ashmeed ali Head of Market Research, Buzzfeed

It's not just lists and quizzes anymore. Experience data is essential to help Buzzfeed accurately spot trends to launch revolutionary new brands and content, from food lines like Tasty to beauty lines to DIY. In the world of instant brands, data tastes good.

christopher mcdonough Chief Brand Officer, LL Bean

eric soelberg VP, Customer Insights, LL Bean

Is the future of your brand informed by its past? From product research, to in-store satisfaction, to campaign measurement, L. L. Bean walks through its data-informed and groundbreaking “Be an Outsider” campaign to reposition an adored brand, and get it ready for another 100 years.

stan sthanunathan EVP, Consumer Insights, Unilever

Unilever shows how technology helps them turn insights into ideas.

greg dzurik VP, Marketing + Innovation, Yum! Brands/Collider

Brands that truly create culture, not just reflect culture, have the edge. Greg Dzurik, VP of Marketing & Innovation at Collider/Yum! Brands will share why creating moments in culture matters for brands today, what it takes for brands to do it, and different routes brands can take to create cultural moments that stick.

luis angel-lalanne VP, Customer Listening, American Express

To be truly customer-centric you need to empower people at all levels of your organization to both interact with customers and act on the insights. With an emphasis on customer listening from call center to the C-suite you’ll find new ways to increase response rates and learn from your customers. Find out how American Express constantly tests and learns, does customer call listening, and incentivizes their customer service team to create world-class Customer Experiences.

dan spaulding Chief People Officer, Zillow Group

Culture is at the cornerstone of Zillow Group’s business and it’s one of the main drivers behind yet another year on Glassdoor’s “Best Places to Work” list. But creating and evolving a strong, inclusive, and thriving culture isn’t easy in a high-growth company that competes for top tech talent. Learn how Zillow Group leadership depends on experience data to not only help build culture, attract talent, and drive engagement, and also how they empower managers to do the same within every team.

chelsie bright Citizen XM Scientist , Qualtrics

nick sinai Former U.S. Deputy CTO, United States

matt broffman Director, Digital Platforms, City of Orlando

ed bodensiek Chief Experience Officer, Cravety

For the first time in history, technology makes it possible for governments to engage people in real-time, across demographics, in the moments that matter most. How do we build a future where feedback from government customers and employees is used to create experiences that work for everyone? From shared services to digital engagement to human centered design, what is government doing well now, and what is the future of experience management in government?

nir eyal Best-Selling Author, Hooked

Habit-forming products change user behavior and create unprompted engagement. Harnessing the power of habits is essential for your product and is great for your bottom line. Product guru, investor, and bestselling author Nir Eyal outlines the Hook Model to give you a practical framework to increase your odds of product success.

jeff kearl Founder and CEO, Stance

Starting a new brand means distilling everything down to one simple question at the start: What is the nature of our business? Once you understand your nature, everything falls into place. This first decision will limit or boost your brand for years to come.

michael ramlet CEO, Morning Consult

Social media reaction is often seen as an accurate gauge of public opinion during a brand crisis. However, what people say on social media is not necessarily reflective of what the wider public actually thinks. The session explores how companies can use experience data and insights to protect their reputation in today's age.

adam marrè Head of Security Ops , Qualtrics

Security today falls not only to the professionals but to every data professional. Former FBI Cyber Special Agent Adam Marrè outlines how to guard against avoidable incidents, increase security awareness across the organization, and explores security feature value for researchers and experience managers.

ken kocienda Former Principal Engineer, Apple

During some of the most transformative years at Apple, Ken Kocienda was demo-ing top-secret products to Steve Jobs and penning his name with only 23 others - including Steve Jobs - on the original iPhone patent, a product that has revolutionized the way we communicate, work, and play. Learn how Ken and the Apple team built the iPhone from the ground-up at the direction of Steve Jobs' creative genius, and created one of the most renowned product experiences of our time.

shaunda zilich Head of Talent Branding, Qualtrics

jennifer carpenter VP of Talent Acquisition, Delta

john meyer CEO, Lemonly

kristen weirick Vice President, Talent Acquisition and Diversity & Inclusion, Abbvie

More than ever, recruiting and talent leaders are focused on creating experiences that drive world-class talent brands but it's past time to think about the attraction of talent as something that recruiting owns. Join this session and see how leaders use always-on feedback, leadership 360s, and weave EX data into program decisions to create world-class workforces that attract top talent, create brand ambassadors, and drive the organization's mission forward.

anahita reilly Chief Customer Officer, U.S. GSA

GSA is the "B2B" agency of the federal government, delivering value and savings in real estate, acquisition, technology, and other mission-support services across government. Through this session, we will share examples of how we are using an enterprise-wide Voice of the Customer program (via Qualtrics) to align feedback (X-data) from both agency customers and industry partners with operational data, informing how we design our products and services. We will also touch on the governance structure set in place to enable self-service feedback collection processes while adhering to a consistent enterprise-wide brand that minimizes survey burden to the customer.

bruce temkin Head of XM Institute, Qualtrics

The XM Institute surveyed hundreds of executives to understand their XM efforts and aspirations.. During this session, you’ll hear results from the study, “The State of XM,” which will help you chart your path to becoming an XM leader. The session will cover the ROI, maturity levels, and insights about what separates XM leaders from their peers.

angela roseboro Chief D&I Officer, Dropbox

Studies show that diverse and inclusive workplaces drive better business outcomes for organizations—but many organizations are just starting to drive necessary changes that create safe and inclusive spaces. Come see how Dropbox is pioneering programs and strategies that create a culture of inclusion and empower underrepresented employee populations to thrive. You'll leave with practical guidance for eliminating bias, leveraging employee feedback, and creating a safe and thriving workplace for a diverse employee base.

steve bennetts XM Scientist, EX, Qualtrics

brooke orr Director of Global Talent & Development, Coca-Cola

Join this "open house" session to get insights into how Coca-Cola, Roger’s, and Nuance are building programs that attract talent, measure engagement, create exceptional employee experiences, and ultimately produce measurable business results like lower employee attrition, strong employer brands, etc. After a brief introduction to each organization’s program, we’ll host a Q&A.

kelly waldher VP, BX, Qualtrics

jay choi VP, Research Core, Qualtrics

From breakthrough products to revolutionary brands, come learn how research is driving experiential innovation in product development and brand management. We'll share inspiring stories from organizations and the researchers driving new product innovation and award-winning brand campaigns and how you can leverage new technology in the XM Platform to deliver breakthrough results at your organization.

Mike McLaughlin Chief Customer Officer, GoDaddy

When GoDaddy was founded, it was about serving a community of entrepreneurs to enable them to launch their business online and receive the same support experience as the biggest companies. Years later, they emerged as the world's largest cloud platform dedicated to small ventures under one premise: provide the best customer and product experience. Period. Part of that radical evolution was closing key experience gaps, including brining essential product and customer experiences under Mike McLaughlin and tying business results to experiences.

franck sarrazit Brand XM Scientist, Qualtrics

Brand Tracking isn't just about your brand's past, it's about your business' future. And software allows you to track more easily and accurately than ever before. Here's how new thinking in brand tracking predicts where you're headed next.

mike murakami Research Manager, Airbnb

An experienced research leader's guiding principles for building credible and effective research teams.

amy lokey VP, User Experience, Google

Google’s products are designed to be smart and personal by leveraging Google’s vast investment in AI. Learn about the research, stories, and outcomes that have helped G-Suite evolve to become a massively personal and scalable product experience. Within G Suite, our goal is to elevate human accomplishment, so we focus on how we can use AI in a way that is both personal, and helps people accomplish their most important tasks more quickly and easily.

peter harrison SVP, Marketing Insights, Cigna

Cigna takes you inside their groundbreaking "Fake Doctors Real Results" broadcast campaign and reveals how your insights can drive a powerful brand experience.

taylor warren Insights & Analytics, Novant Health

Brand awareness takes on many forms in healthcare. Novant Health will discuss the three phases of their program, how to get executive buy-in, and drive action from insights.

keela robison VP, Product Development, Expedia

A couple years ago Expedia launched one feature that differentiated if from every other travel booking site: bundling. They thought it would be game-changing. They found the opposite. Customers we're still buying a-la-carte and missing out on enormous savings. The research team and product leaders turned to customer feedback to figure out how to fix the broken experience. Keela Robison, Expedia's Global VP of Product takes you through this case study and how breakthrough insights about the product and consumer helped Expedia turn this product feature into a profit center.

kim scott Author, Radical Candor

Using experiences from her own career that left her gobsmacked, Kim Scott, author of the New York Times-bestselling Radical Candor, confronts one of today's most pressing experience breakthroughs. She breaks the problem of gender injustice down into its component parts: bias, belief, bullying, discrimination, harassment and violence. The talk will define each and guide you to the most effective way to confront each. Each of us has an essential role to play, and she examines the different obligations that leaders, up standers, perpetrators, and victims have to confront injustice at work.