AI-Powered UX Research: How to Run Research at the Speed Your Team Actually Needs
AI is accelerating every part of the product build cycle. Research is not keeping up. In this talk, UX researcher, author of the upcoming AI-Powered UX Research, and writer behind The Voice of User blog, Constantine introduces a practical operating model for research functions that want to stop being bypassed and start being the reason the product gets it right. Drawing on 14 years of industry research experience Constantine discusses how organizations can move from a reactive service model to a proactive intelligence function that shapes decisions before they are made.
Attendees will learn about the new research modalities that AI makes possible and how they change what research can contribute at product speed, how to match research questions to the right AI-powered approach based on how urgent, risky, and ambiguous the decision is, how to build a shared organizational understanding of users that makes fast AI-assisted research credible rather than just convenient, and how to maintain research quality across a team. Whether you are a solo researcher or leading a team, this session will give you a concrete operating model you can start applying on Monday morning.
Our Speakers
Constantine Papas has spent 14 years at the intersection of human behavior, and emerging tech. He has shaped research at global platforms, gaming companies, and places where the research function was a Confluence page and a prayer. He writes about UXR, AI, and the gap between what organizations know about their users and what they choose to do about it at The Voice of User. His first book, AI-Powered UX Research: How to Run Research at the Speed Your Team Actually Needs, is publishing summer 2026.
