5 Great Reasons You Should Register for Respond 17
Respond is an event you won’t find anywhere else, bringing together as it does the whole front end team to address the challenge of delivering engaging customer experiences.
This year, Respond 17 visits Sydney (4-5 May), Melbourne (8-9 May) and for the first time Brisbane (12 May), saving time and travel costs.
We’ve extended Early Bird pricing by a week to 31 March and, as you’ll see below, that means some significant discounts. But what is it that makes Respond a must-attend event for you?
1. The Speakers
We bring you the experts who are defining and redefining how we work. This year, Respond features:
- Mina Markham (Senior UI Engineer, Hillary for America) on design systems
- Rachel Nabors (Program Manager, Microsoft Edge; W3C) on web animation
- Vitaly Friedman (Founder, Smashing Magazine) on responsive design
- Elizabeth Allen (UX Researcher, Spotify) on conversational interactions
- Cordelia McGee-Tubb (Accessibility Specialist, Dropbox) on accessible web development
- Plus Rebecca Hendry (Westpac), Michael Taranto (Seek), Adem Cifcioglu (Intopia), Mike Riethmuller, Mandy Michael (Seven West Media), Brett Snaidero (Internetrix), Wayne Thompson (Australian Type Foundry), Mike Sharp, Shefik Bey (Loop11), Laura Summer, Warwick Cox (Crowd Delivery).
2. The Presentations
< strong>Respond is the pre-eminent Australian conference for front end design and development. Every year, Web Directions scours the globe to find expert practitioners exploring the areas that are most likely to inform and influence industry developments in the immediate and more distant future.
- At Respond 15, UK design legend Andy Clarke talked about design creativity in a templated, frameworked world, US RWD pioneer Scott Jehl addressed accessibility in responsive design, and Yesenia Perez-Cruz talked about balancing performance and design issues – all topics that are top of mind for designers in 2017.
- At Respond 16, we had Ethan Marcotte doing more with less code, Sara Soueidan on SVG and CSS, Jen Simmons on Flexbox and Grid, Karen McGrane on adaptive content and Rachel Ilan Simpson on security – all topics that are preoccupying designers here and now.
- At Respond 17, the key topics are design systems and languages, UI animation and motion design, layout, conversational UIs, designing bots, accessibility, web components, text and typography, working with data and user experience. Get ready for tomorrow, today.
3. What You Get at the Event
- Comfortable seats with clear sightlines and great acoustics
- Scroll magazine, in print and digital
- Delicious, healthy buffet choices for lunch
- Excellent snacks for morning and afternoon tea
- The best coffee youll have at any conference, anywhere
- Free wifi
- Device charging facilities
- Connections – with colleagues, peers and speakers (Gold ticket holders even join us for dinner with the speakers)
- Opening night reception
- Closing night party
4. What You Get After the Event
- Wrap magazine, a digital summary of every single session
- Access to speaker slides, links and resources
- Access to presentation videos (for Silver and Gold attendees)
- Discounts to future Web Directions events
- Advance invitations to special events
5. Early Bird Value
With an event like Respond – a two-day or one-day conference with different ways to upgrade the experience by adding workshop attendance, access to post-conference videos and/or the speaker dinner, PLUS a series of possible discounts and season tickets – it’s hard to explain all the permutations in just a paragraph or two.
We can say that the most basic ticket for the two-day conference in Sydney or Melbourne with most of the above packed into it can cost you less than $1,000 if you register before 24 March.
As an investment in focused, professional development, that’s hard to top. We’ve laid things out on our pricing page so you can decide which combination of options offers you the best value.
Respond happens every year, but THIS line-up of speakers on THESE topics is only going to come along this year. We hope we see you and your team at Respond 17.
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