The 7 Traits of an Emotionally Fit Leader

The world is beginning to understand that stress, burnout, anxiety – and, let’s face it, the universal pains of adulting – can drastically affect a company’s bottom line. To be successful today, business leaders and employees need to be emotionally and physically healthy. There are plenty of apps and products that claim to help achieve this, but an effective focus on mental and emotional health must be built from the inside out. In this interactive talk, renowned psychologist Dr. Emily Anhalt explores the importance of supporting yourself and your team by developing emotional fitness and gives practical, concrete tips for building a true culture of wellness.

Typography for Everyone

There was a time in the early ages of the internet when web designers would embed little flash files into their website for each heading in their layout. They did this to be able to embed and use typefaces other than the few fonts that were considered “web safe”.

Since then a lot has changed on the internet. These days designers and developers have lots of choice when selecting type for their projects.

As one of the co-founders of Google Fonts, Tobias believes that open source fonts are an important way in which we can provide access to typography for anyone designing and building things on the internet. Especially in regions of the world that don’t use the latin alphabet.

New technologies like variable fonts are changing type to be more like software and will open up entirely new possibilities in digital spaces.

Modern CSS Layout is Awesome!

2022 was an amazing year for CSS, bringing us a whole host of features to help us solve common layout challenges. In this session we’ll delve into some real-world use cases for container queries, subgrid, the :has() pseudo class (or parent selector) and much more. We’ll explore how to combine these new features with some more familiar ones, in order to build robust, flexible and creative layouts that respond to both content and context.

Animating the Impossible

How best do we achieve smooth UI animations when dealing with DOM changes, responsive layouts, dynamic content and user interaction? Well… we start off by flipping our whole approach upside down. In this session we’ll lift the magicians curtain, take a look at some “impossible” animation challenges, and learn how to approach them using a rather exciting animation technique.

Side Quests: Satisfy Your Distracted Self

Inspiration can come at any time and Hugh decided long ago to embrace it. From building a 2-axis plotter in his basement to proposing a “party glove” because the idea of blasting music out of your hand sounds really fun. Or designing an open source light bar to create large-scale light painting and running a year-long photography project to support the LGBTQ+ community. Random doesn’t need to be intimidating. Sometimes you just need to say “yes” to yourself. Let’s follow the journey of the perpetually distracted Hugh and witness the wonder he creates.