What is VizConf?
VizConf is Australia's largest annual gathering of visual practitioners.
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Founded in 2018 by Marcel Van Hove and Matthew Magain, VizConf is the ultimate coming together of graphic recorders, visual facilitators, sketchnoters, illustrators, 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.
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.
VizConf 2018 was genuinely the professional highlight of the year to date, and easily the best conference I've been to—I couldn't fault it.
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. The event attracted over 90 attendees, 15 volunteers, and two 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, better, and bolder. We promise it won't disappoint. Get your tickets to VizConf now.
In 2019, our plan for VizConf is: bigger, better, and bolder. We promise it won't disappoint. Get your tickets to VizConf now.
This conference delivered the right balance of inspiration, admiration, knowledge and learning, and the most generous sharing of ideas, visions and even work opportunities. Definitely a win!