[In-person] Running Research Raleigh
2025-09-25 06:30 - 08:00 (America/New_York)
[URL of this listing: https://usercalendar.com/event/running-research-raleigh/]

Start your morning with Great Question, fellow research enthusiasts, and UXY’all attendees for a refreshing 5 km out-and-back run along Raleigh’s Walnut Creek area. We’ll kick off downtown at Marbles Kids Museum and make our way south into the park before heading back. We’ll finish back at the museum area just in time for a nearby coffee to refuel.

​☀️ Details

​When: Thursday, September 25th

​Time: Meet at 6:30am

​Meeting Point: Marbles Kids Museum

​Route: A relaxed 5K run- all paces welcome!

​Post-run: Coffee’s on us at one of our favorite local cafés.

​Extras: Snag a limited-edition Great Question Run Club shirt.

​Start your day energized and connected with great conversation, a city sunrise, and a little endorphin kick.

Register for free!

AI Club: The UXR AI Playbook
2025-09-26 14:00 - 15:00
[URL of this listing: https://usercalendar.com/event/ai-club-the-uxr-ai-playbook/]

Feeling the pressure to use AI, but not sure where to start? Between the hype, the headlines, and the hot takes, it’s easy to get overwhelmed. The real question is: What do we actually do with it?

That’s why we’re cutting through the noise. Join the UXr Guild’s AI Club on September 26 at 11 am PT / 2 pm ET, where host Christopher Monnier (Principal UX Researcher, Microsoft Copilot) and special guest Kaleb Loosbrock, Staff Researcher at Instacart and Founder of the AIxUXR Community, will share a practical playbook for getting started with AI in UXR.

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How Dropbox Empowers Everyone to Learn from Customers
2025-09-29 14:00 - 15:00
[URL of this listing: https://usercalendar.com/event/how-dropbox-empowers-everyone-to-learn-from-customers/]

Dropbox has built a democratization program that makes research accessible to everyone in the company. With leadership buy-in from the start and a dedicated program owner, Allison Cole, the initiative empowers PMs, designers, and other non-researchers to run their own research without compromising quality.

​In this session, Allison will share Dropbox’s journey:​How leadership made democratization a priority and structured the team to support it.​

The tactics that make the program successful, from office hours and coffee chats to a democratization playbook.

​The cultural practices that keep research visible and integrated across Dropbox​.

How tools like Great Question support this work, making it easier to recruit participants, run interviews, and share insights.

​You’ll leave with practical examples of how to set up your own democratization efforts, enable non-researchers with confidence, and strike the right balance between rigor and accessibility.

Register for free!

Research that Scales
2025-09-30 18:00 - 19:00
[URL of this listing: https://usercalendar.com/event/research-that-scales/]

Join UXrG Book Group host Lija Hogan, of UserTesting, as she discusses Research that Scales: The Research Operations Handbook, with author Kate Towsey, THE globally recognized research ops expert.

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uxcon vienna
2025-10-06 06:30 - 2025-10-08 11:00 | Museum of Applied Arts, Stubenring 5, Vienna, 1010, Austria
[URL of this listing: https://usercalendar.com/event/uxcon-vienna/]

uxcon vienna is back from October 6–8, 2025, at MAK and weXelerate for its 5th anniversary edition!

Join 600 amazing people from 43 countries as uxcon vienna celebrates five years of bringing the global UX community together. With 50 international experts, engaging talks, interactive sessions, in-depth workshops, and a fun side program, uxcon vienna is the place to be for sharing knowledge, networking, and supercharging your career. Don’t miss Europe’s friendliest UX conference!

Turning Research into Real Business Impact: How to Shape the Right Narrative
2025-10-22 11:00 - 12:00 | Virtual
[URL of this listing: https://usercalendar.com/event/turning-research-into-real-business-impact-how-to-shape-the-right-narrative/]

Join us on October 22 as Carl Pearson shares his personal framework and breaks down what it takes to make a real impact with research!

You’ll walk away knowing exactly how to show the value of your work, drive meaningful change, and set yourself up for a stellar performance review.

*All registrants will receive the recording after the session

Register for free!

Leading with Impact: Measuring What Matters in ResearchOps
2025-10-23 16:00
[URL of this listing: https://usercalendar.com/event/leading-with-impact-measuring-what-matters-in-researchops/]

​As research operations continue to mature, leaders are increasingly challenged to show clear, measurable impact, not just in what gets done, but in how it shapes decision-making, culture, and business outcomes. In this session, Pedro Vargas explores how to elevate ResearchOps from a support function to a strategic force within the organization.

​Pedro will unpack:

​Defining and demonstrating ResearchOps impact – focusing on outcomes over activities to show how research drives decisions, shapes culture, and fuels growth.

​Using metrics to tell a compelling story – identifying what to measure, how to interpret data meaningfully, and when to go beyond numbers to capture the full value of research.

​Building trust and influence with leadership – communicating impact clearly when navigating high-stakes contexts.

​You’ll walk away with actionable strategies for quantifying and communicating impact, strengthening relationships with leadership, and embedding ResearchOps as a trusted, influential partner across your organization.

8 Pillars, 8 Years Later: Data and Knowledge Management
2025-10-28 15:00 - 16:00
[URL of this listing: https://usercalendar.com/event/8-pillars-8-years-later-data-and-knowledge-management/]

​In the fourth instalment of the 8 Pillars, 8 Years Later series, we’re checking in on what’s changed in the research repository space and the broader state of research knowledge management. Repositories have moved past their “shiny new thing” moment, and teams are now facing the ongoing, practical work of keeping research knowledge accessible, visible, and genuinely useful.

​Join us as we explore:​The reality check on repositories​

AI’s impact on knowledge management​

The expanding tool and solution-stack​Refocusing on outcomes and long-term value

​​Let’s talk about what it means to design research knowledge systems that are sustainable, meaningful, and truly support the flow of insights to the right people, at the right time.

​Featuring​​Johanna Jagow, Strategic UX Researcher and UX Advisor​​

Jake Burghardt, Principal Consultant at Integrating Research and Author of Stop Wasting Research

​​Hosted by: The ReOps Community & Great QuestionModerated by: Holly Cole, ResearchOps Community

Register for free!

[In-person] How to measure UX & design impact with Vitaly Friedman
2025-11-07 02:00 - 11:00 | Universität Wien, Universitätsring 1, Vienna, 1010, Austria
[URL of this listing: https://usercalendar.com/event/in-person-how-to-measure-ux-design-impact-with-vitaly-friedman/]

How do we measure the quality of UX? What metrics to use? How to bridge business objectives and UX goals? How to remove bias and guesswork from our design decisions? And how to measure and make a case for the impact of your UX work?

7.11. the workshop will take place at FH Joanneum

10.11. the workshop will take place at Technikum Wien Academy

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Berlin UXR Lab
2025-11-19 18:00 - 2025-11-20 17:59
[URL of this listing: https://usercalendar.com/event/berlin-uxr-lab/]

Good research deserves better than “nice-to-have” status. Join us for a day of sharpening your skills, rethinking your process, and getting practical about what research can really do.

Join us for one full day of hands-on sessions, practical input, and honest exchange with people who care about doing good UX research. A chance to step out of your routine, sharpen your skills, and focus on what makes research valuable – in your team and in your everyday work.

[Webinar] The Adaptable Researcher: A Leader's Guide to Thriving Anywhere
2025-11-20 12:00 - 13:30 | online
[URL of this listing: https://usercalendar.com/event/webinar-the-adaptable-researcher-a-leaders-guide-to-thriving-anywhere/]

📆 Date: November 20, 2025

🕔 Time: 12:00 p.m. EST / 6:00 p.m. CET / 9:00 a.m. PST

📍 Location: Online

💸 Free event

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🎙 Speaker and topic:

Topic: The Adaptable Researcher: A Leader’s Guide to Thriving Anywhere

Speaker: Reggie Murphy, Senior Director, Head of UX Research @Zendesk, ex-Twitter, ex-Facebook

Moderator: Marek Štrba, Enterprise UX consultant at UXtweak

🧐 About the presentation:

Ever wonder how top research leaders make jumping from tech to finance or from a startup to an agency look so easy? Join us for this session to unlock the adaptable researcher’s playbook!

We’ll move past the obvious methods and dive into the real-world “hacks” for:

building influence fast,

speaking the language of new stakeholders

learning a new business,

and adapting your storytelling to thrive in any company, industry, or vertical.

📣 About the speaker:

Reggie Murphy leads global UX Research at Zendesk, where he and his team uncover insights that shape customers’ experiences across the Zendesk product suite. With 20+ years of experience in research and strategy, Reggie has helped companies like Meta, Twitter, and Vanguard build better products by understanding what customers need most.

2025 Highlights & Our 2026 Commitment: When Research Becomes Culture
2025-12-10 12:00 - 13:00
[URL of this listing: https://usercalendar.com/event/2025-highlights-our-2026-commitment-when-research-becomes-culture/]

​Join us for a special end-of-year session hosted by Great Question CEO Ned Dwyer, where we celebrate what we’ve built together in 2025 and share our renewed commitment to helping organizations make research part of their culture.

​This session is designed for our customers and the broader research, product, and ops community. We’ll reflect on the milestones you helped us reach—including our Series A fundraise—and focus on what this means for delivering even more value, quality, and innovation in the year ahead.

​What to Expect

​✨ Welcome & Series A MilestoneNed kicks us off with a look at what this new chapter enables us to build.

​✨ 2025 in Review: Product HighlightsFeaturing our Head of Product, Shelby Stack, and including a special spotlight on our new User Interviews partnership, with CEO Basel Fakhoury!

​✨ What’s Coming in 2026

​Enterprise-Ready Governance: Teams, permissions, and role-based feature access to give admins more control.

​AI Powered Repository Sneak Peek: Our Product Manager Jack Gerli unveils Ask AI 2.0 and our vision for an AI-powered research repository.

​New Enablement Series with our Research Partner Tara Tressel: “Build Your Study with Me” for PWDRs and “Build Your Research Democratization Program with Me” for Research/Ops teams.

​✨ Our 2026 VisionJoin to learn what to expect from us in the New Year.

​✨ Q&ABring your questions! We’ll open the floor for discussion at the end.

[Webinar] AI in UX Research: What experts think & use AI for
2025-12-11 12:00 - 13:30
[URL of this listing: https://usercalendar.com/event/webinar-ai-in-ux-research-what-experts-think-use-ai-for/]

📆 Date: Dec 11, 2025🕔 Time: 12:00 p.m. EST / 6:00 p.m. CET / 9:00 a.m. PST📍 Location: Online💸 Free event

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🎙 Speaker and topic:

Topic: AI in UX Research: What experts think & use AI forSpeaker: Tadeas Adamjak, Head of Growth at UXtweakModerator: Marek Štrba, Enterprise UX consultant at UXtweak🧐 About the presentation:

Join us as we share findings from interviews with 9 industry leaders on exactly where AI delivers value in research workflows and where it falls short. The findings are based on our AI in UXR Revisit Report .

You’ll learn:

Where UX experts use AI in 2025 and where they avoid it

Practical boundaries top researchers use to stay efficient without compromising quality

How to counter stakeholders who want to replace real research with AI

Use cases for AI-based (synthetic) participants

5-year predictions on the future of AI in UXR

UXR Career Growth Q&A with Joe Natolia
2026-01-13 12:00 - 13:00
​[URL of this listing: https://usercalendar.com/event/uxr-career-growth-qa-with-joe-natolia/]

In an open Q&A, Joe will answer your questions about fighting imposter syndrome, boosting your confidence in your own skills, improving communications, building value and trust around research processes, developing demand for research findings, and thinking strategically about your place in the organization.

Register for free!

Charting UX Success in a Changing Landscape: Practical Guidance for 2026
2026-01-21 11:00 - 12:00 | Virtual
[URL of this listing: https://usercalendar.com/event/charting-ux-success-in-a-changing-landscape-practical-guidance-for-2026/]

We’re starting to see a shift in UX from specialist roles toward more generalist roles. And while this change can seem daunting, it also brings meaningful new opportunities.

To help you make sense of what this shift means, Darren Hood and Trevor Calabro will share practical guidance on how to successfully navigate UX in 2026 and thrive in a changing landscape!

*All registrants will receive a recording of the session

Register for free

Lean Thinking in UX Research: Maximizing Value, Minimizing Waste
2026-01-28 12:00 - 13:00
[URL of this listing: https://usercalendar.com/event/lean-thinking-in-ux-research-maximizing-value-minimizing-waste/]

In this session, Sara Ulius-Sabel (Sr. Staff UX Researcher at ServiceNow) explores how Lean Thinking — a systematic approach originating from Toyota’s manufacturing practices — can transform how we approach UX research operations.

Research teams are under increasing pressure to deliver more value with constrained resources. But what if the real problem isn’t doing more with less, but rather eliminating what doesn’t add value in the first place? Sara will share how Lean Thinking helped her identify and eliminate waste throughout her career, from UX design and user research at Whirlpool to UX research at ServiceNow.

We’ll explore the seven types of waste in research operations (waiting, defects, over-processing, inventory, motion, overproduction, and transportation) and how to systematically identify and eliminate them. We’ll also discuss a timely new dimension: How does AI fit into Lean Thinking? As AI becomes both a producer of research artifacts and a consumer of our inputs, how can we use this shift as a catalyst to fundamentally rethink value and waste?

Attendees will gain:

A framework for identifying the seven types of waste in their research operations

Practical strategies to minimize waste and maximize value for stakeholders

Understanding of how to apply Lean principles to AI integration in research

Actionable steps to audit and improve their research workflows

This session is ideal for UX researchers, research ops professionals, and research leaders seeking to operate more efficiently and deliver greater impact.

Using AI in UX Research Analysis, Synthesis, and Reporting
2026-01-29 12:00 - 13:00
[URL of this listing: https://usercalendar.com/event/using-ai-in-ux-research-analysis-synthesis-and-reporting/]

Learn how to use Claude for data analysis and as a thinking partner for UX research and cut analysis, synthesis, and reporting from 2 weeks to one day.

Debbie has been using Claude to help with qualitative research analysis, synthesis, and reporting through all of 2025. In this live session she’ll show how she does it so you can give it a try too, and adjust it for your needs. She’s also tested her method with ChatGPT, Copilot, and NotebookLM, for comparison.

Using real, anonymized transcripts from one of her 2025 research projects, Debbie will show you how she works with Claude.

👥 About the speaker:

Debbie Levitt is a Lead UXR & Strategist and Founder of Delta CX. She finds revenue opportunities hiding in customer problems. Debbie is an accomplished UXR professional, solving product, service, strategy, & process challenges for companies of all sizes & stages.

Webinar: Using AI in UX Research Analysis, Synthesis, and Reporting
2026-01-29 12:00 - 13:30 | online
[URL of this listing: https://usercalendar.com/event/webinar-using-ai-in-ux-research-analysis-synthesis-and-reporting/]

📆 Date: Jan 29, 2025🕔 Time: 12:00 p.m. EST / 6:00 p.m. CET / 9:00 a.m. PST📍 Location: Online💸 Free event

🎙 Speaker and topic:

Topic: Using AI in UX Research Analysis, Synthesis, and Reporting

Speaker: Debbie Levitt, Lead UXR & Strategist, Founder of Delta CX

Moderator: Petra Rajkov, User Researcher @UXtweak

🧐 About the presentation:

Learn how to use Claude for data analysis and as a thinking partner for UX research and cut analysis, synthesis, and reporting from 2 weeks to one day.

Debbie has been using Claude to help with qualitative research analysis, synthesis, and reporting through all of 2025. In this live session she’ll show how she does it so you can give it a try too, and adjust it for your needs. She’s also tested her method with ChatGPT, Copilot, and NotebookLM, for comparison.

Using real, anonymized transcripts from one of her 2025 research projects, Debbie will show you how she works with Claude.

👥About the speaker:

Debbie Levitt is a Lead UXR & Strategist and Founder of Delta CX. She finds revenue opportunities hiding in customer problems. Debbie is an accomplished UXR professional, solving product, service, strategy, & process challenges for companies of all sizes & stages.

🎟️ Registration:This event, organized by UXtweak, is open to anyone with an interest in UX research.

Can’t make it to the live session? Register anyway – we’ll send you the recording! But keep in mind, you’ll miss the chance to participate in the live Q&A with Debbie.

Doing Research in an AI World: Understanding Tradeoffs and Owning Impact
2026-02-25 11:00 - 12:00 | Virtual
[URL of this listing: https://usercalendar.com/event/doing-research-in-an-ai-world-understanding-tradeoffs-and-owning-impact/]

Using AI in research workflows is fairly common practice now. But many teams still struggle with knowing what good research with AI looks like.

In this session with Maria Rosala, Director of Research at NN/g, we’ll discuss where human judgement is critical in the research process, how to assess tradeoffs between quality and speed, and why claims like “AI removes bias” can be misleading.

We’ll also tackle the real pressures researchers are facing right now (from a tough job market to heightened ROI scrutiny), and share practical takeaways on how to adapt as the research role continues to evolve.

[Webinar] How Research Leaders Pressure-Test AI Insights
2026-02-26 12:00 - 13:00 | online
[URL of this listing: https://usercalendar.com/event/webinar-how-research-leaders-pressure-test-ai-insights/]

📆 Date: February 26th, 2026

🕔 Time: 12:00 p.m. EST / 6:00 p.m. CET / 9:00 a.m. PST

📍 Location: Online

💸 Free event

🎙 Speaker and topic:

Topic: How Research Leaders Pressure-Test AI Insights

Speaker: LaKeisha Lovett, User Experience Manager at The Home Depot with 20+ years of experience

Moderator: Petra Rajkov, User Researcher @UXtweak

🧐 About the presentation:

AI can synthesize insights faster than ever. But synthesis isn’t the hard part, judgment is.

In this session, we’ll skip the tool demos and go straight to where leadership actually lives: what happens after AI generates an output.

How do you pressure-test AI-driven narratives before presenting to executives?

How do you separate signal from noise when the patterns look convincing?

And where does human expertise become non-negotiable, even when AI can do it faster?

Drawing from real discovery work deconstructing how professionals stay irreplaceable in AI-accelerated environments, this talk is for professionals ready to lead at the orchestration layer.

🎟️ Registration:

This event, organized by UXtweak, is open to anyone with an interest in UX research.

Can’t make it to the live session? Register anyway – we’ll send you the recording! But keep in mind, you’ll miss the chance to participate in the live Q&A with LaKeisha.
