Field Notes Conf · 2027 · Third edition

Two days on the craft of building interfaces.

A small, technical conference for software and design engineers—design systems, front-end architecture, accessibility, and the slow, deliberate work of making software that holds up.

Dates Mar 18–19, 2027

Location Lisbon, PT

Talks 18 sessions

Capacity 420 attendees

01 — About

A conference for people who build the interface

Field Notes Conf is a two-day, single-track conference for the engineers and designers who care about how software actually feels to use. No marketing track, no sponsored keynotes—just practitioners sharing what they learned shipping real products.

Talks cover design systems, front-end architecture, accessibility, documentation, and the operational software most of us actually build. The format is dense: 30-minute talks, 10-minute breaks, long lunches for conversation.

The third edition moves to Lisbon, with a workshop day on March 17 for hands-on design-system and accessibility sessions.

At a glance

                Single track
                18 talks · 2 days
              

                Workshop day
                Mar 17 · extra ticket
              

                Format
                30-min talks + Q&A
              

                Recordings
                All talks, post-event
              

                Catering
                Lunch + breaks included
              

420

Attendees

Talks

Speakers

Days

02 — Speakers

Selected speakers

Practitioners from product teams, open source, and design-systems work. Full lineup announced January 2027.

Mara Velez

Design Engineer · Halcyon

Borders before shadows: building a treasury console that stays legible at 4 a.m.

Dev Okafor

Staff Engineer · Northwind

A token stack that survived a rebrand: primitive, semantic, template, component.

Sana Khoury

Accessibility Lead · Meridian

Keyboard-first is not keyboard-only: designing dense operator surfaces.

Jonas Tamm

Front-end Architect · Stratum

Hash routing and a 90 KB docs site: building docs without a framework.

Rin Lemaire

Design Systems Lead · Atlas

A QA bar you can enforce: turning principles into required checks.

Aiko Chen

Staff Engineer · Vesper

Reading the attack surface: visualizing security data without the cyber aesthetic.

03 — Schedule

Two days, single track

All times in Western European Time (WET). Schedule is provisional; final slots confirmed in January.