Over the past two years I’ve been involved in the Information Architecture Summit programming.

This is an event sponsored by the American Society for the Information Age (ASISI&T). The event occurs April 7-11th in Phoenix, AZ.

In honor of Ada Lovelace Day I wanted to thank the women that will be speaking at the event. The willingness of each of them to share knowledge at this event is a generous and valuable act. We grow in our profession by showing up at events like this conference, sharing and taking that knowledge back to our work.

Thanks to all the people willing to do this. They are my heroes this Ada Lovelace Day.

• Erin Malone
• Cindy Chastain
• Donna Spencer
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• Erin Liman
• Samantha Starmer
• Christina Wodtke
• Dana Chisnell
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• Tanya Raybourn
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• Cindy Blue
• Colleen Jones
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• Kejun Xu
• Kate Rutter
• Candy Bernhardt
• Debra Levin Gelman
• Laura McFadden
• Kyle Soucy
• Johanna Kollmann
• Gabrielle Hon
• Jill Christ
• Manya Kapikian
• Vera Rhoads
• Amy Cueva
• Megan Grocki
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• Whitney Hess
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In addition to the speakers, I want to send out a special thank you to the following women who volunteered their time to make the conference program and web site a reality:

• Abby Covert
• Livia Labate
• Larisa Brandt
• Mollie Clancy
• Mags Hanley
• Lori Baker
• Sue Fensore
• Dimple Mohan