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Meet the Experts Powering AI Innovation

Featured Speakers at IIEX.AI 2026

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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

Session: The AI Research Playbook: AI-Enabled Research at Scale

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 Makes These 3 Researcher Skills More Critical Than Ever

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

Rosie Hudson

Global Insight Manager

No7 Beauty Company

Eric Knoben

Head of Insights

Listen Labs

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 Labs

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 Creativity

WALDO.fyi

Session: AGENTIC AI: THE GOOD, THE BAD, AND THE UGLY

Pamela Forbus

SVP, Global Chief of Insights & Analytics

Mondelēz International

Session: AI: Fluent, Confident, Wrong?

Dr. Stefania Pecore

AI Director and Strategy Consultant

Multiple AI companies and UNESCO

Session: AI With Eyes Open

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

AVP, Global 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

Sam Kraus

Senior Director, Research and Strategy

HarrisQuest

Session: Who Wins When AI Makes the Choice? The New Rules of Consumer & Brand Discovery

Nancy Brigham

Vice President, Head of Research Science

Dynata

Session: Where Synthetic Data Belongs in the Modern Research Toolkit

Daniela Lipkin

Director

VERVE

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

Jory Des Jardins

Founder

Candor Partners

Session: What AI Can't Do (And Why That's Your Job Now)

Anurag Banerjee

CEO & Co-Founder

QUILT AI

Session: Introducing Anthropologic: The Zero Distance Platform

Yuki Masuda

CMI Global Category Development and Innovation- Assistant Manager

The Magnum Ice Cream Company

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

Barry Jennings

North America Ambassador

Esomar

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

Tessa Burg

CTO

Mod Op

Liam Hickey

Head of Research

Knit

Session: Market Research in 2028: Seeing Around the Corner with AI

Ben Fowler

Politcal Research

Anthropic

Session: Market Research in 2028: Seeing Around the Corner with AI

Arundati Dandapani

CEO and Founder

Generation1.ca

Session: State of the Americas: Boosting Census Strength for Model Quality and Predictive Performance

Leonardo Valente

Co-founder and CTO

Livepanel

Session: State of the Americas: Boosting Census Strength for Model Quality and Predictive Performance

Josh Speyer

CEO & Founder

StatGenius

Session: Automating Inferential Analysis Across the Enterprise

Dan Wasserman

Chief Transformation Officer

KJT

Session: It's Not the Technology. It's Us.

Jennifer Musil

Global President of Research

The Harris Poll

Session: Who Wins When AI Makes the Choice? The New Rules of Consumer & Brand Discovery