MRS Annual Conference 2026:
Research on the Edge

Appinio is a global market research company that combines an AI-powered insights platform with expert guidance to help teams make better decisions. Through our innovative platform, we deliver actionable, predictive consumer insights across 190+ markets, enabling true customer centricity in every business decision. We unite advanced AI technology with proven research methodologies to predict real-world outcomes with superior accuracy. Our seamless, all-in-one platform makes gathering high-quality insights effortless, while our dedicated researchers provide guidance tailored to your business needs. This unique combination of technology and expertise helps teams answer the questions that matter most to their business on their timeline. Trusted by over 3,000 industry leaders worldwide, we're committed to maintaining the highest quality standards in data collection and analysis, ensuring authentic consumer voices inform every decision. Looking to transform how your team makes decisions? Visit us at our MRS conference booth or learn more at appinio.com

Caplena helps enterprises, scale-ups, and agencies turn customer and employee feedback into clear, reliable insights. Our AI-powered platform analyzes data from surveys, online reviews, and satisfaction trackers, transforming it into valuable intelligence that drives business growth. By integrating diverse data sources and leveraging both in-house and third-party large language models (LLMs), Caplena uncovers key themes, sentiment, and behavioral trends. Our interactive dashboards provide clear, real-time visualizations, enabling you to make data-driven decisions with ease. With Caplena, you can enhance operational efficiency, refine your product-market fit, and optimize your business strategy by combining structured and unstructured data. Trusted by over 200 companies globally, including DHL, Lufthansa, and Euromonitor, we're here to help you unlock the insights that matter most.

So much more than ‘just translation’… the expert Empower team provides award-winning localization services, exclusively for the insight industry.

Our reputation for quality language services is born of passion for excellent global insights, with peer-reviewed results:

• 3 years of recognition for ‘Best Support Services’ at the MRS Operations Awards, and the MRS ‘Best Place to Work’ award
• A 2022 Queen’s Award for Enterprise
• Certification to ISO 9001 and ISO 17100 (ISO 20252-compatible) standards

And, we’ve started a tech-driven revolution in the world of global research, with our Localization Portal and unique approach to efficiencies.

Are you ready for the new era of global research operations?

Get in touch with our team of experts to find out how you could be empowered to transform your multimarket research process!

Foreign Tongues Market Research Translation Agency is a global leader in specialised translation services for the market research industry. Since our founding, we have focused on one core mission: to bridge cultural and linguistic gaps, enabling businesses to gather accurate, localised insights from diverse markets around the world. With over a decade of experience, we provide high-quality translations in more than 100 languages, ensuring that every survey, interview, and report resonates with the intended audience. Our team of expert linguists, all native speakers and industry specialists, bring cultural nuance and local context to life in every project, so your research is not just understood—it’s embraced. Foreign Tongues offers a full range of language services tailored to the unique needs of market research firms, including questionnaire translation, multilingual coding, verbatim transcription, and interpreting services for international focus groups. We understand the fast-paced nature of market research and are dedicated to delivering accurate, timely results that maintain the integrity of your data, no matter the language or market. As a proud sponsor of the Market Research Society’s Annual Conference 2026 Closing Drinks, we look forward to connecting with fellow industry professionals and celebrating the innovative ideas shaping the future of market research. Explore how Foreign Tongues can enhance your global research initiatives by visiting our website or speaking with one of our representatives at the event. Foreign Tongues Market Research Translation Agency—Delivering Your Research to the World. http://www.foreigntongues.co.uk

QuestionPro is a SaaS-based Experience Management Survey Platform focused on market research, customer experience and employee experience collecting the pulse of audiences through online communities, focus groups, polls, journey mapping, employee 360s, data visualisation and more. With over 5.3 million global users across 100 countries, we are a leading provider of online survey software that allows our users to generate the insights they need to make better informed business decisions. With 12 global offices and 8 regional data centres within the UK, USA, Canada, Mexico, Brazil, South Africa, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Germany, France, Netherlands, Japan, Australia, New Zealand and India, we offer customers 24-7 access to highly trained support specialists and engineers. We have provided innovative and reliable, customer-centric technology to Fortune 100 companies, academic institutions, public sector organisations, SMEs, and independent researchers since 2005. Find out more at www.questionpro.com

Toluna is the global research and insights leader that enables businesses to make smarter, data-driven decisions – faster. For 25 years, we have partnered with the world’s leading brands, delivering transformative impact through our advanced technology platform, comprehensive solution portfolio, expansive global first-party panel, and world-class team of leading research experts. Since 2019, we’ve made significant investments in artificial intelligence to enhance automation, accelerate insight delivery, and unlock deeper understanding at scale. With 40+ offices worldwide, Toluna operates in 70+ countries, redefining the future of insights. ? TolunaID is our dedicated division for the Market Research, Agency, and Consultancy industries. It provides industry-leading first-party panel reach, AI-driven quality checks, and flexible service models, helping deliver high-quality insights faster and with confidence. TolunaID is uniquely built to solve the challenges that MR agencies and consultancies face today – from panel integrity to sample quality, from the need for speed to receiving expert support at each step.