Web Developers Conference

So you want to be a web developer

Anna will be talking about her experience of setting up as a freelancer after leaving school. She’ll cover the “education or employment” debate, give some tips on how to get established in the industry, and try not to bore everyone to death with the essential stuff that people don’t like to talk about at conferences like contracts and taxes, and how much a young developer should charge.

Personal Branding: The Ultimate Path to Fame, Wealth and Success

Paul Boag, Elliot Jay Stocks, Mark Boulton, Andy Budd, Jeremy Keith, Chris Spooner, Jon Hicks, Ryan Carson. These are all house-hold names in on the UK web design scene but they also all specialise in different areas. For them, and many others, their key to success is what unites them: personal branding.

Breaking into the web design industry isn’t easy, every year hundreds of extremely talented students graduate hoping to make a dent in an online world which is becoming extremely full. How can you stand out from the crowd? How can you become someone who is both known and respected? What should you do to start a successful career? Unfortunately just doing great work these days isn’t good enough if you really want to get somewhere, there’s a great deal more to focus on.

Referencing his own experiences in the last eighteen months of running a web design agency and numerous case studies from some of the most successful web designers in the world, John will demonstrate how anyone can build a successful personal brand around a career in web design.

Can you do it? Come to Bristol and grab the nearest seat you can find at the Exhibition and Conference Centre. Let’s see what inroads we can make.