#btconf Düsseldorf, Germany 02 - 03 May 2022

These had been the speakers of beyond tellerrand Düsseldorf 2022. They inspired, they encouraged and motivated and they educated us for two wonderful days.

Noma Bar

Noma Bar

Noma Bar (born in 1973) is an Israel-born graphic designer, illustrator and artist. His work has appeared in many media publications including: Time Out London, BBC, Random House, The Observer, The Economist and Wallpaper*. Bar has illustrated over one hundred magazine covers, published over 550 illustrations and released three books of his work: Guess Who - The Many Faces of Noma Bar in 2008, Negative Space in 2009 and Bittersweet 2017, a 680 page 5 volume monograph produced in a Limited Edition of 1000 published by Thames & Hudson.

Bar's work has become well known throughout the world, winning many industry awards; more recently a prestigious Gold Clio for his animation & direction work for the NewYork Presbyterian Hospital, a campaign to highlight new frontiers in cancer treatments.

He has also won a Yellow Pencil award at the D&AD Professional Awards and his London Design Festival exhibition 'Cut It Out', was selected as one of the highlights of the festival. The project was nominated in the graphics category for the Design Museum, Designs Of the Year.

Cabeza Patata

Cabeza Patata

Cabeza Patata is a multidisciplinary studio specialising in character design. It was created by Katie Menzies and Abel Reverter in 2018 and has a focus on diversity and female empowerment within a world of playful characters, full of energy and positivity.

They have worked for tech giants such as Google, Apple, Microsoft and Spotify, and have done editorial illustration for The New York Times, The New Yorker, El País and Icon Design.

Geri Coady

Geri Coady

Geri Coady is a colour-obsessed Canadian illustrator and designer living in Nottingham, UK. A former ad agency art director, she has worked with companies such as Simply Accessible, Microsoft, Google, Nokia Withings, Scholastic, and A List Apart; as well as numerous magazines including Courier and Standart. She is the author of Color Accessibility Workflows by A Book Apart and was voted net Magazine’s Designer of the Year in 2014. Her side business, Geri Draws Japan, showcases her love for Japanese culture through original art prints, pins, stationery and more.

Stephanie Eckles

Stephanie Eckles

Stephanie Eckles is a front-end-focused SWE at Microsoft. She's also the author of ModernCSS.dev which provides modern solutions to old CSS problems as in-depth tutorials, and is the creator of StyleStage.dev, and author of SmolCSS.dev and 11ty.Rocks. Steph has well over a decade of webdev experience that she enjoys sharing as an author, egghead instructor, and conference speaker. She's an advocate for accessibility, scalable CSS, and the Jamstack (especially Eleventy). Offline, she's mom to two girls and a cowboy corgi, and enjoys baking.

Vasilis van Gemert

Vasilis van Gemert

Vasilis is a lecturer at the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences. Here he teaches the next generation of digital product designers about the web. He believes that universities should research important topics that “the industry” tends to ignore. That’s why he teaches mostly about desiging for accessibility (and about CSS, which can use more love as well).

Sacha Judd

Sacha Judd

Sacha is the CEO of the Hoku Group, a family office in Aotearoa New Zealand combining private investments, early-stage tech ventures and a non-profit foundation. She founded Refactor (a series of events around diversity in technology), and Flounders’ Club (a network for early-stage company founders). She writes and speaks on fandom and online communities, diversity & inclusion in the tech sector, and how fans will transform the world.

Tim Kadlec

Tim Kadlec

Tim Kadlec is a Director of Engineering for WebPageTest, web performance consultant, and trainer focused on building a web everyone can use.

He is the author of High Performance Images (O'Reilly, 2016) and Implementing Responsive Design: Building sites for an anywhere, everywhere web (New Riders, 2012). He writes about all things web at timkadlec.com.

Linda Liukas

Linda Liukas

Linda is a bright new voice on global technology education from Helsinki, Finland.

With her Hello Ruby books and philosophy she brings a Nordic playful perspective to the sometimes serious world of computer science. Translated into nearly 40 languages, this children’s picture book series asks: What else is there to technology education than “Learn to code”? If computer code is the
Lego block of our time – a tool of creation – how do we teach curiosity, joy, and wonder to our kids?

Currently Linda is building a playground to Helsinki where you can learn about how computers work without a single screen.

Jude Pullen

Jude Pullen

Jude is a technologist and physical prototyping expert and one of the eight featured inventors in BBC Two's Big Life Fix documentary series that helps people with disabilities through technology and design. He is the winner of the 2020 IMechE (Institution of Mechanical Engineers) Alastair Graham-Bryce “Imagineering” Award.

At home, he builds bespoke games for his four year old son – the latest being a cardboard loop-the-loops for toy cars. In response to COVID-19, he worked with a Welsh University to create an 8-part series of Lockdown Lectures, from conception to publication in just 2 weeks. Also in Lockdown he created an Open Source digital-physical interface to search the world’ radio stations, by spinning a physical globe, and by use of clever code and electronics!

Jude thrives working on projects with high risk, uncertainty and pressure, and draws from global networks and experiences to deliver award winning work.

Aarron Walter

Aarron Walter

Aarron Walter is Director of Product on the COVID Response team at Resolve to Save Lives. Previously, he was VP of Content at InVision, and founded the UX practice at Mailchimp where he helped grow the product from a few thousand users to more than 10 million. He's the author of a number of books, the latest of which is a second edition of Designing for Emotion. Aarron's design guidance has helped the White House, the US Department of State, and dozens of major corporations, startups, and venture capital firms. Aarron co-hosts the Webby nominated Design Better podcast.

Léonie Watson

Léonie Watson

Léonie is Director of TetraLogical; a member of the W3C Advisory Board; co-Chair of the W3C Web Applications Working Group; and a member of the BIMA Inclusive Design Council.

Amongst other things, Léonie is co-organiser of the Inclusive Design 24 (#id24) conference; co-author of the Inclusive Design Principles; and mentor to young people interested in the fields of accessibility and inclusive design. She is also a Microsoft Most Valued Professional (MVP).

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