June 6th - 9th
2013
Catamaran Resort
San Diego, California
Design & Development
Conference
Kerem is a designer of digital products who previously designed interfaces for a little health gadget called Fitbit. He is currently running his own design studio 34 West Co.
Josh is a Designer and writer. He is currently the Editor at Treehouse, the author of Execute book and Jenius book, and also co-founder of Execute Ventures.
Dean is a commercial advertising photographer and image maker based in Southern California. He deals in conceptual, high-impact imagery.
Tim started as a freelance webdesigner in Belgium, moved to Austin, TX to join Gowalla and focus on mobile, and is currently designing interfaces for the Instagram team at Facebook.
Todd created and bootstrapped BuySellAds from a nights & weekends project to the Inc500 and beyond. He’s working hard to bring advertisers and publishers high-quality tools.
John is the co-founder of Stripe, a tool for accepting payments online. John grew up in Ireland and tried to become a physicist before dropping out to start Stripe.
Craig is a Boston-based designer and illustrator who focusses his work around the exploration of lines, light, color and texture.
Josh is the Creative & Product Lead at MyEnergy. He previously started Fixel, and over spends his additional time designing and helping start-ups, most notably Sevenly.
Dann is a freelance Creative Director in San Francisco, CA. Formally a designer at Obvious Corp, he's now back at home focusing on creating his own product.
Aubrey is a Designer in Residence at Science Media, a VC firm in Santa Monica, CA and designer for YC backed Authy. Previously he led design teams at Twilio and Color.
Julia is a graphic designer/illustrator in San Francisco. She is currently designing and selling products ranging from stationery to homewares.
David is the lead iOS designer and developer at SignNow. He also dabbles on his own projects, most notably is Play by Play, the first Dribbble for Mac., which has been featured by Apple twice.
Netta is a designer, formerly for Rdio, a photographer and maker of things based in foggy San Francisco. She enjoys pulling rolls of film through a Hasselblad and strumming the guitar.
Bobby is a graphic designer, illustrator, and Red-Blooded American Male. He is currently working as lead designer of Twitter's new video app, Vine.
Julien is a visual and interactive web designer working at Mixpanel. He’s founded two of his own startups including Remixjobs, a popular job board for creatives in France.
Tim is a UX designer at Disney Interactive, helping shape the future of Disney online. He's also the co-founder & designer of Untappd, a social discovery app for beer.
Garrett is the designer and founder of Scan. He lives in Provo, UT with his wife and daughter and plays collegiate soccer for BYU.
Tav is a freelance designer based in Southern California. His main focus is on creating attractive, heartfelt brands.
Valio Con is the FUN conference. This is our third annual conference, and each year it gets better and better. Our goal is to inspire you to create and build amazing things.
The conference is on the beach in San Diego, California. We can think of no better place to connect with friends, old and new, than in a relaxed beach environment with inspiring talks from people doing amazing things and sunny walks on the warm sand.
You'll hear talks from people who are 'doers' and risk-takers. They'll be sharing their inspiring stories on how they've built their own products and services.
Your ticket comes with a lot more than just entrance to the conference. You'll also get free breakfast and lunch each day! The official Valio Con 2013 t-shirt. A chance to win some cool stuff multiple times each day, like: an Apple TV, Nixon gear, Execute book, and a bunch more rad stuff. Tickets do NOT include a hotel stay, you must book that separately. We highly suggest the Catamaran.
We'll also be doing a bunch of fun activities, like: a Bonfire, an outdoor movie night on the sand with a 10ft. screen, 'Drink Night' with custom brewed beers and wines just for Valio Con, surfing, kayaking, a nightly cruise boat and a ton more!
We're holding a contest and the winner get's their own, brand new, app & company!
The contest starts right now and the winner will be announced at the end of the conference. All you need to do is design an Email app for the Mac and submit your designs before the conference starts and you'll be entered. Judges at the conference will pick a winner. The winner will have a development team waiting for them, and two months later the app will launch into the app store. Click below to enter and see the full rules.
The 'Kickoff Bonfire' will be happening at 8pm on Wednesday, June 5th. Be there!
Healthy Design
Execute
Building Stripe
Bootstrapping Profits
Design at Scale
Branding & Illustration in Design
Design & Goods
Your Questions. Their Answers.
Your Questions. Their Answers.
From Digital to Print
Building Photos
The Science of Music
Composing Illustrations
Someone Wins a Company
Design & Vine
Everyone
Hacking Venture Captial