Meet the Experts Powering AI Innovation

Pui-Tien Man

Head of Growth and Innovation

Simpson Carpenter

Session: Facing Tomorrow: M&S’s Journey with Humanoid Avatars

Benedict Kenney

Research Manager - Customer Insight

Marks and Spencer, Fashion, Home and Beauty

Session: Facing Tomorrow: M&S’s Journey with Humanoid Avatars

Rhiannon Price

Senior Director

Simpson Carpenter

Session: Facing Tomorrow: M&S’s Journey with Humanoid Avatars

Derry Moore

Chief Linguistics Officer

Decodis

Session: Voice AI for insight on Health Information Seeking Behavior

Prajakta Talathi

Enterprise Reporting and Analytics Lead

CASL

Session: Forecasts People Trust: Decisions, Governance & Action

Diana Leza Sheehan

Founder and CEO

PDG Insights

Session: Small Firm, Big Impact: Competing with Giants Through AI

Jacob Harbord

Head of Discovery

UOB

Session: Hybrid Intelligence Workshops

Laurie Thompson

Co-Founder

Thompson & Chong

Session: Closing the Gap Between Strategy & Research

Carol Chong

Co-Founder

Thompson & Chong

Session: Closing the Gap Between Strategy & Research

Anita Janssen

Senior Strategy Director

Human8

Session: Fueling Alliance Pharmaceutical's Next Wave of Innovation

Bronwen Aldridge

Global VP Consumer Insight & Analytics

Alliance Pharmaceuticals

Session: Fueling Alliance Pharmaceutical's Next Wave of Innovation

Sarah Kling

Global Insights Lead and Senior Researcher

Amazon

Rafa Cespedes

CEO CHILE

Provokers

Session: Research That Remembers: Postobón's Continuous Intelligence

Sebastian Benitez

Marketing Services Manager

Postobon SA

Session: Research That Remembers: Postobón's Continuous Intelligence

Charlie Butler

Co-Founder & Co-CEO

Bounce Insights

Session: Predicting the Future Comes Down to Understanding What Won’t Change

Kendra Shapiro

Senior Director, Consumer Insights & UX Research

Ancestry

Session: How Ancestry Rebuilt Customer Understanding at Scale

John Provine

Co-Founder & CEO

Voicepanel

Session: How Ancestry Rebuilt Customer Understanding at Scale

Ruchita Agrawal

Global Head of Insights, Google for Startups Accelerator

Google

Session: Same AI, Different Worlds: How Global Founders Build

Asha Dinesh

Research & Insights Lead

Miro

Session: AI As A Team Sport

Abran Maldonado

Founder

Create Labs

Session: The Human Advantage: Why AI Makes You More Valuable-Not Less

Byron Reeves

Professor

Stanford University

Session: "Superhuman" Uses of AI Simulations in Research

Tracy Adams

Sr. Director, Research & Insights

The ARF

Session: Marketers Trust AI. Is the Evidence Keeping Up?

Leslie Willis

Sr. Lead, Competitive Intelligence

DIRECTV

Session: No Code? No Problem! Vibe Coding for Non-Coders

Alex Dobromir

Product Manager Band II

Product Hub by MMR

Session: Robots Don't Get Goosebumps: How to Make the Human Element of Product Testing Compound with AI

Kylie Fitzpatrick

Business Director

VERVE

Session: Designing Decision-Grade AI Consumers with No7 Beauty Company

Rosie Hudson

Global Insight Manager

No7 Beauty Company

Session: Designing Decision-Grade AI Consumers with No7 Beauty Company

Eric Knoben

Head of Insights

Listen

Session: Demo: AI-Moderated Research in Action: A Live Look at Listen

Nick Graham

Insights Lead (SVP, Global Head of Insights & Analytics)

Former Mondelez International & PepsiCo, Vertemis

Session: Using AI to Predict & Explain Innovation Success

Ryan Kelly

Insights Lead

Listen

Session: Demo: AI-Moderated Research in Action: A Live Look at Listen

Lev Mazin

CEO, Co-Founder

aytm

Session: From Data to Decisions: Rethinking Research Reporting

Stephanie Vance

VP, Customer Experience & Research Strategy

aytm

Session: From Data to Decisions: Rethinking Research Reporting

Dr. Jannik Meyners

Vice President of Data Science & AI

quantilope

Session: Beyond the Hype: How We Built & Validated Category Twins for Early-Stage Research

Dr. Beatrice Capestany

Vice President of Solutions

quantilope

Session: Beyond the Hype: How We Built & Validated Category Twins for Early-Stage Research

Jim Cummings

Head of Product; Associate Professor

Viewpoints AI; Boston University

Session: After the First AI Readout: Iterative Synthetic Research

Leo Yeykelis

Founder & CEO

Viewpoints AI

Session: After the First AI Readout: Iterative Synthetic Research

Chad Reynolds

CEO

Vurvey Labs

Session: When Your Personas Talk Back: AI Populations in Practice

Feranmi Muraina

Global Manager, Digital & Communities Insights

The Magnum Ice Cream Company

Session: When Your Personas Talk Back: AI Populations in Practice

Karen Lynch

Chief Programming Officer & Chief of Staff

Greenbook

Session: AI Is Commoditizing Research. Now What? A Town Hall Discussion, The Human Advantage: Why AI Makes You More Valuable-Not Less

Melissa Ramey

Director, AI Transformation - Data Insights and User Experience

Salesforce

Session: Volume isn't Value: Truth and Governance at the AI Frontier

Jenny Nicholson

Head of Creative and Strategic Innovation; Founder

Movement Strategy; Queen of Swords

Pamela Forbus

SVP, Global Chief of Insights & Analytics

Mondelēz International

Dr. Stefania Pecore

AI Director and Strategy Consultant

Multiple AI companies and UNESCO

Brittne Kakulla

Senior Consumer Insights Manager

AARP

Session: Build Your AI Stack: A Scorecard for Choosing Tools That Actually Earn Their Spot

David Duganne

General Manager, Consumer Insights

DISH

Session: AI Is Commoditizing Research. Now What? A Town Hall Discussion

Lisa Courtade

Associate Vice President, Global Business Insights & Analytics

Organon

Session: AI Is Commoditizing Research. Now What? A Town Hall Discussion

Betsy Shaak

VP of Product

Voxpopme

Session: How to Use AI Agents to Shape the Decisions That Matter

Dan Jenkins

Global Head of Product Hub

Product Hub by MMR

Session: Robots Don't Get Goosebumps: How to Make the Human Element of Product Testing Compound with AI