"Best conference content and experience in a very, very, very long time."
"Well-paced, engaging, and most importantly, a safe space."
"I'm ready to sign up for next year!"
"Exactly what we need more of in the world."
"What a much needed breath of fresh air."
"Definitely worth the price of admission!"
"I genuinely took something valuable away from every talk."
"Best conference content and experience in a very, very, very long time." "Well-paced, engaging, and most importantly, a safe space." "I'm ready to sign up for next year!" "Exactly what we need more of in the world." "What a much needed breath of fresh air." "Definitely worth the price of admission!" "I genuinely took something valuable away from every talk."
early-bird tickets go on sale in september
Who should attend
Designers, researchers, content folks, product teams, and anyone who cares about building great user experiences
what you’ll learn
How to influence your company, navigate change, and decide what you want the next era of design and UX to look like
what you’ll get
Two days of practical talks and community conversations that leave you with new energy, new insight, and new ideas for your work
Call for speakers coming soon
Have a talk idea for Throughline 2027? Your chance is coming up! Look for a call for speakers in summer 2026.
Become a 2027 sponsor
Let’s shape the future of design—together.
Support our scholarship program
Our 2026 sponsors allowed us to award 34 all-access scholarship tickets to people who otherwise couldn’t afford to attend. Sponsor Throughline 2027, and you can help us do even more.
Get a team pass with every sponsorship
Every sponsorship also comes with a team conference pass—so you can level up your design org and build a more inclusive industry… at the same time.
why sponsor
Build a stronger pipeline
Recruit the best! Reach the 3,000+ talented design professionals who are part of the Active Voice community.
Increase your brand’s visibility
Get your name and work in front of 300+ conference attendees—all experienced designers, researchers, and content folks.
Grow and inspire your people
Invest in your team’s confidence and capabilities—so they can do their best work, and your design org can thrive.
Interested in learning more? Send us a note.
Strengthen the whole design community
Every sponsorship dollar will go directly to providing scholarship tickets to designers who otherwise could not afford to attend.
Brought to you by Active Voice
We’re Sara Wachter-Boettcher and Jen Dionisio, the team behind Active Voice—a tiny company on a big mission to make work better for people in design and tech.
We developed Throughline because we know it’s hard out there—and designers need spaces where people are willing to get real about it… without descending into doom and gloom. So we’re taking our years of experience running online workshops, group programs, and events, and pouring it all into one big, bad, totally untested (but guaranteed to be amazing!) conference… because we know this field is full of some of the most creative, compassionate, whipsmart people around. And we want to be part of whatever UX becomes next.