September 8-10, 2025 / Chicago Athletic Association
Register for Co-Lab 2025
Dscout is thrilled to once again welcome senior leaders from research, design, and insights teams to our home city for two full days of lightning talks, workshops, breakout sessions, spicy conversation, and a rare chance to spend time with your peers, soaking up knowledge and hashing out real solutions.
You'll leave with new ideas, new playbooks, new connections—and of course, some exclusive People Nerds Co-Lab swag!
Fill out the form, which will redirect you to the payment page. Ticket prices are $500, discounted to $350 if you book by April 15th!
Join us at the Chicago Athletic Association
A city second to none, Chicago is the home of deep dish pizza, the Bean (Cloud Gate), and of course, Dscout (if you're lucky, you can experience them all in one day!)
For the second year in a row, Co-Lab will take place at the (literal) landmark Chicago Athletic Association, opposite beautiful Millennium Park.
The full agenda will be announced this summer, but plan to be in Chicago from 4pm Monday until 5pm Wednesday. Grab your ticket, book your hotel, and get ready to experience some of Chicago's best restaurants—compliments of Dscout!
This isn't your typical conference
Dscout Co-Lab is a dynamic, in-person, and highly interactive experience featuring speakers and leaders from world-class organizations.
Apply to speak at Co-Lab
We are excited to hear from innovative research, design, and product leaders who want to share their knowledge and insights. We’re accepting submissions for 10-20 minute lightning talks, until March 31st. Anyone is welcome to apply!
Past Speakers
Eniola Abioye
Lead UX Researcher @ Meta,
Founder @ UX Outloud
Judd Antin
Executive Coach, Consultant,
Product, and UX Expert
Nicole Bacchus
Head of User Research
@ Thumbtack
Sal Bacerra
Head of Sharing Research
@ Instagram
Dave Brown
Head of Design, AI/ML
@ AWS
Meg Cain
Director of Insights
@ PayPal
John Garvie
Senior Design Manager
@ Uber for Business
Liz Jernegan
Senior UX Researcher
@ AWS
Katie Johnson
Global Head of Consumer Insights
@ PanasonicWELL
Kevin Johnson
Head of AI
@ Dscout
Mina Jonsson
Director of User Experience Research
@ ADP
Priyanka Marawar
Lead UX Designer
@ Headspace
Greg Marinelli
Executive Director of UX Research
@ JP Morgan Chase
Malia Nagle
Vice President, Product Design and Insights
@ Tala
Julie Norvaisas
Vice President, User Experience
@ Dscout
Kevin Newton
Senior Manager, User Experience
@ LinkedIn
Ricardo Prada, PhD
Director and Principal UX Researcher
@ Google Deep Mind
Nikki Smith, PhD
Experience Research Manager
@ Enterprise Mobility
Karel Vredenburg
Co-Founder
@ Habits for a Better World
Ret. IBM VP
Sara Wachter-Boettcher
CEO
@ Active Voice
Andy Warr
Director of Portfolio Research and Insights
@Dropbox
Hear from previous attendees:
I can’t reiterate enough that this is my favorite conference I've ever been to in my career. I had more honest conversations, more laughs, more bring-you-to-tears moments from a professional standpoint this week than I have in months. Everything felt authentic, human, and most of all hopeful.
— Malia Nagle
I’ve never left a conference feeling this inspired, heard, refreshed, and ready.
— Katie Johnson
The Co-Lab conference by Dscout is by far my favorite industry conference. This year had amazing lightning talks about how UX can better connect to the business, how we can expand our research influence, and all things AI–how are we building it and what the future might mean for AI UX.
— Kristen DeLap
Don’t miss the Co-Laboration, register today!
