UXDX 2026 Speaker Updates (March Edition)
Here are the speaker announcements shared in March for UXDX 2026. Speakers from Siemens, Taxfix, Product People, McKesson, Electronic Arts, Amazon, and Llewyn Paine Consulting are taking on the issues teams are dealing with right now. From AI adoption and healthcare UX to design systems, cross-functional alignment, and clearer decision-making, there is plenty here for teams looking for practical ideas they can apply straight away.
UXDX EMEA 2026
David Sward from Siemens will share what it takes to build one design language across highly complex industrial products with very different foundations and lifecycles. In “Solving the Design System Problem When Products Live for Decades,” he will unpack Siemens’ move from multiple specialised systems to a more unified approach, and explain why one tech stack is not always the answer. Expect practical lessons on legacy products, acquisitions, open source design assets, and how to build a system that can evolve over time.
When teams try to become AI-native, the hard part is not the tooling but changing how product, design, and engineering actually work together. In “Supercharging the Product Cycle: Practical Lessons in AI-Driven Product Development,” Timo Ilola, VP of Product Design at Taxfix, shares how the company is embedding AI across the product cycle. Expect a grounded look at mindset, team upskilling, and how roles change when AI shifts the focus from delivery to more strategic impact.
Pooja Dey from Sage will explore how product marketing and UX testing can do more than support go-to-market. In “From Buyer Journey to Product Investment: How Product Marketing and UX Testing Shape Product,” she will show how teams can use buyer journeys, onboarding insights, and in-life usage to shape product decisions earlier. Expect practical lessons on prioritisation, risk reduction, and building stronger feedback loops between product, UX, and marketing.
The Founder of Product People, Mirela Mus, will lead an interactive session on how to spot AI-native opportunities worth building. In “AI First Product Strategy Workshop: Find and Prioritise AI Native Opportunities That Ship,” she will show how teams can move beyond using LLMs for efficiency and start identifying where AI can create real product value. Through three case studies, Mirela will share practical ways to evaluate and prioritise AI-first bets that teams can act on straight away.
Kristina Gibson will lead a hands-on workshop for teams that feel stuck waiting for perfect data before making a strategic move. In “Do you feel like your team is waiting on perfect data to validate a strategic change?” she will share a practical framework for exploring new opportunities, evaluating bets, and turning product strategy into roadmap action. Expect useful guidance on aligning stakeholders, assessing new directions quickly, and moving beyond incremental experiments.
Rahul Balu (Senior UX Designer at Amazon) is taking the final wildcard slot for UXDX EMEA 2026 in Berlin with his talk: “From Opinions to Outcomes: How Clarity Builds Trust and Better Design.” His session tackles a familiar problem for many teams: design work does not usually stall because of a lack of talent, research, or effort, but because different functions are working from different assumptions and speaking in different terms. Rahul will share practical ways to build a shared design language that helps teams move from debate to decision-making, align around outcomes, and build trust across stakeholders without losing the judgement that good design depends on.
UXDX USA 2026
When AI moves into healthcare, the question is not just what it can improve, but where it needs limits. In “AI in Healthcare UX: From Burden to Breakthrough,” Anya Gerasimchuk, Senior Director of UX/UI Engineering at McKesson, draws on the company’s three-year AI transformation across oncology and multispecialty care. The session explores where AI can genuinely help in healthcare, alongside the guardrails and constraints that shape responsible adoption.
Electronic Arts’ Andra Bond and Olivia Lucas will take the audience inside the work behind EA’s shift to experience-led roadmaps. The session “How EA Unified Product, Design and Ops with Experience-Led Roadmaps” looks at how experience Atlas and evolution mapping helped connect design, research, data science, and operations around shared outcomes. Expect practical lessons on journey mapping, measurement, and reducing friction across identity, loyalty, and support.
As Notion scaled from personal users to global enterprises, Head of Design Randy Hunt saw how quickly traditional structures can start to slow teams down. With “Kill the Org Chart: Building Skill-Based Design Teams at Notion,” he will unpack how the company reshaped its design organisation around skills and behaviours rather than titles and functions. Expect practical lessons on building more adaptable teams, preserving creative craft through scale, and creating the conditions for ownership and speed.
When nearly half the team leaves, the problem is bigger than hiring. In “When 45% of Your Team Walks Out: Inside Wise’s Design Culture Reboot,” Josh Payton from Wise shares how the company rebuilt its design organisation after a period of burnout and constant firefighting. Expect practical lessons on rebuilding trust, redesigning workflows, and creating a culture built on autonomy, balance, and impact.
Llewyn Paine (VP Innovation Strategy & Operations from Llewyn Paine Consulting) will take a strategic look at what happens when products are tested by AI agents instead of humans. In “Strategic Readiness for AI Agents: A Workshop on Agent Experience (AX) for Product Leaders,” she will explore what those breakages reveal about commercial risk, operational readiness, and the wider gaps teams need to address. Expect practical takeaways on assessing the Agent Gap and coordinating the cross-functional response needed to close it.
Why These Topics Matter
These talks are not about future promises. They are about what teams are dealing with right now: making AI useful, fixing complexity, aligning across functions, and building products that can keep up with change. If you are trying to move faster without losing trust, clarity, or quality, these are the kinds of sessions worth paying attention to.
Secure your spot now:
- USA tickets: https://uxdx.com/usa/2026/tickets/
- EMEA tickets: https://uxdx.com/berlin/2026/tickets/
Catch up on earlier UXDX 2026 speaker announcements here:
Rory Madden
FounderUXDX
I hate "It depends"! Organisations are complex but I believe that if you resort to it depends it means that you haven't explained it properly or you don't understand it. Having run UXDX for over 6 years I am using the knowledge from hundreds of case studies to create the UXDX model - an opinionated, principle-driven model that will help organisations change their ways of working without "It depends".
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