Events
UX Akron is a non-profit, 501(c)(3) user experience community. We host a variety of events supporting the UX community throughout the year.
Our events are free and open to the public, and we do not charge membership fees.
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Upcoming Events
Bypassing the Research Bottleneck: A Guide to Internal-First Discovery
Tuesday, June 30, 2026
6:00 PM to 7:15 PM ET [ Online ]
The primary goal of a research function is to generate high-quality knowledge, yet traditional research cycles frequently struggle to keep pace with the accelerating timelines of modern product development. When critical decisions must be made in weeks rather than months, researchers must move beyond habitual processes and evolve into “investigative synthesizers” who can find truth within their own organizations.
In this session, Soha Pourpirali (Senior UX Researcher) shares a step-by-step playbook for an internal-first discovery framework. Drawing from a real-world case study where a three-week deadline required a complete map of enterprise product gaps, she demonstrates how to treat customer-facing teams, such as Success, Support, and Sales, as longitudinal archives of user experience.
This is an online event.
Other Events of Interest
UX Akron curates events happening in the greater UX community (Akron and beyond) and shares those that may be of interest to our community. Sharing events does not imply endorsement.
Agentic AI Meets KM: Revolutionizing Knowledge Discovery and Collaboration [Online]
Tuesday, June 16th, 2026
Event by: KM World
Agentic AI brings new opportunities for KM. Agents, proactive and autonomous, can pinpoint where gaps in knowledge occur, span multiple knowledge hubs to connect disparate pieces of information into usable knowledge, and make non-scripted decisions. Heading the priority list for knowledge managers is enabling enterprise knowledge foundation for AI. Although agents don’t need to wait for a prompt to act, humans are still necessary to provide guidance and oversight.
AI & UX: We Have Questions [Online]
Thursday, June 18th, 2026
Event by: Ladies That UX ATL
AI is everywhere right now — and as designers, we have a lot of questions, thoughts, and feelings about it.
This is a structured group discussion to be honest with each other about where we actually are with all of this. No slides, no stage. Just real talk about what’s changing, what’s not, what’s hype, and where we’re each drawing our own lines.
We’ll break into small groups to dig into the questions, then come back together to share and discuss as a larger group.
Microsoft Community Days: Community Summit Roadshow Cleveland [In-Person]
Thursday, June 25, 2026
Event by: Community Days
The Community Summit Roadshow features a full day of Dynamics 365, Power Platform, and Copilot education and networking, with speakers from Microsoft and the community of partners, buyers, and users. All Roadshow events are offered free to attendees.
This is an in-person full day event held at the Hilton Garden Inn in Twinsburg, Ohio.
