Something has felt increasingly broken about CX industry events for a while. As organisations face growing pressure to transform, automate and integrate AI responsibly, many events still follow the same predictable formula of presentations, panels and keynotes that rarely reflect the complexity leaders are actually navigating.

That belief is a large part of why Women in CX originally pioneered the UnConference format inside the CX industry. Not as a gimmick or a trend, but as a deliberate rejection of passive learning and performative thought leadership. Increasingly, the most valuable intelligence in the room is not sitting exclusively on the stage. It exists collectively across the lived experiences, operational realities, experiments, tensions and ideas held by the people inside it.