So on with the summary of the second day for OZIA 2008. Okay this is a few days late, but better late than never, eh. Day two sees the return of three minute massages, juice bar, real coffee and great speakers after the official and alternative (late) dinners. As with day one I’m not going to summarise it all, but just go over few highlights I had.
So now it’s day two of OZIA 08, after having Japanese food thrown at us last night at dinner, it’s now time to review the highlights of yesterday.
James gave us a good perspective of the problems people have getting into the IA industry and how hard it can be to in fact cross train and become an IA. The problems of lack of mentoring, local internships and general training. He raises the question, where are the junior IA positions. He has a very good point, we are just not fostering junior IA development in Australia.
The Australian Web Industry Association have been months in intense planning, endless rehearsals, mock operations, countless hours of covert information gathering have gone into yet another year’s Operation Port80 – Sydney, (well would you believe a few minutes via email).
Following on from the intense pizza inspired discussions at the Pumphouse in 2006 and the challenging quiz night of the Quarryman in 2007 we are now having another Port 80 on the evening before Web Directions 2008.
This seems to be coming a bit of a tradition with the decent of the Perth Port 80 Posse on the humble town of Sydney, and why should 2008 be any different.
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.
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