Shift UX 2026

Name: Shift UX 2026
Start: September 23-25, 2026
Location: New York City + Live Online

September 23-25, 2026 • New York City + Live Online

Shift UX 2026 is a new two-day, hybrid conference (plus an optional day of workshops) for people who care deeply about how products and services actually w

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Shift UX 2026 is a new two-day, hybrid conference (plus an optional day of workshops) for people who care deeply about how products and services actually work in the world.

Hosted by Rosenfeld Media, it brings together professionals who currently work as designers, researchers, product managers, content designers, data scientists, and adjacent practitioners who know UX is more important than ever—even as traditional UX roles blur or disappear.

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Sensemaking

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

Led by Abby Covert.

Research as strategy

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

Led by Jemma Ahmed.

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.

Led by Stefanie Hutka.

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.

Led by Jon Fukuda.