Program uxcon '26

Work in progress – UX is shifting, and we’ll adapt.
warm UP
Sept 15
Tuesday
DAy 1
Sept 16
Wednesday
DAY 2
Sept 17
Thursday
SIGCHI Austria Meeting
What?
Talks
Workshops

Presenters

Mirjam de Klepper
Audimax
Marc Busch
BIG
talk
workshop
extended talk
panel discussion
dialogue session
live-streamed & video-recorded
video-recorded
audio-recorded
main stage
Audimax
side stage
BIG
workshop room
Seminarraum 1
workshop room
Seminarraum 2
workshop room
Seminarraum 3
9:00 - Registration & networking snack in the arcades
10:30
15min
30min
45min
60min
2h
cancelled
Opening
Nicole & Andreas
uxcon vienna
main stage
side stage
space 28
Superar 2
Superar 3
sign-up only
10:45
15min
30min
45min
60min
2h
cancelled
Introduction: Pulse of UX 2026
Kathy Toney
Independent
main stage
side stage
space 28
Superar 2
Superar 3
sign-up only
11:00
15min
30min
45min
60min
2h
cancelled
Intelligence reimagined - Interaction redefined
Elizabeth Churchill
MBZUAI
main stage
side stage
space 28
Superar 2
Superar 3
sign-up only
11:45
15min
30min
45min
60min
2h
cancelled
The new makers
James Lang
Together by Design
main stage
side stage
space 28
Superar 2
Superar 3
sign-up only
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12:15  – Lunch break in the arcades
13:45
15min
30min
45min
60min
2h
cancelled
If It doesn’t make cents, It doesn’t make sense: Why value is a design decision
Didier Hilhorst
Qonto
main stage
side stage
space 28
Superar 2
Superar 3
sign-up only
14:15
15min
30min
45min
60min
2h
cancelled
How to do brand and design when you’re a pop up, inside a start up, inside a scale up
Nikki Godley
Wise
main stage
side stage
space 28
Superar 2
Superar 3
sign-up only
14:45
15min
30min
45min
60min
2h
cancelled
Respect by design: Writing for 65+ users in the age of AI
Emma Schmidt
Airbnb
main stage
side stage
space 28
Superar 2
Superar 3
sign-up only
15:15
15min
30min
45min
60min
2h
cancelled
AI Skeptics: Technophobes or Truth-Tellers?
Christian Gonzalez
Google
main stage
side stage
space 28
Superar 2
Superar 3
sign-up only
13:45
15min
30min
45min
60min
2h
cancelled
Claude Code and Claude Design - how the Anthropic team actually uses it
Meaghan Choi
Anthropic
main stage
side stage
space 28
Superar 2
Superar 3
sign-up only
13:45
15min
30min
60min
2h
cancelled
Future-proofing UX research in the AI era
Maria Rosala
Nielsen Norman Group
main stage
side stage
Seminarraum 1
Superar 2
Superar 3
sign-up only
13:45
15min
30min
60min
2h
cancelled
Preparing for your pivot: From quiet curiosity to deliberate change
Indya McGuffin
Netflix
main stage
side stage
space 28
Seminarraum 2
Superar 3
sign-up only
13:45
15min
30min
60min
2h
cancelled
Designing for uncertainty: UX research methods for probabilistic systems
Iris Latour
THEFT studio
main stage
side stage
space 28
Superar 2
Seminarraum 3
sign-up only
15:45 - Coffee break in the arcades
16:25
15min
30min
45min
60min
2h
cancelled
World-building and world-breaking: The role of the designer in systemic governance
Pumla Maswanganyi
African Life-Centric Design
main stage
side stage
space 28
Superar 2
Superar 3
sign-up only
16:55
15min
30min
45min
60min
2h
cancelled
Whose English gets to be default?
Michael Kibedi
Independent Researcher & Author
main stage
side stage
space 28
Superar 2
Superar 3
sign-up only
16:25
15min
30min
45min
60min
2h
cancelled
How building with AI brought joy back to my design career
Akshat Mishra
Docusign
main stage
side stage
space 28
Superar 2
Superar 3
sign-up only
16:55
15min
30min
45min
60min
2h
cancelled
What no one tells you about building AI features (until it's too late)
Jonathan Kahati
Microsoft
main stage
side stage
space 28
Superar 2
Superar 3
sign-up only
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17:25 Short break - stage switch
17:40
15min
30min
45min
60min
2h
cancelled
Legal limits of UX? When optimization and dark patterns start to clash with the law
Max Schrems
noyb
main stage
side stage
space 28
Superar 2
Superar 3
sign-up only
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18:10 Closing
Arcade after hours
Sips, songs, and chatting away.
18:30 - 23:00
arcades
UX Vienna Club
Slow knowledge: Reading beyond the algorithm.
18:30 - 20:00
BIG