What is VizConf?

VizConf is Australia's largest annual gathering of visual practitioners.

Founded in 2018 by Marcel Van Hove (Visual Friends) and Matthew Magain (Sketch Group), VizConf is the ultimate coming together of Graphic Recorders, Visual Facilitators, Sketchnoters, and anyone who loves working visually to capture, collaborate, and communicate better.

Our vision is to run an event that inspires, educates, and energises attendees to use visuals more effectively at home, at school, and in the workplace.

The Back Story

Matthew and Marcel became friends via Meetup in 2015, and shared a similar vision for harnessing the power of visual facilitation. Inspired by more established conferences like the International Forum of Visual Practitioners and EUViz, they conspired in August of 2018 to launch a conference that Australia could call its own.

Matthew and Marcel at the first VizConf brainstorming session at Frankfurt Airport on August 8, 2018

Originally titled "AusViz", as an homage to the European Visual Community, the organisers eventually settled upon the name VizConf, and set themselves an ambitious deadline of just two months to pull together the event. Partly due to their propensity for thriving under pressure, and partly because the visual community in Australia was ready and embraced the concept, the inaugural VizConf 2018 conference, with the theme Think Global, Draw Local, was a huge success, with over 90 attendees, 15 volunteers, and 2 top-notch keynote speakers in Melbourne pioneer Jessamy Gee and US-based top-selling author Sunni Brown.

In 2019, our plan for VizConf is: bigger and better. Get your tickets to VizConf here.