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Home / 2020 / Backstage Blog / Meet the team – Alberta Soranzo, Curation director

Meet the team – Alberta Soranzo, Curation director

Posted on 2019-08-04 03:36
Backstage Blog

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. My team specializes in large-scale design-driven transformation projects —we connect value for the business to what matters to customers and colleagues, by operating at systemic as well as service surface levels.

What’s been your favourite moment as an IA (so far)?

I think every engagement has a favorite moment, and that generally corresponds to when you can see the proverbial lightbulb go off in your interlocutors’ heads, and you know they understand the merit of what you’re proposing. In the purest IA sense, I think the most memorable episode took place a few years back, when a group of very traditional banking executives at a global firm understood the benefits of structured content and taxonomy and became their fiercest evangelist within the organization.

What made you decide to volunteer for IAC?

As a past co-chair of both IA Summit and EuroIA, I know first-hand what goes into organizing an event of this magnitude, and how crucial the role of volunteers is to success. I owe this community a lot, both personally and professionally, so not volunteering really isn’t an option for me. It’s a real privilege to be a part of the event and helping shape the program.

What does the theme mean to you – what are you hoping to see, hear, sense or share in New Orleans?

I love this year’s theme — perception and interpretation of reality are the basis of experience, and play a fundamental role in the outcomes design enables. More than anything, I am hoping to hear, and learn from, voices – old and new – exploring the different ways in which we can help shape the world by making sense of the known and embracing what we cannot yet know.

New Orleans is the perfect setting for this – a city of possibilities, where one can never be sure of the adventure that awaits next, and where anything can and will be experienced in a multitude of ways. I’m looking forward to all of this.

Where can people find you?

I travel often, so if I’m not in London (and you should ping me), there’s a reasonably high probability that I may be in a place not far from you sometime soon. Other than that, I tweet at @albertatrebla, am pretty active on Linkedin and mostly admire people’s pics on Instagram at @atrebla.


alberta soranzo

Alberta is a senior design and transformation executive, with a deep specialism in service design, systems thinking, agile and customer experience. She focuses on transforming organisations to support design and delivery of future-friendly, end-to-end service experiences that are insight-led and unlock value for customers and businesses.

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