Join us for a morning break featuring coffee and tea plus savory morning snacks—the perfect time to socialize and network.
The registration desk, sponsor tables, jobs board, and portfolio review booth will all be open during the break.
ASIS&T and the IA Summit are proud to host the first-ever all-authors book signing event at the IA Summit with a special Meet & Greet with Marcia Bates.t
Attendees are invited to meet the Summit's impressive lineup of authors and have them sign their books in a casual, low-key environment.
If you are interested in ordering books for the book signing, Please pre-order your books from the ASIS&T bookstore by March 14th. If you want to have your books sent to the venue, please select the shipping option “Pick up in Vancouver (Free)” in the checkout process, Your books will be waiting for you at the book signing event at the Summit.
Only a limited number of copies will be available for purchase on-site. So pre-Order to avoid disappointment.
Following Friday afternoon's book signing, attendees are invited to browse the Poster Night exhibits and chat with their creators during a happy hour high atop the Hyatt Regency.
Posters are exhibits that visually communicate a complex idea or concept. Exhibits often include a graphic poster describing an idea, technique, case study, or research. The presenters' imagination are the only limits.
Happy Hour & Poster Night sponsored by Amazon Web Services.
If you like playing music and meeting new people, then the IA Summit Acoustic Jam is just for you.
Bring your acoustic instrument of choice to Vancouver, or just sing along! Want to lead a song or two? Be prepared to teach other chords and lyrics. Don't worry if you haven't tried something like this before—everyone’s welcome, including non-musicians. We're all in this together!
* This session is limited to 50 participants. *
Please join Polar Bear author, Jorge Arango, for an early morning yoga session designed to focus your mind and spirit. The session will be led by a local certified yoga instructor.
Participants will receive complimentary yoga mats. And a light breakfast will be served.
Sponsored by Futuredraft.
Join us for a morning break featuring coffee and tea plus savory morning snacks—the perfect time to socialize and network.
The registration desk, sponsor tables, jobs board, and portfolio review booth will all be open during the break.
Artificial Intelligence is accelerating at an unprecedented speed, and as such is poised to play an incredibly greater role in our lives over the next few years. Deep neural networks currently achieve state-of-the-art performance on a very wide range of tasks, from speech recognition and machine translation to image detection and visual understanding. With these advances in the background, we are now able to pay more attention to the difficult questions of creating more socially and psychologically sophisticated machines. In this talk, I discuss some of the relevant issues and introduce some of our recent work focused at creating ‘social’ machines.
Ensuring diverse audiences feel included in our organizations, professional communities—even through use of our product—is both good design and good business. But for many practitioners, launching initiatives that authentically serve diverse audiences are often met with many roadblocks and have few rules to guide their efforts.
In this moderated discussion, we want to empower participants to begin—or continue—to create products and programs that place spirit of inclusion at its core. We've asked leaders with diverse perspectives from start-up, consulting, public sector, and non-profit spaces to share their stories on what Designing for Diversity means to them and how they've gone about creating cultures of inclusion in their organizations.
Our world is made of information that competes for our attention. What is needed? What is not? We cannot interact with our everyday life in the same way we interact with a desktop computer. The terms Calm Computing and Calm Technology were coined in 1995 by PARC Researchers Mark Weiser and John Seely Brown in reaction to the increasing complexities that information technologies were creating. Calm technology describes a state of technological maturity where a user’s primary task is not computing, but being human. The idea behind Calm Technology is to have smarter people, not things. Technology shouldn’t require all of our attention, just some of it, and only when necessary.
How can our devices take advantage of location, proximity and haptics to help improve our lives instead of get in the way? How can designers can make apps “ambient” while respecting privacy and security? This talk will cover how to use principles of Calm Technology to design the next generation of connected devices. We’ll look at notification styles, compressing information into other senses, and designing for the least amount of cognitive overhead.
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Join us for a morning break featuring coffee and tea plus savory morning snacks—the perfect time to socialize and network.
The registration desk, sponsor tables, jobs board, and portfolio review booth will all be open during the break.
Come and participate in a planning session for the 2018 IA Summit. Share your ideas to make the Summit easier to produce and to set it apart from other conferences.
All are welcome.