Advancing Research

Name: Advancing Research 2023
Start: 2023-03-27
End: 2023-03-30

Rosenfeld Media's premier conference for the user-research community.

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Latest edition

March 2026

Location

Online

Cadence

Annual

Organiser

Rosenfeld Media

About Advancing Research

Advancing Research is Rosenfeld Media's flagship conference for user experience and design researchers. The programme covers research methods, strategy, operations, and the changing role of research within product organisations.

Sessions bring together research leaders and practitioners to examine how teams generate insight, demonstrate impact, and adapt their practice as artificial intelligence reshapes how research is planned and conducted.

It is one of the principal dedicated gatherings for the user research community, with a senior, specialist audience.

Editions

2026
10–12 Mar
United States
19 speakers
2025
11–13 Mar
30 speakers
2024
25–26 Mar
New York City
19 speakers
2023
27–30 Mar
29 speakers
Speakers in 2023Speakers at Advancing Research 2023
27–30 Mar
Anna Wu
Anne Mamaghani
How Your Organization's Generative Workshops Are Probably Going Wrong and How to Get Them Right
Aras Bilgen
Research Democratization: A Debate
Ari Zelmanow
Research Democratization: A Debate
Cara Maritz
The Art of Extrapolation
Carl Turner
You Can Do This: Understand and Solve Organizational Problems to Jumpstart a Dead Project
Carol F. Scott
Cassini Nazir
The Dangers of Empathy: Toward More Responsible Design Research
Chloe Amos-Edkins
A Cultural Approach: Research in the Context of Glocalisation
Dave Hora
Florence Okoye
AfroFuturism and UX Research
Jake Burghardt
Jennifer Fraser
What Would Emmy Noether Do? Math, Models and Mulling in UX Research
Jill Fruchter
Inconvenient Insights: The Researcher's Role Is to Stay Curious
Kaitlin Tasker
Fast and Fearless Inclusive Research
Kristen Guth
Out of the FOG: A Non-Traditional Research Approach to Alignment
Lisanne Norman
Why I Left Research
Mansi Gupta
Women-Centric Research: What, Why, How
Meah Lin
The Dangers of Empathy: Toward More Responsible Design Research
Melissa Eggleston
Mike Oren
Why Pharmaceutical's Research Model Should Replace Design Thinking
Paula Bach
Prayag Narula
HCI 2.0: Humanity Deserves the Attention That UX Research Has to Offer
Rachel Ny
The Art of Extrapolation
Rida Qadri
HCI 2.0: Humanity Deserves the Attention That UX Research Has to Offer
Sahibzada Mayed
The Politics of Radical Research: A Manifesto
Sarah Fathallah
A Typology of Participation in Participatory Research
Scott Plewes
Why Isn't Your UX Approach Going Viral?: A Mathematical Model
Victor Udoewa
Research in the Pluriverse
2022
9–11 Mar
Brooklyn
25 speakers
2021
10–12 Mar
30 speakers
2020
30–31 Mar
New York City
22 speakers

Speakers in 2023Speakers at Advancing Research 2023

27–30 Mar

Anna Wu
Anne Mamaghani
How Your Organization's Generative Workshops Are Probably Going Wrong and How to Get Them Right
Aras Bilgen
Research Democratization: A Debate
Ari Zelmanow
Research Democratization: A Debate
Cara Maritz
The Art of Extrapolation
Carl Turner
You Can Do This: Understand and Solve Organizational Problems to Jumpstart a Dead Project

Carol F. Scott
Cassini Nazir
The Dangers of Empathy: Toward More Responsible Design Research
Chloe Amos-Edkins
A Cultural Approach: Research in the Context of Glocalisation
Dave Hora
Florence Okoye
AfroFuturism and UX Research
Jake Burghardt
Jennifer Fraser
What Would Emmy Noether Do? Math, Models and Mulling in UX Research
Jill Fruchter
Inconvenient Insights: The Researcher's Role Is to Stay Curious
Kaitlin Tasker
Fast and Fearless Inclusive Research
Kristen Guth
Out of the FOG: A Non-Traditional Research Approach to Alignment
Lisanne Norman
Why I Left Research
Mansi Gupta
Women-Centric Research: What, Why, How
Meah Lin
The Dangers of Empathy: Toward More Responsible Design Research
Melissa Eggleston
Mike Oren
Why Pharmaceutical's Research Model Should Replace Design Thinking
Paula Bach
Prayag Narula
HCI 2.0: Humanity Deserves the Attention That UX Research Has to Offer
Rachel Ny
The Art of Extrapolation
Rida Qadri
HCI 2.0: Humanity Deserves the Attention That UX Research Has to Offer
Sahibzada Mayed
The Politics of Radical Research: A Manifesto
Sarah Fathallah
A Typology of Participation in Participatory Research
Scott Plewes
Why Isn't Your UX Approach Going Viral?: A Mathematical Model
Victor Udoewa
Research in the Pluriverse