It’s on again, OZ-IA, the Sydney based Information Architecture conference, now in its third year (Sept 20-21st). Yet again I’ll be lobbing into Sydney for this event, and looking forward to catching up with all my IA and UX colleagues. Over the last two years I have always met new people in the field or learn a fair few new things at this conference, from the formal sessions and corridor talk.
Now OZ-IA may seem like a lay back conference, I’ll tell you it isn’t, in some respects, some of the topics can be a little full on. But that said the social aspect in previous years has been spontaneous yet entertaining.
Last Sunday I was sitting in the belly of a 737 at 12km’s up, hurtling across the Nullarbor Plain at 748 kmph from Sydney to Perth, with part of the Perth Posse. Hundreds of people in web community from around Australasia were then returning back to their respective towns and cities to family and loved ones. The compressed web geek week of OzIA, Web Directions South and WebJam is now over for another year. This year was enjoyable, but less intense from the previous years, which was good.
Post lunch at OZIA, we are now on the downhill run after a really passionate morning filled with outstanding presenters. First of there was a little problem with a connection to the projector system (powerpoint on the Mac). But soon we were rocking into the afternoon. One thing I am missing however is good strong coffee.
Wasn’t that much of a late night from IABeers, but it was good fun. More food, more beers, more good company. Okay the meal was a little loaded with MSG. Why is it I come to Sydney and I end up not sleeping well due to the a MSG overload. Later morning start this morning (thankyou Eric). Will be interesting to see who fronts for the first session. So on with the live blogging:
