Untangle complexity at its root. Learn a powerful, object-oriented framework for exposing the hidden structure of your systems. You’ll leave with tools to ask better questions, align teams faster, and bring clarity to even the messiest domains.

Facilitation is a critical skill for strategists, architects, and any other designers who want to move things forward. Much more than simply running meetings, facilitation involves designing activities and organizing interactions that encourage—and perhaps even ensure—needful outcomes for critical conversations.

The tools and talk around AI are changing rapidly. This practical workshop for IA/UX practitioners takes a broad view – history and now – to increase your knowledge and confidence as members of a team creating human-centered, responsible AI systems. Everyone can gain something. You do not need to be working on AI projects yet or have AI experience to participate.

Join us to explore how information architecture can evolve to meet the needs of an increasingly complex world. Building on Andrea Resmini’s 2025 keynote, this roundtable examines IA’s role in making digital and AI-driven experiences more human-centered, addressing global social and environmental challenges, and strengthening IA’s academic, business, and community impact. Through lightning talks, hands-on exercises, and collaborative artifact creation, participants will shape practical approaches to advance the discipline.

Take your IA practice beyond navigation and wireframes and discover how information architecture drives broad-scale alignment and delivers lasting value. In Intro to IA Strategy, you’ll learn how to shape conceptual clarity and communicate IA’s impact in complex shared information environments. This hands-on workshop equips mid-career and senior professionals to promote IA as a strategic pillar in both traditional and Agent- and LLM-driven ecosystems.

“What do you do here?” If you’re in UX, this question gets harder to answer as AI generates more believable designs. In this workshop, Kim Mats Mats and Torrey Podmajersky will help you tell a compelling story about business impacts your work can make—and when and why you might use AI tools to help you.

This interactive workshop provides practical tactics for designing, building, maintaining, and governing taxonomies and ontologies. Based on hard-won lessons learned from work with everything from large fortune-50 enterprises to small ecommerce sites.

This workshop teaches practical ways to use LLMs to organize and manage large websites. We’ll explore techniques and learn best practices for effective IA prompting.

This workshop shows how information architecture remains vital in product design, even when structure is hidden beneath interfaces, data models, and complex system rules. Participants will learn to apply IA skills through four perspectives—Abstraction, Lifecycle, Distinction, and Collaboration—using activities to explore how products mediate information, set expectations, and support coordinated work. Attendees will leave with practical tools and a clearer understanding of adapting content-focused IA to product challenges.

This workshop introduces information architects to knowledge graphs, explaining what they are, how they relate to taxonomies and ontologies, and why they matter to IA practice. Through lectures, discussion, and activities, participants explore foundational principles, technologies, use cases, and the role of KGs in analytics, discovery, and AI.

What do you do when you feel overwhelmed by the world but still have to work? This workshop presents the science of how our bodies react to being overwhelmed and the mindset shifts, intrapersonal skills, and strategies we can practice to reclaim our feelings and feel grounded even during times of difficulty.

Sensemaking may be timeless, but our messes are undeniably modern.

In this half-day workshop, Abby Covert invites you to slow down, zoom out, and strengthen the foundational skills that make clarity possible, no matter how complex the context.