# Recapping Quant UX Con 2023

[Quant UX Con 2023](https://quantuxcon.org) occurred June 15-16, 2023. Quant UX Con is the largest conference for everything and everyone in Quant UX research. It occurs online and in community watch parties, and is committed to being *affordable* and *available* worldwide.

Together with **Kitty Xu, Fei Gao, Mario Callegaro, Maria Cipollone,** and **Mackenzie Sunday**, I served as co-chair of the 2023 organizing committee.

Highlights of Quant UX Con 2023 include:

* There were more than **100 outstanding presentations**, including research talks, career sessions, panel discussions, and a keynote by Kathy Baxter, the Architect for Ethical AI Research at Salesforce. *All presentation materials are available* to view; see [**this post**](https://quantuxblog.com/proceedings-of-quant-ux-con-2023) for the links.
    
* A new **follow-the-sun model** offered content live for 32 consecutive hours, plus recordings of all sessions for registered attendees to watch later.
    
* It had more than **2400 attendees**, an average attendance of 7.4 hours, and **15000 views** of recorded sessions. Across 32 hours there were *at least* 275 attendees online at all times (sometimes over 1000 at a time).
    
* We co-hosted the first-ever **Accessible Quant Conference (AQC)** devoted to the relationship between Quant UX and accessibility, inclusion, and design for all users. See [**this presentation**](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1yHyQxWEJIqiQQiUV-ErAL01JL_266vJk/view?usp=drive_link) on accessibility by AQC Chair Katie Wainwright and co-author Luke Remy (and more online).
    
* There were **Watch Parties** to observe the conference live in **13 cities across 10 countries**. These were in Argentina, France, Germany, Japan, Portugal, South Korea, Spain, the UK, the US, and Vietnam.
    
* **We had 10 great sponsors**. Pinterest, Ipsos, Meta, Sawtooth Software, Sprig, Verasight, Google, Cambly, Spotify, and Amazon Lab126 made the conference accessible and available to everyone worldwide. [Visit the Sponsors here](https://www.quantuxcon.org/sponsors).
    
* And **thank you** to 29 [**generous individual supporters**](https://www.quantuxcon.org/supporters)!
    

As Quant UXRs, of course we collected feedback and satisfaction data. Overall satisfaction (top 2 box score out of 5) was 86%, up from 79% in the first year:

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An 86% level of satisfaction is great — on par with most products — and it was improved over the previous (first) year. Still, attendees shared ideas to improve the conference further. In particular, we will revise the 2024 schedule to have *more breaks*, better *moderator coverage*, and *fewer parallel sessions*.

Are you interested to see how we interpreted the data? See the [committee's complete write-up here](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1KOO_uD5g9xQTMVKSqBBmlyRUg0HiTpfGzyv5yXzbyUQ/edit#heading=h.9o6mzjchm2b2). (And if you're wondering how I ran the CSat survey and made the chart above ... see Chapter 8 of the [Quant UX book](https://quantuxbook.com).)

Finally, **stay tuned for Quant UX Con 2024, occurring June 12-13, 2024**. To learn details as they become available, [sign up for the email list on the **Quant UX Con** home page](https://quantuxcon.org). We hope to see you in 2024!

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