About the Conference

When: 8-12 June, 2009
Where: Hilton & Executive Tower Portland, Oregon, USA
Who: Over 700 user experience professionals from more than 20 countries
What: Tutorials, workshops, Experienced Practitioners program, then two and a half days packed with presentations, Idea Markets, and opportunities to network with other user experience professionals.

About the Theme

Whether people are interacting with consumer electronics, medical equipment, factory floor production lines, websites, retail stores, customer support or the architectural spaces which they inhabit every day, usability and user experience reactivation share in the common goal of making it better.

Important Dates

  • Call for participation: Opening 25 August
  • Submission Reviewer sign-up closes: 19 September
  • Submissions close for most submissions*: Closed
  • Conference program decided: 12 December
  • Idea Markets and Posters submissions close: 9 January, 2009
  • Exhibitor and Sponsor sign-up opens: January 2009
  • Registration opens: 23 February, 2009
  • Volunteer application opens: 23 February, 2009

*All submissions except Idea Markets and Posters