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#343: Upcoming Design Conferences and Festivals

#343: Upcoming Design Conferences and Festivals

Your weekly guide to design events. Week 22, Monday 26 May 2025

Thomas Dahm
May 26, 2025

🚀 UX Leadership Workshop9 June • London, Design D …
📅 Events This Week
🎤 Open Calls and Speaking Opportunities for 2025
June Design Conference, Festivals & Masterclasses
🎛️ Filter Upcoming Conferences & Festivals
📚 Resources
💜 Support

🚀 UX Leadership Workshop
9 June • London, Design District + Online

Become an inspiring design leader! Learn how to create & advocate for your design strategy, boost your team’s potential, and speak stakeholders’ language.

Enjoy 3 hours of powerful insights followed by a half-day hands-on workshop to put ideas into action with top designers and innovators 🚀

Use NEONMOIRE10 code for 10% off.

📅 Events This Week

31 May, Paris, FR
Now25 is the annual conference in Paris that brings together art directors, graphic designers, type designers, all passionate about good design and quality typography.

2-7 June, London, UK
First edition of SXSW London who builds on a peerless legacy created over almost four decades in Austin, Texas, where innovations in technology and science are presented and debated alongside some of the most challenging issues of our time - from AI to climate change, politics to society.

2-6 June, Phoenix, USA
CreativePro Week is the world’s best how-to conference for creative professionals who design, create, or edit in InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator, Acrobat, and PowerPoint.

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🎤 Open Calls and Speaking Opportunities for 2025

Last Days! World Design Congress is now accepting submissions for extended abstracts and posters in line with the Design for Planet theme. Under the over-arching theme of ‘Design for Planet’, abstracts on the following three sub-themes will be called: Shifting Paradigms — From Extractive to Regenerative Design; Economy and Design — Innovating for Circular Economies and Policy and Design — Shaping a Global Response. Deadline: 31 May 2025 at 23:59EDT.
Last Days! Submit your talk to UX Y’all on Chaos to Clarity: Designing for an Unpredictable. Deadline: 2 June
Open Call for Screen Exhibition at Digital Design Days Palermo, Italy – June 27–28. They’re looking for digital visions, AI-generated narratives, motion artworks, and experimental formats that explore the edge of creativity and technology. Selected artists will: be exhibited on screen at DDD 2025 and be featured on Prompt Magazine’s platforms. Deadline: June 9
Submit your idea for a talk or breakout session and become part of the PUSH UX program. Deadline: The sooner you send yours, the sooner the board of curators can consider your proposal. Deadline: June 11, 2025
Do you have a bold creative idea that deserves the spotlight? Then this is your moment. Apply to become a speaker at Forward Festival Berlin (28–29 August) and Vienna (2–3 October) and share your vision with an international community of forward-thinkers. Deadline: June 11, 2025
Exhibit your work at Forward Festival in Berlin or Vienna, or both. The Call is open until June 25th, 2025.
Do you have an idea for a talk, workshop, exhibition, for Design Matters Tokyo 25? Submit your proposal before June 30, 2025
Frontmania Conference 2025 is looking for frontend technology experts preferably with experience giving live talks. Deadline August 22 2025. Speaker fee is free entrance.