EPIC Talks is a webinar series created by our community, for our community. Talks cover topics that are highly relevant to us as practitioners, introducing methods, technologies, ideas, and best practices that make our work better and foster meaningful professional connections. Formats can range from lectures or seminars to panels, discussions, and debates. EPIC Talks are proposed and created by EPIC members, bringing together a global community on the leading edge of ethnography in business. Participation is free and open to EPIC Members—join now!
An EPIC Talk with NATALIE HANSON, Principal/Partner, ZS Approx 71 minutes Overview A critical part of our work in the social sciences and design is to conduct activities and create artifacts that bring together the varying perspectives on the team; the shared goal is to deliver the best possible business outcome. Yet, the pressured facing…
An EPIC Talk with MIRIAM LUECK AVERY (Mozilla), JAN ENGLISH-LUECK (San Jose State University), LYNN JEFFERY (Institute for the Future), & FERNANDO GALDINO The anthropological imagination can be exponentially expanded by anticipating the consequences of human action. Futures thinking—strategic research that helps us systematically explore what the future may hold—is increasingly being combined with anthropological techniques…
An EPIC Talk with SAM LADNER Approx 77 minutes Overview What are mixed methods, really? Sometimes the term refers to a set of rich and powerful research traditions; sometimes it’s just a catch-all in an over-stuffed job description. Most of us know that mixing methods implies mixing data sets, but it also means mixing approaches…
An EPIC Talk with MARTHA COTTON, ROGERIO DE PAULA, ABBAS JAFFER, and MEG KINNEY September 20, 2018, 10:00am–11:30pm PST Overview Aloha! In anticipation of the most epic-ly big EPIC ever, Martha Cotton (EPIC Board Secretary and Group Design Research Director at Fjord) plus three EPIC veterans come together to prepare conference attendees for getting the…
An EPIC Talk with KATHY BAXTER, Architect – AI Ethics, Salesforce 8 November 2018, 11–12:30 Pacific Time Free online event, pre-registration & EPIC Membership required Artificial Intelligence represents a considerable opportunity for businesses and society to drive productivity, innovation, and growth. It has potential for tremendous good—when implemented in a way that promotes transparency and…
An EPIC Talk with DANYA GLABAU, Implosion Labs Overview Approx 51 minutes Combine grounded research on human-technology interactions with an openness to speculation and imagination. This webinar introduces cyborg theory and cyborg anthropology. The figure of the cyborg is, in the words of Donna Haraway, a “condensed image of imagination and material reality,” and in…
An EPIC Talk with JAY HASBROUCK, Founder, Filament Insight & Innovation 24 August 2018, 11:00am–12:30pm Pacific Time Free online event, pre-registration & EPIC Membership required Overview Many people are now familiar with the benefits of ethnography for getting a deep understanding of customer needs. However, the modes of thinking unique to ethnography are useful far…
An EPIC Talk with LAURA FORLANO, Institute of Design, Illinois Institute of Technology 26 October 2018, 11:00am–12:30pm Pacific Time Free online event, pre-registration & EPIC Membership required Overview Since at least the mid-1980s, design has been dominated by a human-centered and user-centered paradigm. Currently, the implications of technological and environmental transformations are challenging designers to focus…
An EPIC Talk with LAURA E. MATZEN and LAURA A. MCNAMARA, Sandia National Laboratories March 6, 2018, 12:00–1:30pm PST Free online event, pre-registration & EPIC Membership required Overview Over the past decades, eye tracking systems have migrated out of their native laboratories into the wide world of applied consumer research. If you’ve never used an…
an EPIC TALK with ELIZABETH CHURCHILL (Google), MARTHA COTTON (Fjord), APRIL JEFFRIES (Ipsos) & JOHN W. SHERRY (Intel) Approx 83 minutes Overview Getting a foot in the door for a coveted researcher job can be a mysterious process at best. What qualities are employers looking for? What hard and soft skills are most attractive, and…
An EPIC Talk with MEENA KOTHANDARAMAN & ZARLA LUDIN, twig+fish Human-centered research practices embedded in business contexts have matured to a problematic inflection point. Called upon as a means of finding answers to human complexities, qualitative research is often measured against misappropriated metrics of success. Time, money, efficiency, and return on investment have been artificially applied to demonstrate value to…
an EPIC TALK with ANTHONY ALVAREZ & SHELLEY SATHER December 7, 2017, 11:00am–12:30pm PST Free online event, pre-registration & EPIC Membership required, max 100 participants THIS EVENT IS OVER. Check out more EPIC Talks. Overview Are you building a freelance research or consulting career—or dreaming about it? Join seasoned and successful freelancers Anthony and Shelley…
An EPIC Talk with TRACEY LOVEJOY November 9, 2017, 11:00am–12:30pm PST Free online event, pre-registration & EPIC Membership required, max 100 participants Overview Are you a catalyst? Someone with a deep drive to change the world for the better? Someone who sees possibilities and opportunities to improve things and an unstoppable determination to move those…
An EPIC Talk with JAN CHIPCHASE, Studio D Radiodurans NEW DATE: November 2, 2017, 4:00–5:00pm PST Free online event, pre-registration & EPIC Membership required, max 100 participants REGISTRATION IS FULL. To request another offering of this talk, contact us. MORE EPIC TALKS Overview At Studio D, Jan Chipchase takes a holistic view of how to…
An EPIC Talk with EMILY HUDSON RICHTER & BARI WIESELMAN SCHULMAN September 28, 2017, 11:00am–12:30pm PDT Free online event, pre-registration & EPIC Membership required, max 50 participants *This event is over. More EPIC Talks Overview As ethnographers, design strategists, and designers, interpretation, translation, and communication is at the core of our work. Whether we work…
