The most influential speakers of the digital world gathered for two exiting days in Amsterdam for the Awwwards Conference, an event for designers, web developers and all sort of digital dreamers to discuss the challenges and opportunities that lie ahead in the future of the web.

Locomotive won Agency of the Year for the second year in a row.

Every year Awwwards holds conferences in different iconic cities all over the world, from New York, Barcelona and Amsterdam, to London, Paris and LA uniting the best agencies and thought leaders in the world of digital design. Now it was the time for Amsterdam to shine.

A set of experts were invited to share their experiences in the two days of the event. Chris Do, founder at The Futur, Paul Boag, user experience at Boagworks, Liva Grinberga, Designer at MediaMonks, Andy Budd, founder at Clearleft and Liza Enebis, creative director at Studio Dunbar were part of that list, among many others.

At the same time, there were a group of diverse workshops to go into apart from the lectures. Vitaly Friedman focused on smart responsive interface design patterns, while Andy Budd answered the key question of how to solve complex business problems with design. Finally, Paul Boag addressed the achieved improved conversion rates.

A panel of specialists formed by the most important designers, creative directors, bloggers and agencies in the industry chose the best agencies and professionals from around the world to give them the famous Awwwards. Despite everybody wanted them, only a few were the chosen ones.

The Montreal web agency Locomotive was chosen as the agency of the year by the jury, while the San Francisco agency Cuberto was given the same award by the users. The freelance developer Aristide Beonist was awarded by the jury as independent of the year, the same award given by the users to Zhenya Rynzhuk, cofounder of the Sochnik design studio.

We just won Agency of the Year for the second year in a row at @Awwwards !
So proud of our amazing team! Thanks to the jury and congratulations to all the winners 🙏 🏆 pic.twitter.com/zdL3nQBJ2r

— Locomotive 🚂 (@LocomotiveMTL) February 21, 2020

The attendees at the event also had plenty of chances to unwind and network among each other. There was an activity of speed networking, with three minutes to present your agency, idea or product, as well as “dev sessions”, informal talks with lead developers who shared their secrets.

The next Awwwards conference will be in Toronto from July 14 to July 16. There’s already an exciting agenda set up for the conference, with unmissable talks, diverse workshops and different networking activities.

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