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Sponsor the Inaugural Shift UX Conference

This is your opportunity to meet hundreds of UX, product, and content designers, product managers, researchers, data scientists, program managers and operations specialists, and adjacent practitioners.

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Why Shift UX, Why now?

From AI to the global economy, everything is changing everywhere all at once, and the job you had yesterday may not resemble your role today, much less tomorrow. Which is why, instead of treating UX as a job title, Shift UX 2026 frames UX as a powerful toolkit for everyone to use to solve complex problems in any setting, ranging from finance and healthcare to education and transportation.

We’ll explore four practice pillars that define the future of UX work:

Systems-level thinking

Panning back from the UI to “big picture” thinking and practices—service design, systems thinking, information architecture, knowledge management—that can’t be commodified.

Research as strategy

Positioning user research as high-value sense-making and leadership, rather than as a cost center that cranks out reports.

Human-centered tooling

UX thinking and skills are critical to determining how powerful new technologies make humans more constructively impactful, not just more efficient. Think “AI in the loop,” not humans on the sidelines.

Operations as orchestration

New demands and new complexity requires an ever greater level of coordination, and DesignOps, ResearchOps, ProductOps, and program management skills are needed to align people, tools, policies, and organizations.

We’ll also incorporate throughlines that are critical to how UX will be practiced in the years to come: the impact of blurring roles, championing ethical practices, greater emphasis on people skills, the merging of digital and physical design, and the challenges of doing good UX work inside complex, distributed organizations.

Why sponsor Shift UX?

Influence the software selection process by being in the right environment at the right time—in-person or live online—with technology-purchasing decision makers.
Engage with business consultants and UX agencies that present their work to potential clients who are trying to solve interesting, challenging problems
Recruit high-quality UX job candidates by gaining visibility for your brand among senior-level design talent
Gain product insight from community leaders and potential clients in a relaxed and intimate setting.
Demonstrate your organization’s commitment to UX design. There’s no better place to show your support for the UX community.

Become a Sponsor

To learn more about how your company can be a part of Shift UX, complete this form. You'll receive our sponsorship brochure, and Michelle Kaplan, our Director of Business Development, will follow up with you shortly.