On Wednesday, I had the honor of speaking at DIBI (Design it. Build it.). Like most conferences, it was a blast. The crew did a great job setting up the event and taking care of their speakers and attendees (free RedBull in the afternoon, yes please!)

My talk went very smooth, maybe even a bit too smooth, as I ended up 10 minutes short. Good thing @GavinElliott was there to save the day, and we just did 25 minutes of Q&A, which was even more fun than the presentation. I must say I really like the format of a shorter-then-usual presentation with afterwards a chance for the audience (and people following the conference via life stream) to ask questions.

The slides of my presentation (“2020: A Design Odyssey”) are available on SlideShare, although it might be better to just wait until they post the videos of the presentations online (somewhere in the upcoming month I think).

Sam Brown made an interesting point in his review of DIBI:

The After Parties at all web conferences suffer from the same problems, a small and crowded venue, too dark and always with music that is way too loud. It’s been an inherent problem for me across the board, FOWD, dConstruct, Build & now DIBI. I love a party as much as the next person but after a super successful event I want to then be able to talk with people and not have to yell in their ears. Hopefully better locations can be sought after at future events.

This has happened to me a couple of times before too, and it always results in either a lot of people standing outside in the smokers’ lot, or big groups of people leaving the after party to go to a place where they can actually talk.

I only took a couple of photos, as the battery of camera ran out of juice. Good thing there’s never a shortage of camera’s at conferences :)