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IAC : Information Architecture Conference

Join us at the Sheraton New Orleans

April 14-15th Pre-Conference workshops / April 16-18th Main Conference Program

Register for IAC20 today

Our call for poster submissions is still open.

Learn more about submitting a poster

Updates from the blog…

Meet Stacy Surla, Curator of Poster Night

Meet Stacy Surla, Curator of Poster Night

Stacy Surla is Vice President of MetaMetrics Inc., a veteran-owned, family consultancy that provides UX and evaluation services in support of a democratic and open-market world. She is an adjunct professor at the University of Maryland iSchool, was a twice-elected officer of the IA Institute, and is on the editorial board of the Journal of […]

Launching the IAC20 Scholarship Program

Besides financial support, recipients will have access to peer mentoring and a large alumni network. Critical for long-term impact, the program offers continuing education and professional development opportunities foundational to obtaining leadership positions within the profession.

Meet MaShana Davis

Meet MaShana Davis

MaShana (muh-shay-nuh) has been hugely helpful in both the curation of the conference and the scholarship program. Find out what made her volunteer for IAC20.

Meet Chiara Ogan

Meet Chiara Ogan

Chiara is helping to deliver the scholarship program for IAC20. As always, we want IAC to welcome new practitioners to the IA community. The IA Conference Scholarship is designed for students new to the field, and is open to individuals in the US as well as other countries.

Keynote speakers at IAC20

We’re honored to have the following speakers at our community-led information architecture conference.

Abby Covert

Abby Covert

@Abby_the_IA
Keynote speaker
Past co-chair, speaker, and volunteer

Cassini Nazir

@cassininazir
Keynote speaker

Christian Crumlish

@mediajunkie
Keynote speaker
Past speaker and volunteer
Mutale Nikonde

Mutale Nkonde

Keynote speaker
Regine Gilbert

Regine Gilbert

Keynote speaker

Workshop facilitators in 2020

We’re joined by a stellar line-up of industry leaders delivering two days of workshops before the conference even begins. Here are some of the friends and colleagues we’re happy to welcome to IAC20.

You can find full details of our workshop line-up on our program page.

Andy Fitzgerald

@andybywire
Bern Irizarry

Bern Irizarry

@bernirizarry

Bob Kasenchak

@taxobob
Carrie Hane

Carrie Hane

@carriehd

Dan Brown

@brownorama

Dan Zollman

@herman_utix
David Farkas

David Farkas

@dafark8

Jenny Shirey

Jon Kolko

@jkolko

Jorge Arango

@jarango

Peter Morville

Peter Morville

@morville

Rachel Price

Shari Thurow

Alberta Soranzo

@albertatrebla

Stacy Merrill Surla

@stacysurla

Sense and Sense-making

Conference Theme for 2020

This year we expect that lots of conferences will have a 2020 Vision. We like to look at things differently – and sight is only one sense amongst many.

In New Orleans we want to explore all of our senses and all the ways we make sense of the world and the futures we face. We want to talk about how, when and why we encode, transmit, receive, interpret and share information. We’ll discuss what we can perceive and make available to the senses, the different kinds of intelligences we use to interpret and understand things and the intentional actions that result when things make sense. We’ll also look at the role of serendipity and mischief in understanding what our senses tell us.

Join us in In New Orleans as we interrogate and celebrate the huge variety of ways that we can sense, think and be in the world.

The realities we perceive and make available
The intelligences we use to make sense of what we perceive
The intentional actions that result from making sense

Learn more about this year’s theme

Sponsor IAC in 2020

We’re 21 years old! Be part of the world’s most prestigious gathering for information architecture, while fostering a truly unique conference. The IAC is attended every year by hundreds of movers and shakers in information architecture, user experience design, and content strategy.

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