From Service Provider to Strategic Partner

This talk will focus on evaluating a business through the lens of disruptive innovation. The goal is to equip you as researchers with the ability to identify what areas of your business are most vulnerable to disruptions from competitors, and provide research-backed insights for defending or expanding your company's market share. Additionally, we will learn how techniques like this position us as strategic thought partners, rather than independent contributions, and allow us to be more active agents in guiding company development, while at the same time refining stakeholder intuition in situations where they must act without complete information.

Seats are limited. Light refreshments will be provided.

About the speaker, Kieran Airey-Lee:
Working as a researcher for over 7 years, I started my career in video games, a true passion of mine. After cutting my teeth across multiple AAA titles at Ubisoft, I decided to explore the social media landscape with Later, to broaden my skills across a wider range of research topics and methodologies. Over the last 4 years, the Later research team has gone from primarily supporting the UX for a single product to supporting a host of initiatives across 3 independent business units.

When:

• 5:45pm to 6pm - Networking and mingling
• 6pm to 6:45pm - Presentation
• 6:45pm to 7pm - Q&A
• 7pm to 7:30pm - Networking

*All times are in PST

Where (if attending in person):
CGI Office, 375 Water Street

Where do the fees go?
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Please note: the fees are not refundable.