Never Stop Learning With Conference Live Streams And Videos

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What makes a great conference? It fuels your ideas and polishes up your skills. It fosters your professional growth and takes your work to the next level. Luckily, a lot of conferences provide videos of their talks after the event has ended, some do even stream live to pass on their knowledge even if you couldn’t attend.

The videos collected in this round-up revive the spirit of the conferences they were recorded at and cater for a lot of fresh insights and light-bulb moments to make the learning never stop. As a very special goodie, we’re very pleased to also feature the live stream of this year’s Build 2016 Conference here on Smashing.

Build 2016 Live Stream

Build 2016 is geared towards web developers and programmers, focused on developing for web as well as Edge, Windows and .NET and covering the latest technologies and how they enable us to work smarter in a cloud-based and mobile-first world.

The live broadcast starts from March 30th, 8:30AM (Pacific) and will cover the full three days of the event.

From The Front Conference

From The Front organizes meetups and conferences for front-end people from front-end people since 2010. The videos from their past conferences can be found on Vimeo.

Sara Soueidan – Styling And Animating Scalable Vector Graphics With CSS

• Sara Soueidan – Styling And Animating Scalable Vector Graphics With CSS
• Andre Jay Meisner – Your Customers Want To Pay Your Testing Budget
• Sally Jenkinson –With Great Power Comes Great (Development) Responsibility
• Jon Gold – A New Architecture
• Gunnar Bittersmann – CSS Preprocessors For The Best Of Both Worlds
• Ulrika Malmgreen – Amplify Your Awesomeness

Five Simple Steps

Five Simple Steps collects talks from the best conferences around the world, including Ampersand, Beyond Tellerrand, Build, Dotyork, Full Frontal, Handheld, Responsive Day Out and Upfront. Their collection currently counts 42 videos for you to dive into.

Brendan Dawes – Paper, Plastic & Pixels

• Brendan Dawes – Paper, Plastic & Pixels
• Yesenia Perez-Cruz – Design Decisions Through The Lens Of Performance
• Anna Debenham – Games Console Browsers

SmashingConf

With a number of SmashingConfs on our backs, our collection of conference videos has grown tremendously (and it is still continuing to do so, of course). The most recent talks from SmashingConf Oxford have just been added to it — fresh from the cutting room.

Patrick Hamann – HTTP/2: What, Where, Why, And When?

• Patrick Hamann – HTTP/2: What, Where, Why, And When?
• Vasilis van Gemert – Look, No Mediaqueries
• Umar Hansa – Devtools: An Animated Journey
• Chris Shiflett – Understanding People
• Jon Setzen – Overthinking Design And Embracing Minutia
• Jina Bolton – Living Design Systems
• Heydon Pickering – Joining Up The Dots
• Hannah Donovan – Souls & Machines: Designing The Future Of Content

CSSconf

Back in September, more than 400 attendees from 30+ countries gathered in Berlin for CSSconf EU 2015 to indulge in a day of CSS/front-end magic. The recordings of the talks bring all those big and small insights right to your home. And if that’s not enough for you yet, check out the CSSconf YouTube site for videos from even more past conferences, including CSSconf Asia 2015.

Claudina Sarahe – The Front-End Revolution

• Claudina Sarahe – The Front-End Revolution
• Katie Kurkoski – Developing for Localization
• Michael Mifsud – It’s All Just Functions And Variables
• Tammie Lister – Emotion Through CSS
• Michael Mifsud – It’s All Just Functions And Variables
• Lea Verou – The Missing Slice
  
• Glen Maddern – Interoperable CSS
• Zoe M. Gillenwater – Enhancing Responsiveness With Flexbox

JSConf

With conferences all over the world, JSConf is known to push the boundaries of what is thought to be conceivable with JavaScript. To polish up your JS skills, their recorded conference talks are real gems.

Dmitry Baranovskiy – Zen Of JavaScript

• Dmitry Baranovskiy – Zen Of JavaScript
• Carina C. Zona – Consequences Of An Insightful Algorithm
• Nick Hehr – The Other Side Of Empathy
• Olga Madejska – Breaking Bad - Web Components In Production, What Worked For Us
• Stefanie Schirmer – Functional Programming And Curry Cooking In JS
• Txus – The Power Of Small Abstractions
• David Valdman – Functional Layout: Updating the DOM At 60FPS
• Denis Radin – Rendering HTML Via WebGL

Beyond Tellerrand

Beyond Tellerrand provides a valuable mix of design, technology and inspiration and sets the bar high when it comes to quality. With approximately 120 videos available from five conference years, Marc Thiele’s Vimeo channel is a true treasure chest.

Marcy Sutton – How To Win At Mobile Accessibility

• Marcy Sutton – How To Win At Mobile Accessibility
• Stephanie Rieger – Imagining The Physical Web
• Jake Archibald – Modern Progressive Enhancement
• Jay Fanelli & Nathan Peretic – Punctus Contra Punctum
• Tobias Frere-Jones – In Letters We Trust
• Steph Troeth – The Hidden Plot Device
• Aarron Walter – Building Great Design Teams

An Event Apart

An Event Apart is known for offering designers and developers who are passionate about standards-based web design an intense learning experience. More than 40 videos bring the know-how from stage right to your screen.

Jeffrey Zeldman – Understanding Web Design

• Jeffrey Zeldman – Understanding Web Design
• Jen Simmons – Modern Layouts: Getting Out Of Our Ruts
• Eric Meyer – Designing For Crisis
• Jeremy Keith – Enhance!
• Kevin M. Hoffman – Co-Design, Not Redesign
• Erika Hall – Just Enough Research
• Val Head – Putting Your UI In Motion

Webstock

Now in its 10th year, Webstock is the baby of a small group of web professionals who made it their goal to promote raising the standard of websites. In the spirit of good web citizenship, they share the talks from past conferences online.

Harper Reed – The Magic And Mystery Of Big Data

• Harper Reed – The Magic And Mystery Of Big Data
• Genevieve Bell – Seeing Eternity In A Daffodil: Making Robots, Making Life
• Shelley Bernstein – Visitor Experience As A Catalyst For Institutional Change
• Nat Cheshire – The Manipulable City
• Frank Chimero – The Web’s Grain
• Janet Crawford – The Surprising Neuroscience Of Gender Inequality
• Derek Featherstone – Designing For Context Not The Device
• Brad Frost – Give It Away, Give It Away, Give It Away Now

99U

The 99U Conference aims at shifting the focus from generating ideas to executing them by bringing together creative visionaries and leading researchers to share their insights on how to bring ideas to life. More than 100 talks are available to watch online.

Tina Roth Eisenberg – Don’t Complain, Create

• Tina Roth Eisenberg – Don’t Complain, Create
• Brené Brown – Why Your Critics Aren’t The Ones Who Count
• Christoph Niemann – How to Overcome the 3 Fears Every Creative Faces
• Paola Antonelli – Rejection Is a Sign You’re Onto Something New
• Alex Blumberg – Your Best Selling Points Are the Mistakes You’ve Made
• Stewart Butterfield – How We Scaled the Fastest-Growing Business App Ever
• Casey Gerald – Purpose Is the New Bottom Line
• Kelly Sue DeConnick – How To Make People Uncomfortable (And Still Make a Living)

O’Reilly

“Technology matters. The people who put it into practice matter more,” is the credo of O’Reilly. O’Reilly’s YouTube playlists compile a plethora of talks and interviews from their conferences.

Alex Russel – Progressive Web Apps And What’s Next On Mobile

• Alex Russel – Progressive Web Apps And What’s Next On Mobile
• Brendan Eich – JavaScript in 2016, Beyond Harmony
• Steve Atkin – Globalization Pipeline: Translations At Cloud Speeds
• Laurie Voss – How nmp Split A Monolith And Lived To Tell The Tale
• Tracy Osborn – The Entire History Of Design Principles 1322–2016, Abridged
• Sarah Drasner – Complex Responsive SVG Animations
• Brad Green – Angular 2 And The Future Of HTML Apps
• Douglas Crockford – The Seif Project

Fronteers

Fronteers unites some 550 front-end developers across the Netherlands and Belgium. Videos from the yearly Fronteers conference as well as of some of their meetings can be found on the Fronteers Vimeo page.

Wes Bos – Modern Workflow And Tooling For Front-End Developers

• Wes Bos – Modern Workflow And Tooling For Front-End Developers
• Andreas Dantz – Designing With Real Data
• Kristofer Walters – Fancy Input Elements With Web Components
• Roy Tomeij – Make Them Click
• Remy Sharp – The Art Of Debugging
• Chris Eppstein – Lightning Fast Sass
• Scott Jehl – Delivering Responsibly
• Jake Archibald – Modern Progressive Enhancement

Awwwards

Awwwards recognizes and promotes talent and efforts in the web community. The goal is to create a meeting point to share experiences, inspiration and knowledge to make the web more accessible, usable and beautiful. To get everyone involved, Awwwards shares talks from their conferences as well as interviews with personalities from the community on their Vimeo page.

Bruce Lawson – Responsive Images

• Bruce Lawson – Responsive Images
• Paul Bakaus – Designing with Chrome DevTools
• Greg Barth – Surreal, Art Driven Narratives Using Stop Motion
• Marko Dugonjić – Responsive Web Typography
• Mathias Bynens – JavaScript Hearts Unicode
• Divya Manian – Responsive Design: Where Do We Go From Here?

The Design And Content Conference

The Design And Content Conference brought to life by The Republic Of Quality teams up designers and content strategists to shape the future of the web. You’ll find talks from past conferences on their Vimeo page.

Samantha Warren – Guerrilla Design Tactics

• Samantha Warren – Guerrilla Design Tactics
• Kathy Wagner – Mapping Content to Customer Journeys
• Rebekah Cancino – Next Level Collaboration: The Future Of Content And Design
• Eileen Webb – Training The CMS: Building A Better Authoring Experience
• Karen McGrane – Adaptive Content, Context, And Controversy
• Tizzy Asher – Content Patterns For A Noisy World
• Sara Wachter-Boettcher – Everybody Hurts: Content For Kindness
• Steve Fisher – Conflict Is The Key to Great UX

ffconf

Run by Left Logic, ffconf is all about JavaScript. To brush up your skills, Remy Sharp shares the talks from past conferences on YouTube.

Robin Mehner – JavaScript That Doesn’t Hurt Your Feelings

• Robin Mehner – JavaScript That Doesn’t Hurt Your Feelings
• Sara Soueidan – SVG In Motion
• Anna Shipman – Operations: A Developer’s Guide
• John K. Paul – The Web Audio Phenomenon That Shall Not Be Named
• Marcy Sutton – How To Win At Mobile Accessibility
• Paul Lewis – You Should Use [Insert Library/Framework], It’s The Bestetest!
• Martin Kleppe – Code Calligrams
• Lena Reinhard – A Talk About Everything

Further Reading

• List Of Upcoming Web Design Conferences
• Smashing Conferences and Workshops
• How To Transform Conference Takeaways Into Real-Life Results
• Taking A Closer Look At Tech Conferences

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