Hatch Conference 2026

Rachel Kobetz is a transformative design leader who rebuilds organizational operating models to make exceptional products the system, not the exception via redesigned decision infrastructure, quality standards, experience architectures, and AI-native workflows. She's done this across PayPal, Expedia, Bank of America, Amazon, and Samsung, tackling platform scale and AI realities.

Randy Hunt is a veteran designer with over 25 years of experience crafting products, brands, and businesses that blend creativity with entrepreneurial impact. As Head of Design at Notion since 2021, he leads a global team of 50+ designers in building intuitive, beautiful tools that empower personal and team productivity for millions worldwide.

A legendary American graphic designer, painter, and educator whose work has helped define contemporary visual culture. Since 1991, she has been a principal at the design firm Pentagram, where she has created landmark identities and campaigns for The Public Theater, major museums, educational institutions, and global corporations. Scher is also celebrated for her large-scale, hand-painted typographic maps, which blur the boundary between information design and fine art.

Nicole Michaelis is a Content Designer turned Design Director based in Stockholm, Sweden, with over a decade of experience shaping content and product experiences for global tech companies. She has worked with teams at Spotify, Wolt, Miro, Hyper Island, and now Pleo, helping them connect strategy, UX writing, and content design across complex digital products.

Mehmet Aydın Baytaş, known as Baytaş, is a designer and engineer specializing in technical leadership for brand expression and innovative user interfaces. Now at Attio, a next-generation CRM platform, Baytaş works with the marketing team as a design engineer. His approach fuses technical precision with brand storytelling, creating interfaces that feel intuitive yet ambitious, drawing from his experience building products at startups and research labs.