How we chose twelve talks from 640 proposals

Tagus Riverside Hall, Lisbon

15–17 Sep 2027

The conference opens in 353 days.

An audience seen from the balcony above: rows of wooden seats with fold-down desks, coffee cups, notebooks and programme leaflets

This year 640 people sent us a talk. Every proposal was read twice, blind, by two reviewers who did not know who had written it, and scored on one question: could only this person give this talk?

Could only this person give this talk? That was the whole test.

The proposals that did best described one project in detail, including what went wrong. The ones that struggled promised ten tips or the future of design. We shortlisted forty, spoke to each of them on a call, and chose twelve.

If yours did not make it this year, the notes from both reviewers are in your inbox. Several of this year's speakers were turned down the first time they applied.

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