The annual Information Architecture Summit is an event that would make Ada Lovelace proud. The practice of Information Architecture and building User Experiences draws on the two worlds from which she came, art and science.

At the end of the conference, Karl Fast-who was there to represent his wife, Samantha Bailey, got up and spoke. She was at home with their newborn and her mother-in-law.

Karl called for everyone to share the reasons they love the IA Summit on Flickr. I imagined that if Ada was there, this is what her sign would have said.

The event occurred this past weekend and it was a very impressive line up of speakers in the technology field. Over 30 different women presented or spoke or participated in pre-conference sessions as leaders.

They were all amazing and it was very encouraging to see so many solid thoughts, themes and work being done by women in my field.

At the end of the event, any participant can come up to the microphone and comment on what they thought of the event. One person that chose to get up and share their thoughts pointed out the fact that the conference had so many women speakers and that he was very happy to see it. The conference chairs were also women. Samantha Bailey was the chair and I (Jennifer Bohmbach) was the co-chair of the event. We were very proud that our balance of speakers was so strong.

This is the list of women speakers from the event, the full list is on the site:

1. Karen McGrane
2. Adelle Frank
3. Chiara Fox
4. Margaret Hanley
5. Lisa Colvin
6. Cindy Chastain
7. Donna Spencer
8. Melissa Matross
9. Dorothy May
10. Christina Wodtke
11. Dorelle Rabinowitz
12. Sanda Katiala
13. Samantha Starmer
14. Adrienne Massanari
15. Naomi Norman
16. Colleen Jones
17. Rachel Lovinger
18. Kristina Halvorson
19. Erin Malone
20. Olga Howard
21. Kate Rutter
22. Sarah Rice
23. Whitney Hess
24. Jenn Anderson
25. Livia Labate
26. Christine Boese
27. Kyle Soucy
28. Lorelei Brown
29. Hallie Wilfert
30. Lori Baker
31. Indi Young
32. Leah Buley
33. Melissa Rach
34. Keri Majala
35. Stephanie Hale
36. Erin Scime
37. Laura Melcher
38. Margot Bloomstein
39. Elena Melendy
40. Margret Hanley
41. Rachel Lovinger
42. Shelly Bowen
43. Crystal Kubitsky