Penpot Fest

Name: Penpot Fest 2023 · Barcelona
Start: 2023-06-28
End: 2023-06-30
Location: Barcelona, Spain

Conference gathering designers and developers around design, code and open source, organised by the team behind the open-source design tool Penpot.

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Latest edition

October 2025

Location

Madrid, Spain

Format

In person

Cadence

Annual

Organiser

Penpot

About Penpot Fest

Penpot Fest is a conference that brings designers and developers together around the themes of design, code and open source. It is organised by the team behind Penpot, the open-source web-based design tool, and draws a community interested in bridging design and engineering workflows.

The programme features keynotes, hands-on workshops and networking time, with recent editions themed around refining the designer and developer workflow. Talks are published online after the event.

Held annually since 2023, the event has moved between Spanish cities including Barcelona and Madrid. It sits close to a vendor-community event given its tie to a single tool, but it operates as a ticketed multi-track conference with external speakers across the wider design and open-source community.

Editions

2025
8–10 Oct
Madrid
14 speakers
2024
5–7 Jun
Barcelona
Lineup unknown
2023
28–30 Jun
Barcelona
22 speakers
Speakers in 2023Speakers at Penpot Fest 2023
28–30 JunBarcelona
Alonso Torres
Grid Layout Special Announcement and Demo!
Andrés González
OPEN SESSION | Product Roadmap Open Session: You Shape the Future of Penpot!
Carol Portugal
OPEN SESSION | Product Roadmap Open Session: You Shape the Future of Penpot!
Clara García
Grid Layout Special Announcement and Demo!
Dalai Felinto
The Challenge of Design in Open Source Projects
Elizabet Oliveira
Crafting Interactive Audio Experiences with Penpot and SVG
Emilio Coppola
Waiting for Godot!
Iván Martínez Toro
WORKSHOP | Get Your Own Self-Hosted PrivateGPT Instance & Query Your Local Documents
Jan C. Borchardt
5 Essential Open Source Design Strategies We Use at Nextcloud
Jan Six
KEYNOTE | the Future of Design Decisions & a Special Announcement
Madeline Peck
A Penpot-Powered Community Design Team: Fedora and Podman Desktop
Máirín Duffy
A Penpot-Powered Community Design Team: Fedora and Podman Desktop
Marco-Christian Krenn
KEYNOTE | the Future of Design Decisions & a Special Announcement
Martin Owens
SVG: Browsers Vs. Editors, a Light Talk on a Serious Struggle
Michał Malewicz
The Future of Design and Its Multiple Angles
Mike Nolan
Designing Communities: The Foundational Design Contribution
Miryam González
Tell Me Why (Ain't Nothing but a Project Management Tool)
Pablo Ruiz-Múzquiz
KEYNOTE | the State of Penpot & the Rise of AI
Peace Ojemeh
KEYNOTE | Why Both Open Source and Africa's Future Successes Are Intertwined
Veethika M
Transforming Factories Into Studios: A Case Study of GitLab and Penpot
Vitaly Friedman
PANEL | Designer & Developer Collaboration in the Age of AI
Yamila Moreno
Tell Me Why (Ain't Nothing but a Project Management Tool)

Speakers in 2023Speakers at Penpot Fest 2023

28–30 JunBarcelona

Alonso Torres
Grid Layout Special Announcement and Demo!
Andrés González
OPEN SESSION | Product Roadmap Open Session: You Shape the Future of Penpot!
Carol Portugal
OPEN SESSION | Product Roadmap Open Session: You Shape the Future of Penpot!
Clara García
Grid Layout Special Announcement and Demo!
Dalai Felinto
The Challenge of Design in Open Source Projects
Elizabet Oliveira
Crafting Interactive Audio Experiences with Penpot and SVG

Emilio Coppola
Waiting for Godot!
Iván Martínez Toro
WORKSHOP | Get Your Own Self-Hosted PrivateGPT Instance & Query Your Local Documents
Jan C. Borchardt
5 Essential Open Source Design Strategies We Use at Nextcloud
Jan Six
KEYNOTE | the Future of Design Decisions & a Special Announcement
Madeline Peck
A Penpot-Powered Community Design Team: Fedora and Podman Desktop
Máirín Duffy
A Penpot-Powered Community Design Team: Fedora and Podman Desktop
Marco-Christian Krenn
KEYNOTE | the Future of Design Decisions & a Special Announcement
Martin Owens
SVG: Browsers Vs. Editors, a Light Talk on a Serious Struggle
Michał Malewicz
The Future of Design and Its Multiple Angles
Mike Nolan
Designing Communities: The Foundational Design Contribution
Miryam González
Tell Me Why (Ain't Nothing but a Project Management Tool)
Pablo Ruiz-Múzquiz
KEYNOTE | the State of Penpot & the Rise of AI
Peace Ojemeh
KEYNOTE | Why Both Open Source and Africa's Future Successes Are Intertwined
Veethika M
Transforming Factories Into Studios: A Case Study of GitLab and Penpot
Vitaly Friedman
PANEL | Designer & Developer Collaboration in the Age of AI
Yamila Moreno
Tell Me Why (Ain't Nothing but a Project Management Tool)