Agenda

The complete program for Design for Meaning

World IA Day Columbus 2026 is on March 7, 2026. The tickets are available at Eventbrite. The event is free, but tickets are limited: don’t miss out!

9:30 am - 10:00 am Registration & Networking
10:00 am - 10:15 am Opening
10:20 am - 11:00 am First Talk - To be announced!
11:10 am - 12:10 am Lightning talks - Four speakers - we are looking for professionals that want to share their experience.
12:20 pm - 1:00 pm Second Talk - To be announced!
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm Lunch time
2:10 pm - 3:30 pm Panel - Designing for Meaning in the Age of AI As AI systems increasingly shape how information is created, organized, and delivered, Information Architecture faces a new challenge: designing for human understanding while remaining extensible, interpretable, and usable by machines. This panel brings together all WIAD Columbus 2026 to discuss how we design for meaning when humans and AI are both users of our systems, exploring intent, structure, ethics, data, and experience in an AI-augmented world.
3:30 pm - 4:00 pm Closing and raffle

---