This is the 20th year of EPIC—the essential conference and community of practitioners who use deep expertise about culture and sociotechnical systems to help organizations make strategic decisions, create value, and navigate uncertainty. Today we're excited to release a trove of new expertise and...
SIMON ROBERTSEPIC Board President Dear EPIC Community: In this momentous 20th year of EPIC, I want to take a moment to recognize what our members have achieved and invite you to be part of our future. Our community-driven, nonprofit organization has been grown and sustained by people who connect...
Meet Carrie Yury (she/her), a design leader, artist, and dedicated EPIC member since 2011. Carrie has co-chaired EPIC conference committees, including PechaKucha, salons, and workshops, and presented fantastic work of her own. Carrie is currently a Managing Director at JPMorgan Chase, where she...
Lee (they/them) is a UX Researcher who has been part of the EPIC family since 2017. They specialize in complex technologies and AI/ML-driven products and work systems, having worked on AR/VR for Meta, autonomous vehicles for Waymo and Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi, and navigation systems for Lyft. Lee...
We are thrilled and honored to welcome Shakima Jackson-Martinez to the EPIC Board. Shakima is the Senior Director of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at AnswerLab and has played a leading role on the EPIC Equity Council. She's passionate about using research to foster a deeper understanding of...
Communities that value diversity and peace struggles to foster conditions in which people can learn and create together across difference.
Please join us in thanking Martha Cotton and Carol Zatorre for their service and welcoming Samantha Gottlieb and Shriram Venkatraman to the EPIC Board of Directors. The EPIC Board exists to define the long-term direction of the organization and its activities. It also provides counsel to the...
Meet the leaders working to advance equity and diversity through a new EPIC program! In May 2023 we will welcome the first cohort of participants in our new program, Becoming EPIC: Building Equity. Initiated by the EPIC Equity Council, this program is being developed and chaired in 2023 by four...
Ethnographers are powerful change makers in business, organizations, and communities because we understand people within complex social and cultural contexts. In ethnography, “reflexivity” is the rigorous practice of understanding ourselves in the same way. We know that power and inequities shape...
Happy New Year EPIC People! New years, like all human rituals, are an ethnographic marvel. Amid the constant and disinterested motion of the Earth, people use the power of culture and collectivity to galvanize momentous rites of passage. From a cyclonic output of business metrics to intimate...