IA Summit - Ed's Schedule

Theresa Simek, Jason Richardson and I are going to the IA Summit this week. This conference is held over the weekend, with pre conference activities occuring on Thursday and Friday. You can learn more about the event at the IA Summit site. We are going to be posting live summaries of the sessions as we attend them.
In addition to two pre conference sessions, I will be attending:

Saturday, April 12, 2008
8:30 - 10:00AM Keynote: Journey to the Center of Design

- Jared Spool

10:30 - 11:15AM IAs, language and lego - an introduction to semantic analysis

- Matthew Hodgson

10:30 - 11:15AM Integrating web analytics into information architecture and user-ce...

- Hallie Wilfert

10:30 - 11:15AM Tagging: five emerging trends

- Gene Smith

10:30 - 11:15AM Exploratory search and folksonomy: Exploration paths in social tagg...

- Tingting Jiang

11:30 - 12:15PM Do real people really use tag clouds?: Research to help distinguish...

- Garrick Schmitt

11:30 - 12:15PM Core and paths: Putting a creative findability framework to use

- Are Halland, Olly Wright, Are Halland

11:30 - 12:15PM Web use recorders: The future of web analytics?

- Dustin Chambers

1:45 - 2:30PM Effective IA for enterprise portals: The building blocks design fra...
1:45 - 2:30PM Designing your reputation system in 15 easy steps

- Bryce Glass

1:45 - 2:30PM A management fable: The little UX that went a long way

- Dan Willis

2:45 - 3:30PM How to be a user experience team of one

- Leah Buley

2:45 - 3:30PM Content page design best practices

- Luke Wroblewski

2:45 - 4:45PM Peer coaching - support for UX managers

- Margaret Hanley

2:45 - 5:45PM IA slam 20008: The workshop with a winner

- Chris Chandler

4:00 - 4:45PM Blind ambition: How the accessibility movement overlooks sensory ex...

- Claude Steinberg

4:00 - 4:45PM The business of experience: The experience impact framework

- Jess McMullin

5:00 - 5:45PM Inspiration from the edge: New patterns for interface design

- Stephen Anderson

5:00 - 5:45PM The long wow

- Brandon Schauer

Sunday, April 13, 2008
9:00 - 9:45AM Extending the gaming experience to conventional UIs

- John Ferrara

9:00 - 9:45AM Taxonomy is user experience

- Dave Cooksey

9:00 - 9:45AM Placemaking and information architecture

- Dennis Schleicher Jr

10:15 - 11:00AM Hotel Yeoville

- jason hobbs

10:15 - 11:00AM Testing for advertising effectiveness

- Margaret Hanley

10:15 - 11:00AM Building trust through restricted information: A case study of the ...

- Melissa (Goldstein) Matross

10:15 - 11:00AM Content page design best practices (repeat)

- Luke Wroblewski

11:15 - 12:00PM Search patterns

- Peter Morville

11:15 - 12:00PM Reducing global attitudes into a single online solution

- Michelle Watson

11:15 - 12:00PM The information architect and the fighter pilot

- Matthew Milan

1:30 - 3:00PM Developing junior programmes in UX teams

- Henning Fischer, Karen Loasby, Henning Fischer

1:30 - 3:00PM Practical prototyping

- Anders Ramsay, Todd Zaki Warfel, Anders Ramsay

1:30 - 3:00PM Presence, identity, and attention in social web architecture

- Andrew Hinton, Christian Crumlish, Andrew Hinton, Gene Smith

3:30 - 4:15PM Code blue: How service design can revolutionize patient care in hos...
3:30 - 4:15PM What do innovative intranets look like?

- James Robertson

3:30 - 5:15PM Creating career paths for UX professionals

- Kristen Johansen

3:30 - 4:15PM Making the leap from practitioner to manager: Confidence building s...

- Samantha Bailey

4:30 - 5:15PM E-service: What we can learn from the customer-service gurus

4:30 - 5:15PM The impact of social ethics on IA and interactive design - experien...

- Ingrid Tofte

4:30 - 5:15PM Web site maturity cycles

- Vera Rhoads

Monday, April 14, 2008
8:30 - 9:15AM Why markets love the internet (or, the 1 hour MBA for user experien... - Alex Kirtland
8:30 - 9:15AM Embodying IA: Incorporating library 2.0 and experience integration ... - Michael Magoolaghan
8:30 - 9:15AM Storytelling - a compelling design tool - Dorelle Rabinowitz
8:30 - 9:15AM Search patterns (repeat) - Peter Morville
9:30 - 10:15AM Audiences & artifacts - Nathan Curtis
9:30 - 11:30AM How to set up and run participatory design sessions, analyze data a... - Greg Nudelman
9:30 - 10:15AM Designing for the social: Avoiding anti-social networks - Miles Rochford
9:30 - 10:15AM Putting multiple user centered design techniques in combination to ...
10:45 - 11:30AM Data driven design research personas - Todd Zaki Warfel
10:45 - 11:30AM Becoming an ia/ux coach: Proving success one champion at a time - Yvonne Shek
10:45 - 11:30AM Good news on your cell phone: Optimizing the user experience for di... - Joergen Dalen
11:45 - 12:30PM Ia for tiny stuff: Exploring widgets and gadgets - Martin Belam
11:45 - 12:30PM Information horizons: Proposing an alternate approach to assessing ... - Anindita Paul
11:45 - 12:30PM Designing with patterns in the real world: Lessons from Yahoo! And ... - Austin Govella, Christian Crumlish, Austin Govella
2:00 - 2:45PM Checking the feel of your UI with an interaction audit - Peter Stahl
2:00 - 2:45PM What are your users really thinking? An objective way to uncover th... - David Robins

As you can see, this is a busy set of days for us.