“Our job is to get our users up the curve as quickly as possible.” (Kathy Sierra – Future of Web Apps London 2008)

“Edwin Aoki is a Technology Fellow at AOL. Holding a joint degree in Computer Science and Sociology from Harvard College, Edwin believes strongly in the ability of technology to bring people closer together and to make our lives easier. He’s worked at Apple Computer, GO Corporation, and Intuit before joining Netscape Communications in 1996. At Netscape, Edwin worked on the Netscape Communicator browser, enterprise products, and web applications prior to the company’s acquisition by AOL. Currently, Edwin oversees architecture and technology strategy for many of AOL’s consumer facing desktop, web, and mobile products. A published author and California native, Edwin is based out of AOL’s Silicon Valley office. When he’s not at work, Edwin is involved in wildlife conservation and likes to spend time with big cats.” (Future of Web Apps London 2008)

“Suw Charman-Anderson is a social software expert specialising in the use of blogs wikis, and other Web 2.0 tools in business. She’s worked with British and American companies – in the tech, pharma, travel, media, financial and public relations sectors – to help them understand how social software can be used both behind the firewall and for customer communications. Suw worked as a freelance web designer and project manager from 1998 to 2002, designing websites and intranet sites for companies such as PricewaterhouseCoopers and Hutchison3G (now 3). She then ran her own internet start-up for two years before turning her passion for blogging into a successful consultancy.” (Future of Web Apps London 2008)

Various speakers from the idea 2008 conference (Oct. 7-8, Chicago USA) have uploaded their presentations on Slideshare.

Judit Pónya writes – “Conference handouts, presentations on SlideShare (tag: euroia2008), photos on Flickr (tag: euroia2008).
Find the people you met and join the European Information Architects Network at Xing (https://www.xing.com/net/euroianetwork) and LinkedIn (http://www.linkedin.com/groups?about=&gid=929067).
And see you next year in Copenhagen!” (EuroIA Blog)

“Over the weekend I’ve been in Amsterdam attending the 2008 European Information Architecture Summit. It was held at the Tuschinski Theatre, which was a simply amazing venue. (…) I got to see a great selection of presentations.” (Martin Belam – currybetdot)

“I wanted to make a big shout out to all the folks who came to my talk at the EuroIA Conference today. Wow! Thanks! I had no idea so many people were interested in content analysis.” (Chiara Fox)

Various speakers from the EuroIA 2008 summit have uploaded their presentations on Slideshare.

“InfoCamp is a hybrid unconference that blends the egalitarian, community-driven basis of barcamps and other unconferences and with some more conventional conference structures. Students, professionals, entrepreneurs and hobbyists from the user-centered information community are all encouraged to come together to join in the conversation, adding to the community of ideas and building connections to people who share a similar passion for information and how to best utilize and design information for the people that use it. InfoCamp is fueled by the serendipity that happens when connecting open, like-minded people with new ideas.” (September 27-28, 2008 – Youngstown Cultural Arts Center, Seattle WA, USA)

“I did a fable in 1975, called The Architecture of Information, was running the AIA national conference with 5,000 people. Even I could not do the keynote at a conference I was chairing, that was too over the top, so decided not to have a keynote. Wrote a keynote fable, a historic fable of the future. One of my favorite books. The main character was the commisioner of Curiosity and Imaginition. First thing he does is change the laws of copyright to the right to copy, he flipped everything in society and flipped it. The only thing you could copyright was bad ideas. One new department, Waiting to be Wanted. Dedicated to old buildings and old people. Life didn’t come from chloroform. They found life coming from hot sulfur water, or cold methane gas.” (Matt Mullenweg – EG Blog)

EXTRA – “We are pleased to announce The 3rd Information Design International Conference, which, is a joint event with The 2nd Brazilian Conference of Information Design and The 3rd Information Design Student Conference [CONGIC]. Consecutively to these events, we are also glad to announce The IVLA 2007 – The International Visual Literacy Association Annual Conference, which is in its 39th edition. For the first time the IVLA Conference takes place in Latin America, and it is promoted in association to SBDI- The Brazilian Society of Information Design. As to encourage participation in the Information Design and the IVLA events, joint subscriptions will receive fee discounts!”

“This year’s theme focused on Patterns and how they serve as ‘blueprints for usability’. Conference co-chair, Carol Smith articulated the pertinence of this theme. “As usability professionals, our ability to observe users and to discover their patterns of interaction is integral to our work. By defining these patterns, we can then leverage that knowledge to create usable interfaces that are familiar and useful to our users.” – (Joi L. Roberts – UXmatters)

“An unparalleled experience of two busy days of educational, inspirational presentations and bustling social events awaits the intrepid @media attendee.” (@media07) – courtesy of robertjanverkade

“I had a wonderful time at CHI despite the limited amount of content for designers and my being unable to get into the courses I’d wanted to attend. I particularly regret missing Kim Goodwin’s course, ‘Where Usability Meets Desirability: Visual Design with Personas and Goals.’ I heard it was great. To enable CHI to reach its full potential in coming years, I hope its organizers take an iterative approach to designing the conference and solve the problems that exist.” (Pabini Gabriel-Petit – UXmatters)

“Soft-spoken Whitney was setting up the program for the Institute’s annual Strategy Conference he chairs, which took place this past May, and which has become the key English-speaking forum for discussing and investigating the new relationships emerging between design and business. ‘This conference seems to get bigger and better every year’, claimed Doblin figurehead (and Institute affiliate) Larry Keeley in his summing up of the first day. And not without merit as, a poll of the 300-strong audience revealed, one quarter of that audience had attended the previous year.” (Nico Macdonald – Core77) – courtesy of markvanderbeeken

“The UIE Web App Summit took place at the Monterey Marriott, in Monterey, California, U.S.A., on January 21st through 23rd, 2007. It drew a capacity crowd of 218 people, who had traveled from far and wide to attend the event. While most attendees came from the United States and Canada, nine came from the UK and Europe and four hailed from Oceania and Asia.” (Pabini Gabriel-Petit – UXmatters)