Balsamiq Sponsorships & Raffle Update for April 2019
Hello, friends! We meet again. We love supporting events around the world through our sponsorship program; it’s one of the many ways we help the community grow.
Occasionally the conferences we patronize supply us with complimentary tickets, but we are often unable to attend ourselves. With permission of the event organizers, we like to give the public a chance to accept the ticket in our stead. Doing this allows us to reciprocate the love and support we receive from our community and aids our goal to educate the world on User Experience.
Have you ever wanted to go to a UX conference but couldn’t afford the entry price? Well next time be sure to check out our current raffles for the opportunity to attend for free!
Current Raffles
We are raffling away FREE TICKETS (travel and lodging not included.) Enter to win! Good luck!
Sponsored Events
North America
"For our fifth SmashingConf San Francisco (April 16â17), weâll explore how to improve accessibility and front-end workflow, refactoring, security, interface design patterns, CSS Grid techniques, performance, Git and how to write better JavaScript. Plus a bunch of hands-on workshops on design, front-end and UX."
"Immerse yourself in the next generation of customer experience with keynote sessions, panel discussions, Interactive Discussion Groups, Maturity Tracks, and comprehensive Design Drive. Whether you work in experience design, innovation, human factors engineering or evangelizing design thinking in your organization, this conference will deliver you immediate applicable value."
"DragonHacks is Drexel University's 24 hour hardware-focused hackathon event hosted by Drexel University IEEE in 2019 in the Bossone Research Enterprise Center. DragonHacks 2019 is bringing in the brightest minds of the world's best schools to spend 24 hours to create ground breaking new products from scratch!"
"Since its inception in 2016, TinoHacks has grown to one of the largest and oldest high school hackathons in the Bay Area. We aim to provide students with a brilliant community to develop their entrepreneurial and coding expertise. TinoHacks III is a 24-hour hackathon where students of all experience levels are encouraged to design and build innovative projects in all immersive environment."
"Usabilathon (pronounce usabil-a-thon) is ISUâs usability hackathon style event, bringing together students both graduate and undergraduate students (20-30 total) from all departments to compete in this user-focused event. Participants will spend a whole day designing, iterating, and developing solutions. At the end of the event, participants will get an opportunity to showcase their solutions in front of judges and fellow participants."
"Combining the authority of net magazine, Creative Bloq and Web Designer magazine, this unmissable event will bring together a community of like-minded individuals, comprising of web designers, web developers, graphic designers and creative minds for two days of education, inspiration and networking."
"Learn from your industry peers about trends in CX, hear thoughtful advice on growing and scaling teams, and get insight into how legacy brands are evolving their customer support solutions. We carefully plan our agenda to include lots of curated social time as well, so youâll be able to meet new contacts and build lasting, genuine relationships."
"A hackathon is an event where students individually or collaboratively create innovative solutions with technology, often using hardware, software, or both! Students present and share their ideas with other participants and can be rewarded with prizes for their work. In addition, due to many workshops and experienced mentors, a hackathon is a great learning opportunity and experience."
"Make a Mark is a 12-hour design and development marathon benefitting local humanitarian causes.Each make-a-thon is organized independently by locals in each community that want to make a difference on the problems that matter most to their region."
"JAMHacks 3 is the largest high school hackathon in Waterloo! On May 4-5, we are bringing together 200 students from high schools all over Ontario for a full 24 hours of creating, learning and innovating. Youâll work in teams of up to 4 to create an app, game, website, robot, gadget, or whatever your heart desires."
"There are a million product conferences. ProductCraft: The Conference is a more elevated conversation about the challenges of growing up enterprise, about how to get product a seat at the table, and how to keep innovation a part of your culture, showcased in an exciting new format."
"On Saturday, May 18, 2019, 200 students from around the Bay Area will gather to conceive innovative products and realize their potential to solve some of the biggest societal problems. Any high schooler can attend OmniHacks. If youâve already completed high school, you canât participate but you can still help mentor others."
Europe
"Over 3 days, 400 attendees from over 30 countries will learn from renowned product leaders and share the latest methods, tools, and frameworks that they use to build, launch and scale world-class software products. Building world-class software products is hard. At INDUSTRY you will see how others manage product in different environments, from fast-paced startups to complex large enterprises."
"With Healthcare -Tech being one of the fastest growing industries globally, How will Healthcare UX improve, adapt and enhance patient experiences! We will discuss our UX Challenges and how to design to the needs not the wants of our Users. We will look at trends globally. Are we designing for Machine learning and AI! How are we designing for Telemedicine and will Chatbots, Messaging and video-calling reach its potential!"
"UXAlive is the largest international event on User Experience and Usability composed of both presentations and workshops held by international UX stars. Presentation Topics: User Experience Design, UX Research, User Testing, Usability, User Interface Design, Interaction Design, Conversational UX, VUI, Experience Design, Service Design."
"Running as part of the Leeds Digital Festival, NUX Camp 2019, is an all-day workshop event for UX practitioners at all levels focusing on powering the practical skills needed for designing and building better experiences on the web and beyond. Weâll provide a wealth of practical experience attendees can apply right away and is aimed at practitioners with a range of skill levels and in a range of roles."
"A super tiny conference for small, self-funded, software companies. This conference isn't (primarily) about talks. Itâs about meeting people. While there will be talks about interesting topics the primary purpose is to meet old and new friends. We hope youâll enjoy your time with us in Darmstadt."
"Given the rising importance of Javascript both in the development of web applications and as an all-purpose language, the italian PHP user group GrUSP decided in 2010 to organize a conference fully dedicated to Javascript, alongside the traditional phpDay conference."
"Returning for its fifth year, Agile Manchester 2019 is a practical agile development conference that allows participants to connect and learn from their peers and leaders in the industry. The conference has a strong practical focus and attracts industry practitioners and decision-makers who want to improve their success with agile and lean methods."
"We'll show new development traits, best-practices and success cases related to quality, revision control, test-driven development, continuous integration and so on. There are also talks about design, project management, agile and various php-related technologies like Zend Framework, Symfony, Laravel, Drupal, WordPress and more."
"Join us for the ninth edition of beyond tellerrand in our home town. 2 days of inspiring and motivating talks and Side Events like the Indie Web Camp on Saturday and Sundays or the Accessibility Club on Wednesday around these dates. We got some last-minute workshop additions as well and only one speaker has to be revealed."
We look forward to exploring new and exciting ways to connect with you.