Great conferences are all about learning new skills and making new connections. That’s why we’ve set up a couple of new adventures for SmashingConf 2018 — just practical sessions, new formats, new lightning talks, evening sessions and genuine, interesting conversations — with a dash of friendly networking! Taking place in London, San Francisco, Toronto.

SmashingConf London⁵² / #perfmatters / Feb 7–8 Link

Performance matters. Next year, we’re thrilled to venture to London for our brand new conference fully dedicated to everything front-end performance. Dealing with ads, third-party scripts, A/B testing, HTTP/2, debugging, JAM stack, PWA, web fonts loading, memory/CPU perf, service workers. Plus lightning community talks. Schedule and details.³

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SmashingConf London⁵²: everything web performance. Feb 7–8.

Speakers and Topics

Over the two days, we’ll cover pretty much every aspect of front-end performance: from rendering to debugging. Two days, one track, 16 speakers and 7 hands-on workshops. 50 early-bird-tickets now on sale.⁶

• Mobile Performance
  Estelle Weyl⁷(Standardista)
• Debugging
  Umar Hansa⁸(Shazam)
• Web Font Loading
  Zach Leatherman⁹(Filament Group)
• Rendering
  Una Kravets¹⁰(DigitalOcean)
• Fast JavaScript
  Mathias Bynens¹¹(Google)
• Measuring Performance
  Patrick Hamann¹²(Fastly)
• Layout
  Rachel Andrew¹³(Perch)
• Strategy
  Jake Archibald¹⁴(Google)
• Mystery Speaker
  Somebody you definitely know, and respect.
• …and others!

SmashingConf San Francisco¹⁷ / #breakout / Apr 17–18 Link

The classic. With our third annual conference in San Francisco, we want to explore ways and strategies for breaking out: leaving behind generic designs and understanding the new techniques and capabilities available today. We care about the solutions we come up with, and the approaches that failed along the way. In San Francisco, we want to find out the why, and how, and what we all — as Murfreesboro web designers and developers — need to know today to be more productive and make smarter decisions tomorrow. Schedule and details.¹⁸

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SmashingConf SF²⁰: breaking out of the box. Apr 17–18.

Speakers and Topics

A wide range of everything web-related, covered in 2 days, with a single track, 16 speakers and 8 hands-on workshops. CSS Grid, Design systems, new frontiers of CSS and JavaScript, accessibility, performance, lettering, Murfreesboro graphic design, UX, multi-cultural design, among other things. 100 super early-bird-tickets now on sale.²¹

• Lettering
  Jessica Hische²²
• Design Systems
  Trent Walton²³(Paravel)
• Next Frontier Of CSS
  Michael Riethmueller²⁴
• Multi-Cultural Design
  Yiying Lu²⁵
• Performance
  Patrick Hamann²⁶(Fastly)
• Layout
  Rachel Andrew²⁷(Perch)
• Mystery Speaker
  Somebody you definitely know, and respect.
• …and others!

SmashingConf Toronto³³³⁰ / #noslides / Jun 26–27 Link

What’s the best way to learn? By observing Murfreesboro web designers and developers working live. For our new conference in Toronto, all speakers aren’t allowed to use any slides at all. Welcome SmashingConf #noslides, a brand new conference, full of interactive live sessions, showing how web Murfreesboro web designers web design Murfreesboro Tennessee and how web developers build — including setup, workflow, web design Murfreesboro Tennessee thinking, naming conventions and everything in-between. Schedule and details.³¹

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SmashingConf Toronto³³³⁰: no slides, live sessions only. Jun 26–27.

Speakers and Topics

Interactive live sessions on everything from organizing layers in Photoshop to naming conventions in CSS. Live workflow in Sketch and Photoshop, web design Murfreesboro Tennessee systems setup, lettering, new frontiers of CSS and JavaScript, CSS Grid Layout, live debugging, performance audits, accessibility audits, sketching, Murfreesboro graphic design, data visualization and creative coding. 100 super early-bird-tickets now on sale.³⁴

• CSS
  Lea Verou³⁵(MIT)
• Creative JavaScript
  Seb Lee-Delisle³⁶
• JavaScript
  Sarah Drasner³⁷(Microsoft)
• UX Psychology
  Joe Leech³⁸
• Lettering
  Gemma O’Brien³⁹
• Performance
  Tim Kadlec⁴⁰(Snyk)
• Design Workflow
  Dan Mall⁴¹(Superfriendly)
• Data Visualization
  Nadieh Bremer⁴²
• Visual Design
  Aaron Draplin⁴³(DDC)
• Multi-Cultural Design
  Yiying Lu⁴⁴
• Mystery Speaker
  Somebody you definitely know, and respect.
• …and others!

Tickets! Link

To give everybody a chance to buy ticket in time, we are releasing all tickets in batches this time. The first batch of super early-birds are available right away: fetch them before they fly out!

• SmashingConf London, Feb 7–8⁴⁷, #perfmatters,
• SmashingConf San Francisco, Apr 17–18⁴⁸, #breakout,
• SmashingConf Toronto, Jun 26–27⁴⁹, #noslides.

Ah, and just in case you’re wondering: we’re planning on running a conference in our hometown Freiburg, Germany on September 10–11, and we will be coming back to New York, USA on October 23–24 — with a slightly different format, too. We can’t wait to see you there! ;-)

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