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

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7:30am

Registration Opens Regency Foyer

8:30am

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

9:00am

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

Lunch for Full Day Workshops Turner

1:30pm

Interface Patterns for Filtering Information ($350) StanleyKarl Fast

7:30am

Registration Opens Regency Foyer

8:30am

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

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

Lunch for Full Day Workshops Turner

1:30pm

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

First-timers Orientation English BayBibiana Nunes

6:00pm

Opening Reception Stanley

8:00pm

First-timers Dinners Vancouver RestaurantsBibiana Nunes

7:30am

Registration Opens Regency Foyer

8:45am

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

9:00am

Opening Keynote: Ranch Stories Regency C/DAlan Cooper

9:45am

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

10:15am

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

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

Lunch Plaza and Georgia Ballrooms

1:15pm

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

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

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

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

3:30pm

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

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

5:15pm

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

Group Mentoring English BayKyle Soucy

6:00pm

Happy Hour & Poster Night 34th FloorAbby Covert

9:00pm

Acoustic Jam Regency EAndrea Resmini

7:00am

Polar Bear Fun Run 5K Meet in Main LobbyPeter Morville

7:15am

Polar Bear Yoga Georgia AFILLINGJorge Arango

8:00am

Registration Opens Regency Foyer

9:00am

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

9:45am

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

10:15am

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

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

Lunch Plaza and Georgia Ballrooms

12:15pm

Group Mentoring Georgia AKyle Soucy

1:00pm

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

1:15pm

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

ASIS&T Presents... Indigitization: Supporting the Digitization, Preservation, and Management of Indigenous Community Knowledge Regency DLisa Nathan • Alissa Cherry • Sarah Dupont • 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

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

3:30pm

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

Keynote: Designing Calm Technology Regency C/DAmber Case

5:30pm

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

6:00pm

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

8:00pm

Game Night Georgia ADavid Fiorito

8:30pm

Karaoke Plaza BallroomsKevin Hoffman

8:30am

Registration Opens Regency Foyer

9:00am

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

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

10:15am

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

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

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

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

1:15pm

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

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

Closing Plenary Regency C/DDan Klyn

4:00pm

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