2023

Speakers

Phil Hawksworth (MC)Netlify

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Phil is Director of Developer Experience at Netlify.

With a passion for browser technologies and the empowering properties of the web, he loves seeking out ingenuity and simplicity, especially in places where over-engineering is common.

Over 25 years of building web applications for companies such as Google, Apple, Nike, R/GA, and The London Stock Exchange, Phil has worked to challenge traditional technical architectures in favour of simplicity and effectiveness.

Phil is co-author of “Modern Web Development on the Jamstack” (O’Reilly, 2019).

Amy Hupefrankly

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Amy is a UK-based design systems and content design consultant. Over the past 7 years, she's helped create and document design systems for GOV.UK, BT, Springer Nature and others.

Amy is passionate about creating straightforward and inclusive documentation that people can find, read, understand and follow.

She also likes cats.

Michelle BarkerAda Mode

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Michelle is a Senior Front End Developer at Ada Mode, with an interest in green tech and creative coding.

She is author of front-end blog CSS { In Real Life }, a writer for Smashing Magazine, Codrops and CSS Tricks, and a regular speaker on CSS topics.

She has a background in illustration and enjoys tinkering with code in creative demos and side projects, as well as helping others to fall in love with CSS.

Emma BostianSpotify

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Emma is an American Software Engineer turned Engineering Manager who works at Spotify in Stockholm, Sweden. She's a LinkedIn Learning and Frontend Masters instructor as well as a new mum.

Marco VidonisNimble Ape Ltd

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Marco is a Developer at Nimble Ape and at Everycast Labs, after making the switch from a career in steel engineering. He now specialises in Full-Stack Web Development and all things WebRTC, from bespoke real-time communications solutions to open source projects. When he’s not coding, Marco likes getting muddy at outdoor bootcamp training and trying to learn to play the ukulele.

Amanda WowkOpencast

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Amanda is a content designer at Opencast, with extensive experience in the private and public sectors. She enjoys talking about content-first design, plain language, and design documentation.

Matt Wheelermadeby.studio

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Matt is the Co-Founder & Digital Director of madeby.studio, founded in 2019. More recently, he has focused on leading his team to build web experiences for people-centric organisations.

He is a formally trained graphic designer and self-taught software developer where he has used his knowledge to build effective design systems and development frameworks with careful consideration of accessibility.

Jack FranklinGoogle

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Jack is a Software Engineer at Google in London working on the Chrome DevTools.

He's a regular speaker and writer on topics including JavaScript, Software Design and maintaining software systems.

dina AminTinker Studio

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dina Amin is a stop motion artist and a maker from Cairo, Egypt. She completed her B.A. (Hons) in Industrial Design in Malaysia. Although trained as a Product Designer, dina loves to explore the intersections between various disciplines.

In 2016, dina started a side project called ‘Tinker Friday’ on Instagram, where she combined her passion for product design and stop motion with her views on consumerism. In this stop motion series, dina shows people what’s inside the countless things they throw away, in unusual ways. dina continues to tinker, making new items out of old ones, constantly telling stories and showing people things in a completely different way.

After discovering her love for stop motion, dina also founded “Tinker Studio”, where she produces stop motion videos for diverse clients and companies around the world.