CanUX

Name: CanUX 2025 · Ottawa
Start: 2025-10-01
End: 2025-10-04
Location: Ottawa, Canada

A long-running Canadian user-experience conference in Ottawa.

Product DesignDesign LeadershipAI

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Next edition

November 2027

Location

Ottawa, Canada

Format

In person

Organiser

CanUX

About CanUX

CanUX is one of Canada's longest-running user experience conferences, held in the Ottawa and Gatineau area. It runs a single-track, community-focused programme with a carefully chosen lineup.

Sessions span UX and product design, design leadership, and emerging themes including the use of AI in design. The event is known for its intimate format and a loyal community that returns each year.

Editions

Upcoming

Upcoming
2027
Nov
Ottawa · Gatineau
Lineup unknown
2025
1–4 Oct
Ottawa
15 speakers
Speakers in 2025Speakers at CanUX 2025
1–4 OctOttawa
Aday Sami-Orungbe
Designers Anonymous: Confessions from the Field
Alasdair Stuart-Bell
What Happens When You Design for the World’s Most Critical UX Users
Aléna Iouguina
How to Take Control of the (Seemingly) Uncontrollable Machines
Carol J. Smith
Can AI Be Trustworthy by Design?
Frances Sun
Infusing Enterprise Creativity with a Dose of Playfulness
Helelyn Tammsaar
How the Estonian Defence Forces Took a Shot at Design Thinking
Jer Thorp
Living in Data
Kate Tarling
The Service Organization
Levi Myers
Lessons from 1km Underground
Meena Kothandaraman
Building Connection: Enhancing Research Engagement Through Creative Protocols
Patricia Nadeau
The Game Asset Creation Pipeline
Sarika Goel
Designing for the Worst Day of Your Customer’s Life
Scott Berkun
Why Design Is Hard (and What to Do About It)
Shreya Dhawan
From Modeling to Managing: A Data-Driven Approach to Enhance Customer Journeys
Tanya Snook
The Workshop Workshop
2024
30 Oct–2 Nov
Ottawa
6 speakers
2023
1–4 Nov
Ottawa
18 speakers
2022
3–6 Nov
Ottawa
21 speakers
2019
31 Oct–3 Nov
Ottawa
17 speakers
2018
1–4 Nov
Ottawa
20 speakers

Speakers in 2025Speakers at CanUX 2025

1–4 OctOttawa

Aday Sami-Orungbe
Designers Anonymous: Confessions from the Field
Alasdair Stuart-Bell
What Happens When You Design for the World’s Most Critical UX Users
Aléna Iouguina
How to Take Control of the (Seemingly) Uncontrollable Machines
Carol J. Smith
Can AI Be Trustworthy by Design?
Frances Sun
Infusing Enterprise Creativity with a Dose of Playfulness
Helelyn Tammsaar
How the Estonian Defence Forces Took a Shot at Design Thinking

Jer Thorp
Living in Data
Kate Tarling
The Service Organization
Levi Myers
Lessons from 1km Underground
Meena Kothandaraman
Building Connection: Enhancing Research Engagement Through Creative Protocols
Patricia Nadeau
The Game Asset Creation Pipeline
Sarika Goel
Designing for the Worst Day of Your Customer’s Life
Scott Berkun
Why Design Is Hard (and What to Do About It)
Shreya Dhawan
From Modeling to Managing: A Data-Driven Approach to Enhance Customer Journeys
Tanya Snook
The Workshop Workshop