Top UX Conferences to attend in 2026

Updated for 2026 — stay ahead of the UX calendar and pick the right event for your growth and networking.

As the UX & product design landscape evolves rapidly — with AI, service design, product-ops and cross-discipline collaboration becoming ever more central — attending a top conference can boost your skills, expand your network, and refresh your mindset. Below are some of the most notable UX / UX-adjacent events planned for 2026. (As always, check the event website for the latest details.)

Top UX Conferences to attend in 2026

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1. prompt:UX Berlin 2026

Dates: 21 January 2026 (conference) + 22 January 2026 (workshop)
Venue: AMANO Grand Central, Berlin, Germany
Focus: This conference is pitched at the intersection of UX and AI (“the Conference dedicated to the intersection between AI and UX Design”) and offers a full-day workshop option. 
Why consider it: If you’re particularly interested in how AI is affecting UX design, this offers early-year inspiration and deep-dive workshop potential.
Link: prompt:UX Berlin 2026 

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2. ACM IUI 2026 (31st Annual Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces)

Dates: 23-26 March 2026 
Venue: Paphos, Cyprus
Description: This conference sits at the intersection of user interfaces, intelligent systems and human-computer interaction. For UX researchers exploring user-interfaces backed by AI, adaptive systems or intelligent UX, this event offers cutting-edge research and design practice insights.
Link: https://iui.acm.org/2026/

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3. ACM CHI 2026

Dates: 13-17 April 2026
Venue: Centre de Convencions Internacional de Barcelona (CCIB), Barcelona, Spain sigchi.org+1
Description: The premier international conference on human–computer interaction (HCI). A must-attend if you’re doing UX research or want to keep current with HCI theory, methods and academic-industry intersections.
Link: https://chi2026.acm.org/

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4. UX Nordic 2026

Dates: 15-16 April 2026
Venue: Aarhus, Denmark 
Focus: A “deep-dive” UX conference set in Scandinavia, designed for designers and UX professionals who want high quality sessions and workshops rather than broad trade-show style. 
Why consider it: European, focused, compact; useful for folks looking to sharpen UX design craft.
Link: UX Nordic 2026 

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5. UXinsight Festival 2026

Dates: 20-22 April 2026 
Venue: Stadsgehoorzaal, Leiden, Netherlands (hybrid: in-person & online)
Focus: A conference specifically for UX research (“more than a conference – a collaborative lab for UX research”) 
Why consider it: If you focus on UX research, user insights, methods and case-studies, this is ideal.
Link: UXinsight Festival 2026 

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6. UXLx: User Experience Lisbon 2026

Dates: 12-15 May 2026 
Venue: FIL Meeting Centre, Rua do Bojador, Parque das Nações, Lisbon, Portugal
Focus: Europe’s UX conference covering leadership, strategy, hands-on learning. 
Why consider it: Spring timing, great location, strong reputation.
Link: UXLx 2026 

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7. UXDX USA 2026

Dates: 11-13 May 2026
Venue: New York (and Online)
Focus: A conference that “breaks down the barriers between Product, UX, Design and Dev” — good for cross-functional teams. 
Why consider it: If you’re in Product/UX/Dev and looking to collaborate better — this offers that angle.
Link: UXDX USA 2026 

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8. Figma Config 2026

Dates: 23-25 June 2026
Venue: Moscone Center, San Francisco, CA, United States (in-person + virtual
Focus: While tool-centric (the Figma ecosystem), this event addresses product design, collaboration and UX practitioners who build products.
Why consider it: If your workflow heavily involves Figma and you want to stay on top of tool & process innovations.
Link: Figma Config 2026

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9. IDC 2026 (Interaction Design and Children)

Dates: 22-25 June 2026
Venue: Brighton, United Kingdom sigchi.org
Description: A specialized HCI conference focused on design, interaction and technology for children. If your UX domain overlaps children/education/inclusive design, this is highly relevant.

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10. HCII 2026 (HCI International)

Dates: 26-31 July 2026
Venue: Montreal Convention Centre, Montreal, Canada hci.international+1
Description: A broad multi-theme HCI conference (with many affiliated tracks such as AI-HCI, VAMR, universal access). Great for practitioners wanting a deep dive into HCI research that influences UX practice.

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11. Future Product Days 2026

Dates: 22-24 September 2026 
Venue: Denmark 
Focus: A large-scale event for product creation (including UX/design) with workshops, strategy, AI, engineering.
Why consider it: Good later-in-year choice, especially if you are involved in product leadership, strategy or cross-discipline domains.
Link: Future Product Days 2026 

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12. India HCI 2026

Dates: TBD
Venue: India
Description: This Indian conference series brings together both academic and practitioner tracks in HCI/UX, spanning topics like accessibility, user modelling, interactive systems and emerging technologies. If you are based in India (or willing to travel), this is a regionally-important forum for UX research and design practice.
Link: TBD

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13. IEEE VR 2026

Dates: 2026 (exact dates to be confirmed)
Venue: Daegu, Korea
Description: The IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality & 3D User Interfaces is a major event for UX professionals working in VR/AR/MR and 3D interface design — bridging technology, interaction design and user experience. If your UX practice involves immersive systems, this is a strong choice.
Link: https://ieeevr.org/2026/

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✅ How to Pick the Right Conference for You

• Define your goal: Are you looking to up-skill (design/UX craft), broaden your network, explore research methods, or connect with product/tech cross-functions?

• Budget & travel: Consider timing, location and cost (Europe vs US, travel vs hybrid/online options).

• Format & size: Some are large scale with thousands, others are smaller, more intimate — decide what works for you.

• Specific focus: Research-centric, tool-centric, or broadly UX/design/product?

• Timing within your year: Early-year boosts vs late-year strategy resets.

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🔍 Final Thoughts

2026 looks packed with high-quality opportunities for UX professionals, whether you’re focused on research, design craft, product strategy, or bridging with development. Mark your calendar early, secure early-bird tickets where available, and consider how each event aligns with your professional goals for the year.

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Publication digital libraries for UX researchers (research database)

Publication libraries are great source of existing research conducted by researchers across different domains, geographies and markets.

1. IEEE Xplore Digital Library

IEEE Xplore Digital Library is content rich platform which has more than 5 Million published documents.

-       Search over 5 million publications

-       200K+ artificial intelligence publications

-       41K+ IoT related publications

-       Top conferences across the globe in a calendar year

Link: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/Xplore/home.jsp 

2. ACM Digital library (ACM SIGCHI)

The ACM Digital Library is a research, discovery and networking platform containing:

-       The Full-Text Collection of all ACM publications, including journals, conference proceedings, technical magazines, newsletters and books.

-       A collection of curated and hosted full-text publications from select publishers.

-       The ACM Guide to Computing Literature, a comprehensive bibliographic database focused exclusively on the field of computing.

-       A richly interlinked set of connections among authors, works, institutions, and specialized communities.

Link: https://dl.acm.org/ 

3. Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS)

Springer distinguished conference proceedings series publishes the latest research developments in all areas of computer science.

Find helpful resources, support and advice on how to publish in LNCS, including open access options. You can search and explore LNCS content - with more than 10,000 (e)Books published to date - by year, forthcoming proceedings, LNCS state-of-art surveys, tutorials, topical sublibraries, and more.

Annually 600+ volumes | 20,000+ papers | 45,000+ authors published

Link: https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs 

4. Statista

Statista is a German online portal for statistics, which makes data collected by market and opinion research institutes and data derived from the economic sector and official statistics available in English, French, German and Spanish. It is one of the most successful statistics databases in the world[1] According to the company, its platform contains more than 1,000,000 statistics on more than 80,000 topics from more than 22,500 sources.

Link: https://www.statista.com/ 

 

5. Research Gate

ResearchGate is the professional network for scientists and researchers. Over 15 million members from all over the world use it to share, discover, and discuss research. We're guided by our mission to connect the world of science and make research open to all.

Link: https://www.researchgate.net/ 

6. Google Scholar

Google Scholar is a freely accessible web search engine that indexes the full text or metadata of scholarly literature across an array of publishing formats and disciplines. Released in beta in November 2004, the Google Scholar index includes most peer-reviewed online academic journals and books, conference papers, theses and dissertations, preprints, abstracts, technical reports, and other scholarly literature, including court opinions and patents.

Link: https://scholar.google.com/ 

Top UX conferences to look in 2020

The year 2020 has brought some amazing UX & design conferences which are waiting for UX enthusiasts & designers to witness the innovation. Here is a curated list of top UX conferences coming up in 2020. 

1. UX Istanbul Conference 2020

18 Feb 2020, Istanbul

“The first International User Experience and Usability Conference of Turkey and Region.”

We are a one-day user experience and usability event, and we annually “fascinate” our guests. By being the first UX conference of Turkey, we gather UX and Usability professionals from World’s leading companies in Istanbul, to share their experiences.

https://uxistanbul.org/

2. Convey UX 2020

3-5 Mar 2020, Seattle, US

ConveyUX is the premier user experience conference on the West Coast. The 2020 conference in Seattle features 65 sessions from 50 UX leaders across three full days. Join us March 3–5, 2020 to explore how UX really gets done.

https://conveyux.com/  

3. Design Thinking 2020

14-17 Apr 2020, Austin, US

Teamwork makes the dream work! As the #1 Event for Design, CX, and UX professionals, be a part of Design Thinking 2020 and get excited for four jam-packed days filled with hands-on learning workshops, site tours, and keynote presentations led by innovative design thinkers from all industries.

https://designthinkingusa.iqpc.com/

4. Information Architecture Conference

16-18 Apr 2020, New Orleans, US

Our theme: Sense and Sense-making

While lots of conferences might have a 2020 vision, we like to look at things differently – and sight is only one sense amongst many. This year we want to celebrate the science of making sense and and the art of making mischief. We want to talk about how, when and why we encode, transmit, receive and interpret information. We’ll discuss what we can perceive and make available to the senses, the intelligence we use to interpret and understand things and the intentional actions that result when things make sense. In New Orleans we’ll explore sense-making (with a dose of serendipity) to see how we make sense of the world and the futures we face.

https://www.theiaconference.com/

5. CHI 2020

25-30 Apr 2020, Honululu, US

The ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems is the premier international conference of Human-Computer Interaction. CHI  – pronounced ‘kai’ – is a place where researchers and practitioners gather from across the world to discuss the latest in interactive technology. We are a multicultural community from highly diverse backgrounds who together investigate and design new and creative ways for people to interact using technology.

https://chi2020.acm.org/

 

6. UXR 2020

3-5 Jun 2020, Toronto, Canada

The field of UX Research is growing at an extraordinary pace. More and more people are looking to transition into research roles and even senior leaders themselves are eager to learn the basics. Not only are the numbers of researchers ballooning, the research practice itself is changing with new tools, technologies, and research challenges. Every year the practice changes, but who are the people deciding what that change is?

https://uxrconference.com/

 7. ACM Interaction Design and Children (IDC) conference 2020

21-24 June 2020, London, UK

IDC is an annual conference that promotes research concentrating on the design, development, and use of interactive technologies for children. London is a key hub for Ed Tech companies, shaping the landscape of digital learning and practice. The theme for this year’s IDC is “designing for the future”. This theme invites critical and generative perspectives that take stock of two decades of IDC research to conceptualise the role and impact of digital technology for children.

https://idc.acm.org/2020/

8. HCI International 2020

14-19 Jul 2020, Copenhagen, Denmark

HCI International 2020, jointly with the affiliated Conferences, under the auspices of 21 distinguished international boards of 491 board members from 49 different countries, held under one management and one registration, will take place at AC Bella Sky Hotel and Bella Center, Copenhagen, Denmark. The Conference will start with three days of Tutorials (19-21 July). Parallel Sessions with paper presentations, Poster Sessions and the Exhibition will be held during the next three days (22-24 July) of the Conference.

http://2020.hci.international/index.html

9. Mobile HCI 2020

5-8 Oct 2020, Oldenburg, Germany

The MobileHCI Conference Series has shaped research, development and practice in mobile devices and services for over two decades now. In keeping with this tradition of innovation, the conference theme in 2020 is “expanding the horizon of mobile interaction.” Technological advances now allow us to connect devices, displays, and interfaces into larger ensembles and novel interactions that are fluid across the real world and the digital world. Multisensory and multimodal mobile interactions can support us both during leisure time and in our workplace, at home or with friends, in our personal spaces or in public environments. MobileHCI 2020 embraces this expanded horizon of mobile interaction and invites submissions and contributions that reflect this broad view of our field.

https://mobilehci.acm.org/2020/

10. World Usability Congress

21-22 Oct 2020, Graz, Austria

The World Usability Congress is a two day international UX conference. In 2020 it will take place for the eighth time in Graz, Austria. We invite over 40 recognized speakers from different industries to share their real-world UX challenges and collaborate with our attendees in multi-disciplinary workshops.

https://worldusabilitycongress.com/

"Bonus" 

UXPA 2020

22-25 June 2020, Baltimore, USA

Join 100s of UX researchers, designers, academics and leaders from all over the world. We’ll be discussing, learning and debating everything UX. If you’re new to the field or a seasoned practitioner, we have something for you.

https://uxpa2020.org/ 

ARVR World Summit

10-11 June 2020, ExCeL, London

WHERE AR & VR TRANSFORMS BUSINESS

Europe’s leading technology-driven conference and exhibition showcasing AR, VR and XR as the essential tool for business transformation. Unlock a deeper understanding of AI, edge and IoT applications. Visualise your roadmap to a technology-enabled and sustainable future of innovation, today.

https://tmt.knect365.com/ar-vr-world/

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