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Wednesday June 4, 9am – 4pm PT

Fort Mason Center for Arts and Culture, San Francisco

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About
The Event

Back for it’s second year, this one-of-a-kind event hosted exclusively for the benefit of research directors and executives, is a space for conversation and connection that can’t happen anywhere else.

Whenever our team talks to people leading research functions, we hear the same thing: there are so many ups and downs of leading research, that there’s a deep need to connect with other folks going through those same experiences.
 
And that’s exactly what the Research Leadership Summit (RLS) is. A time for research leaders to connect on the real issues of their role, in a safe, off-the-record way.
 
All talks, panels and group discussions will be led by RLS attendees themselves. And like the rest of our Research Week events, tickets for RLS are free, but require application.
 
Sarah Sled Director of UX, Search, Trust and Generative AI at Google

Sarah Sled is a Director of UX for Search at Google, where her teams focus on key issues like search platforms, trust and generative AI. Prior to this role, Sarah was a Director of UXR at Amazon and Meta.

 

As one of the early research leaders in the field, Sarah deeply understands the difficulties that come with research leadership, and is a great fit to facilitate the conversations and connections you want to have at the Research Leadership Summit.

Curated and Hosted by Sarah Sled
Director of UX, Search at Google

All scheduled times are in PT

12:30pm – 1:00pm

Coffee, Snacks and Welcome

1:00pm – 1:30pm

The AI Empowered Researcher

Kaleb Loosbrock Staff Researcher at Instacart

Kaleb Loosbrock

Staff Researcher at Instacart

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Kevin Newton Sr. Manager, UX Measurement at Linkedin
Marieke McCloskey Director of UX Research at LinkedIn

1:30pm – 2:00pm

AI Experimentation on Research Teams​

Marieke McCloskey

Director of UX Research at LinkedIn

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Kevin Newton

Sr. Manager, UX Measurement at Linkedin

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2:00pm – 2:30pm

Research on B2B AI

Jan Blom

Sr. Director, UX Research, AI at ServiceNow

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2:30pm – 3:00pm

Break

3:00pm – 3:30pm

Research's Role in AI/ML Engineering

Jenny Lo Head of Research at Global AI Platform

Jenny Lo
Head of Research at Global AI Platform

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Arianna McClain UX Research at OpenAI
Pete Fleming Director, UX Research, Gemini at Google

3:30pm – 4:00pm

UX Research in 2030​

Pete Fleming
Director, UX Research at Google

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Arianna McClain
UX Research at OpenAI

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Jane Justice Leibrock
User Research at Anthropic

4:00pm – 4:30pm

Closing Thoughts and Wrap Up

Tickets

Free
In-Person

Apply for a free in-person ticket and join us at the Fort Mason Center for Arts and Culture in San Francisco.

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