UXPA International Conference

Name: UXPA International Conference 2023 · Austin
Start: 2023-06-20
End: 2023-06-22
Location: Austin, United States

The long-running conference of the User Experience Professionals Association.

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Latest edition

June 2026

Location

Las Vegas, United States

Format

In person

Organiser

User Experience Professionals Association

About UXPA International Conference

The UXPA International Conference is the annual event of the User Experience Professionals Association, a long-established professional body. Its programme spans UX design, research, accessibility, and professional practice.

The conference is held in United States cities and brings together a broad base of practitioners, with growing content on AI in UX.

Editions

2026
22–25 Jun
Las Vegas
16 speakers
2025
16–19 Jun
Amsterdam
10 speakers
2024
24–27 Jun
Fort Lauderdale
9 speakers
2023
20–22 Jun
Austin
25 speakers
Speakers in 2023Speakers at UXPA International Conference 2023
20–22 JunAustin
Abby Goodrum
UX Education: The Postsecondary Landscape
Adrienne Guillory
Improving Your Research Skills
Ahmad Alhuwwari
UX Enterprise Story: How to Apply a UX Process to a Company Without It.
Allison Veronda
Andrew Schall
An Introduction to the Wonderful World of Journey Mapping
Angie Avera
The Struggle Is Real: Early UX Career Advice, Experiences and Commiseration
Cali White
Creating a Framework in Digital Research to Include People with Disabilities
Christina Goldschmidt
Decision Making in a Time of Uncertainty
Clara Kliman-Silver
Cool or Creepy? The Role of Artificial Intelligence in the Design Process
Craig Peters
Start Strong–lessons Learned from Associate Programs to Platform Your Junior Staff for Excellence and Lasting Success.
Elizabeth Dressler
Lessons for New Managers
Jen Romano
The Testing Parts in Isolation (TPI) Framework: Reducing Confounds with Experimental Design
Lawton Pybus
How Teams Hire UX Researchers Today: A Survey of Current Trends and Best Practices.
Li Wen Huang
Managing UX Research Vendors for Success
Marty Gage
A Framework to Define an Out of Box Experience Using Measurable Experience Metrics
Meena Kothandaraman
Paul Jaye
Hijacking Treejack – Using Reverse Card-Sort to Determine Both the Feature Names and the Categories Used to Cluster Those Features, an Iterative Process
Paul McInerney
UX Research: Optimizing Collaboration with Project Research Sponsors
Rebecca Destello
The Research Challenge Workshop: Upleveling Your Research Planning Skills
Rocio Werner
Don’t Forget the Humans! Elevate Needs Through Jobs to Be Done in Generative Research
Stephan Kotin
Let’s Discuss Ethics and Politics in UX
Stephanie Marsh
Thomas Watkins
DVUX (Data Visualization + UX) for Dashboards, User Interfaces and Presentations
Timothy Ballew
Let’s Discuss Ethics and Politics in UX
Xieyining Huang
How to Manage and Lead a Global Research Team
2022
21–23 Jun
San Diego
19 speakers
2021
30 Aug–2 Sep
Baltimore
2 speakers
2019
24–27 Jun
Scottsdale
3 speakers
2018
26–28 Jun
Rio Grande
3 speakers
2017
6–8 Jun
Toronto
5 speakers

Speakers in 2023Speakers at UXPA International Conference 2023

20–22 JunAustin

Abby Goodrum
UX Education: The Postsecondary Landscape
Adrienne Guillory
Improving Your Research Skills
Ahmad Alhuwwari
UX Enterprise Story: How to Apply a UX Process to a Company Without It.
Allison Veronda
Andrew Schall
An Introduction to the Wonderful World of Journey Mapping
Angie Avera
The Struggle Is Real: Early UX Career Advice, Experiences and Commiseration

Cali White
Creating a Framework in Digital Research to Include People with Disabilities
Christina Goldschmidt
Decision Making in a Time of Uncertainty
Clara Kliman-Silver
Cool or Creepy? The Role of Artificial Intelligence in the Design Process
Craig Peters
Start Strong–lessons Learned from Associate Programs to Platform Your Junior Staff for Excellence and Lasting Success.
Elizabeth Dressler
Lessons for New Managers
Jen Romano
The Testing Parts in Isolation (TPI) Framework: Reducing Confounds with Experimental Design
Lawton Pybus
How Teams Hire UX Researchers Today: A Survey of Current Trends and Best Practices.
Li Wen Huang
Managing UX Research Vendors for Success
Marty Gage
A Framework to Define an Out of Box Experience Using Measurable Experience Metrics
Meena Kothandaraman
Paul Jaye
Hijacking Treejack – Using Reverse Card-Sort to Determine Both the Feature Names and the Categories Used to Cluster Those Features, an Iterative Process
Paul McInerney
UX Research: Optimizing Collaboration with Project Research Sponsors
Rebecca Destello
The Research Challenge Workshop: Upleveling Your Research Planning Skills
Rocio Werner
Don’t Forget the Humans! Elevate Needs Through Jobs to Be Done in Generative Research
Stephan Kotin
Let’s Discuss Ethics and Politics in UX
Stephanie Marsh
Thomas Watkins
DVUX (Data Visualization + UX) for Dashboards, User Interfaces and Presentations
Timothy Ballew
Let’s Discuss Ethics and Politics in UX
Xieyining Huang
How to Manage and Lead a Global Research Team