We’re all about sharing knowledge and elevating our craft. Your session should inspire, inform, and empower the community to push the boundaries of what’s possible when building products. Below you’ll find Config’s 2026 themes and the type of content we’re looking for:
Have an idea that doesn’t fit within these themes? No worries! We’d love to hear why you think your session belongs on the Config stage.
Strategy
We want to hear your strategy behind shipping great products—the big picture, future-facing, leadership, roadmapping, and decision-making that goes into taking an idea to reality.
- How do you decide what’s worth building?
- How do you scope and prioritize new products or features?
- Have you pivoted product direction to better meet user needs?
- How do you align your team and leadership around a product vision or big swing?
Process
We want to hear how you build—the ways you collaborate, shape culture, and create new ways of working that help teams move from ideas to shipped products.
- How do you turn ambiguity, failure, or chaos into opportunity?
- As roles shift, how have you found new ways to build with your collaborators?
- Where do you see AI workflows improving communication and alignment in product development?
- How is your team using AI tools like Figma Make to prototype, align, and validate directions earlier in the process?
- How do you align design exploration with production environments?
- As product development evolves, what principles or practices remain constant?
Craft
We want to hear how you make work stand out—the execution and craft decisions that differentiate products and bring a level of taste and quality that tools alone can’t provide.
- How do you approach visual design and polish to differentiate your product experience?
- How do you sweat the details on moments of delight, micro-interactions, and how did you advocate for them with your team?
- How do you fine-tune the user experience for accessibility and inclusion, or complex edge cases?
- What engineering concepts feel more attainable to bring to your product compared to a year ago?
- What technologies are you most excited to bring to interface development?
- How is AI allowing you to not just go faster, but further?
Design systems
We want to hear how you build and evolve design systems—the structures, shared foundations, and practices that keep them strong.
- How do you build an AI-ready design system?
- How do you create alignment between patterns in design and code? For example, variables and tokens, components, props, and documentation.
- How do you think about design systems as a foundation to enable craft at scale?
- How has this extended across multiple products or brands?
- How do you drive design system adoption?
- How do you scale the design system while letting the system evolve?
Here’s how to ensure your session stands out:
- Share relevant content: Make sure your session resonates with our diverse Config audience—whether they’re designers, developers, product managers, marketers, or engineers.
- Tell a broad story: Share case studies, success stories, and demos. We also want to hear about the time things didn’t go well—consider telling a story about the challenges you and your team faced and how you overcame them.
- Provide actionable takeaways: Share tips, tools, or frameworks attendees can apply right away.
- Make it engaging: Craft your session like a story with a clear flow from start to finish. Your talk should be easy to follow.
