Us By Night

📍 Antwerp, Belgium

Third 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. #USBYNIGHT2018

Related articles:

• Interview with Rizon Parein, curator of Us by Night.
• Our review of the first edition called OFFF by Night in November 2016.
• Related interview: Dot Lung, co-founder of 360VR.Barcelona

Agora Club 2 : Thrill Demeter!

📍 Amsterdam, Netherlands

Agora Club II: Thrill Demeter will bring together dining, discussions, performances, dancers, a fashion parade and DJs to collectively perform and explore the act of transformation in an age reliant on extremities. Focusing on radical queer identities and underrepresented voices, Agora Club applies design experiences with cultural and philosophical debate to stage collective participatory performance parties like no other. From the survivalist strategies required to endure the Anthropocene to Silicon Valley space trips to mars, the dreamers of the day and participants will have to negotiate futures fraught with fear. The production of nightmares will dominate the evening’s narration from monster politics to environmental catastrophe.

Pixel Pioneers Belfast 2018

📍 Belfast, United Kingdom

A one-day conference for web/UX designers and front-end developers with practical and inspiring talks, featuring eight speakers. The presentations will cover CSS Grid, Web Components, Custom Properties, inclusive design, web performance, progressive enhancement, ecommerce design, web animations, navigation design. There are also two workshops on 22 November, and a conference warm-up!

Future State

📍 Melbourne, Australia

Future State is a live symposium programmed by Semi Permanent, where some of the world's sharpest companies will convene for a day of thought leadership and smart discussion. It’s a live event, a networking opportunity and a digital experience; our ideal setting to design a blueprint for the future of business (and whatever the hell comes next). And no matter your industry, company size or executive level, you won’t want to miss it.

New Adventures

📍 Nottingham, United Kingdom

Making sense of a rapidly changing industry. Tools, frameworks, automation: what value do they offer, and how will they alter the way digital experiences form? Will you be essential or expendable? Did design sleep in while everyone else got busy defining a new rulebook for our industry? New Adventures talks about designing smarter and explore ways to navigate a shifting landscape. New Adventures talks about consider labour and ethics, education and inclusivity, the disappearance of weirdness and fun. New Adventures reconvene, recalibrate, and re-energise digital design.

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.

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"

Related interviews

• Chris Do of The Futur
• Filippo Spiezia and Benny Di Tommaso
• Dot Lung, co-founder of 360VR.Barcelona

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.

Related Articles

• Mr. Bingo, illustrator and rapper
• 10 years of FITC AMSTERDAM in 10 posters

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.

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.

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".

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.

Leeds Digital Festival

📍 Leeds, United Kingdom

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

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.

Related interview: Neon Moiré Show with 99U Editor-in-Chief Matt McCue

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.

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.