CTM Festival 2019

📍 Berlin, Germany

CTM festival's 20th edition will take place at various Berlin venues. Founded in 1999, CTM is a prominent international festival dedicated to contemporary electronic, digital and experimental music, as well as the diverse range of artistic activities in the context of sound and club cultures. The festival's aim is to present the most outstanding international productions in adventurous, experimental and electronic music and audiovisual performance, as well as to reflect on recent artistic, social and technical developments in music culture.

Graphika Manila

📍 Manila, Philippines

Creativity conference Graphika Manila focuses on the creative side of design rather than technology. Since 2006, the conference, showcase the 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.

Digital Design Days Geneva

📍 Geneva, Switzerland

Digital Design Days is a 3-day event that unites the world’s best creative and business minds to grow business through digital design thinking. Through keynotes, workshops, digital installations, networking and parties. This edition theme is "Business Growth through Digital Design"

Fig.

📍 Liege, Belgium

3rd edition of this graphic design festival in Liege.

Awwwards Conferences 2019 Amsterdam

📍 Amsterdam, Netherlands

Twice a year Awwwards organise a Digital Thinkers Conference. Showcasing, in iconic location, digital visionaries, thought leaders, top agencies and designers from across the world to share their secrets, and open new dialogues about the future of the web.

FITC Amsterdam 2019

📍 Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Now in its 12th year, FITC returns to Amsterdam to host their groundbreaking design and tech event on the future of innovation, design and all the cool shit in between.
FITC is the intersection between Creative Technologists, Designers, Developers and all-around awesome thinkers from various innovative industries across the globe. They converge every year in Amsterdam to connect, challenge, inspire and to experience the cutting edge in design and technology.

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Mouvo

📍 Prague, Czech Republic

4rd edition of Mouvo A festival presenting motion design in all its forms. Ubiquitous and creative dynamic field, combining graphic design, animation, video, special effects and new technologies. Mouvo festival is a meeting place for all the thinkers, talents and producers around the world, who would like to cooperate and meet others from the community, those who are eager to learn, inspire and to be inspired.

Motion Plus Design Los Angeles

📍 Los Angeles, United States

Eight edition of Motion Plus Design. Presenting the cream of the crop of the best worldwide Motion Designers for a one full day of talks at The Montalbán in Los Angeles.

Elevate Festival 2019

📍 Graz, Austria

Elevate is an annual interdisciplinary festival held in various central venues around the Schlossberg in Graz, Austria. With its unique combination of critical political discourse and contemporary music and art, the Elevate Festival stands out of the "usual" festival circus. Amongst the guests are Human rights experts, climate researchers and activists from all over the world, who gather in Graz once a year with musicans and artists, illuminating pertinent issues of our future. The organisational body is a not-for-profit association. Therefore all the discourse and film programme of the festival is free of charge.

Design Indaba Festival 2019

📍 Cape Town, South Africa

Every year the Design Indaba Festival curates a pioneering programme of speakers, music artists, film and design exhibitions, showcasing the best of the global and African creative industries.

LADFEST

📍 Lima, Peru

Fifth edition of Latin American Design Festival LADFEST. The most important gathering in Lima with the most recognized designers from Latin America and the world.

SXSW Conference & Festivals

📍 Austin, United States

South by Southwest is an annual film, interactive media, and music festival and conferences that take place in mid-March in Austin, Texas, United States. The event, an essential destination for global professionals, features sessions, showcases, screenings, exhibitions, and a variety of networking opportunities. SXSW proves that the most unexpected discoveries happen when diverse topics and people come together. Since it began in 1987, SXSW has continued to grow in both scope and size every year.

Antwerp Poster Festival

📍 Antwerp, Belgium

The Inaugural edition of Antwerp Poster Festival is an event aimed at promoting graphic design and creative thinking in Antwerp. With its international appeal, Antwerp Poster Festival strives to showcase a broad spectrum of styles and visions in the field of graphic design.

Toca Me 19

📍 Munich, Germany

Annual one day single track design conference TOCA ME. Since 2003 the goal of the conference us to entertain and inspire the design community. Inspire by high quality presentations and by the venue and its atmosphere.
TOCA ME design conference will be one of the main events of the Munich Creative Business Week taking place from March 9 - 17 2019.

UX Copenhagen

📍 Copenhagen , Denmark

The Fifth edition of UX Copenhagen a premium, two-day conference for professionals working with and around User Experience (UX) Design. You will hear about some of the newest trends in UX and Design, presented by a diverse panel of speakers ranging from super gurus to people new to the field, from companies that range from being front-runners in User Experience to those who are just starting to create UX teams. UX Copenhagen always feature startups and strive to bring in speakers and participants who are taking User Experience to a new level. This year the conference focus on how to design with transparency, consent, privacy, ethics, and diversity in mind, both in regards to systems, websites, apps, and physical products, and also in regards to the teams we work in.

Culture Geek

📍 London, United Kingdom

Culture Geek is a one day conference on the digital side of culture. Hear how museums, theatres and arts organisations are using digital and meet those shaping the use of design and technology within organisations like Tate, Southbank Centre, Rijksmuseum, V&A, Royal Institution and Historic Royal Palaces.

IAM Weekend 2019

📍 Barcelona, Spain

IAM Weekend is the best weekend of the year for internet people! The fifth IAM Weekend offers the future of internet culture, within the theme: "The Quantumness of Archipelagos".

Epicurrence

📍 Breckenridge, United States

2 days. Skiing. Snowboarding. Workshops. Talks.

STRP festival 2019

📍 Eindhoven, The Netherlands

STRP Biënnale is a ten-day festival, filled with spectacular art, technology and experimental electronic music. The festival is about sharing the passion for technology, with tours, workshops and an international conference where artists and technologists offer a glimpse behind the scenes.

Forward Festival Vienna 2019

📍 Vienna, Austria

The Forward Festival stands for interesting talks and personal interaction with the most renowned minds from the fields of design, creativity and communication, who reveal their experiences, personal success and learnings to the audience. Next to presentations and talks, the extensive program consists of workshops, student talks, after show parties, live performances and happenings as well as the expo area. This program will once again be expanded for the 5th anniversary and will offer many specials and surprises for its visitors.

OFFSET Dublin

📍 Dublin, Ireland

10th edition of OFFSET. OFFSET is a 3 day creative conference on 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.

Krupa. Interface Design Conference

📍 Kyiv , Ukraine

KRUPA is the biggest interface design conference in Eastern Europe. KRUPA is a gathering global design stars, UX leaders, aspiring designers and UX teams, developing networking opportunities and raising design industry in Ukraine to a new level. With speakers from Ukraine, USA, Switzerland, Germany, Japan, and Israel.

SmashingConf San Francisco 2019

📍 San Francisco, United States

5th edition of SmashingConf in San Francisco. SmashingConf San Francisco, we’ll explore how to improve accessibility and front-end workflow, refactoring, security, interface design patterns, CSS Grid techniques, performance, and how to write better JavaScript. Plus a bunch of hands-on workshops on design, front-end and UX.

Leeds Digital Festival

📍 Leeds, United Kingdom

The Leeds Digital Festival is a city-wide, open platform celebration of all things digital within Leeds.

FITC Toronto 2019

📍 Toronto, Canada

Immerse yourself in a land of #PureImagination at the 18th year of #FITCToronto It’s the Future of Innovation, Technology and Creativity. FITC Toronto is a globally recognized industry event showcasing the best the world has to offer in design, digital development, media and innovation in creative technologies – its three days and nights of presentations, parties, installations and performances that unite and transform the industry.

99U Conference 2019

📍 New York, United States

The 99U Conference is to shift the focus from idea generation to idea execution. Learn from the world’s top thinkers and doers in a series of main stage talks over two days. 99U speakers offer pragmatic, real-world insights that transcend creative sectors.This will be the 11th edition.

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Pictoplasma Conference & Festival Berlin

📍 Berlin, Germany

Annual Pictoplasma Festival turns for the 15th time Berlin into the world’s epicenter of character design and art—and a vibrant meeting point for a diverse scene of international artists, illustrators, filmmakers, and game, graphic or product designers. Creators and producers meet for a central conference to exchange strategies for figurative aesthetics, while the wider festival invites the general public to discover new trends. Cutting edge screenings bring the latest animation to the big cinema screen, numerous exhibitions throughout the city present original works and outstanding character craftsmanship, and performances put the characters into direct play with the audience.

beyond tellerrand // Dusseldorf 2019

📍 Düsseldorf, Germany

beyond tellerrand is a web- and design festival. With a workshops and talks for creative minds on: design, technology, inspiration plus room for networking.

Semi Permanent Sydney 2019

📍 Sydney, Australia

Three day conference Semi Permanent brings together internationally renowned designers, artists & creative icons for live events, presentations, workshops & parties. In 2019 Semi Permanent 2019 explores the 'TRUTH'.

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Typomania 2019

📍 Moscow, Russia

Typomania is an annual type, typography, calligraphy and video event. The festival aims to collect and connect as many type fans as possible and turn them in to a professional community.

UX London

📍 London, United Kingdom

UX London, now in it’s eleventh year, brings together the world’s leading design experts and practitioners for three days of inspirational talks and hands-on workshops. Clearleft, a Strategic Design Agency, based in sunny Brighton has curated the schedule so you will spend your mornings gaining unique insights from influential speakers from around the globe. In the afternoon you’ll get the chance to roll up your sleeves in the workshop of your choice, not to mention sampling fantastic street food and spending time with the UX community at our evening events. You’ll head home with new ideas, practical skills that you can apply straight away and brilliant connections with fellow UXers the world over.

Eyeo Festival 2019

📍 Minneapolis, United States

Since 2011, the annual Eyeo Festival brings together creative coders, data designers and creators working at the intersection of data, art & technology for talks, workshops, labs and events.

Sensorium

📍 Bratislava, Slovakia

The annual festival facilitates discussion at the conference, showcases ground-breaking performances & installations and provides education through workshops and labs. The conference invites national and international speakers from multidisciplinary fields to discuss new work, share common challenge and inspire new ideas.

By Design Conference

📍 Bratislava, Slovakia

By Design Conference is a international conference for designers, entrepreneurs and creative minds. The one day event focus on design and business.

Forward Festival Munich

📍 Munich, Germany

The Forward Festival stands for interesting talks and personal interaction with the most renowned minds from the fields of design, creativity and communication, who reveal their experiences, personal success and learnings to the audience. Next to presentations and talks, the extensive program consists of workshops, student talks, after show parties, live performances and happenings as well as the expo area. This program will once again be expanded for the 5th anniversary and will offer many specials and surprises for its visitors.

Typographics

📍 New York, United States

Typographics is a design festival for people who use type. 5th edition of this annual event devoted to contemp­orary typo­graphy, with talks, work­shops, and tours focusing on where typo­graphy is today and where its future may lie. It will be held at The Cooper Union in New York City.

Forward Festival Zurich

📍 Zurich, Switzerland

The Forward Festival stands for interesting talks and personal interaction with the most renowned minds from the fields of design, creativity and communication, who reveal their experiences, personal success and learnings to the audience. Next to presentations and talks, the extensive program consists of workshops, student talks, after show parties, live performances and happenings as well as the expo area. This program will once again be expanded for the 5th anniversary and will offer many specials and surprises for its visitors.

SmashingConf Toronto 2019

📍 Toronto, Canada

Second edition of SmashingConf Toronto. At this event Smashing will explore the bright and dark sides of front-end and UX — responsive HTML email, naming conventions, security audits, GDPR and privacy, responsive art direction, front-end architecture, rendering performance, CSS Grid Layout, PWA, Vue.js, Webpack and how to set up bulletproof contracts. Plus a bunch of hands-on workshops on design, front-end and UX.

Pattern Day

📍 Brighton, United Kindom

A one-day event for web designers and developers on design systems, pattern libraries, style guides, and components.

Forward Festival Hamburg

📍 Hamburg, Germany

The Forward Festival stands for interesting talks and personal interaction with the most renowned minds from the fields of design, creativity and communication, who reveal their experiences, personal success and learnings to the audience. Next to presentations and talks, the extensive program consists of workshops, student talks, after show parties, live performances and happenings as well as the expo area. This program will once again be expanded for the 5th anniversary and will offer many specials and surprises for its visitors.

OffGrid

📍 Osea Island, United Kingdom

OffGrid is a conference that brings together the interested and interesting. With walks, talks, ideas & workshops all on our own island for 48 hours.

The conference

📍 Malmö, Sweden

Ninth edition of The Conference. A two-day exploration of complexity in our digital world. The curated sessions help you connect the dots between the widespread disciplines and topics such as culture, arts, human behavior, tech and science.

TypeCon2019

📍 Minneapolis, United States

Society of Typographic Aficionados (SOTA), an international organization dedicated to the promotion, study, and support of typography and related arts celebrates the 21th anniversary of TypeCon their annual conference, with exhibits, workshops, parties, and other extracurricular events are always part of the complete TypeCon package.

Front Conference Zurich

📍 Zurich, Switzerland

Frontend Conference Zurich. 3 days of inspiring workshops & talks where design meets technology.

SmashingConf Freiburg 2019

📍 Freiburg, Germany

The 8th edition of SmashingConf Freiburg in their lovely hometown. With one track, two days, 13 speakers and 260 attendees, expect actionable insights for your work — right at the footsteps of the magical Black Forest.

Me Convention

📍 Frankfurt am Main, Germany

The third edition of me Convention. The festival-like conference taps into the Zeitgeist of the near future, and will examine how innovation, inspiration, and creativity can help guide the direction we are traveling in. Me Convention is a collaboration between Mercedes-Benz and SXSW and focus on: New Creation, New Leadership, New Realities, New Urbanism and New Velocity.

Gather

📍 Stockholm, Sweden

Gather is not your average conference or music festival. It investigates society and its future, embraces complexity and bursts filter bubbles to offer inspiring and unexpected experiences for the curious minds. Gather hosts some of the most interesting speakers and artists active in the world today.

Dibi Conference

📍 Edinburgh, Scotland

DIBI : Design It; Build It is a international digital conferences for designers & developers for those shaping the future of the web. This editions the conference is celebrating risk taking, encourage participants to step out of their comfort zones and ask what we can learn when things do go wrong.

Graphic Matters

📍 Breda, Netherlands

Graphic Matters presents self-initiated projects by international designers who care about how they affect the world. With exhibitions, tours, talks, workshops, and events that speak to the curious individual (not just the design professional), we show the impact of design.

Us By Night

📍 Antwerp, Belgium

Fourth edition of Us By Night a design & creativity festival turned into a unique night experience. With an inspiring lineup and an endless market, it's guaranteed to provide you 3 nights you don't want to miss. Soon more names will be announced.

Papanek Symposium 2019

📍 Porto, Portugal

The Papanek Symposium 2019 debates both the future, and the future of design: The places, ideas and means by which the politics of design, and the design of politics come together. Part of Porto Design Week.

OFFF Vienna

📍 Vienna, Austria

Second edition of OFFF Vienna.

Nordic.Design

📍 Stockholm, Sweden

Nordic.design is a single track conference all about UX, UI, design tools, workflows and more with talks by internationally renowned speakers and rising stars in the design community. Nordic.design is happening the day before Nordic.js, the perfect combo if you are into design and programming!

SmashingConf New York 2019

📍 New York, United States

The 6th SmashingConf New York, just around the corner of Times Square. A friendly, inclusive event that focus on real-world problems and solutions. Our focus is on front-end and UX but we cover everything web, be it UI design or machine learning. With one track, two days, 13 speakers and 400 attendees, expect actionable insights for your work.

Brand New Conference 2019

📍 Las Vegas, United States

A two-day conference on corporate and brand identity with 16 sessions from today’s most active and influential practitioners around the world. Organized by UnderConsideration

Adobe MAX 2019 - The Creativity Conference.

📍 Los Angeles, United States

The Adobe MAX is an annual event held by Adobe. Adobe MAX is an awe-inspiring experience unlike any other — your once-a-year opportunity to attend the premier event for designers, developers, and decision-makers. Connect with industry leaders, learn directly from the experts, preview new software, and hear success stories and best practices for creating rich experiences across multiple screens.

Integrated Conference

📍 Antwerp, Belgium

The seventh edition of the thought-provoking conference format organized by St Lucas School of Arts Antwerp. The biennial event offers a platform for the compelling dialogue between art, design and society, and digs deep in the polemics of this discourse. It is a forum where speakers, students and professionals can compare their work, design processes, sources of inspiration and methodologies.