The speakers have been confirmed for the first Information+ conference, taking place in Vancouver on June 16th/17th at the Emily Carr University of Art + Design. As you can see below, there is a parade of great speakers (and me) and super interesting topics that entirely chime with the conference’s aim of ‘bringing together researchers and practitioners in information design and information visualization to discuss common questions and challenges in these rapidly changing fields’. There is also a one-day hands-on workshop (June 18th ) and an exhibition of information design and visualization projects (June 6th to July 3rd).
Registration is open via Eventbrite – if you’re planning on attending you should take advantage of the early bird offer which runs through to 15th April and other special rates.
** On Wednesday June 15th, the day before the conference, I will be running a one-day data visualisation training workshop in Vancouver and I’m offering a 10% discount for attendees of the Information+ conf, so register now! **
Here’s the full list of speakers and topics, reproduced from the Information+ conference website:
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
Tamara Munzner: Visualization Analysis and Design
Colin Ware: Visual Thinking about Data – The Cognitive Thread, Interaction and the Visual Query
INVITED SPEAKERS
Gregor Aisch
Catherine D’Ignazio: Creative Data Literacy – Bridging the Gap Between the Data Haves and Have-nots
Scott Murray: Designing Online Learning Experiences for People
Chad Skelton: How to Think like a Data Journalist
CONTRIBUTED PAPER PRESENTATIONS
Kim Albrecht: Unfolding the Design Process
Mary Anne Beecher, Maria Palazzi and Peter Chan: Crowbar, Shoe Horn or Butterfly Net? Designing a Vision for Information Visualization in the Large Research University
Karen Cheng, Yeechi Chen, Kevin Larson and Marco Rolandi: First Impressions Matter – Visual Design in Scientific Communication
Patricio Davila: Visualization as Assemblage – A Case Study in Critical Visualization Practice
Carmen Dyck, Janet Joy and Guillermina Noel: Health Quality Improvement Data Collection and Visualization – The Potential of Visual Communication Design
Maria Gonzalez de Cossio: Writing a History of Mexican Railways through its Information Design
Drew Hemment, Moritz Stefaner, Stephann Makri, Carlo Buontempo, Isadora Christel, Veronica
Torralba-Fernandez, Nube Gonzalez-Reviriego, Francisco Doblas-Reyes and Jason Dykes
Project Ukko – Visualising Future Weather Conditions for Decision Making
Andy Kirk: Developing Visualisation Literacy: Experiences from the Front Line
Robert Kosara and Drew Skau: Pie Charts – Unloved, Unstudied, and Misunderstood
Klaus Kremer: Anticipative Interfaces for Emergency Situations
Yanni Loukissas: Local Data: Learning to Look at Big Data as Aggregates
Michele Mauri, Azzurra Pini and Paolo Ciuccarelli: Why Designers Should Care about Wikipedia
Jonas Parnow and Alsino Skowronnek: Airbnb vs. Berlin
Christopher Pietsch, Gabriel Credico and Marian Dörk: One View is Not Enough – High-level Visualizations of Large Cultural Collections
Will Stahl-Timmins: Health Data Graphics – An Academic Publishing Perspective
Alice Thudt, Charles Perin, Wesley Willett and Sheelagh Carpendale: Subjectivity in Personal Storytelling with Visualization
LIGHTNING TALKS
Dominikus Baur and Daniel Goddemeyer: Subspotting: Mapping Available Cell Phone Reception on the New York Subway
Heather Bradbury and David Gracyalny: Teaching Information Visualization: A Critical Examination
Ricardo Castañeda Quebrado, Karina Judith Godines Cortez and Mercedes Lozano Castillo: Territorial Conflicts and Information Design. A Proposal to Empower People around this Social Phenomena
Marjan Eggermont, Sheelagh Carpendale and Charles Perin: Visualization with a Focus on Biomimetic Visualization
Johanna Fulda: What’s up with Data Journalism in Canada?
Manuela Garreton: The Revolving Door of Power
Lena Groeger and Michael Grabell: Meat Charts: Visualizing Data with the Human Form
Georges Hattab, Benedikt Brink and Tim W. Nattkemper: A Mnemonic Card Game for your Amino Acids
Heather Krause: Ethics and Examples When Collecting and Communicating Data Globally
James March: The Statistical Overshoot – Principles to Keep Data in Check
Angela Norwood: Taking the Systems View
Lisa Charlotte Rost: Goals in Data Visualisation for Journalism
Barbara Sudick, Frank Armstrong, Anita Chaudhry and Dean Fairbanks: Understanding California’s Groundwater – Using Storytelling and Interactive Data Visualization to Facilitate Systems Thinking