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UX Design

HATCH Conference 2026

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ATCH 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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42Voices
21Underwriters
0Exhibitors
20On the bill · sessions
53Companies · in total
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The Voices

Programmed at HATCH, in alphabetical order.
Angelos Arnis
Design Lead · Craci
Aswin Raganathan
Design Manager · Delivery Hero
Cassie Groos
Design System Lead · Unily
Cassie Gross
Design Systems Lead · Unily
Dagmar Glow
Professional Business Coach · 90 Minute Labs
Dominik Kenzler
VP of Design · sevdesk
Grant Show
Director · Gosh Darn Yeah
Hang Xu
Main Stage Host
Hannah Baker
Dome Stage Host
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
Kevin Cannon
Design Director · Superhuman
Kyle Alexander
Content & Model Designer · ex Block
Lade Tawak
Researcher & Strategist · Limen Labs
Lukas Oppermann
Design Systems · Github
Marie-Cécile Le Roy
Design Manager · Air France
Marine Wolffhugel
Co-Founder · BilendiUX
Mathieu Ritter
Talent Expert · Undiscovered
Mehmet Aydın Baytaş
Design Engineer · Attio

— and 20 more, by name unsung —

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Underwritten By

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

Selected from 20 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

    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

    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
  • 11:30

    Stop Polishing, Start Compounding!

    Polish is a feature. Compounding is a strategy. Tanisha reframes design ROI in marketplaces and makes the case for design that earns its place at the table before the brief is writ…

    Main Stage
  • 12:20

    Building Authority Through Content

    Workshop Lab
  • 12:20

    The Design System Identity Crisis

    Models are now also consumers of the design system, and the deliverables are changing with them. Cassie shares what she has learned shipping one of the more complex versions of thi…

    Main Stage
Intermission
Part the Second · For the Buyer

What does it mean when 53 companies show up — and 3 bet on three roles at once?

53 companies. three 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.

01Fig. 01 — Composition of the House
3All threespeak · spons · exh
16Sponsoringsponsor only
0Exhibitingexhibitor only
34Speakingspeaker only

The Triple-Threat

BilendiUX·GetYourGuide·Superhuman

02Fig. 02 — The Voices, by Seniority

38% of the speakers carry senior titles — C-suite, Founder, VP, or Director-level.

  • C-suite25%
  • Founder / Owner512%
  • VP-level25%
  • Director / Head of717%
  • Manager / Lead921%
  • Product12%
  • Engineer · IC614%
  • Research / Science12%
  • Other roles921%

Of 42 on the bill · classified by free-text title

03Fig. 03 — The Heaviest in the Room
  1. 01BilendiUXSp·E1V
  2. 02GetYourGuideSp·S1V
  3. 03SuperhumanSp·S1V
  4. 04Amazon DesignSp·E
  5. 05Berlin Design e.V.Sp·M
  6. 06bigevent.ioSp·M
  7. 07DessnSp·E
  8. 08Effectus SoftwareSp·M
  9. 09FigmaSp·S
  10. 10FinSp·S
  11. 11German Tech JobsSp·M
  12. 12HyphenSp·E
  13. 13Interaction Design FoundationSp·M
  14. 14JitterSp·E
04Fig. 04 — By Tier
exhibitor6
29% of 21
main sponsor1
5% of 21
media partner9
43% of 21
sponsor5
24% of 21
05Fig. 05 — The Missing · who's 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.

06Fig. 06 — Adjacent Convocations · by shared underwriters