Published on 31st August 2026, Updated for 2027 — stay ahead of the UX calendar and pick the right event for your growth and networking.
As the UX & product design landscape keeps shifting — with AI-native workflows, research maturity, service design and cross-discipline collaboration all competing for a seat at the table — picking the right conference can sharpen your craft, grow your network, and reset your thinking for the year ahead. Below are the UX / UX-adjacent events worth planning around for 2027. Several 2027 editions haven't locked exact dates yet at time of writing (organizers typically confirm 4-6 months out) — we've flagged those clearly, and we'll keep this page updated as details land. (As always, double-check the event website before booking travel.)
Top UX Conferences to attend in 2027
1. ACM IUI 2027 (32nd Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces)
Dates: 8-11 February 2027
Venue: Helsinki Congress Paasitorni, Helsinki, Finland
Focus: The premier academic venue sitting at the intersection of AI and human-computer interaction — interactive machine learning, generative interfaces, human-in-the-loop AI, and explainability.
Why consider it: If your UXR work increasingly touches AI-driven or adaptive interfaces, IUI is where the research a year or two ahead of shipped product gets presented first.
Link: ACM IUI 2027
2. prompt:UX Berlin 2027
Dates: 24-25 February 2027 (conference + optional full-day workshop)
Venue: Hotel AMANO Eastside, Berlin, Germany
Focus: Europe's dedicated conference on the intersection of AI and UX design — case studies and hands-on workshops for designers, researchers and product managers.
Why consider it: A tight, practitioner-focused (not academic) look at how AI is actually changing day-to-day UX work, with an early-in-the-year timing that sets the tone for the rest of your conference calendar.
Link: prompt:UX Berlin 2027
3. ConveyUX 2027
Dates: February 2027 (exact dates to be announced)
Venue: Seattle, US, and virtual
Focus: A long-running Seattle conference covering accessibility, design, strategy and AI across multiple tracks, with both in-person and virtual options.
Why consider it: Strong practitioner lineup, accessible pricing relative to the big US conferences, and a track record of staying current on AI-in-UX topics.
Link: ConveyUX
4. ACM CHI 2027
Dates: 10-14 May 2027
Venue: David L. Lawrence Convention Center, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Focus: The flagship international HCI research conference — this year's theme, "Bridges," spans papers, panels, workshops and a strong applied-AI research track given the Carnegie Mellon-based general chairs.
Why consider it: Still the must-attend for anyone doing UX research who wants to stay current with HCI theory, methods, and where academic research is heading next.
Link: CHI 2027
5. UX London 2027
Dates: Typically early June (2027 dates not yet announced)
Venue: London, UK
Focus: Organized by Clearleft — three days, each pairing a morning of talks with an afternoon of hands-on workshops across research, product, interface design, content strategy and design systems.
Why consider it: One of the best UK options if travel budget or visas make the US conferences harder to justify.
Link: UX London
6. Figma Config 2027
Dates: Typically late June (2027 dates not yet announced; 2026 ran 23-25 June)
Venue: Moscone Center, San Francisco, US, plus free virtual access
Focus: Figma's flagship conference — design, product development and AI-in-tooling from design leaders, plus first looks at Figma's own roadmap.
Why consider it: Even if you're tool-agnostic, Config has become a genuine bellwether for where design tooling and AI-assisted workflows are heading.
Link: Figma Config
7. IDC 2027 (Interaction Design and Children)
Dates: 21-24 June 2027
Venue: Seattle, Washington, USA
Focus: A specialized HCI conference on design, interaction and technology for children — this year's tracks include AI literacy, safety, and education.
Why consider it: Directly relevant if your UX domain touches children, education, family products, or inclusive design more broadly.
Link: IDC 2027
8. HCI International 2027
Dates: 25-30 July 2027
Venue: Estrel Hotel and Congress Center, Berlin, Germany (with online participation)
Focus: A week-long, multi-theme HCI academic conference with dozens of affiliated tracks — AI-HCI, human-robot interaction, mobility/automotive HCI, and more.
Why consider it: Best pick if you want breadth and depth in one trip, and are comfortable with an academic-conference format and pace.
Link: HCI International 2027
9. INTERACT 2027
Dates: 23-27 August 2027
Venue: Tallinn, Estonia
Focus: The 21st IFIP TC13 International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, themed "Meanings and Experiences" — drawing on Estonian semiotician Juri Lotman's cultural semiotics to explore how meaning is shaped through interaction, alongside the usual full-paper, short-paper, panel, course and doctoral-consortium tracks.
Why consider it: One of the longest-running international HCI research conferences (IFIP-sponsored, not ACM), and a genuinely different angle — semiotics and cultural meaning-making — for researchers who want more than the usual AI-and-interfaces framing.
Link: INTERACT 2027
10. India HCI 2027
Dates: TBD (the conference has run every October/November for the last several editions; the 17th edition was hosted by IIT Hyderabad in October 2026)
Venue: India — host institution rotates each year
Focus: India's academic-practitioner HCI/UX conference series, run by HCIPAI — accessibility, user modelling, interactive systems and emerging tech.
Why consider it: The regionally-important forum if you're based in India or the wider APAC UX community and want a conference closer to home.
Link: India HCI / HCIPAI
✅ How to Pick the Right Conference for You
- Define your goal: Are you upskilling in design/UX craft, broadening your network, going deep on research methods, or building cross-functional relationships with product and engineering?
- Budget & travel: Weigh Europe vs. US, in-person vs. hybrid/online, and how far in advance you can lock in early-bird pricing.
- Format & size: Some of these are 5,000+ person spectacles (Config, CHI); others are deliberately small and sponsor-free (UX Nordic, UXinsight). Decide what actually helps you learn.
- Specific focus: Research-centric (UXinsight, CHI, HCII), tool-centric (Config), cross-functional (UXDX), or broadly UX/design/product (UXLx, UX London)?
- Timing within your year: Front-load with an early-year event like IUI or prompt:UX for fresh thinking, and use a Q3/Q4 pick like uxcon vienna or Future Product Days to reset before planning season.
🔍 Final Thoughts
2027 is shaping up to be another AI-saturated year for UX and product design conferences — nearly every major event on this list now runs an explicit AI/human-AI interaction track, whether that's IUI's computational-innovation theme, CHI's applied-AI research strand out of Pittsburgh, or Config's AI-workflow focus. Several 2027 dates are still to be confirmed at time of writing; we'll update this article as organizers lock venues and pricing, so bookmark it and check back before you commit travel budget.
For the full, continuously updated calendar (including smaller meetups, regional events, and new additions as they're confirmed), visit UX Events at UXness.
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