Events

The IA Gateway hosts regular meetups online and in-person in New York City. We also partner with other Meetups for mashup events. Please visit out Meetup page for details about upcoming information architecture events in New York City and around the world.

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Information Architecture Gateway (IAG) Meetup

Look for signup information for all of our events at our Meetup site.

Upcoming Events

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W3C Community

TPAC 2026

  • October 26-30
  • Dublin Ireland

Shari Thurow will be in attendance at W3C’s 2026 annual technical and community group conference.

We are planning an informal, “After TPAC” meeting online for those who are unable to attend. Let us know if you have a project or idea you want to present.

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Gateways 2026

Shaping Science Gateway Infrastructure for Education and Discovery

  • Workshops: September 1-8
  • Conference: September 23-25
  • Washington, DC, USA

IA Gateway Workshop (Sept 2): Designing Frequently Asked Questions and Knowledge Bases for Science Gateways: Tutorial on Question Design, Help Architecture, and AI-Ready Documentation.

Poster (Sept 24): Anatomy of an Artificial Intelligence Search: Mapping Query Fan-out for Science Gateways. Noreen Whysel will be in Washington for the poster session and dinner on September 24.

Past Events

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IAC: The Information Architecture Conference

IAC26: April 14-18, 2026, Philadelphia, PA
IA Gateway poster “Information Architecture for Inclusion: Breaking Down Technical Barriers,” presented by Noreen Whysel.

IAC25: April 28-May 3, 2025, Philadelphia, PA, USA
IA Gateway poster: “The Anatomy of a Question in Information Architecture and AI: Chatbots and Search.” Noreen also presented an interactive career poster called “Exploring IA Through the Metaphor of the Labyrinth.”

IAC24: April 11-13, 2024, Seattle Public Library, Seattle, WA.
IA Gateway Poster: “A visual language to help IA practitioners understand and communicate concepts underlying the Semantic Web and how it is applied in AI applications.”

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City Tech Faculty Poster Session

May 11, 2026, Scholarship on Campus, Brooklyn, NY
November 20, 2025, Faculty Poster Session, Brooklyn, NY
Noreen Whysel presented our poster on The Anatomy of a Question in Information Architecture: Chatbots and Search from IAC25 at the New York City College of Technology’s 23rd annual Faculty Poster Session. The poster won a Faculty Poster Award and special recognition at City Tech’s annual Scholarship on Campus event on May 11, 2026.

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The Science Gateways Community Institute Annual Gateways Conference

Gateways 2025, October 28-30, 2025, Green Bay, WI, USA

  • Thursday, October 23: IA Gateway Virtual Tutorial
    Make Your Science Gateways Discoverable: A Practical Tutorial on AI and Search Optimization
  • Tuesday, October 29: IA Gateway Poster Presentation

Gateways 2023, October 26-30, 2023, Virtual

  • Thursday, October 26: Virtual Tutorial – Accessible Gateways: Communicating Inclusive Design Practices with Pattern Libraries
  • Friday, October 27: Virtual Tutorial – Accessible Gateways: Communicating Inclusive Design Practices with Style Guides
  • Tuesday, October 31: Poster Presentation
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W3C Information Architecture Community Group

The W3C Information Architecture Community Group is planning our Annual Meeting at TPAC 2026. Please join us and help plan 2026!

Past Events:
TPAC25, November 10-14, 2025, Kobe, Japan and Virtual
Annual Meeting/After TPAC Session, September 23, 2024, Virtual
TPAC23, September 12, 2023, Virtual

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World IA Day New York City

March 8, 2025, Virtual IA Gateway is hosting the New York City edition of World IA Day 2025 on Saturday, March 8, 2025.

World IA Café: When does an information architect’s job “end” on a project?

June 15, 2023, Virtual. Shari Thurow presented a look at the role of Information Architects on today’s teams. Hosted by World Information Architecture Association and
Sponsored by Rutgers MBS.

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UX Lisbon

May 23-26, 2023, Lisbon, Portugal
Noreen Whysel delivered a workshop on mapping the search experience at the 2023 UX Lisbon conference and a keynote on preventing harmful design.