September 8–10, 2025
Chicago Athletic Association, Chicago IL
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 2pm 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.
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
Product Manager @ 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.
I’ve never left a conference feeling this inspired, heard, refreshed, and ready.
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.
