Most researchers have a keen eye and ear, able to sense how people around them feel. Those abilities are clearly a positive for our jobs, but they come with some serious drawbacks.

Deirdre leads research at Toast, and is here to talk about not just how wonderful our superpowers are, but also the costs associated with having them.

If you work in a large enterprise, the amount of user interaction with your product is enormous. While small sample-size qualitative research is great, we simply need ways to measure user sentiment and input at scale.

That's where Jessica comes in. She's a research leader at Loblaw, one of Canada's largest grocery chains, where every day millions of people go to shop. Watch this talk to learn more about how to measure input from users when there are millions of them!

Often when we think of the outcomes from our work, it's focused on insights. Insights for PMs, insights for designers, insights for leadership. Danny has a different point of view.

What if instead of outputting insights, we thought of ourselves as setting standards. As researchers, we have the ability to set mental models for what's 'good' or 'efficient' or any other metrics that are important to our teams. If you're interested in hearing about this major research reframe, take a listen to Danny's talk.

We hear a lot about population diversity across many areas: income, geography, interests, age, gender, and more. But, there's one that's rarely ever talked about: faith.

Out of the 7 billion people on the planet, there are billions of people who look to religion to inform their values, key decisions and behaviours. In this talk, Zoe gives us a primer on faith and how it should be understood in the context of our UX research practices.

If there's any field in tech that's desperately in need of talent that understands human nature better, it's the 'web3' or crypto space. Incredible new technology is being developed, but the field is hampered by their ability to translate that technology into experiences people love.

Georgia has been working in the web3 space for years, and is here to share a call-to-action: web3 needs research. Join Georgia to learn more about the key problems in the space and how you can play a part in solving them.

Surveys have a bad rap. But, if we think critically about them, is it because they're bad tools, or because we aren't using them correctly?

Lucas and Ashley from Slack are here to tell us that it's the latter, and that surveys are extraordinarily powerful tools when used the right way. Tune into this talk to learn more about all the survey goodness you're missing out on.

If you're making products for consumers, traditional methods like usability tests and concepts tests are going to work great. But what if you're working on something much more technical, much more complex? Say, oh I don't know, the robots that makes cars and heavy machinery?

In this talk, watch as Katie explains a new approach to doing UX Research with highly technical users, machining engineers.

Figuring out your career progression as a researcher is a confusing and daunting task. It often feels like the field is changing faster than we can keep up with.

How do we figure out where to focus our efforts for career growth and promotion? In this talk, Brandi outlines her approach to career levelling for UX researchers.

If we're keeping it 100%, business leaders can struggle appreciating the value of UX. I mean, they sort of care, but what they really care about is something else entirely: growth.

With that in mind, how can we leverage the power of research to not only make experience better, but also drive growth? Lucky for us, Kakau and Carlos are design and research leaders at Nubank, running efforts on their respective growth teams, and are here to tell us all about it.

Measuring the impact of UX research is notoriously hard. Measuring it's financial impact? Forget about it.

Or maybe... not? Claudia is a UXR Director with an MBA and background in finance, and she's here to give us the missing equation we need to communicate our impact to our stakeholders, from product managers all the way up to the C-suite.