Nashville, United States

When: February 9, 2013, 8:30 AM CT Where: Jean & Alexander Heard Library, Vanderbilt University
419 21st Ave South Nashville, TN 37240

Spend a day in lively discussion and learning around information architecture, the online world’s most crucial discipline. Nashville, TN has been chosen as one of 15 cities from around the globe as a 2013 center for World IA Day. Practitioners from many fields will share their ideas, best practices, and real-world implementations. A Day for IA’s format is a mix of presentations, break-out sessions, and informal networking.

A Day for IA is created by academics, practitioners, technologists and business leaders motivated to improve information architecture practice, to create community conversation, and promote growth of the field.

A Day for IA is a free event, thanks to the generosity of the Information Architecture Institute, Vanderbilt University, and Populr.

You must register to attend Nashville’s World IA Day event. Registration is free!

Schedule

8:30 – 9:00	Check-in, coffee & networking
9:00 – 9:15	Welcome
9:15 – 10:15	MOOCs, Learning & Mobility Pratim Sengupta, Rogers Hall & Doug Schmidt (Vanderbilt University)
10:30 – 11:15	How Information is Changing Healthcare J. Tod Fetherling (Stratasan), Laurie Novak (Center for Research & Information in Safety Systems, Vanderbilt University Medical Center)
11:30 – 12:15	Micro-publishing: Speed and Agility vs. Accuracy & Planning Nicholas Holland and Jared Scheel (Populr.me)
12:15 – 1:15	Lunch
1:15 – 2:00	SEO and IA: Understanding the Business Value of IA Shari Thurow(Omni Marketing Interactive)
2:15 – 3:00	Developing an IA/UX Community [Breakout session] Bart Renner (Palindrome Interactive Brand Narratives), Justin Davis (Madera Labs), Karen Wieckert (UX practitioner across industries, institutions, & innovations)	Information Architecture in the Biomedical Research Domain [Breakout session] Jay Cowan, Research Information Systems Engineer, Office of Research Informatics, Vanderbilt University
3:15 – 4:00	Developing Organizational Competency in UX Mark Ott (Rounding Well), Tyrale Bloomfield & Josh Goodwin (Healthcare Management Systems), Tom Noser (Healthstream)
4:00 – 5:00	Reception

 

Confirmed speakers/panelists include:

• Tyrale Bloomfield, User Experience Designer, Healthcare Management Systems, Inc.
• Jay Cowan, Research Information Systems Engineer, Vanderbilt University Office of Research Informatics.
• Justin Davis, Founder & CEO, Madera Labs, an interactive product design consultancy.
• J. Tod Fetherling, Founder & Chairman, Stratasan, providing advanced analytics of healthcare data.
• Josh Goodwin, User Experience Designer, Healthcare Management Systems, Inc.
• Rogers P. Hall, Professor and Chair, Dept. of Teaching & Learning, Peabody College, Vanderbilt University.
• Nicholas Holland, Founder, President & CEO of centresource, web interactive agency. Founder & CEO of Populr.me
• Tom Noser, Associate Vice-President, Healthstream.
  
• Laurie Lovett Novak, Asst. Professor of Biomedical Infomatics at the Center for Research & Information in Safety Systems, Vanderbilt University Medical Center. Novak researches the implementation of large-scale clinical information systems.
• Mark Ott, Rounding Well, patient relationship management
• Bart Renner, Palindrome Interactive Brand Narratives
• Josh Rothman, UEX Manager, Healthcare Management Systems, Inc.
• Jared Scheel, Co-founder & CEO of Populr.me
• Douglas Schmidt, Professor and Assoc. Chair of Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, Vanderbilt University.
• Pratim Sengupta, Asst. Professor, Dept. of Teaching & Learning, Peabody College, Vanderbilt University.
  
• Shari Thurow, pioneer in search-engine friendly Web site design, founder and SEO Director of Omni Marketing Interactive, and author of Search Engine Visibility.