Hey, whats up gang? It' a pleasure to e-meet you. My name is Matthew Haynes and I am the curator, host and founder of 'The Design Conference' in Brisbane. Firstly, I want to start by thanking you for taking the time to read, share and back our Pozible campaign. Being an already established event, we decided to launch this campaign in order to inform you about the future of 'The Design Conference', while providing everyone with an opportunity to help us evolve into a world class event, featuring more internationally acclaimed speakers.

The idea to launch 'The Design Conference' was conceived in late 2009 after I won an all expenses trip to meet my network of design, business and pop-culture heroes. Starting in Australia, I ventured to the USA and spent 6 weeks on a full time adventure, where I learnt not only about the creative industry but how creative business works and how creative people live. It was hands down, the most eye opening and mentally engaging experience of my life.

With a renewed sense of ownership over my life and career, I returned from the six weeks abroad with the belief that the world would be a better place if everyone was fortunate enough to experience their version of my overseas adventure. With the ability to send my friends and colleagues abroad impossible to fund independently, I've instead made it my goal to launch an event that brings the worlds best thought leaders to the creative community of Brisbane.

Since 2009, our team has curated 10 events, featured over 90 speakers and hosted thousands of event attendees. We want to thank the design community for their support to date, we truly appreciate it.

With many of your domestic heroes already featuring in 'The Design Conference', we must look to international speakers to maintain our ability to deliver an authentic, original and influential experience. To realise this goal, we are offering a range of affordable Pozible rewards, designed to raise the capital required to deliver a world class event, featuring up to six international speakers in 2016.

The Design Conference 2015

Past Event Titles

Tweets from 2015

Special Thanks

Pozible Launch Party!

Three BONUS International Presenters.

New Website launched. Tickets on sale.

At past events we have offered a month-long early bird campaign through February and March. These funds are used to secure flights and accommodation, as well as the ability to pay deposits on equipment and venue hire. While this approach has been largely effective over the last five years, it doesn't allow us to book international speakers who require financial commitments upwards of six months in advance.

To raise the funds we're substituting our 2016 early bird ticketing in exchange with our first Pozible campaign. We're offering up to 300 attendees the opportunity to experience 'The Design Conference' in Brisbane on May 26-27 for the cost price of $99 and $129 respectively.

By supporting this campaign, you'll be jumping in early before the announcement of the full line up. As part of the financial trade off, students and concession will save up to A$100, with general saving up to A$200 off the 2016 two-day conference ticket price.

As it stands, we've set our target at A$15,000. To help us hit this first mile-stone, we have three internationally acclaimed creatives, already locked in for next years event line-up. It is without further delay 'The Design Conference' 2016 welcomes street artist 

With international speakers requiring payment conformation at least six-month prior to the event, our major obstacle is raising these funds outside of our three-month ticket selling window (Feb-May for a May 2016 event)

We've chosen to launch a Pozible campaign because we believe it provides us with a great opportunity to secure a win/win situation for all parties involved. Not only will we be able to secure an internationally acclaimed line-up but 300 supporters will also be able to attend the event for a very special price.