Intro track

CBC, MaxDiff, Drivers & Segmentation

This track will teach you how to understand conjoint studies (and build your own simulators), the right way to employ MaxDiff (generally, with large lists and for segmentation studies), non-conjoint pricing techniques as well as the common pitfalls to avoid when undertaking drivers or segmentation analysis. Representing the foundational techniques any marketing scientist should know.

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Day 1

Thursday, 25 September

9:00

Coffee & pastries

9:00

Coffee & pastries

9:30

Welcome

Dean Tindall
Sawtooth
Alexandra Chirilov
NiQ

9:30

Welcome

Dean Tindall
Sawtooth
Alexandra Chirilov
NiQ

9:45

Intro to MaxDiff

MaxDiff has become an increasingly popular research technique, whether it’s for advertising claim ranking or product feature prioritization. In this session we will discuss the do's and don'ts of MaxDiff and how to avoid some of the pitfalls researchers so often fall into. We will highlight some tips and tricks, best practices and many uses of MaxDiff.

Derrick Hyde
Sawtooth
Diogo Alves
Sawtooth

9:45

Intro to MaxDiff

MaxDiff has become an increasingly popular research technique, whether it’s for advertising claim ranking or product feature prioritization. In this session we will discuss the do's and don'ts of MaxDiff and how to avoid some of the pitfalls researchers so often fall into. We will highlight some tips and tricks, best practices and many uses of MaxDiff.

Derrick Hyde
Sawtooth
Diogo Alves
Sawtooth

11:15

Refreshment break

11:15

Refreshment break

11:30

Intro to Conjoint (part 1)

In these sessions you will learn why conjoint analysis has flourished and been so widely used in business/insights applications and economic investigations, the different types of conjoint/choice analysis and learning when you should use each, how to build choice models that deliver meaningful data & how to design, field, and interpret choice-based conjoint (CBC) exercises, how to analyze CBC data using counts, logit, latent class, and hierarchical Bayes & how to build and use what-if market simulators.

Derrick Hyde
Sawtooth
Diogo Alves
Sawtooth

11:30

Intro to Conjoint (part 1)

In these sessions you will learn why conjoint analysis has flourished and been so widely used in business/insights applications and economic investigations, the different types of conjoint/choice analysis and learning when you should use each, how to build choice models that deliver meaningful data & how to design, field, and interpret choice-based conjoint (CBC) exercises, how to analyze CBC data using counts, logit, latent class, and hierarchical Bayes & how to build and use what-if market simulators.

Derrick Hyde
Sawtooth
Diogo Alves
Sawtooth

13:00

Lunch

13:00

Lunch

14:00

Intro to Conjoint (part 2)

...continued

Derrick Hyde
Sawtooth
Diogo Alves
Sawtooth

14:00

Intro to Conjoint (part 2)

...continued

Derrick Hyde
Sawtooth
Diogo Alves
Sawtooth

16:00

Refreshment break

16:00

Refreshment break

16:15

Intro to Conjoint (part 3)

...continued

Derrick Hyde
Sawtooth
Diogo Alves
Sawtooth

16:15

Intro to Conjoint (part 3)

...continued

Derrick Hyde
Sawtooth
Diogo Alves
Sawtooth

17:45

Drinks

17:45

Drinks

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Day 2

Friday, 26 September

9:00

Coffee & pastries

9:00

Coffee & pastries

9:30

Welcome

Dean Tindall
Sawtooth
Alexandra Chirilov
NiQ

9:30

Welcome

Dean Tindall
Sawtooth
Alexandra Chirilov
NiQ

9:45

Non-Conjoint Pricing Techniques

Surveys are often the best way to learn about price expectations, thresholds, and to gauge the market’s price sensitivity. This is especially the case for new-to-the-world products or for product improvements. But, asking respondents about price is one of the biggest challenges we face! In this session, we discuss (in a non-technical way) three of the most commonly used survey-based methods for pricing research: monadic price experiments, Gabor-Granger, and Van Westendorp PSM. We compare the approaches and highlight the pros and cons of each.

Dean Tindall
Sawtooth

9:45

Non-Conjoint Pricing Techniques

Surveys are often the best way to learn about price expectations, thresholds, and to gauge the market’s price sensitivity. This is especially the case for new-to-the-world products or for product improvements. But, asking respondents about price is one of the biggest challenges we face! In this session, we discuss (in a non-technical way) three of the most commonly used survey-based methods for pricing research: monadic price experiments, Gabor-Granger, and Van Westendorp PSM. We compare the approaches and highlight the pros and cons of each.

Dean Tindall
Sawtooth

10:30

MaxDiff with 60+ Items

MaxDiff has become the gold standard technique when it comes to ranking a series of items, but it can often become labourious for respondents when we are required to test a large number of items. In this session we will discuss the best ways to handle MaxDiff studies when you have a large number of items (60+) in order to ensure respondents do not get too fatigued.

Derrick Hyde
Sawtooth
Diogo Alves
Sawtooth

10:30

MaxDiff with 60+ Items

MaxDiff has become the gold standard technique when it comes to ranking a series of items, but it can often become labourious for respondents when we are required to test a large number of items. In this session we will discuss the best ways to handle MaxDiff studies when you have a large number of items (60+) in order to ensure respondents do not get too fatigued.

Derrick Hyde
Sawtooth
Diogo Alves
Sawtooth

11:15

Refreshment break

11:15

Refreshment break

11:30

Needs-based Segmentation with MaxDiff

While there are hundreds of ways to segment customer groups, one of the increasingly popular approaches applies choice-based techniques, such as MaxDiff. This session will teach you the benefits of using MaxDiff to cluster customers and walks you through the steps of designing it and analyzing it. Participants will become comfortable setting up MaxDiff experiments and, using Latent Class logistic regression, segment customers into distinct groups.

Dean Tindall
Sawtooth

11:30

Needs-based Segmentation with MaxDiff

While there are hundreds of ways to segment customer groups, one of the increasingly popular approaches applies choice-based techniques, such as MaxDiff. This session will teach you the benefits of using MaxDiff to cluster customers and walks you through the steps of designing it and analyzing it. Participants will become comfortable setting up MaxDiff experiments and, using Latent Class logistic regression, segment customers into distinct groups.

Dean Tindall
Sawtooth

12:00

How to discover the key drivers of consumer choice

One of the core questions of market research is: what drives consumer choice? Over the last couple of decades, a wide range of techniques has been developed to answer this question. In this introductory training, we will give an overview of some of the most useful driver analysis techniques that are currently being applied. We will then dive a little deeper and investigate more advanced techniques like Bayesian network analysis, that enable us to distinguish between direct and indirect effects. The aim of the training is to help you find your way in applying these techniques in your own research projects.

Xinyue Wang
NiQ

12:00

How to discover the key drivers of consumer choice

One of the core questions of market research is: what drives consumer choice? Over the last couple of decades, a wide range of techniques has been developed to answer this question. In this introductory training, we will give an overview of some of the most useful driver analysis techniques that are currently being applied. We will then dive a little deeper and investigate more advanced techniques like Bayesian network analysis, that enable us to distinguish between direct and indirect effects. The aim of the training is to help you find your way in applying these techniques in your own research projects.

Xinyue Wang
NiQ

13:00

Lunch

13:00

Lunch

14:00

Segmentation: How to do it poorly (and well)

Segmentation is something that marketing research analysts do about as frequently as they run choice experiments. Unfortunately, a constellation of mutually reinforcing problems can thwart the segmentation analyst. This session will help identify potential shortcomings and solutions for these techniques.

Keith Chrzan
Sawtooth

14:00

Segmentation: How to do it poorly (and well)

Segmentation is something that marketing research analysts do about as frequently as they run choice experiments. Unfortunately, a constellation of mutually reinforcing problems can thwart the segmentation analyst. This session will help identify potential shortcomings and solutions for these techniques.

Keith Chrzan
Sawtooth

15:00

Building Conjoint Simulators in Excel

Whilst you can analyse conjoint results with our software, the flexibility and customisability of an excel based simulation tool is often hard to beat! Join Dean as he takes you through a step by step guide of how to build a simulator from raw utilities, through to insights.

Dean Tindall
Sawtooth

15:00

Building Conjoint Simulators in Excel

Whilst you can analyse conjoint results with our software, the flexibility and customisability of an excel based simulation tool is often hard to beat! Join Dean as he takes you through a step by step guide of how to build a simulator from raw utilities, through to insights.

Dean Tindall
Sawtooth

16:00

Refreshment break

16:00

Refreshment break

16:15

2025 Sawtooth Research Conference Recap & Farewells

Brian McEwan
Sawtooth
Dean Tindall
Sawtooth
Alexandra Chirilov
NiQ

16:15

2025 Sawtooth Research Conference Recap & Farewells

Brian McEwan
Sawtooth
Dean Tindall
Sawtooth
Alexandra Chirilov
NiQ

17:00

Adjourned

17:00

Adjourned

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