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IAC20 Schedule

The IAC is where information architects, UX designers, content strategists, and other design practitioners meet.

  • Keynotes and sessions will begin on 4/20 and run each weekday through May 8
  • Many of our traditional social events will also take place digitally
  • Most workshops will be held after the main conference, during the week of 5/11
TimeTalkEvent Type

Wednesday, April 15, 2020

11am - 12:30pm EDTInformation Architecture Essentials with Jorge ArangoWorkshop

Thursday, April 16, 2020

11am - 12:30pm EDTInformation Architecture Essentials with Jorge ArangoWorkshop

Friday, April 17, 2020

11am - 12:30pm EDTInformation Architecture Essentials with Jorge ArangoWorkshop

Monday, April 20, 2020

Prerecorded

Keynote with Abby Covert

Keynote
PrerecordedSafety First: Creating a Sense of Psychological Safety in Your Team with Jenny ShireyTalk
PrerecordedMaking sense of tabular information on mobile: The re-emergence of the Rolodex in digital form with Scott Ryan-HartTalk
PrerecordedMeta Information Architecture: Let's See How Far Down the Rabbit Hole We Can Go with Ren PopeTalk
4pm EDTLive AMA with today's speakers on SlackAMA

Tuesday, April 21, 2020

PrerecordedGentle Change with Peter MorvilleTalk
PrerecordedSense-Making and Wayfinding: Improving Team Outcomes with Matt ArnoldTalk
PrerecordedHow to Use Content Modeling to Define Your Taxonomy Framework with Theresa PutkeyTalk
3-3:45pm EDTGroup MentoringCareer Center
4pm EDTLive AMA with today's speakers on SlackAMA

Wednesday, April 22, 2020

PrerecordedStay out of the dark side: How to use cognitive biases for good your design and user research with Jennifer BlatzTalk
PrerecordedHow Visualizations Improved AI Algorithm Performance with Jordan ThayerTalk
4pm EDTLive AMA with today's speakers on SlackAMA
5-6:30pm EDTPoster SessionPoster Session

Thursday, April 23, 2020

PrerecordedSemiotics of Knowledge Graphs: Fixing Meaning in an Unfixed World with Bob KasenchakTalk
PrerecordedLessons from a Jazz Musician: Improvising in User Research with Rachel PriceTalk
PrerecordedPlay in Difficult Times: Fostering Conversation on Challenging Topics Through Collaborative Gameplay with Danielle ChenTalk
4pm EDTLive AMA with today's speakers on SlackAMA
7:30-10:30pm EDTGame NightSocial

Friday, April 24, 2020

Prerecorded

Keynote with Cassini Nazir

Talk
PrerecordedMaking sense with business object models with Daniel O'Neil and Bob RoyceTalk
PrerecordedInformation Architecture for Headless Structured Content with Michael AndrewsTalk
PrerecordedEmpathy-Based Personas: Shifting Your Organization’s Thinking from Inside-Out to Outside-In with Esteban Gonzalez and Hilary MarshTalk
4pm EDTLive AMA with today's speakers on SlackAMA

Monday, April 27, 2020

Prerecorded

Keynote by Mutale Nkonde

Keynote
PrerecordedAdventures in User-centric Taxonomy: Getting Job Seeker Feedback into the Back-end with Alexandra Teodorescu, Amanda Krauss, and Leora YardenayTalk
PrerecordedDefining the "UX Critique" How to Level up your team by creating a culture of feedback with Nicole CoumesTalk
4pm EDTLive AMA with today's speakers on SlackAMA

Tuesday, April 28, 2020

PrerecordedSensemaking as a Learned Experience with Duane DeglerTalk
3-3:45pm EDTGroup MentoringCareer Center
4pm EDTLive AMA with today's speakers on SlackAMA

Wednesday, April 29, 2020

PrerecordedFight Bias with Content Strategy with David Dylan ThomasTalk
PrerecordedPersonalization Foundations with Jeff EatonTalk
PrerecordedMaking sense of time, or: chronemics as a resource for multimodal design with Lara Portmann7-minute lightning talk
PrerecordedThe Ethics Canvas: A tool for practicing ethics in information architecture with Sarah Rice7-minute lightning talk
2pm EDTLive Panel with Christina Wodtke and Jesse James GarrettPanel
4pm EDTLive AMA with today's speakers on SlackAMA

Thursday, April 30, 2020

PrerecordedSpelling UX D-E-I: Strategies and Ideas for Centering Your UX Practice around Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion with Ashley BrewerTalk
PrerecordedAll Sorts Great and Small: Reflections on Card Sorts, Citizen Engagement, and Creating Better Federal Government Website IAs with Jeff PassTalk
4pm EDTLive AMA with today's speakers on SlackAMA

Friday, May 1, 2020

Prerecorded

Keynote with Regine Gilbert

Keynote
PrerecordedWhat if Normal is the problem? with Alastair SomervilleTalk
PrerecordedDesigning Interaction Manners with Andrew GrimesTalk
PrerecordedDesign Script - An Un-Classical Framework for Product Design with Rohan VijayTalk
4pm EDTLive AMA with today's speakers on SlackAMA

Saturday, May 2, 2020

10-10:45am EDTGroup MentoringCareer Center
4pm EDTVideo Q&A Weekend ReduxQ&A

Monday, May 4, 2020

PrerecordedBecome a Synthesis Savant – From Messy Data to Meaningful Insights with Sarah Flamion and Kellie CarterTalk
4pm EDTLive AMA with today's speakers on SlackAMA

Tuesday, May 5, 2020

PrerecordedFacilitating Structures: Toward a New Way of Working and Learning Together with Stephen AndersonTalk
PrerecordedThe Truth Can't Save Us: Ethical IA through Epistemic Nihilism with Kat KingTalk
PrerecordedLanguage for Transition with Koen PetersTalk
3-3:45pm EDTGroup MentoringCareer Center
4pm EDTLive AMA with today's speakers on SlackAMA

Wednesday, May 6, 2020

PrerecordedTime Structures for Emerging Design Scenarios with Marsha HavertyTalk
PrerecordedThe Design Leader's Secret Guide to Measuring UX with Jared SpoolTalk
PrerecordedStructured Argumentation: An old, new method of design and resource planning with Dorian TaylorTalk
4pm EDTLive AMA with today's speakers on SlackAMA

Thursday, May 7, 2020

Prerecorded

Keynote with Amy Ross

Keynote
PrerecordedTalking about IA: A practical way to talk about, compare, and evaluate any kind of information architecture with Austin GovellaTalk
PrerecordedWho's not in the room? Build better products by engaging hard-to-reach users with Ariba JahanTalk
PrerecordedBeing is Believing: Engaging a sense of space with 360-video storytelling with Ravi JainTalk
PrerecordedMetadata strategy for beautiful nerds with Anna McHughTalk
PrerecordedA Sensible Framework for Information Architecture Projects with Bob RoyceTalk
4pm EDT Live AMA with Ravi Jain, Anna McHugh and Bob Royce on SlackAMA
5pm EDT Live AMA with Ariba Jahan and Austin Govella SlackAMA
8pm EDT Game NightGame Night

Friday, May 8, 2020

Prerecorded

Closing Keynote with Christian Crumlish

Keynote
PrerecordedDesigning to Change User Behavior in Digital and Real Places: Three Case Studies with Michael Haggerty-VillaTalk
PrerecordedA hard look in the mirror: language, structure, and privilege in IA with Lara PortmannTalk
PrerecordedMaking New Mistakes: what bad things happen when we get things right with Dana ChisnellTalk
4pm EDTLive AMA with today's speakers on SlackAMA

Saturday, May 9, 2020

10-10:45am EDTGroup MentoringCareer Center
4pm EDTVideo Q&A Weekend ReduxQ&A

Monday, May 11, 2020

PrerecordedMaking sense of complex information to build skills and invent the future with Ana Luisa PonsirenasTalk
PrerecordedA Different Animal: .govs and Designing for a Dead Horse with Jaime Shycko and Javier RuizTalk

Workshops

Tuesday, May 12, 2020

4pm - 8pm EDTDesigning and Building Taxonomies for Enterprise with Gary CarlsonWorkshop
4pm - 8pm EDTPractical Large Scale Content Analysis with Andy FitzgeraldWorkshop
11am - 3pm EDTThe Art and Science of Workshop Design with Bern Irizarry and Stacy Merrill SurlaWorkshop
4pm - 8pm EDTPlanning for Strategic Design with Peter MorvilleWorkshop

Wednesday, May 13, 2020

4pm - 8pm EDTApplied Designing Connected Content with Carrie HaneWorkshop
11am - 3pm EDTIntroduction to Knowledge Graphs with Ahren Lehnert and Bob KasenchakWorkshop
10am - 5:30pm EDTValues 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 SurlaWorkshop

Thursday, May 14, 2020

11am - 3pm EDTLow-Code Data Analysis with Jupyter Notebooks with Kellie Carter and Boxu FanWorkshop
4pm - 8pm EDT Collaborative Improv: Building Better Products Through Improvisation with David FarkasWorkshop
4pm - 8pm EDTEffective Human-Machine Conversation with Phillip HunterWorkshop
4pm - 8pm EDTSense-Making, Search Systems, & Site Optimization with Shari ThurowWorkshop

Note: Workshops are an additional cost. You don’t have to book main conference registration and workshops together. 

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