Behind the curtain

Here are the people who are making this conference possible:

Reinoud Bosman has been working as an IA since 1999 and has designed award-winning user experiences for a wide range of industries and multiple online platforms. He discovered he was doing Information Architecture while working in Sydney where he heard of the term first and now tries to negotiate puzzled faces of family, friends and recruiters by helping to organise a conference on the topic. He holds a degree in Biology which only adds to the confusion.

Reinoud is passionate about improving the experience of products by closely integrating them with online services. He currently works at Philips Design.

Sylvie is an Information Architect, she has been working at Duke, a Razorfish company, for 2 years. She is involved in European-scaled digital projects, taking care of the overall user experience according to a holistic approach and dealing with content strategy, user’s journeys, interaction as well as business issues. Sylvie gives also UCD courses at Sorbonne (Celsa) and Sciences Po Paris.

Richard Hill has been working with ASIS&T since 1989, having previously run a private recruiting firm for three years and managed a trade association for three years. He has been membership development director, director of communications, and director of government affairs. Dick has a masters degree in Comparative Literature from Occidental College and taught high school for 6 years.

Theba has been a practising Information Architect for nine years. She started her IA career at an internet agency after completing a first class degree in Information Science. Subsequently, she worked on user research initiatives at LexisNexis to inform taxonomy design and search functionality. She is currently the Senior Information Architect at a European Investment Bank where she focuses on IA/User Experience initiatives. Her particular interest lies in advanced data visualisation and manipulation used in trading and analytical applications, and is always open to meeting others working in this field!

James Kalbach holds a degree in library and information science from Rutgers University, as well as a master’s in music theory and composition. He is currently an Experience Consultant with LexisNexis and previously served as head of information architecture with Razorfish Germany. James is an active speaker and author on information architecture and usability in Germany, where he has cofounded an IA community.

James is the author of Designing Web Navigation (O'Reilly, 2007) and he blogs at www.experiencinginformation.com.

Judit is a User Experience Specialist at CompLex Publisher, a Wolters Kluwer company. She is involved in software development and web projects, taking care of the user interface and dealing with concept development, usability as well as branding issues.

Judit holds a master’s degree in chemistry education, but chose to test users and analyse content structure instead of chemicals, while creating her thesis on educational hypermedia. Later she trained as a multimedia developer and a technical manager with a focus on marketing. She gave multimedia development courses, designed e-learning materials for post-secondary education, e.g. at the Budapest Polytechnic, and she is teaching information architecture at the University of Szeged.

Eric Reiss has been actively involved in the creation of menu-based programs, hypertext games, multimedia, and web projects for over 30 years. In 2006, he co-founded FatDUX, a user-experience design company headquartered in Copenhagen with subsidiaries in Canada, Croatia, Germany, and the United States.

In November, 2000, his book, Practical Information Architecture was published by Addison-Wesley. In 2002, it became available in Japanese and Korean. He is also the author of Web Dogma, co-instigator of the IA Slam, and a frequent speaker at conferences and educational institutions throughout Europe and North America.

Eric is an Associate Professor of Usability and Design at the Instituto de Empresa Business School in Madrid, Spain -- in addition to his ongoing duties as Senior Content Strategist at FatDUX Copenhagen, CEO of the FatDUX Group, and chair of this conference.

Andrea Resmini is an information architect with FatDUX, Copenhagen.

An ICT professional since 1989, Andrea holds a MA in Architecture and Industrial Design, has been practicing information architecture since 1999, and is currently pursuing a PhD in Legal Informatics specializing in IA and UX for accessing large complex online historical and juridical collections.

Andrea is a member of the Board of Directors for the Information Architecture Institute, chairs the Italian IA Summit, is a founding member of the European IA Network, coordinates REG-iA, the Research & Education Group in IA, and founded the Journal of Information Architecture.

Olga holds a Degree in Journalism, Master in Multimedia & Internet and Graduate in Ergonomics. She works as a UX senior consultant at France Telecom: Olga thinks, designs, tests and audits interfaces. Meanwhile she's researching on her PhD. in Multimedia Engineering.

Luca is a free lance Information Architect and assistant professor in Informatics for Humanistic Science (i.e. Information Architecture and Human Computer Interaction) at University for Foreigners of Perugia (Università per Stranieri di Perugia), in Italy. Luca is co-author of the book "Organizing Knowledge: From Lybraries to Information Architecture for the Web" (Milan, 2006) and author of the book "Information Architecture: From Everyday things to the Web" (Milan, 2007). He supports a holistic approach to IA, and the application of IA to everyday environments. His website is http://lucarosati.it.

Stanislaw is a Director of Main Library at Pedagogical University of Cracow. He is a freelance information architect and university lecturer. He received his PhD in library and information science in 2004. Stanislaw is currently researching the usability of libraries and educational web pages, users’ search strategy. He also initiated first Postgraduate Study in Information Architecture in Poland.

Scott Thomas is constantly seeking the simplest answer to complex problems. Scott began his design pursuits studying architecture before bouncing to graphic design and web development.

Prior to moving to Chicago, where he set his sights on user experience design, Scott called London’s Shoreditch home. From products to websites, Scott works to simplify the experience of use.

In 2006, he and five other creative types began a design collective, lovingly known as The Post Family. The group is devoted to supporting “family” member’s design habits—from silkscreen to letterpress, from illustration to blogging—in an effort to “get back to the hand.”

In 2007, Scott’s career took a dramatic leap when he was invited to join the New Media team at Obama for America. The chance encounter led Scott to becoming the Design Director of the historic Obama Presidential campaign. He is currently writing a book that explains how an obscure senator rose to the highest office in the land and celebrity status with the aid of branding and design.

Scott plans to continue designing for social causes that might just someday change the world.