UPA Boston Annual Conference 08
| May 28, 2008 | ||
| 8:00 am | to | 7:00 pm |
Bentley College - The Bentley Conference Center
LaCava Building, Third Floor, 175 Forest Street, Waltham, MA 02452
This is where I am today. I bartered my time as a volunteer for free registration, which meant that my library didn’t need to pay for it, but I did get time off from work to come, since it applies to my job, which is awesome.
You can view the entire schedule online, but this is how my schedule shakes out for the day:
9:15-10am: Web Apps: The Collision of Design and Business - Jared Spool
10-11am: Volunteer at the registration desk
11am-12pm: Floater volunteer, just make sure everyone’s happy, well, and working properly
12-12:30pm: Lunch
12:30-1pm: Registration desk
1-1:45pm: Winning the Case for Usability-Tonya Price
2-2:45pm: Innovative Interfaces–Transforming Data Into Insight-Eva Kaniasty
3-3:45pm: Metaverses & User Experience-Stephen Denning
4-4:45pm: Moving Up the Usability Food Chain: A Cross-Disciplinary Holistic Viewpoint-Alex Conn
5-6pm: Registration desk
6-7pm: Cocktail hour & networking
Should make for some very interesting postage later, when I have more time to iron out the wrinkled notes in my WordPress drafts.
There are several sessions that, upon reviewing the schedule, I decided I really wanted to go to because of their applicability to my job, and especially the project of redesigning the library’s web site. However, upon reviewing the spiral-bound presentations book (which is brilliant, by the way), I decided on the better way to pick the sessions I would go to: sessions where the slides with the *least* text. I want to see a presentation, and if you’re slides have so much text on them, what’s the point in going when I can just read your slides?
