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IA Conference workshops will be taking place on April 14th, 15th, and the afternoon of April 16.

The main conference will take place beginning on April 16 through the 18th.

Registration Table Opens

April 16, 2026

8:00 AM

Paz Perez

IAC26 Opening Keynote

April 16, 2026

9:00 AM to 10:00 AM

Morning Break

April 16, 2026

10:00 AM to 10:30 AM

From Nice-to-Have to Must-Have: Building the Executive Case for Information Architecture

April 16, 2026

10:30 AM to 11:00 AM

Jessica DuVerneay

Taylor Loredo-Payberah

Crash Course or Crash Out: A First Timer’s Taxonomy Tale

April 16, 2026

11:00 AM to 11:30 AM

Michelle Polyak

Wrangling Medicare’s Complexity: How IA Brought Clarity to AARP’s Medicare Experience

April 16, 2026

11:30 AM to 12:00 PM

Lunch Break

April 16, 2026

12:00 PM to 1:30 PM

Shiny Tools Are Making Us Forget the Basics

April 16, 2026

1:30 PM to 1:45 PM

Jordan Kolasinski

Architecting Access: Designing a Clear, Scalable, and Secure Access System for Netflix Studio

April 16, 2026

1:45 PM to 2:00 PM

IA for Evil

April 16, 2026

2:00 PM to 2:15 PM

Navigating Complexity: Practical Tools for Collaborative Clarity

April 16, 2026

2:30 PM to 3:00 PM

Robin Silberling

Is the Global Menu Disappearing? Framing Navigation Design in the Age of AI

April 16, 2026

3:00 PM to 3:30 PM

Afternoon Break

April 16, 2026

3:30 PM to 4:00 PM

Acquiring Global Customers One Signup Step at a Time: How I Use IA to Drive Conversion

April 16, 2026

4:00 PM to 4:30 PM

Dan Brown

Product Blueprints: Documenting the IA of Products

April 16, 2026

4:30 PM to 5:00 PM