Element Talks 2016 - great conference and audience

This probably was the best conference I’ve ever been to. I was invited as a speaker and for the first time I had to deliver an inspirational talk in front of an audience of almost 2000 people! But it wasn’t just that, the entire event was just very well organized and executed.

• The biggest audience yet…
• The stage was intimidating…
• The organization of this conference was amazing!
• We even got to support the conference a little…
• My favorite speaker was Luke Hayman!

The biggest audience yet…

I haven’t performed in front of so many people before. Also, it was a designer conference and I was invited to talk about productivity. My talk was delivered in Polish, but there are subtitles available:

Here’s how the audience looked like from the stage (shot on my iPhone 6s Plus):

The stage was intimidating…

I was talking about obvious things (to me) but for this audience things seemed new, like the 2-minute rule:

I was also a little intimidated by so much tech and so many screens. Again, this conference was very professionally done:

Overall, the feeling of delivering a talk in front of such a crowd of people who probably have never heard of me, was something else:

The organization of this conference was amazing!

The conference organizers: Paulina Kacprzak and Olga Rafalska did an amazing job and made me feel so welcome and so taken care of.

They organized a cool “evening party” for the speakers before the conference, where we could get to know each other more. I wish more conferences would prepare something like that:

We even got to support the conference a little…

We also chose to be one of the sponsors of this conference and we had a booth where we’d show Nozbe and give away fudge.

Here’s a short video that we put together so you can see how it all looked from backstage:

My favorite speaker was Luke Hayman!

Out of all the speakers, my favorite, and the one I connected most with, was Luke Hayman of Pentagram. Here’s his talk and it was a great peek behind the curtain of this renowned design consultancy: