We’re pleased to announce our first keynote speaker for IAC20. Our theme in New Orleans is making sense and we’re building a program of talented, creative, brilliant people to share their insights and experience. We wanted our keynotes to be a combination of established as well as emerging voices who have something to say on […]
Backstage blog
Last chance to submit
2020 will be a big year for The IA Conference and we’d love to see you there. Over the last 6 weeks we’ve received lots of submissions to present and share ideas at the conference. But we’re extending the call for submissions a little longer, until MIDNIGHT EST on 10/21. We’d love to attract even […]
Meet the team – Mykle Brossette, Local liaison & Diversity, Inclusion and safety
I am an Independent UX researcher and consultant based in New Orleans. My recent projects have been working on Expert Reviews and Usability Testing for a museum, research center and publisher. Along with working on a retail catalog import project for a local start-up company in New Orleans. What’s been your favourite moment as an […]
Update from the co-chairs – IAI and IAC
We were sad to see the announcement today that the IA Institute will be dissolved. We each have stories of how the institute either helped introduce us to information architecture in the first place or helped us to develop our expertise and grow. But as the current co-chairs of the IA Conference, we wanted to […]
Meet the team – Alberta Soranzo, Curation director
Here we introduce the Curation director for the IA Conference 2020, Alberta Soranzo. As a former co-chair of IA Summit and EuroIA she knows the joy as well as the challenges of helping to organise a successful conference. Who are you? I work in London as design director at the largest British financial services group. […]
Meet the co-chairs: Dan Ramsden
Next in our ‘meet the team’ series of posts we introduce one of our co-chairs – Dan Ramsden. We’ve asked the same few questions to all the team working on the conference, starting with… Where do you work and what do you do? I’m Creative director for two teams at the BBC. I lead the […]
Meet the co-chairs – Sandra Lloyd
In our second post introducing the members of the team organising IA Conference 2020 we move on to Sandra Lloyd, another of the co-chairs. Who are you? I am an information architect who also does UX design and service design. I’m currently at Concur, but have worked previously for Fjord, Amazon, Tribal DDB, and House […]
Meet the co-chairs: Noreen Whysel
First up in our ‘meet the team’ series of posts we introduce one of our co-chairs – Noreen Whysel. We’ve asked the same few questions to all the team working on the conference, starting with… Where do you work and what do you do? I am an independent IA/UX researcher and entrepreneur. I have been […]
2020 Theme – Sense and sense-making
We’ve just announced our theme for the conference. We expect that lots of conferences will have a 2020 Vision. But 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 […]
Dates and venue announced for IA Conference 2020
We’re excited to announce the dates and venue for the next IA Conference. The conference will take place at the Sheraton New Orleans Hotel between 14th – 18th April 2020. Between 16th and 18th of April 2020 we’ll be enjoying the usual three days of talks, corridor conversations and everything else that comes with the […]