5to9 Conference

Metadata

  • Media: #conference
    • Date: 2020-08-25 - 2020-08-27
    • Attending to: Speak. Learn more about successfully building out side projects into business while maintaining sanity.
    • Tags: #sideprojects #freelance #speaking
    • Links: 5to9.co

Reflection

  • A conference dedicated to those 5 to 9pm side projects and businesses.
  • Amazing variety of talks and speakers, with a little bit of something for everyone. I couldn't attend as many as I would have liked but there was something to be learned from every session I saw. Plus, this being a virtual event, you can catch up on all the talks at your leisure.
  • The live chat and slack kept a lovely community feel going as well as evening icebreaker sessions.
  • Extremely smooth. Never held back by the technical glitches or outages you'd expect from a virtual event. Job well done, DesignX team!

Details

  • 700+ attendees, 100+ virtual
  • Asked to speak by Chantel Megaffin and Preet Singh thanks to my submission for Remote Design Week (run by same group: DesignX).
  • Speaking on day 2: [[P) Talk - A Year in Side Projects]]
  • Watch sessions here

Highlight Speakers

  • Chris Do, The Futur
  • Carly Ayres
  • Aaron Draplin, Field Notes
  • Khoi Vinh
  • Femke Van Schoonhoven, Uber Eats
  • Robleh Jama, Director of Product, Shopify

My Session Details

  • Recorded (due to [[!COVID-19]]) with live Q&A
  • All centred around the The Side Project Project
  • Youngest(?) speaker at the event

Misc

Sessions attended

Day 1

Day 2

  • T) Designing Design Tools
  • T-Finding the Right Idea
  • ME: [[P) Talk - A Year in Side Projects]]
  • T) Selling on the Webs Panel

Day 3