Information Architecture Summit
The Information Architecture Summit is the premier gathering place for information architects and other user experience professionals. The conference has grown from a special interest group's efforts to define an emerging field to a rich and expanding community of practice shaping and informing multiple disciplines.
The next IA Summit is our 10th anniversary. The 2009 summit will be Friday, March 20, to Sunday, March 22, at the Peabody Memphis hotel in Memphis, TN, USA. Pre-conference workshops will be held March 18-19. To celebrate both where we've been and our excitement about the future as our field continues to mature, this year's theme will be "Expanding Our Horizons."
ASIS&T's IA Summits have been a great series of conferences full of unique perspectives, interesting speakers and excellent opportunities for community building and networking. Presentations and conference proceedings for each of the previous 9 IA Summits are available:
- 2008: Experiencing Information (April 10-14, 2008, Miami, Florida, USA)
- 2007: Enriching Information Architecture (March 22-26, 2007, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA)
- 2006: Learning, Doing, Selling (March 23-27, 2006, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada)
- 2005: Crossing Boundaries (March 3-7, 2005, Montreal, Quebec, Canada)
- 2004: Breaking New Ground (February 27-29, 2004, Austin, Texas, USA)
- 2003: Making Connections (March 21-23, 2003, Portland, Oregon, USA)
- 2002: Refining Our Craft (March 15-17, 2002, Baltimore, Maryland, USA)
- 2001: Practicing Information Architecture (February 2-4, 2001, San Francisco, California, USA)
- 2000: Defining Information Architecture (April 7-9, 2000, Boston, Massachusetts, USA)
European Information Architecture Summit
ASIS&T also sponsors EuroIA, the premier European event on Information Architecture.
- 2008: Redrawing the Map (September 26-27, 2008, Amsterdam, Netherlands)
- 2007: Translating Information Architecture (September 21-22, 2007, Barcelona, Spain)
- 2006: Building Our Practice (September 30 - October 1, 2006, Berlin, Germany)
- 2005: Building Our Community (October 15-16, 2005, Brussels, Belgium)
Trip reports and recaps
A small sample of summaries of past IA Summits.
- Podcasts from Boxes and Arrows (2008)
- Pabini Gabriel-Petit, UX Matters (2007)
- Jennifer Bohmbach (2007)
- Boxes and Arrows staff (2006)
- Abe Crystal (2006)
- Laurie Lamar, UX Matters (2006)
- Boxes and Arrows staff (2005)
- Boxes and Arrows staff (2004)
- Boxes and Arrows staff (2003)
- Amy Lee (2003)
- Stacy Surla, DCIA (2003)
- Boxes and Arrows staff (2002)
- Lou Rosenfeld (2001)
- Peter Morville (2000)
- See also: Flickr photos tagged "iasummit"
Selected presentations
Just a few examples of the presentations over the years.
- 2008: Dave Cooksey, Taxonomy is user experience and Andrew Hinton, Linkosophy (closing plenary)
- 2007: Jess McMullin, Project touchstones and Alex Wright, The web that wasn't
- 2006: Donna Maurer, Lakoff's 'Women, Fire & Dangerous Things' - What every IA should know (PDF) and Peter Merholz's closing plenary which includes an historical recap of the IA Summit
- 2005: Social classification and folksonomies panel and Implementing a Pattern Library in the Real World: A Yahoo! Case Study
- 2004: Dan Willis, Creating No-duh Deliverables (PDF)
- 2003: Thomas Vander Wal, Model of Attraction (PDF)
- 2002: Chiara Fox and Peter Merholz, PeopleSoft.com Case Study (PPT)
- 2001: Adam Polansky, A Contextual Approach to defining the Process
- 2000: Seth Gordon
- See also: SlideShare presentations tagged "iasummit"