#btconf Berlin, Germany 06 - 07 Nov 2025

Some people usually say beyond tellerrand would be great without speakers, but let’s be honest: the speakers are the juice of such an event. They are the people delivering the content to spark conversations in the hallway-track afterwards. On this page you find the speakers for Berlin’s 2025 edition.

More speakers to be announced soon.

Adam Argyle

Adam Argyle

Adam is a bright, passionate, punk engineer with an adoration for the web. He prefers using his skills for best in class UI/UX and empowering those around him. While currently a developer advocate at Google on Chrome, he’s worked at small app agencies, medium design agencies, startups, and consulting companies. At those companies his roles spanned product lead, front end architect, ui/ux engineer, ux designer, designer, design lead, and platform lead. These roles lead to developing over 50+ web apps across nearly every imaginable stack and screen size. His perspective on web dev is extracted from these experiences.

Jared Ficklin

Jared Ficklin

Jared is a designer, futurist & artist. He was a founding partner at argodesign and is one of four frog design fellows. He has been working at the intersection of humans and technology for over two decades with a focus on innovative technologies or unconventional interfaces such as voice, gesture or multi-modal interaction.

His design creedo is Think by Making and he has designed products for clients like HP, Microsoft, Magic Leap, Harman Kardon and many more. He spent 3 years leading a strategic design partnership with Magic Leap, helped design the Voice and Gesture interface of the Xbox One and has published many vision pieces on the future of computing.

Jared also is an Interactive Artist having directed the SXSW Interactive Opening party. His pieces provoke an examination of technology vs humanism have been activated around the world including in Black Rock City home of the social experiment known as Burning Man. He speaks international about Design, Art & Technology and was the first person to bring live fire onto the TED stage in his talk “Eyes Can Hear”

Brad Frost

Brad Frost

Brad Frost is a design system consultant, web designer & developer, speaker, writer, teacher, musician, and artist located in beautiful Pittsburgh, PA. He helps people establish & evolve design systems, establish more collaborative workflows, and design & build software together. He is the author of the book Atomic Design, which introduces a methodology to create and maintain effective design systems. He co-hosted the Style Guides Podcast and has helped create several tools and resources for web designers, including Pattern Lab, Styleguides.io, This Is ResponsiveDeath to Bullshit, and more.

Brad recently started the Design Tokens Course together with his brother Ian.

Thorsten Jonas

Thorsten Jonas

Thorsten is a digital Sustainability Activist, responsible AI advocate and Sustainable UX Trailblazer. He is the founder of the non-profit initiative and global community SUX Network and of the SUX Academy, co-leads the UX chapter of the W3C Sustainable Web Design Guidelines and is the host of the SUX Podcast.

Thorsten is guiding, advising and teaching designers and product-managers as well as design- and product-teams or entire organisations in crafting sustainable, responsible and ethical digital products while using tech and AI in a responsible way. His passion for the outdoors and mountaineering drives his commitment to making sustainability and responsibility a fundamental aspect of digital design and the digital world in general.

Sacha Judd

Sacha Judd

Sacha Judd is a writer based in Aotearoa New Zealand. She’s spent the last decade advising and investing in technology startups, and speaking about the intersection of the tech sector and fan communities at conferences like Velocity, Webstock, and Beyond Tellerrand. She has written on these topics for Letterboxd’s Journal, The Spinoff, Shit you Should Care About, and has been quoted in Teen Vogue and Rolling Stone and has an out of control LEGO collection. You can subscribe to her newsletter here.

Ana Rodrigues

Ana Rodrigues

Ana works as a front-end developer at tech-for-good agency Hactar. She started coding as a teenager building fan sites, and has been working as a front-end developer for the last 12 years.

Nowadays, Ana spends most of her free time experimenting on her personal blog and is particularly interested in ethics, IndieWeb, sustainability, privacy, and all things CSS.

Hannah Smith

Hannah Smith

Hannah is Director of Operations for Green Web Foundation and co-founder of Green Tech South West.

She has a background in Computer Science. She previously worked as a freelance WordPress developer, and also for the Environment Agency, where she managed large business change projects. She lives in the temperate rainforest in Exmoor National Park, UK.

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