We had a fantastic 2013 conference

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.

• Adam Connor

  Discussing Design: The Art of Critique

• Albert Banks

  Discovering Unexpected Ideas Using Generative Design

• Amanda Costello

  I Don't Have Your Ph.D. - Working with Content Specialists & Experts

• Anders Frostenson

  The Design in Service Design

• Andrew Hinton

  The World Is the Screen: Understanding Information Environments (Slides)

• Andrew Maier

  Design for Literacy (Slides)

• Ashe Dryden

  Programming Diversity (Slides)

• Ben Vandgrift

  From Glider to Gulf Stream (Slides)

• Brandon Mathis

  Design The Code: Letting Care and Curiosity Shape Your Career.

• Bryan Veloso

  Hybrids Rule Everything Around Me (Slides)

• Cameron Moll

  Creative Authenticity

• Carl Smith

  Your Money & Your Life

• Greg Baugues

  Developers, Designers, and Depression

• Garren DiPasquale

  Incorporating Lean UX into Agile (Slides)

• Garth Braithwaite

  Designers Can Open Source (Slides)

• James White

  Design Renegade

• Jason Vanlue

  Three Pipe Problems

• Jina Bolton

  Realigning & Refactoring UI (Slides)

• Joel Van Dyke

  Think Like a Startup

• John Long

  Defensive Sass - modular styles for the modern web (Slides)

• Kendra Shillington

  Think Like a Startup

• Larry Staton

  HTTP 101 (Slides)

• Leslie J. Morse

  A How-To Guide to Transferable Business Analysis Skills

• Leslie Jensen-Inman

  Unicornucopia: Learn the Skills Needed to Survive and Thrive as a Creative Unicorn

• Lisa Welchman

  Web Governance: Where Strategy Meets Structure

• Magnus Bergmark

  The Design in Service Design

• Marco Suarez

  What I learned while starting an intensive design class (Slides)

• Marc Bolick

  Think Like a Startup

• Matt Stevens

  Fight to do the Work You Love

• Rich Robinson

  Designers & Developers (In Harmony) (Slides)

• Michael Parenteau

  Remote Pairing for Designers and Developers (Slides)

• Michael Chatten

  Discovering Unexpected Ideas Using Generative Design

• Mike Bifulco

  Designing for Windows 8 vs iOS and Android (Slides)

• Mindy Wagner

  Convincing Clients Without (Much) Bravado

• Nick Finck

  The Nuances of UX

• Patrick Quattlebaum

  Service Design Making

• Rachel Nabors

  JavaScript for Designers (Slides)

• Rachel Parsons

  iOS Development: Designers + Developers (Slides)

• Rikki Teeters

  Creating a Holistic Financial Experience Strategy (Slides)

• Ron Edelen

  Discovering Unexpected Ideas Using Generative Design

• Sara Blake

  The Love of Making

• Shay Howe

  Front-End Legos: Reusable HTML and CSS (Slides)

• Teresa Rench

  Collaborative by Design (Slides)

• Tessa Harmon

  Building Single Page Apps (Slides)

• Tim Smith

  Become a Better Designer with Side Projects (Slides)

• Vernon Kesner

  Modular Development with RequireJS (Slides)

• Wren Lanier

  Secret Sauce: Designing on the Z-Axis (Slides)

• Wynn Netherland

  Craft your own IDE in the shell

• Yesenia Perez-Cruz

  One Size Fits None: Creating Flexible Design Processes

• Yoko Harada

  Ruby Meets Clojure Flavored Database (Slides)

• Zoe Gillenwater

  Putting Flexbox into practice (Slides)

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

• Desiree Kane - Creative Loafing

  BlendConf: A CLT homegrown national tech conference FTW

• Adam O'Daniel - Charlotte Business Journal

  Hi-tech Blend Conference: No phones, no tablets

• Andrew Holloway

  BlendConf 2013: In Summary

• Ben Limmer

  BlendConf 2013 Follow-Up

• Andrea Goulet Ford

  How Getting Laryngitis Helped Me Get The Most Out Of Blendconf

• Matt Pusateri

  What I learned at BlendConf 2013

• Tim Smith

  Blend Conf 2013

• Ben McCormick

  BlendConf 2013: Takeaways From a Very Human Tech Conference

• Mark Shropshire

  My BlendConf 2013 Experience

• William McKee

  BlendConf Recap: Talking User Experience, Design, and Development in Charlotte

• Sarah Auvil

  Empowering Women in Tech: Unicorns, UX & Misc Lessons from Blend Conf

• Austin Grigg

  Look Up and Start a Conversation

• Tim Roberson

  Charlotte’s Blend Conf Talks Tech… Without Tech

• BlendConf 2013: Immediate Take Aways

• Marc Rondina

  Thoughts on blendconf

• Joshua Rucker

  BlendConf 2013

• Brian Kelson

  Blending In @ Blendconf

• Garth Braithwaite

  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.