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The Women in Experimentation Summit. 3rd Edition.

9th & 10th Sept 2026; Online.

Kick-off at 13:30 BST on both days.

FREE TO ATTEND. OPEN TO ALL.

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  • 9th & 10th September 2026
  • Free to attend
  • 72-hour replays

AI has simplified execution.

The next frontier for human intelligence is solving hard problems. The ones that need lived experience, big bets, trial and error.

The Women in Experimentation Summit 2026 features 10 hand-picked topics that will define this upcoming era for optimizers, growth pros, and UX-ers.

Chosen from a pool of 121 talented applicants.

Unmissable!

  • Victoria Bakos
  • Lauren Wong
  • Ester Serra
  • Matt Policastro
  • Julie van der Hoop
  • Sabine Harnau
  • Himani Kothari
  • Nikki Elbaz
  • Iqbal Ali
  • Liliann Malcolm
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Join Us on 9th & 10th September 2026: Open to All.

From queering CRO to learning experiment design from dolphins, 10 fresh talks that haven’t graced marquees before. Delivered by veterans and first-time speakers.

Chosen from 121 applications by a 3-judge panel.

Unconference style additional sessions to develop key soft skills - branding, purpose, and leadership.

Tasty tid-bits from experimentation communities. (You are not expecting this!)

And yes… 72-hour replays!

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  • 9th & 10th September 2026
  • Free to attend
  • 72-hour replays

Speaker Line-Up

Speaker Line-Up: Unique Solutions to Mature Problems

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Day 1 — Wednesday, 9 September 2026

Victoria Bakos

The Claude UX Factory Is Real: Break the Cycle of Sameness in AI Designs by Victoria Bakos

A blueprint for efficient, soulful design

CRO Product Designer @ Miso

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Open a dozen AI-built landing pages. Same hero. Same gradient. Same “clean” card grid. Victoria calls it the Claude UX Factory - and she’s here to shut down the assembly line. Working across UX, UI & CRO at Miso, she’ll show you the visual tells of AI-generated design, where AI-built flows fail real users, and the exact point in your process where AI helps most. Leave knowing what to automate, what to keep manual, and how to keep shipping fast - without surrendering the human touch that makes a brand worth noticing.

THEME: 🎨 Usability & Design

Lauren Wong

The Algorithm Can’t Lick a Stamp by Lauren Wong

Using offline as your next breakthrough channel.

Fractional CMO & Advisor

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AI can write your email, personalize your push, and A/B test your subject line before your morning coffee. The marketing that persuades? A hand-written note you don’t want to bin. “Do things that don’t scale” is everyone’s favorite advice. Yet nobody’s playbook! Lauren has scaled consumer brands from 0 to hundreds of millions - founding team at HelloFresh Canada, plus Huggies, Spin Master, Sano Genetics, and Tonies. Her case: offline is a performance channel. Measurable. Testable. Almost entirely under-resourced. She’ll show you how to run it like one - just in time for Gen Z bringing back landlines.

THEME: 🪜 Growth

Ester Serra

Experimentation That Destroys Value: When Optimizing One Metric Breaks Another by Ester Serra

Understanding how test wins impact the bigger picture.

Founder @ Dataverto

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A winning experiment isn’t a winning business decision! Read that again. Teams incentivised to grow at any cost rarely ask what a stat sig uplift costs in brand credibility, trust, and retention. This is no metrics sermon. Ester’s framework helps you see familiar numbers in a new light: as hiding places for trade-offs that sabotage CRO programs. Balance primary metrics against guardrails, without allowing cherry-picking.

THEME: 🔬 Experiment & CRO

Matt Policastro

Confidently Wrong: What Happens When AI Makes Experimentation (Almost) Free? by Matt Policastro

Improving trust in your tests.

Experimentation Specialist

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Want to watch an LLM design and deploy an A/B test in real time? Us too! But the AI flourish isn’t the point. When testing gets (almost) free, half-baked ideas ship at scale - and “tests run” stops being a flex. Everyone senses the fix; nobody wants to say it out loud. Matt will: slow down, intentionally. He’ll show you where to add friction, how to build learning loops, and which decision criteria make results trustworthy so the restraint can sharpen momentum, instead of stalling it.

THEME: 🔬 Experiment & CRO

Julie van der Hoop

Experimental Design Lessons from Marine Biology by Julie van der Hoop

Building control in high-stakes experimentation.

Senior PM @ Wikimedia Foundation

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Before Julie helped Wikipedia teams learn faster through privacy-first testing at billion-user scale, she was a marine biologist. Running experiments. With dolphins! In the wild, there’s no “just rerun it” - preparedness and discipline are how you get any signal at all. Julie learned to carve out pockets of control inside genuinely uncontrollable conditions. Sounds like testing in the AI flux, no? She brings the toolkit to navigate variance, chaos, and stubbornly small effects - for everyone who’s ever wondered whether their control condition is actually controlled.

THEME: 🔬 Experiment & CRO


Day 2 — Thursday, 10 September 2026

Sabine Harnau

Whose Conversions Are You Optimising For? A Feminist Lens on Experimentation by Sabine Harnau

Keeping data from enforcing stereotypes.

Founder & Co-Managing Director @ From Scratch

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We treat data as neutral. It isn’t. Every KPI carries assumptions about who the “average user” is - and as AI takes over ideas and execution, those assumptions harden into fact, at scale. Suddenly your program optimizes exclusively for heteronormative, able-bodied, cis, white, middle-class users. Sabine uses queer and feminist theory to surface what’s baked into your test metrics - asking not just who your data talks about, but who it alienates. People in experimentation hold power over choices. That power shouldn’t be allowed to manipulate.

THEME: 🤝 Diversity & Inclusion

Himani Kothari

The Most Dangerous Moment in Any Experiment Is When It Starts Working by Himani Kothari

Are your systems built for success?

Supply Chain Leader & Host, While She Builds

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Every experimenter has a plan for losing tests. Almost no one has a plan for the winners. A stat sig uplift is a promise your whole business now has to keep - demand, capacity, support, fulfillment. Himani has seen wins scale faster than the systems built to hold them, and she’ll show you why mature programs in Fortune 500s ask “what breaks when this works?” before launch - to avoid an unforeseen collapse.

THEME: 🔬 Experiment & CRO

Nikki Elbaz

You Shipped Everything. Why Isn’t NRR Moving? by Nikki Elbaz

The 9 moments driving expansion & upgrades.

Retention Strategist & Host, Churn Flags

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When we chase expansion revenue, we default to new - new features, new markets, new ad spend. Nikki, host of the Churn Flags podcast, says the expansion you’re after is sitting in the product you already have and the customers you’ve already paid (dearly - CAC has never been higher) to acquire. Churn and upgrade decisions don’t happen on AE calls. They happen in-product, every time a change in your app, your user, or the market forces a re-evaluation. Nikki maps the 9 moments where you can sway that decision in your favor.

THEME: 🪜 Growth

Iqbal Ali

From Fragile Frameworks to Antifragile Experimenters by Iqbal Ali

Is thinking your USP yet?

Fractional Experimentation Lead & Trainer

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Last year, Hesh Fekry stood on this (virtual) stage and declared: “We are drowning in frameworks! Period.” Iqbal arrives with the rescue plan. “Don’t outsource your thinking to AI” is popular advice. He asks: weren’t we already outsourcing it to acronyms? Iqbal has spent serious time training language models and studying how they “think” - and why that isn’t anything like human intelligence. His session: practical techniques to rebuild deep understanding, the one capability that will stay premium.

THEME: 🚀 Personal Development

Liliann Malcolm

Silent Customer Signals: Rethinking Customer Value by Liliann Malcolm

Identifying subtle intent for giant paydays.

Market Intelligence & CX Leader

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Who’s your best customer? Easy - the biggest spender, right? Liliann disagrees. That model is dying, and with CACs shooting through the roof, you can’t afford the blind spot. Behavioral signals - recency, frequency, website visits, email engagement, purchase patterns beyond gross AOV - paint a different portrait: customers displaying real intent while flying under the radar. Liliann shows you how to spot these subtle signals, act on them, and re-segment your existing base for better targeting, experimentation, and decision-making across the board.

THEME: 🪜 Growth

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Sneak Peek At Our Speaker Selection

All 121 applications were scored by 3 judges.

For the following criteria:

Innovation in the Topic

We hunted for talks with genuinely fresh angles - not rehashes making the conference rounds. If it could’ve been given at any other event this year, it didn’t make the cut.

Actionable Takeaways

Talks that offer practical techniques or a mental model to the attendees received higher scores.

Passion in the Pitch

That X-factor. How excited did the speakers get us about the learning? Could they transmit their energy to us?

Structure and Thinking

Did the pitch have an opening, a body, and a close? Did the concepts and ideas reflect meticulous (mature!) thinking?

New This Year

Would you watch this?

That quirky human instinct of “I’d pay money for this”. Talks that activated it strongly were given extra attention.

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Big Round of Applause For the 2026 Speaker Application Judges

Carmen Apostu Carmen Apostu

Convert.com®

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Abi Hough Abi Hough

Founder @ UU3

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Talia Wolf Talia Wolf

Founder @ GetUplift

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Full Event Agenda: Two Days. One Kick-Off Time.

All times London (BST). 4 hours of learning & community engagement each day. 72-hour replays.

Day 1 — Wednesday, 9 September 2026

Time (London, BST) Item Speaker & Session
13:30 - 14:00 Intro
14:00–14:30 Session 1 Victoria Bakos — The Claude UX Factory Is Real: Break the Cycle of Sameness in AI Designs
14:30–14:40 Break 2024 and 2025: WiE Summit Recap
14:40–14:55 Session 2 Lauren Wong — The Algorithm Can’t Lick a Stamp
15:00–15:30 Session 3 Ester Serra — The Experimentation That Destroys Value: When Optimizing One Metric Breaks Another
15:30–15:50 Break
15:50–16:20 Session 4 Matt Policastro — Confidently Wrong: What Happens When AI Makes Experimentation (Almost) Free?
16:20–17:20 Unconference / Community Showcase The art of job applications in 2026 | Ikigai - monetizing purpose for fulfillment
17:20–17:35 Session 5 Julie van der Hoop — Experimental Design Lessons from Marine Biology

Day 2 — Thursday, 10 September 2026

Time (London, BST) Item Speaker & Session
13:30 - 14:00 Intro
14:00–14:30 Session 1 Sabine Harnau — Whose Conversions Are You Optimising For? A Feminist Lens on Experimentation
14:30–14:40 Break
14:40–14:55 Session 2 Himani Kothari — The Most Dangerous Moment in Any Experiment Is When It Starts Working
15:00–15:30 Session 3 Nikki Elbaz — You Shipped Everything. Why Isn’t NRR Moving?
15:30–15:50 Break Music with Josh Silverbauer
15:50–16:20 Session 4 Iqbal Ali — From Fragile Frameworks to Antifragile Experimenters
16:20–17:20 Unconference / Community Showcase Women in Leadership: Lessons learnt from overcoming imposter syndrome and feeling invisible
17:20–17:50 Session 5 Liliann Malcolm — Silent Customer Signals: Rethinking Customer Value
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If you identify as female or non-binary, you can request access to join the Women in Experimentation Slack community in the sign-up form.

Learn and network with 1,500+ women from CRO, data, UX, product, and growth.

Benefit from events that sharpen skills and help claim acknowledgment for your work, your ideas, and your presence through drives like “Speak up to Uplevel”, involvement in thought leadership content, and workshops.

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8,915 Hours of Learning Consumed by Registrants & Attendees in 2025:

1,300

registrants

550

live attendees

8,915

hours of content watched

Last year, this page asked if you were living in an echo chamber. The attendees answered:

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Great delivery, beautiful slides. The content of her 4 main points were spot on. The issues with sample ratios and session based metrics May presented are the clearest and easiest to understand I have come across. Better than some industry veterans. The introduction was solid!

Feedback for May Chin
2024 Talk Title: Your A/B Tests are Lying to You. Here’s Why, and What to Do About it
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Pace of the presentation was spot-on. Clear delivery, content was nuanced, considered, timely and actionable. Lots to take away and reflect on.

Feedback for Oreoluwa Akinnawo
2024 Talk Title: Taming the H.I.P.P.O —> Getting More Yes's for Your Experiment Ideas

Wall of Love Continues…

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Sometimes experimentation and CRO is too much numbers/statistics that people tend to forget that the tests/experiments they are conducting are with real human beings. Loved the mosaic analogy and these very important anthropological, sociological and psychological aspects. Well done!

Feedback for Axelle Ahanhanzo
2024 Talk Title: Inclusion by Design: Fostering Neurodiversity in Tomorrow's Solutions
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An Event By the Community, For the Community

It’s 2023….

And women are frustrated.

30% representation isn’t a huge ask.

But the needle never moved. The same line-ups. The same lack of diversity. The same easy way out.

The excuse: There are very few seasoned women speakers around.

Daphne Tideman, Lucia van den Brink, and Marcella Sullivan did the difficult thing: They took action.

Women in Experimentation was born. It grew into a community that is thousands strong. It developed exhaustive speaker lists. It volunteered to find women keen to share their know-how, when organizer networks fell short.

In time, the community teamed up with Convert.com® - a growth and experimentation platform dedicated to encouraging doers and builders - to launch this Summit.

A summit that was not supposed to happen.

A summit where speakers are coached and paid. A summit where there is 70% female representation and 30% speakers of color. A summit that has gone house-full two years in a row, without paying the AI theme tax.

If you’re here and planning to attend; you are strengthening a movement shaping the quality of conversations and collaborations across CRO, UX, and growth.

Well done you 👍

Diversity Check For 2026’s Line-Up

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FAQ

Frequently Asked Questions

Is the summit online? +

Yes, the summit is online. It is a virtual event spread out over two days (9th & 10th September 2026), with the kick-off at 13:30 BST. Your registration gets you 4 hours of learning and community engagement each day.

Is the summit open to all? +

Yes, the Women in Experimentation Summit 2026 is open to women, men and non-binaries alike.

Is this summit free to attend? +

You don’t have to pay a penny to attend this summit. But those who get maximum value from the event are folks who will pay with time. They’ll attend the sessions live, take advantage of the Q&As, jump into the Unconference, and walk away with dozens of valuable connections.

Will there be replays? +

You’ll have 72-hour access to the replays within 3-5 business days.

I can only make one of the two days. Should I still sign up? +

Absolutely. Tell us which day(s) you’re joining in the registration form, show up when you can, and let the 72-hour replays cover the rest. Can’t attend live at all? Sign up anyway and we’ll send over the replays.

What time do the sessions run? +

Kick-off is 13:30 London (BST) on both days, with roughly 4 hours of talks, breaks, and community engagement. Wherever you are in the world, register and we’ll make the timezone math painless.

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