[Sigia-l] IA Summit - Early Reg Deadline Extended

[Peter Merholz]

Calling All IAs!

The early registration deadline for the IA summit has been extended to 
1/31.

Things kick off with Brenda Laurel, HCI visionary and editor of the 
recently published "Design Research: Methods and Perspectives," who 
brings her unique perspective to information architecture in her 
conference keynote, "Achieving a State of Trans". From her abstract,
     "But looking at today's information landscape, we can see that a 
miraculous
      inversion has occurred: humans are the environment for information 
architecture.
      Our design criteria are becoming transpersonal, transmedia, and 
transportable.
      This talk will focus on achieving a state of "trans" through a 
process involving
      both research and revisioning."

Next come two days packed with informative sessions, with subjects such 
as metadata, brand-driven information architecture, content management 
systems, and ethnography. We feature industry luminaries including 
Samantha Bailey, Tony Byrne, Jesse James Garrett, Keith Instone, Peter 
Merholz, Jared Spool, Amy Warner, and many more.

February 27th offers a range of pre-conference workshops, including 
AIfIA's CMS Roundtable, Jared Spool's Secret Strategies of Highly 
Successful Websites, Amy Warner's Metadata and Taxonomy Design, 
Adaptive Path's User Experience and ROI, and the first IA Slam 
Workshop.

FUN FACT: In February the average high temperature in Austin is 64 
degrees F (18 C).

All this takes place in Austin, Texas, the "Live Music Capital of the 
World," famous for showing visitors a mighty good time. And what would 
a conference be without parties?
	• 	Friday, 6:00-7:30 pm - Welcome Reception at the hotel, light buffet 
and cash bar
	• 	Friday, 9:00 pm-onwards - Adaptive Path 3rd Anniversary Party, Club 
DeVille, complimentary drinks
	• 	Saturday, 5:30-7:00 pm - Posters and Drinks, cash bar
	• 	Saturday, AIfIA Party (details TBA)
	• 	Sunday, February 29th - Celebrate leap year watching the Academy 
Awards (location TBA)

The IA Summit is perhaps the best conference deal around. For early 
registrants, the two main conference days costs $300 to members of 
ASIS&T, SIGCHI, AIfIA, AIGA, and STC, $450 to nonmembers.

--peter