I have a pet peeve with unique names/themes for recurring conferences. Rather than just calling this year's conference "The 2009 XYZ Conference", we see putatively clever or intriguing titles, which may be useful for branding the conference web site, but typically have little do to with the conference content.
With that said, here's a couple of upcoming conferences that promise to be worthwhile, because of, or despite their names:
- Exposed - A Design Research Exchange will be at Arizona State University in just a few weeks (March 6th and 7th). "Students, professionals and academics will engage with Exposed participants from organizations such as Intel, Smart Design, Herman Miller, frog design, Gravity Tank, Brooks Stevens Inc, Adaptive Path, Flamingo International, ReD Associates, Arizona State University, Lextant and more!" This is the follow-up to last year's From Here to There conference.
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Project Infusion is the working title for 2009 international IDSA conference that will be held in Miami in September. It's still early in planning for this one, but the call for submission abstracts is only until March 6th.
