About the 2006 Summit
- Previous IA Summits
- 2006 Organizing Committee
- Key Topics
Previous IA Summits
- Crossing Boundaries (2005) – Energizing connections across geographic, academic, and cross-disciplinary boundaries in order to drive best practices and innovation in all of our IA endeavors.
- Breaking New Ground (2004) – Strengthening the foundation of the discipline and widening the scope of IA practice.
- Making Connections (2003) – Finding ways to make connections between fields within the umbrella of information architecture.
- Refining our craft (2002) – Meeting, discussing and sharing with other IAs our experiences.
- Practicing Information Architecture (2001) – A conference devoted to how we actually do IA.
- Defining Information Architecture (2000) – What is IA?
2006 Organizing Committee
- Samantha Bailey, Thomson West/Westlaw, Minnesota, USA.
- email samantha (at) baileysorts (dot) com
- Peter Boersma, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
- email peter (at) peterboersma (dot) com
- Dave Ballantine, Lux, Seattle, Washington.
- email Daveb (at) Lux-Seattle (dot) com
- Lynn Boyden, Symantec Corporation, Los Angeles, USA.
- email lynnboyden (at) gmail (dot) com
- Richard Dalton, Vanguard, Pennsylvania, USA.
- email richard_dalton (at) vanguard (dot) com
- Andrew Dillon, School of Information, University of Texas, Texas, USA.
- email adillon (at) ischool (dot) utexas (dot) edu
- Chris Farnum, Enlighten, Michigan, USA.
- email crfarnum (at) yahoo (dot) com
- Karl Fast, University of Western Ontario, Faculty of Information & Media Studies, Ontario, Canada.
- email karl.fast (at) pobox (dot) com
- David Heller, Brooklyn, New York, USA.
- email dave (at) synapticburn (dot) com
- Nancy Kaplan, School of Information Arts and Technologies, University of Baltimore, Baltimore, MD, USA.
- email nkaplan (at) ubalt (dot) edu
- Livia Labate, Comcast High-Speed Internet.
- email liv (at) livlab (dot) com
- Donna Maurer, Maadmob Interaction Design, Murrumbateman, Australia.
- email donna (at) maadmob (dot) net
- Peter Morville, Semantic Studios, Michigan, USA.
- email morville (at) semanticstudios (dot) com
- Louis Rosenfeld, Louis Rosenfeld LLC, Michigan, USA.
- email lou (at) louisrosenfeld (dot) com
- Dennis Schleicher, Concurrent Technologies Corporation, Pennsylvania, USA.
- email dennisschleicher (at) oddpost (dot) com
- Samantha Starmer, Microsoft Corporation, Seattle, Washington, USA.
- email samanst (at) microsoft (dot) com
- Stacy Merrill Surla, MITRE Corp., Maryland, USA.
- email stacy (at) greenfx (dot) net
- Todd Warfel, Messagefirst, Pennsylvania, USA.
- email todd (at) toddwarfel (dot) com
- Thomas Vander Wal, Bethesda, MD.
- email thomas (at) vanderwal (dot) net
- Javier Velasco, Center for Web Research, Santiago, Chile.
- email javier (at) mantruc (dot) com
Key Topics Survey
A short survey was conducted earlier this year to guide the organizing committee in planning IA Summit 2006. Read the Key Topics Survey Results.