FrontEndNorth is BACK and it BIGGER and BETTER!

It’s almost 2 years since we had the previous FrontEndNorth in Manchester (sadly the only record of the event is the Lanyrd and Eventbrite pages). The event is now back in a new BIGGER and BETTER location of Sheffield City Hall on Friday the 29th of September 2016.

Why Sheffield?

We chose Manchester in 2014 because we had a wonderful offer of a free venue from the people at MMU. For this reason we were able to bootstrap a low-cost weekend conference together relatively quickly while still keeping the event a high quality experience.

Sadly, I don’t live in Manchester and scoping out a venue there that was large enough to fulfil our needs for a more progressive event proved difficult. There was also the uprising of the excellent UpFront Conference which replaced the need for another front-end focused web conference in that region.

So, we moved to Sheffield where I have been running the WordPress Sheffield meetup for almost 6 years and where I organised and ran the 2014 WordCamp Sheffield conference.  In fact, the City Hall was one of the venues we had investigated for WordCamp Sheffield, it was sadly too expensive for what was a pretty small WordCamp (200 people) but perfect for a larger event (FEN plans to have around 300+ attendees).

Also, remember this – the event is called FrontEndNorth – our plan with this conference was always to grow the web community in the North of England and Sheffield is seriously lacking in ANY sort of conference of this size for the sector I run my business in. It made a lot of sense to move to somewhere new that we feel needs an event like this to help shine a light on this wonderful city.

Who’s speaking?

We’ve got 12 speakers planned for the event, with 4 confirmed, 2 in the pipeline and over 20 applications to filter through before we announce the rest. The following lovely people are already confirmed:

Get tickets while you can!

Early bird tickets start from £85 (limited). Students pay just £45! The standard delegate price is £120 – we’re releasing a few 100 now and then more in the coming months.

Head to the website: frontendnorth.com to get your tickets (via Eventbrite).

We need HELP!

The event really needs some awesome sponsors to help make it happen. We have a number of sponsor packages available – just check out the Sponsor Pack (Google Drive Document) and get in touch with us via [email protected] if you see anything you like!