#IAC20

It’s ironic that in this age of social distancing the IA community has come together like never before to make IAC20 a success. We’ve drafted in more volunteers to help us plan the logistics and format for IAC20 – our first digital information architecture conference. We’re hearing that while some of you have lots of […]

Kyle has been working as an independent UX Research Consultant for the last 15 years. She’s based in New Hampshire and is originally from Philadelphia. She specializes in user research and usability testing. She’s the Founder and President of NH UXPA and served as the Chair of PhillyCHI. She’s also been serving as the IAC […]

Update 14 March We want to express our sympathy and support for everyone who has faced disruption or difficulties due to COVID-19.  We can definitely empathise. Over the last few weeks we’ve been planning for how to respond. Our priority has always been to safeguard the health of our community and act responsibly. But we […]

Adam is a long time UXer based in Dallas. He’s been involved with the conference since it began as the IA Summit. He coordinates the speaker support program matching speakers with coaches and running the speaker’s studio where speakers can prepare before they take the stage. Here are a few more facts about Adam: What’s […]

While the IA Conference has only been around for two years, it draws on 19 years of rich tradition from the IA Summit. One of the great traditions is the volunteer work from the IA community to plan and staff the conference. While this gives the conference an accessible and homegrown feel, it is also […]

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.

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.

To close the second day of the main program for IAC20 we’ll welcome Reginé Gilbert.

Reginé is a user experience designer, educator, and international public speaker with over 10 years of experience working in the technology arena. She has a strong belief in making the world a more accessible place—one that starts and ends with the user. 

Mutale’s areas of interest and expertise closely align with our theme of making-sense. And there’s a connection to the mischief and serious damage that can result from intentional and unintentional information architecture – which we also want to highlight at IAC 20.

As a Clinical Assistant Professor at the University of Texas at Dallas, Cassini currently teaches interaction design, web design, and design principles. He also serves as Director of Design and Research for the ArtSciLab

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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. […]

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 […]