Web Design & Development Conferences to Attend in 2020

Don’t miss Nottingham’s world-renowned, future-focused digital design conference. Our fifth event will explore speculative and critical design, radical inclusivity, climate, sustainability, and much more.

Awwwards is the most visited digital design awards platform in the world. Every year we hold conferences in iconic cities across the globe including New York, Amsterdam, Paris, London and Los Angeles, to discover trends and new technologies, network and unveil the secrets of the Internet.

Covalence is an independent, hand-crafted, single-day and single-track conference about building desktop apps with Electron, Node.js and JavaScript. Join us for an exciting look at the future of Electron and JavaScript on the desktop, a chance to meet the community, and a day of inspiration and fun.

Media on the web has advanced a lot over the years. The capabilities for complex media on the web have increased, as well as our tools as developers for handling them. In this conference, we’ll cover everything to do with media on the web!

JSConf Hawaiʻi is the newest in the family of JSConf events. For our second year, we’re planning to bring about 400 people together for a three-day single track conference. Our goal is that by the time you leave, you’ll have seen some new ideas, learned some more JavaScript, and made new friends to keep in touch with.

A one-day conference where Figma users come together to learn from each other.

We’ll host some of the best speakers, awesome talk topics, latest technologies, and up to date news in PHP. And don’t forget our Hack-a-thon and Uncon’ference, as well as a great hallway track! The conference has something for every level of PHP developer.

Front End North is a welcoming one day, single track, conference for developers, designers and others who work on the web. FEN is returning on 7th February 2020 at The Crucible in Sheffield, UK. Hosted by the organisers of the Front End Sheffield meetup, FEN is a grassroots, low-cost conference with a mixture of established and new speakers.

Flashback Conference looks at new and cutting-edge web development, browser APIs and developer tooling, but adds the understanding how they’ve evolved from early HTML, JavaScript and a dependency on plugins like Flash to the web of today. Flashback Conference will feature 2 days and approximately 15 speakers who are experts in the field of front-end development.

February 17th, 2020 marks the third annual ngAtlanta Conference. We are working tirelessly to create a unique experience for our attendees. Our speaker selection is already under way. We have speakers coming from all over the world. This highly diverse group of experts are sure to provide fantastic actionable knowledge.

Awwwards is the most visited digital design awards platform in the world. Every year we hold conferences in iconic cities across the globe including New York, Amsterdam, Paris, London and Los Angeles, to discover trends and new technologies, network and unveil the secrets of the Internet.

Devopsdays is a worldwide series of technical conferences covering topics of software development, IT infrastructure operations, and the intersection between them. Each event is run by volunteers from the local area.

4 full-day workshops, 2 days of inspirational talks. The largest dedicated PHP event in Europe, PHP UK welcomes hundreds of leading developers to London for three days of workshops, talks, networking and socials. Join us for an event packed with up-to-date content about PHP development and related technologies in a comfortable and professional setting.

With a mixture of local and international speakers, there will be two days of talks. We’ll cover topics that interest, excite, and delight Rubyists and the Ruby-curious of all levels. There will also be social events hosted where you will get the opportunity to meet like-minded people!

FITC Amsterdam features the world’s most innovative, technical and creative talks that will inspire you to pursue your dreams and create your very best work. You’ll have the opportunity to meet and mingle with like-minded individuals who have the potential to become key collaborators throughout your career.

Devopsdays is a worldwide series of technical conferences covering topics of software development, IT infrastructure operations, and the intersection between them. Each event is run by volunteers from the local area.

Independently curated with a focus on case studies and ingenious problem solving, rather than simply eye-catching portfolios, conference alumni are contemporary industry pacesetters. Despite its name, the Conference’s scope has broadened over the years to include all the creative sectors; in recent years it has been dubbed by some as The Conference on Creativity.

The Latin American Design Festival is a unique experience that inspires creative professionals to bring their ideas to life and transform the future of the creative industry. LADFEST is the first design festival in Latin America. An annual event where conferences, workshops, exhibitions are held, among other activities in order to promote, disseminate and position Latin American design.

ReactConf AU is the biggest gathering of local and international React developers ever to take place in the Southern Hemisphere. Learn stuff, hang out with the global React community, and make React history on Australia’s famous Sydney Harbour during summer.

Join us in Austin Texas for a 3-day event on all things Vue.js! The workshop day is Monday, March 2, with the main conference on March 3-4! Hosted by Vue.js creator, Evan You, you’ll also get to hear from and talk to members of the core Vue.js team, contributors, and developers from all over the world!

Hand to hand with the Node.js community in Israel and all over the world, Node.js-IL & EventHandler productions bring you the first-ever 100% Node.js focused conference in Israel.

NO/BS is a “Digital Reality Check”, created out of frustration (by agency owner Jason Soultan) from attending too many conferences with weak content: Nothing but fluff and pie in the sky fairy-tales. That’s not hard work and not the real world!

Web technologies have become a pervasive and indispensable part of modern organisations. Intranets, portals, SaaS, mobile applications and marketing websites all have the web as a common denominator. In 2020 the web touches every industry, from banking to insurance, from education to non-profit and government agencies. Attending WebCraftConf signals your commitment to innovation and technological leadership.

From JavaScript to UX, featuring two tracks and sixteen speakers.

A Community Event organised by the Community, a Javascript Conference that was requested due to the popularity and success of a monthly meet-up put together by 4 different JavaScript groups in London, including London JS Community, JS Monthly, Halfstack and Node User Group

Reactathon is a conference for engineers who love and work with React. Talks are professionally-curated to educate and inspire you for what’s next in the React ecosystem, and breaks are facilitated to ensure that each minute you invest has a maximum ROI. For example, you can easily identify the topic you want to learn about easily with the Topic Tables and listen to or discuss with core contributors and maintainers.

The 2020 AIGA Design Conference brings the design community together in a once-in-a-lifetime, cross-disciplinary exchange of ideas about the changing world of design.

Join us for two days filled with superb content from 20+ speakers, hands-on workshops, inspiration, networking, new knowledge, and new insights. Some of the subjects you will be hearing about are DesignOps, privilege, tech for social good, futures thinking, ethical OS, designing against domestic violence, and maybe even rocket science!

We will explore the various aspects of UI Architecture and the role of the UI Architect, and the massive role a UI architect plays in an organization. If you are a Design, UX, User Experience, or Front-End developer/engineer, you can benefit both your company and your career by attending UIArchConf.

ScanAgile is the most agile conference in Finland. It gathers like minded Agilists from all over the Nordics in one place. The presentations and workshops are suitable for developers, scrum masters, product owners, team leaders, agile coaches, project and program managers, management consultants as well as executives – both private and public sector.

In 2012 Midwest PHP was created to provide a low-cost, inclusive conference for PHP developers (and those interested in learning) in the Midwest. It is now the longest continuously running community PHP conference in the United States.

Following the roaring success of our first short-form conference Generate CSS, we’re back – and tackling a whole new language. GenerateJS is our brand new single-day conference offering web designers and devs a distilled dose of skills and insight from true giants of JavaScript.

Vue is a progressive framework for building user interfaces. Vue is designed from the ground up to be incrementally adoptable. The core library is focused on the view layer only, and is easy to pick up and integrate with other libraries or existing projects.

This years’ theme focusses on the creative part of UX research. In our increasingly fast and agile working environments, we need to be even more creative to deliver solid research.

HolyJS 2020 Piter will be the ninth in a row JavaScript conference held by JUG Ru Group. More than 1000 JS developers will be brought together to discuss the present and future of JavaScript community with the world’s leading experts and watch dozens of frontend talks and much more.

An Event Apart DC is a three-day conference with 17 sessions and an intense focus on digital design, UX, content, code, and more, giving you deep insights into where we are now and where things are going next.An Event Apart DC is a three-day conference with 17 sessions and an intense focus on digital design, UX, content, code, and more, giving you deep insights into where we are now and where things are going next.

JS Kongress 2020 is a two-day developer-driven and single-track International JavaScript / Web Conference. This edition is about Scaling JS – Pushing the Limits. It’s about Massive Platforms, Data-Driven Architectures, and Modern APIs. The #DeepTrack is about all things JavaScript. YOU create the program! Join us, and let’s watch out for solutions and best practices.

Forward brings together the best international and local creative heads, who provide insights into their success stories in an exciting atmosphere. The conference, the centerpiece of the festival, is accompanied by various side events, such as workshops, live art sessions and networking events.

A full-day, two-track conference on all things React, gathering front-end and full-stack engineers across the globe in the tech heart of Europe. We’re coming back with a new gig on April 17, 2020. Next to the main conference day, be prepared for a number of hands-on workshops, pre-party meetups, and mini conferences throughout the week of the event.

Let’s rock’n’roll! We’ll explore live sessions on performance, accessibility, security, privacy, interface design, debugging and practical CSS/JS jazz. Plus a bunch of hands-on workshops on accessibility, design, front-end and UX.

Devopsdays is a worldwide series of technical conferences covering topics of software development, IT infrastructure operations, and the intersection between them. Each event is run by volunteers from the local area.

Learn about the latest trends in frontend web technologies in an inspiring, open environment. Meet and connect with our speakers and other like-minded, passionate developers. Catch up with the latest trends in frontend development and get inspired by our amazing talks.

JSHeroes is a two-day single track event, focusing on a wide range of topics around JavaScript and the Web ecosystems. Each year we bring a diverse lineup of speakers in front of an audience of 700 people in the beautiful heart of Transylvania, Cluj-Napoca, Romania.

An authentic, high value experience for attendees and sponsors focused on UI-centric JavaScript and web development.

UX Burlington is an annual single day conference, focused on what it really takes to build great digital user experiences on the web, in apps, and beyond. This year’s conference theme is 20/20 Hindsight and, to our benefit, we will hear from UX practitioners who can share what they’ve learned from their own User Experience mistakes.

Africa’s premier user experience and design conference. 3 days of learning, connecting, and discovery with local and international speakers in beautiful Cape Town. Pixel Up! is by designers for designers. We deliver an inspiring program packed with practical skills you can take back to your desk and apply immediately.

Into The Box is a 1-day, 2-track event with speakers from around the world presenting on topics surrounding web technologies and software craftsmanship.

An authentic, high value experience for attendees and sponsors focused on UI-centric JavaScript and web development.

An Event Apart Seattle is a three-day conference with 17 sessions and an intense focus on digital design, UX, content, code, and more, giving you deep insights into where we are now and where things are going next.An Event Apart Seattle is a three-day conference with 17 sessions and an intense focus on digital design, UX, content, code, and more, giving you deep insights into where we are now and where things are going next.

React Finland combines the Finnish React community with international flavor. The first of its kind in Finland, the event consists of two days of workshops and two days of talks around the topic. In this single track event you will learn more about React and surrounding topics while meeting some of the leading talents of the community.

YGLF is a series of community events built by developers for developers, a non-profit conference aimed at delivering high-quality content on the hottest topics that cutting edge frontend developers need to know. Bringing in internationally recognized speakers and attendees, YGLF creates a buzzling bustle of software engineers from around the globe.

This developer conference aims to bring together popular speakers, core developers of popular open source technologies and professionals willing to share their knowledge and experience on frontend development. With several tracks on different topics, attendees can satisfy their curiosity and learn new skills while enjoying and having fun!

The Design Conference is an event for creatives. We discuss more than the future of design — but what design means in the hearts and minds of the worlds favourite creative leaders. By being transparent and vulnerable, we engineer an experience which is designed to move, motivate, educate and connect.

If you’re just getting your start in UX and you’re hoping to learn more, or you’ve been in the field awhile and want to stay current, UX Camp is for you. A full day–3 full tracks–of UX talks, surrounded by impressive keynotes and all for a great price that includes your lunch.

What does it mean to be a creative? At the 12th Annual Adobe 99U Conference, we’ll unpack our creative identities, explore how to establish purpose, find ways to nurture our talents, and redefine success on our own terms. Join us.

Eyeo brings together a creative technology community like no other; creative coders, data designers, artists, and forward thinkers share talks, workshops, inspiration, and meet friends – new and old. It’s a delight.

From 8-12 June 2020, NDC Oslo will offer a combination of talks, lightning talks, workshops and panels, Inspiring Software Developers since 2008.

We’ll explore how to improve accessibility and front-end workflow, refactoring, web performance, HTML email,interface design patterns and how to write better CSS/JavaScript. Plus a bunch of hands-on workshops on design, front-end and UX.

Craft is an inclusive and professional conference about software delivery craft, presenting which mindset, tools, methods and practices should be part of the toolbox of a modern developer and company. Our event is serving as a compass on new technologies and trends where you can learn from top-notch international practitioners in our community.

React Loop is a single day ReactJS conference in Chicago bringing together a diverse and inclusive group of React enthusiasts from all backgrounds and levels of experience. Speakers will cover topics such as React, React Native, and the related tools in the ever-growing ecosystem.

Join our community at the Lead Dev London, where technical leaders learn to nurture high performing teams, apply the best tech and tools for the job, and thrive as they meet the challenges of software engineering leadership.

An Event Apart Boston is a three-day conference with 17 sessions and an intense focus on digital design, UX, content, code, and more, giving you deep insights into where we are now and where things are going next.An Event Apart Boston is a three-day conference with 17 sessions and an intense focus on digital design, UX, content, code, and more, giving you deep insights into where we are now and where things are going next.

CSSCamp is a one-day, one-track conference for Web designers and developers in Barcelona.

International single-track and two-day conference covering all about JavaScript and modern web technologies.

This year will take place the first React conference in Spanish in America, it’s a community effort, created by the community for the community. We want to connect the whole Latin American React Community.

A two-day, single-track conference featuring inspiring keynote speakers, accomplished design leaders, and experienced professionals from major brands and organizations.

An authentic, high value experience for attendees and sponsors focused on UI-centric JavaScript and web development.

An Event Apart Minneapolis is a three-day conference with 17 sessions and an intense focus on digital design, UX, content, code, and more, giving you deep insights into where we are now and where things are going next.

React Rally is a two day single track conference for developers of all backgrounds using React.js, React Native, and related tools. Speakers will cover topics like React Native, state management, hooks, universal JavaScript, and more. Whether you’re a seasoned developer who has been using React since before it was cool, or a newcomer to the scene, React Rally has something for everyone!

beyond tellerrand is back for the 7th time in Berlin. Two days of conference with talks about design, technology and many opportunities to meet old and make new friends. Don’t miss out.

We’ll explore how to improve accessibility and front-end workflow, refactoring, interface design patterns, performance, and how to write better CSS/JavaScript. Plus a bunch of hands-on workshops on design, front-end and UX.

An authentic, high value experience for attendees and sponsors focused on UI-centric JavaScript and web development.

Us By Night is a unique nocturnal experience. Our combination of an inspiring lineup and an endless nightmarket are guaranteed to provide 3 nights you can’t miss. Come for the talks, stay for the experience.

JSConf Budapest is a JSConf family member 2-day, single track non-profit for-the-community by-the-community conference about JavaScript in Budapest, Hungary.

An Event Apart Orlando is a three-day conference with 17 sessions and an intense focus on digital design, UX, content, code, and more, giving you deep insights into where we are now and where things are going next.

The Design Thinking Conference is an interactive and high-energy gathering of experienced design thinking practitioners from around the world. We offer a platform to share knowledge and further your understanding of what is driving the changes we all experience in today’s world.

The largest multi-framework front-end conference in the USA. The 2020 event includes talks and keynotes by among others Angular, Vuejs and React core team members: 3 days total with a workshop day and 2 conference days with 10 tracks.

For the 7th SmashingConf New York we will be back in downtown New York, just around the corner of Times Square on October 20–21, 2020. With one track, two days, 13 speakers and 400 attendees, expect actionable insights for your work.

If you’re just getting your start in UX and you’re hoping to learn more, or you’ve been in the field awhile and want to stay current, UX Camp is for you. A full day–2 full tracks–of UX talks, surrounded by impressive keynotes and all for a great price that includes your lunch.

beyond tellerrand is back in Munich again! Meet 500+ people at the event about design, technology and inspiration. Two days of conference, plus full-day workshops and side events around the core event.

An Event Apart San Francisco is a three-day conference with 17 sessions and an intense focus on digital design, UX, content, code, and more, giving you deep insights into where we are now and where things are going next.