Radical Research Summit 2017
We are pleased to announce that the Radical Research Summit will be held on Friday, September 29th, 2017 at the UBC Robson Square campus, Vancouver, BC.
The Radical Research Summit is a one-day event that brings together 200 researchers, ethnographers, designers, product thinkers and businesses. Our goal is to share research approaches, techniques and ideas around customer-centric product and service design and to facilitate the growth of the research community across the Pacific Northwest.
Join us and bring back to your organizations new research insights, strategies and ways of thinking to foster growth and innovation.
See you next year!
Keynote Speaker
Learning from User Research War Stories
Stories make the world go round. As researchers, we love stories, and essentially it's our job to gather stories and to retell them. War Stories are stories about contextual user research and the inevitable mishaps that ensue are in turn bizarre, comic, tragic, and generally astonishing.
Steve will share some of the best stories from his book Doorbells, Danger, and Dead Batteries, examining the patterns and lessons they reveal. For a practice that isn’t always well understood or trusted, there’s pressure to only speak to the successes. But examining the human messiness of this work can help develop our skills and our community. Steve’s collection of stories fills a longstanding need for the design and research community—sharing what can go wrong in the real world.
Industry Speakers
Academic lightning talks
Event Schedule
8:00 am
Breakfast & Registration
Sunroom
9:15 am
Keynote Speaker - Learning from User Research War Stories
Theatre
10:35 am
Coffee Break
Theatre Foyer
11:05 am
Microethnography: A UX Research Method for Next Wave Technology
Theatre
12:15 pm
Lunch
Theatre Foyer
1:50 pm
Emotional insights from mystery shopping and role play
Theatre
2:25 pm
ACADEMIC LIGHTNING TALKS
Theatre
3:35 pm
Coffee break and talk to academics
Theatre Foyer
5:00 pm
Reception - Wine, Beer and Appetizers
Plaza Level
Summit Venue
Robson Square is a landmark civic centre and public plaza, located in Downtown Vancouver, British Columbia. It is the site of the Provincial Law Courts, UBC Robson Square, government office buildings, and public space connecting the newer development to the Vancouver Art Gallery.
Please note: Pay parking is in effect 24 hrs.
Summit Sponsors
We gratefully acknowledge the support of our sponsors whose contributions have made this event possible.
Premium Sponsors
Standard Sponsors
Community Sponsors
Food & Beverage Sponsor
Become a sponsor
Join us by becoming an event sponsor and reach over 200 researchers, ethnographers, designers, and product thinkers from the Pacific Northwest.
It is an excellent opportunity for companies to connect with leaders in user experience research, engage with potential new talent and share your work in the fast changing space of user experience research, design and strategy.
Please email info@radicalresearchsummit.com, with the subject line “Sponsor” to discuss our range of sponsorship opportunities.
Last year's event
Thank you to everyone who spoke, sponsored and attended the inaugural Radical Research Summit. We feel very proud to be part of such a vibrant and supportive community of researchers and look forward to watching it grow.
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Check out last year's event
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