Plenar 27 — Third edition

14–16 May 2027

Lisbon, Portugal

Three days on how good products get made.

Forty-eight speakers from design, engineering and product, one main stage and a week of spring in Lisbon.

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Audience seated around a lit stage

Early bird ends 31 Jan — from €490

  • 14–16 May 2027

  • Lisbon

  • 48 speakers

  • 12 workshops

  • 1,400 attendees

  • One main stage

  • 14–16 May 2027

  • Lisbon

  • 48 speakers

  • 12 workshops

  • 1,400 attendees

  • One main stage

(01) — What it is

(01) — What it is

Plenar is an independent conference for the people who design, build and manage digital products. No sponsored talks and no parallel tracks: everyone sees the same programme, then argues about it over lunch.

Plenar is an independent conference for the people who design, build and manage digital products. No sponsored talks and no parallel tracks: everyone sees the same programme, then argues about it over lunch.

Plenar is an independent conference for the people who design, build and manage digital products. No sponsored talks and no parallel tracks: everyone sees the same programme, then argues about it over lunch.

48

Speakers

3

Days

12

Workshops

1,400

Attendees

(02) — Speakers

People who ship, on stage.

All 48 speakers

Ines Carvalho

Craft

Ines Carvalho

Design Director

Northwind

Maya Okafor

Futures

Maya Okafor

Head of Research

Loop Labs

Jonas Weller

Systems

Jonas Weller

Staff Engineer

Tessel

Tom Brandt

Craft

Tom Brandt

Creative Technologist

Field Office

Daniel Reyes

Systems

Daniel Reyes

VP Product

Harbor

Sofia Marin

Craft

Sofia Marin

Founder

Studio Marin

Luca Ferrante

Craft

Luca Ferrante

Principal Designer

Orbit

Hana Nguyen

Systems

Hana Nguyen

Engineering Manager

Kite

(03) — Day one, Friday 14 May

One room. One plan.

Talks run on the main stage; workshops run in the afternoon so you never have to choose between two things you wanted to see.

Full schedule

09:00

09:00

Doors, coffee and badges

Everyone

Break

10:00

10:00

Opening keynote: Interfaces that explain themselves

Ines Carvalho

Keynote

11:15

11:15

Design tokens at ten thousand components

Jonas Weller

Talk

13:30

13:30

Prototyping with real data

Tom Brandt

Workshop

15:00

15:00

What people do when nobody is watching

Maya Okafor

Talk

19:00

19:00

Opening night on the river

Everyone

Social

(04) — Themes

Three themes, no filler.

Craft

01 / 03

Theme

Craft

Interface, motion, type and writing. The detail work that people feel before they can name it.

Interface, motion, type and writing. The detail work that people feel before they can name it.

Craft

01 / 03

Theme

Craft

Interface, motion, type and writing. The detail work that people feel before they can name it.

Systems

02 / 03

Theme

Systems

Tokens, components, roadmaps and the unglamorous agreements that let large teams move.

Tokens, components, roadmaps and the unglamorous agreements that let large teams move.

Systems

02 / 03

Theme

Systems

Tokens, components, roadmaps and the unglamorous agreements that let large teams move.

Futures

03 / 03

Theme

Futures

Research, naming and the long view: what the tools of the next decade will ask of us.

Research, naming and the long view: what the tools of the next decade will ask of us.

Futures

03 / 03

Theme

Futures

Research, naming and the long view: what the tools of the next decade will ask of us.

A yellow tram on a Lisbon street

(05) — The city

Lisbon, in May.

Venue and travel

(06) — Tickets

Pick a seat.

Student

€190

For full-time students and people between jobs. Limited to 150 places.

All talks, three days

Lunch and coffee

Opening night

Recordings after the event

Buy student

Standard

€490

Early bird until 31 January, then €640. The ticket most people buy.

All talks, three days

One workshop of your choice

Lunch, coffee and both socials

Recordings after the event

Buy standard

Team of four

€1,690

Four standard tickets on one invoice, with a table reserved at lunch.

Everything in Standard, ×4

Reserved team table

Single invoice with VAT

Swap names until 1 May

Buy team of four

Made possible by

  • Northwind

  • Tessel

  • Harbor

  • Loop Labs

  • Orbit

  • Kite

  • Ledger

  • Field Office

  • Northwind

  • Tessel

  • Harbor

  • Loop Labs

  • Orbit

  • Kite

  • Ledger

  • Field Office

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