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UXDX · Chicago · Nov 17, 2026

UXDX Chicago:When You Can Build Anything, How Do You Build the Right Thing?

Date

Nov 17, 2026

17:30 - 20:00

Venue

Dscout

222 North LaSalle Street, Suite 650, Chicago, IL 60601

Format

In-Person

America/Chicago

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Where product, design and engineering people meet to learn from real work.

AI makes it easier to build and ship. Deciding what deserves to be built still takes customer understanding, judgment and teams working well together. Join Chicago’s product, design, engineering and research community at dscout for a practical talk, an open discussion and time to meet people working through similar challenges.

Expect real case studies, candid lessons and a room of peers working through similar product-delivery challenges.

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Agenda

Tue17 Nov

5:30 pm
In-Person only
Registration & Networking

Tue17 Nov

6:00 pm
In-Person only
Welcome to UXDX Chicago

Meet your local ambassador and fellow attendees, hear what’s ahead for the Chicago community, and help shape the conversations you’d like to see at future events. With thanks to dscout for hosting.

Tue17 Nov

6:10 pm
In-Person only
Stop Automating the Easy Things: Why Low Risk Automation Can Create Long Term Capability Risk

AI makes the easy things easier to automate, and that’s exactly the risk. Repetitive work with low stakes is where teams build the judgment they need for decisions with higher stakes. This talk introduces a framework for spotting where automation erodes organizational capability, and a practical way to decide what to automate, what to augment, and what to protect.

Includes audience Q&A.

Tue17 Nov

6:40 pm
In-Person only
From Faster Delivery to Better Decisions

When teams can turn an idea into a working product faster than ever, how do they decide which ideas are worth pursuing?

A discussion across product, design and research about how customer insight influences priorities, where AI helps teams learn, and where human judgment still matters. Expect practical examples of working through competing priorities and deciding when to build, test or stop.

Includes audience questions. Speakers to be announced.

Tue17 Nov

7:30 pm
In-Person only
Closing Remarks

A few final takeaways and thanks to our speakers, community and hosts.

Tue17 Nov

7:35 pm
In-Person only
Networking

Continue the conversation with speakers and fellow attendees.

Dscout

222 North LaSalle Street, Suite 650, Chicago, IL 60601

Community is one part of how UXDX helps teams build better products.

Local events help people learn from peers and build their network. The reports, ebooks and knowledge library turn those conversations into practical ideas teams can apply.