What’s in Store?

Two and a Half Days – We’ve expanded the conference format to two and a half days. That’s 25% more conference!

Same Price As Last Year – We know how tight your budget is. So we’re keeping prices flat for 2012 even though we’ve expanded the conference. That’s $450 for early bird tickets while they last.

Keynotes by Jared Spool and Whitney Hess – Jared Spool kicked edUi off in 2009 with his keynote Cooking Up Gourmet User Experiences on a Fast-Food Budget. We’re happy to welcome Jared back and look forward to finding out if “girls under trees” is still a significant problem with university home pages. Whitney Hess is a user experience consultant and accomplished speaker. She frequently joins the An Event Apart crew as they tour the country and can be seen at conferences like UX Hong Kong, or Frontiers of Interaction (Italy).

Workshops – One half-day workshop is included with your registration at no additional charge.

Choose from:

• Lean UX with Jeff Gothelf
• jQuery with Jay Blanchard
• Web Accessibility with Derek Featherstone
• Responsive Design with Jason Cranford Teague

Plenary – This year, Aneesh Chopra, the first CTO of the United States will deliver the plenary talk on how technology and open data can improve democracy and education.

Plus 40 Other Speakers - The call for proposals is open until June 15th. We’ll have the full program for you in July, but you can look forward to more than 40 speakers who will offer knowledge and insights about today’s most important topics in User Experience, Web Design and Development all targeted specifically for institutions of learning.

edUi 2011 sold out, so don’t delay. Register Now!

We’ve rounded up two more stellar speakers for you for edUi 2012. This should complete our lineup of Featured Speakers. But who knows, I mean the call for proposals is still open after all.

Registration is already open for previous attendees (check your email for your access code) and general registration will open next week.

Whitney Hess

Whitney Hess runs a user experience strategy consultancy based in New York City. She believes empathy builds empires. Whitney can be found speaking at An Event Apart, UX Hong Kong, and Frontiers of Interaction (Italy).

Whitney will deliver one of the keynote presentations at edUi 2012.

 Stephanie Hay

Stephanie Hay is a writer, project manager, and information architect with an uncanny ability to seamlessly guide users from point A to point B. Stephanie has spoken at SXSW (Austin), Future of Web Design (London) and the upcoming Interlink (Vancouver).

Stephanie will lead a session on writing content for usability at edUi 2012.

• Jason Cranford Teague will lead a half-day workshop on responsive design
• Derek Featherstone will lead a half-day workshop on web accessibility
• Aneesh Chopra will deliver the edUi plenary on how technology and open data can improve democracy and education

But we’re not done yet. We just confirmed two more fabulous speakers today that we’re not quite ready to announce.

Plus we’ll have two full days packed with sessions led by you and your peers. Just be sure to answer our call for proposals and join these great speakers at edUi 2012.

Make sure you’ve got Sept. 24-26th marked on your calendar for edUi 2012. Registration will be opening soon.

• Jared Spool – Keynote
• Jeff Gothelf – LeanUX Workshop
• Jay Blanchard – jQuery Workshop

But Wait There’s More!

Make sure you mark your calendars and plan to join us for a two and a half days of User Interface and User Experience goodness.