“On June 16, 2006, Interaction Frontiers was held at the Bicocca University, in Milano, Italy.” – Speakers included Dirk Knemeyer, Matteo Penzo, Fabio Sergio, Christian Peter, Leandro Agrò, Dario Nardi, Andrea Benassi, Francesco Di Nocera, Pabini Gabriel-Petit, Antonio Rizzo, and Nathan Shedroff. (Laura Caprio – UXmatters)

“This course was packed full of useful content.” (Pabini Gabriel-Petit – UXmatters)

“(…) the usability profession is young, and it’s going to get really good, really quickly.” (Robert Barlow-Busch – UXmatters)

“This was an excellently organized and successful first European IA summit. It gave Europe a platform to show its unique accomplishments, raised awareness of how much IA is going on in Europe, and ultimately put European IA on the IA map without being a subset of the North America summit. (…) there was a definite need to recognize the European identity framed by what Europe can potentially do better than, say, the U.S., such as with mobile technology or with multilingual and multicultural issues. This awareness of a divide was perhaps the single negative aspect one could attribute to the summit, and it was also one of the most revealing. Europe needn’t live in the shadow of North American summits, but will Europeans harness their unique competencies?” (Deborah Gover – Boxes and Arrows)

Program available – “The 2006 Information Architecture (IA) Summit is the premier gathering place for information architects. Everyone who touches on IA is welcome to share and learn. Last year’s IA Summit attracted over 400 attendees, including beginners, experienced IAs, and people in a range of related fields.” (ASIS&T 2006 Information Architecture Summit)

Presentations, photos, links, notes, and general impressions – (Design Engaged 2005)

A project of the Usability Professionals’ Association: Promoting usability concepts and techniques worldwide – “World Usability Day promotes the value of usability engineering, user-centered design,and every user’s responsibility to ask for things that work better. The Usabililty Professionals’ Association is doing that by encouraging, organizing, and sponsoring 36 hours of activities at the local level around the globe, all occurring on November 3, 2005.” (About WUD)

July 23, 2005 – including Ted Nelson, Mobile and Wireless, and Jeremy Zawodny – “We are planning on making both video and audio recordings available of as many sessions as possible.” (Open Tech 2005) – courtesy of currybetdotnet

October 15-16, 2005 (Brussels, Belgium EU) “‘Building our community’ is the theme of this inaugural European Summit. No, we are not talking about the EU. We are talking about our professional community – information architects and other people involved in structuring information for electronic media. (…) sponsored by the American Society for Information Science and Technology.” (ASIS&T Euro IA)

“The first European Information Architecture (IA) Summit’s focus is on building the IA community in Europe. The objective of the event is to bring together a number of disciplines and practitioner communities by providing a stimulating environment for debate and an opportunity for establishing cooperation. This community is not just limited to language or region, but all encompasses our specialization’s like designing for mobile devices, and multilingual solutions. We are calling for papers that reflect those communities of practice, language and location.” (ASIS&T) – Highly recommended.

“Lots of people have taken notes on speeches. Here are some of them.” (reboot7.0)

Presentation slides available – “(…) an international executive forum addressing how businesses can use design to explore emerging opportunities, solve complex problems, and achieve lasting strategic advantage.” (Institute of Design Strategy Conference) – courtesy of victor lombardi

“The phrase most on the rise is ‘design thinking’. Any number of presenters mentioned it, usually in reference to how business needs more ‘design thinking’ in order to stay competitive in this modern world (in the face of globalization, commodification, complexity, etc.)” (Peterme)

Saturday – Monday: “So were boundaries crossed, at the Summit, as the theme promised? I would say that the many boundaries of IA were discovered; it will be up to next year’s planning committee to decide if they should build walls on them, or erase the lines and let the next generation continue to move the edges of IA farther and farther out.” (Boxes and Arrows)

“The goal for this event is to foster an awareness of research and innovation in social technologies, and create new lines of communication between research and industry. We have over 80 people from industry labs, new technology companies, and academic research coming this year. The symposium agenda is comprised of a mix of invited speakers and panelists, research presentations, discussion sessions, and demos, to encourage ongoing conversations about new directions in social technologies.” (Microsoft Research) – courtesy of brightlycoloredfood

Interface and interaction: Social software – Thursday, 9 December 2004 (Seminar Series) – courtesy of heyblog

“Proposals are being solicited for presentations, panels, posters, and pre-conference workshops for the 2005 Information Architecture (IA) Summit. We encourage submissions from practitioners, academics, students, developers, business analysts, managers, and others who are IAs, work with IAs, or deal with information architecture.” (ASIS&T 2005 Information Architecture Summit) – courtesy of brett lider

(Amsterdam – June 22-23, 2004) “This two-day presentation covers the process of user experience design from gathering initial business requirements through developing functional specifications.” (Adaptive Path)

“The aim of the seminar, which will probably be one of the first information architecture seminars in the UK, is to exchange ideas, visions, and practical experience about information architecture, and explore the potential roles of AIFIA and CILIP in developing a greater awareness of information architecture principles and good practice in the UK.” (March 3rd, 2004 London UK – UKOLUG)

“This full-day workshop (sponsored by AIfIA) focuses on the link between information architecture and content management. Presentations by the industry’s leading experts and relevant case studies will provide attendees with well-grounded knowledge and numerous opportunities to participate. Special emphasis will be placed on the integration of IA knowledge and deliverables into the CM process.” (IA Summit 2004) – courtesy of louis rosenfeld