Here are the dates, summary and list of speakers for the User Experience 2003 conference which is happening in Chicago (Sept 21-25) and London (Oct 6-10).
The list of speakers include,
* Tamara Adlin senior usability specialist at Amazon.com,
* Dr. Nuray Aykin department head of the User Interface Design Center, Siemens Corporate Research, Inc.,
* Dr. Stuart Card senior research fellow and manager of the User Interface Research Group at Xerox’s Palo Alto Research Center
* Kara Pernice Coyne is the director of research at Nielsen Norman Group
* Janice Fraser founding partner of the user experience firm Adaptive Path
* Dr. B.J. Fogg founder of Stanford University’s Persuasive Technology Lab
* Andrew Goodman is co-founder and editor of Traffick.com
* Hoa Loranger a user experience specialist at Nielsen Norman Group
* Dr. John Morkes is a partner at Expero Inc.
* Peter Morville, widely recognized as a father of information architecture
* Dr. Jakob Nielsen
* Dr. Donald A. Norman
* Dr. Randy Pagulayan from the Microsoft Game Studios User-testing Group
* Dr. Peter Pirolli principal scientist in the User Interface Research Area at Xerox’s Palo Alto Research Center.
* Dr. John Pruitt, usability lead for the MSX User Research Group in the Windows Division at Microsoft Corporation.
* Avi Rappoport, editor of SearchTools.com
* Jim Sterne, an internationally known speaker on electronic marketing and customer interaction.
* Amy Stover, user experience specialist at Nielsen Norman Group.
* Bruce “Tog” Tognazzini, a recognized leader in human/computer interaction design, and
* Jeffrey Veen a founding partner of Adaptive Path and author of The Art & Science of Web Design and HotWired Style.
Phew! It is certainly the place to be in late September and early October – I hope I get to go. More info can be found at the User Experience 2003 Event site.