Why Design Leaders?
As design moves from nice-to-have to being increasingly appreciated as having key strategic value for companies and organisations, design teams are growing, often rapidly, and design professionals are playing increasingly important leadership roles.
Who's it for?
Design leaders was created for experienced design professionals in, or moving into these management and leadership roles.
Real World Knowledge
For well over a decade, Web Directions has been holding conferences for web and digital creators, both for engineering as well design professionals.
Each of our conferences features real world, actionable knowledge, from leading practitioners, from around Australia and the world.
Speakers announced from early February
We're announcing speakers from early Feb. with the full lineup available from mid Feb. Pre-release tickets are on sale now, or jump on our low noise, high signal list to hear first as we announce the amazing lineup.
Pre-release TicketsPre-release tickets are only available for a limited time. They not only save you a significant amount, they're the only way to secure a Gold ticket, which includes our speaker dinner. For teams we have great group pricing, contact us for more. |
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Pre-release Tickets
Pre-release tickets are only available for a limited time. They not only save you a significant amount, they're the only way to secure a Gold ticket, which includes our speaker dinner.
For teams we have great group pricing, contact us for more.
Product + Design Leaders
Product Conference
Product Conference Videos
Design Leaders Conference
Design Leaders Videos
Product Speaker Dinner
- $1,595
Product Conference
Product Conference
Product Conference Videos
Product Speaker Dinner
- $1,195
Design Leaders
Design Leaders Conference
Design Leaders Conference Videos
- $595
Season PassesChoose a pass across 2, or all 3 of our major 2020 events, and get a Gold ticket which includes conference video, speaker dinner at each, and more. You can even pay quarterly to manage cashflow. Just register then contact us and we'll set it all up. Passes are for a single named attendee across all events, and are not transferable between attendees. For teams we have great group pricing, contact us for more. |
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Find the season pass for you
Complete Season Pass
A Gold ticket to every one of our main 2020 conferences
Bonus Silver ticket to our Design Leaders and Code Leaders conferences
- $3,495
before Feb. 28
A Gold ticket to all three of our main 2020 conferences
Bonus Silver ticket to a choice of Code Leaders or Design Leaders
- $2,995
before Feb. 28
Two Conference Pass
A Gold ticket to your choice of two of our main 2020 conferences
- $1,995
before Feb. 28
Praise for past Web Directions events
Web Directions is the must-attend event of the year for anyone serious about web development.
Phil Whitehouse,
Innovation Lead DigitasLBi
I’ve been admiring the Web Directions events for years, and was honored to be part… What a fantastic event!
Ethan Marcotte,
inventor "responsive Web design"
Out of any conference, Web Directions is far and away our favourite
Dave Greiner,
founder Campaign Monitor
About Us
Co-founded and now run by John Allsopp, Web Directions has for nearly 20 years brought together leading developers, engineers, visual, IxD, UX and product designers, Art and Creative Directors, product managers indeed everyone involved in producing web and digital products to learn from one another, and the World's leading experts across this vast field.
We spend our lives thinking about what comes next, keeping up with trends in technology, practices and processes, and filtering the hype, to make sure you don't miss trends that matter, and don't waste time on hype that doesn't.
We promise attending one of our events will leave you significantly better versed in the challenges you face day to day, and in solutions for addressing them.
John Allsopp
John Allsopp has been working on the Web for nearly 30 years. He's been responsible for innovative developer tools such as Style Master, X-Ray and many more. He's spoken at numerous conferences around the World and delivered dozens of workshops in that time as well.
His writing includes two books, including Developing With Web Standards and countless articles and tutorials in print and online publications.
His "A Dao of Web Design" published in 2000 is cited by Ethan Marcotte as a key influence in the development of Responsive Web Design, who's acclaimed article in 2010 begins by quoting John in detail, and by Jeremy Keith as "a manifesto for anyone working on the Web".
Code of Conduct
For over a decade, we've worked hard to create inclusive, fun, inspring and safe events for the Web Industry.
As part of our commitment to these values, we've adopted a code of conduct for all involved: ourselves, our speakers, our partners and our audience.
If you have any concern or feedback, please don't hesitate to contact us.