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Lunch Sessions

Attendees looking at the stream at Freiburg 2018.

Interested in getting even more out of your Smashing experience? Our amazing friends from Storyblok are hosting a session to let you know more about what they do! This is session is free, comes with lunch and we only have 25 spots available.

At lunchtime, just follow one of the volunteers in the red shirts. Grab some lunch, settle in, and listen to what they have to say! All sessions take about 40 mins, so after the session you will still have time to relax and mingle.


Storyblok Lunch Session

Monday, September 9th at 13:20 – 14:20

Samuel Snopko

Charting the Course: Applying the ShapeUp Methodology to Your Projects

Join Storyblok’s lunch session to learn about Storyblok’s achievements, future plans, and gain practical skills to apply their success strategies to your projects. You’ll explore their roadmap’s key milestones and the ShapeUp methodology, and learn how to enhance productivity and drive innovation in your own workflows.

Samuel is the Head of Product at Storyblok, a leading headless content management system. Boasting over 14 years of tech industry expertise, he is a Creative front-end knight and an avid DesignOps enthusiast. Samuel is deeply passionate about JAMStack technologies and is dedicated to designing exquisite web experiences.

Tuesday, September 10th at 13:20 – 14:20

Ben Allen

Accessibility in layers: the automation workflow to help tackle the European Accessibility Act

Ready to tackle the European Accessibility Act (EAA)? Join Deque’s lunch session for a hands-on look at accessibility testing. No fluff here—just five practical tools and techniques you can use immediately to get started on your journey today. Let’s get your team equipped to build accessible software that’s ready for the future.

Ben Allen is a Senior Product Manager for axe DevTools Linter, axe DevTools APIs & CLI, and axe Developer Hub. Ben has 20 years of experience in building software and has been an accessibility program manager for 7.5 years, most recently at GitHub. While at PNC, Ben’s team was the inaugural winner of the axe-con “Accessibility at Scale Award” in 2021. Ben loves to learn and claims to be a lifetime student of Python, and more recently, ukulele. Sea Shanty anyone?

Want to attend the lunch session? Make sure you register a free ticket below.


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