[Sigia-l] NYC event: The State of IA Thursday 9/23 6:30-8:30pm

[Wendy Cown]

I hope folks in the nyc area can make it to what should be a great
discussion, Wendy

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The State of IA in NYC

Date and Time: Thursday, September 23, 6:30-8:30pm 
(program starts at 7pm sharp)

Location: Remote Lounge, 327 Bowery between 2nd and 3rd Streets
http://www.remotelounge.com/

Free! No RSVP necessary!
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Topic:
What's going on with IA in New York: the profession and the trends
but also the challenges and opportunities for those in the User
Experience community.

A panel discussion about the current state and future of our
discipline.

Speakers:

Victor Lombardi, independent design strategist
Lawrence Lipkin, Organic
Elliot Trice, Avenue A/Razorfish
Amy Lane, TTS Personnel
Neil Werhle, Yahoo! HotJobs

Bios:
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Victor Lombardi
http://victorlombardi.com
Victor works as a design strategist in New York City. He has designed
over 30 digital media products working within companies and as a
consultant, and has managed both technical and design teams. Recently
Victor led the information architecture practice at AIG, a Fortune 10
financial services company. Prior to AIG, Victor was a manager of
information architecture at Razorfish, a digital media consulting
firm. He is currently President of the Asilomar Institute for 
Information Architecture.

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Neil Werhle
Neil is the User Experience + Design Manager for the HotJobs business 
unit of Yahoo! in New York City. He leads a team of Interaction 
Designers, Visual Designers, and User Researchers who are responsible 
for the online presence of a + $90M business unit with significant 
B2C and B2B components.
Prior to Yahoo!, Neil worked as a user researcher and information 
architect for Razorfish in New York, and as a design manager for 
Morningstar, Inc. in Chicago.

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Amy Lane
Amy Lane is a Senior Associate at TTS Personnel, specializing in 
temporary and permanent staffing of graphic professionals in the 
Interactive, Multimedia and Print disciplines of advertising 
agencies, dot coms and public/private sector corporations. She has 
been with TTS for almost 10 years and spent over 2 years with Fortune 
Personnel as a Trainer in the Recruitment field. Amy received her 
B.A. in Finance from Boston University, her MSW from New York 
University, and has completed Post Masters training in the Social 
Work field.

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Lawrence Lipkin
Lawrence Lipkin leads the Information Architecture discipline in 
Organic's New York office. He served has Organic's Creative Lead and 
Information Architect on engagements with US Airways, Smith & Nephew, 
Fannie Mae, Lucent and Credit Suisse First Boston. His focus is on 
marrying information retrieval to brand strategy in order to create 
intelligent interfaces between companies and their customers.

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Your officers,
Maria Moratis, Chair
Fleur Levitz, Vice Chair
Bill Caemmerer, Information Chair
Wendy Cown, Secretary
Scott Weiss, Past Chair
NYC-CHI site: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/nycchi

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Remote Lounge
327 Bowery between 2nd and 3rd Streets

Nearby Subway stops:
- the 6 at Bleecker
- the F at Broadway-Lafayette or 2nd Avenue (the V does not run on
weekends)
- the N or R to 8th Street or to Prince Street
Note - the B, D, and Q lines no longer stop at Broadway/Lafeyette


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Wendy Cown
wcown at cloud9.net