Learn strategic tools and cognitive science expertise you need to drive insights, design, and decision making that empowers people and builds trust.

As ubiquitous digital systems transform of human attention and agency, a better understanding of reciprocal modeling helps us address important social and machine challenges.

Fill your cup with community!

Learn about an approach to integrating Natural Language Processing and qualitative research.

Learn core concepts and indicators of regime change from a leading expert on patterns of democracy and authoritarianism.

Will new technologies improve or further undermine democratic participation in the public square?

How can we push localization beyond translation to foreground local contexts, knowledge systems, and modes of interaction?

Find out how locally nuanced cultural analysis alongside AI enabled tools can help us explore patterns at scale.

Find out how experts are evaluating new frontiers and methodological evolution in social research with AI technologies.

Establish an ethnographic foundation for sensemaking with AI – while navigating constraints and resisting applications that devalue our work.

Use interactive theory instruments that empower stakeholders and non-experts to realize the full potential of insights for business, product, and service opportunities.

Frame value propositions for deeper, more strategic insights at a time when AI tools promise fast, cheap answers.

Hear what recent research on cognitive offloading and critical thinking is showing, the social implications of these findings, and productive ways to interpret and act on them.

AI adoption is driving organizational transformation that raises fundamental questions about the nature of work, decision making, and value creation—an important opportunity space for us to guide and catalyze change.

Learn how generative AI is shifting research and conceptions of ‘truth’ and how researchers can respond.

A talk and workshop that creates space to openly confront – and collaboratively address – pressing challenges in research value, strategy, and quality.

Learn about organizational cultures where research can thrive and how the right operational model can increase research’s strategic impact.

Learn strategies for professional networking in times of both plentitude and precarity.

An interactive workshop to create new opportunity spaces for ethnography and research that go beyond product into diverse business functions and ecosystems.

Gain insights into the core skills that are most in demand today and how expectations for research roles are shifting beyond traditional tech environments.

Hear about (and join!) a learning group centered around a collection of EPIC articles about sociotechnical systems and assemblages.

Learn and apply social frameworks that enhance trust research and strategies for cultivating trust with stakeholders, customers, or markets.

Learn systems thinking, complexity models, and practical tools for sensemaking and influencing strategic change.

Strengthen your project leadership with techniques to enhance your influence, decision-making, delivery, and management abilities.