Wednesday, October 7, 2026 • 10:00 AM - 10:30 AM

💻 Shaping AI Agent Behavior: Why UX Must Own AI Evaluation Frameworks

As AI agents move from novelty to core product functionality, UX teams are stepping into an unexpected new responsibility: designing and managing evaluation systems that shape how AI behaves.

This session makes the case for why UX is the right discipline to own AI eval -- and shows what that looks like in practice. We'll cover how to build evaluation frameworks grounded in user behavior rather than model metrics, how to identify failure modes that engineering

Session Speaker

Melissa Wittmayer
Melissa Wittmayer Director, User Experience Ontra Speaker