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.

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.

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.

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.

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.”