Valio Con 2025

Creative Tech Conference • September 11th-14th

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Five unforgettable days on beach in San Diego, California

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Valio Con The Fun Conference

This is our sixth annual conference, and each year it gets better and better. Our goal is to inspire you to create and build amazing things.

This year’s conference will be on the beach in San Diego, California. We can't think of a better place to connect with friends, old and new, than in a relaxed beach environment with sunny walks on the warm sand, and inspiring talks from people doing amazing things.

You'll hear from people who are 'doers' and risk-takers. They’re some of the world’s best designers, founders, investors, engineers, executives, and they all have inspiring stories and valuable insight to share with you.

Location

This year we’ll be at the beautiful Seabird resort in Oceanside, California

Use code G-VCN1 when booking your stay to get the huge discount of $339/night.

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Speakers

Learn from these amazing people

Cristina is Chief Operating Officer at Linear and an active angel investor. She started her career in partnerships, joining startups as one of the first business hires. She spent 7 years at Stripe, joining as the 28th employee. In her time there, she grew the Partnerships organization from the ground up and led a business unit building new financial services products for businesses. After Stripe, she joined Notion to lead Platform & Partnerships, where she also led the growth team.

🎙️ TalkMarketing by Not Marketing: Building a Brand People Want to Copy

Dann has been non-stop full-time freelancing as a designer for over 20 years with well-known clients, like: Google, Nike, Airbnb, Meta, Adobe, etc. He created the very popular adventure based conference for creatives called Epicurrence. He's also the author of the popular books: That Portfolio Book + That Freelancer Book.

Kathleen is a musician (Lyrah) and product designer. She's been playing piano and singing since she was 3. And in 2022 she quit her product design job at Meta so she could focus on her music project Lyrah full-time.

Linus is a product designer and entrepreneur with 20 years of experience working in tech. These days he writes a lot about AI, technology, and future trends as well as keep up with what's going on in the realm of space, robotics, and the world of finance.

Haruko is a CG artist and creative director with over a decade of experience in branding, advertising and photography. She focuses on creating 3D visuals for brands, editorial outlets and advertising campaigns. Some of her clients include Apple, The New York Times, Google, Bubble Skincare, and more.

Rogie is a multidisciplinary designer, illustrator, and builder that loves the intersection of art and code. He currently I works at Figma as a Designer Advocate. He also has built a set of popular Figma plugins.

Rob is a product designer from South Africa. After a decade of freelance, he's taken the leap to work on his products, One Page Love and Show Them, full-time. He is also the creator and host of the popular Yo! Podcast, spotlighting designers, developers, and entrepreneurs.

🎙️ TalkShow, Don't Sell: Transforming you landing pages

Hiten is long time technology entrepreneur. He currently works on product & growth for the AI Products at Dropbox. Over the last 20+ years, in addition to starting my own companies (Crazy Egg, KISSmetrics, and Nira), he's invested in hundreds of incredible founders and have become a trusted advisor and supporter to help their companies grow.

Madison is a marketing pro with a strong background in demand generation and brand leadership. She currently Head of Marketing at AngelList. Previously, she was at Loom as Senior Manager of Demand Generation. Before that, she was at Bloomberg LP, and helped grow the revenue marketing team at Wunderkind managing client marketing initiatives.

Hon is the founder and CEO of Cortical Labs, the company that built the first ever commercially available biological computer. Previously, he founded CliniCloud, a medtech startup building connected medical devices. A medical doctor from The University of Melbourne, Hon discovered tech entrepreneurship during research at Johns Hopkins. He's also a full-stack software engineer, machine learning enthusiast, and was named to Forbes 30 Under 30 in 2016.

Sebastiaan is co-founder and designer at Lux. They make award-winning apps for photography and video like Halide, Kino, Spectre, and Orion. He also runs a small design and photography studio, with a focus on motorcycles, technology and typography. Previously he designed for Apple, Sony, Mozilla, Oracle, frog design, HP, and EA.

Michael is a Danish designer & entrepreneur. He runs entertainment studio Northplay, Pixelresort and design resource platform Apply Pixels. He’s got a treasure-trove of experience creating his own companies, leading teams of developers and designers and working on countless of succesful products, games and services.

🎙️ TalkChasing Fun: Creating a Career You Love

Pablo is a designer and co-founder at Lummi, and writes comics. He's also on the design advisory board at Canva. Previously, he co-founded Carbon Health and Blush, and held roles as a staff designer at Lyft and lead designer at InVision.

🎙️ TalkThe Boy and the Machine

Claudio is a designer with over two decades of experience working for brands, crafting digital products, and interactive experiences. He's currently Senior Director at Work & Co. Previously he was Head of Design at Opal Camera, Creative Director at Microsoft, Art Director at Fantasy Interactive, and more.

Jeremiah is a creative director, producer, and photographer based out of Los Angeles. He’s worked with a variety of companies such as Figma, Acorns, Meta, 7-11, Tommy Hilfiger, Sony Pictures, Kobalt, and Interscope Records. He has over a decade of experience in digital marketing, video, photography, and digital media.

Will is a self taught creative engineer with a passion for building digital products. He's currently a design engineer at Crunchy Data. Previously, Will was a freelance developer and designer.

🎙️ TalkWhat is left when AI eats the world?

Anselm is the founder of Garden Computing, and the creator of Jazz. He is a self-taught engineer who believes serious challenges require serious play and that designers are the better software developers.

Jamey started working as a designer for early-stage companies when she was just 15. She now heads up brand design at Portal and runs a design agency for startups called Brand Sprints.

🎙️ TalkHow to Bulletproof your Career

Hannah is the Director of Product Design at Webflow, leading teams across their core product, interactions, analytics, optimizations, AI, and Cloud. She previously led teams designing open-source infra software at HashiCorp.

Tom is a designer, developer, and founder of a new vibe coding tool (coming soon). Previously Head of Product at Around (Acquired by Miro), co-founder of Alter (Acquired by Google) and co-creator of Adobe XD.

Andy is the designer and founder of the experimental studio, Not Boring Software Ltd. He’s the creator of popular apps such as (Not Boring) Weather, Camera, Habits, Paper by Fiftythree, and more.

Release Notes Podcast

Release Notes Podcast at Valio Con

Live podcast happening Friday at 1pm

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What’s Included

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Your ticket comes with a lot more than just entrance to the conference. You'll also get free breakfast every day, access to multiple evening events, Valio Con swag, including the official 2025 t-shirt, and a chance to win some cool stuff multiple times each day. If you’ve been to Valio Con before, you know we really love giving away tons of prizes!

Tickets do not include a hotel stay, you must book that separately. We’ve negotiated a huge discount with the Seabird resort. Use code G-VCN1 when booking your stay to get the low rate of just $339/night. Right at the beach!

We'll also be doing a bunch of fun activities, like: an evening bonfire with s’mores, an outdoor movie screening, morning photo walks, surf sessions, and more!

Schedule

Fun times ahead!

Thursday, Sep. 11th
  • 🥞 Breakfast & registration
  • 👋 Welcome
  • Pablo Stanley

    The Boy and the Machine

  • Cristina Cordova

    Marketing by Not Marketing: Building a Brand People Want to Copy

  • 🎁 Giveaway
  • Jamey Gannon

    How to Bulletproof your Career

  • Michael Flarup

    Chasing Fun: Creating a Career You Love

  • 🥙 Afternoon break
  • Rob Hope

    Show, Don't Sell: Transforming you landing pages

  • Linus Ekenstam
  • 🎁 Giveaway
  • Panel: Future of Design Tools

    A look into the future from the folks building today's tools

  • Free time
  • Kickoff bonefire with s'mores
Friday, Sep. 12th
  • 🥞 Breakfast & hang time
  • 👋 Good morning
  • Jeremiah Warren
  • Kathleen Warner
  • 🎁 Giveaway
  • Hon Weng Chong
  • Madison Flickinger
  • 🥙 Afternoon break
  • Release Notes Podcast
  • Claudio Guglieri
  • Panel: Building with AI

    Real world walk-throughs on to use AI tools

  • 🎁 Giveaway
  • Free time
Saturday, Sep. 13th
  • 🥞 Breakfast & hang time
  • 👋 Good morning
  • Haruko Hayakawa
  • Hiten Shah
  • 🎁 Giveaway
  • Dann Petty
  • Will King

    What is left when AI eats the world?

  • 🥙 Afternoon break
  • Anselm Eickhoff
  • Speaker TBA
  • 🎁 Giveaway
  • Drew Wilson
  • Free time
Sunday, Sep. 14th
  • 🥞 Breakfast & hang time
  • 👋 Good morning
  • Sebastiaan de With
  • Rogie King
  • 🎁 Giveaway
  • Speaker TBA
  • Andy Allen
  • 🎁 Giveaway
  • ✌️ Closing
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