SmashingConf 2018: Fetch Those Early-Bird Tickets!

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Great conferences are all about learning new skills and making new connections. That’s why we’ve set up a couple of new adventures for SmashingConf 2018 — just practical sessions, new formats, new lightning talks, evening sessions and genuine, interesting conversations — with a dash of friendly networking! Taking place in London, San Francisco, Toronto. Tickets? Glad you asked!

SmashingConf San Francisco / #breakout / Apr 17–18

With our third annual conference in San Francisco, we want to explore ways and strategies for breaking out: leaving behind generic designs and understand the new techniques and capabilities available today. We care about the solutions we come up with, and the approaches that failed along the way. In San Francisco, we want to find out the why, and how, and what we all — as designers and developers — need to know today to be more productive and make smarter decisions tomorrow. Schedule and details.

SmashingConf SF: breaking out of the box. Apr 17–18.

Speakers And Topics

A wide range of everything web-related, covered in 2 days, with a single track, 16 speakers and 8 hands-on workshops. CSS Grid, Design systems, new frontiers of CSS and JavaScript, accessibility, performance, lettering, graphic design, UX, multi-cultural design, among other things. 100 super early-bird-tickets now on sale.

• Lettering
  Jessica Hische
• Design Systems
  Trent Walton (Paravel)
• Next Frontier Of CSS
  Michael Riethmueller
• Multi-Cultural Design
  Yiying Lu
• Performance
  Patrick Hamann (Fastly)
• Layout
  Rachel Andrew (Perch)
• Mystery Speaker
  Somebody you definitely know, and respect.
• …and others!

SmashingConf Toronto / #noslides / Jun 26–27

What’s the best way to learn? By observing designers and developers working live. For our new conference in Toronto, all speakers aren’t allowed to use any slides at all. Welcome SmashingConf #noslides, a brand new conference, full of interactive live sessions, showing how web designers design and how web developers build — including setup, workflow, design thinking, naming conventions and everything in-between.

SmashingConf Toronto: no slides, live sessions only. Jun 26–27.

Speakers And Topics

Interactive live sessions on everything from organizing layers in Photoshop to naming conventions in CSS. Live workflow in Sketch and Photoshop, design systems setup, lettering, new frontiers of CSS and JavaScript, CSS Grid Layout, live debugging, performance audits, accessibility audits, sketching, graphic design, data visualization and creative coding. 100 super early-bird-tickets now on sale.

• CSS
  Lea Verou (MIT)
• Creative JavaScript
  Seb Lee-Delisle
• JavaScript
  Sarah Drasner (Microsoft)
• UX Psychology
  Joe Leech
• Lettering
  Gemma O’Brien
• Performance
  Tim Kadlec (Snyk)
• Design Workflow
  Dan Mall (Superfriendly)
• Data Visualization
  Nadieh Bremer
• Visual Design
  Aaron Draplin (DDC)
• Multi-Cultural Design
  Yiying Lu
• Mystery Speaker
  Somebody you definitely know, and respect.
• …and others!

Tickets!

To give everybody a chance to buy ticket in time, we are releasing all tickets in batches this time. The first batch of super early-birds are available right away: fetch them before they fly out!

• SmashingConf London, Feb 7–8, #perfmatters,
• SmashingConf San Francisco, Apr 17–18, #breakout,
• SmashingConf Toronto, Jun 26–27, #noslides.

Ah, and just in case you’re wondering: we’re planning on running a conference in our hometown Freiburg, Germany on September 10–11, and we will be coming back to New York, USA on October 23–24 — with a slightly different format, too. We can’t wait to see you there! ;-)

Further Reading

• How To Become A Better Speaker At Conferences
• What Was SmashingConf In San Franciso Like?
• State Of CSS Survey: Influence The Future Of CSS
• The Conference Platform We Use For Our Online Events: Hopin

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