I returned from the IA Summit a couple of weeks ago. It was an honor to serve as the on-the-ground co-chair at the event this year. As an organizer, I got to see the event from a different perspective than ever before. I really enjoyed being part of a team that brought the event to the community. It was the 10th anniversary of the event, which was an important milestone for the community. In my opinion, Samantha Bailey, did an amazing job of bringing the content together for an incredibly energizing event.
One thing that is very exciting to me is that I will get a chance to do it again this year. I will be the lead co-chair with Livia Labate serving as my co-chair. Livia and I have a ton of feedback to process and I see my biggest challenge as appropriately responding to the needs of this community. People are excited and want to have really valuable conversations. I see it as our challenge to do everything we can to enable, encourage, and create spaces for this to happen. I got some great ideas this year and hope to work with the advisory team I have put together to curate and facilitate a wonderful and enriching event for the community.
The highlights this year:
-The keynote speaker, Michael Wesch, anthropology professor from Kansas State University and creator of the YouTube sensation (it did better than Superbowl ads!) The Machine is Us(ing) Us.
His work is related to user experience design because he’s spending time observing. His work informs user experience. It was really thrilling to have him set the tone for the event.
-The amazing content from people in the community. Others have expounded on the sessions, so I’m including links below to summaries:
The IAS2009 twitter account has tried to repost as many as have come across the stream
Yahoo Search results for Blog Posts about IA Summit 2009
-Boxes and Arrows recording as much of it as possible and more coming…
- IA Summit Keynote
- IA Summit Day One
- Day Two and Three are coming….I will update this when the content is posted.
-The chance to help the community.
-The closing plenary from Jesse James Garrett: IA Summit Closing Plenary
Thanks everyone for the trust and the opportunity to make a difference for the community, as I’ve said before it was an honor and a privilege.
Please contact me if you want to help next year when we gather in Phoenix (April 7-8 pre-cons, April 9-11 conference). If you have an idea for something you’d like to do, let me know I’m open to ideas, it’s a community event.
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