SmashingConf Goes Live: Our New Interactive Online Conference.

With Sarah Drasner, Chris Coyier, Brad Frost, Josh Clark, Dan Mall, Nadieh Bremer — and interactive live sessions with a friendly Q&A.
Our very first online conference on front-end and UX. June 9-10, 2020.

Dearest Friend,

The cat is out! Meet SmashingConf Live (June 9–10), our new friendly online conference with interactive live sessions, accessible experts, plenty of discussion rooms and friendly fireplace chats. Jump to details or speakers.

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Jump to the details → Remote, live, interactive and practical. That’s Smashing Live.

About SmashingConf Live

With SmashingConf Live, we bring all the valuable bits and pieces of a conference to your fingertips. That means practical sessions on front-end & UX, easy access to speakers and a friendly, approachable community.

A friendly community around the world, chatting and discussing.
Meet a friendly global community, get together and learn from each other.

That’s just the beginning though. In interactive sessions you’ll be taking the driver's seat and shaping sessions with speakers — live, as they are happening. We’ve also set aside enough time for you to ask your questions in a dedicated fireside chat with speakers and invited guests.

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You might not be able to take all notes in time, but the community is here to support you, with collaborative note-taking.

Not enough? You can also wander between discussion zones with mystery guests, meet old and new friends around the world, crack design & coding challenges, and even ask experts for a live audit of your very own website or app. That’s SmashingConf Live.

Our resident Conference DJ Tobi.
Our SmashingConf resident, DJ Tobi — smashing since... forever!

Get the early-birds → Remote, live, interactive and practical. That’s Smashing Live.

Smashing Members get up to 25% off! Sign into your Smashing Membership: your discounts are waiting for you in your dashboard ("Discounts" section). Voilà!


Approachable, Friendly Speakers

With every session, we want you to take away insights that you can apply to your work immediately. So all sessions are designed to be highly practical.

First confirmed speakers and topics are:

  • Sarah Drasner (Netlify)
    JavaScript, Vue.js
  • Josh Clark (Big Medium)
    Machine Learning, UX
  • Brad Frost (Atomic Design)
    Design Systems, Workflow
  • Chris Coyier (CSS Tricks)
    Front-End
  • Dan Mall (SuperFriendly)
    Design, Workflow
  • Nadieh Bremer
    Data Visualization
  • More sessions on accessibility, CSS/JavaScript, design & UX, HTML email and many others.

We're happy to welcome our truly smashing hosts Cassidy Williams and Phil Hawksworth to MC the conference. And you'll find Rachel Andrew, Paul Boag, Monica Dinculescu, Martin Splitt along with dozens of other experts in discussion zones. More speakers and guests will be announced soon!


Thank You!

We hope that the conference will help you improve your skills and meet like-minded friends around the world. A sincere thank you for your kind, ongoing support, patience and generosity for being smashing, now and ever. We can’t wait to see you live!

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Hope to meet you soon! ;-)
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