The insights and analytics industry continues to transform at a rapid pace, but how are we preparing our skillsets and talents to prepare for the NEXT evolution of our industry. NEXT is transforming to focus on preparing you!

Join us for fresh ideas, new research techniques and concepts, and unbiased, practical training to expand your perspectives and boost the skills of your entire insights team.

Level Up Your Influence – Engage your audience, make the case for innovation, tell a more compelling data story, become a better negotiator – Be more influential.

Level Up Your Skills – Master essential ready-to-apply research techniques with objective, hands-on training. 

Level Up Your Decision Making – Make more informed investment decisions when evaluating research tools & tech by learning about them first hand.

Level Up Your Methods – Be the first to see new vetted and objective research on research aimed at improving data quality and process efficiency.

Level Up Your Innovation – Get current on emerging and potentially disruptive concepts and clearly articulate their relevance to your business and to your clients.

Level Up Your Network – Meet industry veterans, entrepreneurs and disruptors who can connect the dots, provide ideas and inspiration, and be vital resources for growth.

Much is happening at the intersection of UX, CX & Insights but there's not always enough understanding, coordination, or communication amongst the departments, practitioners or leadership to ensure a customer-centered mindset is driving key business decisions and organizational growth.

What's the remedy? “X” marks the spot.

This forum brings UX, CX & Insights together with content and conversations to foster development of a unified voice of the customer. 
View the X 2020 Program

Featuring experts rooted in each discipline, sessions will help you and your teams:

• Appreciate the various processes, roles, skill sets, and stakeholders at play
• Break down silos that isolate you from opportunity and success
• Identify and rally organizational champions of your capabilities
• Recognize and utilize commonalities between departments
• Simplify messages that decision makers can embrace and carry forth
• Harmonize the customers’ voice to influence action

Both days will culminate with facilitated and open forums where you can meet and talk directly with peers working across the CX / UX / Insights spectrum.

Through gaps in understanding and communication slip opportunity. The opportunity to truly be customer-centric and not only share but activate on essential insights across your organization.

Elevate your value and the value of your practice by joining with fellow CX, UX, and Insights professionals at X!

Join Us at the CEO Summit Canada 2020 - June 15-17 in Toronto!

Stay tuned for details. Questions? Please contact us.

The Canadian Advisory Council of the Insights Association is thrilled to invite you to attend our second annual CEO Summit Canada.

Long a flagship forum attracting chief executives from marketing research companies, we're excited to host this unique event in Toronto, Canada's world-class business nexus. 

Tangible solutions to the toughest insights business problems draw leading executives to CEO Summits year after year, but the process of arriving at answers – through thoughtful conversations and collaborative peer discussions – is what makes this event unlike any other.

A keen focus on the future – revealing trends and innovations presented by partnered clients – makes the event essential to decision-makers leading insights and data analytics businesses or departments. 

What makes this program as entertaining as it is valuable is its intimacy, candor, lively banter and unpredictable twists and turns. That's all part of the design; spontaneous, genuine, high-level dialogue that leads in all directions yielding attendee satisfaction higher than any other Insights Association conference.

The Summit is designed for C-level executives of marketing research and data analytics firms as well as corporate insights and data analytics function leaders who must stay ahead of global industry issues and who seek business partnerships to improve their capabilities, deliverables and value. 

Be challenged and enjoy open, honest and energetic conversations with the brightest minds the insights and data analytics industry has to offer.

Join us! This event is expected to sell out as attendance is strictly limited to ensure attendee success. We look forward to welcoming you at the Omni King Edward in Toronto! 

Get an inside look at novel tools and techniques being applied by the most innovative market researchers and data analysts to gain unprecedented insights.

BE WHERE THE BRANDS ARE - Sessions will be led by expert practitioners a wide variety of forward-focused insights departments.

This rapidly changing world needs current, holistic insights more than ever. Market research, data science and analytics teams must come together to uncover, communicate and implement these insights. That happens at CONVERGE – a forum developed to advance teams and companies from being data driven to insight driven. View the CONVERGE 2020 Program. Stay tuned for our call for presentations.