IA Summit - 23-27 March, 2006 - Vancouver, Canada

IA Summit 2006 --  "Learning, Doing, Selling"
Vancouver, BC, Canada, March 23-27, 2006

The program is up and registration is open at
http://www.iasummit.org/2006/index.htm

Opening plenary: Dr. David Weinberger, author of Small Pieces Loosely
Joined and
co-author of The Cluetrain Manifesto, as this year's keynote speaker.

Closing Plenary: Peter Merholz, a regular speaker at Web design and information
architecture conferences, including the IA Summit, South by Southwest
(SXSW), and
the UI Conference. He is also writer whose work has appeared in
several industry
publications, including Digital Web magazine and Boxes and Arrows. Peter is an
active member of the American Society of Information Science and Technology and
ACM's SIG-CHI. And, of course, is IAI's current President.

And 54 additional superb sessions in between, ranging from practice to research.

Pre Conference Sessions:

Thursday, March 23
-  "My Surgeon is a Butcher" - Frames and Conceptual Blending for IAs (1/2
day, Thursday morning).  Sarah A. Rice, Claiborne Rice

-  Writing Business Requirements for Information Architects (1/2 day, Thursday
morning). Karyn Zuidinga, Sinisa Nojkovic

- Interaction Design (IxD) Symposium (Full day Thursday).  David Heller, Lada
Gorlenko, Luke Wroblewski, Lisa deBettencourt

- Enhancing the Strategic Influence of IAs: Understanding and Responding to
Complex Business Problems (Full day Thursday). Jared M. Spool

- An Introduction to Rapid Design Labs; a Fast, Collaborative Approach
to Information
Architecture and Interface Design (1/2 day Thursday afternoon). Dave Robertson

Friday, March 24
- From Research to Design: A Hands-On How-To  (1/2 day Friday morning). Donna
Maurer

- Strategic Intranet Planning (1/2 day Friday morning). James Robertson

- Next Horizons for Information Architecture (IA Institute)  (Full day
Friday).  Dan
Brown, Harry Max, Peter Merholz

- Crafting Understanding-based Structures: Creating Usable Content 
(Full day Friday).
Thom Haller

 - Creating Conceptual Comics: Storytelling and Techniques  (Full day
Friday).  Kevin
Cheng, Jane Jao, Mark Wehner

- Information Architecture & Findability  (Full day Friday).  Peter Morville

- Paper Prototyping 2  (1/2 day Friday afternoon).  Todd Warfel

- Introduction to Information Architecture  (1/2 day Friday
afternoon). Donna Maurer


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