64 Amazing Speakers
We spent the first few days in September hearing topics covering design, user experience, and development. Check out the following list for their names, topics, and if we have them, their videos and slides.
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Abby Covert
How to Make Sense of Any Mess
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Alex Gaynor
Beyond MVC
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Allison House
Start at the Top: Getting Your First Design Job in Tech
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Ben Lehnert
Love & Trust – What we know about relationships holds true in products
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Brad Weaver
How to Do Great Work Without Losing Your Shirt (and Soul)
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Cat Noone
Love & Trust – What we know about relationships holds true in products
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Chris Coyier
SVG is for Everybody
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Clarissa Peterson
Responsive Typography
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Clinton Dreisbach
Full-Stack Clojure
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Dan Denny
Responsive Email Design and Tooling
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Darcy Clarke
You, Me & the Future of Online Video
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Diana Lucaci
Neuromarketing: The Next Generation of Customer Intelligence
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Eric M Suzanne
Sass Map Magic
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Garrett Johnson
Reaching asynchronous cloud nine in JavaScript
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Greg Hoy
Work is the Magic Bullet
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Heather O'Neill
How Usable Are You?
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Heather Payne
Lessons Learned from Teaching Thousands of People to Code
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Jason Toth
More Than UI: How the Brand Plays a Role in the User Experience
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Jason Hunter
API Anecdotes and Aspirations
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Jen Myers
Shepherding Unicorns: How to be a Good Web Mentor
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Jennifer Pahlka
The Future of Interfaces to Government
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Julia Elman
To The Moon And Back: Taking the Leap Towards Solving Big Problems
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Kimberly Bryant
Black Girls Code
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Lisa Maria Martin
Polishing Your Content Publishing Process
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Mark Boulton
My Handbook
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Mark Shropshire
Building Modern Web Applications with Meteor
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Martha Girdler
Teaching with JavaScript
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Melissa Avery-Weir
Simple Accessibility: The Bare Minimum for Compassionate Development
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Michelle Salater
Sell Your Story, Grow Your Business: How to Create Engaging Content That Attracts and Converts
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Mike Monteiro
How Designers Destroyed the World
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Moses Ngone
The Web Developer's Toolbag
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Netta Marshall
Good Design for Good Reason
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Nicole Fenton
Interface Writing: Code for Humans
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Nora Richardson
Designing for a Brand Aware-less Customer
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Pamela Pavliscak
Design for the One Little Thing that Changes Everything
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Rachel Ober
Team Communication Through Code
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Rebecca Murphey
Ain't No Party Like A Third-Party JS Party
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Scott Stroud
Designing for Love
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Scott Hanselman
Azure for non-Microsoft People
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Sophie Shepherd
Designing for Clients: Working Together For The Health of the Project
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Stacey Mulcahy
Hardware for a Soft World
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Steve Klabnik
Applications, Languages, and Libraries
Folks really enjoyed it
- Just got a heckofa great SASS primer from @itsmisscs at @blendconf. (Thank you, Claudina!)@maxfenton
- No-device policy at @blendconf! Curiously happy to work within these user experience restrictions. ;) #ux #blendconf@catffeine
- First web conference I've been to that has nail polish in the gift bag. I love it! @blendconf #blendconf http://t.co/X5Y9YcZrRJ@juliamtaylor
- Yesterday team BlueKey rocked out at @blendconf workshops! Bringing a ton of new UX knowledge home to #charleston http://t.co/ZGoV2s8Hj5@bluekeyinc
- Ask not what your government can do for you, ask what you can code/design for your gov. ❤️ @pahlkadot’s @CodeforAmerica talk at @blendconf@angel
- @nettatheninja wow, @blendconf sounds amazeballs. I <3 the no devices policy!@jc00ke
- Great talks today @blendconf. Rounding off the day with @Abby_the_IA was great! Such a great talk!@markboulton
- As always @shanselman delivers a hilariously informative talk @blendconf!@wesg92
- #BlendConference @blendconf today was amazing! Just because I'm an analyst doesn't mean I can't refine my #UX & #javascript skills :-)@marissa_carter
- Fantastic first day at @blendconf. This conference has good content, nice people, & diversity. What all should aspire to! Thx @bermonpainter@sophieshepherd
- Spending the morning with @itsmisscs at @blendconf! We're talking to a roomful of middle school students about #STEM! http://t.co/MaDGOLggza@shanselman
- I really enjoyed seeing my coworker @sophshepherd speak at @blendconf today about keeping your client in mind as you design.@hoyboy
- Happiness is @blendconf! Amazing people, incredible sessions, fascinating conversations. Thanks so much, #blendconf14@paminthelab
- Just watched @monteiro’s keynote at @blendconf win the Best Web Design Talk of 2014 award. #fightme@jc
- Great ending to @blendconf. You are responsible for what you put out into the world.@stkwon
- Only 3 of the talks I went to at #blendconf were presented by guys & it felt totally normal. That's just plain cool.@grahamlangdon
- Amazing how inclusive #blendconf was. All people encountered were friendly, speakers were accessible, and I attended every talk I wanted to.@catffeine
- Still thinking about the most influential talk on Designing For Love by @sstroud. Both informative and enlightening. #blendconf@spestian
They even wrote about it
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BlendConf: Just What Charlotte's Tech Environment Needs
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Turn off your smartphone or be shunned at Charlotte's hottest tech conference
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Mike Monteiro made me cry, and other notes from BlendConf 2014
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Taking A Closer Look At Tech Conferences: The Nitty Gritty Details (A Study)
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Ten big ideas from BlendConf 2014
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Blend Conf, User Experience, and My Current Career Path
Get ready for BlendConf 2015
We have some pretty nifty things planned for 2014 that we think you'll really like. Right now we're shooting for Sept 2-4, 2015 right here in lovely Charlotte, NC. Speakers will be announced in February with the new site. Follow @blendconf to stay up-to-date.
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