Mar 16, 2019
InfoCamp, in its 10th year, is a premier student-run event for the information community. Held on the UC Berkeley campus at the School of Information, InfoCamp is a day-long event that aims to educate, inform, and inspire new ways of thinking about information through panels, talks, and innovation challenges. The event is targeted to anyone interested in information, and typically draws professionals, students, and entrepreneurs who work in roles in data science, UX design, product management, software engineering, and policy.
Agenda
9:10 - 9:20
Intro
9:20 - 9:45
Keynote
9:45 - 11:00
Panel: Understanding Users
What if we could have better frameworks to understand people’s interaction with technology? By talking with researchers, designers and product owners we’ll explore current approaches and emerging trends on how to better understand end users.11:00 - 11:15
Break
11:15 - 12:00
Unconference
is a loosely structured conference session emphasizing the informal exchange of information and ideas between participants, rather than following a conventionally structured panel/talk. Interested in hosting a 10-minute session during the unconference?Suggest a topic!12:00 - 1:00
Panel: Raising and Resolving Conflict in Online Communities
What if we could have more effective social engineering that understands how people tend to act, how we want those tendencies to manifest online, and how to design rules and affordances to 'tilt' human behavior in the directions somebody wants? In this panel we'll explore different perspectives on the escalation and de-escalation of conflict, such as centralized vs. decentralized processes, from various kinds of online communities.1:00 - 2:00
Lunch
2:00 - 3:00
In-Depth Talk: Tangible Interfaces
What if our interfaces transcended our screens? What if we could leverage the full potential of our senses to interact with technology? We’ll explore how new perspectives in interface design are redefining our relationship with information through embodied cognition, ubiquitous computing, and the art of research by design.3:00 - 4:00
In-Depth Talk: The Current Bounds of Data-Driven Decisions
What if our current limitations in computing power can be overcome by better algorithms or models? What if we find ways to capture more data without compromising privacy? We’ll venture into these questions with practitioners that are stretching, to its limits, the current capabilities of our data-driven machine learning paradigm; explore their approaches and evaluate opportunities.4:00 - 5:00
In-Depth Talk: Ethical Considerations for Scaling Companies
What if the companies, governments and other organizations that transform information in our society reach a consensus around fairness, privacy and transparency? We’ll explore how the ethics of technological product development are being defined by the large organizations that shape our everyday lives.2:00 - 5:00
The Idea Room (With Refreshments)
5:00 - 5:30
Closing Remarks
5:30 - 6:00
Mixer
Speakers
Keynote
Krys Blackwood
Senior Lead UX Designer at NASA JPL
Panel: Understanding Users - Techniques and Considerations
Emon Motamedi
Senior Product Manager at Reddit
Jessica Strick
Lead Exhibit Developer at The Exploratorium
Eric Schlakman
Product & Marketing Content at Stripe
Krys Blackwood
Senior Lead UX Designer at NASA JPL
Panel: Raising and Resolving Conflict in Online Communities
Carrie Melissa Jones
Founder and Chief Strategist at Gather Community Consulting
Brandon Harris
Programmer at Wikipedia
Sonya Mann
Communications Manager at ZCash Foundation
In-Depth Talk: Tangible Interfaces
Dr. Tico Ballagas
Senior Manager of the Immersive Experience Lab at HP Labs
Noura Howell
PhD Candidate at the UC Berkeley School of Information
In-Depth Talk: The Current Bounds of Data-Driven Decisions
Michelle Carney
ML + UX at Amazon Music; Lecturer at Stanford d.school
Anand Rajagopal
Data Scientist at Autodesk
Luca Cosentino
Product and Growth at Oasis Labs
In-Depth Talk: Ethical Considerations for Scaling Companies
Chirantan Chatterjee
Fellow at Hoover Institution, Stanford
The Idea Room
Ideas evolve. With each change of hands, circumstances, or requirements, a project can be completely unrecognizable from how it began. Through The Idea Room, we seek to simulate this process in a controlled environment. Over the course of 3 hours, we will explore 3 different scenarios and how each affects the development of 6 different products in 30 minute iterations.
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