KEYNOTE: AI, Startups, and the New World of Work: Preparing for the Unimaginable
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Opening ceremonies and keynote address.
What Dungeons & Dragons Taught Me about UX Design
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This session will provide tips make your UX process - and your adventure - less stressful.
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Designing a CMS that supports great content design
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In this talk I'll explore how to design your CMS to support and encourage content design, making it more intuitive for distributed editors to use, with built-in tips and trainin
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AI-Generated Art: Understanding the Potential
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We'll showcase inspiring use cases in the film and video game spheres, where AI is reinventing visual storytelling and gameplay.
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Creating Accessible Emails
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Courtney and Liz will provide best practices and tips for creating accessible emails.
Building Blazor Applications – A Practical Walkthrough
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Web Applications have been around for 20 years, so what is revolutionary about Microsoft Blazor? Can we develop apps while still making usable, accessible applications that meet brand standards?
Figma and Design Systems
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In this session, we will walk through how we organized, architected, and built a library in Figma with dozens of components, variants, properties, and styles.
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How to Level up your Workday so it’s More Efficient (and Fun!)
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In this session, you’ll hear from three members of Illinois State University’s digital experience team.
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The Creative Writer’s Toolkit: Tried and True Methods for Eye-catching Stories
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In this workshop, we'll go over tools to be creative and draw your reader in so they don't want to stop.
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A Different Kind of Magic: Reimagining our Work with Neurodivergent Creatives and Tech Colleagues
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This presentation introduces those in the creative and tech fields to strategies for working with co-workers who may have ASD or are neurodivergent, which is not often addressed in diversity and inclusion initiatives.
Lunch
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Digital Accessibility Program
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This program will include background information, as well as facts and common misconceptions of creating a digital footprint that is accessible for all.
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Our Digital Home: University Housing’s Journey to New Websites
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Mari Anne Brocker Curry, Dick Detzner, and Chris Axtman-Barker detail the planning, feedback, strategy, and structure of the new Housing websites
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Digital Accessibility Program
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This program will include background information, as well as facts and common misconceptions of creating a digital footprint that is accessible for all.
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Navigating Organizational Milestones: Harnessing Communications for Brand Stewardship
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In this engaging talk, we'll explore the pivotal role of effective communication in amplifying the impact of organizational milestones.
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Behind-the-scenes of digital media: Podcasts, webinars and everything in between
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Get a behind-the-scenes look at how to create and edit a podcast, video, or other digital media
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Moving the needle: How to translate basic market research into a multi-phase awareness campaign
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In this workshop Kristin Tennant and Jamie Hedrick draw from their journey developing a strategic, multi-faceted campaign.
SEO Essentials for Content Managers
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We will cover content-focused strategies you can employ to ensure your audiences find your web pages in Google.
Empowering Education: Leveraging AI to Support Underrepresented College Students
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This presentation delves into the potential of ChatGPT and other AI tools to address these students' unique challenges
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Playing to Win: Redesigning COUNTRY’s User Experience Playbook
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In this presentation, we’ll learn how COUNTRY redefined its User Experience Design Playbook over the course of their quote redesign efforts.
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Web Con Social Mixer – Powered by NCSA
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Gallery Art Bar - Urbana, IL
Join us for our social meet up at the Gallery Art Bar in Urbana, IL!