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If you’re interested in sponsoring Leading Design, please get in touch, we’d love for you to be involved.

Sponsoring Leading Design connects your brand with design leaders from influential companies across the globe. The type of people who make hiring and purchasing decisions, define process and tool use, and promote design at all levels of the organisation.

Join us at Leading Design and let your brand be a great part of an industry-leading experience.

Premier Sponsors

Intuitive, beautiful, user-centred design is key to the success of Google’s products. Their passionate, interdisciplinary UX specialists and designers work across platforms to create powerful visuals that highlight each of our product’s unique personalities. The team’s work touches billions while exemplifying one of Google’s core principles: “Focus on the user and all else will follow".

Executive Sponsors

Adobe gives everyone—from emerging artists to global brands—everything they need to design and deliver exceptional digital experiences. We empower people to create beautiful and powerful images, videos, and apps, and transform how companies interact with customers across every screen.

Adobe Creative Cloud, Document Cloud, and Experience Cloud bring together our design expertise with customer intelligence to deliver experiences that get results. With a robust platform that’s powered by advanced science, a thriving community of partners and developers, and a culture that’s passionate about pushing the boundaries of what’s possible with our products, Adobe is changing the world through digital experiences.

For more information, visit Adobe.com.

Mailchimp is an always-on marketing platform for small businesses. They make innovative, beautiful products that empower those businesses to find more customers.

The company started in 2001 as a side project. Today, Mailchimp serves millions of customers around the world, is still 100% founder-owned, and is highly profitable. They are headquartered in Atlanta with additional offices in Brooklyn and Oakland.

Salesforce was started with a vision for a different kind of company—to change the way the world does business and at the same time, improve the state of the world. They are committed to a set of core values—trust, customer success, innovation, and equality of every human being. These are the guiding lights that drive what they do every day.

Salesforce believe that they have a broader responsibility to society, and aspire to create technology that not only drives the success of our customers, but also benefits humanity by driving positive social change.

Their community of experience designers are artists and scientists. They work together every day to make vibrant, empowering, and simple tools that enable companies and non-profits of all kinds to take advantage of powerful technologies to connect to their customers in a whole new way.

At Salesforce, their employees, customers, partners, shareholders, Trailblazers and the community are part of the Ohana, the Hawaiian word for family. They believe that together, they can make great things happen.

Associate Sponsors

Abstract is a design delivery platform for design-ops minded product designers and design leaders who are looking to make a measurable and meaningful impact. Abstract’s platform brings visibility, accountability, measurability, and predictability to design. Ultimately, Abstract paves the way for true design transformation.

Amazon’s design community unites designers, researchers, writers, producers and technologists, creating experiences that transform the way our customers live their lives and run their businesses. We value individual expression, respect different opinions, and work together to create a culture where each of us is able to contribute fully. Our unique backgrounds and perspectives strengthen our ability to achieve Amazon’s mission of being Earth’s most customer-centric company.

What connects all Amazonians across teams and geographies is that we are all striving to delight our customers and make their lives easier—whoever that customer may be. Together, we are building the future, one innovative product, service, and idea at a time. Learn more at Amazon.Design.



Proudly Canadian. As the industry leader in legal software, Clio’s mission is to change the practice of law, for good. Our global and diverse team, headquartered in beautiful Vancouver, is designing the operating system of legal. Clio helps lawyers bridge the access to justice gap by leveraging technology to build client centered law firms. We have a bold mission, great investors ($250M in 2019 from TCV/JMI Equity), a talented team of 23 designers and researchers, and an ocean of opportunity in front of us. And we’re hiring a head of design. Plaid optional.

HubSpot helps millions of organizations grow better, and we’d love to grow better with you. Our business builds the software and systems that power the world’s small to medium-sized businesses. Our company culture builds connections, careers, and employee growth. How? By creating a workplace that values flexibility, autonomy, and transparency. If that sounds like something you’d like to be part of, we’d love to hear from you.

You can find out more about our company culture in the HubSpot Culture Code, which has more than 3M views, and learn about our commitment to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace, too. Thanks to the work of every HubSpotter globally who has helped build our remarkable culture, HubSpot has been named a top workplace by Glassdoor, Fortune, Entrepreneur, and more.

HubSpot was founded in 2006. We’re headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and we have offices in Dublin (Ireland), Sydney (Australia), New Hampshire, Singapore, Tokyo (Japan), Berlin (Germany), and Bogotá (Colombia).

The best products start with Sketch. With intuitive editing, lightning fast prototyping, hundreds of plugins, and powerful collaboration tools, it's become the cornerstone for creativity with some of the world's largest design teams.

Over a million people — from freelancers to the world’s most successful teams — use Sketch to create their best work, every day. Our co-founders started Sketch back in 2010 because they believed designers deserved better tools — and that focus hasn’t changed. Today, we’re a fully-featured design platform that combines our award-winning, native Mac app with powerful browser based collaboration tools.

Find out more about Sketch at sketch.com

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