Keynote

Farai will talk about how you and your manager can use your One-on-One meetings (1:1s) to manage change and unlock meaningful career progress.

We are IAs and We Matter We live in the information age. Never before has the need for design, construction, and organization of information been greater. Never before has humankind needed people who think deeply about planning and designing information to make sense to other people. That's where you come in. Whether you have the title "information architect” or not, you are responsible for creating systems of organization, classification, labeling,…

Connecting the Past to our Future: The Call for Resilience and Inclusivity in our Information Structures As the oldest federal cultural institution in the United States, which catalogs and manages over 179 petabytes of our cultural data, it is essential that the Library of Congress adapt, innovate, and continuously improve. Much resilience is needed to preserve the past and meet the needs of the present, let alone plan for the…

Wendy will speak about how we continue to evolve IA as the entire design in tech industry matures and recenter around inclusive, people-first methods...

Design leaders and their teams often struggle with integrating Design and Data Science for better artificial intelligence product development. In this talk, Ovetta Sampson, vice-president of Machine Learning Experience Design at Capital One, demystifies the Machine Learning and AI development process. She will also show how Design easily and optimally integrates with this process to yield more human AI product development as well as addresses or prevents non-optimal outcomes like…