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The year may be slowly coming to an end, but there are still many exciting conferences to keep in mind before we turn that calendar page over to 2015. Our industry’s indefatigable speakers aren’t quite done yet!

We have to admit though, 2014 was a truly exciting year! With so much happening in the industry, conference organizers have done their best to keep you up to date. Take a look at some of the amazing events that are about to close this year’s conference season and, of course, get an early start on next year’s schedule.

Conferences are about gathering information and knowledge, but also about opportunities to get to know other like-minded folks in the web design community. Also, keep in mind that there’s always a benefit to attending any event, and a strong chance that you’ll be exposed to a large amount of new information, so be prepared to absorb the latest techniques brought to you by distinguished authors and speakers!

I’d like to thank everyone for leaving comments in the previous round-up — they were truly helpful! I admit, I may have missed or forgotten to mention a conference (or two) in today’s round-up, but please don’t hesitate to leave a comment below in the comments section and I’ll be sure to add it on to this list as soon as possible!

The list is quite lengthy, so let’s dive in.

December 2014¹

January 2015²

February 2015³

March 2015⁴

April 2015⁵

May 2015⁶

June 2015⁷

December 2014

CSSConf Oakland 2014⁸

“CSSConf is a not-for-profit event brought to you by people dedicated to creating diverse communities and fostering knowledge-sharing in safe environments. CSSConf is a one-day front-end and design-oriented conference for builders of the web. Everyone is welcome.”

When: Dec. 9, 2014

Where: Oakland, USA

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SamshingConf Whistler 2014¹⁰

“What happens when you combine a practical front-end conference with a spectacular resort experience? That’s what SmashingConf Whistler is all about—a friendly, hands-on event at the foot of the beautiful Whistler Blackcomb mountains.”

When: Dec. 9-12, 2014

Where: Whistler, Canada

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One-Shot Oakland by NodeConf¹²

“ONE-SHOT is a one day single track speaker series presented by NodeConf.” It’s happening in Oakland as part of the JSFest event.

When: Dec. 10, 2014

Where: Oakland, USA

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The Next Web Conference USA¹⁴

“Join 1,000 professionals to discuss the latest technology trends, learn about best business practices, discover the hottest startups and network with leading industry influencers. From inspiration to action, TNW USA is the place to be if you’re looking to grow your company and immerse yourself in the culture of innovation.”

When: Dec. 10, 2014

Where: New York, USA

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Nothing is Sacred¹⁶

Nothing is sacred is “a conference about questioning assumptions, experimentation, and rebuilding what’s already there” and another event during the JSFest festivities.

When: Dec. 12, 2014

Where: Oakland, USA

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Dance.js¹⁸

As a single-day event during the JSFest event “DanceJS is a unique speaker series that aims to foster a community around audio-hacking and dance music.”

When: Dec. 13, 2014

Where: Oakland, USA

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UXI Studio²⁰

UXI Studio features “4 days of professional UX workouts, practical tools and active networking, with seven internationally recognized speakers.”

When: Dec. 14-17, 2014

Where: Ramat Gan, Israel

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BackboneConf 2014²²

“BackboneConf is a two-day conference about building applications on the web, with a focus on the Backbone.js library. BackboneConf is about moving the open web forward.”

When: Dec. 15-16, 2014

Where: Cambridge, USA

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January 2015

agile content conf²⁴

“Agile can help to bring content into the digital age. Originally used in product development, agile methods rely on teamwork across disciplines, building prototypes at speed, and continuous testing with users.”

When: Jan. 19-20, 2015

Where: London, England

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Riga Dev Day 2015²⁶

“Riga Dev Day is a joint project by three of the most active user groups in Latvia; an event by software developers for software developers; for professionals who value their time; for cross-functional developers and teams.”

When: Jan. 22, 2015

Where: Riga, Latvia

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ConveyUX 2015²⁸

“The 2015 event will feature over 30 presenters with 50+ topics. The activities take place over three days. Two days of featured speakers, breakout session, and networking and social activities. The third day is made up of half-day workshops.”

When: Jan. 22-24, 2015

Where: Seattle, USA

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PHPBenelux Conference 2015³⁰

“PHPBenelux is a non-profit usergroup for PHP developers in the Benelux and surrounding area. We organise user group meetings, theme events and an annual conference.”

When: Jan. 23-24, 2015

Where: Edegem, Belgium

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/dev/winter 2015³²

“/dev/winter is a new, free-to-attend 1 day event for software developers focussing on software technology. The event will consist of a mixture of tutorials, case studies, experience reports and hands-on sessions from fellow software developers.”

When: Jan. 24, 2015

Where: Cambridge, England

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Rail Camp NZ 5³⁴

“Imagine yourself and a group of Ruby programmers on a country retreat for a weekend of talks, hacking and fun. Things which may or may not happen” include: “Hacking, Learning, Werewolf, A swim in the sea.”

When: Jan. 30 – Feb. 2, 2015

Where: Auckland, New Zealand

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ConfConf³⁶

“ConfConf will aim to challenge industry perspectives and recurring criticisms that plague tech events, providing a platform for open debate and discussion on matters such as diversity, inclusivity and enabling new talent.”

When: Jan. 30 – Feb. 2, 2015

Where: Birmingham, England

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February 2015

Rolling Scopes Conference³⁸

“This conference is made by developers who don’t seek any profit for developers looking for some fun. The Saturday before the main conference will be dedicated to a series of workshops.”

When: Feb. 1, 2015

Where: Minsk, Belarus

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Jfokus 2015⁴⁰

Jfokus is Sweden’s largest developer conference. Come see 21 great speakers in Sweden’s capital.

When: Feb. 2-4, 2015

Where: Stockholm, Sweden

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Mobile+Web DevCon: San Francisco 2015⁴²

“Mobile+Web DevCon is a three day event dedicated to helping developers and software engineers like you master the latest development tools and trends as well as best practices in design and UX. The first day is made up of hands-on labs – three hour hands-on sessions that allow attendees to deep dive into a specific topic and work collaboratively with small groups of attendees facing similar development challenges.”

When: Feb. 3-5, 2015

Where: San Francisco, USA

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ForwardJS 2015⁴⁴

“Three tracks will cover an abundance of technical topics including JavaScript, the ES6 standard, real-time communication, web MVC components, functional programming, UX, data visualization, and more.”

When: Feb. 3-5, 2015

Where: San Francisco, USA

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MCE 2015⁴⁶

“MCE started as a conference for developers by developers. This year, we are expanding our horizons to include all mobile creators – developers, designers and tech leaders. We are interested in details, hidden mechanisms, in short – everything behind the scenes that makes the user go WOW! when they download an app.”

When: Feb. 4-6, 2015

Where: Warsaw, Poland

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Lift Conference⁴⁸

“45 entrepreneurs from 37 countries will present their business ideas at the grand final to win an equity investment of up to USD 500’000. Visit their booths in the SSW space and learn from their unique experience during 5 dedicated workshops.”

When: Feb. 4-6, 2015

Where: Geneva, Switzerland

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Space City JS⁵⁰

“Space City JS is a conference in Houston, TX focused on the rigor of JavaScript and the web platform, put on by your neighborhood community leaders of houston.js.”

When: Feb. 5, 2015

Where: Houston, USA

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RWDevCon⁵²

“RWDevCon is a conference focused on high quality programming tutorials. Learn about Swift and iOS 8 via high quality hands-on tutorials led by the authors you know and love.”

When: Feb. 6-7, 2015

Where: Washington, DC, USA

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Interaction15⁵⁴

“Join the IxDA community in San Francisco for three days of talks, workshops and activities exploring the past, present and future of interaction design.”

When: Feb. 9-11, 2015

Where: San Francisco, USA

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UX Salon 2015 / Tel-Aviv⁵⁶

“The creative process is more than just finding the right tool for the job; it’s also about finding the best approach to being creative. This year the conference theme is “The creative Toolbox“, we will examine practical and inspirational tools for our day-to-day work.”

When: Feb. 10-11, 2015

Where: Tel-Aviv, Israel

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Mobile Trends Conference⁵⁸

“Explore the newest trends of creating mobile websites and applicatons. We are inviting developers, as well as marketers, who want to take a peak at the technical side of the mobile world.”

When: Feb. 11-13, 2015

Where: Krakow, Poland

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NG-NL⁶⁰

“The NG-NL Conference in Amsterdam is the first AngularJS Conference that will take place in The Netherlands. One full day we will be hosting sessions and workshops about AngularJS and related topics.”

When: Feb. 13, 2015

Where: Amsterdam, Netherlands

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An Event Apart Atlanta⁶²

“An Event Apart Atlanta is an intensely educational learning session for passionate practitioners of standards-based web design. If you care about code as well as content, usability as well as design, An Event Apart is the conference you’ve been waiting for. ”

When: Feb. 16-18, 2015

Where: Atlanta, USA

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Webstock 2015⁶⁴

“A spectacular of astounding talent and splendour set to edify, enlighten, dazzle and delight.”

When: Feb. 16-20, 2015

Where: Wellington City, NZ

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ConFoo 2015⁶⁶

“ConFoo is a multi-technology conference for web developers.” It will feature 150 presentations, cover “a multitude of web and mobile technologies”, focus on “pragmatic solutions for web developers”, and generally offer “great content.”

When: Feb. 18-20, 2015

Where: Montreal, Canada

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Reasons:London:2015⁶⁸

“Reasons:London returns for the 3rd time to Old Street, London. An affordable single dayer, with an awesome line-up of speakers. Kicking off at 11:00AM on Friday 20th February, is the perfect way to finish your working week and start your weekend!”

When: Feb. 20, 2015

Where: London, UK

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TOCA ME design conference 2015⁷⁰

The TOCA ME design conference will feature 5 international speakers and an exhibition in Munich, one of Germany’s most picturesque cities.

When: Feb. 21, 2015

Where: Munich, Germany

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Awwwards Conference 2015⁷²

“A web design conference where digital architects, pixel visionaries, and curators of dreams alike, come together to share with us their best-kept secrets, unveiling the key to their success. Obsessive, passionate, scrupulous and meticulous; always creative; always brave.”

When: Feb. 24-25, 2015

Where: Barcelona, Spain

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UX Riga 2015⁷⁴

“UXRiga conference is designed as a one day practical event, targeted on in-house digital, e-commerce and development department representatives, designers and developers, as well as local web design agencies. Hands-on workshops, keynotes and local case studies will provide inspiration and necessary skills to build your client loyalty by improving their user experience of web and mobile applications, as well as IT systems.”

When: Feb. 26, 2015

Where: Riga, Latvia

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SearchFest 2015⁷⁶

“SearchFest presents multiple informative learning tracks, workshops, and panel sessions designed to provide direct insight into the most up-to-date strategies and technological advancements in online search marketing and social marketing.”

When: Feb. 27, 2015

Where: Portland, USA

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March 2015

Mobile World Congress 2015⁷⁸

“Mobile World Congress is the world’s largest annual gathering of mobile and related industry C-Level executives. If anything is happening in mobile, it can be found at MWC. Learn more about the organisations behind the event and check out highlights of our best-ever 2014 event.”

When: March 2-5, 2015

Where: Barcelona, Spain

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Con London 2015⁸⁰

“A practitioner-driven conference, QCon is designed for technical team leads, architects, engineering directors, and project managers who influence innovation in their teams.”

When: March 2-6, 2015

Where: London, England

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Confab Government 2015⁸²

“This special one-day content strategy event is for government employees, teams, and contractors. At Confab Government, we will focus on the unique content challenges of content strategy in the public sector. This is your chance to hear about plain language, user-centered experiences, data-driven decisions, and how to do your work when your stakeholders are…well, EVERYBODY.”

When: March 3, 2015

Where: Washington, DC, USA

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ng-conf 2015⁸⁴

ng-conf presents the best speakers in Angular. Come see 20 experts in the field and have some fun carving Utah snow or playing StarCraft while you’re there.

When: March 4-6, 2015

Where: Salt lake City, USA

⁸⁵

DrupalSouth 2015⁸⁶

“Developers, themers, site builders, web teams, business owners: help Drupal transform organisations, the web, and the world. DrupalSouth is a non-profit conference run by a team of volunteers from the community with the fiscal and legal support provided by Linux Australia Inc.”

When: March 5-7, 2015

Where: Melbourne, Australia

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jQuery UK 2015⁸⁸

“jQuery UK returns to Oxford for its fourth year. Join us for two packed tracks featuring the biggest names in front-end development, and leave with practical takeaways you can put to use straight away.”

When: March 6, 2015

Where: Oxford City, England

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Mdevcon 2015⁹⁰

“Mdevcon is targeted at developers working with mobile technology. There will be talks targeted at a specific platform and talks of a more platform independent nature. We welcome independent developers, freelancers and developers working for a company – It doesn’t matter who you are or where you work, if you work with mobile technology you’ll enjoy this conference.”

When: March 6-7, 2015

Where: Amsterdam, Netherlands

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.concat() 2015⁹²

“We invite the web development community from Austria and the entire world to Salzburg. Come and hear talks about the wide variety of web topics and it’s community so you can build better applications for more platforms, devices and humans.”

When: March 7, 2015

Where: Puch bei Hallein, Austria

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Typography Day 2015⁹⁴

“The event will feature a day of workshops on Typography and Calligraphy followed by two days of conference dedicated to ‘typography, Sensitivity and Fineness’. The conference includes presentations by invited keynote speakers, eminent academicians, blind juried papers, industry professionals, research scholars and students.”

When: March 7-9, 2015

Where: Mumbai, India

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Wearables TechCon: Santa Clara 2015⁹⁶

Wearables TechCon is “for OEM Builders, designers, and developers of wearable computing technology. Choose from 30+ classes on product design, electronic engineering for wearable devices and embedded development and from 30+ classes on designing software and applications for the hottest wearable platforms.”

When: March 9-11, 2015

Where: Santa Clara, USA

⁹⁷

DevNexus 2015⁹⁸

“Come discover how the industry’s best minds use the latest technologies to build solutions to business problems. Network with other Atlanta software developers, and study real life case studies in application design and development.”

When: March 10-12, 2015

Where: Atlanta, USA

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onGamestart 2015¹⁰⁰

Poland is hosting its large scale HTML5 games conference again. Learn all the tricks for successfully designing your own HTML5 game.

When: March 11-13, 2015

Where: Warsaw, Poland

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Midwest PHP 2015 Conference¹⁰²

“The Midwest PHP Conference returns to the University of St. Thomas Downtown Minneapolis campus. Now in its third year, the conference will bring together developers from across the PHP community to learn about modern web development practices across a range of technologies, including PHP, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, and more.”

When: March 14-15, 2015

Where: Minneapolis, USA

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SmashingConf Oxford 2015¹⁰⁴

“With our upcoming SmashingConf Oxford 2015, we’ll explore heavily practical insights, tips, tricks and techniques that we all can apply to our work right away. Same game, same rules: 1 track, 2 conference days, 7 workshops, 18 excellent speakers and just 350 available seats.”

When: March 17-18, 2015

Where: Oxford, England

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jDays 2015¹⁰⁶

“A Java developers conference about Java SE, Java EE, Java Open Source Frameworks and technologies, Front-end (Web & Mobile), Trends & Future, Software Solutions, Case Studies and Real World Experiences, Methodologies & Tools, and other related subjects.”

When: March 17-18, 2015

Where: Gothenburg, Sweden

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rethink conf¹⁰⁸

“rethink conf is a bi-annual conference focusing on strategic business usage of digital marketing and social media. We bring together the leading international experts and provide extensive networking with the goal of highlighting and exploring emerging challenges and opportunities.”

When: March 17 + 19, 2015

Where: March 17th in Stockholm, Sweden, and March 19th in Oslo, Norway

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Service Design in Government 2015¹¹⁰

“Returning for its second year, Service Design in Government is a practical conference for anyone involved in designing or commissioning public services. Participants can engage in hands-on sessions where they can get real-time, real life experience; can learn from case studies and experience reports where speakers have tackled challenges and achieved great results; and enjoy sessions that will require them to bring their own experiences, challenges and questions to put to the speakers.”

When: March 19-20, 2015

Where: London, England

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Internet of Things Conference¹¹²

The Internet of Things is one of the most important drivers of innovation for our economy, society and culture. Intelligent, networked devices are getting more and more prevalent in our daily lives. Learn from the leaders in the field how to navigate the technical challenges brought on by these technologies.

When: March 23-25, 2015

Where: Munich, Germany

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MobileTech Conference 2015¹¹⁴

The MobileTech Conference is the leading conference for mobile technologies and innovation in the German-speaking area. Attendees will learn useful tipps and techniques from 60 international experts in the field.

When: March 23-26, 2015

Where: Munich, Germany

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f8 Developer Conference 2015¹¹⁶

“Join leading developers from around the world at f8 2014 at The Concourse in San Francisco. Engineers from Facebook, Parse and Instagram will share what we’ve learned and where we’re headed. We’ll dig into details to help you build faster, to reach more customers and to earn more with your apps. We’ll celebrate what you’ve created, and what we can do together in the future.”

When: March 25, 2015

Where: San Francisco, USA

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Inspiring Conference¹¹⁸

“Due to international requests (and that’s not marketing speak) Inspiring Conference was and is an all English event. We are very thankful that the Flow and Neos core team has communicated to give us their full support. We are looking forward to having a great speaker line up with lots of interesting Talks about Flow and Neos. ”

When: March 26-28, 2015

Where: Kolbermoor, Germany

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Mobilism 2015¹²⁰

“Mobilism will return after a break of a year. Where the first three editions were mostly occupied with web development for mobile phones, this edition is going to cast its net a little wider. We know how to make sites for iOS and Android now, but what’s going to be next? Are you ready for TV? Connected devices? Proxy browsers? Come and see!”

When: March 27, 2015

Where: Amsterdam, Netherlands

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Islay Conf¹²²

Islay Conf is a “A small and exclusive conference with Tech, whisky and great people on the beautiful island of Islay.”

When: March 27-31, 2015

Where: Islay, Scotland

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An Event Apart Seattle¹²⁴

An Event Apart Seattle is an intensely educational learning session for passionate practitioners of standards-based web design. If you care about code as well as content, usability as well as design, An Event Apart is the conference you’ve been waiting for.”

When: March 30-April 1, 2015

Where: Seattle, USA

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April 2015

WebVisions NYC¹²⁶

“WebVisions explores the future of design, content creation, user experience and business strategy in an event that inspires learning, collaboration and entrepreneurism. Since 2001, we’ve built a loyal audience of designers, developers and industry leaders.”

When: April 2-3, 2015

Where: New York, USA

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DotYork 2015¹²⁸

“On 9th April 2015, we’re inviting over 300 designers, developers and other digital creatives to the Grand Opera House, York. As well as hearing from 9 amazing speakers on a range of topics there will be plenty of chance to get to know each other throughout the day and into the evening.”

When: April 9, 2015

Where: York, England

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UX Immersion Mobile 2015¹³⁰

“Have smart people teach you how to design for mobile.”

When: April 13-15, 2015

Where: Salt Lake City, UT

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Yggdrasil 2015¹³²

Yggdrasil is Norway’s most important conference on digital user experiences and interaction design. The conference is interdisciplinary and targets information architects, interaction designers, webmasters, frontend developers, web designers and related professionals in private and public enterprises.

When: April 14-15, 2015

Where: Norway

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CONFESS_2015¹³⁴

“The annual Conference For Enterprise Software Solutions will be held in Vienna/Austria in Spring 2015. This is the eighth conference organized by IRIAN and the fifth one under the brandname ‘CONFESS’.”

When: April 14-16, 2015

Where: Vienna, Austria

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ConvergeSE¹³⁶

“ConvergeSE is the Conference for those who want to build a beautiful web. It’s for designers with a free heart and a love of details. It’s for the developers who code for joy and are filled with a passion for technology. It’s for the love of the web and the love of our community. ConvergeSE is for you and me and everyone.”

When: April 15-18, 2015

Where: Columbia, SC

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Resonate 2015¹³⁸

“Bringing together artists to drive a forward-looking debate on the position of technology in art and culture.”

When: April 16-18, 2015

Where: Belgrade, Serbia

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Generate NYC 2015¹⁴⁰

“We’ve gathered together some of the the biggest names in web design for Generate New York including Mike Monteiro, Val Head and JoonYong Park as well as some fantastic new speakers, with more still to be announced.”

When: April 17, 2015

Where: New York, USA

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O’Reilly Fluent Conference 2015¹⁴²

“O’Reilly Fluent spotlights the emerging methods, tools, and technologies of the Web Platform: JavaScript, HTML5, CSS3, and much more. Developers, UX/UI designers, and project teams come to Fluent to share their experiences and expertise—and to learn what they need to know to stay competitive.”

When: April 20-22, 2015

Where: San Francisco, USA

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Naked.js¹⁴⁴

Naked.js is “a one day Javascript conference held at the King’s Centre, here in Norwich, Norfolk.” It will be featuring 7 experts discussing various topics from Edge.js to Multi Device Interactions.

When: April 22, 2015

Where: Norwich City, England

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Industry 2015¹⁴⁶

In 2014 Industry was “organised by Gavin Elliott who previously set up and organised the DIBI Conference in 2010 and 2011. After stepping away from that and taking a year out he came back with Industry: An Event for Web Professionals which first took place in April of 2013.”

When: April 22, 2015

Where: Newcastle upon Tyne City, England

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Craft Conf 2015¹⁴⁸

“CRAFT is about craftsmanship, which tools, methods, practices should be part of the toolbox of a modern developer and company, and it is compass on new technologies, trends. You can learn from the best speakers and practitioners in our community.”

When: April 22-24, 2015

Where: Budapest, Hungary

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IA Summit 2015¹⁵⁰

“A community gathering of information architects, content publishers, and all who design information spaces. Share stories with people like you, improve your skills with best-practice advice, and make the content you create easier for everyone to find and share.”

When: April 22-26, 2015

Where: Minneapolis, USA

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PUBKON 2015¹⁵²

At the 2015 PUBKON you will meet InDesign and publishing experts who’ll give you valuable tips for everyday work and demonstrate how you can work smarter, faster and more efficiently.

When: April 23-25, 2015

Where: Cologne, Germany

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Future of Web Design London 2015¹⁵⁴

Future of Web Design is “the ultimate conference for creators and builders of the web.” The FOWD hardly needs any more introduction as it has been a staple in the industry for many years.

When: April 27-29, 2015

Where: London, England

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SmashingConf LA 2015¹⁵⁶

It’s still a secret, so don’t tell anyone! SmashingConf goes to LA with a new conference spaning 2 conference days and 2 workshop days and featuring 18 brilliant speakers and hands-on, practical and useful talks.

When: April 28-29, 2015

Where: Los Angeles, USA

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M2M World Congress 2015¹⁵⁸

M2M World Congress is the “World’s leading Machine-to-Machine (M2M) Event in 2015!” After a successful event in 2014, there will be a new event in London in 2015.

When: April 28-29, 2015

Where: London, England

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Spring I/O 2015¹⁶⁰

Spend “2 days full of Spring, Groovy and Cloud” in Barcelona, one of Spain’s most vibrant cities. Check their website for updates regarding program, speakers and talks.

When: April 29-30, 2015

Where: Barcelona, Spain

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May 2015

Front-Trends 2015¹⁶²

“In the last few years, front-end technologies have taken over the leading role in many projects’ development cycle. Be part of an annual gathering of web and mobile developers, UI/UX designers, graphics designers, JavaScript, HTML5, CSS gurus, and professionals from all over the world.”

When: May 6-8, 2015

Where: Warsaw, Poland

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Scotland JS¹⁶⁴

“JavaScript keeps growing and growing. It is the language most repos on GitHub are written in! Scotland JS aims to bring together local and international speakers and to enable attendees to share their experiences and learn.”

When: May 7-8, 2015

Where: Edinburgh, Scotland

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An Event Apart Boston¹⁶⁶

“An Event Apart Boston is an intensely educational learning session for passionate practitioners of standards-based web design. If you care about code as well as content, usability as well as design, An Event Apart is the conference you’ve been waiting for.”

When: May 11-13, 2015

Where: Boston, USA

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beyond tellerrand // Düsseldorf 2015¹⁶⁸

“Come and celebrate the 5th birthday of beyond tellerrand in Düsseldorf. As usual we are giving our best to bring you a diverse, entertaining, and educating programm with some of the best and nicest people on stage.”

When: May 11-13, 2015

Where: Dusseldorf, Germany

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GOTO Chicago 2015¹⁷⁰

“GOTO Chicago is created “by developers, for developers” where the emphasis is placed on presenting latest developments as they become relevant and interesting for the software development community. GOTO Chicago starts off with two conference days with over 50 presentations.”

When: May 11-14, 2015

Where: Chicago, USA

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SDD 2015¹⁷²

“SDD 2015 features 100+ in-depth sessions and workshops on a wide range of key topics, delivered by world-class speakers. The event runs for five days, with the main three-day conference taking place from Tuesday to Thursday, and optional all-day workshops on the Monday and Friday.”

When: May 11-15, 2015

Where: Barbican, England

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WebVisions Portland¹⁷⁴

“WebVisions explores the future of design, content creation, user experience and business strategy in an event that inspires learning, collaboration and entrepreneurism. Since 2001, we’ve built a loyal audience of designers, developers and industry leaders.”

When: May 12-15, 2015

Where: Portland, USA

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phpDay 2015¹⁷⁶

“phpDay 2015 will be from 15th to 16th of May. We’ll show new development traits, best-practices and success cases related to quality, revision control, test-driven development, continuous integration and so on. There are also talks about design, project management, agile and various php-related technologies like Zend Framework2, Symfony2, Laravel, Drupal, WordPress.”

When: May 16-17, 2015

Where: Verona, Italy

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Confab Central 2015¹⁷⁸

“Next May, join 650 marketers, UX professionals, technical communicators, content engineers, and more in beautiful Minneapolis, Minnesota. You’ll get more speakers, more topics … and now, more new voices!”

When: May 20-22, 2015

Where: Minneapolis, USA

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UX London 2015¹⁸⁰

“3 days of inspiration, education and skills development for user experience designers.”

When: May 20-22, 2015

Where: London, UK

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TYPO Berlin 2015 “Character”¹⁸²

“At TYPO Berlin 2015, Character and Characters come together. More than 50 experts from the areas of design, communications, typography and psychology will be presenting strategies against a culture of superficiality.”

When: May 21-23, 2015

Where: Berlin, Germany

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Offf Barcelona 2015¹⁸⁴

“OFFF is a community inviting all those who are eager to learn to participate and get inspired in a three-day journey of conferences, workshops, activities and performances.”

When: May 28-30, 2015

Where: Barcelona, Spain

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June 2015

Kerning 2015¹⁸⁶

“Kerning offers a very interesting chance to meet developers, gurus, managers and innovators from all over the world. Kerning is a non-profit event. We want to help grow a community of prepared developers keeping knowledge affordable.”

When: June 3-5, 2015

Where: Faenza, Italy

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Web Applications in Trend¹⁸⁸

“You are a part of a vibrant and diverse professional community, linked with others through knowledge, creativity and skill. Web Applications In Trend 2015 is about bringing this community together. WAIT is for those who seek to be educated and inspired, and connect with other developers, designers and web professionals, who are a part of this dynamic industry.”

When: June 4-5, 2015

Where: Manchester, England

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UX LAusanne 2015¹⁹⁰

“Gathering worldwide User Experience design specialists, our mission is to increase density of connections and exchange between local and international actors in the field.”

When: June 4-5, 2015

Where: Lausanne, Switzerland

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webinale 2015¹⁹²

“The webinale is the conference for digital professionals, trendsetters and makers on the World Wide Web – it is the optimal crossover platform for knowledge, inspiration and experience across all fields of Web technologies.”

When: June 7-10, 2015

Where: Berlin, Germany

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An Event Apart San Diego¹⁹⁴

“An Event Apart San Diego is an intensely educational learning session for passionate practitioners of standards-based web design. If you care about code as well as content, usability as well as design, An Event Apart is the conference you’ve been waiting for.”

When: June 8-10, 2015

Where: San Diego, USA

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QCon New York 2015¹⁹⁶

“QCon starts with 2 days of tutorials on Monday and Tuesday, June 8-9 followed by the full 3-day conference from Wednesday, June 10-12. The conference will feature over 100 speakers in 6 concurrent tracks daily covering the most timely and innovative topics driving the evolution of enterprise software development today. The setting is the beautiful, centrally-located Marriott at Brooklyn Bridge in New York City.”

When: June 8-12, 2015

Where: New York, USA

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UX Scottland 2015¹⁹⁸

“A great, practical UX conference in the heart of Edinburgh. Now in its third year we expect UX Scotland 2015 to be even bigger and better than our 2013 and 2014 events. This year’s event dates include 10 June – a pre-conference day.”

When: June 10-12, 2015

Where: Edinburgh, Scotland

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Web Design Day 2015²⁰⁰

“Web Design Day is a small and friendly conference that brings the best of web design to Pittsburgh. Join us for a day with high-end presentations from some of the best in our industry covering real world solutions to the challenges we all share.”

When: June 12, 2015

Where: Pittsburgh, USA

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SmashingConf New York 2015²⁰²

After the great success of last year’s New York conference, we’re bringing the SmashingConf back to the Big Apple. The rules haven’t changed: “2 days, one track, 18 brilliant speakers, and hands-on, practical and useful talks.” As always we have phenomenal speakers lined up.

When: June 15-18, 2015

Where: New York, USA

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DWX Developer Week 2015²⁰⁴

For the third time the DWX – Developer Week will bring the fields of .NET, Mobile and Web development, soft skills, makers and Internet of Things under one roof in Nuremberg. The participants will get to see 200 experts in the field, some 250 lectures and practice their craft during the workshop day.

When: June 15-18, 2015

Where: Nuremberg, Germany

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GOTO Amsterdam 2015²⁰⁶

“GOTO Amsterdam is a practitioner-driven enterprise software development conference designed for team leads, architects, and project management and is organized “for developers by developers. As software developers and architects ourselves, we wanted to craft the ultimate conference.”

When: June 17-19, 2015

Where: Amsterdam, Netherlands

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BDConf²⁰⁸

Breaking Development (BDConf) is a boutique multi location conference about the mobile web. It is a gathering of passionate, forward thinking web professionals looking to improve their mobile and Responsive Design skills and to interact with industry leaders in the areas of mobile design and User Experience.”

When: June 19-20, 2015

Where: Nashville, USA

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Society for Technical Communication (STC) Summit 2015²¹⁰

“The Summit consists of two important parts. The first part is the 80+ educational sessions, organized in tracks. The second important part of the Summit is the Expo, with more than 50 companies represented.”

When: June 20-24, 2015

Where: Columbus, USA

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Where Are You Going?

If you’re planning to attend any of these events, we’d love to hear your thoughts in the comments section below! What are you most excited about? What are you looking forward to learning and experiencing?

Our next events list will be published middle of next year, so keep your eyes (and ears) open! And by the way, the Smashing team is constantly organizing a series of workshops²²¹, as well as the Smashing Conferences²²² — it would be wonderful and a great honor to meet you personally someday!

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