As economic headwinds accelerate, the need to generate revenue growth is becoming more and more urgent for most businesses.

What role can research play in improving the financial future of the organizations we’re a part of? According to Claudia, a very big one.

There’s no doubt UX Research is going through a transition right now. But, where are we transitioning from? And where are we moving to?

In this talk, Judd shares his vision for how research can elevate itself as a practice, and deliver real impact for the teams and organizations we’re a part of.

One of the inherent challenges with research is the disconnect between the insights we generate and the impact of those insights on the metrics by which products and businesses are measured.

In this talk, Christelle unpacks how you can use techniques from behavioural insights to design experiments that strengthen the causal relationship between research and it's business impact.

Stepping into a leadership role is more than just a switch from one type of manager to another. As a research exec, you're reponsibilities and influence are greatly increased, but so is the scrutiny.

How can you convince a company that you can deliver in a research leadership role? What does it take to organize and manage an entire research function? This panel featuring Beth, Celeste, and Summer, is here to explain.

Trying to land your first or second research role? That's a tall task.

The hiring process can be confusing, archaic, and arbitrary. In fact, many of the senior leaders that you look up to today had the exact same experience.

In this panel, Zoë and Louise are here to unpack what you need to know as you're going through the application process, and how to best position yourself for success as an IC researcher.

While often "the next step" on the career ladder, working as a manager couldn't be more different than being a senior IC.

Working on performance reviews, hiring, firing, reporting to executives - it's a different job entirely.

How do we find success in this new role? Join Nizar and Josh as they share their experience as managers and research leaders.

There aren't a lot of UXRs who've been working in AI development for close to a decade, but there are a few. And one of them is Jessa.

Jessa works at ServiceNow, where she leads research on a number of key experiences that leverages machine learning and AI to power the enterprise. Jessa joins us to share the key things you need to know about creating and evaluating AI experiences as a UXR.

Of all the roles in a tech organization, UX research might be the one most affected by advances in AI technology. That might leave you, and many others, more than a little concerned about what the future of UX research work and employment might look like.

There are few people better to provide perspective on this important question than Pete Fleming, Director of UXR for Gemini. Join him in this fireside chat.

When you think of AI development, you're probably imagining a bunch of machine learning researchers and software engineers writing code, not something that speaks to the skillset of UXRs.

However, this picture couldn't be further from the truth. In the case of Cruise's self-driving car technology, the UX research team played a vital role in helping the ML researchers and engineers build the technology that will power the future of transportation. Lisa from Cruise is here to give you a behind-the-scenes look.

As we develop new products with AI built into them, the capabilities and uniqueness of each experience expands dramatically. Given that, how should our research methods change to adapt to this new technological shift?

At Instagram, Sheana is a researcher who's done extensive research on Meta's new AI experiences, and joins us to share some of the new and innovative methods their team has designed to get at the heart of how to make great AI features.