After some thought and a few hard decisions, I'm ready to publish my course selections for the UPA 2008 International Conference.

Wednesday, June 18, 2008
8:30 AM - Opening Keynote: How Innovation Works
10:30 AM - Institutionalizing User Experience: A Consulting Challenge
1:30 PM - Visual Design and the User Experience: Keys to the Partnership
2:20 PM - How to Manage a User Experience Team (Without Losing Your Mind!)
3:30 PM - Subjective Ratings of Usability: Reliable or Ridiculous?

Thursday, June 19, 2008
8:30 AM - 10 Strategies for Negotiating The Politics of Holistic Design
1:30 AM - Teach Your Software Developers This Ideation-Design Process to Reduce Your Usability Work Downstream
2:10 PM - Rich Man's Problems: Beyond Selling Usability
2:50 PM - How to Break Consistency for Glory & Riches
4:00 PM - A Practitioner's Guide to the Modified-Delphi Card Sort
4:50 PM - The Pushed-RITE Method: A Hybrid Approach for Pushing Rapid Iterative Testing and Evaluation to its Practical Limits

Friday, June 20, 2008
8:30 AM - The Evil UI Designer: How to Really Confound and Annoy Your Users
10:30 AM - Closing Speaker: Ethnographic research: Bringing You Face-To-Face with Customers in Natural Environments

If you are in the same course as me, please take the time to say hello. I'd love to meet you or catch up again if I already know you.

Posted by Glenn R. Cochran at 07:21 PM | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)

I'll be co-presenting a talk at UPA 2008 in Baltimore, MD on Wednesday starting at 10:30 AM. If you are interested in learning more about how a usability consultancy partners with select usability "champions" in a Midwestern advertising agency and a Silicon Valley high-tech company to develop blended UX teams, this talk is for you. Drop by Essex "C" in the Marriott Baltimore Waterfront's conference center to check out this presentation live.

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I'm taking a "vacation" and will be attending the Usability Professionals' Association 2008 International Conference in Baltimore, MD during the week of June 16 - 20. Will you be there? If so, please find me and say Hello! I'm always interested in meeting new people and catching up with old friends.

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My team and I at VMware have decided to host a special hospitality and recruiting event for select CHI 2007 attendees. We are holding this exclusive event at the Sainte Claire Hotel in downtown San Jose during the conference itself. Since the event is by invitation only you'll need to request a spot if you'd like to attend.

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An industry conference like VMworld 2006 with 6000+ registered attendees is the perfect place to interact with real users and gain insights into how they use our products. If you are attending VMware's premier conference on all things virtualzation you might just see me there. Personally I always love meeting new people and connecting with old friends. If you plan on attending VMworld 2006 please do find me and say hello.

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A few members of my team and I will be attending the User Research Friday: Half-Day Conference! This event takes place in San Francisco on Friday, October 27th, 2006 and is sponsored by bolt|peters, Uzanto, and kda|research.

If you are attending please find me and say hello! I'd love to meet you and hear about your user research effort. To sign up for the event you'll need to visit the User Research Wiki where you'll find more information. Just add your name to the page and then show up. It's that easy!

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My company has graciously agreed to send me to the UI11: Enriching The Experience conference in Cambridge, MA during the week of October 9th through the 12th. Will you be there? If so, please find me and say Hello!

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