2026 sponsors

Let’s open minds. And markets. We help you grow past assumptions and bring everyone into the way you imagine the future. Data Science that Listens uses mental model skylines and thinking styles to helps teams think of new ideas outside their own experience, mend existing solutions, and measure outcomes.

Tired of executing other people's ideas? Learn Business. Apply it to Design. Win. At CDO School, you'll master the tactics that work on the people writing the checks. Get The CDO School Toolkit—Ryan Rumsey’s complete library of courses, frameworks, templates, and strategies to turn design logic into business sense.

Catbird Content helps clients fix sluggish product adoption, low engagement, high support and development costs, and high-risk liability created by inadequate UX content. Led by Strategic Writing for UX author Torrey Podmajersky, Catbird Content also offers training, mentorship, and support for clients to hire the right UX and content talent.

4% is a social health community that guides people to heal the root of all disconnection: our relationship with ourselves and others. This community offers gentle, trauma-informed group healing to rebuild trust, love, and care for ourselves—including Healing After Layoffs, a 7-week coaching program designed to support you within a community of care.

Kick isolation. Find connection. At Content Design Leaders. you’ll join a community of fellow UX content design leaders. Solve challenges, build momentum, and transform the profession we love—together. Join us to set goals, tackle challenges, and elevate your career with real-life strategies shared by peers.

The Sensemakers Club is a network of curious minds looking to engage in peership, mutual aid, and collaborations. We host inclusive, small group discussions every weekday hosted by supportive peers trained to create safe, inclusive spaces. Come play with curious minds like yours—check out the Sensemakers Club.

Rosenfeld Media connects people interested in designing better user experiences with the best expertise available—in the formats that make the most sense, and in ways that demonstrate the value of UX. Check out their latest conferences, trainings, and books—like The Staff Designer, by Throughline speaker Catt Small.

Career Strategy Lab is a UX job search and career coaching program founded by Sarah Doody. On average, our UX and Product people who work with us increase their salaries by 5 figures and have been hired at companies including Apple, Bank of America, Delta Airlines, Fidelity, Home Depot, IBM, Liberty Mutual, Whole Foods, and more.

RewiredUX is the home of the OOUX Masterclass where you’ll learn how to create intuitive digital experiences—especially in complex systems—by aligning design to the way people naturally think: in objects. With OOUX and the ORCA process, you can turn fuzzy requirements and research into solid, scalable structure.

Are you happy with the way your organization makes decisions? David Dylan Thomas’s talks and workshops help you align your goals, methods, and metrics for results you can feel proud of. He’s spoken at TEDNYC, SXSW Interactive, Confab, An Event Apart, LavaCon, UX Copenhagen—and at internal events for companies big and small.

Whitney Hess (she/her) partners with creative leaders and teams to put humanity back into business. Through executive coaching and organizational consulting, Whitney helps you design your future, mature your business practices, and make serious change. She blends empathy and accountability to get lasting results, one conversation at a time.