Opening Remarks with Lou Rosenfeld, Principal, Rosenfeld Media, and Bria Alexander, Sr. Design Program Manager, Adobe

Theme 1: Research as a Transformational Force

Why I Left Research with Lisanne Norman, Co-Director, DEI, The Hotchkiss School

The Dangers of Empathy: Toward More Responsible Design Research with Cassini Nazir, Assistant Professor, University of North Texas, and Meah Lin, Graduate Student in Interaction Design, University of North Texas

Practical Principles of Inclusive Research [Sponsored] with Lija Hogan, Principal, Customer Experience Consultant, UserTesting

The Politics of Radical Research: A Manifesto with Sahibzada Mayed, Liberatory, Emancipatory, and Visionary Experience Designer

Fast and Fearless Inclusive Research with Kaitlin Tasker, Senior User Researcher, Teladoc Health

Understanding Screen Readers on Mobile: How And Why to Learn from Native Users [Sponsored] with Sam Proulx, Accessibility Evangelist, Fable

Scaling Research Via an Ops First Model at Clever [Sponsored] with Liza Pemstein, ResearchOps Manager, Clever, and Jane Davis, Principal Researcher, Great Question

A Cultural Approach: Research in the Context of Glocalisation with Chloe Amos-Edkins, Research Director, Studio intO

AfroFuturism and UX Research with Florence Okoye, Senior UX Designer, Natural History Museum

Efficiently Scaling Research as a Team of One [Sponsored] with Clemens Janssen, Lead UX Researcher, Nutrisense, and Jane Davis, Principal Researcher, Great Question

Opening Remarks with Bria Alexander, Sr. Design Program Manager, Adobe

Theme 2: Researchers as Organizational Changemakers

HCI 2.0: Humanity Deserves the Attention that UX Research has to Offer with Prayag Narula, Co-Founder & CEO, Marvin, and Rida Qadri, Research Scientist, Google

A Typology of Participation in Participatory Research with Sarah Fathallah, VP of Research and Design, Think of Us

Online Shopping: Designing an Accessible Experience [Sponsored] with Sam Proulx, Accessibility Evangelist, Fable

Why Isn’t Your UX Approach Going Viral?: A Mathematical Model with Scott Plewes, Chief Strategy Officer, Akendi

How Your Organization’s Generative Workshops Are Probably Going Wrong and How to Get Them Right with Anne Mamaghani, Founder + CEO, Wisdom Driven UX

Rolling Out a Repository: How Zapier Centralizes Insights from Across their Organization [Sponsored] with Michelle Bejian Lotia, Sr. Insights Program Manager, Zapier, and Anne-Marie Morell, Customer Success Manager, Dovetail

Expanding your Design Lens with Systems Thinking [Sponsored] with Sheryl Cababa, Author of Closing the Loop

You Can Do This: Understand and Solve Organizational Problems to Jumpstart a Dead Project with Carl Turner, Sr. Business Architect, Triangle Business Architecture

Out of the FOG: A Non-traditional Research Approach to Alignment with Kristen Guth, Ph.D., Senior User Experience Researcher, Snowflake, Inc.

Why Pharmaceutical’s Research Model Should Replace Design Thinking with Mike Oren, Head of Design Research, Klaviyo

Your Colleagues are Your Users Too [Sponsored] with Sara Logel, Lead UX Research Partner, UserZoom

Opening Remarks with Bria Alexander, Sr. Design Program Manager, Adobe

Theme 3: Transforming Our Craft

Inconvenient Insights: The Researcher’s Role is to Stay Curious with Jill Fruchter, Principal, Field Notes Consulting

Research Democratization: A Debate with Aras Bilgen, UX Consultant / Trainer, and Ari Zelmanow, Head of Experience Research, Core Platform, Twilio

Empowering Communities Through the Researcher in Residence Program [Sponsored] with Xenia Adjoubei, Associate Director, studio intO, and Sean Bruce, Editor, Dovetail

Women-Centric Research: What, Why, How with Mansi Gupta, Founder, Unconform

What would Emmy Noether Do? Math, Models and Mulling in UX Research with Jennifer Fraser, Experience Design Consultant

Becoming a Changemaker by Leading with Design [Sponsored] with Maria Guidice, Co-Author of Changemakers

The Digital Journey: Research on Consumer Frustration and Loyalty [Sponsored] with Andrew Custage, Senior Director, Head of Insights, Medallia, and Michael Mallett, Senior Director, Global Digital Strategy, Medallia

The Art of Extrapolation with Cara Maritz, Senior UX Researcher, Atlassian, and Rachel Ny, Senior User Researcher, Atlassian

Research in the Pluriverse with Victor Udoewa, Chief Experience Officer & Service Design Lead, NASA