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Pre-conference Workshops: Wednesday, March 22 & Thursday, March 23, 2017
Main Conference: Friday, March 24 - Sunday, March 26, 2017

7:30am PDT

Registration Opens Regency Foyer

8:30am PDT

The Visual Display of Information ($350) CypressStephen Anderson Collaborative Information Architecture ($350) StanleyAbby Covert

9:00am PDT

Introduction to Information Architecture ($650) TennysonDonna Spencer Mapping the Domain: The 5th Academics’ and Practitioners’ Roundtable ($200) Plaza AKeith Instone • Bern Irizarry • Andrea Resmini • Sarah Rice • Stacy Surla Deep Text: Using Text Analytics to Create New Ways to Structure and Access Information ($650) DoverTom Reamy Do No Harm: People First Design for Humane Products ($650) Room 3

12:30pm PDT

Lunch for Full Day Workshops Turner

1:30pm PDT

Interface Patterns for Filtering Information ($350) StanleyKarl Fast

7:30am PDT

Registration Opens Regency Foyer

8:30am PDT

From Strategy to Structure (and Back Again) ($350) Plaza CJorge Arango Designing and Building Taxonomies ($350) Plaza BGary Carlson • Rachel Price Mapping Experiences: From Insight to Action ($350) Plaza AJim Kalbach

9:00am PDT

Human-Centered Design and IA (Benefiting the Information Architecture Institute) ($650) BrightonTerence Fenn • Jason Hobbs • Dan Klyn Design Teams Are a Design Exercise: How to Build, Inspire, and Keep Design Teams (Happy) ($650) KensingtonMartina Hodges-Schell • Alberta Soranzo Participatory Service Design: Stop Designing for People and Start Designing with Them ($650) Room 5 Rapid Cross-Channel Prototyping ($650) Lord ByronAndrea Resmini

12:30pm PDT

Lunch for Full Day Workshops Turner

1:30pm PDT

Planning for Strategic Design (SOLD OUT) Plaza APeter Morville • Kit Seeborg More Than Words: Enterprise-level Taxonomy and Content Architecture ($350) Plaza BStephanie Lemieux Web Analytics for IA and UX Professionals ($350) Plaza CMatthew Edgar Making Your Work More Human: An Empathetic Research Workshop ($350) WindsorKrispian Emert

5:30pm PDT

First-timers Orientation English BayBibiana Nunes

6:00pm PDT

Opening Reception Stanley

8:00pm PDT

First-timers Dinners Vancouver RestaurantsBibiana Nunes

7:30am PDT

Registration Opens Regency Foyer

8:45am PDT

Welcome to the 2017 IA Summit Regency C/DDave Cooksey • Susan Mercer • Marianne Sweeny

9:00am PDT

Opening Keynote: Ranch Stories Regency C/DAlan Cooper

9:45am PDT

Résumé & Portfolio Review Booth (Sign up required) BalmoralKyle Soucy Morning Coffee Regency Foyer

10:15am PDT

What's The Point of IA? Regency CDan Ramsden AI for IA's: Machine Learning Demystified Regency DCarol Smith The State of UX: Industry Trends & Survey Results Regency E/FLyle Kantrovich

11:15am PDT

Intentionally Intensional Information Architecture Regency CDorian Taylor Intelligent Guides: Architecting Systems for Context-driven Interactions Regency DTim Caynes The Future of Voice Design: How You Can Get Started Regency E/FBrooke Hawkins

12:00pm PDT

Lunch Plaza and Georgia Ballrooms

1:15pm PDT

Designing for the 100% Regency CFJ van Wingerde Teachers vs Robots: Information Architecture and Assistive Artificial Intelligence Regency DMichael McLeod Scales and Practices of Usability Testing in the Newsroom Regency E/FClarisa Diaz

1:45pm PDT

Language Arts for the Lizard Brain: Vocabulary Design for the Predictably Irrational Regency CAndy Fitzgerald Make UX for Public Good: Designing for Citizens Regency E/FSheba Najmi How We Built a Bot to Answer All My Stupid Questions Regency DJaime Woo

2:15pm PDT

Privacy by Default: A Concept for Privacy in a World With The Internet of Things Regency DLutz Schmitt Taming the Enterprise: Redesigning the Culture of Enterprise Software Regency CKaren VanHouten How Do You Make the Good Great? A Case Study on Redesigning the University of Michigan Medical School Website Regency E/FKelly Davenport • Jackie Wolf

3:00pm PDT

Résumé & Portfolio Review Booth (Sign up required) BalmoralKyle Soucy Afternoon Tea Regency Foyer

3:30pm PDT

How the World Health Organization Transformed a 20,000 Term Folksonomy into a Tightly Controlled Vocabulary Regency CAdam Ungstad The Futures We Want: Architecting Reality Regency DKaleem Khan The Embedded Researcher: Integrating Research into the Design Process Regency E/FAmy Silvers

4:30pm PDT

Keynote: From Personal to Person-able Regency C/DSusan Kare

5:15pm PDT

ASIS&T Presents... IA Summit Book Signing (featuring Marcia Bates) Regency A/BStephen Anderson • Jorge Arango • Marcia Bates • Amber Case • Elizabeth Churchill • Alan Cooper • Abby Covert • Andrew Hinton • Martina Hodges-Schell • Jim Kalbach • Jon Kolko • Peter Morville • Whitney Quesenbery • Tom Reamy • Andrea Resmini • Thomas Wendt

5:45pm PDT

Group Mentoring English BayKyle Soucy

6:00pm PDT

Happy Hour & Poster Night 34th FloorAbby Covert

9:00pm PDT

Acoustic Jam Regency EAndrea Resmini

7:00am PDT

Polar Bear Fun Run 5K Meet in Main LobbyPeter Morville

7:15am PDT

Polar Bear YogaFILLING Georgia AJorge Arango

8:00am PDT

Registration Opens Regency Foyer

9:00am PDT

Keynote: People in an AI Mindset Regency C/DElizabeth Churchill

9:45am PDT

Résumé & Portfolio Review Booth (Sign up required) BalmoralKyle Soucy Morning Coffee Regency Foyer

10:15am PDT

Designing for Values-based Information Seeking Regency CVivian Bliss • Joseph Busch • Susan Golden Decentering Design Regency DThomas Wendt Getting From Barrier-free to Delightful Regency E/FWhitney Quesenbery

11:15am PDT

A Taxonomist, a Software Engineer, and a UX Researcher Walk Into a Bar: Bridging AI and User Experience Methods at Etsy Regency CJenny Benevento • Giovanni Fernandez-Kincade • Jill Fruchter ASIS&T Presents... Can We Create ‘Social’ Machines? Regency DMuhammad Abdul-Mageed Ethics & AI: Designing for Health Regency E/FAmy Chenault • Astrid Chow • Carol Smith • Joel Wu

12:00pm PDT

Lunch Plaza and Georgia Ballrooms

12:15pm PDT

Group Mentoring Georgia AKyle Soucy

1:00pm PDT

Résumé & Portfolio Review Booth (Sign up required) BalmoralKyle Soucy

1:15pm PDT

Structured Data For The Digital Community Regency CJacques Bouchard How to Design a Government Website for Kids Regency E/FEmileigh Barnes Project Do Good: co-designing with community to improve health Regency DOlga Elizarova

2:15pm PDT

ASIS&T Presents... Indigitization: Supporting the Digitization, Preservation, and Management of Indigenous Community Knowledge Regency DLisa Nathan • Sarah Dupont (she/her) • Alissa Cherry • Gerry Lawson Unintuitive and Insecure: Fixing the Failures of Authentication UX Regency E/FJared M. Spool Taxonomic Irony or: What I Think about When I Think about Taxonomies (Including a Meta-Taxonomy) Regency CBob Kasenchak

3:00pm PDT

Résumé & Portfolio Review Booth (Sign up required) BalmoralKyle Soucy Afternoon Tea Regency Foyer

3:30pm PDT

Diversity & Inclusion in Information: A Working Wikipedia Session Regency E/FNoreen Whysel Designing for Diversity Panel Regency C/DMichael Antonio Hardy • Marla Hunter • Adrienne Lai • Elena Yugai

4:30pm PDT

Keynote: Designing Calm Technology Regency C/DAmber Case

5:30pm PDT

Résumé & Portfolio Review Booth (Sign up required) BalmoralKyle Soucy

6:00pm PDT

Happy Hour (hosted by the Information Architecture Institute) Grain Tasting Bar (Lobby Level)

8:00pm PDT

Game Night Georgia ADavid Fiorito

8:30pm PDT

Karaoke Plaza BallroomsKevin Hoffman

8:30am PDT

Registration Opens Regency Foyer

9:00am PDT

Acting Naturally with Information Regency CMarsha Haverty How Cultural Relativism Influences Design Decisions Regency DRamya Mahalingam Creative Clarity: Finding Focus in the Midst of Ambiguity Regency E/FJon Kolko

9:45am PDT

Résumé & Portfolio Review Booth (Sign up required) BalmoralKyle Soucy Morning Coffee Regency Foyer

10:15am PDT

Presence for Information Architects Regency CZachary Frazier “Was Nate Silver wrong? Click here for why!” The Crisis of Modeling in an Era of Clickbait, Truthiness, and Fake Content Regency E/FBram Wessel Sustainable UX Regency DJames Christie

11:10am PDT

Architecture for Aliens: Using IA for Smarter Things Regency CAndrew Hinton Facilitating holistic product decisions with information architecture Regency DJohanna Kollmann Troubleshooting Your Busted Design Process Regency E/FDan Willis

11:40am PDT

All Roads Lead to the Bathroom: Why Thinking of Visitors as People Makes Museums (and everywhere else) Better Regency CElissa Frankle Culture as Context: Why and How to Design for Multilingual Users Regency DCristóbal Almanza Final Destination: Creating a Better Afterlife for Our Digital Treasures Regency E/FMelissa Martin

12:00pm PDT

IA Wikipedia Edit-a-thon BalmoralNoreen Whysel Lunch Plaza and Georgia Ballrooms 2018 IA Summit Roundtable Regency A/BDave Cooksey • Stuart Maxwell

1:15pm PDT

Designing for Little Humans: Combining Play, Nature and Technology Regency E/FErin Chan • Nidhi Jalwal The Future of Voice UX and ArtificiaI Intelligence Regency DShyamala Prayaga Auto-Suggest: It’s Not Just for Search Engines Anymore. Creating a Knowledge Workflow for Query Writers at eBay Regency CDeb Seys

2:15pm PDT

Anticipating User Needs: Software for Humans Regency DSarah Auvil How Might We Design Human Centered Chatbots? Regency E/FJayneil Dalal I’m Sorry. I Can’t. Don’t Hate Me: The Post-It Breakup Regency CKyle Soucy

3:15pm PDT

Closing Plenary Regency C/DDan Klyn

4:00pm PDT

Summit Closing and 5-minute Madness Regency C/DDave Cooksey • Susan Mercer • Marianne Sweeny