Portland Design Thinkers is excited to present Chad Reynolds: AI Powered By People

AI agents are reshaping customer interactions, enhancing productivity, and revolutionizing brand engagement.

Hear from Vurvey Labs CEO, Chad Reynolds, about how they are deploying AI agents powered by people across three critical use cases: Consumer Personas, AI Assistants, and Brand Companions.

This presentation highlights success stories across research, design, innovation, and marketers at global brands and agencies.

About our Speaker: Chad Reynolds is an American entrepreneur best known as the Founder & CEO of Vurvey Labs. Reynolds is considered to be one of the pioneers in Co-creation, who in 2008 developed collaborative research and design practices that have since been adopted by leading insight agencies and global brands. In 2015, Reynolds co-founded OCEAN, a startup accelerator who has funded over 60+ high tech ventures from over 10+ countries.

Reynolds graduated from University of Cincinnati’s renowned DAAP program (2000) and founded a series of successful technology and new business ventures. His latest company, Vurvey Labs, is pioneering the use of AI powered by people to make global research and innovation easily accessible for all companies. He is also the co-host of AI Powered by People, a weekly podcast detailing AI's impact on research, design, and human creativity.

Portland Design Thinkers is excited to present Emily Traub: AI-Powered UX Research Repository at LinkedIn

Join us to hear how Emily and LinkedIn's Research team transformed their approach from a static database to an interactive AI-powered repository.

This session will take you behind the scenes of their evolution, covering:

• Limitations with their former tool • The setup behind their new repository • Use cases that are currently supported • How they see this tool evolving in the future

Don't miss this opportunity to explore how AI can revolutionize the way we store, access, and leverage research insights across organizations.

About our Speaker: Emily started her UX Research journey in the world of WordPress hosting at WP Engine, focusing on the SMB agency experience. She joined LinkedIn in 2023, leading and co-developing rapid research programs before transitioning to support the Premium team. Outside of her day-to-day work, Emily enjoys exploring how the team can incorporate emerging technologies into its workflows to enhance research efficiency and make it easy for stakeholders to interact with existing research.