I Love the IA Summit

evoljennifer — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 07:42:21 +0000

And I do and so do many others. It’s about community in the end. People that help you do a better job in the world. This video was put together to encourage others to take their snapshots of why they love the IA Summit. Karl Fast asked everyone to do this at the end of the event this year.

We put this together to encourage and inspire. Let the energy from the event live on and keep helping us to do good work.

Women Speakers & Leaders at User Experience Event

evoljennifer — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 02:39:07 +0000

The annual Information Architecture Summit is an event that would make Ada Lovelace proud. The practice of Information Architecture and building User Experiences draws on the two worlds from which she came, art and science.

At the end of the conference, Karl Fast-who was there to represent his wife, Samantha Bailey, got up and spoke. She was at home with their newborn and her mother-in-law.

Karl called for everyone to share the reasons they love the IA Summit on Flickr. I imagined that if Ada was there, this is what her sign would have said.

The event occurred this past weekend and it was a very impressive line up of speakers in the technology field. Over 30 different women presented or spoke or participated in pre-conference sessions as leaders.

They were all amazing and it was very encouraging to see so many solid thoughts, themes and work being done by women in my field.

At the end of the event, any participant can come up to the microphone and comment on what they thought of the event. One person that chose to get up and share their thoughts pointed out the fact that the conference had so many women speakers and that he was very happy to see it. The conference chairs were also women. Samantha Bailey was the chair and I (Jennifer Bohmbach) was the co-chair of the event. We were very proud that our balance of speakers was so strong.

This is the list of women speakers from the event, the full list is on the site:

Karen McGrane
Adelle Frank
Chiara Fox
Margaret Hanley
Lisa Colvin
Cindy Chastain
Donna Spencer
Melissa Matross
Dorothy May
Christina Wodtke
Dorelle Rabinowitz
Sanda Katiala
Samantha Starmer
Adrienne Massanari
Naomi Norman
Colleen Jones
Rachel Lovinger
Kristina Halvorson
Erin Malone
Olga Howard
Kate Rutter
Sarah Rice
Whitney Hess
Jenn Anderson
Livia Labate
Christine Boese
Kyle Soucy
Lorelei Brown
Hallie Wilfert
Lori Baker
Indi Young
Leah Buley
Melissa Rach
Keri Majala
Stephanie Hale
Erin Scime
Laura Melcher
Margot Bloomstein
Elena Melendy
Margret Hanley
Rachel Lovinger
Shelly Bowen
Crystal Kubitsky

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I Love the IA Summit

Women Speakers & Leaders at User Experience Event