IA Summit 2005—Main Conference Schedule

Friday, March 4
6:30 - 8:00 Welcome reception
Saturday, March 5
8:30 - 10:00 Opening plenary - B.J. Fogg
10:00 - 10:30 Morning break
10:30 - 11:15 Sorting Out Social Classification
Peter Merholz, Peter Morville, Thomas Vander Wal, Gene Smith
Information Architecture for Content Management
Ann Rockley
Thinking Navigation (or Navigation on Vanguard.com Pt.2)
David Fiorito
Faceted classification in the Government of Canada: Toward a Global Approach to Information Architecture
Yves Marleau, Inge Alberts
  Mini-break (11:15 - 11:30)
11:30 - 12:15 Web Content Management Marketplace, Circa 2005
Tony Byrne
The Confidence Game: The Influence of IA on Users' Confidence
Jared Spool
To Hold or to Access: Building IA of the Canadian Architecture Collections
Eun Park
12:15 - 1:45 Lunch
1:45 - 2:30 Putting Possibility Thinking Into Action
Thom Haller
Content Packaging and Metadata: A change in the approach to content production
John O'Donovan, Ben Lavender
Evangelism 101
Dan Willis
The Faceted Interface: PC Connection Case Study
Steve Mulder
  Mini-break (2:30 - 2:45)
2:45 - 3:30 Content Genres - The Hidden Workhorse of Information Architecture
Peter Merholz
"Is this chili spicy enough?" - cooking up effective shared references
Eric Reiss
Building on User Testing: The Softchoice.com Search
Joanna Briggs, Andre Gaulin
3:30 - 4:00 Afternoon Break
4:00 - 4:45 The 2005 Information Architecture Slam: The Second Annual "Workshop with a Winner"
Lynn Boyden, Chris Chandler, Matthew Fetchko, Eric Reiss
Design Patterns in Enterprise UI Architectures
Karl Mochel
IA for the Personal InfoCloud
Thomas Vander Wal
Internationalization "Birds of a Feather" Session
  Mini-break (4:45 - 5:00)
5:00 - 5:45 Interface Design for Database-Intensive Web Applications
Rick Omanson, Jessica Jackson
Information Objects
Richard Ziade
Faceted Browsing "Birds of a Feather" Session
5:45 - 7:45 Posters
Joan C. Bartlett, Jamshid Beheshti, Edward Bilodeau, France Bouthillier, Leanne Bowler, Dan Brown, Bryan P. Carson, Dana Chang, Charles Cole, Ashley Cook, Kimiz Dalkir, John R. Fisher, Mark Geljon, Laurie Gray, Are Halland, Thom Haller, Keith Instone, Marcy Jacobs, Tao Jin, Alex Kirtland, Angelo Kontarinis, Almar van der Krogt, Rahul M. Kulkarni, Joe Lamantia, Andrew Large, Maria Lee, Michael Lynch, Brian Manning, James Melzer, Mike Munnelly, Valerie Nesset, Dan Saffer, Svetlana Symonenko, Vinay Venkatraman, Jeff Volzer, Iromie Weeramantry, Seven Weintraub, Erica Wiseman, Alejandro Zamudio

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Sunday, March 6
8:30 - 9:15 The Process of Curriculum Development for Information Architecture
Thomas J. Froehlich, David Robins, Don Turnbull, Andrew Dillon, Nancy Kaplan, Peter Morville
A Foray across Boundaries: Applying IA to Business Strategy and Planning
Richard Dalton, Rob Weening
The Information Architecture of Things - Part I: What If a Button Really Is a Button?
Bill DeRouchey
Testing Translations: Content, Images, and Perception
Mark Nolan, Daniel Ofei
  Mini-break (9:15 - 9:30)
9:30 - 10:15 Change, influence and IA at the BBC
Margaret Hanley
The IA of Things, Part Two: Twenty Years of Lessons Learned
James Leftwich
Practical Global IA
Peter Van Dijck, Jorge Arango, Livia Labate
10:15 - 10:45 Morning Break
10:45 - 11:30 Rich Internet Applications
Dennis Schleicher, Jennifer King, Tara Diachenko, Pat Callow, Gene Smith, Livia Labate, Todd Warfel
Implementing a Pattern Library in the Real World: A Yahoo! Case Study
Erin Malone, Matt Leacock, Chanel Wheeler
IA and the Small Screen
Carolyn Watters, Bonnie MacKay
Select Country: The Art of the Global Gateway
John Yunker
  Mini-break (11:30 - 11:45)
11:45 - 12:30 Deconstructing Design - How did we get from there to here?
Donna Maurer
Information architecture for mobile devices and the mobile internet
Olly Wright
Creating the Experience: When Does Empowerment Become Oppression
Rosalie Ehrlich
12:30 - 2:00 Lunch
2:00 - 2:45 Leading a team of IAs: The Manager's Perspective
Victor Lombardi, Liz Danzico, Neil Wehrle, Karen McGrane
Developing a Faceted Classification
Fred Leise, Sarah A. Rice, Amy Warner
The Practice of Enterprise IA: 10 Giant Mistakes I Made This Year
Lorelei Brown
Everyday life through the eyes of the IA
Budsapa M Keeratikrainont
  Mini-break (2:45 - 3:00)
3:00 - 3:45 One Size Does Not Fit All: a Story of Faceted Browse at Yahoo!
Wendy McKennon, Ben Baker
Enterprise Information Architecture Methodology
Louis Rosenfeld
Information Architecture and Alzheimer's Disease: Using IA to Improve the Lives of Those with Impaired Cognition
D. Grant Campbell, Jacquelyn Burkell
3:45 - 4:15 Afternoon Break
4:15 - 5:00 Traversing the Corporate Web: IA and Taxonomy at IBM
Sarah Goldman, Lisa Kamm, LaMana Donadelle, Eric Werner, Nancy Ordman
STUX - Integrating IA deliverables in a web application development methodology
Peter Boersma
The Role of Metaphor in Interaction Design
Dan Saffer
Business and Design "Birds of a Feather" Session
  Mini-break (5:00 - 5:15)
5:15 - 6:00 Designing the Enterprise Experience: How IA Advances UCD in Complex Environments
Uday Gajendar
Understanding Interaction Design
David Heller
Content Management "Birds of a Feather" Session

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Monday, March 7
8:30 - 9:15 Working with Content Management Systems: Process, Architecture and Design
Jeffrey Veen, Lane Becker
Information Visualization: the Information Architecture Connection
Sherry Koshman
Inspire Designers, Persuade Stakeholders: The Twin Goals of Customer Research
Rashmi Sinha
Persuasive Taxonomies that Promote Enterprise Goals
Katherine Bertolucci
  Mini-break (9:15 - 9:30)
9:30 - 10:15 New perspectives on interaction: What information architecture can learn from research on visual mathematical cognitive tools
Karl Fast
Experience Cards
CD Evans
Making the Most of Controlled Vocabularies in Search Interfaces
Chris Farnum
10:15 - 10:45 Morning Break
10:45 - 11:30 Talking the Talk: Helping IAs Speak the Language of Business
Scott Hirsch, Jim Leftwich, Harry Max, Jess McMullin, Dave Robertson
Beyond the Page
Gene Smith
Machines of loving grace: User experience for ubiquitous-computing environments
Mike Kuniavsky, Adam Greenfield
Applying IA to community: a case study on the next-generation Information Commons
Josh Knauer, Peter Lucas
  Mini-break (11:30 - 11:45)
11:45 - 12:30 Why Amazon Is Not Enough
Brett Lider
Design and Communication: Other ways of looking at IA
Austin Govella, Javier Velasco
The growing pains of a controlled vocabulary: an analysis of what happens when you let your users contribute to your CVs
Karen Loasby
12:30 - 2:00 Lunch
2:00 - 2:45 Closing keynote - Andrew Dillon
2:45 - 3:30 Five minute madness
3:30 Conference over

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updated: 02/11/05