VizThink '09 Conference Guide
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NOTE: This is the FINAL schedule, but is subject to change. Current as of: 2/12/2009
Pre-Conference Workshops
Sunday Workshop (9am-5pm)
How to Communicate Visually with Karl Gude
Opening Reception
Sunday Night Opening Reception (6:30pm-8:30pm)
Location: Hotel Lobby Lounge
Come meet your fellow visual thinking colleagues and begin sharing and networking!
Monday Conference Schedule
8:30-10:00am - Monday Morning Opening General Session
Location: Imperial Ballroom
Visual Language - An Oxymoron or an Opportunity?
with Colin Ware & Dave Gray
10:30am-Noon - Monday Morning Breakout Sessions
101 - Visual Language: Global Communication for the 21st Century
102 - Visual Storytelling
103 - The Impact of Visuals on Innovation throughout History
104 - How do Patterns Structure Visual Thinking?
106 - Picturing Success: Mapping Needs and Goals at Project Kick-off
2:00-3:30pm - Monday Afternoon Breakout Sessions
201 - See What I Mean: How to Use Comics to Communicate Ideas
202 - Influence through Storytelling
203 - Vizanalogies, aka: What I Learned from Autism and Football
204 - This Island Earth: Visualizing Place
205 - Kinesthetic Modeling: Visualizing in 3D
206 - Eleven Years with One Visualization: Lessons from Jerry's Brain
4:00-5:30pm - Monday Afternoon General Session
Location: Imperial Ballroom
The 6x6 Model: Six Ways of Seeing = Six Ways of Showing
with Dan Roam
Making Meaning: Why Visualizations Work
with Tom Wujec
Tuesday Conference Schedule
8:30-10:00am - Tuesday Morning General Session
Location: Imperial Ballroom
Survival Academy – Imagining a Better World with Visual Language, Thinking and Practice
with Ole Qvist-Sorensen
The Thinking Side of Visualization
with Bob Horn, Ole Qvist-Sorensen & Tom Crawford
10:30am-Noon - Tuesday Morning Breakout Sessions
301 - Using Tag Clouds to Illustrate Key Discussion Points
302 - Map What Matters: Graphic Recording 101
303 - Creating Visual Supports with Assistive Technology
304 - The Zen of Visual Analysis
305 - Way of the Whiteboard: 3 Unwritten Rules of Persuading with Pictures
306 - Visual Communication for the Web
2:00-3:30pm - Tuesday Afternoon Breakout Sessions
401 - Why a Diagram is Worth a Thousand Words
402 - Tools for Visual Storytelling
403 - Facilitating Online with Graphics
404 - User-Centered Information Design
405 - Using Visual Thinking in a Large-scale Organizational Change Process
406 - Authenticity: A Proverb You Can Believe In
4:00-5:30pm - Tuesday Afternoon Breakout Sessions
501 - Snapshot Sessions (see below) Location: Imperial Ballroom
502 - The Browser and the Book
503 - Running a Small Business in a Difficult Econonmy
Wednesday Conference Schedule
8:30-10:00am - Wednesday Morning Breakout Sessions
601 - Bending the Rules of Visual Grammar
602 - Put Some Drama into Your Visuals
603 - The Power of the White Canvas
604 - The Emerging Practice of Visual Collaboration
605 - LEGO® Serious Play™ - Think, Create and Innovate
606 - Out of Thin Air - Tackling the Not-Yet-Existent Abstract
10:30am-Noon - Wednesday Morning Closing General Session
Location: Imperial Ballroom
Transferring Experience into Action
with Lance Dublin
Snapshot Sessions
All of the Snapshot Sessions will occur at the same time from 4:00pm - 5:30pm on Tuesday in the Imperial Ballroom. They will last 20 minutes each. Each session will be repeated 4 times during the 90-minute time block, so you will be able to select 4 of the snapshot sessions below:
A - Beyond Fluff - Data Visualization for Business
B - Visualizing Tomorrow
C - Visual Thinking for Sales: Developing a Sales Playbook
D - Shaping Experiences with Collaborative Storyboarding
E - Visualizing Complexity
F - Visual Thinking Tools for Change Management
G - How to Start a VizThink Community (Almost) Anywhere on the Planet
H - VizThinking Marketing Strategy
I - The Journey to World Class Operations
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