Jayawant Tewari
Partner UX Director | Microsoft | India
Jayawant Tewari (JT) is a Partner UX Director at Microsoft India, where he leads design strategy and user experience for Microsoft Teams, OneDrive-SharePoint, Planner, and Copilot products in Bengaluru. With over two decades of experience in product design and leadership spanning productivity software, emerging markets, e-commerce, information visualization, and IT tooling, JT brings a unique perspective on how large-scale user research intersects with emerging AI capabilities.
Finding the Rhythm in Uncertainty: The Future of UX Research
UX research is entering a new era of uncertainty — shaped by AI, automation, and organizational change. In this talk, Jayawant Tewari (JT) brings a rare perspective: that of a design leader who also leads research, balancing the rigor of insight with the broader responsibility of shaping products and teams. Drawing from enterprise-scale challenges at Microsoft, he explores what it takes to deploy AI at scale in organizations and ensure its usage and impact. With provocative stories, unexpected metaphors, and an energetic lens, Jayawant will challenge researchers to see uncertainty not as a weakness to overcome, but as the driving rhythm of our future practice. Attendees will leave with frameworks, inspiration, and a few riffs they won’t soon forget.
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