England
“/dev/summer is a new, free 1 day event for software developers focussing on software technology. The event will consist of a mixture of talks and hands-on sessions from fellow software developers.”
- When: Jul. 12, 2014
- Where: Cambridge, England
“A two-day conference in the heart of the US, bringing together developers for an eclectic collection of talks covering the latest trends, best practices, and research in the field of computing.”
- When: Jul. 14-15, 2014
- Where: Kansas City, USA
The DWX is “one of Europe’s largest developer event”, incorporating 3 conferences, the .Net Conference, the Mobile Developer Conference and the Web Developer Conference.
- When: Jul. 14-17, 2014
- Where: Nuremberg, Germany
“Explore Bleeding-Edge tools and features across iOS, Android and the Web.” There will be labs on mobile app builds, design essentials, UI and UX talks, and you’ll find out how to optimize your apps using latest HTML5 and JavaScript technologies.
- When: Jul. 15-17, 2014
- Where: Chicago, USA
“Perhaps you’re a freelancer in the web design industry? Or maybe you run your own small dev team? However, you probably find many aspects of running your business hard work; winning clients, pricing your work, wouldn’t it be great to have some help with this? We have 8 great speakers giving you key business advice & lessons learnt from the front line in the industry.”
- When: Jul. 18, 2014
- Where: Cardiff, Wales
“Learn and hear from the best brains in the industry. Two days of hands-on workshops and talks. A great platform to mingle with the community.”
- When: Jul. 18-19, 2014
- Where: Bangalore, India
“This is the place to be for learning about best practices for user-centered product development, usability research, and real-world case studies. Learn best practices from global UX experts. Reinvigorate passion for your work. Build new relationships.”
- When: Jul. 21-24, 2014
- Where: London, England
“Nielsen Norman Group’s Usability Week helps you get up to speed on user experience best practices, so you can plan, create and manage successful user interfaces. 5 days of in-depth, full-day courses, proven methods, best practices and practical skills and expert instructors.”
- When: Jul. 21-25, 2014
- Where: Denver, USA
“JS conferences are a dime a dozen and full of boring practical talks about MCV’s and CSS tricks. This is not what we’re after. The FORWARD JS RALLY will help the programming community in ways they don’t know about yet. We’re gathering a diverse set of innovators and causing a scene.”
- When: Jul. 24-26, 2014
- Where: San Francisco, USA
“Uncover the challenges and the opportunities which the market presents us with is what drives us to discuss new technologies, ideas and tendencies. Join us and participate of this rich inspiration and learning experience.”
- When: Jul. 26, 2014
- Where: Belo Horizonte, Brazil
“Conferences that focus on new and emerging techniques for web development and design. Speakers that give challenging talks from a variety of different perspectives. Locations that are fun and exciting. People to share and learn from. It all happens beyond the desktop” with some of the most influential speakers in the industry.
- When: Jul. 28-30, 2014
- Where: Nashville, USA
“WDCNZ | Tech talks for web devs is a conference aimed squarely at people who write the code that makes the internet run. We have a philosophy that to present at WDCNZ you need to be unafraid of code, and our goal for WDCNZ is having highly technically literate people presenting on cutting edge topics in the web world.”
- When: Jul. 31, 2014
- Where: Wellington, New Zealand
“ypeCon is an annual conference presented by the non-profit Society of Typographic Aficionados (SOTA), an international organization dedicated to the promotion, study, and support of typography and related arts. TypeCon2014 will feature several special events and presentations held in conjunction with the main conference program.”
- When: Jul. 30 — Aug. 3, 2014
- Where: Washington, DC, USA
August 2014
PHP Conference Venezuela“The main objective is to provide access to the PHP developer community to industry updates and professional development at an affordable price, being possible thanks to the support of sponsors.”
- When: Aug. 1-2, 2014
- Where: Caracas, Venezuela
“Distill is a developer conference for people who create and build web and mobile technology. The conference will feature over 30 speakers and will explore software development methods, innovative hardware platforms, unique solutions to common problems with the tools we use today and much more.”
- When: Aug. 7-8, 2014
- Where: San Francisco, USA
“This is the second year of Converge and we’re back and better than ever! Taking what we’ve learned from 2013′s conference and expanding on feedback from our speakers and guests, we’re going to do something different again for Converge 2014. This year, we’ll be over two days, with a much stronger focus on the hacking / making track of the confernece, longer breaks and a wonderful city-centre venue in the heart of Glasgow.”
- When: Aug. 15-16, 2014
- Where: Glasgow, Scotland
“WordCamp Montreal is a conference about the world’s most popular blogging and CMS software, WordPress. Developers, designers and bloggers will come together for WordPress-related talks, workshops and networking.”
- When: Aug. 16-17, 2014
- Where: Montreal, Canada
“Over 5 days and 60+sessions and workshops, you’ll explore the Microsoft Platform and receive practical, unbiased, developer training at Visual Studio Live! Redmond.”
- When: Aug. 18-22, 2014
- Where: Redmond, USA
“HybridConf is a celebration of the people of our industry. Those bound by a love of creation.” Experience 17 great industry speakers, fun events and great networking opportunities in Sweden.
- When: Aug. 21-22, 2014
- Where: Stockholm, Sweden
“2014 is a special year, will be the fourth consecutive year that the conference happens, and the organization is committed to maintaining the success of previous years. The Brazilian JavaScript community can expect an amazing conference!”
- When: Aug. 21-22, 2014
- Where: Porto Alegre, Brazil
“redevelop conference is a one day developer conference by developers. Over 200 people will come together to discuss the newest trends, techniques, and the future of development.”
- When: Aug. 22, 2014
- Where: Bournemouth, UK
“Made by Few is a single-track, two day conference. There will be a total of 10 speakers, with 5 speakers presenting each day. The speakers will be a mix of designers, illustrators, developers, and entrepreneurs.”
- When: Aug. 22-23, 2014
- Where: Little Rock, USA
“Nielsen Norman Group’s Usability Week helps you get up to speed on user experience best practices, so you can plan, create and manage successful user interfaces with 6 days of in-depth, full-day courses, proven methods, best practices and practical skills and expert instructors.”
- When: Aug. 23-29, 2014
- Where: New York, USA
“FunctionalJS is a meetup that discusses functional programming with Javascript — whether that means underscore/lodash, reinventing a broken version of curry for the nth time, or languages that compile to JS to bring more functional tools to bear.”
- When: Aug. 25, 2014
- Where: London, England
The Ember Fest organizers boast that their event is “the biggest ember.js event in Europe.”This year they “will be celebrating the second annual Ember Fest Conference in beautiful and vibrant Barcelona! ”
- When: Aug. 26-29, 2014
- Where: Barcelona, Spain
“UX Australia 2014 is a 4-day user experience design conference. It’s made up of two elements – hands-on workshops and the main conference itself. And most importantly UX Australia gives you a chance to hang out, chat & network with more than 500 of Australia’s smartest UX folks.”
- When: Aug. 26-29, 2014
- Where: Sydney, Australia
“Frontend Conference Zurich will be “3 days of inspiring talks where design meets technology”.
- When: Aug. 27-29, 2014
- Where: Zurich, Switzerland
It time for the 11. iteration of the interdisciplinary UI conference that unites all branches of industry to discuss the best ways form humans and machnies to interact. Expect 4 days talks, workshops, tutorials and networking.
- When: Aug. 31- Sep. 3, 2014
- Where: Munich, Germany
September 2014
Internet of Things Conference 2014The Internet of Things is becoming one of the most important motors of innovation. The IoTCon aims to connect the leaders in the field and provide them with first-class technical and strategic knowledge.
- When: Sep. 1-3, 2014
- Where: Berlin, Germany
“If you are passionate about the craft that goes into your work, then this conference is for you. Bringing you the world’s most talented designers, coders, creatives, film makers animators, installation builders, illustrators, and artists presenting 3 tracks over 3 full days. Make no mistake, this is an event that you will walk away from inspired, enlightened, and with a bigger network than when you arrived.”
- When: Sep. 1-3, 2014
- Where: Brighton, England
The MobileTech conference in Berlin is one of the biggest Mobile conferences in the German-speaking world. Find out about new sustainable mobile strategies, technical know-how and up-coming trends in the mobile industry.
- When: Sep. 1-4, 2014
- Where: Berlin, Germany
“Agile on the Beach is a two day business and technology conference in September. The conference explores 3 strands of agile adoption – Business strategy, Teams and Software Craftmanship. This year we welcome speakers on UX and Product Design, the adoption of agile in mainstream businesses as well as sustaining our core technical theme.”
- When: Sep. 4-5, 2014
- Where: Falmouth, England
“dConstruct 2014 is a one-day gathering of supersmart people who will provoke, entertain, and stimulate you with their thoughts on this year’s theme of “Living With The Network.””
- When: Sep. 5, 2014
- Where: Brighton, England
“Content Marketing World, the largest content marketing event on the planet, is coming back to the United States for a fourth year. You will leave with all the materials you need to take a content marketing strategy back to your team – and – to implement a content marketing plan that will grow your business and inspire your audience.”
- When: Sep. 8-11, 2014
- Where: Cleveland, USA
“This is a one-of-a-kind conference for application developers, solution and data architects who develop business applications, create multi-device aware web applications, process vast quantities of enterprise data, design cloud architectures, and manage high performance infrastructure. The sessions are specifically tailored for developers using the hugely popular open source Spring IO Projects, Groovy & Grails, CloudFoundry, Hadoop and Tomcat technologies.”
- When: Sep. 8-11, 2014
- Where: Dallas, USA
“Design professionals from all over the world gather for four days of community, inspiration and skills building. Now in its 12th year, UX Week delivers new tools you can put to use immediately. ”
- When: Sep. 9-12, 2014
- Where: San Francisco, USA
“Explore core web-development principles and best-practices while seeing them in action at Roost, presented by Bocoup. Part training, part conference, Roost combines the best of both experiences in a comprehensive narrative about the real-world application of core programming principles.”
- When: Sep. 10-11, 2014
- Where: Chicago, USA
“UX Cambridge is a community-driven, practical User Experience conference for software, mobile and web applications. Connect and learn from your peers and leaders in the industry in a comfortable and exciting space and take away skills you can immediately use in your work.”
- When: Sep. 10-12, 2014
- Where: Cambridge, England
Wuppertal will be hosting NRW Conf again, community event focused on touch technology. Find out all about touch technologies in two days of talks and workshops.
- When: Sep. 11-12, 2014
- Where: Wuppertal, Germany
The popular Barcelona Ruby conference is back and is already almost sold-out. Baruco will “still be a single-track, two-day conference, but this year we’ll be putting an extra effort on providing some juicy workshops the day before the conference itself.”
- When: Sep. 11-13, 2014
- Where: Barcelona, Spain
“XOXO is an arts and technology festival celebrating disruptive creativity. We’re bringing independent artists who use the Internet to make a living doing what they love together with the technologists building the tools that make it possible.”
- When: Sept. 11-14, 2014
- Where: Portland, OR
“CSSconf EU is a conference dedicated to the designers, developers and engineers who build the world’s most engaging user interfaces. From the community, for the community.”
- When: Sep. 12, 2014
- Where: Berlin, Germany
“WebExpo is the biggest conference in Central Europe for all web designers, developers and managers.” Enjoy 60 talks, hours of discussion and practical workshops in one of central Europe’s more evocative cities.
- When: Sep. 12-14, 2014
- Where: Prague, Czech Republic
“A carefully curated, intimate, one-day photography conference, BIRDIE brings together inspiring photographers, speakers and storytellers for talks and discussion.”
- When: Sep. 13, 2014
- Where: London, England
“SmashingConf Freiburg is back, and it’s never been as practical. 1 track, 2 conference days, 3 workshops, 18 excellent speakers and just 300 available seats.”
- When: Sep. 15-16, 2014
- Where: Freiburg, Germany
“Velocity is about the people and technologies that keep the Web fast, scalable, resilient, and highly available. Learn from the best minds in the field—people who live and breathe web operations and performance.”
- When: Sep. 15-17, 2014
- Where: Manhattan, USA
“Powered by JavaScript, a one-day conference hosted by Manning Publications, includes a crisp vision of the new environment and presents interesting use cases and techniques that show you new ways to get things done with JavaScript.”
- When: Sep. 17, 2014
- Where: St. Louis, USA
“Our theme — “Typographic dialogues” — invites exploration of the relationships between all aspects of typographic design. From research in the history of typography to innovations in information design and the latest developments in multi-script communication, we welcome proposals that consider the richness of these relationships and further our understanding.”
- When: Sept. 17-21, 2014
- Where: Barcelona, Spain
Strange Loop is back for the 6th year in a row. “Topics include emerging languages, concurrent and distributed systems, new database technologies, front-end web, and security.”
- When: Sep. 17-19, 2014
- Where: St. Louis City, USA
“Business leaders and technology experts from around the world return to Summit each year to experience where the open and trusted Cloud ecosystem is heading.”
- When: Sep. 18, 2014
- Where: Munich, Germany/li>
From the Front is back again. As always infer the emphases of the popular Italian front-end conference from the speakers. And so far the cast is promising! And as always, very decent pricing.
- When: Sep. 18-19, 2014
- Where: Bologna, Italy
“Nordic.js is a two-day conference all about Javascript. We aim to inspire and to get inspired, to meet and learn from others and to to bring our community closer together. The conference will take place on an island in the middle of the beautiful archipelago of Stockholm.”
- When: Sep. 18-19, 2014
- Where: Stockholm, Sweden
MODX conference is offering a slightly different approach to the usual conference experience. This event is all-inclusive. “Of course there is all the great content and speakers you would expect from a conference, but then with a full-service treatment including pick up from main transportation hubs with a VIP coach, an on-site three star hotel room, all the food and drinks you want and even some less-techy and outdoor activities for you to empty the mind.”
- When: Sep. 19-22, 2014
- Where: Utrecht, Netherlands
“Nielsen Norman Group’s Usability Week helps you get up to speed on user experience best practices, so you can plan, create and manage successful user interfaces with 6 days of in-depth, full-day courses, proven methods, best practices and practical skills and expert instructors.”
- When: Sep. 21-26, 2014
- Where: Toronto, Canada
“SmartWeb is a conference organized for web designers & developers, UX designers, and web entrepreneurs. During the four session program, attendees will discover the latest trends in modern web and mobile development, and meet their peers and great people from web industry.”
- When: Sep. 22-23, 2014
- Where: Bucharest, Romania
“Does your team find collaboration difficult? Do people seem to resist your contributions? At #dareconf you’ll learn to turn conflict—and awkward conversations—into collaboration, feel confident about your contributions and align your work with your values.”
- When: Sep. 22-23, 2014
- Where: London, England
BASTA! is one of the leading independent conferences dealing with Microsoft technologies. With more than 130, 80 speakers and a Microsoft Expo, you are bound to learn something about Microsoft you didn’t know before.
- When: Sep. 22-26, 2014
- Where: Mayence, Germany
“The World Usability Congress” claims to be “one of the best Usability & Service Design conferences in europe.”
- When: Sep. 24-26, 2014
- Where: Graz, Austria
“A two-day event on the development of corporate and brand identity projects by some of today’s most active and influential practitioners from around the world.”
- When: Sep. 25-26, 2014
- Where: Chicago, USA
“EuroIA is Europe’s premiere information architecture / user experience conference.” And it’s their 10th anniversary, so they promise an exciting line-up.
- When: Sep. 25-27, 2014
- Where: Brussels, Belgium
“Kyan presents WXG, a conference dedicated to creating cutting-edge web and digital experiences. With twin tracks, lots of time to chat, lunch included and drinks to follow, it’s a day not to be missed.”
- When: Sep. 26, 2014
- Where: Guilford, England
“Forge is a conference that seeks to bring to light the best of the web, from the digital experiences that we use on a daily basis, to the sites that we all look to for inspiration, trends, and advancements.”
- When: Sep. 26, 2014
- Where: Philadelphia, USA
“Digitized is a series of events that includes several workshops and a conference, taking place once a year in Athens, Greece. Its purpose is to bring together, inform and inspire the digital design community. Now on its fourth year, Digitized is a dynamic and exciting event that has never fallen short of exciting its audience.”
- When: Sept. 26-27, 2014
- Where: Athens, Greece
“ARTIFACT is an intimate two-day, single-track conference that helps web designers and developers adapt their tools and processes to the challenges of designing for a multi-device world.”
- When: Sep. 29 — Oct. 1, 2014
- Where: Providence, USA
October 2014
PyCon Ukraine Fall 2014“PyCon Ukraine is an independent, community-run, community-controlled and not-for-profit conference dedicated to the Python programming language, Python applications, toolkits and frameworks and other “related” technologies — databases, GIS, high-load systems.”
- When: Oct. 1-31, 2014
- Where: L’viv, Ukraine
Digital Visions is a conference about UX and Front-End Development. The main focus wil lie on Screen Design, Usability and HTML trends.
- When: Oct. 3, 2014
- Where: Vienna, Austria
“Build Responsively introduces attendees to the mindset and techniques necessary for embracing the fluid nature of the web. The full-day workshop provides a broad sweep across the major topics involved in building responsive websites.”
- When: Oct. 3, 2014
- Where: Charleston, USA
“Delight is a two-day conference in Portland, Oregon for brands and professionals who care about making experiences people love. The event gathers leaders working at the intersection of business, design and technology in an intimate forum that encourages big ideas, interactive discussions and lasting connections. ”
- When: Oct. 6-7, 2014
- Where: Portland, USA
“The conference focuses on Open Source software and general topics regarding eCommerce (Payment / PCI-DSS, ERP, Best Practices, Usability, SEO, …).”
- When: Oct. 7-9, 2014
- Where: Hancock, USA
“Level Up is a creative tech conference that explores the process of creating and shipping modern software products. The conference will feature practical experience by industry experts, over two days, covering four themes; ideate, design, build, and launch.”
- When: Oct. 8-9, 2014
- Where: Saratoga Springs, USA
This year is the 10th anniversary of TYPO3′s European conference. They will most likely pull out all the stops and ordering tickets early is definitely a big savings.
- When: Oct. 8-10, 2014
- Where: Berlin, Germany
“Thunder Plains is a web and mobile developer conference organized by the Oklahoma City Javascript User Group. The conference focuses on JavaScript and related technologies in a wide variety of different use cases and platforms that make the web all the more interesting.”
- When: Oct. 9, 2014
- Where: Oklahoma City, USA
Fronteers is “one of Europe’s largest conferences on front-end web development, organised in Amsterdam since 2008. ”
- When: Oct. 9-10, 2014
- Where: Amsterdam, Netherlands
code.talks is “one of the biggest and most important developer conferences in Germany and Europe.” During 2 conference days Hamburg will receive 1500 attendees and 120 speakers. With 12 tracks you may wish to plan ahead!
- When: Oct. 9-10, 2014
- Where: Hamburg, Germany
“More than 250 developers from the whole region attended Coding Serbia Conference” last year. “Experts from Germany and Serbia shared their knowledge and contributed to the software quality improvement.” The setup since 2013 hasn’t changed so expect a similar 2-day conference from codecentric this year.
- When: Oct. 9-10, 2014
- Where: Novi Sad, Serbia
“push.conference is a unique inspiring event for the interactive professional field. It unites the established UX/ UI scene with the potential and skillset of a new generation of creative coders and technologists on two amazing days in Munich.”
- When: Oct. 10-11, 2014
- Where: Munich, Germany
AppCon, Austria’s “European Mobile Application Development Conference” will be around for one day. So far there is not al lot of information, but the name does offers some clues about the content.
- When: Oct. 11, 2014
- Where: Linz, Austria
“Better Software is the Italian conference dedicated to innovation in management. Aimed at business owners and managers, it is an opportunity to weave lasting relationships with new customers and partners.”
- When: Oct. 13-14, 2014
- Where: Florence, Italy
“The first conference devoted to CSS, the design language of the Web, returns for its third year on”. CSS Dev Conf is gracing New Orleans for 3 days, with feature talks by 25 industry leaders.
- When: Oct. 13-15, 2014
- Where: New Orleans, USA
“JAX offers a unique experience — featuring some of the most highly regarded and sought after speakers, in a professional atmosphere. Standard Ticket holders get full access to Big Data Con London, featuring the latest knowledge on modern data stores, big data architectures based on Hadoop plus advanced data processing techniques.”
- When: Oct. 13-15, 2014
- Where: London Borough of Islington, England
“Webdagene spans over 3 days. The first day we offer 5 different hands-on workshops. During the following two days you will hear international experts speak about web and user experience.”
- When: Oct. 15-17, 2014
- Where: Oslo, Norway
Paris Web is the Web makers conference for the French-speaking world. Explore themes such Accessibility, digital design and open standards during this 3-day francophile event.
- When: Oct. 16-18, 2014
- Where: Paris, France
“Due to the hard political situation in Ukraine and Crimea, #iOSonRailsconf 2014 postponed indefinitely (hopefully Autumn).”
- When: Oct. 16-18, 2014
- Where: Alushta, Ukraine
“Designed for Backend developers and those interested in DevOps and system architecture, this is the only curated database conference of its kind in the UK.”
- When: Oct. 17, 2014
- Where: Oxford, England
“A novel 2-day concept conference about the decentralization of the web, featuring inspiring talks and creative sessions, spreading over several outstanding venues in medieval Nuremberg. On the second day, the audience will split into seven creator units, each led by one of the scene-setters (and possibly some assistants). Relocated to one of several gorgeous smaller venues, you will spend the day elaborating on the particular facet that your unit stands for.”
- When: Oct. 17-18, 2014
- Where: Nuremberg, Germany
“This course is for experienced UX practitioners. This is a hands-on course. You’ll conduct live interviews with real customers of one of Dublin’s best-known brands. You’ll gather research data during fieldwork in Dublin city centre. And you’ll put it all together during collaborative workshops with your teammates.”
- When: Oct. 20-21, 2014
- Where: Dublin, Ireland
“Launched more than 12 years ago as an event focused on online market research, TMRE has grown to be the most comprehensive insights conference in the world.”
- When: Oct. 20-22, 2014
- Where: Boca Raton, USA
“ng-europe is Europe’s first AngularJS conference, located in beautiful Paris, France” for 2 days and featuring at least 17 speakers.
- When: Oct. 22-23, 2014
- Where: Paris, France
“It’s a conference about the design of everything.” Expect “two days of intensely focused broadness.”
- When: Oct. 22-23, 2014
- Where: Chicago, USA
“Want to learn how to use Node.js to excel at building fast, scalable network applications, perfect for data-intensive real-time applications? Fancy advancing your client-side scripts to interact with the user using Javascript? Skills Matter are pleased to announce the first ever FullStack conference, two days of expert talks on client and server side programming.”
- When: Oct. 23-24, 2014
- Where: London, England
“Midwest UX is a 3-day conference founded on inter-disciplinary talks and workshops built around supporting and inspiring the growing Midwest design community. Located in Indianapolis in 2014, conference attendees will experience unique opportunities to participate and learn from regional professionals and international experts.”
- When: Oct. 23-25, 2014
- Where: Indianapolis, USA
“UCD2014 is a unique User-Centred Design conference in London. “It’s the Goldilocks of conferences; not too big, not too small” Jonty Sharples. UCD2014 explores how User Centred Design is applied in a variety of disciplines.”
- When: Oct. 24-25, 2014
- Where: Greater London, England
“The Ohio LinuxFest is a grassroots conference for the GNU/Linux/Open Source Software/Free Software community that started in 2003 as a large inter-LUG meeting and has grown steadily since. It is a place for the community to gather and share information about Linux and Open Source Software.”
- When: Oct. 24-26, 2014
- Where: Columbus, USA
The WebTech Conference in Munich will deal with the entire spectrum of Web technologies. Everything from HTML5 to Web security will be discussed at this 4-day event.
- When: Oct. 26-29, 2014
- Where: Munich, Germany
“GGDevCon is an independent, two-day developer conference about Google Glass. This intensive technical conference for developers, software engineers and architects will train you how to master the Google Glass Development Kit and create outstanding Glassware.”
- When: Oct. 27-28, 2014
- Where: Burlingame, USA
“An Event Apart Orlando: Special Edition lives up to its name by taking things to the next level. We’ll have not one, not two, but three days packed full of the brightest minds in the business. Eighteen experts will deliver the kind of insight, wisdom, and practical takeaways that An Event Apart promises”.
- When: Oct. 27-29, 2014
- Where: Orlando, USA
“Want to find out about all the latest Android advances, listen to expert speakers, see fantastic new technologies, and meet the international Android community? Then come and join Droidcon London, the largest Android developer conference in Europe!”
- When: Oct. 30-31, 2014
- Where: London, England
“A conference celebrating 25 years of the World Wide Web; an event on design and technology.”
- When: Oct. 30-31, 2014
- Where: Cardiff, Wales
“he Marketing Festival is a WORLD-CLASS DIGITAL MARKETING EVENT, held in the very heart of Europe. We are going to give to you respected top professionals – marketers, PPC professionals, and web analysts.”
- When: Oct. 31 — Nov. 2, 2014
- Where: Brno, Czech Republic
November 2014
beyond tellerrand//Berlin 2014“The affordable event for a friendly and inspiring community again covers fantastic talks about design, technology and inspiration in a single track plus chats and networking with old and new friends on day one and two. For the first time a second edition of beyond tellerrand. In Berlin.”
- When: Nov. 3-5, 2014
- Where: Berlin, Germany
“”Conferences that focus on new and emerging techniques for web development and design. Speakers that give challenging talks from a variety of different perspectives. Locations that are fun and exciting. People to share and learn from. It all happens beyond the desktop” with some of the most influential speakers in the industry.”
- When: Nov. 3-5, 2014
- Where: Orlando, USA
“QCon is a practitioner-driven conference designed for technical team leads, architects, and project managers who influence software innovation in their teams.”
- When: Nov. 3-7, 2014
- Where: San Francisco, USA
“The GOTO Berlin program is created “for developers, by developers” where the emphasis is placed on presenting latest developments as they become relevant and interesting for the software development community. Some of the industry’s best speakers, practioners and trainers will be at GOTO Berlin to present and train on a variety of topic areas.”
- When: Nov. 5-7, 2014
- Where: Berlin, Germany
“Full Frontal is run by Left Logic, a small team of developers based in Brighton (UK), specialising in Node based applications and bleeding edge front end technology. ”
- When: Nov. 7, 2014
- Where: Brighton, UK
PHP Conference Argentina is one of the biggest developer conferences in Argentina taking place in Buenos Aires and featuring 18 speakers over two days.
- When: Nov. 7-8, 2014
- Where: Buenos Aires, Argentina
“Form Function & Class is an annual conference that imparts essential knowledge to the web design community in Asia and the rest of the world, from the beautiful tropical shores of the Philippines. Sessions cover HTML, CSS, JS, typography, user experience, mobile, business, and other relevant disciplines.”
- When: Nov. 8, 2014
- Where: Manila, Philippines
“dotCSS is the new sister conference to dotJS. We will have the world’s best CSS experts on stage talk about both technical and design matters!”
- When: Nov. 14, 2014
- Where: Paris, France
“A one day psychology conference for people working on digital products. Eight thought provoking speakers have been carefully chosen to talk about how theory and research influences the way we create websites.”
- When: Nov. 14, 2014
- Where: Brighton, England
“UX Camp Brighton is a popular one day ‘bar-camp’ style event for anyone involved or interested in user experience design, interaction design, information architecture or usability.”
- When: Nov. 15, 2014
- Where: Brighton, England
More Links for Keeping Up
Here are a few links that will also help you keep up with the newly scheduled design and/or development conferences being shared through Lanyard that have been sorted out by category:Where Are You Going?
If you’re planning to attend any of these events, we’d love to hear your thoughts in the comments section below! What are you most excited about? What are you looking forward to learning and experiencing?Our next events list will be published later this year in December, so keep your eyes (and ears) open! And by the way, the Smashing team is constantly organizing a series of workshops, as well as the Smashing Conferences — it would be wonderful and a great honor to meet you personally someday!
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