Hatch Conference

What Hatch Conference does

Hatch Conference is a Berlin-based annual design conference organized by Hatch Community Events UG (founded 2022, 8 employees, privately held, no external funding disclosed). The 2026 edition runs September 16–18 at the Silent Green cultural quarter, structured as a three-day program: Super IC Day (full-day AI/design-systems workshops, 110 spots), Strategy & Biz Day (half-day leadership workshops, 125 spots), Hatch Labs (parallel practical workshops on the main day), and the Main Conference on September 18 featuring two stages with 15 sessions. The company targets senior UX and product designers, design leaders, and managers across Europe, with an explicit anti-corporate positioning ("selected for topic expertise, not follower count") and a curated invite-only model for onsite attendees requiring LinkedIn-verified senior-level credentials.

The core product is the conference experience itself, delivered through both onsite attendance (sold out for 2026, starting at €420 + VAT) and online streaming (€50–€75 per pass via 1/5/10-pack bundles). Online ticket holders receive 6 months of exclusive recording access before public YouTube release. The technology stack is intentionally lean and non-proprietary: pretix.eu powers ticketing and registration, Stripe handles payments, Brevo and Loops.so manage email communications, Make.com handles workflow automation, and YouTube/Vimeo host post-event video. No proprietary software or AI capabilities are developed.

The business model is event-ticket-driven, with three revenue streams: online conference ticket sales (one-time), onsite conference passes (one-time, sold out), and workshop day passes (one-time, sold out). Distribution is direct-to-consumer via the Hatch website, with marketing driven primarily through LinkedIn, Instagram, the Leadership Ateliers blog, and community word-of-mouth. The customer base is highly distributed (individual designers and small design teams); named companies in the source data (Anthropic, Notion, PayPal, Pentagram, Superhuman, GitHub, etc.) are speakers and workshop facilitators, not paying customers. Sponsorship revenue is not disclosed but is structurally plausible given the speaker quality and is the largest unverified line item.

Name

Hatch Conference

Legal name

Hatch Community Events UG

Website

https://hatchconference.com

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Hatch Conference is a Berlin-based annual design conference for senior UX/product designers and design leaders across Europe, held September 16–18, 2026 at Silent Green, featuring online streaming, workshops, and curated speakers from companies like Anthropic, Notion, PayPal, and Pentagram.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Design Conferences

NAICS

Convention and Trade Show Organizers (56192)

akta.pro primary industry

Training, Enablement & Talent Development Summits (THAHAMAH)

akta.pro secondary industries

Engineering & Technology Congresses (THAHAJAE), Conference Centers & Dedicated Meeting Venues (THAHAAAB)

Keywords

• Design conferences
• UX design events
• Design leadership workshops
• Professional design summits
• Creative industry networking

Headquarters

HQ city

Berlin

HQ country

Germany

HQ region

Europe

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Operations, Marketing or Sales, Personnel, Others

Revenue model

1. Conference Ticket Sales: The primary revenue stream is the sale of tickets to the Hatch Conference event, which includes online-only passes (single, 5-pack, 10-pack bundles) and onsite conference passes. Tickets grant access to live streams, Dome Stage recordings, and 6-month access to the recordings library.
2. Workshop Day Passes: Revenue is also generated from full-day and half-day workshop tickets for Super IC Day (Sep 16) and Strategy & Biz Day (Sep 17). These are priced at approximately €620 and are sold separately from conference day tickets.
3. Onsite Conference Tickets: Onsite tickets (currently sold out for 2026) provide in-person access to the conference at Silent Green in Berlin, including food, drinks, materials, and certificate of attendance, starting from €420 + VAT.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

Hatch Conference organizes and sells tickets to an annual design conference for senior UX and product designers in Europe. The core offering is a three-day event (September 16-18) held at Silent Green in Berlin, comprising pre-conference workshops (Super IC Day and Strategy & Biz Day), a main conference day streamed online with two stages (Main Stage live, Dome Stage recorded), and concurrent Hatch Labs sessions. Tickets are sold as online single/5-pack/10-pack bundles starting from €50 per attendee and as onsite passes starting from €420 plus VAT.

Product overview

Hatch Conference is a design conference focused on product design, UX, and design leadership in Europe. The event runs September 16-18, 2026 in Berlin with online streaming options. The core offering is the Main Conference (Hatch Conference Online) featuring two stages streamed to online attendees. Additional offerings include Super IC Day (September 16, full-day workshops on AI and design systems), Strategy & Biz Day (September 17, half-day leadership workshops), and Hatch Labs (September 18, practical skill-building sessions). Online passes are available in Single, 5-Pass, and 10-Pass bundles ranging from €50-75 per person. All online attendees receive 6-month access to recordings, a LinkedIn-compatible certificate of attendance, and access to networking tools.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Hatch Conference Online (Main Conference) An annual design conference for UX and product designers featuring two stages (Main Stage streamed live and Dome Stage released as recordings the following week) with 15 sessions per edition. Online attendees receive 6-month access to recordings and a LinkedIn-compatible certificate of attendance. Online passes are sold as Single (€75), 5-Pack (€300), and 10-Pack (€500) bundles.
• Hatch Conference Onsite The in-person edition of the Hatch Conference held at Silent Green cultural quarter in Berlin. Sold via invite-only application requiring senior-level title or 5+ years of experience with LinkedIn profile verification. Includes food, drinks, materials, and certificate of attendance. Onsite tickets for 2026 were sold out at time of source capture.
• Super IC Day A full-day pre-conference workshop program for senior individual contributor designers and researchers focused on AI, design systems, automation, agentic prototyping, and voice interfaces. Includes hands-on building sessions with a certificate of attendance. 110 spots available in 2026, sold out.
• Strategy & Biz Day A half-day pre-conference workshop program for design leaders and managers focused on strategic and business skills. Participants choose 2 of 10 sessions covering growth design, business impact, presentations, storytelling, B2B UX strategy, and AI product behavior. 125 spots available in 2026 (16-22 people per class), sold out.
• Hatch Labs Concurrent interactive workshops and labs held on the main conference day, focused on practical skill-building topics including team dynamics, design systems, voice interfaces, and career development for designers.

Quantifiable outcome

• 15 sessions across two stages accessible per ticket
• +1 more outcomes

Named customers34 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration8 records

Partnerships

Three partnerships are on record, tiered core.

• pretix.eucoreTechnology or Integrationpretix.eu is the ticketing and registration infrastructure provider powering the Hatch Conference ticket shop. It handles online ticket sales, payment processing (via Stripe integration), waitlists, and access control for both online and onsite events.
• StripecoreTechnology or IntegrationStripe is used for payment processing on the pretix.eu ticketing platform. Hatch does not store credit card details directly; all payment data is processed and stored by Stripe.
• Silent GreencoreOthersSilent Green is the Berlin venue for the Hatch Conference — a former crematorium turned cultural quarter. It hosts indoor stages, open-air spaces, and creates the festival-like atmosphere that defines the Hatch brand.

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights3 records

Direct peers

• Config (Figma): Figma's annual design conference featuring product, UX, and design systems content for designers and design leaders globally. Direct competitor for Hatch's audience (senior designers) but operates at much larger scale and is free to attend, with a US-centric bias.
• UX London: Annual three-day UX conference in London run by Clearleft, focused on UX practitioners and leaders. Comparable format (multi-day conference + workshops), comparable audience seniority, and overlapping European designer audience.
• Front: Annual design and UX conference in Finland targeting Nordic and European designers. Similar boutique scale, similar European audience, and similar focus on practical design craft and leadership.
• Awwwards Conferences: Runs multiple annual design and digital design conferences in European cities (Amsterdam, Berlin, etc.). Shares the European design conference positioning and Berlin venue overlap with Hatch.
• Leading Design: London-based annual conference for design leaders, focused on the realities of leading design teams in Europe. Closest peer in terms of audience (senior European design leaders), boutique positioning, and curated speaker selection.
• Design Matters: Annual design conference (Copenhagen) targeting designers and design leaders. Comparable boutique European positioning, similar tier of speaker talent from major tech companies.

Broad incumbents

• Adobe MAX: Adobe's flagship annual creativity and design conference. Far larger and broader in scope (creative tools, design, video, AI), serving a much wider audience including non-designers, but overlaps with Hatch's design and design-systems content.
• O'Reilly Design Conference: O'Reilly's design-focused conference historically attached to broader O'Reilly events. Shares practitioner/design-systems content with Hatch but is embedded in a much larger technology media and learning platform.

Emerging players

• Webflow Conf: Webflow's annual customer/community conference. Vendor-sponsored (free/low-cost), targeting Webflow designers and broader no-code/web design community — adjacent audience but a comparable design-conference format.
• Smart Interface Design Patterns: Smaller, more specialized design event/conference series focused on UI patterns and interaction design. Smaller scale than Hatch but overlaps on the European designer audience and the 'practical craft' positioning.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• YouTubeyoutube.com/@hatchconference
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/hatch-conference
• Instagraminstagram.com/hatchconference

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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