Learning & Networking Week | October 2-6, 2023
Main Program | October 7-10, 2023
EPIC2023 is the premier international conference on ethnography in business and organizations.
Our keenest insight and most powerful impact come when we cross boundaries, forge partnerships, and challenge conventional wisdom. Those moments both embrace friction and are friction. Join a community of researchers, designers, creators and innovators to grapple with and harness friction for all its complex and productive powers.
“The challenges facing our organizations call for innovation that is rooted in deep cultural understanding of the people we serve. EPIC is the conference that has helped me the most in learning about the approaches, methods, and frameworks to achieve that understanding.”
ROBIN KWONG
Newsroom Innovation Chief, Wall Street Journal
“Always insightful, immediately applicable, and delightfully provocative, EPIC gives us the knowledge and networks we need to be strong voices for people most affected by future technology.”
OVETTA SAMPSON
Director of UX – Core ML, Google
“Human-centered, systems-based problem solving for global challenges? Yes, please and thank you! My first EPIC conference and I think I have found my people. So much inspiring and thought-provoking work.”
HILARY WILSON
Director, US Medicine & Regulatory Affairs Strategy and Operations, Boehringer Ingelheim
Venue
Institute of Design at Illinois Tech
We’re thrilled to partner with ID—a global pioneer in systems and human-centered design. Learn about our EPIC2023 venues and re-imagine the neighborhoods of Chicago through the lens of friction…
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Year-Round Events
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Job Board
Permanent and contract opportunities posted by hiring managers looking for ethnographic expertise.