Vitaly loves beautiful content and does not give up easily. Born in Minsk, Belarus, he studied computer science and mathematics in Germany. While writing algebra proofs and preparing for software engineering at nights in the kitchen, at the same time he discovered passion for typography, interface design and writing. After working as a freelance designer and developer for 6 years, he co-founded Smashing Magazine back in 2006, a leading online magazine for designers and developers. His curiosity drove him from interface design to front-end to performance optimization to accessibility and back to user experience over all the years.

Vitaly is the author, co-author and editor of Smashing books, and a curator of Smashing Conferences. He is creative lead of Smashing Magazine and front-end/UX consultant with the European Parliament and Smashing Media, in Europe and abroad, working with Haufe-Lexware, Axel-Springer and a few other companies.

He also runs Measure UX and Smart Interface Design Patterns, friendly video libraries on UX and design patterns, along with a live UX training for UX and product designers.

Oh, and surely you don’t want to miss his full-day workshop at beyond tellerrand titled “Designing For Complex UIs In 2025”.

Gavin Strange is a Director and Designer for the UK’s beloved creative studio Aardman. Working there for over sixteen years, Gavin’s creative output ranges from title sequences to channel idents, short films to Christmas ads and everything in-between.

His work is diverse in nature but all held together of a common thread of fun and high energy. By night he goes under the alias of “Jamfactory”, indulging in all manner of passion projects, from filmmaking to illustration, music to photography.

Gavin is a keynote speaker and has spoken around the world, from Mexico to Manchester, the Middle East to Munich. After speaking at the Do Lectures in 2016, he wrote the book “Do Fly”, a motivational mantra published by The Do Book Company.

Léonie is a Director of TetraLogical; Chair of the W3C Board of Directors, and co-Chair of the W3C Web Applications Working Group. She's also co-organiser of the Inclusive Design 24 (#id24) conference; and co-author of the Inclusive Design Principles and the Do No Harm Guide: Centering accessibility in data visualisation.