Schedule

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.

Johanna Ostrich

Theresa Wang

Making Taxes Less Taxing: Lessons Learned from IRS Direct File

April 18, 2026

9:15 AM to 9:45 AM

Rachel Price

Sea Change: Charting a Course Through Murky Work

April 18, 2026

10:00 AM to 10:30 AM

Morning Break

April 18, 2026

10:30 AM to 11:00 AM

Grace Lau

Building Governance and Findability: Blue Shield of California’s Navigation Redesign

April 18, 2026

11:00 AM to 11:30 AM

Pavel Samsonov

The Process of Least Resistance

April 18, 2026

11:30 AM to 12:00 PM

Lunch Break

April 18, 2026

12:00 PM to 1:30 PM

Jared Spool

Experience Rot: The Organic Decay Into Complexity

April 18, 2026

1:30 PM to 2:00 PM

Dorinne Hammons

If You Use a Folder Structure, You’ll Never Get This Right

April 18, 2026

2:00 PM to 2:30 PM

Joe Elmendorf

Shitty Maps: The Trojan Horse for Real-Time Sensemaking

April 18, 2026

2:45 PM to 3:15 PM

Laura Nash

Escape Room Rules: Physical Design Principles for Digital Facilitation

April 18, 2026

3:15 PM to 3:45 PM

Afternoon Break

April 18, 2026

3:30 PM to 4:00 PM

Meg Lewis

IAC26 Closing Keynote

April 18, 2026

4:00 PM to 5:00 PM