

Key Themes & Sessions
Applying Global Segmentation to Combat Modern Slavery
Can audience segmentation change the course of history? We share key findings from an 8-country segmentation with International Justice Mission, a global organi...

Anne Coulter
Research Strategy Group

Mallory Krumsieg
International Justice Mission
BEYOND AI - Pioneering The Post-AI Revolution
We report how worlds largest sports association double engagement with a method that multiplies growth impact of AI Key Takeaways: 1. AI only generates growth ...

Frank Buckler
SUPRA

Ibrahim Koese
LIDL (ex. DFB)
Collaborative Intelligence: The Research Future at Eli Lilly
In an era of AI experimentation and uneven ROI, Lilly’s research innovators and IA Collaborative built one of the company’s most impactful AI platforms — an AI ...

Andrew Embry
Eli Lilly

Matt Alverson
IA Collaborative
From Clips to Clarity: Video-First Insights in Action
Today’s consumers express real needs through short-form video, not surveys. This session shows how AI-powered video intelligence uncovers emotion, context, ritu...

Tamanna Dhamija
Convosight

Ciara O'Connell
Winland Foods
From Signals to Strategy: Building the Future of Innovation
True innovation starts with early cultural signals hidden in everyday conversation. This session explores how insights and R&D leaders can use cultural foresigh...

Cheryl Auger
Lux Research Inc
Mapping the Fitness Journey with AI-Powered Conversations
Prospects, active members, churned customers — they each have a story to tell. Solidcore VP of Strategy & Insights Gillian Almeida joins Strella COO Priya Krish...

Priya Krishnan
Strella

Gillian Almeida
[solidcore]
The $100B Delivery Funnel: How Uber Eats Shapes Choice
Decoding the modern path to purchase requires new tools & approaches. In a multimodal study with Uber Eats, Alter Agents combined large-scale quant with mobile ...

Heather O'Shea
Alter Agents

David Iudica
Uber
The Future of Insights: Change Management
As AI hits I&A, the competitive advantage for I&A will no longer be generating business-driving insights—it will be driving sustainable change. The next era ask...

Mary Beth Jowers
Heineken
Skin in the Game: How Ducati Used Prelaunch to Learn Signals
Ducati prelaunched the Desmo and asked riders to put down a refundable deposit, separating real intent from casual hype. Then we listened closely to those who c...

Narek Vardanyan
Prelaunch.com

Phil Read Jr
Ducati North America
Shaping the Future of Insights in LATAM: Learning from 2026 Future List Ho...
Join three of Greenbook’s 2026 Future List Honorees from LATAM for a conversation on the future of insights leadership across the region. As rising voices in th...

Valentina Piña
InsituPartners

Federico Adrogue
Bondum
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 ...

Lucy Davison
Keen as Mustard Marketing

Julie Levine
American Red Cross
Disruption Fatigue: Staying Relevant in a Changing World
From FemTech to AI, I’ve navigated multiple waves of change while building women’s health solutions across the U.S. and India. In this session, I’ll share pract...

Cyndhia Varshni
Beesy Strategy
Embracing a Hybrid Future: Save Research a Seat at the Table
As budgets tighten and AI accelerates product cycles, the insights industry faces a crisis: evolve or be bypassed. Digital twins and synthetic audiences offer ...

Phil Ahad
Cint

Adam Husein
$1.4T in Buying Power: LGBTQ+ Audiences Brands Can’t Ignore
As LGBTQ+ rights face growing cultural & political challenges, brands face real risk & opportunity with a community holding $1.4T in buying power. Ignoring this...

Andrew Mellen
Vacation

Janina Volpe
Vacation
Decoding Behavioral Blindness in the Heat of Tax Season
Data reveals the what, but it rarely explains the why. At the height of a high-stakes tax season, TurboTax and Nailbiter went beyond traditional analytics to so...

Nathan Noertker
Nailbiter

Lexie Franchak
Intuit
Owning It: Take Charge of Your Career
Drawing inspiration from both business strategy and military leadership principles, this session explores the transformative power of ownership, and challenges ...

Jen Plebani
BILL
Say vs. Do: Closing the Gap with Verified Buyers
Recent Research-on-Research analysis shows nearly 70% of consumers misreport purchase frequency, spend per trip, units per trip, and more—raising questions abou...

Michelle Pichman
Numerator

David Aronson
Numerator
Synthetic Personas at Scale: Supercharging Innovation
Synthetic personas are disrupting the insights industry and accelerating decision making. Toluna, Haleon, and Takasago will reveal how AI-generated quant respo...

Renee Smith
Toluna

Jelena Le Breton
Takasago
If It Didn't Sell, Did the Insight Fail? Understanding the Retailers POV o...
Most CPG innovation is validated through the lens of insights teams—but it succeeds or fails through the reality of retailers. This session reframes innovation ...

Jonathan Tofel
Mission Field LLC

Cory Sexson
How Visual Surveys Made Crunchy Hydration’s New Flavor a Hit
When Crunchy Hydration CEO and Founder Megan Riggs was urged to change flavors, can designs, and benefit claims just months after a major redesign, she hesitate...

Bruce Bower
Swytchback

Megan Riggs
Crunchy Hydration
Are You Trusted by Your Customers? The Impact of Trust on Your Brand and P...
Understanding how to measure trust in a world were misinformation and distrust is at an all time high. We need to increase trust, but you can't increase what yo...

Daniel Blatt
Pfizer
Creating an Active Intelligence System: Hormel’s AI Playbook
Join Hormel’s Dave Anderko and Market Logic’s Joseph Rini for a discussion on how Hormel is reshaping their consumer insights’ function. From interacting with s...

Joseph Rini
Market Logic Software

Dave Anderko
Hormel
Demo: Behavioral Database to AI Modeling: Predicting Winning Pack
This session will highlight how AI has the power to predict the sales impact of pack designs before launch. Behaviorally and Nestlé demonstrate how linking the ...

Ian Donahue
Behaviorally

Rosie Heinert
Nestle Nutrition
Beyond Elmo: Balancing Data & Creativity at Sesame Workshop
How a 56 year old legacy non-profit balances data and creativity to drive brand reach and relevance with today’s Gen Alpha viewers and Gen Z and Millennial fans...

Aaron Bisman
Sesame Workshop
Breakthrough or Breakdown: What the Next Generation of Research Actually L...
AI is reshaping research, but not every change is an improvement. Some approaches are creating real breakthroughs in speed, quality, and scale. Others are creat...

Sam Pisani
The Logit Group

Steve Male
The Logit Group
Creative Uses of AI to Accelerate Message Testing Research Workflows
Marketing teams rely on message testing to make critical decisions on strategy and resources. We will present a case study of how our team transformed our messa...

Laura Wronski
Demo: Deeper Research with AI, Not Just Faster
AI can accelerate qualitative research, but speed alone doesn’t create insight. In this live demo, see how DoReveal helps researchers apply proven analysis fram...

Alok Jain
DoReveal
Survey Fraud: Leadership Lessons from the Frontlines
Dive into our journey of combating survey fraud, where leadership and a little bit of caffeine have kept us at the forefront. Join us to explore how we’re tackl...

Karen Lynch
Greenbook

Brandon Olesh
Stanley Black & Decker
The Death of the Dashboard
Dashboards promised clarity. But in 2026, they’re often one of the biggest barriers to insight. Executives don’t need more charts; they need fewer blind spots. ...

Claudia Natasia
Riley
Voices - Breaking the Silence Around Stigmatized or Overlooked Health Issu...
From Women's Health, to HIV, Rare Diseases, or Cancer, these are conversations that are stigmatized and rarely conducted. In this case study, we reveal new rese...

Soumya Roy
Integro

Mike Page
Phebi
Research Reimagined: The Shift to Continuous Understanding
The discrete research project is evolving into something better: continuous, conversational, and embedded insight. Ali will map the forces reshaping 2026, from ...

Ali Henriques
Qualtrics
AI Adoption is Table Stakes: ResTech ROI the Real Standard
You’re likely already paying for AI & research technology, but how do you define what you’re actually getting back from the investments? This session takes a ca...

Cayleigh McCarthy
Discuss

Robin Lindberg
Quadrant Strategies
Beyond the Gold: Why Awareness Isn’t Enough for Saatva’s Olympic Leap
Most brands settle for a spike in awareness after an Olympics investment, Saatva isn’t most brands. Join quantilope and Saatva to see why traditional tracking i...

Beatrice Capestany
quantilope

Gary Rozal
Saatva
Snack versus Savour – The Neuroscience of How Content Format (Snack Conten...
As audiences increasingly “snack” on short form content, what do we lose when iconic scenes are consumed out of narrative context? This neuroscience-led study, ...

Kerry Leigh Gregory
Neural Sense

Sofia Gomez Garcia
Warner Bros. Discovery
Comprehensive Quality Control for Synthetic Data Systems
After reviewing fifty-seven real-world use cases for Synthetic Data Systems, we developed a clear and practical way to describe how these systems work and how t...

Alain Briancon
Dynata
Find the Story: When the Data Doesn't Agree With Your Plan
Founders lead with passion. Researchers lead with data. Trouble starts when the two don’t agree. When testing challenges a brand’s mission, most teams hear “no....

Steve Beckman
Designology

Paige Hansen
BAM
Scaling Qualitative Insight with Rigor and Speed at Scotts
Scotts Miracle-Gro faced overwhelming volumes of qualitative data across surveys, reviews, and service interactions. After testing multiple AI tools, the team c...

Kelsey Whitehead
Panoplai
Search to Strategy: Intelligence to Drive Business Impact
Insights teams generate extraordinary intelligence, yet critical decisions often happen without it. Why? Because accessibility, speed, and synthesis remain barr...

Amanda Milena Alvarez
Stravito
Turning Insight Into Brand Growth: Learning from 2026 Future List Honorees
Join two of Greenbook’s 2026 Future List Honorees for a conversation on what it really means to be insight-led when it comes to brand growth. As rising leaders ...

Tucker Mitchell
Pernod Ricard

Haley Kiernan
Mars Petcare
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...

Guillaume Aimetti
Inspirient GmbH
Pasta Breaking the Rules: Blended Methods for New Categories
When products don’t fit neatly into existing categories, traditional research approaches can fall short. This session walks through a blended study design that ...

Lea Ben-Akiva
AMC Global

Logan Soraci
GLP-1 and the Future of Snacking: Behavioral Design Meets AI
IFF applied Claira(tm), an AI-powered platform, to develop new snacks designed for GLP-1 users. Attendees will learn how to design products for behavioral impac...

Dave Lundahl
InsightsNow

Mimi Sherlock
IFF
Beyond Mental Availability: Owning Moments That Truly Matter
Most marketers agree: mental availability drives growth yet few measure it well. Brands win when they come to mind in the right moment. In this eye-opening sess...

Matt Vicenzi
Hall & Partners
What Value Human Emotions for Brands in the Age of AI
Dave, Stan & Stephen will explore the important and enduring role human emotions play for brands. They’ll discuss the latest research tools and techniques that ...

Dave Cobban
The Spikes
Opening Remarks
Join Karen and Margaret as they kick off IIEX North America with a warm welcome! They’ll share everything you need to know to make the most of your time at the ...

Karen Lynch
Greenbook
Front-Loading Insights with AI: Predict, Optimize, and Visualize Before La...
Generative AI has made creative execution effortless, but judgment hasn’t kept pace. As asset volumes explode, teams struggle to evaluate and decide effectively...

Thomas Zoëga Ramsøy
Neurons
Talking to Your Data: Democratising Quant at JAB
AI has transformed qualitative research, but structured, statistical data remains hard to democratise. This session shows how JAB Pet Services enabled teams to ...

Guillaume Aimetti
Inspirient GmbH
How AI Can Scale Research Without Losing Its Soul
AI is rewriting the rules of qualitative research, but it isn't replacing what makes the craft valuable. Prayag Narula and Maryam Maleki, Ph.D., will reveal how...

Maryam Maleki, Ph.D.
Microsoft
How La Brea Bakery Solved the Innovator’s Paradox
Change how you make innovation decisions by scaling your intuition and validating it with behavioral science. Facing pressure to rapidly launch profitable new p...

Kay Allison
Kay Allison, LLC
Lessons from 50M+ Survey Clicks: A Deep Dive Into Mobile App
Using insights from 50M+ survey clicks, this session demystifies “normal” mobile app fraud. Learn how fraud rates vary by app and geography, the signals used to...

Joey Maddox
Verisoul

Henry LeGard
Verisoul
Made to Connect: Gen Alpha's Creation and Use of AI Personas
Findings from longitudinal study across US, Mexico, Colombia, Argentina, Brazil, UK, France, Germany, Italy, and Spain, exploring GenAlphas, their digital lives...

Jaime Solorzano
Q2Q GLOBAL

Martha Llobet
Q2Q GLOBAL
Qual at Quant Scale: Why not do 100-person Focus Groups?
Focus groups deliver deep insights—but scaling them has always been impossible. Until now. Discover how AI transforms large-group research, enabling collection ...

David Baltaxe
Unanimous A.I., Inc.
Unlocking the Ready-To-Drink Consumer: From Home Habits to Innovation
The Ready-To-Drink beverage category is a crowded space, and consumers are rewriting the rules for the different functional and emotional roles these beverages ...

Bonnie Janzen
Decision Analyst

Angela Smith
Talking Rain
Where You End Up Depends On Where You Start!
Over 90% of new customer products, services, and experiences fail. Why? Because firms only use the customer for passive reaction. But what if you flipped the s...

Kevin Lonnie
KL Communications

Chad Novak
Eversource
Welcome Remarks
Join Karen and Margaret as they kick off Day 2 of IIEX North America! They'll recap event highlights and give you a sneak peek at what’s in store for the rest o...

Karen Lynch
Greenbook
Synthetic Data at a Tipping Point: Hype, Risk and the New Rules for Respon...
Synthetic data has moved from innovation labs into client decks, procurement conversations and live decision-making, requiring ever-stronger standards for guidi...

Barry Jennings
Esomar
Demo: How AI Can Make Qualitative Research More Human
As traditional in-person qualitative methods remain largely unchanged and AI-driven approaches risk stripping away humanity, McCormick and Finch Brands explored...

John Ferreira
Finch Brands

Bridget Gilbert
McCormick & Company
AI Localization in MR: Evolution and Applications
This presentation explores how AI localization has evolved from basic translation tools into sophisticated cultural intelligence systems that are revolutionizin...

Nancy Hernon
G3 Translate
Frontier Innovations with Generation1.ca’s Immigrant Nations
What if the next trillion-dollar advantage isn’t AI, but global talent hiding in plain sight? Frontier Innovations reveals how runway conversations, boardrooms,...

Arundati Dandapani
Generation1.ca
New Signals, New Standards: The Future of Measured Media
Measurement determines what gets valued, optimized, and scaled. In this session, Jim Ballas from Magellan AI and Brent Lightfoot from iHeartMedia show how new m...

Jim Ballas
Magellan AI

Brent Lightfoot
iHeartMedia
Stop Delivering Data. Start Driving Product Strategy.
Learn the research framework Docusign’s market strategy and monetization team uses to answer product’s questions and drive decision-making. By correctly definin...

Megan Peitz
Numerious Inc.

Jennifer Matus
Docusign
The Science of Inspiration: A New Competitive Advantage
The future of competitive advantage lies in moving from manipulating consumers to inspiring them through emotional resonance. Brands in low emotional-involvemen...

Christopher Brace
Story Legacy LLC

Sherry Honeyman
Georgia Pacific
Demo: The AI Idea Flood – A Practical Demo for Front-End Innovation
AI can generate more ideas than teams can evaluate. The real challenge isn’t ideation—it’s deciding what’s worth pursuing. In this live demo, we’ll demonstrate ...

Kat Figatner
C+R Research
Applying Global Segmentation to Combat Modern Slavery
Can audience segmentation change the course of history? We share key findings from an 8-country segmentation with International Justice Mission, a global organi...

Anne Coulter
Research Strategy Group

Mallory Krumsieg
International Justice Mission
BEYOND AI - Pioneering The Post-AI Revolution
We report how worlds largest sports association double engagement with a method that multiplies growth impact of AI Key Takeaways: 1. AI only generates growth ...

Frank Buckler
SUPRA

Ibrahim Koese
LIDL (ex. DFB)
Collaborative Intelligence: The Research Future at Eli Lilly
In an era of AI experimentation and uneven ROI, Lilly’s research innovators and IA Collaborative built one of the company’s most impactful AI platforms — an AI ...

Andrew Embry
Eli Lilly

Matt Alverson
IA Collaborative
From Clips to Clarity: Video-First Insights in Action
Today’s consumers express real needs through short-form video, not surveys. This session shows how AI-powered video intelligence uncovers emotion, context, ritu...

Tamanna Dhamija
Convosight

Ciara O'Connell
Winland Foods
From Signals to Strategy: Building the Future of Innovation
True innovation starts with early cultural signals hidden in everyday conversation. This session explores how insights and R&D leaders can use cultural foresigh...

Cheryl Auger
Lux Research Inc
Mapping the Fitness Journey with AI-Powered Conversations
Prospects, active members, churned customers — they each have a story to tell. Solidcore VP of Strategy & Insights Gillian Almeida joins Strella COO Priya Krish...

Priya Krishnan
Strella

Gillian Almeida
[solidcore]
The $100B Delivery Funnel: How Uber Eats Shapes Choice
Decoding the modern path to purchase requires new tools & approaches. In a multimodal study with Uber Eats, Alter Agents combined large-scale quant with mobile ...

Heather O'Shea
Alter Agents

David Iudica
Uber
The Future of Insights: Change Management
As AI hits I&A, the competitive advantage for I&A will no longer be generating business-driving insights—it will be driving sustainable change. The next era ask...

Mary Beth Jowers
Heineken
Skin in the Game: How Ducati Used Prelaunch to Learn Signals
Ducati prelaunched the Desmo and asked riders to put down a refundable deposit, separating real intent from casual hype. Then we listened closely to those who c...

Narek Vardanyan
Prelaunch.com

Phil Read Jr
Ducati North America
Shaping the Future of Insights in LATAM: Learning from 2026 Future List Ho...
Join three of Greenbook’s 2026 Future List Honorees from LATAM for a conversation on the future of insights leadership across the region. As rising voices in th...

Valentina Piña
InsituPartners

Federico Adrogue
Bondum
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 ...

Lucy Davison
Keen as Mustard Marketing

Julie Levine
American Red Cross
Disruption Fatigue: Staying Relevant in a Changing World
From FemTech to AI, I’ve navigated multiple waves of change while building women’s health solutions across the U.S. and India. In this session, I’ll share pract...

Cyndhia Varshni
Beesy Strategy
Embracing a Hybrid Future: Save Research a Seat at the Table
As budgets tighten and AI accelerates product cycles, the insights industry faces a crisis: evolve or be bypassed. Digital twins and synthetic audiences offer ...

Phil Ahad
Cint

Adam Husein
$1.4T in Buying Power: LGBTQ+ Audiences Brands Can’t Ignore
As LGBTQ+ rights face growing cultural & political challenges, brands face real risk & opportunity with a community holding $1.4T in buying power. Ignoring this...

Andrew Mellen
Vacation

Janina Volpe
Vacation
Decoding Behavioral Blindness in the Heat of Tax Season
Data reveals the what, but it rarely explains the why. At the height of a high-stakes tax season, TurboTax and Nailbiter went beyond traditional analytics to so...

Nathan Noertker
Nailbiter

Lexie Franchak
Intuit
Owning It: Take Charge of Your Career
Drawing inspiration from both business strategy and military leadership principles, this session explores the transformative power of ownership, and challenges ...

Jen Plebani
BILL
Say vs. Do: Closing the Gap with Verified Buyers
Recent Research-on-Research analysis shows nearly 70% of consumers misreport purchase frequency, spend per trip, units per trip, and more—raising questions abou...

Michelle Pichman
Numerator

David Aronson
Numerator
Synthetic Personas at Scale: Supercharging Innovation
Synthetic personas are disrupting the insights industry and accelerating decision making. Toluna, Haleon, and Takasago will reveal how AI-generated quant respo...

Renee Smith
Toluna

Jelena Le Breton
Takasago
If It Didn't Sell, Did the Insight Fail? Understanding the Retailers POV o...
Most CPG innovation is validated through the lens of insights teams—but it succeeds or fails through the reality of retailers. This session reframes innovation ...

Jonathan Tofel
Mission Field LLC

Cory Sexson
How Visual Surveys Made Crunchy Hydration’s New Flavor a Hit
When Crunchy Hydration CEO and Founder Megan Riggs was urged to change flavors, can designs, and benefit claims just months after a major redesign, she hesitate...

Bruce Bower
Swytchback

Megan Riggs
Crunchy Hydration
Are You Trusted by Your Customers? The Impact of Trust on Your Brand and P...
Understanding how to measure trust in a world were misinformation and distrust is at an all time high. We need to increase trust, but you can't increase what yo...

Daniel Blatt
Pfizer
Creating an Active Intelligence System: Hormel’s AI Playbook
Join Hormel’s Dave Anderko and Market Logic’s Joseph Rini for a discussion on how Hormel is reshaping their consumer insights’ function. From interacting with s...

Joseph Rini
Market Logic Software

Dave Anderko
Hormel
Demo: Behavioral Database to AI Modeling: Predicting Winning Pack
This session will highlight how AI has the power to predict the sales impact of pack designs before launch. Behaviorally and Nestlé demonstrate how linking the ...

Ian Donahue
Behaviorally

Rosie Heinert
Nestle Nutrition
Beyond Elmo: Balancing Data & Creativity at Sesame Workshop
How a 56 year old legacy non-profit balances data and creativity to drive brand reach and relevance with today’s Gen Alpha viewers and Gen Z and Millennial fans...

Aaron Bisman
Sesame Workshop
Breakthrough or Breakdown: What the Next Generation of Research Actually L...
AI is reshaping research, but not every change is an improvement. Some approaches are creating real breakthroughs in speed, quality, and scale. Others are creat...

Sam Pisani
The Logit Group

Steve Male
The Logit Group
Creative Uses of AI to Accelerate Message Testing Research Workflows
Marketing teams rely on message testing to make critical decisions on strategy and resources. We will present a case study of how our team transformed our messa...

Laura Wronski
Demo: Deeper Research with AI, Not Just Faster
AI can accelerate qualitative research, but speed alone doesn’t create insight. In this live demo, see how DoReveal helps researchers apply proven analysis fram...

Alok Jain
DoReveal
Survey Fraud: Leadership Lessons from the Frontlines
Dive into our journey of combating survey fraud, where leadership and a little bit of caffeine have kept us at the forefront. Join us to explore how we’re tackl...

Karen Lynch
Greenbook

Brandon Olesh
Stanley Black & Decker
The Death of the Dashboard
Dashboards promised clarity. But in 2026, they’re often one of the biggest barriers to insight. Executives don’t need more charts; they need fewer blind spots. ...

Claudia Natasia
Riley
Voices - Breaking the Silence Around Stigmatized or Overlooked Health Issu...
From Women's Health, to HIV, Rare Diseases, or Cancer, these are conversations that are stigmatized and rarely conducted. In this case study, we reveal new rese...

Soumya Roy
Integro

Mike Page
Phebi
Research Reimagined: The Shift to Continuous Understanding
The discrete research project is evolving into something better: continuous, conversational, and embedded insight. Ali will map the forces reshaping 2026, from ...

Ali Henriques
Qualtrics
AI Adoption is Table Stakes: ResTech ROI the Real Standard
You’re likely already paying for AI & research technology, but how do you define what you’re actually getting back from the investments? This session takes a ca...

Cayleigh McCarthy
Discuss

Robin Lindberg
Quadrant Strategies
Beyond the Gold: Why Awareness Isn’t Enough for Saatva’s Olympic Leap
Most brands settle for a spike in awareness after an Olympics investment, Saatva isn’t most brands. Join quantilope and Saatva to see why traditional tracking i...

Beatrice Capestany
quantilope

Gary Rozal
Saatva
Snack versus Savour – The Neuroscience of How Content Format (Snack Conten...
As audiences increasingly “snack” on short form content, what do we lose when iconic scenes are consumed out of narrative context? This neuroscience-led study, ...

Kerry Leigh Gregory
Neural Sense

Sofia Gomez Garcia
Warner Bros. Discovery
Comprehensive Quality Control for Synthetic Data Systems
After reviewing fifty-seven real-world use cases for Synthetic Data Systems, we developed a clear and practical way to describe how these systems work and how t...

Alain Briancon
Dynata
Find the Story: When the Data Doesn't Agree With Your Plan
Founders lead with passion. Researchers lead with data. Trouble starts when the two don’t agree. When testing challenges a brand’s mission, most teams hear “no....

Steve Beckman
Designology

Paige Hansen
BAM
Scaling Qualitative Insight with Rigor and Speed at Scotts
Scotts Miracle-Gro faced overwhelming volumes of qualitative data across surveys, reviews, and service interactions. After testing multiple AI tools, the team c...

Kelsey Whitehead
Panoplai
Search to Strategy: Intelligence to Drive Business Impact
Insights teams generate extraordinary intelligence, yet critical decisions often happen without it. Why? Because accessibility, speed, and synthesis remain barr...

Amanda Milena Alvarez
Stravito
Turning Insight Into Brand Growth: Learning from 2026 Future List Honorees
Join two of Greenbook’s 2026 Future List Honorees for a conversation on what it really means to be insight-led when it comes to brand growth. As rising leaders ...

Tucker Mitchell
Pernod Ricard

Haley Kiernan
Mars Petcare
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...

Guillaume Aimetti
Inspirient GmbH
Pasta Breaking the Rules: Blended Methods for New Categories
When products don’t fit neatly into existing categories, traditional research approaches can fall short. This session walks through a blended study design that ...

Lea Ben-Akiva
AMC Global

Logan Soraci
GLP-1 and the Future of Snacking: Behavioral Design Meets AI
IFF applied Claira(tm), an AI-powered platform, to develop new snacks designed for GLP-1 users. Attendees will learn how to design products for behavioral impac...

Dave Lundahl
InsightsNow

Mimi Sherlock
IFF
Beyond Mental Availability: Owning Moments That Truly Matter
Most marketers agree: mental availability drives growth yet few measure it well. Brands win when they come to mind in the right moment. In this eye-opening sess...

Matt Vicenzi
Hall & Partners
What Value Human Emotions for Brands in the Age of AI
Dave, Stan & Stephen will explore the important and enduring role human emotions play for brands. They’ll discuss the latest research tools and techniques that ...

Dave Cobban
The Spikes
Opening Remarks
Join Karen and Margaret as they kick off IIEX North America with a warm welcome! They’ll share everything you need to know to make the most of your time at the ...

Karen Lynch
Greenbook
Front-Loading Insights with AI: Predict, Optimize, and Visualize Before La...
Generative AI has made creative execution effortless, but judgment hasn’t kept pace. As asset volumes explode, teams struggle to evaluate and decide effectively...

Thomas Zoëga Ramsøy
Neurons
Talking to Your Data: Democratising Quant at JAB
AI has transformed qualitative research, but structured, statistical data remains hard to democratise. This session shows how JAB Pet Services enabled teams to ...

Guillaume Aimetti
Inspirient GmbH
How AI Can Scale Research Without Losing Its Soul
AI is rewriting the rules of qualitative research, but it isn't replacing what makes the craft valuable. Prayag Narula and Maryam Maleki, Ph.D., will reveal how...

Maryam Maleki, Ph.D.
Microsoft
How La Brea Bakery Solved the Innovator’s Paradox
Change how you make innovation decisions by scaling your intuition and validating it with behavioral science. Facing pressure to rapidly launch profitable new p...

Kay Allison
Kay Allison, LLC
Lessons from 50M+ Survey Clicks: A Deep Dive Into Mobile App
Using insights from 50M+ survey clicks, this session demystifies “normal” mobile app fraud. Learn how fraud rates vary by app and geography, the signals used to...

Joey Maddox
Verisoul

Henry LeGard
Verisoul
Made to Connect: Gen Alpha's Creation and Use of AI Personas
Findings from longitudinal study across US, Mexico, Colombia, Argentina, Brazil, UK, France, Germany, Italy, and Spain, exploring GenAlphas, their digital lives...

Jaime Solorzano
Q2Q GLOBAL

Martha Llobet
Q2Q GLOBAL
Qual at Quant Scale: Why not do 100-person Focus Groups?
Focus groups deliver deep insights—but scaling them has always been impossible. Until now. Discover how AI transforms large-group research, enabling collection ...

David Baltaxe
Unanimous A.I., Inc.
Unlocking the Ready-To-Drink Consumer: From Home Habits to Innovation
The Ready-To-Drink beverage category is a crowded space, and consumers are rewriting the rules for the different functional and emotional roles these beverages ...

Bonnie Janzen
Decision Analyst

Angela Smith
Talking Rain
Where You End Up Depends On Where You Start!
Over 90% of new customer products, services, and experiences fail. Why? Because firms only use the customer for passive reaction. But what if you flipped the s...

Kevin Lonnie
KL Communications

Chad Novak
Eversource
Welcome Remarks
Join Karen and Margaret as they kick off Day 2 of IIEX North America! They'll recap event highlights and give you a sneak peek at what’s in store for the rest o...

Karen Lynch
Greenbook
Synthetic Data at a Tipping Point: Hype, Risk and the New Rules for Respon...
Synthetic data has moved from innovation labs into client decks, procurement conversations and live decision-making, requiring ever-stronger standards for guidi...

Barry Jennings
Esomar
Demo: How AI Can Make Qualitative Research More Human
As traditional in-person qualitative methods remain largely unchanged and AI-driven approaches risk stripping away humanity, McCormick and Finch Brands explored...

John Ferreira
Finch Brands

Bridget Gilbert
McCormick & Company
AI Localization in MR: Evolution and Applications
This presentation explores how AI localization has evolved from basic translation tools into sophisticated cultural intelligence systems that are revolutionizin...

Nancy Hernon
G3 Translate
Frontier Innovations with Generation1.ca’s Immigrant Nations
What if the next trillion-dollar advantage isn’t AI, but global talent hiding in plain sight? Frontier Innovations reveals how runway conversations, boardrooms,...

Arundati Dandapani
Generation1.ca
New Signals, New Standards: The Future of Measured Media
Measurement determines what gets valued, optimized, and scaled. In this session, Jim Ballas from Magellan AI and Brent Lightfoot from iHeartMedia show how new m...

Jim Ballas
Magellan AI

Brent Lightfoot
iHeartMedia
Stop Delivering Data. Start Driving Product Strategy.
Learn the research framework Docusign’s market strategy and monetization team uses to answer product’s questions and drive decision-making. By correctly definin...

Megan Peitz
Numerious Inc.

Jennifer Matus
Docusign
The Science of Inspiration: A New Competitive Advantage
The future of competitive advantage lies in moving from manipulating consumers to inspiring them through emotional resonance. Brands in low emotional-involvemen...

Christopher Brace
Story Legacy LLC

Sherry Honeyman
Georgia Pacific
Demo: The AI Idea Flood – A Practical Demo for Front-End Innovation
AI can generate more ideas than teams can evaluate. The real challenge isn’t ideation—it’s deciding what’s worth pursuing. In this live demo, we’ll demonstrate ...

Kat Figatner
C+R Research
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The Case for Insights: making the business case for investing in insights.
CX & UX Research: new methods enabling a key competitive advantage.
Mining Unstructured Data: as a complement to primary research.
AI & Data Collection: how AI improves data collection and fights fraud.
Automation & DIY: improved performance and expanded capabilities.
AI Ethics &-Governance: how far to push, how much to limit.
And many more: the programme offers 130+ sessions.
Why It Matters:
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At IIEX North America, you’ll join the world’s most forward-thinking insights professionals, researchers, marketers, data scientists, and innovators who are redefining how brands understand people and drive growth across industries.
You’ll experience technologies already transforming the industry, get acquainted with real-world case studies and connect through powerful networking moments IIEX North America is where bold ideas take center stage, partnerships ignite, and the future of market research comes to life.

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IIEX North America 2025 Experience
At IIEX North America, ideas move fast and connections feel real. You’ll see the newest technologies in action, hear stories from people who are changing how insights work, and walk away inspired to do things differently. It’s not just another event it’s where the future of research comes to life.
IIEX North America 2025 Community
The IIEX North America community is built on curiosity and collaboration. It’s a place for people who ask bold questions, share what works, and push each other to think bigger. Whether you’re new to the industry or shaping its next chapter, you’ll find your people here.
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Checking off my bucket list… my first ever insights conference! IIEX NA was a phenomenal learning experience that exceeded expectations of both content and community.

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Junior Strategist, KNow Research
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[Greenbook’s IIEX Team] put together one of the best conferences I’ve been to in my career!

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IIEX North America always provides a great opportunity to see the latest technology and approaches in market research. If you are focused on where the future of the industry is going, this is the place to find out.
Kelsey Saulsbury
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IIEX is a great event for gaining exposure to new players and startups in the res-tech ecosystem, interesting use cases where business challenges and methods come together in the form of solutions, and having the opportunity to network with some of the best minds in our industry.

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VP Product Development & Innovation, Chadwick Martin Bailey
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What I love most about IIEX is the energy! You really feel like you’re immersed in the beating heart of insights.

William Gibson
Customer & Client Insights Manager, Cadillac Fairview
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The content at IIEX was outstanding and timely. The connections and time spent with fellow researchers was second to none.

Matt Valle
Vice President, MarketVision Research
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[IIEX North America] is the only event I’ve ever been to where one moment you’re taking part in a killer roundtable with the best minds in business before find yourself rocking out at a punk show. I’m already looking forward to next year.
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SVP Research, The Palmerston Group
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