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DLS 2026 · PartnershipsNot a modelled audience. Every company on this page comes from a paid registration — and there are still twelve weeks to go.
Design promised to shape products, organisations and society — not simply improve screens. As AI changes how products are conceived and built, DLS 2026 asks what remains unfinished and what design must become next.
Partners have an opportunity to contribute evidence, tools and perspectives to that conversation — not simply place their logo beside it.
151 seats sold across 116 buyers, roughly twelve weeks out. Teams are arriving in blocks rather than ones and twos — RBC and Fidelity have each taken more than ten. The full registration list sits lower on the page for anyone doing diligence.
RBC · Fidelity · Manulife · Scotiabank · 1Password · D2L · Mozilla · Dialogue · Intact · Deloitte · IBM · SAP
Tell us whether you are buying brand, relationships, hiring or research and we weight the package to match. Sponsored sessions are always labelled as such.
For the company that wants to help set the year’s question.
A curated mainstage conversation, an executive roundtable, ten facilitated attendee connections, invitations to target accounts, and a pre-event webinar with community feature.
A demo pod with a book-a-conversation schedule, a day-two roundtable, a post-event session, and one community scholarship seat funded.
An employer spotlight, featured roles on the DesignX job board, an opt-in candidate pack, a talent AMA, and a roundtable with design and research leaders.
Scholarship seats for leaders whose organisations cannot cover a ticket, with recognition across summit communications.
Booths, roundtables, and labelled mainstage conversations — the formats DLS already runs, and what people said after sitting in them.
A working presence in the room: demos, conversations, and a place to book time with the people you came to meet.
A candid conversation with a small group of design executives — the same roundtable format DLS 2025 ran twelve times.
A labelled conversation on the TIFF stage, in front of the full room, with the talk captured if the speaker agrees.
“DLS 2025 felt less like a conference and more like a room full of sharp minds pushing each other to think deeper.”
Bell · Deloitte · SAP · Best Buy · eBay · IBM · Bank of England · Canada Revenue Agency · WSIB · CGI · Achievers · Coconut Software · Vetster · Maple · League · Encircle · Rokt · PushPress · Showpass · LumiQ · Citco · OCAD University · Canadian Medical Protective Association — and more.
A third of this year’s buyers have been here before.
1,272 leaders from 705 organisations attended the six previous editions. 2026 is the seventh. Repeat purchase is the only audience metric that can’t be bought.
Of buyers with a title on file: 8 founder/VP/C-level, 9 Head of, 18 director-level, 11 managers, 7 leads and principals. Roughly two in three are manager-level or above. Names are not attached to titles before people have opted in — that is the shape of the room, not a claim of signing authority.
52% Canada · 42% United States · 6% international.
Financial services, insurance, public sector, healthcare, consumer tech.
Send the accounts, titles, or roles you are after. We come back with a package and the exact slice of the room it puts you in front of — usually within two working days.
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