The IAC is where information architects, UX designers, content strategists, and other design practitioners meet.
The Main Conference is taking place between April 16th-18th at the Sheraton New Orleans Hotel. While you’re booking the conference – make sure you make your reservation at the conference hotel to get the full IAC experience.
We’ve also gathered talented and seasoned workshop leaders to help advance your skills. We present two days for workshops in addition to the main conference program. If you are seeking specialized training about information architecture and experience design, it doesn’t get any better than at the IAC. These workshops will take place on April 14th and 15th and are charged at $350 for a half-day workshop and $650 for full day workshops.
Tuesday, April 14 Pre-Conference Workshops
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| Morning 8:30 AM - 12:30 PM | Introduction to Knowledge Graphs With: Ahren Lehnert and Bob Kasenchak |
| Full Day 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM | Values in Information Architecture: The 8th Academics & Practitioners Roundtable at the 2020 Information Architecture Conference with Dan Zollman, Jeffrey Ryan Pass, Andrea Resmini, Sarah Rice and Stacy Merrill Surla |
| Building Up, Building Down: Content Modeling For Projects That Have To Ship With: Greg Dunlap and Jeff Eaton |
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| Applied Designing Connected Content With: Carrie Hane |
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| Information Architecture Essentials With: Jorge Arango |
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| Low-Code Data Analysis with Jupyter Notebooks With: Kellie Carter and Boxu Fan |
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| Managing Tough Conversations for Information Architects: How to have them, how to make them productive, and how to survive them With: Dan Brown |
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| Afternoon 1:30 PM - 5:30 PM | Effective Human-Machine Conversation With: Phillip Hunter |
Wednesday, April 15 Pre-Conference Workshops
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| Morning 8:30 AM - 12:30 PM | Leading Transformation With: Alberta Soranzo |
| Lessons from a Jazz Musician: Improvising in User Research With: Rachel Price and Horyun Song |
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| Practical Large Scale Content Analysis - Andy Fitzgerald With: Andy Fitzgerald |
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| Sense-Making, Search Systems, & Site Optimization With: Shari Thurow |
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| Full Day 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM | Designing and Building Taxonomies for Enterprise With: Gary Carlson |
| The Visual Display of Information With: Stephen Anderson |
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| The Art and Science of Workshop Design With: Bern Irizarry and Stacy Merrill Surla |
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| Afternoon 1:30 PM - 5:30 PM | Selling-In Design Innovation With: Jon Kolko and Matt Franks |
| Planning for Strategic Design With: Peter Morville |
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| Courageous Coaching and Forthright Feedback: Improving your Leadership Practice by Doing Both With: Jenny Shirey |
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| Collaborative Improv: Building Better Products Through Improvisation With: David Farkas |
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Note: Pre-conference workshops are an additional cost. You don’t have to book main conference registration and workshops together.
Thursday, April 16th 2020
Friday, April 17th 2020
| Track | Sensing the world | Making Sense | Impact and provocation |
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| 7:00 - 8:00 AM | Polar Bear Yoga Location: Room TBC |
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| 8:00 - 9:00 AM | Polar Bear Run: 5K Location: Room TBC |
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| 7:00 - 9:00 AM | Polar Bear Run: 10K Location: Room TBC |
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| 9:00 - 9:30 AM | Registration Opens | ||
| 9:30 - 10:00 AM | Morning Coffee & Book Signing Location: Room TBC |
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| 9:30 - 10:00 AM | 1-on-1 Career Advice Sessions Location: Room TBC |
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| 10:00 - 10:45 AM | Keynote by Mutale NkondeLocation: Room TBC |
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| 11:00 - 11:45 AM | Fight Bias with Content Strategy with David Dylan Thomas | A hard look in the mirror: language, structure, and privilege in IA with Lara Portmann | Testing Structures with Dumb Prototypes with Joe Elmendorf |
| 12:00 - 12:45 PM | Time Structures for Emerging Design Scenarios with Marsha Haverty | The Design Leader’s Secret Guide to Measuring UX with Jared Spool | All Sorts Great and Small: Reflections on Card Sorts, Citizen Engagement, and Creating Better Federal Government Website IAs with Jeff Pass |
| 12:45 - 2:00 PM | Lunch Location: Room TBC |
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| 12:45 - 2:00 PM | Group Mentoring Location: Room TBC (bring your lunch) |
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| 12:45 - 2:00 PM | IAC20 Diversity & Inclusion Roundtable - ROOM TBD (bring your lunch) Location: Room TBC |
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| 2:00 - 2:20 PM | Stay out of the dark side: How to use cognitive biases for good your design and user research with Jennifer Blatz | An exciting thing... | Coming soon... |
| 2:30 - 2:50 PM | Safety First: Creating a Sense of Psychological Safety in Your Team with Jenny Shirey | Panel Discussion | |
| 3:00 - 3:45 PM | Semantics, structure, and sense-making of information spaces for people with disabilities with Francis Storr | Talking about IA: A practical way to talk about, compare, and evaluate any kind of information architecture with Austin Govella | Panel Discussion |
| 3:45 - 4:15 PM | Afternoon Coffee and Book Signing Location: Room TBC |
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| 3:45 - 4:15 PM | 1-on-1 Career Advice Sessions Location: Room TBC |
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| 4:15 - 5:00 PM | Become a Synthesis Savant – From Messy Data to Meaningful Insights with Sarah Flamion and Kellie Carter | The Truth Can’t Save Us: Ethical IA through Epistemic Nihilism with Kat King | Structured ArgumeIntation: An old, new method of design and resource planning with Dorian Taylor |
| 5:15 - 6:00 PM | Day 2 Closing Keynote by Regine GilbertLocation: Room TBC |
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| 6:30 - 8:00 PM | Dinner Location and Details TBC |
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| 8:00 PM - 1:00 AM | Karaoke Location: Room TBC |
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| 8:00 PM - 1:00 AM | Game Night Location: Room TBC |
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Saturday, April 18th 2020
| Track | Sensing the world | Making Sense | Impact and provocation |
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| 7:00 - 8:00 AM | Polar Bear Yoga Location: Room Room TBC |
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| 8:00 - 9:45 AM | Registration Opens | ||
| 7:30 AM | Registration Opens | ||
| 9:45 - 10:30 AM | Day 3 Opening Main Stage TalkLocation: Room TBC |
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| 10:30 - 11:00 AM | Morning Coffee & Book Signing | ||
| 10:30 - 11:00 AM | 1-on-1 Career Advice Sessions Location: Room TBC |
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| 11:00 - 11:20 AM | Tax and taxonomy: the music of accounting with Morgen Kimbrell | Spelling UX D-E-I: Strategies and Ideas for Centering Your UX Practice around Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion with Ashley Brewer | Modeling as Organizational Awareness with Dan Cooney |
| 11:30 - 12:15 PM | Sensemaking as a Learned Experience with Duane Degler | Building conversational interfaces for e-commerce with Pooja Dhaka | A Sensible Framework for Information Architecture Projects with Bob Royce |
| 12:15 - 1:45 PM | Lunch Location: TBC |
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| 1:15 - 1:45 AM | 1-on-1 Career Advice Sessions Location: Room TBC |
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| 1:45 - 2:30 PM | Designing to Change User Behavior in Digital and Real Places: Three Case Studies with Michael Haggerty-Villa | Metadata strategy for beautiful nerds with Anna McHugh | Making New Mistakes: what bad things happen when we get things right with Dana Chisnell |
| 2:30 - 3:00 PM | Afternoon Coffee & Book Signing | ||
| 2:30 - 3:00 PM | 1-on-1 Career Advice Sessions Location: Room TBC |
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| 3:00 - 3:20 PM | Facilitating Structures: Toward a New Way of Working and Learning Together with Stephen Anderson | Personalisation Foundations with Jeff Eaton | Goldilocks and the Enterprise í_íñ Chasing value in complex systems with Alberta Soranzo |
| 3:35 - 4:05 PM | Lightning talks |
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| 4:05 - 4:50 PM | Closing Keynote by Christian CrumlishLocation: Room TBC |
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| 4:50 - 5:35 PM | Closing & 5-minute Madness Location: Room Room TBC |
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