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Oliver Reichenstein got his first computer in 1981 and made his initial attempts at programming. He later studied philosophy in Basel and Paris, with a sideline teaching rhetoric and informatics. In 1999/2000, he was the information architect at R.Ø.S.A. AG, followed by a stint until 2004 as interactive brand consultant for Interbrand Zintzmeyer&Lux. He moved to Japan in 2004 and founded Information Architects Inc. in 2005.
www.informationarchitects.jp

Paul Kahn is an information architect, teacher and writer. His activities in the United States included work as a systems analyst at Harvard University, applications specialist for Atex Inc., and a decade on research staff and directorship of the Institute for Research in Information and Scholarship (IRIS) at Brown University, where he participated in pioneering hypertext research. In the 1990s he co-founded the information design studio Dynamic Diagrams and taught as adjunct professor at the Rhode Island School of Design. At the end of the decade he served as Chief Technology Officer of Ingenta in the UK. After moving to France in 2001, he created the information architecture studio Kahn+Associates, where he serves as managing director. K+A clients include Schlumberger, INRS, Inrap, P.O.L Editions, L’Oreal Recherche, Bibliothèque nationale de France and FRAME (French Regional American Museum Exchange).

He currently teaches information architecture in masters 2 programs at École nationale supérieure des Télécommunications and Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne in Paris, and at Media Lab, Aalto University, in Helsinki (Finland).

With Krzysztof Lenk, he is the co-author of Mapping Web Sites (Rotovision 2001), which has been translated into French, German, Korean, and Spanish. More recent work has been included in Designing Universal Knowledge: The World as Flatland (Lars Müller, 2009), Information Design Workbook: Graphic approaches, solutions, and inspiration, (Rockport, 2008) and Information Design Source Book (Graphic-Sha Publishing, 2003).

He is the editor/publisher of NEW Magazine, international visual & verbal communications.

Paul Kahn is managing director of Kahn+Associates, a company devoted to information architecture consulting services located in Paris, France. His previous activities in the United States included director of the Institute for Research in Information and Scholarship (IRIS) at Brown University, co-founder and president of Dynamic Diagrams, as well as holding management positions at Cadmus Communications and ingenta plc. He taught interactive design at Rhode Island School of Design from 1994-2001, and since moving to France has taught at Ecole nationale supérieure des beaux-arts; École nationale supérieure des Télécommunications; Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne; Institute HyperWerk, University of Applied Sciences, Northwestern Switzerland, Academy of Art and Design, Basel (Switzerland); and at Media Lab, University of Art and Design, Helsinki (Finland). Since 2005 he has been editor of the annual NEW Magazine, International Visual and Verbal Communication.

Jane has 10 years experience with UX. She is currently head of UX at IG Index, a position she has held since 2008. Previously Jane held various UX positions in a number of leading UK agencies including LBI, and ran her own digital design consultancy (Recollective) for 5 years before being acquired by Framfab.
Over the past 10 years she has led the UX aspects of projects for clients such as London Stock Exchange, British Home Stores, Knight Frank, Conran, The Arts Council, Channel 4 and Virgin. She has earned industry recognition for her work; her team won a BIMA for Conran and Recollective was nominated for an Interactive BAFTA for Channel 4.
Jane is an active participant in the UX community, she hosts the UX book club, organises the London UX Show and Tell and more recently has been involved in the London UX Agile Special Interest Group. She has also lectured on UX at University of Westminster, Goldsmiths and Edinburgh Napier University.

Martin Belam is Information Architect at Guardian News & Media in London, working across the award-winning guardian.co.uk website and mobile applications. Prior to joining The Guardian, Martin was based in Crete as a freelance Internet Consultant and Information Architect, working for clients including Sony, Vodafone, the BBC and the Science Museum. He is contributing editor for FUMSI magazine, and blogs about information architecture, journalism and digital media at currybet.net

Peter Boersma is a senior experience designer at Adaptive Path’s Amsterdam studio. Before that, he worked for several interactive agencies in The Netherlands but his projects also took him to Germany, Finland, the United Kingdom, Ireland and once three weeks to Jamaica. Peter has a background in Computer Science and Ergonomics. For all of his employers, Peter has helped define and document the design process, and he admits he is now a process freak. He has a large collection of design process diagrams that he loves to discuss with fellow designers. Since 2001, Peter has helped organize many user experience events, ranging from the local Amsterdam UX Cocktail Hours, via the Dutch CHI conferences (he was program chair for The Web and Beyond in 2006, 2008 and 2010), the first three Euro IA conferences,
and the IA Summit.

With almost three decades of experience in information design,  information architecture, and user-centered design, Peter J. Bogaards  is a recognized leader in the international user experience design  community. Prior to founding BogieLand and becoming an online  community builder with DdUX.org at Informaat Experience Design (the  Netherlands), he worked for the InfoDesign & Usability Group of  Razorfish Europe and was information and user interface designer of  Informaat previously. He was responsible for the design of intentional  user experiences, including user interface, site architecture,  navigation and usability for clients such as eBay, Elsevier Science,  IBM, Nokia, Nissan, and Vodafone. Furthermore, Peter has been involved  with a lot of community-driven efforts (including UXmatters, Advisory  Board of the IAI, and the EuroIA/UX network initiative) and  he’s also the guy behind InfoDesign (informationdesign.org), a  long-standing, widely known and well-respected shoutboard on IA and UX. Just follow Peter on Twitter @BogieZero.

Chris is an Interaction Developer. He studied Digital Art and Technology BSc at the Institute of Digital Art and Technology (University of Plymouth). He has experience working in a variety of areas including rapid prototyping and interaction design for clients such as Nokia, Yahoo!, Vodafone, Orange, BBC, Adobe, Deutsche Telekom as well as a number charities and academic institutions. He has also written a number of articles about mobile design for Computer Arts magazine. As well as presenting Adobe Flash Lite at a Symbian developer camp.

Stefano Bussolon is a Psychologist, Ph.D. in Cognitive Sciences. He works as a freelance Information Architect and Usability Specialist in Italy. His paper “Card Sorting, Category Validity, and Contextual Navigation” has been published on the second issue of the first number of the Journal of Information Architecture.

D. Grant Campbell completed his Ph.D. In English Literature at Queen's University, Canada, in 1999, and his M.I.St. In Information Studies at University of Toronto in 1997. He has taught at Queen's University, University of Toronto and Dalhousie University. He is currently an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Information and Media Studies at University of Western Ontario. His research interests include information organization, metadata, the Semantic Web, and literary and philosophical influences on the practice of classification and information description.

Having a background in economics, Koen Claes (pronounced coon -- as in cocoon -- class) jump- started his professional career in the Internet industry, specializing in usability and interaction design. Now part of the IA crew at Emakina (Belgium's leading digital agency), which is responsible for (UX) strategy, IA, interaction design, user interface concepts & wireframes, ergonomics and usability recommendations, copy guidelines, traffic generation & incentive design, user tests, conversion process optimization, and SEO.

Brian is a senior analyst with iQ Content, a UX company based in Dublin. Brian has covered the usual territory in our field, from strategizing and workshopping, through designing and user-testing and out the other end with analytics analysis. Some recent interesting projects included running user tests on an IVR system (automated voice response system), where part of the protocol involved Brian using the "Wizard of Oz" approach to simulate an IVR system himself, and designing a complex e-learning web app that had to work well for students from the ages of 7 to18. And he's recently acquired a taste for working on iPhone and iPad apps. Originally a content specialist, Brian’s enthusiasm for interaction design has led iQ in all kinds of interesting directions. He kick-started their Analytics offering back in 2005, and is now one of 3 on the team with the Google Analytics certification.

Carmen Fehrenbach's job role at SapientNitro is that of an Information Architect. Additionally, due to her psychological background and training as systemic counsellor she also specialises in user research, usability testing and interviewing techniques. During her studies Carmen focused on cognitive and media psychology and - being a hobby filmmaker herself - on educational film. Her professional career started off as a user researcher for SAP AG and User Interface Design GmbH, later she started also doing interaction design. Carmen has worked on various usability and user experience projects, including classical web, mobile, IPTV and software applications.

Alex is a design director at Fjord London. She studied Visual and Communication Design in Switzerland and Germany, and completed her MA in Interaction Design at the Royal College of Art in London. Since 2001 Alex has worked with interactive media, and before joining Fjord she worked at agencies in Switzerland and London. At Fjord she has brought her significant research, prototyping and design experience to a variety of project work, ranging from work on new service ventures to solutions for Deutsche Telekom and the BBC.

Henning Fischer is the Director of Adaptive Path's Amsterdam studio and a senior design strategist. Over the last 10 years he has worked with a diverse group of organizations to develop multi-channel strategies for communications, services, and products for the web and beyond. Henning holds a Master of Design from the Institute of Design at Illinois Institute of Technology, where he focused on the confluence of business analytics, design, and user research. Prior to joining Adaptive Path, Henning specialized in web strategy and design at Diversified Media Design and the Ruder Finn Group in New York City.

Paulo Roberto Floriano (@prfloriano) is a senior consultant and project manager on internet, intranets and social media initiatives. He works for TerraForum and has performed a leading role on consulting projects for major Brazilian and global companies, such as HSBC, Citibank, Walmart, Syngenta, Avon, Alcoa, Atento, Bradesco, Petrobras, Votorantim, Electrolux, MWM International Engines. He has a Nielsen Norman Group Award (Intranet Design Annual 2009), for the HSBC Brazil Intranet project. He is the co-author of two books in Brazil and author of dozens of articles, some of them awarded nationally. He is also a speaker in Brazil and international events, such as KM World.

Jeff Gothelf is a user experience designer based in metro NYC. He has spent his career designing engaging experiences for clients big and small. He is currently the Director of User Experience at TheLadders.com where he helps executive jobseekers and recruiters make meaningful connections with each other. Previously Jeff helped shape experiences at AOL, Webtrends and Fidelity Investments. Jeff publishes his thoughts on his blog (www.jeffgothelf.com/blog) and on Twitter as @jboogie.

Tomek Jakubowski is Chief of IA in UseLab, a leading Polish UX house. Tomek previously worked as Head of e-Business for Intouch Insurance Group. As Information Architect, he has designed for blue-chips in many international projects in diverse fields. He holds a degree in Sociology and is passionate about the relationship between human cognition and innovation processes.

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.

Johanna Kollmann started her career in User Experience at Siemens in 2004 and has since gained experience in both in-house and agency-side roles. After working at London-based consultancy Flow Interactive, she is now a User Experience Designer at Vodafone. Her background is in Information Design (FH Joanneum University of Applied Sciences Graz) and HCI (University College London). Johanna is a committee member of the UPA’s UK chapter, co-organiser of UXCamp London and coordinator of the London Agile UX meetup. This year, Johanna presented "Crowdsourcing Innovation: the role of UX" at the 11th IA Summit in Phoenix, Arizona, and will run a workshop on team building tools at Agile 2010. In 2009, she presented at the eComm emerging communications conference and at Agile 2009.

Sabrina Mach, co-founder of Feralabs has a background in market research, design and human computer interaction. She is passionate about making web evaluations easier, more effective and measurable. Sabrina has extensive experience in remote usability, having carried out studies for some of Europe’s largest telecoms companies, broadcasters, and travel sites. The studies have used methods ranging from remote ethnography, critical incident reporting, to asynchronous remote testing. She has researched participant behaviour and tested websites in over 150 countries.
Her MSc dissertation at University College London compared the benefits and trade-offs between conventional lab testing and un-moderated remote usability testing.

Journalist, Advertiser and Master in Business Administration with more than 20 years of work in the Business Communication area, 12 of them as Superintendent and Manager of multinational and Brazilian companies; 11 years as graduation professor. Besides the solid education, Juliana has a wide experience in management, planning and implementation of strategic integrated communication directed to the external and internal publics. She received more than 20 national and international awards, many of them in the Intranet, Communication, Marketing and Human Resources areas. She is currently the Internal Communications Superintendent of HSBC Brazil.

Matthieu Mingasson is a User Experience Designer and a speaker at "Ecole de l'Image" (Paris). In the late eighties, he started his career as a graphic designer for Rolling Stone Magazine in Paris and for other mainstream information magazines (Le Nouvel Observateur, Challenges), as he was building his interest and skills for content organization and information design. In the Nineties, he worked as an Art Director at Textuel (/TBWA), designing corporate magazines. In the mid-nineties, he moved from print design to the new practice of Web Design, developing his passion for technical aspects of internet projects.

In the late nineties, he was in charge for several web information architecture projects in Europe (France, Greece, Luxembourg, the Netherlands and the UK). He joined, Ogilvy One in 2007 to create a team dedicated to Information Architecture. He's presently Head of User Experience Design at Ogilvy One Paris.

James is co-founder of FeraLabs, a usability consultancy specialising in remote user research, where he has been involved in the development of Webnographer, an online tool for remote usability testing.
He has been involved in a number of start ups, including Eidos (who went on to launch the highly successful computer game Tomb Raider), and Deckchair.com (one of the first online flight booking engines) with Bob Geldof.
James is passionate about making software less frustrating. He believes that we need more ways to discover how people behave using computers, and then communicate that back to the designers and programmers. This is why he built Webnographer -- to help the designers and programmers understand how people use the software that they have created.

Franco Papeschi is a concept designer and user experience consultant, with a deep interest in the way humans act and think, especially when technologies have an effect on these activities. Franco currently works in the User Experience team of Vodafone Group, using user-centred design techniques to envision meaningful experiences.
Prior to this, Franco has worked for design agencies in Italy and UK as User Experience consultant, leading projects for web sites and applications, mobile services, IPTV, change and knowledge management.
Franco has presented at international conferences and symposia, on topics such as: design, innovation and sustainability. He has recently organised and facilitated a workshop at the Lift conference 2010 in Geneva, to explore issues and solutions on privacy and sharing information.

Belén Barros Pena is an interaction designer with Lab49 UK. Before landing on the Lab, she was the “mobile person” in iQ Content. She advised clients about mobile strategy and mobile web design, gave training on mobile user experience, and drove iQ Content’s forays into the mobile space. She writes about mobile when she has time, and participates in the Carnival of the Mobilists as much as possible. She was thrilled to be at EuroIA 2009 presenting Cheap and efficient tools: engaging users in design when there is no budget and there is no time.

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.

Matt Roadnight is an independent Agile coach working in the UK. Matt spent 12 years at Conchango, a UK based digital agency delivering web based solutions for clients like Debenhams, Virgin Atlantic, Bank of Ireland and Marks and Spencer.
Matt is a Certified Scrum Trainer and has been practicing Scrum since 2004 in distributed and scaled environments across a number of blue chip organisations. Due to his involvement with digital media projects with a significant UCD emphasis he has focussed on helping ease the UX/Agile project tensions.

Axel Rösgen joined SapientNitro in October 2007 and is working as Senior Information Architect in the Düsseldorf office. He holds a degree in Industrial Design from the University of Wuppertal. At SapientNitro has worked on diverse projects including B2C and B2B websites, web widgets, IPTV and mobile applications. Before SapientNitro he has been working for 5 ½ years as leading User Interface Designer at Meyer-Hayoz Design Engineering and several years as freelance Interaction and 3D Designer. He has extensive experience in the complete development process, from first concepts over digital prototyping, screen design and style guides. He also has a good back in product management and user centred quality assurance.

Claire is a service design lead at Fjord London, and is responsible for developing Fjord’s user experience research offering. She has over 11 years’ experience in UX roles for companies such as Flow Interactive, Razorfish, Credit Suisse and the Press Association, working on user insight research, concept evaluation, interaction design and IA for web, mobile and PC applications and multi-channel services. She has conducted several hundred user research sessions, including ethnographic and contextual interviews, participatory design sessions, focus groups, usability and accessibility tests with a wide range of participants, from 8 year old Lego fans to the directors of BP.

Hugo Schotman is Dutch and lives in Zurich, Switzerland. He works as an Information Architect at Unic, an international company focused on building large websites. At Unic since 2008, Hugo has completed over 25 projects as Information Architect for 15 Customers. Several projects had a pan-European target audience.
Hugo has over 12 years experience in IT and consulting with a strong focus on User Experience. He was front-end lead for the User Experience groups at Cambridge Technology Partners (Amsterdam) and Accenture (Zurich). Hugo is a member of Toastmasters and he is an organizer of the TEDxZurich conference.

Hendrik Sommerfeldt has designed devices, software, websites and services since 1998 that are used by millions every day. He is an active member of the European IA and UX community currently building up the local IxDA chapter in Germany. Hendrik has led projects for large organizations like P&G, MasterCard, German Telekom or Samsung Electronics.
He holds a Master in Architecture and conducted academic studies in the fields of design, psychology and fine arts on the way to broaden the view. He is principal of Braincycles, a true UX consultancy in Germany that constantly pushes the limits of the field to connect online with the real world.

Christophe Tallec is the co-founder of Utilisacteur, both an innovative service design provider and a consultant, which gives users the opportunity to take an active role in their services by any means, product and service system. This desire to explore information asymmetry is driven by the specific innovation potential that design allows in service on “ecosystemic” scales, in order to tackle complex issues. This subject has been a main focus during his studies at Ensad, in the design section. As a service designer, he has been a reporter and a consultant for design promotion organisms, companies and think tanks for the past five years, currently consulting at the FING for the project « innovations democratTIC ».

Bernard Tyers is a mobile packet core engineer with Nokia Siemens Networks (NSN). Although he spends most of his time around mobile networks, routers and other things you’ll never see (but use every day), he also helps NSN to use (and understand!) social networking tools in innovative ways to drive cooperation and improve communication between NSN employees all over the world. His amazing skill with silicon, solder and hammers will be demonstrated at this presentation.