51 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 slides. The kind folks at Treehouse even recorded videos for us. Go check them out.
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Adam ConnorDiscussing Design: The Art of Critique
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Albert BanksDiscovering Unexpected Ideas Using Generative Design
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Amanda CostelloI Don't Have Your Ph.D. - Working with Content Specialists & Experts
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Anders Frostenson
The Design in Service Design
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Andrew Hinton
The World Is the Screen: Understanding Information Environments
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Andrew Maier
Design for Literacy
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Ashe Dryden
Programming Diversity
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Ben Vandgrift
From Glider to Gulf Stream
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Brandon Mathis
Design The Code: Letting Care and Curiosity Shape Your Career.
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Bryan Veloso
Hybrids Rule Everything Around Me
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Cameron Moll
Creative Authenticity
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Carl Smith
Your Money & Your Life
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Greg Baugues
Developers, Designers, and Depression
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Garren DiPasquale
Incorporating Lean UX into Agile
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Garth Braithwaite
Designers Can Open Source
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James WhiteDesign Renegade
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Jason Vanlue
Three Pipe Problems
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Jina Bolton
Realigning & Refactoring UI
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Joel Van DykeThink Like a Startup
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John Long
Defensive Sass - modular styles for the modern web
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Kendra ShillingtonThink Like a Startup
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Larry Staton
HTTP 101
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Leslie J. Morse
A How-To Guide to Transferable Business Analysis Skills
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Leslie Jensen-Inman
Unicornucopia: Learn the Skills Needed to Survive and Thrive as a Creative Unicorn
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Lisa Welchman
Web Governance: Where Strategy Meets Structure
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Magnus Bergmark
The Design in Service Design
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Marco Suarez
What I learned while starting an intensive design class
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Marc BolickThink Like a Startup
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Matt Stevens
Fight to do the Work You Love
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Rich Robinson
Designers & Developers (In Harmony)
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Michael Parenteau
Remote Pairing for Designers and Developers
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Michael ChattenDiscovering Unexpected Ideas Using Generative Design
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Mike Bifulco
Designing for Windows 8 vs iOS and Android
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Mindy Wagner
Convincing Clients Without (Much) Bravado
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Nick Finck
The Nuances of UX
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Patrick QuattlebaumService Design Making
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Rachel Nabors
JavaScript for Designers
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Rachel Parsons
iOS Development: Designers + Developers
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Rikki Teeters
Creating a Holistic Financial Experience Strategy
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Ron EdelenDiscovering Unexpected Ideas Using Generative Design
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Sara BlakeThe Love of Making
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Shay HoweFront-End Legos: Reusable HTML and CSS
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Teresa Rench
Collaborative by Design
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Tessa HarmonBuilding Single Page Apps
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Tim Smith
Become a Better Designer with Side Projects
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Vernon Kesner
Modular Development with RequireJS
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Wren Lanier
Secret Sauce: Designing on the Z-Axis
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Wynn Netherland
Craft your own IDE in the shell
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Yesenia Perez-CruzOne Size Fits None: Creating Flexible Design Processes
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Yoko Harada
Ruby Meets Clojure Flavored Database
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Zoe Gillenwater
Putting Flexbox into practice
Folks really enjoyed it
- ...An amazing inaugural @blendconf and for reminding me how much I love this community. Y'all are the best.@heywren
- ...Spectacular job; #blendconf was super good, still digesting all the ideas.@lydabeth
- ...@blendconf thank you for a fantastic conference. You did such a great job! #blendconf #blendconf13@jina
- @blendconf has 50 speakers and sent black cars to pick up every one from the airport. That's Southern hospitality.@greggyb
- @carlsmith moved me, shook me, and awakened me as the keynote speaker @blendconf today. Time to rethink to make this industry better!@billmccown
- Awesome full day of @blendconf | so cool to connect with the community on a global scale & see what everyone is up to / sharing your passion@spencershell
- @ashedryden is killing it with all these stats about the lack of diversity in tech at @blendconf@JameStewartJr
- So long #blendconf. Hands down, one of the best conferences I’ve ever been to.@adamconnor
- Thanks to everyone for the inspiration these past few days @blendconf...@xine_98
- So many great talks at @BlendConf. Can’t wait to see the videos from the other tracks. Thx for the warm welcome, Charlotte...@pengwynn
- Exhausted by the @blendconf awesomeness. So rad to meet new folks...hell of a show...@amandaesque
- [The BlendConf team] did something extraordinary with @blendconf. Not just for Charlotte but for the community. Amazing.@inkblurt
- The best part of @blendconf wasn’t the device policy or the talks, it was the uniformly awesome love and energy from everyone there.@timcheadle
- I am happy to report that @blendconf has raised the bar for conferences in the U.S. if not globally...@nickf
- Most conferences leave you with the knowledge of what you need to do. @blendconf leaves you with a sense of who you need to be.@carlsmith
- ...An amazing 3 days in Charlotte. Personal talk favs by @MattStevensCLT & @Signalnoise!@helloZSO
- Had such an amazing time at @blendconf this past weekend!... #blendconf13@rachellmartin
They even wrote about it
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BlendConf: A CLT homegrown national tech conference FTW
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Hi-tech Blend Conference: No phones, no tablets
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BlendConf 2013: In Summary
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BlendConf 2013 Follow-Up
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How Getting Laryngitis Helped Me Get The Most Out Of Blendconf
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What I learned at BlendConf 2013
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Blend Conf 2013
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BlendConf 2013: Takeaways From a Very Human Tech Conference
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My BlendConf 2013 Experience
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BlendConf Recap: Talking User Experience, Design, and Development in Charlotte
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Empowering Women in Tech: Unicorns, UX & Misc Lessons from Blend Conf
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Look Up and Start a Conversation
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Charlotte’s Blend Conf Talks Tech… Without Tech
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BlendConf 2013: Immediate Take Aways
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Thoughts on blendconf
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BlendConf 2013
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Blending In @ Blendconf
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The Open Source Design Manifesto
Get ready for BlendConf 2014
We have some pretty nifty things planned for 2014 that we think you'll really like. Right now we're shooting for Sept 11-13, 2014 right here in lovely Charlotte, NC. Speakers will be announced in January with the new site. Follow @blendconf to stay up-to-date.
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