Design Conferences 2020

POLISHOPA Design Thinking Conference is the biggest platform in Poland of enthusiasts and practitioners of the Design Thinking methodology.

The conference will give you a unique opportunity to expand your knowledge in the such field as Design Thinking, Service Design and innovation. During speeches, the specialists will talk about their experiences, challenges and perspectives of working with the Design Thinking.

Think About! is a tech conference which focuses not only on technology but also on design and their social impact. It creates a safe and inspirational space for everyone, and we really mean everyone.

Our belief is that society needs diversity in order to continue a healthy and critical dialogue. For this reason, we want to bring together diverse individuals and enable them to challenge themselves and each other.

A celebration of the local, national and international design industry held in Birmingham every June.

Birmingham Design is an organisation dedicated to supporting the city’s budding creative community.

From organising events to connecting designers with people that matter our mission is to help the West Midlands become the creative powerhouse it deserves to be.

By Design is a conference about design and business, based in Bratislava, Slovakia.

It's a conference for designers, entrepreneurs and creative minds.

We are excited to welcome Lance Wyman, Cas Holman, Stefan Sagmeister, Cordula Alessandri, Fabian Herrmann, Anna Kulachek and Veronica Fuerte on the 6th of June in Bratislava.

The 6th edition of biggest design conference in Poland which touches upon the practical aspects of working in creative sector. As every year, we’re expecting ca. 2,000 creatives from entire Europe.

The main subject of this year’s edition is Portfolio is Dead. We want to ponder upon whether portfolio is still a valid designer’s showcase? Or maybe nowadays other skills/abilities play a more important factor? If yes, what are they? In what ways we should grow as designers and what can we expect in the next upcoming years in our sector? What new technologies do we have at hand?

Experience Fighters is the main international event in experience creation and innovation.

This event was born to be the main gathering for experts in UX, but it has now become the greatest annual event in innovation and experience creation, including disciplines such as service design, interaction design, UX/UI, AI, AR, VR, among others.

The seventh edition of Experience Fighters will take place in June 2020. Two days where attendees will be able to listen to international speakers who will speak for the first time in Spain, and learn about the latest success case studies both at the national and international levels.

UX Scotland is the conference for the UX, service design and digital communities welcoming national and international participants to Scotland.

Edition 8 of UX Scotland, the 2020 event, is being designed as a hands-on, practical User Experience and Design conference for the software, web and mobile community.

The event creates the space where participants are able to inspire, connect and learn from their peers and leaders in the industry in a welcoming and safe environment that lets them concentrate on their professional passions.

CSS Day is a two-day advanced CSS conference.

On Thursday 11th and Friday 12th of June CSS Day is returning with two conference days.

Our regular visitors know the score: CSS Day will feature eight world-class sessions by eight world-class speakers about curious, badly-known, or just interesting CSS features.

As always the conference takes place in Het Compagnietheater.

A one-day community conference of practical and inspiring UX/UI design and front-end talks, featuring eight world-class speakers, plus workshops and a free warm-up event.

This time speakers include Rachel Andrew, Phil Hawksworth, Chen Hui Jing, and Jon Tan, and topics range from optimising experiences for multiple devices, cutting-edge CSS layouts, practical web animation, to designing conversations for chatbots, durable and inclusive design, and more.

The conference is preceded by a workshop day about Front-End Performance and Web Accessibility.

TNW Conference is a technology festival that brings together international technology executives, top-tier investors and promising startups for two days of business and knowledge sharing – surrounded by some of the highest production values at any tech event on the planet.

Now in its 15th edition, TNW Conference has grown from a 200-person event to bringing together 20,000 attendees and 3,500 companies from all over the world.

App designers and developers around the world work side by side every day to build some of the most incredible and innovative applications. Yet our potential for synergy is so often overlooked.

ADDC aims to create an opportunity for designers and developers to meet, find new ways to work together and get inspired in an open, inclusive and collaborative space.

Our talks are crafted to be valuable for both designers & developers.

Forward brings together the best international and local creative heads, who provide insights into their success stories in an exciting atmosphere. The conference, the centerpiece of the festival, is accompanied by various side events, such as workshops, live art sessions and networking events.

The idea behind Forward is to create a festival where the creative community can exchange opinions, inspire and learn from each other. Our core ambition is to bring each other’s ideas, projects and goals FORWARD.

A 5-day online programme specially created for experienced branding professionals, creative and design directors who are constantly looking for new approaches, tools and fresh case studies.

Loupe is a conference organized by Framer, makers of design prototyping software Framer X. Back for its third year, Loupe 2020 will focus on prototyping in all its forms.

Top designers and developers from all over the world will gather in Amsterdam this August to connect with one another, share ideas, and deepen their Framer knowledge. The conference will be split evenly between inspiring speaker talks and hands-on workshops. Plus, everything will kick-off and close with parties you won’t forget.

We can’t wait to be back already! The 9th SmashingConf Freiburg — in our lovely hometown in Germany — will be taking place on September 7–8. With one track, two days, 13 speakers and 260 attendees, expect actionable insights for your work — right at the footsteps of the magical Black Forest.

We pour our heart into creating friendly, inclusive events that are focused on real-world problems and solutions. Our focus is on front-end and UX but we cover everything web, be it UI design or machine learning. The Freiburg edition is of course no exception.

Design Matters is a community of creative and curious minds who share the same drive and passion for digital design, technology, art, and society. It is also a platform to gather together, share ideas, and discuss experiences.

We are designers ourselves. And so, Design Matters is made by designers, for designers, with designers on stage. Our mission is to spark up the conversation about the work and the role of digital designers – now and in the future.

Build the right product, faster together.

The conference that bridges the gap between UX, UI, Dev and Product.

Projects involve functions temporarily working together to deliver a set scope, but this limits the ability to learn about customers and forces a more short term view. What we need is for the right mix of skills across Product, UX, Design, Dev and Ops to be working together to learn, build and continuously improve the product.

The World Usability Congress is an international premier user experience design conference.

Two days of conference presentations provide practical skills to take away, inspire you for your next projects, stretch your knowledge or show how someone has tackled a problem just like ones you’re facing.

The WUC provides you with endless opportunities to network with fellow attendees and the world’s top thinkers and doers.

Sharing the stories behind great products.

Building great products is hard. JAM is about learning from those who've been there and done it. Street food, craft coffee, and friendly vibes included.

As the world is changing faster than ever – socially and technologically, our role as makers is also evolving. We have the power (and responsibility) to design better products that solve ever-bigger problems. How do we go about doing this? This year, we’ll learn from the makers who ambitiously focus on social impact with the products they build.

In 2020 we're bringing the best of Semi Permanent to Porto for the very first time. As the new European home of Semi Permanent, the program will include two-days of talks, exhibitions, installations, parties and experiences.

Our 2020 theme is RESTLESS. Porto is restlessness in action; a city whose rapid transformation has outpaced traditional expectations of reinvention by design. Semi Permanent Porto will feature a collection of speakers from across the creative spectrum, whose lessons and experiences will inspire, enable and galvanise you to transform your own community in response.

Forbes has said we run “the best technology conference on the planet”; The Atlantic that Web Summit is “where the future goes to be born”; The New York Times that we assemble “a grand conclave of the tech industry’s high priests.”

At a time of great uncertainty for industry upon industry and the world itself, we gather the founders and CEOs of technology companies, fast-growing startups, policymakers and heads of state to ask a simple question: where to next?

Desirability, feasibility, and viability are the three components of a model for successful products — an integrated model that is often carried out by segregated teams.

Join us for our 10th conference where people from product management, ux, research and design will gather to discover what we have to learn from one another.

Learn new approaches and glean fresh insights that will bring solid benefits for you, your colleagues and your clients.

Krupa is the biggest interface design conference in Eastern Europe. The event to be held on April 3, 2020 in Kyiv, is gathering global design stars, UX leaders, aspiring designers and UX teams, developing networking opportunities and raising design industry in Ukraine to a new level.

Previous speakers include Alan Cooper, Don Norman, Vitaly Friedman and others. This year organizers aim to outperform themselves, adding two days of professional activities, like hackathons, workshops and meetups, on top of the main event.