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

Theme 1: Excellence in Strategic Influence

Widening the Aperture: The Case for Taking a Broader Lens to the Dialogue between Products and Culture with Neil Barrie, Co-founder & Global CEO, TwentyFirstCenturyBrand

Under My (Research) Umbrella: The Benefits and Challenges of Building a Unified Insights Function with Andy Warr, Director of Portfolio Research & Insights, Dropbox

Research After UX with Nalini Kotamraju, Senior Vice President, Research & Insights, Salesforce

Beyond Insights: Researchers as Organizational Change Catalysts with Robin Beers, Founder, Ubuntu Culture Company

The Future of ReOps as a Strategic Function: A Roadmap for Getting There with Fatimah Richmond, UXR Programs & Strategy, Google

Solve a Problem Here, Transform a Strategy There: Research as an Occasion for Expanding Organizational Possibility with Peter Levin, Principal Researcher, HubSpot

Panel: Excellence in Impact with Megan Blocker, Director of User Research, DigitalOcean; Mujtaba Hameed, Senior Research Consultant, Stripe Partners; and Victor Udoewa, Service Design Lead, CDC

From Users to Shapers of AI: The Future of Research with Tricia Wang, Tech Ethnographer

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

Theme 2: Excellence in Our Craft

Beyond Methods and Diversity: The Roots of Inclusion with Victor Udoewa, Service Design Lead, CDC

Frameworks for Excellence: Using Visual Thinking and Communication to Elevate Your Research with Mujtaba Hameed, Senior Research Consultant, Stripe Partners

Harnessing AI in UXR: Practical Strategies for Positive Impact with Savina Hawkins, Strategic UX Researcher & Prompt Engineer, Meta

Future Orientations to Everyday Life: Futures Anthropology as a Methodology with Nicole Aleong, Senior Design Researcher, TPXimpact

Keeping the Body in Mind: What Gestures and Embodied Actions Tell You That Users May Not with Dane DeSutter, Data Scientist, Catalyst Education

Getting to the “So What?”: How Management Consulting Practices Can Transform Your Approach to Research with Megan Blocker, Director of User Research, DigitalOcean

Panel: Excellence in Communicating Insights with Robin Beers, Founder, Ubuntu Culture Company; Nalini Kotamraju, Senior Vice President, Research & Insights, Salesforce; and Andy Warr, Director of Portfolio Research & Insights, Dropbox

Looking Back…to Look Ahead with Steve Portigal, User Research, Portigal Consulting, and Author, Interviewing Users and Doorbells, Danger, and Dead Batteries