Last Thursday I had the pleasure of attending Build, a web design conference organised by Andy Good and held in our very own backyard (literally 2 minutes round the corner from me in Belfast).
Created for obsessive-compulsive designers, Build is no ordinary web conference. From internationally renowned speakers to a jam-packed social calendar, Build is bringing the best of the web to Belfast’s Waterfront Studio on the 5th November.
Build presented some of the world’s most respected designers and speakers and it was an honor to meet them and be in their presence: Eric Meyer, Wilson Miner, Ryan Sims, Andy Budd, Mark Boulton and Tim Van Damme.
The conference was a huge success, I thoroughly enjoyed myself not just on the day but across the whole week with various other meetups and Andy deserves a huge pat on the back. Well done sir! I even managed to win a ‘goody bag’ thanks to this tweet - sorry Tim 
I can’t even begin to list all the awesome people I chatted to over the week as there are too many to mention but it was good to meet you all and next time you’re up for a drink in Belfast just tweet me 
If you’re in Belfast later in the month check out the Adobe CS4 training day Wednesday 25th November (free event).
Round ups
- Front: Build Conference recap
- Pabcas: Building a better web
- Web Designer Notebook: #buildconf
- TaylorMade: Belfast builds giants
- Kyle Boyd: Build Conference - Belfast 2009
- Sam Brown: Build Conference - My experience graph
- No More Art: City of Culture eh? Well 2009 will just have to do
Press
Photos
Front
Keith Anderson
Paddy Donnelly
David Parsons
Maykel Loomans
Yaili
Videos
Tim Van Damme - Designers Designers Designers (from @vectorfunk)
These are just some of the post #buildconf links I have come across. Please feel free to share your blog posts and photos in the comments below.
Please also take a moment to review or recommend any cool places you visited over the days of Build on Lookaly (another project of mine). Cheers!
Stay tuned for Build 2010.
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Lee Munroe is a freelance web designer from Belfast Northern Ireland. Like this article? Feel free to follow Lee on Twitter.
Tags: andy good, belfast, buildconf, conference, event, northern ireland
Oh wow, “The Greatest Web Design Conference The World Has Ever Seen”? Well, I guess you might be right there
Good times!
Great seeing you again, and do say “hi” whenever you’re in LDN!
Nice way to sum up the conference lee! Was THE best conference iv been to yet and it attracted such a range of designers and developers!
Have to agree with Yaili above, Good times!
wow, that must be a good and beautiful memory.
I wanted to say Andy’s a real rockstar, but he’s way to modest for that. Maybe “angel” is a better description. I think it’s safe to say both attendees and speakers were treated really really well by Mr. Good. Best conference I ever attended!
See you in January
@Yaili: Will do - I’m sure you’ll be at the next event I’m at (you’re at them all
@Stephen: Definitely rocked!
@Tim: He is a big angel really isn’t he? lol yes, see you in your Limo
Wanted to say that Tim was the real ‘rock star’ unbelievable talk by a first/second time speaker, “Desigers, Designers, Designers!” Inspiring.
Andy Budds was just delicious, and Meyer made me think long and hard about getting into HTML 5