Let's Meet Up: UX Research Meetup & Event Guide November 2026

Ladies That UX Berlin hosts an online conversation across UX generations about how markets, skills, tools and team expectations have shifted from the early web to today's AI-shaped landscape.

In this live conversation from the UX Copenhagen series, host Helle Martens talks with Prof. Dr. Anna Lea Dyckhoff about whether UX can be treated as a mindset for handling uncertainty and change (questioning assumptions, researching, experimenting) rather than a job title, now that AI can produce polished solutions in seconds.

Group leaders will facilitate discussion around unification as it applies to ReOps. The panel will kick things off by sharing how they think about unification and ways to tweak and apply it to fit specific challenges.

Oliver Dürr and Peer Langermann of Leadium run a two-hour, hands-on workshop for UX professionals in large, complex product organisations. Working through real case studies and FigJam exercises in small breakout groups, participants pinpoint where UX can have the most influence and leave with a concrete agenda for change.

Kathryn Iklé, Head of UX & Marketing at Third Entity, argues that traditional job titles no longer capture roles that now mix strategy, creativity, technology and collaboration with AI. She shares practical ways to redefine your role and update your résumé, portfolio and personal brand so they show what you actually do.

Stephen Wendel, author of Designing for Behavior Change, explores why some change efforts take hold while others stall, even though AI makes interventions cheaper and more personal. He argues that the readiness of people and systems matters as much as the intervention itself, with lessons for UX, product and DX leaders.

Helle Martens talks with Navjot Sawhney of The Washing Machine Project about his talk proposal, "Fall in Love with the Problem, Not the Product: UX Beyond the Screen". The conversation looks at how research, engineering and lived experience have to work together when a physical product must work under real-world constraints.

Drawing on benchmark research from 183 US and EU designers, this session explores how leaders make defensible decisions in AI-influenced workflows and how evidence and user insight help teams move quickly without increasing risk.

This session discusses where UX research fits now that many teams are tempted to ask an LLM instead of people and will share practical advice on scaling research impact, using modern frameworks and keeping human insight at the centre of decisions when speed and automation dominate.

Alina Bezchotnikova, Principal Product Designer at Aize, has dug into the literature and carried out her own experiments to see what actually holds up among the biggest AI trends shaping UX research in 2026. She'll cover :

• What’s real (and what’s still hype) with AI moderation and digital twins

• Practical MCP workflows that connect AI to research tools

• What her data-leak experiment revealed and where the legal grey areas are.

Celia Hodent's Game UX Masterclass focuses on UX strategy and research for video games and gamified products. It covers game research methods, setting up hypotheses, implicit biases, a UX production pipeline, building UX maturity and ethics in the games industry.