Web Directions Design
Leaders
2020

MelbourneJuly 3rd 2020

For those leading design

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 and audience

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 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

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  • $1,195

Design Leaders Conference

  • Design Leaders Conference

  • Design Leaders Conference Videos

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  • $595

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

Register Now!

Product Conference

  • Product Conference

  • Product Conference Videos

  • Product Speaker Dinner

  • $1,195

Register Now!

Design Leaders

  • Design Leaders Conference

  • Design Leaders Conference Videos

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  • $595

Register Now!

Season Passes

Choose 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.

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

Three Conference Pass

  • 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

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  • $2,195

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

Register Now!

  • 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

Register Now!

Two Conference Pass

  • A Gold ticket to your choice of two of our main 2020 conferences

  •  

  • $1,995
    before Feb. 28

Register Now!

Praise for past Web Directions events

Phil Whitehouse
Web Directions is the must-attend event of the year for anyone serious about web development.

Phil Whitehouse,
Innovation Lead DigitasLBi

Ethan Marcotte
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"

Dave Greiner
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.

vignettes from our events, social, speakers and more. Includes Hannah Donovan skylarking.

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.