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1. Pune Design Festival 2020
2020 marks the 14th year of the Pune Design Festival. This year, attendees will explore the theme Crossroads.
We constantly find ourselves at the crossroads of cultural shifts, craft, technology, skills, and tools, bringing in a diversity of challenges. Has design been an enabler? Is design bridging the contrasts and handling extremes?
The theme will bring forth discussions, debates, case studies and workshops that showcase the signs of changing times at the turn of the decade.
Dates: Jan 10-11, 2020
Location: Pune, India
Ticket prices: $45 – $170
Free tickets: No
Travel grants / Diversity Scholarship: No
2. CLT Sketch Meetup
An official Sketch meetup for designers and developers in Charlotte. Share knowledge, trade tips, and hear about new plugins and resources. Meet local designers and members of the Sketch team, learn more about the app and have fun with likeminded people. Whether you’re a beginner, a seasoned pro, or somewhere in between, all levels of experience are welcome.
Date: Jan 15, 2020
Location: Charlotte, USA
Ticket prices: Free
Travel grants / Diversity Scholarship: No
3. In/Visible Talks
A conference for creative professionals that celebrates the art of design. It focuses on fresh takes and honest talks about the process, inspiration, and challenges behind the creative practice.
Date: Jan 16, 2020
Location: San Francisco, USA
Ticket prices: $450 – $1500
Free tickets: No
Travel grants / Diversity Scholarship: No
4. HalfStack Conference 2020
An authentic, high-value experience for attendees and sponsors focused on UI-centric JavaScript and web development. The priority for HalfStack is the attendee experience, with great food, drinks, talks, swag, and community. HalfStack is a UI-centric, one-day single-track conference hosted in a relaxed environment. HalfStack carefully curates talks that inspire and inform the audience in a highly interactive and entertaining manner. An intimate feeling where each attendee has time to meet one another.
Date: Jan 17, 2020
Location: Phoenix, AZ, USA
Tickets: TBA
Free tickets: No
Travel grants / Diversity Scholarship: No
5. DesignTO
DesignTO Festival is Canada’s leading (and largest) annual design festival that celebrates design as a multidisciplinary form of creative thinking and making, with over 100 exhibitions and events forming Toronto’s design week, January 17-26, 2020.
Dates: Jan 17-26, 2020
Location: Toronto, Canada
Ticket prices: Free – $50
Free tickets: No
Travel grants / Diversity Scholarship: No
6. UXCamp DC 2020
UXCamp DC is a conference for people who love design. It is an intense day with 24 45-minute sessions and workshops presented by thinkers and doers from all levels of design experience from beginners to seasoned practitioners. It is a day of gathering for people who are passionate about creating great experiences for people.
Date: Jan 18, 2020
Location: Washington DC, Washington
Ticket prices: Free – $50
Free tickets: No
Travel grants / Diversity Scholarship: No
7. You Got This
An affordable one day conference for early-career developers to talk about the non-technical skills needed for a happy, healthy work-life. You Got This conference is ideal for folks looking to soon get their first developer role (not just students, also career-changers), junior devs looking to skill-up and grow professionally into their next roles and managers/team leaders wanting to know more and better support their team
Date: Jan 18, 2020
Location: London, UK
Ticket prices: £60 – £120
Free tickets: Yes, for under-represented groups in tech. This includes, but isn’t limited to: LGBTQIA+ people, people of color, women, non-binary people, and those with disabilities.
Travel grants / Diversity Scholarship: Yes, for under-represented groups in tech. This includes, but isn’t limited to: LGBTQIA+ people, people of color, women, non-binary people, and those with disabilities.
8. Awwwards Conference Tokyo
A digital thinkers conference is coming to Tokyo! It brings you the hottest topics and newest technologies on User Experience, UI Design, Web Design and Development, Animation, Technology, Branding, Trends, Creativity and much more. It includes several brilliant workshops and talks from the best creatives around the world.
Dates: Jan 22 – 23, 2020
Location: Tokyo, Japan
Ticket prices: $318 – $545
Free tickets: No
Travel grants / Diversity Scholarship: No
8. New Adventures
A digital design conference where you’ll explore speculative and critical design, radical inclusivity, climate, sustainability, and much more. New Adventures conference is an unmissable single-track event with bold ideas and practical advice from renowned experts and upcoming voices. This design conference has workshops that teach you how to build better worlds with speculative design; build static sites with Kirby; learn to negotiate with confidence.
Dates: Jan 22 – 13, 2020
Location: Nottingham, UK
Ticket prices: $32 – $360
Free tickets: Yes, for students
Travel grants / Diversity Scholarship: No
9. No Code Summit
The No Code Summit brings people together to openly discuss and share ideas on how no-code tools can help you improve or build your business! The no-code space is ultimately made up of designers who can create websites and apps without code, products will be demoed showcasing new tools that designers can utilize!
Date: Jan 22, 2020
Location: New York, NY, USA
Ticket prices: Free – $99
Free tickets: Yes, for volunteers
Travel grants / Diversity Scholarship: No
10. Workshop: How to master Sketch & Design Systems
A meetup for designers interested in Sketch. Share knowledge, discover tricks, plugins and new workflows or see how others utilise the powerful tool. As a bonus, they will cover parts of creating a Design System. You shall learn how to plan, build, and maintain a Design System in Sketch App. During the session, we will create a Styleguide, Pattern Library, version control the Design System and document it. You will learn advanced techniques & best practices on systemizing your design, optimizing your workflow, team collaboration, version control, documenting, and all the new features and plugins to work in Sketch App like a pro.
Date: Jan 23, 2020
Location: Remote/Online
Ticket prices: $144 – $345
Free tickets: No
Travel grants / Diversity Scholarship: No
11. Humanising Design
Figma’s meetup where you’ll dive into cognitive UI/UX principles that can be used to create delightful experiences for users.
Date: Jan 25, 2020
Location: Lagos, Nigeria
Ticket prices: Free
Travel grants: No
11. Frontstack – Media on the Web 2020
Frontstack is a tech community built on the foundation of technological excellence and developer awareness. As its name implies, it’s all about front-end web technologies and their affinities. Their mission is to effectively grow the developer ecosystem, stem world-class developers through the community by creating exposure to front-end technologies. Media on the web has advanced a lot over the years. The capabilities for complex media on the web have increased, as well as our tools as developers for handling them. In this conference, you’ll cover everything to do with media on the web!.
Date: Jan 25, 2020
Location: TBD
Ticket prices: Free
Travel grants: No
12. Nielsen Norman Group UX Conference Texas
Full-day immersive courses about UX best practices, proven methods, and hands-on exercises led by NN/g experts and world-class invited speakers. You’ll learn how to generate big ideas with design thinking; unearthing user pain points to drive breakthrough design concepts, how to measure UX and ROI, and essential tips for every UX leader.
Dates: Jan 27 – 31, 2020
Location: Austin, Texas
Ticket prices: $1234 – $4348
Free tickets: No
Travel grants / Diversity Scholarship: No
13. Creating Product Illustration Libraries with Pablo Stanley
Illustrations are emerging as a vital part of the user experience of a product, as they help tell your brand story, articulate and communicate your values and brand personality. How do you create a successful illustration system, shaping a strong visual identity? How do you decide on a core set of principles?
Date: Jan 28, 2020
Location: San Francisco, USA
Ticket prices: $25 – $35
Free tickets: No
Travel grants / Diversity Scholarship: No
14. Madrid Design Festival
Madrid Design Festival is an international event that wants to convert Madrid into the capital of design and elevate the city to a privileged position in the international arena. The festival is held in February and will encompass all design disciplines, from architecture to graphic design, communications to interior design, all of them hybridizing into a contemporary and innovative format.
Date: Feb 1 – 28, 2020
Location: Madrid, Spain
Travel grants / Diversity Scholarship: No
15. IxDA Interaction 2020
A mix of workshops, talks, and hands-on experiences aimed at inspiring designers around the world. It brings together the brightest minds in design, science, philosophy, psychology, and business. IxDA Interaction Week 2020 is a mix of events aimed at inspiring designers and anyone who design: expect the thought-provoking, the revitalizing and the diverse.
Date: Feb 2 – 7, 2020
Location: Milan, Italy
Ticket prices: $195 – $1500
Free tickets: No
Travel grants / Diversity Scholarship: No
16. JSConf Hawaiʻi 2020
A two day, single-track JavaScript conference dedicated to web development, JavaScript and building a community. Join us for our second annual JavaScript conference, coming February 2020 at the Alohilani Resort! Attend this design conference to listen to a panel of amazing speakers, meet new people, and enjoy the activities Hawaiʻi has to offer!
Dates: Feb 5 – 7, 2020
Location: Honolulu, HI, USA
Ticket prices: Free– $900
Free tickets: Yes, for children under 15 years old
Travel grants / Diversity Scholarship: Yes
17. Front End North 2020
Front End North is a welcoming one-day, single-track front end conference for developers, designers and others who work on the web. Front End North is returning on 7th February 2020 at The Crucible in Sheffield, UK. Hosted by the organizers of the Front End Sheffield meetup, FEN is a grassroots, low-cost conference with a mixture of established and new speakers.
Dates: Feb 7, 2020
Location: Sheffield, UK
Ticket prices: $55
Free tickets: No
Travel grants / Diversity Scholarship: No
19. Outcome Conference
A design conference that talks about startups, products, UX and design from a storytelling perspective. Topics include user research, design systems, taxonomy and architecture, brand voice, customer success, business goals, onboarding, dark patterns, and churn rate.
Dates: Feb 8, 2020
Location: Chandigarh, India
Ticket prices: $35 – $56
Free tickets: Yes, for Outcome members
Travel grants / Diversity Scholarship: No
20. Sketch Dallas February Meetup Event
An official Sketch meetup for designers and developers in Dallas. Share knowledge, trade tips, and hear about new plugins and resources. Meet local designers, learn more about the app and have fun with likeminded people.
Date: Feb 11, 2020
Location: Dallas, USA
Ticket prices: Free
Travel grants / Diversity Scholarship: No
21. idto Inclusive Design Toronto
A design conference exploring how we can live, work, and design for inclusion. Inclusive Design Toronto (IDTO) will create a space where everybody belongs. You’re invited to listen to and learn from our storytellers as they share different ways they approach living, working, and designing inclusively. IDTO looks at the impact of design on inclusivity and asks how can we make decisions to more fully embrace human diversity.
Date: Feb 12, 2020
Location: Toronto, Canada
Ticket prices: $23
Free tickets: No
Travel grants / Diversity Scholarship: No
22. Brand New: First Round
A one-day showcase of original presentations made to clients showing initial design explorations for logo, identity, and branding projects. Speakers will share their first-round presentation process by showing the original PDF/Keynote/PPT file that they presented to a client the very first time they saw a range of design explorations (or a single design exploration). This is a unique opportunity to learn how to present your work and get your best work implemented.
Date: Feb 14, 2020
Location: Portland, USA
Ticket prices: $93 – $125
Free tickets: No
Travel grants / Diversity Scholarship: No
21. Figma Africa Enugu Meetup
Figma’s event where you’ll explore places where people could go and get resources and inspiration for their design.
Dates: Feb 15, 2020
Location: Lagos, Nigeria
Ticket prices: Free
Travel grants / Diversity Scholarship: No
22. Graphika Manila
Graphika is the premier creativity conference in the Philippines, hailed as one of the most influential events on design this side of the world. Every year is a distinctively inspiring design conference, showcasing multidisciplinary creative approaches in identity, art direction, animation, web and even designed environments, as shared by thinkers, collaborators, and partners over a two day, jam-packed weekend. The conference focuses on the creative side of design rather than technology.
Date: Feb 15, 2020
Location: Manila, Philippines
Ticket prices: $50 – $60
Free tickets: No
Travel grants / Diversity Scholarship: No
23. Nielsen Norman Group UX Conference Singapore
Full-day immersive courses about UX best practices, proven methods, and hands-on exercises led by NN/g experts and world-class invited speakers. You’ll learn how to generate big ideas with design thinking; unearthing user pain points to drive breakthrough design concepts, how to measure UX and ROI, and essential tips for every UX leader.
Dates: Feb 17 – 22, 2020
Location: Singapore
Ticket prices: $1234 – $5032
Free tickets: No
Travel grants / Diversity Scholarship: No
24. UXistanbul
The first UX conference of Turkey that gathers UX and Usability professionals from the world’s leading companies in Istanbul, to share their experiences. Topics include user research & strategic research, strategic design, actionable insights, DesignOps, product development, UX, CX and much more.
Date: Feb 18, 2020
Location: Istanbul, Turkey
Ticket prices: $170 – $250
Free tickets: No
Travel grants / Diversity Scholarship: No
25. Awwwwards Conference Amsterdam
An event for designers, web developers, digital creatives, and digital dreamers in an iconic city. It brings you the hottest topics and newest technologies on User Experience, UI Design, Web Design and Development, Animation, Technology, Branding, Trends, Creativity and much more. It includes several brilliant workshops and talks from the best creatives around the world.
Dates: Feb 19 – 21, 2020
Location: Amsterdam, Netherlands
Ticket prices: $390 – $890
Free tickets: No
Travel grants / Diversity Scholarship: No
26. TSConf JP
TSConf JP is the first TypeScript conference in Japan that succeeds TSConf held in the US. TypeScript has changed dramatically over the last few years. Increasing usage, strengthening type inference, growing ecosystem, maturation of local know-how, and the environment that supports TypeScript are evolving day by day, establishing the de facto standard for developing JavaScript.
Date: Feb 20, 2020
Location: Tokyo, Japan
Ticket prices: $91 – $136
Free tickets: No
Travel grants / Diversity Scholarship: No
27. Mouvo
A two-day festival presenting motion design in all its forms – as a creative field as well as an outlet for personal expression. As every year, Mouvo has invited the world’s leading creators who are rocking the world of graphic design, animation, video, and new technologies. This time, we want them to show us how entertainment is created and how you can have fun doing your job as well. The motion design conference will present an inventive take on video games, television, music videos, live performances, and interactive installations. You will learn how to enjoy experimenting and think of design as a game. You will discover new ways of connecting with and entertaining audiences. Come and be inspired by the world’s top designers and get some practical tips from them. Mouvo is not only an opportunity to get lots of useful information and have fun, but also a chance to meet interesting professionals from the motion design community.
Dates: Feb 21 – 22 2020
Location: Prague, Czech Republic
Ticket prices: Free – $400
Free tickets: Yes
Travel grants / Diversity Scholarship: No
28. World IA Day
World Information Architecture Day is a one-day annual celebration held in dozens of locations across the globe. The World IA Day was created to celebrate Information Architecture (IA) and to empower local leaders keep growing and sharing within their communities. It explores how Information Architecture ties and binds different ideas involved, the end users, the stakeholders, the designers and the developers. How IA is often the bridge element between them all and tying together through understanding. How IA filters the noise for a better collaboration for a growing community.
Date: Feb 22, 2020
Location: Online/Remote
Ticket prices: Free
29. IndieWebCamp Austin
IndieWebCamp Austin 2020 is a gathering for independent web creators of all kinds, from graphic artists to designers, UX engineers, coders, hackers, to share ideas, actively work on creating for their own personal websites, and build upon each others creations.
Date: Feb 22 – 23, 2020
Location: Austin, TX, USA
Ticket prices: Free – $10
Free tickets: Yes
Travel grants / Diversity Scholarship: No
30. Nielsen Norman Group UX Conference Los Angeles
Full-day immersive courses about UX best practices, proven methods, and hands-on exercises led by NN/g experts and world-class invited speakers. You’ll learn how to generate big ideas with design thinking; unearthing user pain points to drive breakthrough design concepts, how to measure UX and ROI, and essential tips for every UX leader.
Dates: Feb 23 – 28, 2020
Location: Los Angeles, California
Ticket prices: $1234 – $5032
Free tickets: No
Travel grants / Diversity Scholarship: No
31. FITC Amsterdam 2020
Groundbreaking design and tech event on the future of innovation, design and all the cool stuff in between. FITC Amsterdam features the world’s most innovative, technical and creative talks that will inspire you to pursue your dreams and create your very best work. You’ll have the opportunity to meet and mingle with like-minded individuals who have the potential to become key collaborators throughout your career. Connect with people who share your creative passion, whether in the exhibitor hall or at one of the legendary after-parties. Who knows, you could meet your next business partner, employee, mentor or boss at FITC.
Dates: Feb 24 – 25, 2020
Location: Amsterdam, Netherlands
Ticket prices: $110- $665
Free tickets: No
Travel grants / Diversity Scholarship: No
32. Experience Design Week 2020
Expanding the boundaries of User Experience and more. Topics include CX, UX, CI, experience design, product management, brand management, business strategy, design thinking, and human-centered design. Experience Design Week includes 24+ Workshops and Design sprints; Dive right into some interactive learning with your peers and the executives who do business best. Immerse yourself in the next generation of experience design with expert keynotes, experience touch-points, and a comprehensive Design Drive. Attendees shall learn from the best during their hands-on site tour day in the Mile High City.
Dates: Feb 24 – 26, 2020
Location: Denver, Colorado
Ticket prices: $1649- $3999
Free tickets: No
Travel grants / Diversity Scholarship: No
33. Design Indaba Festival 2020
The annual Design Indaba Conference in Cape Town features the best of global creativity all on one stage. It is also simulcast live to cities around South Africa. Design Indaba has seen over 600 illustrious speakers take to the stage to deliver soul-stirring and mind-awakening talks earning the acclaim as the best conference in the world whilst also actively pursuing change and action – seeding over 200 impact-driven projects into the public square. Design Indaba 2020 will be a 3 day multi-sensory, thought-provoking and expansive experience that includes a series of captivating talks by day and festival by night, featuring live music, theatre, exhibitions, and masterclasses.
Date: Feb 26 – 28, 2020
Location: Cape Town, South Africa
Ticket prices: TBA
Free tickets: No
Travel grants / Diversity Scholarship: No
34. LadFest
The sixth edition of Latin American Design Festival LADFEST, gathering in Lima with recognized designers from Latin America and the world. LADFEST will be held in Museo de la Nación in Lima. The festival features lectures, workshops, exhibitions, a design market, and young talent. A selection of the best Latin American designers and creatives up to 30 years old will present their projects at the festival.
Date: Feb 27 – 29, 2020
Location: Lima, Peru
Ticket prices: $55- $105
Free tickets: No
Travel grants / Diversity Scholarship: No
35. ProfsoUX
This is the #1 Conference for UX professionals in Russia. Keep abreast of UX-trends: research methods, visualization, tools. Understand where to move at different stages of development yourself, how to develop a team/business. Get to know UX colleagues, look at the UX job market. Besides traditional UX topics, there will be talks on further development as a UX professional, complicated UX tasks and projects (including scientific research projects), adjacent areas: (psychology, anthropology, urban studies), business demand for UX competencies, specifics of government projects, using mistakes as a tool, automation of design, visualisation and case stories.
Date: Feb 29, 2020
Location: Saint Petersburg, Russia
Ticket prices: $44 – $155
Free tickets: No
Travel grants / Diversity Scholarship: No
36. The UX Conference – London
The UX Conference is a design conference that’s not about buzzwords, but collaboration between designers. Insightful talks on day 1 and hands-on workshops on day 2 – short & sweet. Plus excellent prizes to win from The UX Conference partners. The theme of the conference on March 2-3 2020 is a collaboration between UX, UI and content designers. Invited are amazing speakers with experience working at Abstract, TfL, OpenTable, Dyson, The Paciello Group, Nike, Shopify, 1Password, Government Digital Service, Airbnb, InVision and others.
Date: Mar 2 – 3, 2020
Location: London, UK
Ticket prices: $50- $995
Free tickets: No
Travel grants / Diversity Scholarship: No
37. Bogotá Design Festival
It is a 4-day event that brings together and promotes creativity, innovation and design in all its states, whether in industrial or craft objects, artistic, graphic, digital, gastronomic, visual, interior design or fashion, where the creative industries and design are the transversal subject, impacting both the commercial and cultural, as well as Bogata’s identity as a city.
Dates: Mar 3 – 7, 2020
Location: Bogotá, Colombia
Ticket prices: Free
Travel grants / Diversity Scholarship: No
38. Convey UX
ConveyUX is the premier user experience conference on the West Coast. The 2020 conference in Seattle features 65 sessions from 50 UX leaders across three full days. Explore how UX really gets done. Convey UX includes keynote sessions with top designers, speed networking events, networking parties, several interactive UX workshops, project exhibitions, stories from UX designers and more.
Dates: Mar 3 – 5, 2020
Location: Seattle, Washington
Ticket prices: $1495
Free tickets: No
Travel grants / Diversity Scholarship: No
39. XR Day
The development of extended reality hardware, devices, interactions, and apps is advancing at a rapid pace. The XR revolution spans augmented, virtual, and mixed realities (AR, VR, MR). Past all the hype, what are the capabilities now and in the future? What are the hurdles to broader adoption? How do we understand the user needs and applications to design for a better future? What are the career and research opportunities? Join the UW Department of Human Centered Design & Engineering and presenting sponsor STMicroelectronics for an interactive day exploring the long-term potential in XR design and technologies.
Date: Mar 3, 2020
Location: Seattle, USA
Ticket prices: $30- $750
Free tickets: No
Travel grants / Diversity Scholarship: No
40. Leading Design San Francisco
Brings together experts who lead design teams, oversee design direction and instill a culture of design within their organizations. Industry-leading speakers will share years of experience in finding talent, building culture, structuring and developing their teams, managing upwards, coping with stress, and maintaining personal wellbeing.
Date: Mar 4 – 6, 2020
Location: San Francisco, USA
Ticket prices: $1495
Free tickets: No
Travel grants / Diversity Scholarship: No
41. Service Design in Government
The original international community event for anyone involved in designing and commissioning public services.
Date: Mar 4 – 6, 2020
Location: Edinburgh, Scotland
Ticket prices: $375 – $915
Free tickets: No
Travel grants / Diversity Scholarship: No
42. Digital Tech Fest
Digital Tech Fest is an event organized by several tech communities. An initiative focused on innovation, design and digital technologies. This event seeks to expand regional boundaries and make a national call to encourage the share of ideas, discuss the impact of digital innovations, trends and opportunities that are disrupting the industry by the hands of experts.
Date: Mar 6 – 7, 2020
Location: Guadalajara, Mexico
Ticket prices: $33 – $98
Free tickets: No
Travel grants / Diversity Scholarship: No
43. Forward Festival – Germany
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.
Date: Mar 12 – 13, 2020
Location: Munich, Germany
Ticket prices: $105 – $445
Free tickets: No
Travel grants / Diversity Scholarship: No
44. SXSW Interactive
It covers all aspects, from futuristic product design to design-thinking approaches that can be applied to numerous other disciplines, businesses, and organizations. This program will examine how design informs our interactions, shapes our experiences, and plays a critical role in problem-solving.
Date: Mar 13 – 22, 2020
Location: Austin, USA
Ticket prices: $540 – $1600
Free tickets: No
Travel grants / Diversity Scholarship: No
45. IndieWebCamp London
IndieWebCamp London 2020 is a gathering for independent web creators of all kinds, from graphic artists, to designers, UX engineers, coders, hackers, to share ideas, actively work on creating for their own personal websites, and build upon each others creations.
Date: Mar 14 – 15, 2020
Location: London, UK
Ticket prices: Free
Travel grants / Diversity Scholarship: No
46. Edge Design Talks
The first conference in Romania dedicated to all disciplines of Visual Design. Includes UX, Digital, Art Direction, Illustration, Branding, Graphic Design, Interactive. All in one place. With top professionals around Europe.
Date: Mar 13 – 15, 2020
Location: Cluj, Romania
Ticket prices: $61 – $100
Free tickets: No
Travel grants / Diversity Scholarship: No
47. Future London Academy – Design Thinking and innovation Week
Who is this programme for? — CEOs, CIOs and business owners — heads of design and innovation departments — product managers and team leaders — service and experience designers — UX researchers — innovators and trendsetters. An immersive programme for creative entrepreneurs, innovation directors and business owners – introducing you to London’s most innovative businesses and uncovering the latest approaches to design thinking and innovation.
Date: Mar 16, 2020
Location: London, United Kingdom
Ticket prices: $2865
Free tickets: No
Travel grants / Diversity Scholarship: No
48. Design Research 2020
A three-day event dedicated to design research – from planning and conducting, to analysis and use. This event includes a one-day workshop program and two-day presentation program, and you can purchase tickets for one or both.
Dates: Mar 18 – 20, 2020
Location: Melbourne, Australia
Ticket prices: $500 – $518
Free tickets: No
Travel grants / Diversity Scholarship: No
49. FrontConf – Munich Frontend Conference 2020
An international conference focused on front-end concepts and technologies around JS/HTML/CSS and UX. Two tracks of talks by speakers from all over the world. Frontend Conference includes several hands-on interactive workshops and talks from 16 speakers.
Date: Mar 21, 2020
Location: Munich, Germany
Ticket prices: $100- $390
Free tickets: No
Travel grants / Diversity Scholarship: No
50. CSS Conf Columbia
The CSSConf is a worldwide organization dedicated to holding conferences for designers, programmers and web interface creators, with the purpose of connecting the community in different countries.
Date: Mar 21, 2020
Location: Medellín, Colombia
Ticket prices: Sold out
Free tickets: No
Travel grants / Diversity Scholarship: No
51. UX Copenhagen
What is influence in UX? This is the subject UX Copenhagen has given our speakers for 2020: “Influence & Designing for Good”. Some of the subjects you will be hearing about are DesignOps, privilege, tech for social good, futures thinking, ethical OS, designing against domestic violence, and maybe even rocket science! Join them for two days filled with superb content from 20+ speakers, hands-on workshops, inspiration, networking, new knowledge, and new insights.
Date: Mar 30, 2020
Location: Copenhagen, Denmark
Ticket prices: $75 – $950
Free tickets: No
Travel grants / Diversity Scholarship: No
52. AIGA Design Conference
AIGA Design Conference brings the design community together in a once-in-a-lifetime, cross-disciplinary exchange of ideas about the changing world of design. AIGA Design Conference has served as the place for our diverse community to gather. It provides a unique environment to meet the people behind the cutting edge work that’s launching design into new territory. They have a mind-blowing list of speakers who will address the shifting landscape of design and inspire you to integrate what you learn in stunning new ways. AIGA is a different kind of design conference experience; they push the practice forward by going for the bigger, meta, meatier conversations.
Date: Mar 30 – April 1, 2020
Location: Pittsburgh, USA
Ticket prices: $295 – $1495
Free tickets: Yes, for diversity scholarship recipients.
Travel grants / Diversity Scholarship: Yes
53. UIArchConf
A conference and training event for those who work as UI Architects. Here you’ll explore the various aspects of UI Architecture and the massive role a UI architect plays in an organization. Web Javascript, UI, UX, design, process, User Interface, User Experience conference. If you are into design, UX, or Front-End developer/engineer, you can benefit both your company and your career by attending UIArchConf. You might already spend some of your time doing the things a UI Architect does! You will learn from your community experts who are currently in this role, or are playing a similar role.
Date: Apr 1, 2020
Location: New Orleans, USA
Ticket prices: $400 – $1295
Free tickets: No
Travel grants / Diversity Scholarship: No
54. Creative South
A weekend of creative thinking, collaboration, and exploration. Enjoy workshops, talks focused on design process & user experience, and networking in the design community.
Date: Apr 2 – 4, 2020
Location: Columbus, USA
Ticket prices: $97 – $447
Free tickets: No
Travel grants / Diversity Scholarship: No
55. Service Design Days
The Service Design Days is a cross-disciplinary platform for change-makers, influencers, and decision-makers of small and large organizations, involved in product and service innovation, organization transformation, and value creation through design.
Date: Apr 2 – 5, 2020
Location: Barcelona, Spain
Ticket prices: $350 – $600
Free tickets: No
Travel grants / Diversity Scholarship: No
56. Y Design Conference
A national-caliber design conference. It brings together industry thinkers, innovators, and change-makers for two days of creativity and collaboration. What if your budget had no bounds? What if the wildest ideas were on the table? At the 25th Y Design Conference, everything is fair game. AIGA Y Design Conference is a two-day event, produced entirely by volunteers, puts design at the center of everything. The Y is a place to reconnect with yourself, your passion, your why. It takes us out of the day-to-day how we design and opens up our imagination to remind us why we design. At the Y, designers find the inspiration they need to reach the next level. It’s a space for creatives to flock to each year, a forum where they can bask in the company of designers who radiate inspiration and embrace big ideas.
Date: Apr 3 – 4, 2020
Location: San Diego, USA
Ticket prices: $425 – $675
Free tickets: No
Travel grants / Diversity Scholarship: No
57. Offset
A three-day creative conference. Celebrating creativity and bringing together the best in International and Irish creative talent in graphic design, illustration, street, and fine art, film, photography, moving image and much, much more. With over 2,500 attendees each year, Offset has fast become one of the world’s most inspirational, educational and vocational conferences for the design and creative industries. Representing industry at all levels, Offset speakers are key disruptors and influencers in their field driving everything from huge global campaigns to awe-inspiring personal projects.
Date: Apr 3 – 5, 2020
Location: Dublin, Ireland
Ticket prices: $140 – $260
Free tickets: No
Travel grants / Diversity Scholarship: No
58. An Event Apart – Washington
An Event Apart DC is a three-day conference with 17 sessions and an intense focus on digital design, UX, content, code, and more, giving you deep insights into where we are now and where things are going next. This is a web design conference for UX & front-end experts.
Date: Apr 13 – 17, 2020
Location: Washington DC, Washington
Ticket prices: $600 – $665
Free tickets: No
Travel grants / Diversity Scholarship: No
59. Health Experience Design Conference
The Health Experience Design Conference provides a unique crossroads for a diverse community of executives and practitioners in design, innovation, research, strategy, and technology to help accelerate the transformation of our health system.
Date: Apr 14 – 15, 2020
Location: Boston, USA
Ticket prices: $425 – $1486
Free tickets: No
Travel grants / Diversity Scholarship: No
60. IAC 2020 (Information Achitecture Conference)
Two days of workshops and a three-day main program and conference for practitioners and academics who confront the challenge of designing and managing digital user interfaces and rich information environments. The conference is ideal for user experience and information professionals who seek practical and innovative approaches in their discipline.
Dates: Apr 14 – 18, 2020
Location: New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
Ticket prices: $670 – $850
Free tickets: No
Travel grants / Diversity Scholarship: No
61. Crop Baton Rouge
A two-day celebration of creativity, community, inspiration, learning & more. Find out inspiring talks and knowledge dropping workshops together with vendors, live events, live music, after-parties. The speaker roster includes some of the top artists, designers, letterers, illustrators, authors, and creative entrepreneurs around.
Date: Apr 16 – 18, 2020
Location: Baton Rouge, USA
Ticket prices: $300
Free tickets: No
Travel grants / Diversity Scholarship: No
62. Forward Festival – Vienna
A festival gathering around a conference. Forward brings together 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.
Date: Apr 16 – 17, 2020
Location: Vienna, Austria
Ticket prices: $105 – $445
Free tickets: No
Travel grants / Diversity Scholarship: No
63. Future Sync
Future Sync is a tech conference keeping you in-sync with the latest digital trends. Exchange ideas and forge new partnerships whilst experiencing some of the innovative work happening across the region. A great opportunity to engage with the thriving digital community of the South West. Track 2 explores creative design; dive into the design behind software and physical products as well as the coming trends in UX, UI, and VUI.
Date: Apr 16, 2020
Location: Plymouth, UK
Ticket prices: $60 – $72
Free tickets: No
Travel grants / Diversity Scholarship: No
64. Design Week Portland
Celebrates design as their city’s most promising cultural and economic resource. Their purpose is to explore process, craft, and practice across disciplines through a city’s vibrant design programming.
Date: Apr 18 – 25, 2020
Location: Portland, USA
Ticket prices: TBA
Free tickets: No
Travel grants / Diversity Scholarship: No
65. FITC Toronto 2020
An event showcasing the best the world has to offer in design, digital development, media, and innovation in creative technologies – it’s three days and nights of presentations, parties, installations and performances that unite and transform the industry. Day 3 has the topic “The Future of Creativity”. For every new design and development, there are serious and incredible consequences. Will you find a new path, a new system, a new set of tools or a new found love for something from the past.
Date: Apr 19 – 21, 2020
Location: Toronto, Canada
Ticket prices: $230 – $765
Free tickets: No
Travel grants / Diversity Scholarship: No
66. Yggdrasil
Yggdrasil is Norway’s most important design conference for anyone who creates digital user experiences. Insights, experiences, methodology, and tools are shared in a social and particularly pleasant atmosphere. This design conference is interdisciplinary and the participants are information architects, interaction designers, web editors, web designers and related professionals in private and public companies. The goal is to contribute to innovation, professional development, and networking.
Date: Apr 20, 2020
Location: Sandefjord, Norway
Ticket prices: $335- $1225
Free tickets: No
Travel grants / Diversity Scholarship: No
67. SmashingConf – SF
A friendly, inclusive event that is focused on front-end and UX, but it covers everything web, be it interface design or machine learning. Live sessions on performance, accessibility, interface design, copywriting, designing for emotion, debugging and fancy CSS/JS techniques.
Date: Apr 21, 2020
Location: San Francisco, USA
Ticket prices: $599
Free tickets: No
Travel grants / Diversity Scholarship: No
68. OFFF Barcelona 2020
A three-day journey of conferences, workshops, activities, and performances. All for the community of designers: sound, graphic, motion designers, thinkers, theorists and more.
Dates: Apr 23 – 26, 2020
Location: Barcelona, Spain
Ticket prices: $167 – $360
Free tickets: No
Travel grants / Diversity Scholarship: No
69. Beyond Tellerrand – Düsseldorf
Beyond Tellerand is an affordable single-track design event where creativity and technology meet. This is an event about web design, web development and more.
Dates: Apr 27 – 29, 2020
Location: Düsseldorf, Germany
Ticket prices: Free – $445
Free tickets: Yes
Travel grants / Diversity Scholarship: No
70. Design Thinking Europe
Design-led organisations are most-effective when design culture is present and embedded in all business functions. While organisations are keen to be referred to as customer-centric and design-led the practical implementation is a challenge. The Design Thinking Europe Forum 2020 gathers European design leaders working on how to effectively implement customer-centric frameworks. Aimed at defining best practices and quantifying the ROI of design. Explore how to champion human-centered mindset shifts and effectively shape design teams. Join design leaders looking to the future and anticipating challenges that will arise with the next generation of consumers in three days of interactive round-table discussions, workshops, networking and case studies sure to enable you to flourish as a design leader within your organisation.
Dates: Apr 22 – 23, 2020
Location: London, UK
Ticket prices: $1575 – $2757
Free tickets: No
Travel grants / Diversity Scholarship: No
71. UX Burlington
An annual single-day design conference, focused on what it really takes to build great digital user experiences on the web, in apps, and beyond. In the spirit of this year’s theme, speakers will tell entertaining—perhaps even horrifying—stories about what went wrong, how the hindsight manifested itself, and what lessons they learned and can share with our audience of UX practitioners. In a nutshell, there will be talks that include practical and educational information about any aspect of User Experience but are framed from the perspective of 20/20 Hindsight.
Date: May 1, 2020
Location: Burlington, USA
Ticket prices: TBA
Free tickets: No
Travel grants / Diversity Scholarship: No
72. Frontend United
Frontend United non-profit, developer-first, community-focused conference. This design conference aims to connect frontend developers and designers from all kinds of backgrounds closer together to share knowledge, experiences, and ideas.
Dates: May 1 – 2, 2020
Location: Minsk, Belarus
Ticket prices: TBA
Free tickets: No
Travel grants / Diversity Scholarship: No
73. Pixel Up!
Pixel Up! is Africa’s premier user experience and design conference. It involves 3 days of learning, connecting, and discovery with local and international speakers in beautiful Cape Town. Attendees will learn from a diverse group of speakers including authors, local and international designers, as well as rising stars. They’ll deliver thought-provoking talks and energizing workshops to improve your craft and help advance your career.
Dates: May 4 – 6, 2020
Location: Cape Town, South Africa
Ticket prices: $290 – $550
Free tickets: No
Travel grants / Diversity Scholarship: No
74. HOW Design Live
HOW Design Live is a four-day conference and 3-day expo for design, marketing, and creative professionals, with a focus on in-house practitioners in major corporate brands and design firms. Creatives connect with an inclusive community of like-minded design thinkers, entrepreneurs, designers, marketers, and creative leaders to develop relationships that last long after their event experience.
Date: May 4 – 7, 2020
Location: Boston, USA
Ticket prices: TBA
Free tickets: No
Travel grants / Diversity Scholarship: No
75. and& Festival – Leuven
An innovation festival that brings together changemakers of today to inspire curious minds of all backgrounds. It provides a platform for interdisciplinary innovation that aims to transform our society & acts upon the challenges we face today. The festival includes an Art Expo which features a series of art interventions that critically approach innovative tech & design. and& presents a series of art interventions in public space that put the baseline ‘Innovate for the better’ in perspective. The and& 2020 art expo focuses on artists who critically approach & transform innovative technologies & design into artistic concepts that arm us against the vortex of our time.
Date: May 6 – 9, 2020
Location: Leuven, Belgium
Ticket prices: $400 – $490
Free tickets: No
Travel grants / Diversity Scholarship: No
76. From Business to Buttons
This is Scandinavia’s premier User Experience and Service Design conference. It is the meeting place for everyone who wants inspiration, and hands-on advice, on how to generate business value by creating great experiences.
Date: May 8, 2020
Location: Stockholm, Sweden
Ticket prices: $775 – $1107
Free tickets: No
Travel grants / Diversity Scholarship: No
77. Camp Digital
Camp Digital is an inspirational conference that brings together the digital, design and UX communities for a series of seminars exploring the latest thinking in the design industry.
Date: May 13, 2020
Location: Manchester, UK
Ticket prices: $125 – $250
Free tickets: No
Travel grants / Diversity Scholarship: No
78. Games User Research Summit
The #gamesUR Summit consists will feature a keynote, traditional presentations, and panels at all experience levels in games user research and user experience. The Advanced Researchers Workshop will feature micro-talks dedicated to advanced research from veteran members of the games user research and user experience community.
Date: May 14, 2020
Location: Montreal, Canada
Ticket prices: $75 – $200
Free tickets: Yes, for volunteers
Travel grants / Diversity Scholarship: No
79. UX Conf – Brazil
UX Conf is one of the biggest User Experience events in Brazil. It is a two-day conference about everything UX-related. UX Conf Brazil makes room for both experienced professionals and students. In the theme of UXConf BR 2020: Design with Purpose. Every year, they seek to capture topics that are “hot” in community conversations. In 2019, the theme was culture and leadership through design. For 2020, UX Conf Brazil chose something more comprehensive and that affects organizations as a whole, their purpose. Of course, their scope revolves around the work of UX Designers, Interaction Designers, Service Designers, Researchers in UX, but neither is it restricted to that. How to go one step further as a group? Find out at UX Conf Brazil.
Date: May 15 – 16, 2020
Location: Porto Alegre, Brazil
Ticket prices: $100 – $165
Free tickets: No
Travel grants / Diversity Scholarship: No
80. Frontstage Service Design Conference
Frontstage is the service design conference in Mexico. It is an incredible opportunity to connect leaders, professionals, and students with the same objective: to boost knowledge about service design.
Date: May 15, 2020
Location: Mexico City, Mexico
Ticket prices: $165 – $2,668
Free tickets: No
Travel grants / Diversity Scholarship: No
81. Confab – Content Strategy Conference
Confab is an event for people who care about making content better for their users and organizations. Spans several areas related to content strategy, including analytics and performance UX design, Workflows and stakeholders, content design for AI and bots, editorial assignments and calendars and hiring and staff management among other talks and topics.
Dates: May 17 – 20, 2020
Location: Minneapolis, Minnesota
Ticket prices: $895 – $2695
Free tickets: No
Travel grants / Diversity Scholarship: No
82. D&AD FESTIVAL 2020
D&AD Festival is a three-day immersion in the world’s best craft, creativity, and culture for the global creative industries. This year, D&AD Festival invites you to imagine everything. The festival will create an open environment where everybody can join the conversation. Come to be inspired, to learn, to share: to see the best work in the world and to hear from the brightest minds, from the most exciting new talent to the industry’s leading lights.
Dates: May 19 – 21, 2020
Location: London, UK
Ticket prices: $470 – $2680
Free tickets: No
Travel grants / Diversity Scholarship: No
83. UXLx
UXLx is Europe’s biggest UX training conference. Four days of inspiring talks and hands-on workshops featuring top industry speakers. UXLx is a premier User Experience Conference, and their speaker lineup is really the cream of the crop in the industry worldwide. You’ll not only be inspired by their 10 thought-provoking talks but you’ll have the opportunity to learn one on one in their 20 practical workshops.
Dates: May 19 – 22, 2020
Location: Lisbon, Portugal
Ticket prices: $470 – $1900
Free tickets: No
Travel grants / Diversity Scholarship: No
84. ACE!
ACE! brings a mix of foreign and Polish speakers at the top of their fields. They bring innovative and actionable ideas to the IT community and showcase some of the best practices that are working. Past speakers include many famous authors and innovators of key design and software practices used globally. The Building Better Products track that features Lean Startup, LeanUX, Design Thinking, and Customer Development topics. This track is for everyone involved in creating products, including Product Managers, UI and Interaction Designers, and UX Designers & Researchers. There’s a workshop day so that attendees can apply new skills and experiment with new ideas. Attendees will learn how to use gathered knowledge to make the products that people want.
Dates: May 20 – 22, 2020
Location: Kraków, Poland
Ticket prices: $105 – $450+
Free tickets: No
Travel grants / Diversity Scholarship: No
85. GI20 (Graphics Interface 2020)
Graphics Interface 2020, is a conference on computer graphics, visualization, and human-computer interaction, the program covers technical and fundamental contributions in both graphics and HCI.
Dates: May 21 – 22, 2020
Location: Toronto, Canada
Ticket prices: TBA
Free tickets: TBA
Travel grants / Diversity Scholarship: No
86. webinale
Webinale is the conference for product owners, web designers, and frontend coders. It combines user experience with code and offers a variety of topics that are important for digital professionals nowadays. You shall understand trends in accessibility, progressive web apps, and modern customer journeys. The latest findings from neuromarketing for increased conversions are just some of the topics presented by the speakers at webinale in a practical way. In addition, they provide insights into fascinating digital trends that you shouldn’t miss! As a crossover platform, the webinale inspires digitally oriented makers from a variety of disciplines – web designers, developers or product owners – and encourages dialogue and exchange of experience!
Date: May 25 – 29, 2020
Location: Berlin, Germany
Ticket prices: $430- $1225
Free tickets: No
Travel grants / Diversity Scholarship: No
87. Libre Graphics Meeting
The Libre Graphics Meeting (LGM) is an annual international convention for the discussion and development of free and open-source graphics software. This event is targeted at artists, developers, professional designers or just curious people. This annual gathering is an opportunity for teams, contributors and users involved in Libre Graphics to work together, share experiences, and hear new and inspiring ideas.
Dates: May 26 – 29, 2020
Location: Rennes, France
Ticket prices: TBA
Free tickets: TBA
Travel grants / Diversity Scholarship: No
88. DesignThinkers 2020 – Vancouver
DesignThinkers is Canada’s largest annual graphic design conference, connecting designers from around the world. The speaker-led events in Toronto and Vancouver feature design leaders discussing the trends and work that are shaping the design industry.
Date: May 26 – 27, 2020
Location: Vancouver, Canada
Ticket prices: $205 – $490
Free tickets: Yes, for scholarship recipients
Travel grants / Diversity Scholarship: Yes
89. UX London 2020
UX London is a fantastic three-day UX event for UX designers, combining inspirational talks with in-depth workshops presented by some of the industry’s biggest names. This design conference brings engaging industry leaders from around the world to present a combination of inspirational talks and lively, hands-on workshops.
Dates: May 27 – 29, 2020
Location: London, UK
Ticket prices: $1380 – $1430
Free tickets: No
Travel grants / Diversity Scholarship: No
90. Berlin Letters Festival
Berlin Letters Festival is a festival bringing together professionals and amateurs of lettering, sign painting, calligraphy, and type design. It involves three days of inspiration, fun, and skillshare with international speakers, awesome workshops and general jamboree.
Date: May 28 – 30, 2020
Location: Berlin, Germany
Ticket prices: $330 – $400
Free tickets: No
Travel grants / Diversity Scholarship: No
91. DesignOps Global Conference
DesignOps conference is a convergence of ideas and insights from people who are shaping and informing digital design and its related fields. The DesignOps Global Conference is for design leaders, researchers, developers, practitioners, product managers, service innovators and business leaders that are defining the way we design and develop new products and services.
Date: May 28, 2020
Location: Manchester, UK
Ticket prices: $790 – $1020
Free tickets: No
Travel grants / Diversity Scholarship: No
92. Front Utah Conference
Front is the product conference for UX designers and product managers. It’s a practitioner’s conference. Attending the Front Conference, you’ll get to meet and learn from people that have been building digital experiences for years. Listen to leaders in the UX and product design industry that are making the biggest impact and working with high performing teams. Learn ways that you can advance in your career through soft and hard skills that will help you compete in this competitive tech industry.
Date: May 28 – 29, 2020
Location: Salt Lake City, Utah
Ticket prices: $110- $665
Free tickets: No
Travel grants / Diversity Scholarship: No
93. Forward Festival – Berlin
Forward Festival is a gathering around a conference with the best international and local personalities who provide insight and success stories. It is accompanied by a saucerful of side events with workshops, live art, and networking sessions.
Date: May 29, 2020
Location: Berlin, Germany
Ticket prices: $110- $345
Free tickets: No
Travel grants / Diversity Scholarship: No
94. UX Camp Europe
UX Camp Europe is one of the largest BarCamps for User Experience Professionals with 500+ active participants from all over the world and meet in Berlin once a year. The event is held since 2009, planned by a team of local UX enthusiasts and run during the weekend. It is also a great opportunity to chat with fellow campers from all over the world about their favorite food and tastiest UX recipes.
Date: May 30 – 31, 2020
Location: Berlin, Germany
Ticket prices: Free.
Free tickets: Yes, for ticket lottery winners
Travel grants / Diversity Scholarship: No
95. CreativePro Week
CreativePro Week is a design event for graphic designers and Adobe Creative Cloud users. Whether you work in print or digital publishing, you’ll learn techniques and best practices you can take home and start using immediately to improve your productivity. The schedule is as follows:
- Ps/Ai: The Photoshop + Illustrator Conference for Designers: Monday and Tuesday (June 1–2), with optional tutorials on Wednesday (June 3)
- The InDesign Conference: Tuesday & Wednesday (June 2–3), with optional tutorials on Monday (June 1) and Thursday (June 4)
- PePcon: Thursday and Friday (June 4–5).
- Click: The Presentation Design Conference: Thursday and Friday (June 4–5), with optional tutorials on Wednesday (June 3).
- Creative Developers Summit (Friday, June 5), sponsored by Adobe
Dates: Jun 1 – 5, 2020
Location: Austin, USA
Ticket prices: $295 – $2495
Free tickets: No
Travel grants / Diversity Scholarship: No
96. Fluxible
Fluxible is Canada’s premier UX conference. It is a gathering of people who share an interest in user experience design and the fields with which it intersects. Fluxible is an inclusive, cooperative environment where everyone is welcomed, open dialogue is encouraged, and all perspectives are appreciated. You’ll learn new skills through hands-on deep dives with expert instructors.
Date: Jun 1 – 7, 2020
Location: Waterloo, Canada
Ticket prices: TBA
Free tickets: TBA
Travel grants / Diversity Scholarship: No
97. UXR Collective Conference
UXR Collective conference brings together people from across the globe who are committed to championing their users, surfacing better insights, and bettering the tech ecosystem. You’ll build your skills with our hands-on Workshops from brilliant UX researchers like Vivianne Castillo. Whether you’re looking to break into UXR (User Experience Research) or you’re a senior practitioner, there’s a Track to help you level up your practice. Our one-day Tracks consist of curated talks based on specific themes relevant to the Track you choose. Tracks include Research Foundations, UXR Team of One, UXR Frontiers, the Science behind UXR and Leadership in Research.
Date: Jun 3 – 5, 2020
Location: Toronto, Canada
Ticket prices: $635 – $1262
Free tickets: No
Travel grants / Diversity Scholarship: No
98. 99U Conference
99U Conference is Adobe’s annual conference, helping creatives of all stripes supercharge their work and make their ideas happen. At the 12th Annual Adobe 99U Conference, you’ll unpack your creative identity, explore how to establish purpose, find ways to nurture your talents and redefine success on your own terms. 99U speakers offer pragmatic, real-world insights that transcend creative sectors.
Date: Jun 3 – 5, 2020
Location: New York, USA
Ticket prices: $1,028 +
Free tickets: No
Travel grants / Diversity Scholarship: No
99. Birmingham Design Festival
Birmingham Desing Festival is a celebration of the local, national and international design industry held in the UK every June. The festival includes a day of workshops and a day for talks.
Date: Jun 5 – 6, 2020
Location: Birmingham, UK
Ticket prices: TBA
Free tickets: TBA
Travel grants / Diversity Scholarship: No
100. By Design Conference
By Design Conference is a conference for Designers, Entrepreneurs, and Creative Minds
Date: Jun 6, 2020
Location: Bratislava, Slovakia
Ticket prices: $335 – $390
Free tickets: No
Travel grants / Diversity Scholarship: No
101. Eyeo Festival
Eyeo Festival brings together creative coders, data designers, and creators working at the intersection of data, art & technology for talks, workshops, labs, and events. Artists, data designers, creative coders, AI & XR explorers, storytellers, researchers, technology & platform developers all cross paths and share inspiration at Eyeo. This is a 4-day event filled with enthralling talks, unique workshops, the code+ summit, and thought-provoking interactions lead by passionate thinkers and makers. Topics discussed shall include Art / Technology, Creative Coding / Open Source Tools, Data Visualization, Design, Art, Machine Learning / Artificial Intelligence, Virtual Reality / Augmented Reality, User Experience Design / Storytelling, Interactive Art & Architecture, Physical Computing / Generative Art and Culture / Privacy / Ethics.
Date: Jun 8 – 11, 2020
Location: Minneapolis, USA
Ticket prices: $10 – $679
Free tickets: No
Travel grants / Diversity Scholarship: No
102. SmashingConf – Austin
SmashingConf is an inclusive, practical and friendly conference on front-end, design and UX, with CSS/JS techniques, accessibility, performance, privacy, internationalization, designing for mobile, HTML email and real-life case studies.
Date: Jun 9 – 10, 2020
Location: Austin, USA
Ticket prices: $499 – $998
Free tickets: No
Travel grants / Diversity Scholarship: No
103. Enterprise Experience 2020
Enterprise Experience is for enterprise UX practitioners. The conference teaches how to become “enterprise-ready” with keynotes, talks, and full-day workshops helping UX leaders and managers more effectively partner with their peers in product management.
Dates: Jun 10 – 12, 2020
Location: San Francisco, California
Ticket prices: $1295 – $2590
Free tickets: No
Travel grants / Diversity Scholarship: No
104. UX Fighters
Experience Fighters is the main international event in user 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. Experience Fighters is the place to find future partners, prospective clients, share project and knowledge. It is the meeting point for those who work to continue surprising a world that has already become used to the incredible.
Date: Jun 10, 2020
Location: Madrid, Spain
Ticket prices: TBA
Free tickets: TBA
Travel grants / Diversity Scholarship: No
105. Dsgnday
Dsgnday is a full-day conference with eight presentations about web design and user experience. Expect plenty of practical advice on designing for the web—on any device. This year they’re combining Dsgnday with CSS Day; an advanced CSS conference where speakers treat the really geeky CSS stuff.
Date: Jun 11, 2020
Location: Amsterdam, Netherlands
Ticket prices: $360 – $665
Free tickets: No
Travel grants / Diversity Scholarship: No
106. Participatory Design Conference PDC2020
This is the first time PDC will be held in South America, hosted by Universidad de Caldas in conjunction with their Festival de la Imagen 2020. PDC 2020’s theme is “Participation(s) otherwise”. There shall be talks on the diverse meanings and ontologies that participation and design can take on. Speakers will answer the questions: What forms, conceptions and understandings of participation, collaboration, intervention, design and technology can we draw upon to contest essentialist views on participatory design? Are current conceptions coherent with plural understandings and realities? What haven’t we realized before? From whom else are we / can we be learning?
Date: Jun 15 – 19, 2020
Location: Manisales, Colombia
Ticket prices: TBA
Free tickets: Yes, for student volunteers.
Travel grants / Diversity Scholarship: No
107. Sónar+D
Sónar+D is an international congress that explores how creativity is changing our present and imagining new futures, in collaboration with researchers, innovators and business leaders. Artists, creative technologists, musicians, filmmakers, designers, thinkers, scientists, entrepreneurs, makers, and hackers participate in a carefully commissioned program with the aim of inspiration and networking.
Date: Jun 17 – 20, 2020
Location: Barcelona, Spain
Ticket prices: $266
Free tickets: No
Travel grants / Diversity Scholarship: No
108. UX Days 2020
UX is a 2-days conference entirely dedicated to the user experience, articulated in the form of workshops and conferences. In 2019, the event brought together no less than 900 participants, as many curious smiles and twice as many passionate looks. Now an essential part of UX calendars, the event attracts professionals from all walks of life interested in user experience methods, design thinking, agility, and digital project management, as well as serious games, sprint design and more.
Date: Jun 18 – 19, 2020
Location: Paris, France
Ticket prices: TBA
Free tickets: TBA
Travel grants / Diversity Scholarship: No
109. Car HMi – Berlin
The Annual Car HMI Europe is a well-established international knowledge exchange platform bringing together all stakeholders playing an active role in the technical and design field for automotive HMI and UX development. In 2.5 days you will get the chance to discuss opportunities as well as challenges in HMI and UX development that lie ahead of the automotive industry.
Date: Jun 22 – 23, 2020
Location: Berlin, Germany
Ticket prices: $2990 – $3320
Free tickets: No
Travel grants / Diversity Scholarship: No
110. Future of Branding Week
From Sonic Branding to VR and AR – explore how leading brands are disrupting the industry using new channels and evolving technologies. Discover the most innovative approaches to brand strategy from the world-class creative and advertising agencies.
Date: Jun 22 – 26, 2020
Location: London, UK
Ticket prices: $2890
Free tickets: No
Travel grants / Diversity Scholarship: No
111. App Design And Development Conference
The App Design and Development Conference is a single-track international conference for iOS & Android developers and UX/UI designers. 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.
Dates: Jun 24 – 26, 2020
Location: Barcelona, Spain
Ticket prices: $110 – $445+
Free tickets: No
Travel grants / Diversity Scholarship: No
112. Fintech Design Summit – New York
The FinTech Design Summit pulls together the world’s most innovative FinTech companies; to talk about Product Design, UX and Strategy. This design summit aims to create a dialogue within the FS community, in order to accelerate the digital transformation of financial services for generations to come.
Date: Jun 25, 2020
Location: New York City, New York
Ticket prices: TBA
Free tickets: No
Travel grants / Diversity Scholarship: No
113. IndieWeb Summit
IndieWeb Summit 2020 is the tenth annual gathering for independent web creators of all kinds, graphic artists, designers, UX engineers, coders, hackers, to share ideas, create and improve their personal websites, and build upon each others creations.
Date: Jun 27 – 28, 2020
Location: Portland, Oregon, USA
Ticket prices: Free – $10
Free tickets: Yes
Travel grants / Diversity Scholarship: Yes
114. ICON11: The Illustration Conference
This Illustration Conference is a gathering of illustrators, designers, educators, representatives, and art buyers exploring illustration today. ICON is committed to providing a diverse forum for an ongoing dialogue that serves the illustration, design, publishing, advertising, and academic communities.
Date: Jun 28 – July 1, 2020
Location: Kansas City, USA
Ticket prices: $485 – $685
Free tickets: No
Travel grants / Diversity Scholarship: No
115. Forward Festival – Hamburg
Forward Festival is a gathering around a conference, featuring the best international and local personalities who provide insight and success stories. It is accompanied by a saucerful of side events with workshops, live art, and networking sessions.
Date: Jul 2 – 3, 2020
Location: Hamburg, Germany
Ticket prices: $110- $345
Free tickets: No
Travel grants / Diversity Scholarship: No
116. DIS 2020
The ACM conference on Designing Interactive Systems (DIS) is the premier, international arena where designers, artists, psychologists, user experience researchers, systems engineers and many more come together to debate and shape the future of interactive systems design and practice.
Date: Jul 6 – 10, 2020
Location: Eindhoven, Netherlands
Ticket prices: TBA
Free tickets: Yes, for student volunteers.
Travel grants / Diversity Scholarship: No
117. Barcelona Design Week ’20
Barcelona Design Week ’20 is for those who love design! This design event features exhibitions, workshops, talks, round tables, conferences, showrooms, parties, documentaries, with the aim of bringing the design closer to people.
Date: Jul 10 – 18, 2020
Location: Barcelona, Spain
Ticket prices: TBA
Free tickets: TBA
Travel grants / Diversity Scholarship: No
118. Design/Content Conference
Design/Content conference is a conference for designers & content strategists. Attendees will hear from industry leaders about crafting experiences and telling stories that shape the future of the web. It includes a day of workshops, two days of talks, and thoughtful extras in one of the most beautiful cities.
Date: Jul 15 – 17, 2020
Location: Vancouver, Canada
Ticket prices: $190 – $870
Free tickets: No
Travel grants / Diversity Scholarship: No
119. SIGGRAPH 2020
SIGGRAPH 2020 is the forum where inspiration creates progress. Attendees will collaborate with the forward-thinking community to find the most transformative advancements across computer graphics and interactive techniques. Interest areas include Production and Animation, Research and Education, Arts and Design, Gaming and Interactive, and New Technologies.
Dates: Jul 19 – 23, 2020
Location: Washington, USA
Ticket prices: TBA
Free tickets: Yes, for volunteers
Travel grants / Diversity Scholarship: No
120. UX+ Conference
UX+ is the largest user experience conference in Asia, tailored to professionals and students of design and technology. UX+ aims to be a distinctively informative and inspiring conference, showcasing the various approaches in UX, practiced by Product Designers, Interaction Designers, Behavioral Scientists, UX Researchers and Strategists, Product Managers, Developers, Startup Founders, Creative Technologists and Innovators.
Date: TBA
Location: TBA
Ticket prices: TBA
Free tickets: No
Travel grants / Diversity Scholarship: No
121. Chain React Conference
Chain React is a conference for businesses, developers, and React Native thinkers. It’s the home for inspiring collaboration, building connections, and promoting the latest in React and React Native news. It includes speakers from top tech companies and five full-day workshops. These workshops are great for those looking to get started with React and those ready to dive right in and learn about React Native testing or Native code.
Date: Jul 29 – 30, 2020
Location: Portland, OR USA
Ticket prices: $449 – $1199
Free tickets: No
Travel grants / Diversity Scholarship: No
122. UX & Digital Design Week
UX & Digital Design Week will teach you how to create experiences that people will fall in love with. Get inspiration for your current projects and advice on how to build a design team of your dreams. You’ll find out the secrets of what makes products successful and what mistakes companies made when they were building new services. This design conference is meant for Creative directors and heads of design departments, Digital product designers, UX and visual designers, Design managers and team leads, UX researchers and analysts, Service designers and product owners
Date: Aug 10, 2020
Location: London, UK
Ticket prices: $2890
Free tickets: No
Travel grants / Diversity Scholarship: No
123. DRS2020 – Design Research Society 2020 International Conference
This year, DRS2020 will explore the theme of Synergy. The main conference theme of SYNERGYwill explore design research as a driver for creating transformative change for good, through collaboration and co-creation. Synergy is a powerful force where voices in design research become stronger together.
Dates: Aug 11 – 14, 2020
Location: Brisbane, Australia
Ticket prices: TBA
Free tickets: TBA
Travel grants / Diversity Scholarship: No
124. Loupe2020
Loupe 2020 is a conference from Framer on interactive design and creative coding. Talks from designers, prototypers, and developers on the way they work and their creative process. There are also Framer X workshops so that attendees can get some practical stuff at the end of the conference.
Date: Aug 19 – 21, 2020
Location: Amsterdam, Netherlands
Ticket prices: $276 – $885
Free tickets: No
Travel grants / Diversity Scholarship: Yes
125. Beyond Tellerrand – Berlin
Motivating, thoughtful and educational talks, workshops and side events on creativity and inspiration. The main show takes place on August 25th and 26th with workshops and side events around these two days. Tellerand is one of the most interesting and inspiring digital conferences in Europe.
Date: Aug 24 – 27, 2020
Location: Berlin, Germany
Ticket prices: Free to $410
Free tickets: No
Travel grants / Diversity Scholarship: No
126. UX Australia 2020
UX Australia is Australia’s premier User Experience Design conference. This design conference is now in its 12th year, and has workshops and presentations to suit everyone from graduate to experienced practitioners. It has two days of hands-on workshops focus on practical skills and techniques that can help you get started, learn new methods and tools or explore new ideas in detail. In addition, there are two full days of local and international conference presentations covering a huge range of topics and ideas relevant to experienced practitioners, newbies and everyone in between.
Date: Aug 25 – 28, 2020
Location: Melbourne, Australia
Ticket prices: $515 – $650
Free tickets: No
Travel grants / Diversity Scholarship: No
127. Y Oslo
Y Oslo is an annual conference that covers topics within customer experience, design, innovation, and technology. At Y, you’ll learn how to find the right problems, design and build services to solve them. Also how to organize better and grow the services you build.
Date: Aug 27 – 28, 2020
Location: Oslo, Norway
Ticket prices: TBA
Free tickets: TBA
Travel grants / Diversity Scholarship: No
128. Clarity Conference
Clarity is a design systems conference focused on how we work together. The conference provides tools and standards to scale across an increasing number of devices, platforms, and products. But real success comes when people align around a shared vision and language. It features diverse perspectives for design, development, and product unite so more people can be a part of the conversation. At the Clarity conference, attendees elevate their skills through multi-faceted inclusion, empathy, technology, creativity, and collaboration.
Date: Sep 2, 2020
Location: New Orleans, Louisiana
Ticket prices: TBA
Free tickets: TBA
Travel grants / Diversity Scholarship: No
129. SmashingConf – Freiburg
SmashingConf is an inclusive, practical and friendly conference on front-end, design and UX, with CSS/JS techniques, accessibility, performance, privacy, internationalization, designing for mobile, HTML email and real-life case studies. It has friendly, inclusive events that are focused on real-world problems and solutions. SmashingConf focuses on front-end and UX but it will cover everything web, be it UI design or machine learning.
Date: Sep 7 – 9, 2020
Location: Freiburg, Germany
Ticket prices: $445 – $990
Free tickets: No
Travel grants / Diversity Scholarship: No
130. Circles Conference 2020
Circles is a three-day creative design conference, bringing together designers and makers from around the globe. Learning from transformative thinkers and connecting with like-minded innovators, it provides a space where you’ll be challenged to push yourself in the creative process.
Date: Sep 10, 2020
Location: Richardson, USA
Ticket prices: $397 – $457
Free tickets: No
Travel grants / Diversity Scholarship: No
131. Big Design 2020
Big Design is a way of thinking, not just an event. It’s looking at bigger pictures and sharing them so we all grow. Experience, wisdom, and creativity solve problems. Big Design can help you think bigger and learn from people who may not belong to your specific industry. For a third of the admission to most other conferences, Big Design delivers a powerful return.
Date: Sep 10 – 12, 2020
Location: Dallas, USA
Ticket prices: TBA
Free tickets: TBA
Travel grants / Diversity Scholarship: No
132. UXLat 2020
Meet the latest UX trends through its main references, in this two-day event that will bring together members of the UXPA (User Experience Professionals Association) in Ecuador. At UXLat 2020, you can participate in UX workshops, focused on design and research, which will allow you to acquire new knowledge and practical skills. You shall learn from the first source what are the main UX trends in the world.
Date: Sep 17, 2020
Location: Quito, Ecuador
Ticket prices: $100
Free tickets: No
Travel grants / Diversity Scholarship: No
133. WebExpo 2020 Conference
WebExpo is the only conference that will make you ready for the next 30 years in the business. It covers deep tech & practical topics for developers, designers, product managers, and marketers. At WebExpo, children are welcome. Bring your child and make him learn about the latest technology. From babies to teenagers, all will enjoy it!
Date: Sep 18 – 20, 2020
Location: Prague, Czech Republic
Ticket prices: $218 – $440
Free tickets: No
Travel grants / Diversity Scholarship: No
134. Offf Tel-Aviv
Offftlv is a visual design festival hosting the most innovative creative creators. Offftlv is a community inviting all those who are eager to learn to participate and get inspired in a two-day conference journey of talks, workshops, and inspiration.
Date: Sep 22, 2020
Location: Tel-Aviv, Israel
Ticket prices: TBA
Free tickets: TBA
Travel grants / Diversity Scholarship: No
135. Design Matters Conference 2020
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. It’s more than just a conference, so prepare for the full Copenhagen experience together with 1000 designers from all over the world! Design Matters is made by designers, for designers, with designers on stage. Its mission is to spark up the conversation about the work and the role of digital designers – now and in the future. Each year, design practitioners jump on stage to talk with honesty and passion about their experiences, challenges, successes, and failures.
Date: Sep 23 – 24, 2020
Location: Copenhagen, Denmark
Ticket prices: $790 – $1280
Free tickets: No
Travel grants / Diversity Scholarship: No
136. Digital Labin
Digital Labin is a two-day ICT conference bringing you top of the line keynote speakers in web, mobile, and software design and development. Additionally, the conference has professional workshops, many networking activities and a party to remember.
Date: Sep 25 – 26, 2020
Location: Labin, Croatia
Ticket prices: $35 – $80
Free tickets: No
Travel grants / Diversity Scholarship: No
137. Creative Works Conference
Creative Works is a conference is for creative professionals who are serious about their craft and want to sharpen their skills and learn how others work. Dozens of talks, workshops, vendors, and afterparties that encourage inspiration, connection, and growth among creative professionals. Ten hands-on sessions led by masters of their craft will give you a deep dive into creative skills like illustration, lettering, design systems, app design, and more.
Date: Oct, 2020
Location: Memphis, USA
Ticket prices: TBA
Free tickets: No
Travel grants / Diversity Scholarship: No
138. Create Upstate summit
A retreat-style creative summit for in-house and agency teams. If your creative team could use a jolt of inspiration, community, and adventure, you’re gonna love Create Upstate ADK. Fireside shop talk, immersive activities, and so much more —all happening during peak Fall in the iconic Adirondacks of Upstate NY.
Date: Oct 5 – 7, 2020
Location: Lake Placid, NY
Ticket prices: TBA
Free tickets: TBA
Travel grants / Diversity Scholarship: No
139. UX Salon 2020
Since 2014, UX Salon is dedicated to promoting the profession of User Experience and Digital Product Design through inspiring meetups, professional events, and workshops.UX Salon 2020 is a two-day practical UX training and inspiration. Learn and inspire from the world’s most influential speakers, designers, and creative minds.
Date: May 10 – 11, 2020
Location: Tel-Aviv, Israel
Ticket prices: $103 – $515
Free tickets: No
Travel grants / Diversity Scholarship: No
140. Amuse UX
AMUSE UX is an international conference for anyone interested in how to design and develop successful products that users love. The conference focuses involves UX design, user research, service design, creativity, product design, game & VR design, and more. Come and see how UX is done by the greatest players, get inspiration from their successes and failures and network with other professionals like you.
Date: Oct 6, 2020
Location: Budapest, Hungary
Ticket prices: $TBA
Free tickets: No
Travel grants / Diversity Scholarship: No
150. Nordic.design
Nordic.design is a one day conference all about UX, UI, design tools, workflows & more. It includes talks by internationally renowned speakers and rising stars in the design community.
Date: Oct 7, 2020
Location: Stockholm, Sweden
Ticket prices: $315 – $725
Free tickets: No
Travel grants / Diversity Scholarship: No
160. Canvas Conference
Canvas is perfect for people who design, make and deliver digital products and experiences. It is a single-day digital product and experience conference sharing the insider stories from people solving real customer problems, real people, in the work, sharing their experiences and learnings. There are no high-level overviews or brand evangelists, Canvas provides actionable insights from people doing hard work in the world of digital products. If you’re looking to learn how to do things differently in your organisation and meet like-minded folk, Canvas is the right conference for you.
Date: Oct 8, 2020
Location: Birmingham, UK
Ticket prices: $173 – $280
Free tickets: No
Travel grants / Diversity Scholarship: No
170. Offf Vienna
OFFF is a community inviting all those who are eager to learn to participate and get inspired in a journey of conferences, workshops, activities and more. OFFF Vienna is a visual design festival inspiring creative minds, but most of all, it is a meeting point for creators and emerging talents joining to get inspired and share new interests. Attendees shall plunge into a world of creativity and inspiration, be inspired, get open to new possibilities and be part of an international community.
Date: Oct 9 – 10, 2020
Location: Vienna, Austria
Ticket prices: TBA
Free tickets: No
Travel grants / Diversity Scholarship: No
180. Adobe MAX 2020
Adobe Max has been dubbed “The Creativity Conference”. It is Adobe’s annual event where you can learn the latest Adobe announcements, attend 300+ sessions, labs, creativity workshops and network with each other. There, you shall rejuvenate your skills, your career and your creative process, while connecting with the world’s top creatives. Sharpen your skills, learn new things, or boost your career in sessions, labs, and workshops. You may decide to spend a day or two before the main conference in immersive preconferences and connect with people from around the world who love to create as much as you do.
Date: Oct 19 – 21, 2020
Location: Los Angeles, USA
Ticket prices: TBA
Free tickets: TBA
Travel grants / Diversity Scholarship: No
190. UX New Zealand
The event UX New Zealand is Aotearoa’s biggest dedicated user experience conference. Whether you’re new to UX or a seasoned professional, you’ll gain valuable insights and inspiration – and have fun along the way!
Date: TBA
Location: Wellington, NZ
Ticket prices: TBA
Free tickets: TBA
Travel grants / Diversity Scholarship: No
191. SmashingConf – New York
SmashingConf is an inclusive, practical and friendly conference on front-end, design and UX, with CSS/JS techniques, accessibility, performance, privacy, internationalization, designing for mobile, HTML email and real-life case studies. It has friendly, inclusive events that are focused on real-world problems and solutions. SmashingConf focuses on front-end and UX but it will cover everything web, be it UI design or machine learning.
Date: Oct 20, 2020
Location: New York, USA
Ticket prices: $499 – $1197
Free tickets: No
Travel grants / Diversity Scholarship: No
192. Seattle Interactive Conference
Seattle Interactive Conference is a celebration of the incredible work happening at the intersection of technology, creativity, and industry. They spotlight innovation in experience, design, and strategy. They believe in the power of creative thinking, and that data and technology can be leveraged to help us make better, intentional choices.
Dates: Oct 20 – 22, 2020
Location: Seattle, USA
Ticket prices: $449 – $549
Free tickets: No
Travel grants / Diversity Scholarship: No
193. DesignOps Summit 2020 – NYC
The first and foremost conference on Design Operations and Research Operations. DesignOps Summit is the first conference dedicated to showing design leaders how to create design capacity that keeps pace with change. The curation team are researchers and designers who live to create game-changing conferences. They shall cover the case studies, tools, techniques, and actionable take-aways that define DesignOps as a practice. You’ll walk away knowing what a modern DesignOps practice can and should be.
Date: Oct 21 – 23, 2020
Location: NYC, USA
Ticket prices: $1295 – $2590
Free tickets: No
Travel grants / Diversity Scholarship: No
194. JAM London 2020
Building great products is hard. JAM is about learning from those who’ve been there and done it. A story-packed conference to get inspired, followed by a day of hands-on workshops. Street food, craft coffee, and friendly vibes included. You’ll discover how these products are being built today, and learn how we can adapt our skillsets for the decades ahead. This year, you’ll learn from the makers who ambitiously focus on social impact with the products they build. JAM London will also explore the tools and approaches we can use to shape the future we want to live in.
Date: Oct 21, 2020
Location: London, UK
Ticket prices: $630 – $1260+
Free tickets: No
Travel grants / Diversity Scholarship: No
195. Brand New Conference
Brand New Conference is a two-day event on corporate and brand identity with some of today’s most active and influential practitioners from around the world.
Date: Oct 22 – 23, 2020
Location: Austin, USA
Ticket prices: $250 – $500
Free tickets: No
Travel grants / Diversity Scholarship: No
196. Blanc Festival
Blanc Fesitival is a three days festival related to design and creativity. Professionals and students are welcome.
Date: Oct, 2020
Location: Barcelona, Spain
Ticket prices: $122 – $210
Free tickets: No
Travel grants / Diversity Scholarship: No
197. ILA – Interaction Latin America 2020
ILA is Latin America’s largest and most important design conference. From San José, ILA20 will open the space for a conversation about the impact of design in the Latin American region. What is the role of design in our neighborhoods, cities and our people? And how together we can design the future we want so that each of our countries reaches its full potential.
Date: Oct 29, 2020
Location: San José, Costa Rica
Ticket prices: TBA
Free tickets: TBA
Travel grants / Diversity Scholarship: No
198. Beyond Tellerrand – Munich
Motivating, thoughtful and educational talks, workshops and side events. The main show takes place on Nov 2 and 3 with workshops and side events around these two days. Beyond Tellerand is one of the most interesting and inspiring digital conferences in Europe.
Date: Nov 2 – 4, 2020
Location: Munich, Germany
Ticket prices: Free to $410
Free tickets: No
Travel grants / Diversity Scholarship: No
199. DesignThinkers 2020 – Toronto
DesignThinkers is Canada’s largest annual graphic design conference, connecting designers from around the world. The speaker-led events in Toronto and Vancouver feature design leaders discussing the trends and work that are shaping the design industry.
Date: Nov 5 – 6, 2020
Location: Toronto, Canada
Ticket prices: $205 – $490
Free tickets: Yes, for scholarship recipients
Travel grants / Diversity Scholarship: Yes
200. DesignUp
DesignUp is also Asia’s premier Conference for Design in Tech, and a series of diverse events bringing practitioners, leaders & learners together, fusing insights from East & West. DesignUp isn’t just another UX/UI Conference. DesignUp showcases stories across the Design-in-Tech spectrum – shinning the light on tales of transformation, growth, and impact, by Design: individual, or career growth, social impact, product transformation, impactful tools & techniques, to creating change across government and civic services. An exciting lineup of speakers is expected this year.
Date: TBA
Location: Bangalore, India
Ticket prices: TBA
Free tickets: TBA
Travel grants / Diversity Scholarship: No
201. CanUX
CanUX is Canada’s premier UX event. It is currently in its 11th edition. CanUX (pronounced “canucks”, like the hockey team) is an independent, locally-grown, non-profit, volunteer-driven event created for people who want to learn and share their expertise about user experience, and how our profession contributes to making things work better for everyone. The event covers topics like user research, usability, information architecture, interaction design, service design, and just about everything related to the creation of compelling products, services and experiences. In terms of format, CanUX is a weekend plenary (two-day single track) conference featuring fantastic speakers from all over the world. The conference is preceded by a day of hands-on workshops. CanUX is the longest-running and largest annual experience design event in Canada, and is constantly looking for ways to create one of the most inclusive, affordable, world-class UX conferences.
Date: Nov 12 – 15, 2020
Location: Ottawa, Canada
Ticket prices: TBA
Free tickets: Yes, for volunteers
Travel grants / Diversity Scholarship: No
202. CreativeMornings
A free breakfast lecture series for the creative community. The world’s largest face-to-face creative community. Attendees gather in cities around the world to enjoy fresh coffee, friendly people, and an international array of breakfast foods. Volunteer hosts and their team members organize local chapters that not only celebrate a city’s creative talent, but also promote an open space to connect with like-minded individuals. The growing archive of past breakfast talks is humbling. From design legends to hometown heroes, speakers are selected by each chapter based on a global theme.
Date: Dec 31, 2020
Location: Global
Ticket prices: Free
Free tickets: Yes
Travel grants / Diversity Scholarship: No
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