Intersection.eu Conference 2018
Going to conferences -unfortunately- doesn’t happen every day, but when it does, it better be good: ;)
The long road to intersection
Rome wasn’t built in day, and neither this conference was: it’s the latest, biggest, and possibly coolest episode of a path that started at the beginning of 2015 with the MÜX Meetup in Munich, Germany and landed in Turin and Milan, Italy a couple of years later with the TUX Meetup and MUX Meetup.
I’m always excited when I have the opportunity to collaborate in preparing and running an event, and conferences like this one are a hell of an event: speakers are top-notch, location is gorgeous(no seriously, look at it in panoramic mode if you don’t believe me) and the organizers are just too cute to say no to.
Breaking the silos
One of the concepts I like the most about Intersection is that it pushes an idea I keep at heart since a few years: UX and Development are intertwined disciplines that should not be kept apart from one another.
In a way that reminds me a bit of the DevOps movement, the industry is realizing that reducing the separation between software engineering and design cultures does help in creating more effective and enticing products.
Learn from the best
Boasting a powerful roster of world-class professionals, this conference brings designers and developers together to explore new and better ways of creating valuable products through enhanced collaboration among people with heterogeneous skill sets such as developers and designers.
Here’s the full lineup, including both Workshops and Sessions:
- Eva-Lotta Lamm - User Experience Designer, illustrator and visual thinker. Former Google, Skype and Yahoo!. Creator of www.sketchnotesbook.com
- Thomas Kueber - Digital Design Director at Designit, Germany
- Mathieu Dutour - Software Engineer at Bohemian Coding. He works on the Sketch plugins ecosystem and react-sketchapp. Founder of Kactus.
- Rachel Ilan Simpson - Senior Designer at Google, Chrome UX Team. German Maker Faire founder, IXDA Member.
- Anil Kumar Krishnashetty - IT Consultant at bitgrip Gmbh
- Federico Badaloni - Information Architecture and Graphic Design at GEDI Group, Italy’s leading publishing group. Former president of Architecta.
- Marco Cedaro - Tech lead at Condé Nast International
- Sara Michelazzo - Italy Design Lead at ThoughtWorks, TEDx speaker.
- Alberto Forni - Software engineer at Balsamiq
- Dave King - Director of interactive design and vice president of client services at XPlane.
- Rebecca Hill - Front-end developer and team lead at Usabilla
- Matteo Cavucci - Agile UX consultant and a design thinking practitioner
- Sonja Rattay - UX Director at Blockzero. Co-founder at Block Zero
- Marco Calzolari - entrepreneur, conversation designer, organization philosopher founder of Agile Reloaded
- David Sorrentino - Frontend Tech Lead at ProntoPro
- Imke Baehr - Co-Founder & Head of research at nois3.it
- Carlo Frinolli - Head of Design @ nois3.it. Product Designer @ KPI6. Ext. Lecturer at TAG Innovation School. Author at Ninja Marketing
- Federica Pecoraro - Head of UX and Founding Partner at Fight Bean
- Matteo Botto - Head of Design and Founding Partner at Fight Bean
- Ivan Fadin - Partner at Open Reply
See you there!
Having the opportunity to hear from and to talk to amazing people and professionals from the likes of Google, Designit, Balsamiq, XPlane, Usabilla and many others -including us! :)- is just fantastic, even more so if it’s somewhere truly beautiful and inspiring.
I hope to meet you at intersection, and I’m sure you won’t regret it: even more so if you sweeten the deal with a 15% discount code valid until September 25th, 2018: OMISSIS-IC2018 (here’s the direct link)
Love, Dev and UX to you all!