09:00–09:30
11–12 January 2027, Warehouse 9
Programme
24 sessions over two days: 20 talks, one panel and three workshops. Every talk is chosen by anonymous review, and every one starts on the quarter hour so you can change rooms.
Timetable
Three tracks, colour-coded all the way through: Build for the code, Design for what people see and use, Ship for getting it out and keeping it running. Switch a track off to see your day. Choose a session for the details.
Main hall
Loft
Quay
09:30–10:00, Main hall
Opening: why we sail around
10:15–11:00, Main hall
The fastest site is the one that ships less
A tour of real regressions, what caused them, and the three budgets that would have caught every one.
10:15–11:00, Loft
Type that works in Greek and in Latin
Why a typeface that looks fine in English falls apart in Greek, and how to choose one that does not.
10:15–12:30, Quay
Accessibility audits in an afternoon
Workshop
Bring a site you work on. Leave with an audit, a priority list and the tools to repeat it. Laptop required.
11:15–12:00, Main hall
Design systems for teams that don't want one
How to get the benefits of a design system into seven apps without a design system team.
11:15–12:00, Loft
Payments without the panic
What eleven currencies taught us about refunds, retries and telling customers the truth.
12:30–13:30
Lunch on the quay
13:30–14:15, Main hall
Maps offline, on a ferry and a mountain
Caching tiles, routes and search for places with one bar of signal or none.
13:30–14:15, Loft
Shipping weekly in healthcare
Regulated does not have to mean slow. How a patient app releases every Thursday.
13:30–15:45, Quay
Generative posters with the canvas API
Workshop
Build a generative identity from scratch in two hours. You will print the results. Laptop required.
14:30–15:15, Main hall
The browser is your framework
Container queries, view transitions, popover and the rest: what you can delete from your bundle today.
14:30–15:15, Loft
Small tools, small teams
How two people run eleven products without a pager.
15:30–16:15, Main hall
What we stopped doing
Panel
Five teams on the practices they dropped last year and what happened next. Moderated by Sofia Rigatou.
16:30–18:30
Drinks at the lighthouse
Main hall
Loft
Quay
09:00–09:30
Coffee
09:30–10:15, Main hall
Accessibility is a performance budget
Treat accessibility like page weight: measured, budgeted, and failed in CI.
09:30–10:15, Loft
Product decisions with half the data
A framework for deciding when you cannot wait for the numbers.
10:30–11:15, Main hall
Offline-first forms
Forms that survive a tunnel, a lift and a train through the mountains, without losing a word.
10:30–11:15, Loft
Motion that means something
When animation explains a change and when it only decorates it.
10:30–12:45, Quay
Fixing a slow site, live
Workshop
We take a volunteer's site and make it fast in front of you. Laptop recommended.
11:30–12:15, Main hall
Tokens across seven apps
The boring decisions that let one change of colour reach seven apps in an afternoon.
11:30–12:15, Loft
Incident reviews nobody dreads
How to run a review that finds causes, not culprits.
12:45–13:45
Lunch on the quay
13:45–14:30, Main hall
Web platform features you can use today
A tour of what shipped in every major browser this year, with the fallbacks you still need.
13:45–14:30, Loft
Research with twelve users
Why twelve interviews a month beat one big study a year.
14:45–15:30, Main hall
Building for bad connections
Every lesson from making maps work at sea, applied to the site you are building now.
14:45–15:30, Loft
Typesetting the timetable
How the Periplous programme was set, and what timetables teach about information design.
15:45–16:15, Main hall
Closing, and where we sail next
16:30–18:00
The periplous: the boat around the gulf
Three rooms
All in one building, less than a minute apart. Seats are not reserved, except in the workshops, which you book with the workshop add-on.
240
Main hall
The ground floor. Talks with live captions and an induction loop, recorded.
120
Loft
The old grading floor, up one flight or the lift. Talks with live captions, recorded.
40
Quay
The glass room on the water. Workshops in groups of twenty, not recorded.
The talks are published free, with captions, within two weeks of the event. News will say when.