Speakers at IIEX West 2026
Insights, UX and product leaders from Reddit, Airbnb, Microsoft, Visa, Mozilla, Chipotle, Lilly, Warner Bros. Discovery and Stanford.
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Layton Cox
Sr. Director of Client Services
Sedulo Group
Session: Your Employees Already Know. Are You Listening?
Gary Rudman
Gen Z Whisperer
GTR Consulting
Session: Gen Z vs the Algorithm: How Digital Skeptics Hack the System
Leo Yeykelis
CEO
Viewpoints AI
Session: Can You Trust a Simulated Customer? Findings from 20,000 Replications
Byron Reeves
Professor
Stanford University
Session: Can You Trust a Simulated Customer? Findings from 20,000 Replications
Ryslaine Moulay Peach
Innovation Director
MAIZE
Session: Attention as Foresight: From Next Word to Next World
Maya Kantak
Lead, Consumer UX Research
Rocket
Session: Beyond the Title: Building Bridges Across Insights
Lauren Isaacson
Founder & Research Director
Curio Research
Session: Research That Counts: Carbon-Conscious Insights Practices
Paula Rosecky
Qualitative Insights Strategist, Facilitator & Founder
Paula Rosecky & Company
Session: The Say-Do Gap Is on Camera
Flavia Stoian
Head of Research & Insights
Candescent
Session: The Build: Inside an AI-Native Insights Function
Lauren McCluskey
Principal
Responsive Research
Session: Beyond the Hype: A Practical Framework for AI Moderation
Kendra Shapiro
Senior Director, Consumer Insights & UX Research
Ancestry
Session: How Ancestry Rebuilt Customer Understanding at Scale
Renata Soares
CEO
Prior Wise Strategic Consulting Partners
Session: From Instinct to 2x Growth: A Consumer-Led Transformation
Alexis White
Senior Research Director
Knit
Session: Unlocking Emotional Barriers to Build Consumer Confidence
Sydney Williams
Director, Strategy & Insights
The Flex Co.
Session: Unlocking Emotional Barriers to Build Consumer Confidence
Adrien Vermeirsch
CEO & Founder
Enlightn
Session: Who Really Answers Our Surveys? Meet the Survivors, Insight Innovation Competition
Natasha Gay
Research Manager
Microsoft
Session: How to Evaluate Sample in an AI-Driven Research Ecosystem
Eva Deneken
Commercial Director
DEIMAN
Session: From Instinct to 2x Growth: A Consumer-Led Transformation
Raymundo Gonzalez
General Manager Mexico
Prior Wise Strategic Consulting Partners
Session: From Instinct to 2x Growth: A Consumer-Led Transformation
Manny Rodriguez
Managing Director, Market Research
Forsta
Session: DEMO: The Modern Workflow with Research HX
Kaitlyn Rarick
Manager, Cultural Foresight Lab
Visa
Session: The Cultural Cheat Code: Spotting Change Before it Scales
Andrew Embry
Sr. Director of Insights Innovation and Capabilities
Lilly
Session: Speaking of the Future . . .
Andrew Elder
SVP of Advanced Analytics
Radius Tech
Session: The AI Advantage: How Cisco is Testing Tomorrow's Ideas Today
Caroline (Caro) Pendry
Vice President
Radius Tech
Session: The AI Advantage: How Cisco is Testing Tomorrow's Ideas Today
Will Leach
Founder & CEO
Mindstate Group
Session: Lost in Translation: How Behavioral AI Turns Insight Into Activation
Julius Colwyn
Director (Head of Design)
Space Doctors
Session: From Hype to Human: A New Horizon for AI and Business
Jordana Young
Senior Product Insights Lead (AI/ Copilot Studio)
Microsoft
Session: From Hype to Human: A New Horizon for AI and Business
Susan Blank
Senior UX Researcher
Airbnb
Session: From Shelf to Table: Turning Stakeholders into Co-Creators
Sarah Ryan
Senior Director, Research and Insights
Everyday Health Group
Session: Motherhood: The Ultimate Consumer Pivot
Rob Gaige
Global Head of Marketing Insights and Operations
Session: Real People, Real Insight: Beyond the Demographic Box
Melina Palmer
Founder & CEO
The Brainy Business
Session: Why Change Fails and How You Can Beat The Odds
Sam Wong
Senior Director, Data & AI
Mark Anthony Group
Session: The Innovation Engine: How to Build an AI Incubator
Betsy Shaak
VP of Product
Voxpopme
Session: Strategic Chef, Short Order Kitchen: Staying Strategic When
Jinghuan Liu Tervalon
Head of Consumer Insights
Applebee's
Session: From Insight to Influence: The Challenger Mindset
Katie Macdonald
Client Partner
Appinio
Session: DEMO: How to Get Real Insights Out of Your Synthetic Personas
Jonas Fuerle
Senior Manager Client Relations
Appinio
Session: DEMO: How to Get Real Insights Out of Your Synthetic Personas
Dr. Reema Singh
Consumer Insights Lead, Animal Nutrition & Health, North America
Cargill
Session: How Cargill Uncovered Consumer Truth from Social Videos
Tamanna Dhamija
CEO & CoFounder
Convosight
Session: How Cargill Uncovered Consumer Truth from Social Videos
Karen Lynch
Chief Programming Officer
Greenbook
Session: Insight Innovation Competition, What Happens After You Win? Five Years of Insight Innovation, Welcome Remarks, Insight Innovation Competition: Presentation of Awards
Jasmine Matthews
Chief Marketing Officer
Greenbook
Session: Insight Innovation Competition, Insight Innovation Competition: Presentation of Awards
Alfred Wahlforss
Co-Founder & CEO
Listen Labs
Session: What Happens After You Win? Five Years of Insight Innovation, Research & Insights in the AI Era
Angelique Taylor
Founder
AddMaple
Session: What Happens After You Win? Five Years of Insight Innovation, Find What Will Move the Needle | Raw Data to Ranked Insight
Sabrina Brastad
Director, Brand Marketing & Customer Insights
NETGEAR
Session: Research Belongs In the Room, Not the Repository
Margaret Mariani
Founder
TheStratLab
Session: Welcome Remarks, From Insight to Influence: The Challenger Mindset, The New Rules of Retail: Understanding the Consumer Behind the Purchase
Katy D'Amico
Global Events, Experience Design and Innovation Manager
Cisco
Session: The AI Advantage: How Cisco is Testing Tomorrow's Ideas Today
Linda Wu
User Experience Researcher
Expedia Group
Session: When Market Research Met UXR: The Unlikely Romance of the Research World
Charles Allison
Insights Lead
Conveo
Session: Quant Methods, Qual Depth: What Happens When MaxDiff Can Ask, DEMO: MaxDiff and Pricing Studies That Ask Why
Mirena Zannou
Senior Manager Consumer Insights
Expedia
Session: When Market Research Met UXR: The Unlikely Romance of the Research World
Liz Riley Raukohl
Insights Director
OLLY
Session: Strategic Chef, Short Order Kitchen: Staying Strategic When
Suann Griffin
Customer Insights
Advance Auto Parts
Session: When Everyone Wants Insights and the Team Hasn’t Scaled
Becca Han
Consumer Insights
Netflix
Session: Quant Methods, Qual Depth: What Happens When MaxDiff Can Ask
Chelsea Coe
Founding Product and Research
Nirva
Session: Insights of One: Designing AI for Self-Understanding
Shilpa Khanna
Global Innovation Insights Executive
The Clorox Company
Session: Five Proof Points: How Clorox Embraced AI Packaging Research, One Step at a Time
Joris De Bruyne
CEO
EyeSee
Session: Five Proof Points: How Clorox Embraced AI Packaging Research, One Step at a Time
Aaron Cannon
CEO & Co-Founder
Outset
Session: Measuring What Makes an Experience Magical: Uber’s MagUX Framework and the Future of Experience Research
