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HATCH Conference 2026

HATCH Conference is the premier event for European in-house design teams, featuring three days of participative learning and networking in Berlin and online. The conference includes full-day and half-day workshops focused on craft, AI, accessibility, and design strategy, culminating in a major conference day with keynotes, roundtables, and workshops. Every s…

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61Speakers
22Sponsors
39On the bill · sessions
68Companies · in total
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Speakers

Programmed at HATCH, in alphabetical order.
Angelos Arnis
Design Lead · Craci
Aswin Raganathan
Design Manager · Delivery Hero
Burcu Arsoy
Design Lead · Visa
Cassie Groos
Design System Lead · Unily
Cassie Gross
Design Systems Lead · Unily
Dagmar Glow
Professional Business Coach · 90 Minute Labs
Damian Martone
Hatch Conference
Dominik Gmeiner
Founder · DG Studio
Dominik Kenzler
VP of Design · sevdesk
Donal O'Mahony
Product Design Leader · Canto
Florian Boelter
Lead Designer · Juro
Grant Show
Director · Gosh Darn Yeah
Hang Xu
Main Stage Host
Hannah Baker
Dome Stage Host
Hanna Kang
Sr. UX Manager, Discovery · GetYourGuide
Hiba Ganta
Product Director · Rare Folks
Ingrid Dorai-Rekaa
Staff Product Designer · Deepgram
Itamar Medeiros
VP of Design Strategy · SAP
Jonny Burch
Designer & Co-Founder · Near Future
Josh Clark
Author · Sentient Design
Julio Luis
Dir. of Strategy & Transformation · Reply
Karsten Lenz
Designer & Dev · Freelancer
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Sponsors

The houses behind the program. Tiers as disclosed.
Amazon DesignExhibitor
Berlin Design e.V.Media Partner
BigEvent.ioMedia Partner
BilendiUXExhibitor
DessnExhibitor
Effectus SoftwareMedia Partner
FigmaSponsor
FinSponsor
GermanTechJobsMedia Partner
GetYourGuideSponsor
HelloFresh GroupSupporter
HyphenExhibitor
Interaction Design FoundationMedia Partner
JitterExhibitor
Make Users HappyMedia Partner
MakeUsersHappyMedia Partner
MobbinSponsor
OBJ.StudioSupporter
Reply.deExhibitor
SuperhumanSponsor
UserTestingMain Sponsor
UXnessMedia Partner
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Agenda

Selected from 39 sessions on the bill.
  • 09:30

    Kickoff

    Welcome to Hatch Conference

    Main Stage
  • 09:45

    How You Operate Is the Strategy

    Everyone invests in design systems. Quality still feels rare. The problem was never the artifact — it’s the operating system underneath it: how decisions get made, how taste propag…

    Main Stage
  • 10:30

    Communicating Research for Impact

  • 10:30

    Design for Signal

    We optimized for frictionless and ended up with forgettable. Nicole makes the case for designing recognition into the moments most teams treat as details: timing, empty states, tra…

    Main Stage
  • 10:30

    Designing Through Uncertainty

  • 10:30

    Making Product Design Work in Large and Complex Organisations

  • 10:30

    Navigating Information Density

    Workshop Lab
  • 10:30

    You Don't Want to Be a Design Engineer

    The role is being sold as the perfect evolution: high demand, good pay, future-proof. Mehmet has lived it at senior level, and he is here with the war stories most talks leave out.

    Main Stage
  • 11:30

    Build Fast, Abandon Faster

    Most systems are not hard to maintain because something went wrong. They are hard to maintain because that is how they were designed. Kyle makes the case for stewardship as a desig…

    Main Stage
Intermission
Part the Second · For the Buyer

What does it mean when 68 companies show up — and 5 bet on three roles at once?

68 companies. five are betting more than once.

The numbers below are derived from the speakers, sponsors, and exhibitors on this page — cross-referenced into one ledger. They are the only thing here that 10times.com cannot tell you.

Who's in the room
5All threespeak · spons · exh
16Sponsoringsponsor only
47Companies Speakingspeaker only

The Triple-Threat

Superhuman·GetYourGuide·BilendiUX·Reply·UserTesting

Speakers by seniority

31% of the speakers carry senior titles — C-suite, Founder, VP, or Director-level.

  • C-suite23%
  • Founder / Owner711%
  • VP-level23%
  • Director / Head of813%
  • Manager / Lead1626%
  • Product12%
  • Engineer · IC1016%
  • Research / Science35%
  • Other roles1220%

Of 61 on the bill · classified by free-text title

Most-represented companies
  1. 01SuperhumanSp·S3V
  2. 02GetYourGuideSp·S2V
  3. 03BilendiUXSp·E1V
  4. 04ReplySp·E1V
  5. 05UserTestingSp·M1V
  6. 06Amazon DesignSp·E
  7. 07Berlin Design e.V.Sp·M
  8. 08BigEvent.ioSp·M
  9. 09DessnSp·E
  10. 10Effectus SoftwareSp·M
  11. 11FigmaSp·S
  12. 12FinSp·S
  13. 13German Tech JobsSp·M
  14. 14HelloFresh GroupSp·S
Sponsors by tier
exhibitor6
27% of 22
main sponsor1
5% of 22
media partner8
36% of 22
sponsor5
23% of 22
supporter2
9% of 22
At peer events but not here

These companies sponsored two or more peer events recently, but aren't on this program. For an organizer, that's a list of warm prospects.

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