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The UXDX 2026 Speaker Lineup Is Here (January Edition)

We've been locking in speakers for UXDX 2026, and honestly? This lineup might be our strongest yet. We're bringing together people who are actually building and shipping products at scale. Great speakers from Booking.com, N26, monday.com, Dashlane, and Netlify who are dealing with the same messy realities you

From Output to Outcome: Driving Cultural Change in Product Teams

"Agile’s original purpose was not cultural enlightenment. It was building better software. Working software over documentation. Faster, more reliable delivery." And that is exactly why Jay thinks we are stuck. Because most teams have become proficient at shipping. They did not necessarily get good at delivering value. Jay threads

Transforming Enterprise AI with Scalable LLM Deployments

"When you use ChatGPT day to day, are you really using one model, or is there an agent behind it?" He does not ask for an answer in the room. He wants the question to stick because the rest of his talk is about what happens when enterprises stop treating

Design is Not Dead - But the Narrative Might Be

The question is not whether design still matters. It is whether the story we tell about design has started to work against us. Berlin, Boom Cycles, and the Same Old Questions Pamela opens with warmth for UXDX being in Berlin, then goes straight into the state of the industry. She

From Cross-Functional to Cross-Purposes: Why Collaboration Falls Apart Over Time

Two years ago, Mihaela Draghici stood on the UXDX stage in Dublin and told a hopeful story. Her teams at Volkswagen Digital Solutions had taken deliberate action to break down the silos between product teams and the business departments they serve. Cross-functional teams were finally being brought into conversations about

The Real Impact of Mergers & Acquisitions on Your Product Team

Tasha Melchior walks on stage with the kind of calm you only get after you have lived it enough times that you stop counting. Seven acquisitions. One major merger. A company story that keeps rewriting itself, while the product team is still expected to ship, keep customers happy, and somehow

Who Moved My Roadmap? Navigating the Unpredictable Future of UX and Product in the Era of AI

Donal O’Mahony has heard the phrase “once in a lifetime shift” so many times that it has lost its meaning. The dot com crash. Flash is dying overnight. A multi-billion-dollar acquisition that rewired a company’s culture. Now, generative AI is arriving with enough speed and noise to make

Framework for Balancing Short-Term Wins with Long-Term Product Goals

Strategy Is the Easy Part, Execution Is the Test Michelle opens with a familiar scene. You build a product strategy. You map it to outcomes. You create a roadmap. You line up a cross-functional team. Then reality hits. The strategy that looked crisp in a deck turns foggy once trade-offs,

The UX Scorecard: Transforming Research into Measurable Impact Across the Org

“The most expensive usability test that you’ll ever do is the one that you actually don’t do.” When Experience Quality Becomes a Release Gate DocuSign is a big organisation with a broad product surface area. That is exactly why Amit Sathe and Marina Lin decided that “research insights”

From Research to Reinvention: Prayag Narula on Startups, Setbacks & AI Innovation

The uncomfortable pivots, the moments you get “dumped” by your own company, and the stubborn grit it takes to get to the end of a day when nothing is working. Prayag’s story begins where many product stories end: in research, not as a supporting function but as an identity.

Data Science at The New York Times

“Optimising for the right thing is a good idea. Optimising for the wrong thing is a bad idea.” Chris Wiggins began with an image that felt nostalgic and slightly brutal. The original New York Times experience was a newspaper, a “dead tree” spread across a kitchen table. Readers navigated by

The Superpowers and Shadows of A/B Testing: Balancing Data-Driven Success with Bold Innovation

“There’s power in the making. You can control the conversation and bridge the communication gap by making.” A B testing feels like a cheat code when it works. You get clarity. You get confidence. You get a neat little chart that says the decision is “obvious.” Ryan Leffel, Head

Building Customer Intuition Across the Product Lifecycle

“Customer intuition is the ability to understand and anticipate customer needs, pain points, and behaviours throughout the product lifecycle.” When a new Chief Product Officer arrived at DocuSign, the research team got a request that sounded both important and slightly impossible: build stronger customer intuition across the organisation. Marine Palamutyan

From Cost Center to Strategic Asset: Redefining the Role of Design

“Having a seat at the table means the ability to influence with valued impact so that when we set the train on the tracks, we know we’re going in the right direction.” - Paul Strike If you have ever been asked to “just mock it up” five minutes before

The Holistic Product Journey: Redefining Design’s Role in Cross-Functional Teams

“There’s power in the making. You can control the conversation and bridge the communication gap by making.” The Problem Is Not Talent, It’s Being Stuck Christina Goldschmidt is redefining design’s Role at Warner Music Group, framing “being stuck” as the real enemy of product teams. Not lack

Navigating Enterprise Transformation: Design and Data for Competitive Advantage

“Data is the lifeblood of a company. It’s more important today than it ever was because of AI.” Ed Lovely Reinvention as an Operating Habit IBM has been around for more than a century, and Seth framed that longevity around a single consistent thread: reinvention. The point was not

Building World-Class Product Teams that Deliver Innovation and Impact in the Age of AI

“The magic doesn’t happen from the smartest person in the room. It happens when cross-functional teams make great music together.” The Myth of the Solo Hero Jeff Chow (Chief Product & Technology Officer at Miro) walks onto the stage and immediately does what great product leaders do: he lowers the

AI in Learning & UX Design: Augmenting, Not Replacing

“You won’t lose your job to AI, but to someone who uses AI better than you do.” Mike Brown (Head of Design at Barclays) credited that idea to UX pioneer Jakob Nielsen, and it framed everything that followed. The future is not a single switch from humans to machines.

Leveraging AI for Safer and More Efficient Healthcare Delivery

"We can use technology to empower our providers. But if people do not adopt it and use it, we are never going to achieve what we are looking for." Building AI where the stakes are life and death When Ashley Beecy (MD, FACC, Medical Director, AI Operations, New York Presbyterian

From Lip-Service AI to AI-Empowered Experiences: A Customer-Centric UX Framework

“You do not need to know everything in order to speak and innovate in AI. You just need to know enough.” When Muriel walked on stage at UXDX USA 2025, she did not start with model architectures or buzzwords. She started with anxiety. The kind many designers and product people

From Design Systems to Interaction Systems: Creating Coherent AI Experiences

How Connor Joyce Sees AI Transforming Product Coherence In a year defined by rapid AI adoption, Connor (Senior User Researcher at Microsoft) delivered a talk at UXDX EMEA 2025 that cut through the hype with a clear call for discipline. Rather than pushing teams to ship more AI features, he

How to use AI to become a 10x Product Team

Product teams are standing at the edge of a seismic shift. The ones who thrive will be those who build at the frontier of AI capability, compress product cycles from months to minutes, and think beyond their remit acting as AI general managers across the business, not just their product

Human-Centered AI Across Standard Chartered

In an era obsessed with automation, Emily Yang (Head of Human-Centered AI and Innovation - Strategy and Talent at Standard Chartered) argues that AI’s real potential lies not in replacing people but in empowering them. Speaking at EMEA 2025, she showed how a 172-year-old bank can innovate responsibly without

Building AI-Driven Workflows at Airtable: Play, Prove, Productionise

“Everything we’ve known is changing right now. Do not rely on what you know. Step back and figure out the next set of best practices.”  Jimmy Hillis, VP and Head of Engineering, Airtable Three Waves, One Inflection Jimmy doesn’t open with hype. He opens with perspective. For him,

Designing for Business Impact: A Transformation Journey at Uber

A design team is hidden in a corner of the company. Cross-functional partners are unsure who to talk to. Confidence is low, and influence is slipping. When Joann Wu stepped into Uber as Vice President and Global Head of Design, she found immense talent without a seat at the table.