Hatch Conference 2025

After graduating from Interaction Design Institute Ivrea in Italy, Didier spent 15 years in San Francisco where he has held key roles such as Director of Product Design at Uber and lead designer at Flipboard. He is currently the VP of Design at Qonto, a fintech based in Paris. His career is marked by significant contributions to consumer Product Design and advisory roles in tech companies like Tinder, Trade Republic and Robinhood.

Innovation is Dead. Long Live Design.
The role of the designer has changed, from visionaries to collaborative, from silos to cross-functional. Let's examine the shift in our industry the commoditization of design has brought.

Christina Nguyen White is VP Design, Loom at Atlassian, and previously built and scaled high-performing design, brand, and research teams at Google, Huge, Gin Lane, and SapientNitro. From revolutionizing salads with sweetgreen’s D2C model to introducing consumer video at work with Loom, she drives delight that delivers results—like growing Loom's annual revenue from $27M to $90M in three years via Loom AI. Her leadership culminated in Loom’s acquisition by Atlassian, where she now scales video communication for enterprise teams. She is based in NYC with her family.

Artificially Sincere: Team Communication in the age of AI
As AI becomes part of every workflow, how do we keep communication human? Learn how to builds authentic team relationships—with each other and with AI in order to work more effectively.

David Carson (born September 8, 1955, in Corpus Christi, Texas) is a pioneering American graphic designer renowned for his innovative and rule-breaking style. Initially a professional surfer and sociology graduate, Carson discovered graphic design through a workshop and quickly rose to prominence. His chaotic, grunge-inspired typography and experimental layouts gained attention during his tenure at Ray Gun magazine in the 1990s. Carson's work redefined visual communication, blending art and design, and influenced a generation of creatives. He later founded David Carson Design, collaborating with global brands like Nike, Pepsi, and Levi's

Jenny Wen is a product leader and designer who believes in making software both powerful and joyful. Currently a design lead for Claude.ai at Anthropic, Jenny previously served as Director of Design at Figma, where she led teams working on groundbreaking products including FigJam, Slides, and Community. She brought FigJam from concept to launch, helping create a collaborative whiteboarding tool that people actually love using. Jenny loves helping teams be more ambitious together, whether that's imagining novel solutions or shipping higher quality products – all while having fun along the way.

Don't trust the Process
Learn how embracing high-fidelity prototyping, trusting intuition over process, and getting comfortable with rapid changes leads to better products.

Emmet is the long-time design leader at Intercom, a startup building AI tools for Customer Service teams, where he manages the Product, Growth, and Brand design teams. Emmet previously worked as a designer at Google where he designed Android Wear and Google Flights. He lives in the west of Ireland.

Agentic Design: From Interfaces to Intelligence
Discover what AI agents are reshaping the products we build and how we build them with Intercom's shift to a purely Agentic-Driven product after years of conversational UI design.

Cameron is a hands-on Head of Product Design currently working at Cash app. Prior to Cash, Cam has led award winning work for Wise, Beats by Dre and Apple. His background primarily focuses on large-scale consumer-facing products, with an emphasis on core experience teams and global design systems. Some of his most notable work includes the recent Wise Rebrand and the redesign of Beats' digital experiences.

What can be made, what should be made
When anything is possible and everything begins to feel the same, who wins? Those who know what should exist, not just what can.