EPIC Calendar
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EPIC Members can access all Learning Week sessions, livestreamed sessions from our annual conference, premium video, and discounted tutorial, course, and in-person conference registration rates.
Upcoming Events
Learning Circle: Sociotechnical Systems & Assemblages
Join a learning group focused on using ethnography to understand rapid technological change and valuable frameworks for research and innovation
What if We Created Prototypes Instead of Writing Research Reports?
This session advocates that researchers should build (ideally co-create) prototypes as a more effective and engaging alternative to research findings reports.
Trust Unpacked: Using Social Insights to Understand and Cultivate Trust
Learn and apply social frameworks that enhance trust research and strategies for cultivating trust with stakeholders, customers, or markets.
Beyond “It’s Complex”: How to Recognize, Analyze, and Apply Systems Frameworks
Learn systems thinking, complexity models, and practical tools for sensemaking and influencing strategic change.
May Member Meetup
Join us for a casual hangout and meet some excellent folks! Board and staff members will brief you on the latest EPIC news, then we’ll connect around common interests.
Lead Your Project or It Will Lead You: The Fearless Project Leader
Strengthen your project leadership with techniques to enhance your influence, decision-making, delivery, and management abilities.
Thinking and Communicating with Frameworks: Using Visual Frameworks to Strengthen Insights and Communicate Findings
Learn to create and use one of the most powerful research and storytelling tools – the visual framework.
Ethnofutures for Innovation: Practicing Foresight with Diverse Intelligences
Learn to integrate foresight and ethnography to build grounded, authentic future scenarios that guide discovery, strategy, and decision making.
Creating a Strategic Role for Research in Your Organization
Learn to facilitate collaborative alignment workshops with stakeholders that strategically positions research teams and maximizes the credibility and impact of your work.
Your Tech Stack Needs a Thinking Stack: Building a High-Value Ethnographic Practice in the AI Era
Build a decision framework for how and when to use AI research tools – rather than just reacting to technological trends.
Fail-Safe Foresight: Practicing Strategic Foresight in Today’s Organizations
Learn foundational knowledge and skills to build a robust foresight practice that overcomes the key reasons many insights fail to affect change.
EPIC2025 Attendee Meetup
Planning on being in Helsinki for EPIC2025? Meet and catch up with other conference attendees during this special meetup!
EPIC2025
Join the essential international conference of practitioners using an ethnographic lens for sensemaking and transformation.
October Member Meetup
Join us for a casual hangout and meet some excellent folks! Board and staff members will brief you on the latest EPIC news, then we’ll connect around common interests.