Year round learning for product, design and engineering professionals

community, connection and learning, in-person and online for product, design, and engineering professionals

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[Web Directions] is a delicious mix of things educational, social and mind-blowing. It’s time out from the hurly-burly to step back, get some perspective, and develop new ways forward, fortified with a whole lot of new stuff in your head.

Chris Stephens Technology Director, Mozo

Web Directions Summit 2023

Sydney, October 26 & 27 2023

After an amazing return in 2022, our legendary Web Directions Summit again takes place in-person (and streamed), in October 2023 in Sydney–bigger and better than ever.

With a brand new Design Systems/Ops and product/growth marketing tracks, plus React Ecosystem, Content Strategy/Design front end dev, design, and product tracks. And as always few surprises thrown in!

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Web Directions ai 2023

Sydney, July 21st 2023

exploring the technologies, opportunities & impact of generative AI

In the early days of the Web we helped shape the industry in Australia, bringing together the leaders who went on to create companies like Canva, Campaign Monitor and countless others.

Now as AI begins to transform society as the Web has done, we're doing it again.

Join us at the start of this new journey.

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Web Directions Conffab

Stream nearly 1,000 presentations from hundreds of world leading experts at 45 conferences…and counting

With free and paid levels, keep up to date with all that's happening in our industry at your own pace.

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About Web Directions

  • 12 cities
  • 18 years
  • 100+ events
  • 1000+ speakers
  • 10,000+ attendees

Co-founded and now run by John Allsopp, Web Directions has for over a decade brought together leading developers, engineers, visual, IxD, UX and product designers, Art and Creative Directors, 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.

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John Allsopp has been working on the Web for over 20 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.

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  • [Web Directions] is a delicious mix of things educational, social and mind-blowing. It’s time out from the hurly-burly to step back, get some perspective, and develop new ways forward, fortified with a whole lot of new stuff in your head.

    Chris Stephens
    Technology Director, Mozo
  • Out of any conference, Web Directions is far and away our favourite

    Dave Greiner
    Founder, Campaign Monitor
  • Thanks for an amazing few days Web Directions. So many great themes of empathy, inclusion, collaboration, business impact through design, and keeping our future deeply human.

    Laura van Doore
    Head of Product Design, Fathom