Conference Manager

From October 2024 until August 2025 I worked as a front-end developer on Conference Manager, a Danish platform that organisations use to plan, run, and host conferences, events, and webinars. The product had been in continuous use for around fifteen years, and a large part of its audience had been working in it for almost as long.

That history shaped everything. These were veteran users who knew exactly where every setting lived, and a change that moved something for the sake of tidiness would have cost them more than it gained. The brief was to improve the experience without breaking the mental models they had built up over a decade and a half.

I worked closely with the lead UX/UI designer, redesigning pages in Figma against what we had learned from how people actually used the product, then rebuilding those pages inside the existing codebase. In practice that meant moving screens from ColdFusion and jQuery to React one at a time, while the rest of the platform carried on running around them.

Much of my work sat in the Website module, where organisers build and publish an event website and open it for registration, and in the flows for creating webinars and managing their participants. It taught me a lot about respecting the decisions a product has already made, and about improving something gradually rather than all at once.