Partners

Goodgame Studios is the fastest-growing games company in Europe, and one of Germany’s most successful technology companies. With more than 350 staff, at our Hamburg offices we develop innovative online games played by over 120 million players in over 200 countries and in more than 24 languages. Our success is built on our talented and motivated team of experienced e-Business experts and dedicated newcomers. We’re looking for entrepreneurial personalities who really want to make things happen. Become part of our success story — apply now!

MailChimp helps you design email newsletters, share them on social networks, integrate with services you already use, and track your results. It's like your own personal publishing platform.

Developer Garden is the developer ecosystem of Deutsche Telekom.

It is the central hub for software developers and business partners to easily access advanced technologies and core services.

Developer Garden offers a broad product portfolio of premium components, web services, tools and APIs (Application Programming Interfaces) for smart and efficient software development. It provides developers and partners with new ways to distribute and monetize their software. Integrating Developer Garden’s services offers infinite ways of unlocking new business potential to drive revenue and customer loyalty while reducing time-to-market.

Built on a network of strong global alliances, Developer Garden addresses the world-wide software development community.

No other company does as much with type as Monotype.

Our designers have created many of the most celebrated and influential typefaces of our time. And we¹ve developed the technologies that bring type to the screen for millions of consumer products and user interfaces worldwide.

Wherever you see type, now and in the future, there¹s a good chance Monotype will be behind it.

SapientNitro, part of Sapient®, is a new breed of agency redefining storytelling for an always-on world. We’re changing the way our clients engage today’s connected consumers by uniquely creating never-ending stories across brand communications, digital engagement, and omni-channel commerce. We call it Storyscaping. SapientNitro’s Idea Engineers represent a connected powerhouse of creative, brand and technology expertise - one global team for our Global 1000 clients, such as Coca-Cola, Audi, Lufthansa, and Vodafone, in 31 cities across The Americas, Europe and Asia-Pacific.

The Typecast™ design tool lets you quickly style type in the browser and check for readability, rendering and beauty as you work.

Designing for a responsive web means providing readable content for any device, and that means starting with type. Typecast helps designers view, pair and compare web fonts from the web’s biggest font services in the browser. You can test design ideas using real content without having to create screenshots, assemble comps or hand-code CSS.

A global leader in wireless innovation, BlackBerry® revolutionized the mobile industry when it was introduced in 1999. Today, BlackBerry aims to inspire the success of our millions of customers around the world by continuously pushing the boundaries of mobile experiences. Founded in 1984 and based in Waterloo, Ontario, BlackBerry operates offices in North America, Europe, Asia Pacific and Latin America. Research In Motion announced that effective January 30, 2013, the Company would operate around the world under the iconic name BlackBerry. The legal name of the company has not changed, but the Company will do business as BlackBerry until shareholders vote for the official change at the Company's Annual General Meeting later in 2013. Effective Monday, February 4, 2013, the Company commenced trading under its new ticker symbols "BB" on the Toronto Stock Exchange and "BBRY" on the NASDAQ.

Mozilla is a global, nonprofit organisation dedicated to making the Web better. We emphasize principle over profit, and believe that the Web is a shared public resource to be cared for, not a commodity to be sold. We work with a worldwide community to create open source products like Mozilla Firefox, and to innovate for the benefit of the individual and the betterment of the Web. The result is great products built by passionate people and better choices for everyone.

GitHub is the best way to build software together. Whether it's your company's app, your favorite open source library, or a weekend side project, GitHub helps everyone work better by providing tools for easier collaboration and code sharing on any device. Start collaborating today—open source project hosting is free!

Kirby is a file-based content management system, which is very easy to setup, fun to use and flexible as hell. Without the hassle of running a database, Kirby makes it possible to create powerful websites in no time. beyondtellerrand.com is happily running on Kirby.

denkwerk is an independent full service agency that is firmly rooted in the digital world. We are a team of 170 smart people from 17 different nations – movers and shakers in the fields of design, art, IT and science. You can find our offices in Cologne and Berlin and our friends all over the world. We have desks wherever you need us and enjoy changing things for the better.

Based in the UK, Five Simple Steps is a small, independent publisher of practical design books for web professionals. The web design industry is a place of huge diversity: from user experience to content strategy, from interaction design to project management. It's our aim to provide simple, practical guides to distinct, clear parts of this industry. We want to dispel the magic of design, give you great tools and techniques that you can use today to create better experiences on the web. Five Simple Steps books are not your average web design books. They are meticulously designed and published to the highest production standards with no compromise on quality. They're built to last.

Gridset is an online tool that allows you to build fully bespoke, responsive grid systems without touching any of the difficult maths, freeing you to focus on your design. Generate asymmetric, ratio-based and even compound column arrangements for your design or prototype in minutes. Save yourself time and maths-related headaches by signing up at gridsetapp.com today.

MOO was born out of a love of beautiful, high-quality print. We're a new kind of online printing business. We help our customers print things like Business Cards, Postcards and MiniCards, making it easy for them to share information about themselves or their business in the real world.

We are very happy that you have the opportunity again to order 50 Business Cards or 100 MiniCards for free (just €1 handling fee). Easily order them until 11:59pm (GMT) 14 May 2013 (19 May with a rush fee) and pick them up at beyond tellerrand in Düsseldorf at the registration desk right after the registration. Let us know if you have questions about this and big thanks to MOO!

Balsamiq is the maker of Mockups, the rapid wireframing software that combines the simplicity of paper sketching with the power of a digital tool so that teams can focus on what’s important. We’re a fast-growing, but small and personable company that competes on usability and service. We believe work should be fun, and that life is too short for bad software.

At Home in our Region – in Touch with the World: Sparkasse Krefeld is an institution for the people. Our public mission and public interest-oriented corporate policy facilitate regional economic and social development in a variety of ways.

In our area of business we ensure that banking services are available to all members of the public and to small and medium-sized enterprises.

We fulfill this responsible mission using our integrated and sustainable business strategy. With our long tradition as the leading savings bank and our place in the network of the German Savings Banks Finance Group we maintain a consistently high service quality to ensure the satisfaction of our customers.

SnackTools is a suite of web applications designed to simplify the way you create and publish rich media widgets such as: flash banners, photo slideshows, media players, flip books, surveys and polls. SnackTools' goal is to enable you to easily create your own blog and website widgets, in a fun and effortless way.

.net is the world's best-selling magazine for web designers and developers. Each issue boasts a wealth of expert tips and advice, including over 30 pages of advanced front- and backend tutorials on subjects as diverse as CSS, HTML, JavaScript, WordPress, PHP, web graphics and plenty more.. You'll also find in-depth features, not to mention interviews where major industry players impart their wisdom. If you're serious about web design or development, then .net is the magazine for you.

Awwwards are the awards that recognize and promote the talent and effort of the best developers, designers and web agencies in the world.

Our mission is to discover, recognize and promote the talent and effort of web designers, developers and agencies who create unique digital experiences that are useful, innovative, intuitive and beautiful.

We aim to create a meeting point where web professionals from across the world can come to find inspiration: a space for debate, for sharing knowledge and experience and giving and receiving constructive and respectful criticism. “Always hungry”.

Offscreen is a new periodical with an in-depth look at the life and work of digital creators ? captured in enduring print. It aims to tell the less obvious human stories of creativity, passion and hard work that hide behind every interface.

Each issue is built around six lengthy interviews with creative minds of successful websites, apps and other digital products. The magazine talks to aspiring freelancers and renowned designers and developers, and ask them about their professional and private lives, what inspires and motivates them, and what goes on behind the scenes of some of the Web's biggest names.

Offscreen gives digital products a real face by going beyond the "About" section of a website and introduce some of the lesser known people of the digital industry, presenting their personal stories. It explores how web folks collaborate, what their workspaces look like or what you may find on their desks.

If you could use just eight typefaces, which would you choose? 8 Faces is a magazine that asks this question — and many more — to eight leading designers from the fields of print, web, illustration, and of course type design itself. Eighty-eight pages of in-depth interviews, critical essays, and inspiration from the very best in the business.

Founded in September 2006, Smashing Magazine delivers useful and innovative information to Web designers and developers. Our aim is to inform our readers about the latest trends and techniques in Web development. We try to persuade you not with the quantity but with the quality of the information we present. Smashing Magazine is and always has been independent.

At WebdesignerDepot.com, we live, breathe, and eat design. We’re passionate about design and everything that goes along with it. Our goal is to share the latest and greatest findings, tips, and techniques for web designers and developers. From Photoshop tutorials to WordPress plugins, WDD is the perfect showcase for Web savvy designers. You’ll find in-depth articles on a variety of red hot topics such as jQuery, HTML 5, CSS3, responsive design, typography, usability, and more. Not to mention features looking at the business side of design, freelancing, mobile applications, inspiration, and resources, to name a few.

The pages for designers and concept developers in the creative industries.

The magazine for interaction designers and developers.

t3n magazine is Germany's leading print magazine revolving around E-Business and web technologies. The magazine's target group are developers and decision makers in enterprises and agencies alike with a primary focus on cutting edge web trends, technologies as well as online-business and marketing developments. The t3n print magazine and it's critically acclaimed website t3n.de deliver in-depth information on all all business relevant aspects of web and online technologies.

vier.fm is a small podcast network. We recently launched a new show for everyone working on the web. In “Vier Diskussionen” we discuss usability, design and tech issues laid-back and with a conceptional focus. Make sure to grab your copy of the latest edition wherever finer podcasts are served.

Creative Bloq is the home of creative inspiration on the web. It's Creative Bloq’s mission to deliver your daily dose of design tips and inspiration. From the makers of TechRadar.com, .net magazine, and Computer Arts magazine, Creative Bloq presents accessible, entertaining, and engaging content across a multitude of design disciplines including graphic design, illustration, 3D, web design, and much more!

Screenguide is a German print-magazine that addresses web-professionals and designers at the same time. With a strong focus on freelancers, agencies and decision makers the magazine covers topics such as e-business, social media, webdesign, webdevelopment, accessibility, usability and technology. News and events are available at screengui.de since Screenguide is a quarterly released magazine.

Open Device Labs (ODLs, #ODL) are a grass roots community movement that we love to support. They establish shared community pools of internet connected devices for testing purposes of web and app developers. In result, ODLs lead to an ultimate improvement of the web & app experience both for developers and for consumers.

We had a big ODL at our last years btconf in cooperation with the fantastic LapUp!. LabUp! was born to help people around the world in establishing nonprofit Open Device Labs which helps others access a large number of mobile devices for testing.

What we are planning for this year as well is a big get together of all the people behind the ODLs around the world. To share ideas and most importantly meet in real. And therefore we want to support you to come to beyond tellerrand 2013. Shoot uns an email, if you run an ODL and want to attend.