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, founding researcher at Gong to discuss: 

💗 How to thrive as the first UX research hire 

📈 How to consciously & intentionally scale beyond a team of 1

​Join us and learn how Akshay has built a research practice at a high-growth org as a team of 1. While you wait, submit all your burning questions for him to answer LIVE during the event! 

AMA with Akshay: Scaling a UXR Team of 1

, Head of Product Research at Xplor to discuss:

👐 Expanding research through product and design 

🌱 Growing and democratizing the research practice 

💗 Building empathy & understanding for your users  

​Join us and learn how Lindsay has built a user-focused research practice. While you wait, submit all your burning questions for her to answer LIVE during the event! 

AMA with Lindsay: Building a user-focused research practice 

The OG Research Operations team from Airbnb is getting back together to discuss how they built Research Ops at Airbnb from the ground up. 📈

During this 2-hour event we'll have both a panel and two breakout rooms to dive deeper into topics like scaling research and Research Ops, panel management, and participant recruitment. 

 ➡️ The Airbnb Research Ops Story: 8 years in the making

 ➡️  Wyatt & Eva discuss launching and scaling participant recruitment, rolling research programs, and panel management 

 ➡️ Tim & Joey discuss building and scaling Research Ops practices, getting buy-in on Research Ops, and building an amazing team

Tim got his start in Research Ops at Adobe in 2007. He went on to build out Research Ops teams at Electronic Arts and Airbnb. After Airbnb, Tim turned his career to an IC path in Research Ops at Splunk and now is currently back at Adobe!

At Airbnb, Eva focused on the Participant Experience, supporting process improvements throughout the Recruitment Pillar; as the first ResOps hire at HelloFresh, Eva has built the ResOps Program from ground up, enabling research at scale as the Global UX Research Team has tripled in size!

Wyatt joined Airbnb in 2015, starting as a Product Specialist before moving onto the Research team where he built out Airbnb’s International Community Panel to enable multilingual, global, and qualitative research. This eventually grew into a part of Airbnb’s newly formed Research Operations team. Since Airbnb, he’s built research ops programs for Adobe and currently manages Research Ops at Faire.

, Program Manager, Experience Research Operations 🟡 

Joey joined the Research Ops team at Airbnb after a long stint in the Trust & Safety space. He’s passionate about innovation and has carried that through his times at Airbnb, Slack, and now Twitch.

Building Research Ops with Airbnb's OG Ops Team: The Gang's All Back

 as she shares lessons she's learned from her time at Dropbox, Spotify, and Airtable. 

👷‍♀️Building from scratch, or in the shadow of another former ReOps leader

🧰 ReOps for UXRs, Market Researchers, and Data Scientists — wins, losses, and what it means for the future of ReOps

🏆 Growing an all-star ReOps team with non-ReOps individuals both in B2B and B2C

🧭 Navigating layoffs and the job market in an emergent niche industry

And that's just a sprinkling of what you'll learn from Kaela. 🤯 Don't miss out on the chance to hear Kaela's insights and experience. While you wait, submit all your 🔥 questions for her to answer LIVE during the event! 

AMA with Kaela: ReOps lessons learned from Dropbox, Spotify, and Airtable

We will be hosting an AMA with Stack Overflow's Director of Product Research, 

Mithila has spent the last four years building the Research function at Stack Overflow and will be sharing her insights and experience on topics such as:

📈 how to align the Research function with business goals

🤝 democratizing and evangelizing Research 

Help Mithila craft the perfect AMA by submitting your questions. 

AMA with Mithila: Building the Research function at Stack Overflow

Nash is an industry veteran, having co-founded two startups during the first dot-com boom, where he was often the person in the room advocating for usability and users’ needs. 

He has since crafted a career in User Research, starting as a research recruiter, then working as an embedded researcher, and as a research manager. In recent years, he has created and led democratization programs at both Dropbox and Airtable. Drawing from his years of experience with Research and democratization, Nash will be discussing topics like:

🤔 what democratization is (and isn’t)

🎁 risks and rewards of democratization

🔑 the essentials of a democratization program

Help Nash better share his insights by filling out this brief questionnaire and submitting any questions you may have:

AMA with Nash: The Do's and Don'ts of Democratization

Megan (she/her) is a Portland, OR-based mixed-methods researcher and team leader currently building the research practice at Teachable. She loves working with kind, creative humans on mission-driven products that align with her values, and gets particularly excited about empowering kids and other underrepresented groups who typically don’t have a big voice in the product development process. 

Along with discussing the pros and cons of continuous discovery, Megan will dive into topics like:

While you wait, fill out the survey below to help Megan craft the perfect AMA. 

AMA with Megan: The Pros and Cons of Continuous Discovery

 (they/he), a Research and Research Ops Leader with vast experience across agency, startup, and enterprise companies. Most recently with Auth0, Brad and the team remained indispensable amid company- and industry-wide layoffs.

Brad has established an impressive career in User Research, with notable experience in cultivating research practices that bring significant business value. At Auth0, their team played a critical role in setting strategic direction and confirming the validity of the product roadmap, making them an invaluable resource.

Join us on Tuesday, June 20 to hear Brad discuss topics like:

🔑 becoming invaluable in your organization

🏋️‍♂️ elevating the role of research within companies

🎯 communicating the benefits of research to senior leadership

🌻developing strategies to survive and thrive in times of layoffs

💡shaping the future of research leadership roles

Help Brad better tailor their insights to your needs by filling out this brief questionnaire and submitting any questions you may have:

AMA with Brad: Elevating the Role of Research 

Scott has been leading research for more than 12 years — on both the agency and client side and in both Market Research and UXR. His experience includes leading Research teams at Instagram, Robinhood, SKIM, and a web3 startup. 

Earlier this year, he set out on his own, starting 

, a Market and Product Research consultancy. Since launching his own consultancy, Scott has been continually experimenting with different AI tools and using them in every stage of his projects. Scott recently published his first Udemy course, which focused on 

Join us on Thursday, July 27 to hear Scott discuss topics like:

🙅 risks & limitations of AI for Research

📆 resources to stay up-to-date on the latest in AI

Help Scott better tailor his insights to your needs by filling out this brief questionnaire and submitting any questions you may have:

AMA with Scott: How does AI impact the future of Research?

After being the first Researcher on numerous teams, and consulting independently for companies in the EU, US, and Latin America, Julian repeatedly found himself building Research Operations functions from scratch. This experience helped him develop a real knack for it. Now, Julian applies his expertise to help companies build, set up, and scale their Research infrastructure.

Join us on Thursday, August 31 to discuss topics like:

🫥 building Research Ops without a dedicated ReOps role

⏰ when to prioritize Research Operations

➗ fractional ReOps vs. splitting the load 

🤝 ReOps's role in Continuous Discovery & Research Democratization

Help Julian better tailor his insights to your needs by filling out this brief questionnaire and submitting any questions you'd like him to answer:

AMA with Julian: How to build ReOps on any team

Andy is currently the Director of Portfolio Research & Insights at Dropbox and has worked at most of the big tech companies throughout his career. A prolific writer intent on sharing as much hard-won knowledge as he can with researchers about the practice of Research and Research leadership. He says it like it is, and makes sure that the work he and his team are doing is deeply meaningful to the business and to users.

Join us on Thursday, September 28 to discuss topics like: 

🪜 How do businesses evaluate research?

🥅 How do industry leaders goal their research teams?

🏆 Strategies for setting up research for success

Help Andy better tailor his insights to your needs by filling out this brief questionnaire and submitting any questions you'd like him to answer:

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