Call for Speakers
OVERAL TOPIC 27
The Adaptive Enterprise
Strategy. Work. Trust. Operations.
The call for speakers for the World Usability Congress 2027 is now officially open.
The deadline for the application is December 31th, 2026.
We expect hands-on insights or great case studies within our next year’s key topics. We want your stories comprising valuable key learnings.
Applications with a similar quality, we will favor accredited UX professionals.
World Usability Congress 2027 tracks
Topics
• AI & Robotics
• Industrial Usability
• Critical Operations
• Product Management
• Experience Management
• Leadership, Cultur & HR / Work
• Innovation by Design
• Product Discovery
• All others
Formats
• Masterclass (interactive 2-3 hours)
• Talk (40 min)
• Power insight (10 min)
• Ask me any Question (40 min)
• Panel (we choose from talk entries)
• Paper Publications
Strategy & Management
How organizations become truly adaptive and have to change in the future. aligning strategy, customer value, technology, and execution to respond faster to change. The focus is on management systems, decision-making, transformation, and measurable business impact.
What should we auomate? How leaders can integrate AI, automation, and robotics into the enterprise in a way that creates sustainable value. Beyond technology, the key questions are governance, operating models, human-machine collaboration, and organizational readiness.
Industrial Usability
How usability becomes a strategic performance factor in complex industrial environments. The focus is on productivity, safety, efficiency, adoption, and how management can embed human-centered design into engineering and operations.
Critical Operations
Humans in the loop. How organizations design resilient systems and decision environments for situations where complexity, risk, and time pressure are high. The management perspective focuses on operational excellence, resilience, governance, and human performance.
Product Management
How product organizations evolve from feature delivery to adaptive, outcome-driven management. The focus is on portfolio decisions, customer value, cross-functional alignment, prioritization, and scalable product operating models.
Experience Management
How customer and employee experience can become a management discipline rather than an isolated UX initiative. The focus is on connecting experience data, business KPIs, organizational decisions, and continuous improvement.
Innovation by Design
How organizations turn human needs, emerging technologies, and creative thinking into meaningful innovation. The focus is on human-centered innovation, design-driven transformation, new business models, and creating products, services, and experiences that deliver sustainable competitive advantage..
Leadership, Culture & HR / Work
How leadership, culture, and workforce models must evolve for an adaptive enterprise. The focus is on organizational capabilities, skills, change readiness, collaboration, new ways of working, and leading through continuous transformation.
Product Discovery
How organizations identify real customer needs, uncover emerging opportunities, and validate ideas before investing in solutions. The focus is on continuous discovery, evidence-based decisions, experimentation, and connecting human insights with product strategy and measurable business value
Services & conditions
WORKSHOP, Masterclass & 40min TALK
• Free ticket to World Usability Congress.
• We pay for the hotel (Speakers Hotel).
• We organise and pay for the taxi from the airport to the hotel and back.
• You are invited to the speakers dinner the evening before the conference.
• 35 minute presentation slot, a workshop or a interactive masterclass
• Join our famous speakers experience tour.
Panel, Publication, Ask me anything
• Free ticket to World Usability Congress.
• You are invited to the speakers dinner the evening before the conference.
• Join our famous speakers experience tour.
Topics
Strategy & Management
How organizations become truly adaptive and have to change in the future. aligning strategy, customer value, technology, and execution to respond faster to change. The focus is on management systems, decision-making, transformation, and measurable business impact.
What should we auomate? How leaders can integrate AI, automation, and robotics into the enterprise in a way that creates sustainable value. Beyond technology, the key questions are governance, operating models, human-machine collaboration, and organizational readiness.
Industrial Usability
How usability becomes a strategic performance factor in complex industrial environments. The focus is on productivity, safety, efficiency, adoption, and how management can embed human-centered design into engineering and operations.
Critical Operations
Humans in the loop. How organizations design resilient systems and decision environments for situations where complexity, risk, and time pressure are high. The management perspective focuses on operational excellence, resilience, governance, and human performance.
Product Management
How product organizations evolve from feature delivery to adaptive, outcome-driven management. The focus is on portfolio decisions, customer value, cross-functional alignment, prioritization, and scalable product operating models.
Experience Management
How customer and employee experience can become a management discipline rather than an isolated UX initiative. The focus is on connecting experience data, business KPIs, organizational decisions, and continuous improvement.
Innovation by Design
How organizations turn human needs, emerging technologies, and creative thinking into meaningful innovation. The focus is on human-centered innovation, design-driven transformation, new business models, and creating products, services, and experiences that deliver sustainable competitive advantage..
Leadership, Culture & HR / Work
How leadership, culture, and workforce models must evolve for an adaptive enterprise. The focus is on organizational capabilities, skills, change readiness, collaboration, new ways of working, and leading through continuous transformation.
Product Discovery
How organizations identify real customer needs, uncover emerging opportunities, and validate ideas before investing in solutions. The focus is on continuous discovery, evidence-based decisions, experimentation, and connecting human insights with product strategy and measurable business value
How to apply
Best practices talk information
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