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HATCH CONFERENCE 2026

September 18th

Main Stage Live Stream

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Session Information

09:30

KICKOFF

Kickoff

Welcome to Hatch Conference

A quick hello and walkthrough of this year’s event.

Damian Martone

Hatch Conference

Hang Xu

09:45

Keynote

25 Min

The Courage to Design

Teams everywhere are facing the same question: “What do we want to build?” Drawing on stories from his experiences at Apple, his lengthy career in Silicon Valley, and even the Apollo moon landings, Bob shares examples of creative courage in action.

Bob Baxley

Keynote

25 Min

The Courage to Design

Bob Baxley

10:30

Keynote

25 Min

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.

Mehmet Baytaş

Moment (ex Attio)

Keynote

25 Min

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.

Mehmet Baytaş

Moment (ex Attio)

11:30

Keynote

25 Min

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 design practice, not an afterthought.

Kyle Alexander

ex Block

Keynote

25 Min

Build Fast, Abandon Faster

Kyle Alexander

ex Block

12:20

Keynote

25 Min

The Trust Gap

Trust conflicts with how products get funded and measured. The conflict is not new. AI just makes it harder to ignore. Sara draws from work with Suno and The Atlantic to break down what it actually costs to take trust seriously, and why most products will not pay it.

Sara Vienna

Metalab

Keynote

25 Min

The Trust Gap

Sara Vienna

Metalab

14:30

Keynote

25 Min

The Tools That Shape Us

Same canvas, same layers panel, same constraints. For twenty years, interface design has run on the same paradigm, and our interfaces show it. Jonny argues the way out is not to use AI differently, but to build entirely new tools with it.

Jonny Burch

Near Future

Keynote

25 Min

The Tools That Shape Us

Jonny Burch

Near Future

Keynote

25 Min

The Tools That Shape Us

Jonny Burch

Near Future

15:30

Keynote

25 Min

The Future of Design is Local

After decades of looking towards Silicon Valley, design teams in Europe are starting to look elsewhere. This talk offers a perspective on how our geopolitical situation is giving European design a boost.

Nicole Michaelis

Pleo

Keynote

25 Min

The Future of Design is Local

Nicole Michaelis

Pleo

16:20

Keynote

25 Min

Don't write like a robot.

Don't design like one either.

Kevin designs AI productivity tools at Superhuman, with a front-row seat to how the same technology reshapes the work of designing it. An unguarded account of navigating ambiguity when the ground keeps shifting and the strategy is still catching up.

Kevin Cannon

Superhuman

Keynote

25 Min

Don't write like a robot.

Don't design like one either.

Kevin Cannon

Superhuman

17:20

Keynote

25 Min

Maintaining Quality while Building at Speed

The default assumption is that speed and quality trade off against each other. Randy's team at Notion has spent years proving the opposite, and now they are doing it again with AI agents. This is what the system actually looks like.

Randy Hunt

Notion

Keynote

25 Min

Maintaining Quality while Building at Speed

Randy Hunt

Notion

18:00

Keynote

25 Min

Things I do

Five decades at the center of the field. More technological shifts than anyone should have to survive. For the closing of Hatch 2026, Paula Scher reflects on what design has always been, what it risks becoming, and whether the distinction still matters.