

2026 Session Highlights
Karen Lynch
Plenary
AI for Quant Research
Leadership
Product Development
Research Automation
Karen Lynch
Plenary
AI for Quant Research
Leadership
Product Development
Research Automation
Building Products for Modern Times
Product Managers often set processes for user-loved products, but org changes & market shifts pull teams apart. Seema Bansal (Microsoft PM) faced this building ...
Karen Lynch
Plenary
Behavioral Research
Idea Screening
Innovation
Validation / Verification
Karen Lynch
Plenary
Behavioral Research
Idea Screening
Innovation
Validation / Verification
Why Watching Beats Asking: What Coca-Cola Learned About Innovation
Consumers can tell us what they think. Their behavior often reveals what they actually need. In this session, The Coca-Cola Company and Nailbiter will share how...
Karen Lynch
Plenary
AI Governance / Trust
Decision-Making
Research Integrity
Validation / Verification
Karen Lynch
Plenary
AI Governance / Trust
Decision-Making
Research Integrity
Validation / Verification
Good Enough: The AI Research Standard Nobody Wants to Admit
The research industry has a question it hasn't answered yet: when AI generates the insight, how do we know it's enough to act on? Not enough in theory. Enough f...
Karen Lynch
Plenary
Panel
Brand Strategy
Decision-Making
Insight Activation
Product Development
Karen Lynch
Plenary
Panel
Brand Strategy
Decision-Making
Insight Activation
Product Development
How to Translate Consumer Insights Into Business Solutions
The best insights do more than explain consumers — they help businesses solve real challenges. In this fireside chat, Yola Khoreva will share her perspective on...
Karen Lynch
AI Governance / Trust
Brand Strategy
Consumer Behavior
Storytelling / Communication
Karen Lynch
AI Governance / Trust
Brand Strategy
Consumer Behavior
Storytelling / Communication
AI Communications and Brand Authenticity
How does AI advertising influence perceptions of brand authenticity, innovation, and trust? Traditionally, Vattenfall had an ambition to use real people, real c...
Lucy Davison
Brand Strategy
Customer Journey
Insight Activation
Stakeholder Alignment
Lucy Davison
Brand Strategy
Customer Journey
Insight Activation
Stakeholder Alignment
From Fitting Room Friction to North Star Vision
Brands often get stuck in day-to-day sales mode and risk harming their full commercial potential. As part of their business transformation, Hunkemöller escaped ...
Ben Leet
AI for Analysis
Decision-Making
Ben Leet
AI for Analysis
Decision-Making
The Next Billion-Dollar Decisions Will Be Discovered by Machines — and Deb...
The next billion-dollar moves won’t start as numbers on a dashboard or from gut calls—they’ll start as a machine-discovered hypothesis. As customer signals expl...
Ben Leet
AI for Analysis
Decision-Making
Insight Activation
Research Automation
Ben Leet
AI for Analysis
Decision-Making
Insight Activation
Research Automation
Front-Loading Insights with AI: Predict, Optimize, and Visualize Before La...
Execution in advertising is effortless, judgment isn’t. Generative AI speeds production, but evaluation lags, widening the gap between output and certainty. Dr....
Karen Lynch
Fireside Chat
Leadership
Trend Forecasting
Cultural Insight
Research Strategy
Karen Lynch
Fireside Chat
Leadership
Trend Forecasting
Cultural Insight
Research Strategy
Building the Future of Insight: A Human-First Perspective
Much of the ‘future of insight’ narrative is driven by conversations about tech and AI. We turn this on its head, exploring what cultural foresight tells us abo...
Lucy Davison
Qualitative Research
Validation / Verification
Lucy Davison
Qualitative Research
Validation / Verification
Right-First-Time: The Case for In-Person Research
In a world chasing faster, cheaper research, we ask a harder question: what delivers better decisions? This session argues for “right-first-time” research, show...
Lucy Davison
Brand Strategy
Consumer Behavior
Growth Strategy
Shopper & Pack Testing
Lucy Davison
Brand Strategy
Consumer Behavior
Growth Strategy
Shopper & Pack Testing
Standing out on Shelf: How DBAs Drive Equity & Sales
A distinctive pack is a brand growth multiplier. Get it right, and you drastically improve your chances of success. For established brands, it means being easy ...
Ben Leet
Behavioral Research
Customer Journey
Decision-Making
Innovation
Ben Leet
Behavioral Research
Customer Journey
Decision-Making
Innovation
Signal Before Stats In the AI Pressure Cooker
AI has turned product work into a pressure cooker: faster cycles, higher expectations, and less time for the “perfect” evidence. This talk shows how UX and in...
Lucy Davison
AI for Qual Research
Concept Testing
Innovation
Product Development
Lucy Davison
AI for Qual Research
Concept Testing
Innovation
Product Development
AI-Led "Design Thinking" For Product Innovation
Carolina Tousaint (Unilever Foods Europe) and Lisa Nel (Conveo) show how AI-led research delivers design thinking at scale, without losing depth. Across four it...
Ben Leet
AI Personas / Synthetic Humans
Audience Insight
Consumer Behavior
Trend Forecasting
Ben Leet
AI Personas / Synthetic Humans
Audience Insight
Consumer Behavior
Trend Forecasting
GLP-1 Consumer Shift: Friesland Campina & Bolt Insight
As GLP-1 medications reshape how millions eat, feel, and shop, Friesland Campina and Bolt Insight are pulling back the curtain on what's really happening. Origi...
Ben Leet
Fireside Chat
Customer Experience
Insight Activation
Operating Model / Workflow
Tracker / Brand Tracking
Ben Leet
Fireside Chat
Customer Experience
Insight Activation
Operating Model / Workflow
Tracker / Brand Tracking
From Silos to Synergy: Shell's Journey to a 360° Customer View
This is the story how Shell has brought together best-in-class providers and agency partners that can deliver a future-proof and agile solution, delivering comm...
Lucy Davison
Behavioral Research
Consumer Behavior
Customer Experience
Stakeholder Alignment
Lucy Davison
Behavioral Research
Consumer Behavior
Customer Experience
Stakeholder Alignment
Horseracing Reimagined: From Insight to Action
British Racing launched its most comprehensive customer research — a nationally representative study combining 7,500 surveys, interviews and competitor analysis...
Elina Halonen
Growth Strategy
Innovation
Storytelling / Communication
Trend Forecasting
Elina Halonen
Growth Strategy
Innovation
Storytelling / Communication
Trend Forecasting
How UFS Built Foodservice’s Most Influential Insight Engine
Future Menus transforms foodservice by turning trends into a data‑driven growth engine. It helps chefs innovate faster through personalized insights, AI‑powered...
Joaquim Bretcha Boix
Brand Strategy
Growth Strategy
Storytelling / Communication
Cultural Insight
Joaquim Bretcha Boix
Brand Strategy
Growth Strategy
Storytelling / Communication
Cultural Insight
The Other Influencer Strategy: Scaling Cultural Influence
This session challenges the traditional influencer marketing model by introducing a new influence equation focused on depth, community, and meaning. Attendees w...
Priscilla McKinney
Tech Demo
AI for Qual Research
Concept Testing
Innovation
Validation / Verification
Priscilla McKinney
Tech Demo
AI for Qual Research
Concept Testing
Innovation
Validation / Verification
Demo: Deep Idea Validation at Speed Across Markets
Euroconsumers shifted from occasional one-off studies to an iterative, always-on AI-powered approach to validate and refine digital product ideas across 4 marke...
Joaquim Bretcha Boix
Customer Experience
Insight Activation
Storytelling / Communication
Joaquim Bretcha Boix
Customer Experience
Insight Activation
Storytelling / Communication
From Snapshots to Full Passenger Stories at BRU
Brussels Airport serves over 25 million passengers a year. But how do you truly capture their voice? In this session, Brussels Airport shares how they are evolv...
Elina Halonen
Concept Testing
Decision-Making
Innovation
Storytelling / Communication
Elina Halonen
Concept Testing
Decision-Making
Innovation
Storytelling / Communication
How Research Fuels Creativity and World-Class Musicals
Stage Entertainment works closely with Toluna, leveraging their consumer insight and concept testing expertise to guide strategic decisions in a highly competit...
Priscilla McKinney
Tech Demo
AI for Quant Research
Data Quality
Fraud / Bias
Tracker / Brand Tracking
Priscilla McKinney
Tech Demo
AI for Quant Research
Data Quality
Fraud / Bias
Tracker / Brand Tracking
Demo: How to Overcome the 5 Biggest Challenges in Brand Tracking
Brand trackers are essential but often limited by poor reach, inconsistent data, and unclear outcomes. Latana shows how innovative sampling, modular survey desi...
Priscilla McKinney
Tech Demo
AI for Quant Research
Data Analytics & Visualization
Research Automation
Storytelling / Communication
Priscilla McKinney
Tech Demo
AI for Quant Research
Data Analytics & Visualization
Research Automation
Storytelling / Communication
Demo: From Quant Data to Story Slides with AI
Generative AI is transforming qualitative research, but quant analysis still relies on manual workflows. This session shows how AI can automate the journey from...
Joaquim Bretcha Boix
Decision-Making
Insight Activation
Qualitative Research
Storytelling / Communication
Joaquim Bretcha Boix
Decision-Making
Insight Activation
Qualitative Research
Storytelling / Communication
The Insight Architecture: Frameworks for Deeper Thinking
The Insight Architecture Model offers a structured way for researchers to think deeper and add greater strategic value. By framing the insight process around fi...
Elina Halonen
Audience Insight
Consumer Behavior
Shopper & Pack Testing
Trend Forecasting
Elina Halonen
Audience Insight
Consumer Behavior
Shopper & Pack Testing
Trend Forecasting
The Smartflation Generation: Always Get What They Want?
Smartflation is Gen Z’s response to inflation and rising living costs. Raised on instant gratification, they refuse to lower aspirations - they optimize instead...
Elina Halonen
AI Personas / Synthetic Humans
Concept Testing
Idea Screening
Innovation
Elina Halonen
AI Personas / Synthetic Humans
Concept Testing
Idea Screening
Innovation
How Philips Accelerates Consumer-Centric Innovation with AI
At Philips, a campaign idea now meets its first consumer before it ever reaches a research agency. The consumer happens to be an AI Persona. Co-created with Ma...
Priscilla McKinney
Insight Activation
Leadership
Operating Model / Workflow
Stakeholder Alignment
Priscilla McKinney
Insight Activation
Leadership
Operating Model / Workflow
Stakeholder Alignment
Demo: How Diageo is Meeting the Growing Demand for Insights
As the demand for understanding grows, so does the demand on insights teams. How can you adapt? In this case study, Diageo speaks to the challenges insights tea...
Joaquim Bretcha Boix
Decision-Making
Insight Activation
Innovation
Trend Forecasting
Joaquim Bretcha Boix
Decision-Making
Insight Activation
Innovation
Trend Forecasting
CPG Innovation: What Got You Here Won’t Get You There
More data hasn’t made innovation decisions easier. As consumer behaviour fragments and markets move faster, leading brands are moving beyond rear-view insights ...
Elina Halonen
Fireside Chat
AI for Qual Research
Customer Experience
Product Development
Elina Halonen
Fireside Chat
AI for Qual Research
Customer Experience
Product Development
Seeing the Unseen: Rewriting the Rules of Product Experience
When features can be copied and loyalty is fragile, a superior product experience becomes the final differentiator. Discover how Sensory Bot™ blends AI with sen...
Priscilla McKinney
Tech Demo
Brand Strategy
Decision-Making
Insight Activation
Research Automation
Priscilla McKinney
Tech Demo
Brand Strategy
Decision-Making
Insight Activation
Research Automation
Demo: Research at Market Speed: From Insights to Action
When research moves too slowly and stakeholders pull in different directions, competitive advantage disappears. Brainsuite transforms fragmented insights into t...
David Katz
AI Governance / Trust
Data Quality
Future List Honoree
Operating Model / Workflow
Research Automation
David Katz
AI Governance / Trust
Data Quality
Future List Honoree
Operating Model / Workflow
Research Automation
The Foundation That Makes AI Safe and Insights Fast
AI did not transform our research platform. Years of structured data, standardised workflows, and deterministic automation did. Once that foundation existed, AI...
Norbert Sari
AI for Analysis
AI Governance / Trust
Research Integrity
Validation / Verification
Norbert Sari
AI for Analysis
AI Governance / Trust
Research Integrity
Validation / Verification
AI in Research: The False Confidence Problem
AI is putting research and analysis capabilities into more hands than ever. But, in doing so, it risks generating expert-looking outputs without building expert...
Katie O'Connor
AI Personas / Synthetic Humans
Community Research
Innovation
Research Automation
Katie O'Connor
AI Personas / Synthetic Humans
Community Research
Innovation
Research Automation
The Human Context Layer: How Insight Communities Power AI-Ready Innovation
AI has fundamentally changed what leaders and product teams expect from innovation: rapid ideation, greater personalization, higher confidence — all at once. In...
Katie O'Connor
Data Quality
Fraud / Bias
Quantitative Research
Validation / Verification
Katie O'Connor
Data Quality
Fraud / Bias
Quantitative Research
Validation / Verification
Beyond Bots & Bias: How Surveys Become More Human Again
How reliable are survey data when AI bots complete questionnaires and complex screeners deter real consumers? While budgets tighten, recall bias undermines data...
David Katz
Decision-Making
Future List Honoree
Innovation
Leadership
Storytelling / Communication
David Katz
Decision-Making
Future List Honoree
Innovation
Leadership
Storytelling / Communication
Why Leave a Safe Job to Fight Fraud?
Lessons from leaving McKinsey, building a fraud-fighting company in market research, and a startup exit. A personal reflection on meaningful work, risk, and fin...
Norbert Sari
AI for Qual Research
Operating Model / Workflow
Research Automation
Stakeholder Alignment
Norbert Sari
AI for Qual Research
Operating Model / Workflow
Research Automation
Stakeholder Alignment
Scaling Insights Cross-Functionally: AI Research Playbook
Research teams face pressure to deliver more, faster, and to more stakeholders than ever. Flutter UK & Ireland shares a practical playbook for scaling insight g...
David Katz
Consumer Closeness
Insight Activation
Leadership
Storytelling / Communication
David Katz
Consumer Closeness
Insight Activation
Leadership
Storytelling / Communication
What Does “Bringing Insight To Life” Really Look Like?
Dan Parker-Smith is a professional film maker, accomplished researcher, and visual storyteller. As co-founder of EXPLNERS, he's obsessed with the gap between wh...
Katie O'Connor
AI for Qual Research
AI Governance / Trust
Research Integrity
Privacy / Ethics
Katie O'Connor
AI for Qual Research
AI Governance / Trust
Research Integrity
Privacy / Ethics
Fears Around AI Disinformation Studied Through AI
As AI expands rapidly, separating truth from fakes is getting harder. Zymetria partnered with Glaut to explore how people perceive AI in the disinformation era....
Norbert Sari
Data Analytics & Visualization
Insight Activation
Operating Model / Workflow
Stakeholder Alignment
Norbert Sari
Data Analytics & Visualization
Insight Activation
Operating Model / Workflow
Stakeholder Alignment
The New Era of Collective Intelligence
Data isn’t scarce — connection is. This session shows how we transform fragmented CX, CMI, CRM and BI data into a living knowledge core that preserves context, ...
Norbert Sari
Brand Strategy
Growth Strategy
Insight Activation
Tracker / Brand Tracking
Norbert Sari
Brand Strategy
Growth Strategy
Insight Activation
Tracker / Brand Tracking
Measuring What Matters: Savencia’s Strategy for Brand Tracking Using Menta...
Driven by a mission of “leading the way to better food,” Savencia has been an early adopter of the Better Brand Health framework - going beyond the traditional ...
David Katz
AI for Quant Research
AI Governance / Trust
Quantitative Research
Validation / Verification
David Katz
AI for Quant Research
AI Governance / Trust
Quantitative Research
Validation / Verification
Trust, But Verify, Fact-Checking AI-Driven Quant Analysis
As conversational AI becomes embedded in research workflows, the challenge is no longer generating answers, but knowing when to trust them. This session introdu...
Norbert Sari
AI Governance / Trust
AI Personas / Synthetic Humans
Research Automation
Validation / Verification
Norbert Sari
AI Governance / Trust
AI Personas / Synthetic Humans
Research Automation
Validation / Verification
Digital Twin & Synthetic Masterclass: Validation + Adoption
This session is a practical orientation to the good, the bad, and the ugly of digital twins and synthetic data, led by an anthropologist of innovation and indus...
Katie O'Connor
AI Personas / Synthetic Humans
Decision-Making
Innovation
Research Automation
Katie O'Connor
AI Personas / Synthetic Humans
Decision-Making
Innovation
Research Automation
How an AI 'Dream Team' Can Tackle Your Toughest Problems
What if you could tackle your toughest business challenges with a 'dream team' like Steve Jobs, Taylor Swift, and David Ogilvy? AI makes this possible. Drawing ...
Karen Lynch
Plenary
Decision-Making
Insight Activation
Stakeholder Alignment
Storytelling / Communication
Karen Lynch
Plenary
Decision-Making
Insight Activation
Stakeholder Alignment
Storytelling / Communication
From Insights to Impact: Rethinking What Success Looks Like
This talk challenges the belief that insights only matter when they drive immediate action. Using real examples, it argues that the true value of insights lies ...
Karen Lynch
AI for Qual Research
Decision-Making
Innovation
Research Automation
Karen Lynch
AI for Qual Research
Decision-Making
Innovation
Research Automation
Touching Grass at Scale: How AI-Moderated Research Put the Voice of the Us...
Headway came to Listen Labs with a hypothesis: therapists would resist AI. The research said otherwise. 80% were already using it. This session breaks down how ...
Karen Lynch
Plenary
Brand Strategy
Consumer Behavior
Growth Strategy
Innovation
Karen Lynch
Plenary
Brand Strategy
Consumer Behavior
Growth Strategy
Innovation
Transforming a Century Old Purpose Brand for Next Generation
Weleda, a 100-year pioneer in natural skincare, is reigniting relevance in a crowded beauty market by focusing on value, trust, nature and purpose; not price wa...
Matt Gibbs
AI Governance / Trust
Insight Activation
Leadership
Storytelling / Communication
Matt Gibbs
AI Governance / Trust
Insight Activation
Leadership
Storytelling / Communication
Beyond the Answer
The future of insights may be shaped not by a single technology, but by a series of shifts already underway. Drawing on industry trends and market developments,...
Norbert Sari
Tech Demo
AI for Quant Research
Product Development
Quantitative Research
Validation / Verification
Norbert Sari
Tech Demo
AI for Quant Research
Product Development
Quantitative Research
Validation / Verification
Demo: Do KPIs Really Predict Product Success?
Product launch failure has long been accepted as part of FMCG innovation. But with advances in AI and data science, that narrative is changing. Traditional KPIs...
Charlotte Kiddle
Consumer Behavior
Growth Strategy
Innovation
Trend Forecasting
Charlotte Kiddle
Consumer Behavior
Growth Strategy
Innovation
Trend Forecasting
Always-On Engine: Powering Beverage Innovation
In crowded spaces, we needed a dynamic decision tool, not a static segmentation. We constructed demand spaces that predict choice, and we added the lifestyle tr...
Norbert Sari
Tech Demo
AI for Analysis
Insight Activation
Research Automation
Storytelling / Communication
Norbert Sari
Tech Demo
AI for Analysis
Insight Activation
Research Automation
Storytelling / Communication
Demo: Stop Scrolling Through Dashboards – Just Ask AI
Enlyta brings AI directly into the market research workflow by making it easier to explore data, connect insights across studies, and turn evidence into clear n...
Matt Gibbs
Brand Strategy
Consumer Behavior
Innovation
Cultural Insight
Matt Gibbs
Brand Strategy
Consumer Behavior
Innovation
Cultural Insight
Escaping the Sea of Sameness
Technology and AI have amplified everything from consumer expectations to brand capabilities. Yet, as AI reshapes marketing, brands risk sliding into sameness. ...
Charlotte Kiddle
Decision-Making
Innovation
Product Development
Charlotte Kiddle
Decision-Making
Innovation
Product Development
Innovation Success Rates Suck. I Bet Yours Does Too.
At Nomad Foods we got tired of seeing fantastic innovations fail in the market, so we decided to make a change. We turned our innovation research upside down an...
Matt Gibbs
Customer Journey
Decision-Making
Quantitative Research
Matt Gibbs
Customer Journey
Decision-Making
Quantitative Research
A Research Blueprint for Complex Multi-Step Digital Journeys
From Rigor to Relevance: We recreated the online flight booking journey to capture decision-making as it unfolded, moment by moment, choice by choice. Going bey...
Norbert Sari
Tech Demo
AI for Qual Research
Insight Activation
Research Automation
Validation / Verification
Personas / Synthetic Humans
Norbert Sari
Tech Demo
AI for Qual Research
Insight Activation
Research Automation
Validation / Verification
Personas / Synthetic Humans
Demo: How to Get Real Insights Out of Your Synthetic Personas
Learn how to get real insights out of your synthetic personas. Are you using synthetic personas but wondering how to extract real, reliable value from them?Join...
Charlotte Kiddle
Fireside Chat
AI Personas / Synthetic Humans
Qualitative Research
Research Automation
Research Integrity
Charlotte Kiddle
Fireside Chat
AI Personas / Synthetic Humans
Qualitative Research
Research Automation
Research Integrity
Keeping It Real: How Synthetic Humans Can Help Us Stay Human
AI is transforming how insight is collected and delivered, but human understanding remains the competitive edge. In this session, C Space and Sage share early t...
Norbert Sari
Tech Demo
Community Research
Insight Activation
Innovation
Product Development
Norbert Sari
Tech Demo
Community Research
Insight Activation
Innovation
Product Development
Demo: How Pentland Builds Better Products with Communities
What happens when consumer voice is built into the product process? Pentland Brands and SMG explore how Ignite Communities helps teams make faster, more confide...
Charlotte Kiddle
Consumer Behavior
Ethnography
Product Development
Shopper & Pack Testing
Charlotte Kiddle
Consumer Behavior
Ethnography
Product Development
Shopper & Pack Testing
How Video Intelligence Uncovered Hidden Category Truths
Conventional research captures what consumers say, not what they do. Convotrack's Video Intelligence analyzed observed behavior to surface what traditional meth...
Matt Gibbs
AI for Quant Research
Innovation
Shopper & Pack Testing
Validation / Verification
Matt Gibbs
AI for Quant Research
Innovation
Shopper & Pack Testing
Validation / Verification
Bringing AI-Powered Pack Testing into a Global Brand
Royal Canin and Pernod Ricard join Behaviorally for an honest discussion on adopting AI-powered pack testing inside global brands. Cesar Lastra makes the case f...
Matt Gibbs
Fireside Chat
AI for Qual Research
Idea Screening
Innovation
Matt Gibbs
Fireside Chat
AI for Qual Research
Idea Screening
Innovation
Keeping the Human Spark in Early Stage Innovation
AI is transforming how innovation teams explore opportunities, generate ideas and learn from consumers. But becoming a better innovator requires more than speed...
Norbert Sari
Tech Demo
Decision-Making
Innovation
Product Development
Norbert Sari
Tech Demo
Decision-Making
Innovation
Product Development
Demo: Don't Outsource Your Thinking
The future belongs to companies brave enough to innovate "outside the box" they built themselves. This session introduces a different way to look at innovations...
Elina Halonen
AI for Analysis
Brand Strategy
Data Analytics & Visualization
Growth Strategy
Elina Halonen
AI for Analysis
Brand Strategy
Data Analytics & Visualization
Growth Strategy
Unlocking TikTok Creative Performance for Wolt with AI
Discover how to optimize TikTok performance through AI-driven creative analysis. Learn how to use commonly available AI and LLMs to link creative content to KPI...
Corey Zinser
Panel
Brand Strategy
Insight Activation
Leadership
Stakeholder Alignment
Corey Zinser
Panel
Brand Strategy
Insight Activation
Leadership
Stakeholder Alignment
What Clients Want
Back, by popular demand! This panel of clients is an unfiltered conversation about what it takes to build partnerships that last. Expect candid views on client ...
Danielle Todd
AI for Analysis
AI Governance / Trust
Qualitative Research
Research Integrity
Danielle Todd
AI for Analysis
AI Governance / Trust
Qualitative Research
Research Integrity
AI Tasting Spoon - AI Finds Patterns. Humans Find Meaning.
Everyone is asking whether AI will replace researchers. We think that’s the wrong question. The real question is: Who decides what matters? Using a cross-mark...
Danielle Todd
Consumer Closeness
Insight Activation
Leadership
Stakeholder Alignment
Danielle Todd
Consumer Closeness
Insight Activation
Leadership
Stakeholder Alignment
Closing the Distance: How Haleon Wired Consumer Closeness Into the Way The...
Great insights don't always win. In pharma and OTC, the people making decisions are often the furthest from the consumer, and when that gap exists, other things...
Elina Halonen
AI Governance / Trust
AI Personas / Synthetic Humans
Innovation
Research Integrity
Elina Halonen
AI Governance / Trust
AI Personas / Synthetic Humans
Innovation
Research Integrity
Synthetic Data: Threat, Hype, or the Future of Insights?
AI is transforming our industry, but synthetic data sits at the centre of the debate: Will it revolutionize research, or put traditional data collection at risk...
Corey Zinser
Brand Strategy
Consumer Behavior
Leadership
Trend Forecasting
Corey Zinser
Brand Strategy
Consumer Behavior
Leadership
Trend Forecasting
Sustainability by Design: The New Edge in Insight Leadership
Sustainability operates at the intersection of risk, relevance and reward shaping supply chains, regulation, category evolution and brand trust. This session of...
Corey Zinser
Behavioral Research
Consumer Behavior
Customer Journey
Corey Zinser
Behavioral Research
Consumer Behavior
Customer Journey
Qual Meets Behavioral: Unlocking Fintech in Africa
Three out of five mobile money accounts in Nigeria are inactive, but why? This session reveals how behavioral data from OPay, M-Pesa, and Wave uncovers the gap ...
Elina Halonen
AI for Quant Research
Data Analytics & Visualization
Quantitative Research
Research Automation
Elina Halonen
AI for Quant Research
Data Analytics & Visualization
Quantitative Research
Research Automation
When Numbers Start Talking: Conversing with Your Quant Data
AI has transformed qualitative research, but quantitative data remains harder. Scales and coded responses demand structure most LLMs lack. The solution is moder...
Danielle Todd
Consumer Behavior
Insight Activation
Qualitative Research
Danielle Todd
Consumer Behavior
Insight Activation
Qualitative Research
Gamification in Research: 20 Projective Techniques in 20 Min
When research feels like play, truth feels natural. Consumers don’t always articulate what they feel — but they reveal it when they project, imagine, and play. ...
Elina Halonen
AI Governance / Trust
Data Quality
Leadership
Research Integrity
Elina Halonen
AI Governance / Trust
Data Quality
Leadership
Research Integrity
Signal vs Noise: Market Research as the Conscience of AI
As AI becomes the interface to organizational knowledge, research no longer informs one decision — it feeds systems shaping thousands. Yet AI cannot judge nuanc...
Danielle Todd
Decision-Making
Insight Activation
Research Automation
Stakeholder Alignment
Danielle Todd
Decision-Making
Insight Activation
Research Automation
Stakeholder Alignment
Why Good Data Still Fails to Shape Decisions – and How Givaudan Fixed It
Most organizations have the insights they need—the challenge is using them consistently at the moment of decision. Givaudan shares how its Taste & Wellbeing tea...
Corey Zinser
AI for Qual Research
Qualitative Research
Trend Forecasting
Cultural Insight
Corey Zinser
AI for Qual Research
Qualitative Research
Trend Forecasting
Cultural Insight
Using Generative AI to Decode the Evolution of Childhood
Since the dawn of the 21st century, the experience of growing up has changed profoundly. NRG and Young Storytellers examined how social, cultural, and technolog...
Danielle Todd
Behavioral Research
Consumer Behavior
Idea Screening
Innovation
Danielle Todd
Behavioral Research
Consumer Behavior
Idea Screening
Innovation
Miele: From Say–Do Gap to Behavioural Consumer Centricity
At IIEX Europe 2025, 40.6% of insights leaders said they struggle to close the say–do gap. This session shows how Miele applies pretotyping and behavioral exper...
Elina Halonen
Fireside Chat
AI for Analysis
Consumer Behavior
Data Quality
Validation / Verification
Elina Halonen
Fireside Chat
AI for Analysis
Consumer Behavior
Data Quality
Validation / Verification
Consumers Aren’t Lying… Surveys Just Can’t Tell the Truth
Surveys are key to insights, but today’s consumers are busier, more distracted, and increasingly guarded about what they share. At the same time, they leave beh...
Karen Lynch
AI for Qual Research
AI Governance / Trust
Research Automation
Trend Forecasting
Karen Lynch
AI for Qual Research
AI Governance / Trust
Research Automation
Trend Forecasting
Proof of Partner: Who’s Really in the Pilot Seat?
When humans and LLMs share the cockpit of insight generation, who’s really steering? Based on a real collaboration between Algorithm Trend Intelligence and a ma...
Karen Lynch
Audience Insight
Consumer Behavior
Ethnography
Growth Strategy
Karen Lynch
Audience Insight
Consumer Behavior
Ethnography
Growth Strategy
Asahi Super Dry: A Breakthrough Play in Women’s Rugby
Women’s sport is at a tipping point - but visibility doesn’t automatically equal value. With women’s rugby emerging post-Lionesses, Asahi Super Dry faced three ...
Karen Lynch
Plenary
AI for Analysis
Consumer Behavior
Innovation
Product Development
Karen Lynch
Plenary
AI for Analysis
Consumer Behavior
Innovation
Product Development
AI, Color Science, Human Insight: Cracking Bose’s Color Code
How can brands scientifically optimize color to drive consumer preference and sales? Bose and One Inch Whale combined AI, color science, semiotics, and large-sc...
Karen Lynch
Plenary
Brand Strategy
Consumer Behavior
Customer Experience
Growth Strategy
Karen Lynch
Plenary
Brand Strategy
Consumer Behavior
Customer Experience
Growth Strategy
Invincible Loyalty: Human Engagement Fuels Exponential Growth
The presentation explores the idea that lasting brand growth hinges on forging deep, human-centered connections with consumers rather than simply focusing on tr...
Karen Lynch
Plenary
AI for Quant Research
Leadership
Product Development
Research Automation
Karen Lynch
Plenary
AI for Quant Research
Leadership
Product Development
Research Automation
Building Products for Modern Times
Product Managers often set processes for user-loved products, but org changes & market shifts pull teams apart. Seema Bansal (Microsoft PM) faced this building ...
Karen Lynch
Plenary
Behavioral Research
Idea Screening
Innovation
Validation / Verification
Karen Lynch
Plenary
Behavioral Research
Idea Screening
Innovation
Validation / Verification
Why Watching Beats Asking: What Coca-Cola Learned About Innovation
Consumers can tell us what they think. Their behavior often reveals what they actually need. In this session, The Coca-Cola Company and Nailbiter will share how...
Karen Lynch
Plenary
AI Governance / Trust
Decision-Making
Research Integrity
Validation / Verification
Karen Lynch
Plenary
AI Governance / Trust
Decision-Making
Research Integrity
Validation / Verification
Good Enough: The AI Research Standard Nobody Wants to Admit
The research industry has a question it hasn't answered yet: when AI generates the insight, how do we know it's enough to act on? Not enough in theory. Enough f...
Karen Lynch
Plenary
Panel
Brand Strategy
Decision-Making
Insight Activation
Product Development
Karen Lynch
Plenary
Panel
Brand Strategy
Decision-Making
Insight Activation
Product Development
How to Translate Consumer Insights Into Business Solutions
The best insights do more than explain consumers — they help businesses solve real challenges. In this fireside chat, Yola Khoreva will share her perspective on...
Karen Lynch
AI Governance / Trust
Brand Strategy
Consumer Behavior
Storytelling / Communication
Karen Lynch
AI Governance / Trust
Brand Strategy
Consumer Behavior
Storytelling / Communication
AI Communications and Brand Authenticity
How does AI advertising influence perceptions of brand authenticity, innovation, and trust? Traditionally, Vattenfall had an ambition to use real people, real c...
Lucy Davison
Brand Strategy
Customer Journey
Insight Activation
Stakeholder Alignment
Lucy Davison
Brand Strategy
Customer Journey
Insight Activation
Stakeholder Alignment
From Fitting Room Friction to North Star Vision
Brands often get stuck in day-to-day sales mode and risk harming their full commercial potential. As part of their business transformation, Hunkemöller escaped ...
Ben Leet
AI for Analysis
Decision-Making
Ben Leet
AI for Analysis
Decision-Making
The Next Billion-Dollar Decisions Will Be Discovered by Machines — and Deb...
The next billion-dollar moves won’t start as numbers on a dashboard or from gut calls—they’ll start as a machine-discovered hypothesis. As customer signals expl...
Ben Leet
AI for Analysis
Decision-Making
Insight Activation
Research Automation
Ben Leet
AI for Analysis
Decision-Making
Insight Activation
Research Automation
Front-Loading Insights with AI: Predict, Optimize, and Visualize Before La...
Execution in advertising is effortless, judgment isn’t. Generative AI speeds production, but evaluation lags, widening the gap between output and certainty. Dr....
Karen Lynch
Fireside Chat
Leadership
Trend Forecasting
Cultural Insight
Research Strategy
Karen Lynch
Fireside Chat
Leadership
Trend Forecasting
Cultural Insight
Research Strategy
Building the Future of Insight: A Human-First Perspective
Much of the ‘future of insight’ narrative is driven by conversations about tech and AI. We turn this on its head, exploring what cultural foresight tells us abo...
Lucy Davison
Qualitative Research
Validation / Verification
Lucy Davison
Qualitative Research
Validation / Verification
Right-First-Time: The Case for In-Person Research
In a world chasing faster, cheaper research, we ask a harder question: what delivers better decisions? This session argues for “right-first-time” research, show...
Lucy Davison
Brand Strategy
Consumer Behavior
Growth Strategy
Shopper & Pack Testing
Lucy Davison
Brand Strategy
Consumer Behavior
Growth Strategy
Shopper & Pack Testing
Standing out on Shelf: How DBAs Drive Equity & Sales
A distinctive pack is a brand growth multiplier. Get it right, and you drastically improve your chances of success. For established brands, it means being easy ...
Ben Leet
Behavioral Research
Customer Journey
Decision-Making
Innovation
Ben Leet
Behavioral Research
Customer Journey
Decision-Making
Innovation
Signal Before Stats In the AI Pressure Cooker
AI has turned product work into a pressure cooker: faster cycles, higher expectations, and less time for the “perfect” evidence. This talk shows how UX and in...
Lucy Davison
AI for Qual Research
Concept Testing
Innovation
Product Development
Lucy Davison
AI for Qual Research
Concept Testing
Innovation
Product Development
AI-Led "Design Thinking" For Product Innovation
Carolina Tousaint (Unilever Foods Europe) and Lisa Nel (Conveo) show how AI-led research delivers design thinking at scale, without losing depth. Across four it...
Ben Leet
AI Personas / Synthetic Humans
Audience Insight
Consumer Behavior
Trend Forecasting
Ben Leet
AI Personas / Synthetic Humans
Audience Insight
Consumer Behavior
Trend Forecasting
GLP-1 Consumer Shift: Friesland Campina & Bolt Insight
As GLP-1 medications reshape how millions eat, feel, and shop, Friesland Campina and Bolt Insight are pulling back the curtain on what's really happening. Origi...
Ben Leet
Fireside Chat
Customer Experience
Insight Activation
Operating Model / Workflow
Tracker / Brand Tracking
Ben Leet
Fireside Chat
Customer Experience
Insight Activation
Operating Model / Workflow
Tracker / Brand Tracking
From Silos to Synergy: Shell's Journey to a 360° Customer View
This is the story how Shell has brought together best-in-class providers and agency partners that can deliver a future-proof and agile solution, delivering comm...
Lucy Davison
Behavioral Research
Consumer Behavior
Customer Experience
Stakeholder Alignment
Lucy Davison
Behavioral Research
Consumer Behavior
Customer Experience
Stakeholder Alignment
Horseracing Reimagined: From Insight to Action
British Racing launched its most comprehensive customer research — a nationally representative study combining 7,500 surveys, interviews and competitor analysis...
Elina Halonen
Growth Strategy
Innovation
Storytelling / Communication
Trend Forecasting
Elina Halonen
Growth Strategy
Innovation
Storytelling / Communication
Trend Forecasting
How UFS Built Foodservice’s Most Influential Insight Engine
Future Menus transforms foodservice by turning trends into a data‑driven growth engine. It helps chefs innovate faster through personalized insights, AI‑powered...
Joaquim Bretcha Boix
Brand Strategy
Growth Strategy
Storytelling / Communication
Cultural Insight
Joaquim Bretcha Boix
Brand Strategy
Growth Strategy
Storytelling / Communication
Cultural Insight
The Other Influencer Strategy: Scaling Cultural Influence
This session challenges the traditional influencer marketing model by introducing a new influence equation focused on depth, community, and meaning. Attendees w...
Priscilla McKinney
Tech Demo
AI for Qual Research
Concept Testing
Innovation
Validation / Verification
Priscilla McKinney
Tech Demo
AI for Qual Research
Concept Testing
Innovation
Validation / Verification
Demo: Deep Idea Validation at Speed Across Markets
Euroconsumers shifted from occasional one-off studies to an iterative, always-on AI-powered approach to validate and refine digital product ideas across 4 marke...
Joaquim Bretcha Boix
Customer Experience
Insight Activation
Storytelling / Communication
Joaquim Bretcha Boix
Customer Experience
Insight Activation
Storytelling / Communication
From Snapshots to Full Passenger Stories at BRU
Brussels Airport serves over 25 million passengers a year. But how do you truly capture their voice? In this session, Brussels Airport shares how they are evolv...
Elina Halonen
Concept Testing
Decision-Making
Innovation
Storytelling / Communication
Elina Halonen
Concept Testing
Decision-Making
Innovation
Storytelling / Communication
How Research Fuels Creativity and World-Class Musicals
Stage Entertainment works closely with Toluna, leveraging their consumer insight and concept testing expertise to guide strategic decisions in a highly competit...
Priscilla McKinney
Tech Demo
AI for Quant Research
Data Quality
Fraud / Bias
Tracker / Brand Tracking
Priscilla McKinney
Tech Demo
AI for Quant Research
Data Quality
Fraud / Bias
Tracker / Brand Tracking
Demo: How to Overcome the 5 Biggest Challenges in Brand Tracking
Brand trackers are essential but often limited by poor reach, inconsistent data, and unclear outcomes. Latana shows how innovative sampling, modular survey desi...
Priscilla McKinney
Tech Demo
AI for Quant Research
Data Analytics & Visualization
Research Automation
Storytelling / Communication
Priscilla McKinney
Tech Demo
AI for Quant Research
Data Analytics & Visualization
Research Automation
Storytelling / Communication
Demo: From Quant Data to Story Slides with AI
Generative AI is transforming qualitative research, but quant analysis still relies on manual workflows. This session shows how AI can automate the journey from...
Joaquim Bretcha Boix
Decision-Making
Insight Activation
Qualitative Research
Storytelling / Communication
Joaquim Bretcha Boix
Decision-Making
Insight Activation
Qualitative Research
Storytelling / Communication
The Insight Architecture: Frameworks for Deeper Thinking
The Insight Architecture Model offers a structured way for researchers to think deeper and add greater strategic value. By framing the insight process around fi...
Elina Halonen
Audience Insight
Consumer Behavior
Shopper & Pack Testing
Trend Forecasting
Elina Halonen
Audience Insight
Consumer Behavior
Shopper & Pack Testing
Trend Forecasting
The Smartflation Generation: Always Get What They Want?
Smartflation is Gen Z’s response to inflation and rising living costs. Raised on instant gratification, they refuse to lower aspirations - they optimize instead...
Elina Halonen
AI Personas / Synthetic Humans
Concept Testing
Idea Screening
Innovation
Elina Halonen
AI Personas / Synthetic Humans
Concept Testing
Idea Screening
Innovation
How Philips Accelerates Consumer-Centric Innovation with AI
At Philips, a campaign idea now meets its first consumer before it ever reaches a research agency. The consumer happens to be an AI Persona. Co-created with Ma...
Priscilla McKinney
Insight Activation
Leadership
Operating Model / Workflow
Stakeholder Alignment
Priscilla McKinney
Insight Activation
Leadership
Operating Model / Workflow
Stakeholder Alignment
Demo: How Diageo is Meeting the Growing Demand for Insights
As the demand for understanding grows, so does the demand on insights teams. How can you adapt? In this case study, Diageo speaks to the challenges insights tea...
Joaquim Bretcha Boix
Decision-Making
Insight Activation
Innovation
Trend Forecasting
Joaquim Bretcha Boix
Decision-Making
Insight Activation
Innovation
Trend Forecasting
CPG Innovation: What Got You Here Won’t Get You There
More data hasn’t made innovation decisions easier. As consumer behaviour fragments and markets move faster, leading brands are moving beyond rear-view insights ...
Elina Halonen
Fireside Chat
AI for Qual Research
Customer Experience
Product Development
Elina Halonen
Fireside Chat
AI for Qual Research
Customer Experience
Product Development
Seeing the Unseen: Rewriting the Rules of Product Experience
When features can be copied and loyalty is fragile, a superior product experience becomes the final differentiator. Discover how Sensory Bot™ blends AI with sen...
Priscilla McKinney
Tech Demo
Brand Strategy
Decision-Making
Insight Activation
Research Automation
Priscilla McKinney
Tech Demo
Brand Strategy
Decision-Making
Insight Activation
Research Automation
Demo: Research at Market Speed: From Insights to Action
When research moves too slowly and stakeholders pull in different directions, competitive advantage disappears. Brainsuite transforms fragmented insights into t...
David Katz
AI Governance / Trust
Data Quality
Future List Honoree
Operating Model / Workflow
Research Automation
David Katz
AI Governance / Trust
Data Quality
Future List Honoree
Operating Model / Workflow
Research Automation
The Foundation That Makes AI Safe and Insights Fast
AI did not transform our research platform. Years of structured data, standardised workflows, and deterministic automation did. Once that foundation existed, AI...
Norbert Sari
AI for Analysis
AI Governance / Trust
Research Integrity
Validation / Verification
Norbert Sari
AI for Analysis
AI Governance / Trust
Research Integrity
Validation / Verification
AI in Research: The False Confidence Problem
AI is putting research and analysis capabilities into more hands than ever. But, in doing so, it risks generating expert-looking outputs without building expert...
Katie O'Connor
AI Personas / Synthetic Humans
Community Research
Innovation
Research Automation
Katie O'Connor
AI Personas / Synthetic Humans
Community Research
Innovation
Research Automation
The Human Context Layer: How Insight Communities Power AI-Ready Innovation
AI has fundamentally changed what leaders and product teams expect from innovation: rapid ideation, greater personalization, higher confidence — all at once. In...
Katie O'Connor
Data Quality
Fraud / Bias
Quantitative Research
Validation / Verification
Katie O'Connor
Data Quality
Fraud / Bias
Quantitative Research
Validation / Verification
Beyond Bots & Bias: How Surveys Become More Human Again
How reliable are survey data when AI bots complete questionnaires and complex screeners deter real consumers? While budgets tighten, recall bias undermines data...
David Katz
Decision-Making
Future List Honoree
Innovation
Leadership
Storytelling / Communication
David Katz
Decision-Making
Future List Honoree
Innovation
Leadership
Storytelling / Communication
Why Leave a Safe Job to Fight Fraud?
Lessons from leaving McKinsey, building a fraud-fighting company in market research, and a startup exit. A personal reflection on meaningful work, risk, and fin...
Norbert Sari
AI for Qual Research
Operating Model / Workflow
Research Automation
Stakeholder Alignment
Norbert Sari
AI for Qual Research
Operating Model / Workflow
Research Automation
Stakeholder Alignment
Scaling Insights Cross-Functionally: AI Research Playbook
Research teams face pressure to deliver more, faster, and to more stakeholders than ever. Flutter UK & Ireland shares a practical playbook for scaling insight g...
David Katz
Consumer Closeness
Insight Activation
Leadership
Storytelling / Communication
David Katz
Consumer Closeness
Insight Activation
Leadership
Storytelling / Communication
What Does “Bringing Insight To Life” Really Look Like?
Dan Parker-Smith is a professional film maker, accomplished researcher, and visual storyteller. As co-founder of EXPLNERS, he's obsessed with the gap between wh...
Katie O'Connor
AI for Qual Research
AI Governance / Trust
Research Integrity
Privacy / Ethics
Katie O'Connor
AI for Qual Research
AI Governance / Trust
Research Integrity
Privacy / Ethics
Fears Around AI Disinformation Studied Through AI
As AI expands rapidly, separating truth from fakes is getting harder. Zymetria partnered with Glaut to explore how people perceive AI in the disinformation era....
Norbert Sari
Data Analytics & Visualization
Insight Activation
Operating Model / Workflow
Stakeholder Alignment
Norbert Sari
Data Analytics & Visualization
Insight Activation
Operating Model / Workflow
Stakeholder Alignment
The New Era of Collective Intelligence
Data isn’t scarce — connection is. This session shows how we transform fragmented CX, CMI, CRM and BI data into a living knowledge core that preserves context, ...
Norbert Sari
Brand Strategy
Growth Strategy
Insight Activation
Tracker / Brand Tracking
Norbert Sari
Brand Strategy
Growth Strategy
Insight Activation
Tracker / Brand Tracking
Measuring What Matters: Savencia’s Strategy for Brand Tracking Using Menta...
Driven by a mission of “leading the way to better food,” Savencia has been an early adopter of the Better Brand Health framework - going beyond the traditional ...
David Katz
AI for Quant Research
AI Governance / Trust
Quantitative Research
Validation / Verification
David Katz
AI for Quant Research
AI Governance / Trust
Quantitative Research
Validation / Verification
Trust, But Verify, Fact-Checking AI-Driven Quant Analysis
As conversational AI becomes embedded in research workflows, the challenge is no longer generating answers, but knowing when to trust them. This session introdu...
Norbert Sari
AI Governance / Trust
AI Personas / Synthetic Humans
Research Automation
Validation / Verification
Norbert Sari
AI Governance / Trust
AI Personas / Synthetic Humans
Research Automation
Validation / Verification
Digital Twin & Synthetic Masterclass: Validation + Adoption
This session is a practical orientation to the good, the bad, and the ugly of digital twins and synthetic data, led by an anthropologist of innovation and indus...
Katie O'Connor
AI Personas / Synthetic Humans
Decision-Making
Innovation
Research Automation
Katie O'Connor
AI Personas / Synthetic Humans
Decision-Making
Innovation
Research Automation
How an AI 'Dream Team' Can Tackle Your Toughest Problems
What if you could tackle your toughest business challenges with a 'dream team' like Steve Jobs, Taylor Swift, and David Ogilvy? AI makes this possible. Drawing ...
Karen Lynch
Plenary
Decision-Making
Insight Activation
Stakeholder Alignment
Storytelling / Communication
Karen Lynch
Plenary
Decision-Making
Insight Activation
Stakeholder Alignment
Storytelling / Communication
From Insights to Impact: Rethinking What Success Looks Like
This talk challenges the belief that insights only matter when they drive immediate action. Using real examples, it argues that the true value of insights lies ...
Karen Lynch
AI for Qual Research
Decision-Making
Innovation
Research Automation
Karen Lynch
AI for Qual Research
Decision-Making
Innovation
Research Automation
Touching Grass at Scale: How AI-Moderated Research Put the Voice of the Us...
Headway came to Listen Labs with a hypothesis: therapists would resist AI. The research said otherwise. 80% were already using it. This session breaks down how ...
Karen Lynch
Plenary
Brand Strategy
Consumer Behavior
Growth Strategy
Innovation
Karen Lynch
Plenary
Brand Strategy
Consumer Behavior
Growth Strategy
Innovation
Transforming a Century Old Purpose Brand for Next Generation
Weleda, a 100-year pioneer in natural skincare, is reigniting relevance in a crowded beauty market by focusing on value, trust, nature and purpose; not price wa...
Matt Gibbs
AI Governance / Trust
Insight Activation
Leadership
Storytelling / Communication
Matt Gibbs
AI Governance / Trust
Insight Activation
Leadership
Storytelling / Communication
Beyond the Answer
The future of insights may be shaped not by a single technology, but by a series of shifts already underway. Drawing on industry trends and market developments,...
Norbert Sari
Tech Demo
AI for Quant Research
Product Development
Quantitative Research
Validation / Verification
Norbert Sari
Tech Demo
AI for Quant Research
Product Development
Quantitative Research
Validation / Verification
Demo: Do KPIs Really Predict Product Success?
Product launch failure has long been accepted as part of FMCG innovation. But with advances in AI and data science, that narrative is changing. Traditional KPIs...
Charlotte Kiddle
Consumer Behavior
Growth Strategy
Innovation
Trend Forecasting
Charlotte Kiddle
Consumer Behavior
Growth Strategy
Innovation
Trend Forecasting
Always-On Engine: Powering Beverage Innovation
In crowded spaces, we needed a dynamic decision tool, not a static segmentation. We constructed demand spaces that predict choice, and we added the lifestyle tr...
Norbert Sari
Tech Demo
AI for Analysis
Insight Activation
Research Automation
Storytelling / Communication
Norbert Sari
Tech Demo
AI for Analysis
Insight Activation
Research Automation
Storytelling / Communication
Demo: Stop Scrolling Through Dashboards – Just Ask AI
Enlyta brings AI directly into the market research workflow by making it easier to explore data, connect insights across studies, and turn evidence into clear n...
Matt Gibbs
Brand Strategy
Consumer Behavior
Innovation
Cultural Insight
Matt Gibbs
Brand Strategy
Consumer Behavior
Innovation
Cultural Insight
Escaping the Sea of Sameness
Technology and AI have amplified everything from consumer expectations to brand capabilities. Yet, as AI reshapes marketing, brands risk sliding into sameness. ...
Charlotte Kiddle
Decision-Making
Innovation
Product Development
Charlotte Kiddle
Decision-Making
Innovation
Product Development
Innovation Success Rates Suck. I Bet Yours Does Too.
At Nomad Foods we got tired of seeing fantastic innovations fail in the market, so we decided to make a change. We turned our innovation research upside down an...
Matt Gibbs
Customer Journey
Decision-Making
Quantitative Research
Matt Gibbs
Customer Journey
Decision-Making
Quantitative Research
A Research Blueprint for Complex Multi-Step Digital Journeys
From Rigor to Relevance: We recreated the online flight booking journey to capture decision-making as it unfolded, moment by moment, choice by choice. Going bey...
Norbert Sari
Tech Demo
AI for Qual Research
Insight Activation
Research Automation
Validation / Verification
Personas / Synthetic Humans
Norbert Sari
Tech Demo
AI for Qual Research
Insight Activation
Research Automation
Validation / Verification
Personas / Synthetic Humans
Demo: How to Get Real Insights Out of Your Synthetic Personas
Learn how to get real insights out of your synthetic personas. Are you using synthetic personas but wondering how to extract real, reliable value from them?Join...
Charlotte Kiddle
Fireside Chat
AI Personas / Synthetic Humans
Qualitative Research
Research Automation
Research Integrity
Charlotte Kiddle
Fireside Chat
AI Personas / Synthetic Humans
Qualitative Research
Research Automation
Research Integrity
Keeping It Real: How Synthetic Humans Can Help Us Stay Human
AI is transforming how insight is collected and delivered, but human understanding remains the competitive edge. In this session, C Space and Sage share early t...
Norbert Sari
Tech Demo
Community Research
Insight Activation
Innovation
Product Development
Norbert Sari
Tech Demo
Community Research
Insight Activation
Innovation
Product Development
Demo: How Pentland Builds Better Products with Communities
What happens when consumer voice is built into the product process? Pentland Brands and SMG explore how Ignite Communities helps teams make faster, more confide...
Charlotte Kiddle
Consumer Behavior
Ethnography
Product Development
Shopper & Pack Testing
Charlotte Kiddle
Consumer Behavior
Ethnography
Product Development
Shopper & Pack Testing
How Video Intelligence Uncovered Hidden Category Truths
Conventional research captures what consumers say, not what they do. Convotrack's Video Intelligence analyzed observed behavior to surface what traditional meth...
Matt Gibbs
AI for Quant Research
Innovation
Shopper & Pack Testing
Validation / Verification
Matt Gibbs
AI for Quant Research
Innovation
Shopper & Pack Testing
Validation / Verification
Bringing AI-Powered Pack Testing into a Global Brand
Royal Canin and Pernod Ricard join Behaviorally for an honest discussion on adopting AI-powered pack testing inside global brands. Cesar Lastra makes the case f...
Matt Gibbs
Fireside Chat
AI for Qual Research
Idea Screening
Innovation
Matt Gibbs
Fireside Chat
AI for Qual Research
Idea Screening
Innovation
Keeping the Human Spark in Early Stage Innovation
AI is transforming how innovation teams explore opportunities, generate ideas and learn from consumers. But becoming a better innovator requires more than speed...
Norbert Sari
Tech Demo
Decision-Making
Innovation
Product Development
Norbert Sari
Tech Demo
Decision-Making
Innovation
Product Development
Demo: Don't Outsource Your Thinking
The future belongs to companies brave enough to innovate "outside the box" they built themselves. This session introduces a different way to look at innovations...
Elina Halonen
AI for Analysis
Brand Strategy
Data Analytics & Visualization
Growth Strategy
Elina Halonen
AI for Analysis
Brand Strategy
Data Analytics & Visualization
Growth Strategy
Unlocking TikTok Creative Performance for Wolt with AI
Discover how to optimize TikTok performance through AI-driven creative analysis. Learn how to use commonly available AI and LLMs to link creative content to KPI...
Corey Zinser
Panel
Brand Strategy
Insight Activation
Leadership
Stakeholder Alignment
Corey Zinser
Panel
Brand Strategy
Insight Activation
Leadership
Stakeholder Alignment
What Clients Want
Back, by popular demand! This panel of clients is an unfiltered conversation about what it takes to build partnerships that last. Expect candid views on client ...
Danielle Todd
AI for Analysis
AI Governance / Trust
Qualitative Research
Research Integrity
Danielle Todd
AI for Analysis
AI Governance / Trust
Qualitative Research
Research Integrity
AI Tasting Spoon - AI Finds Patterns. Humans Find Meaning.
Everyone is asking whether AI will replace researchers. We think that’s the wrong question. The real question is: Who decides what matters? Using a cross-mark...
Danielle Todd
Consumer Closeness
Insight Activation
Leadership
Stakeholder Alignment
Danielle Todd
Consumer Closeness
Insight Activation
Leadership
Stakeholder Alignment
Closing the Distance: How Haleon Wired Consumer Closeness Into the Way The...
Great insights don't always win. In pharma and OTC, the people making decisions are often the furthest from the consumer, and when that gap exists, other things...
Elina Halonen
AI Governance / Trust
AI Personas / Synthetic Humans
Innovation
Research Integrity
Elina Halonen
AI Governance / Trust
AI Personas / Synthetic Humans
Innovation
Research Integrity
Synthetic Data: Threat, Hype, or the Future of Insights?
AI is transforming our industry, but synthetic data sits at the centre of the debate: Will it revolutionize research, or put traditional data collection at risk...
Corey Zinser
Brand Strategy
Consumer Behavior
Leadership
Trend Forecasting
Corey Zinser
Brand Strategy
Consumer Behavior
Leadership
Trend Forecasting
Sustainability by Design: The New Edge in Insight Leadership
Sustainability operates at the intersection of risk, relevance and reward shaping supply chains, regulation, category evolution and brand trust. This session of...
Corey Zinser
Behavioral Research
Consumer Behavior
Customer Journey
Corey Zinser
Behavioral Research
Consumer Behavior
Customer Journey
Qual Meets Behavioral: Unlocking Fintech in Africa
Three out of five mobile money accounts in Nigeria are inactive, but why? This session reveals how behavioral data from OPay, M-Pesa, and Wave uncovers the gap ...
Elina Halonen
AI for Quant Research
Data Analytics & Visualization
Quantitative Research
Research Automation
Elina Halonen
AI for Quant Research
Data Analytics & Visualization
Quantitative Research
Research Automation
When Numbers Start Talking: Conversing with Your Quant Data
AI has transformed qualitative research, but quantitative data remains harder. Scales and coded responses demand structure most LLMs lack. The solution is moder...
Danielle Todd
Consumer Behavior
Insight Activation
Qualitative Research
Danielle Todd
Consumer Behavior
Insight Activation
Qualitative Research
Gamification in Research: 20 Projective Techniques in 20 Min
When research feels like play, truth feels natural. Consumers don’t always articulate what they feel — but they reveal it when they project, imagine, and play. ...
Elina Halonen
AI Governance / Trust
Data Quality
Leadership
Research Integrity
Elina Halonen
AI Governance / Trust
Data Quality
Leadership
Research Integrity
Signal vs Noise: Market Research as the Conscience of AI
As AI becomes the interface to organizational knowledge, research no longer informs one decision — it feeds systems shaping thousands. Yet AI cannot judge nuanc...
Danielle Todd
Decision-Making
Insight Activation
Research Automation
Stakeholder Alignment
Danielle Todd
Decision-Making
Insight Activation
Research Automation
Stakeholder Alignment
Why Good Data Still Fails to Shape Decisions – and How Givaudan Fixed It
Most organizations have the insights they need—the challenge is using them consistently at the moment of decision. Givaudan shares how its Taste & Wellbeing tea...
Corey Zinser
AI for Qual Research
Qualitative Research
Trend Forecasting
Cultural Insight
Corey Zinser
AI for Qual Research
Qualitative Research
Trend Forecasting
Cultural Insight
Using Generative AI to Decode the Evolution of Childhood
Since the dawn of the 21st century, the experience of growing up has changed profoundly. NRG and Young Storytellers examined how social, cultural, and technolog...
Danielle Todd
Behavioral Research
Consumer Behavior
Idea Screening
Innovation
Danielle Todd
Behavioral Research
Consumer Behavior
Idea Screening
Innovation
Miele: From Say–Do Gap to Behavioural Consumer Centricity
At IIEX Europe 2025, 40.6% of insights leaders said they struggle to close the say–do gap. This session shows how Miele applies pretotyping and behavioral exper...
Elina Halonen
Fireside Chat
AI for Analysis
Consumer Behavior
Data Quality
Validation / Verification
Elina Halonen
Fireside Chat
AI for Analysis
Consumer Behavior
Data Quality
Validation / Verification
Consumers Aren’t Lying… Surveys Just Can’t Tell the Truth
Surveys are key to insights, but today’s consumers are busier, more distracted, and increasingly guarded about what they share. At the same time, they leave beh...
Karen Lynch
AI for Qual Research
AI Governance / Trust
Research Automation
Trend Forecasting
Karen Lynch
AI for Qual Research
AI Governance / Trust
Research Automation
Trend Forecasting
Proof of Partner: Who’s Really in the Pilot Seat?
When humans and LLMs share the cockpit of insight generation, who’s really steering? Based on a real collaboration between Algorithm Trend Intelligence and a ma...
Karen Lynch
Audience Insight
Consumer Behavior
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Challenges You’ll Overcome at IIEX Europe
Keep Up With Innovation
Prove Insights ROI
Navigate Europe’s Complexity
Turn Insights Into Action
Build the Right Connections
Develop Future-Ready Skills
IIEX Europe helps you stay ahead of the rapid changes in insights, analytics, and AI. You’ll discover the newest tools, platforms, and methodologies shaping the European research landscape and learn how leading brands and suppliers are applying them in real business environments.
June 15-16, 2027 Amsterdam
Keep Up With Innovation
IIEX Europe helps you stay ahead of the rapid changes in insights, analytics, and AI. You’ll discover the newest tools, platforms, and methodologies shaping the European research landscape and learn how leading brands and suppliers are applying them in real business environments.
Prove Insights ROI
One of the biggest challenges in Europe is securing stakeholder buy-in for research initiatives. At IIEX Europe, you’ll learn how to build compelling business cases, communicate the value of insights, and demonstrate measurable impact that drives strategic decision-making.
Navigate Europe’s Complexity
The European market is uniquely diverse, culturally, economically, and linguistically — and further influenced by evolving EU regulations. IIEX Europe equips you with frameworks, case studies, and practical tools to research across borders, understand regional nuances, and work confidently within regulatory constraints.
Turn Insights Into Action
Insights often get stuck in silos or fail to reach the people who can make them meaningful. IIEX Europe shows you how leading organizations create insight-driven cultures, break down departmental barriers, and move from data to action with speed, clarity, and alignment.
Build the Right Connections
Success in Europe’s insights industry depends on trusted relationships. At IIEX Europe, you’ll expand your network with brand leaders, research suppliers, technology innovators, and startup founders opening doors to new collaborations, clients, and partnership opportunities across the region.
Develop Future-Ready Skills
The European insights workforce is evolving fast. IIEX Europe highlights the skills, capabilities, and career paths that will matter most in the coming years — from AI literacy and data storytelling to cross-functional leadership — helping you stay competitive and future-proof your expertise.
June 15-16, 2027 Amsterdam
Discover the IIEX Europe Community
At IIEX Europe, you’ll join a dynamic mix of insight leaders, researchers, strategists, and innovators who are shaping the future of decision-making across the continent.
This is more than just a conference, it’s where new ideas ignite, partnerships grow, and Europe’s next generation of research and analytics leaders rise.
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What our attendees say
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Just back from 2 days in Amsterdam at IIEX Europe - probably the best one of these events I’ve ever attended.

Mike Stevens
Founder/Editor, Insight Platforms
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I am giddy with excitement when IIEX Europe rolls around, and it has not yet let me down in providing an avenue to explore great thinking, connect with others who desire the same, and take the pulse of our industry.

Danielle Todd
Director, The Forge
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Attending IIEX Europe was like being transported to the future of the insights industry — it was that exciting!

Dmitry Gaiduk
Entrepreneur
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I have regularly attended IIEX for many years with many of my team – it is a fantastic way to stay connected with the wider world of Insights – the latest and greatest developments in our industry.

Tony Costella
Global Consumer and Market Insights Director, Heineken
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Innovation is critical for the future of insights. [IIEX Europe] continues to be the leading conference to bring this needed innovation to the industry.

Stan Knoops
Global Head of Insight, IFF
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It is always great reconnecting with familiar faces, peers and meeting new connections at these events. The conference provides a lot of food for thought on the industry at large, the evolving challenges clients look to research partners to help them solve, and the innovations that may be in early stages of adoption, but might become research standards and best practices.

Janice Lai
VP of Marketing, Behaviorally
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