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I am getting so excited about the 2012 International Forum of Visual Practitioners Conference which I am co-planning and co-emceeing. My able co-organizers are Leah Silverman and Emily Marko. I will be sharing emcee duties with the fabulous Heather Willems.

At it?s heart, the conference is for people who use visual thinking to help groups perform better. There is a growing realization that words and numbers are inadequate for understanding and analyzing complex challenges. We are hard wired to process pictorial information, and harnessing that wiring gives teams tremendous advantages.

Some conference highlights:

Speakers:

Mike Rohde, will give a talk about how he catalyzed a global community of sketchnoters and his upcoming book on sketchnoting.

MK Haley, from the Carnegie Mellon University Entertainment Technology Center will discuss collaboration and how different generations approach it.

Christian Schunn, a University of Pittsburgh Cognitive Psychologist, will share current research on how using shared visual displays helps, and occasionally hinders, design and engineering teams.

Babs Carryer, a node in Pittsburgh?s biotech and pharma startup ecosystem will convene a panel on the intersection of visual practice and business.

Nahum Gershon, Principal Scientist at MITRE and expert on data visualization, storytelling, and technology mediated interaction will lead a closing dialog.

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Pre-conference workshops:

Graphic Recording 101 with Rachel Smith and Lisa Arora and 201 with Alphachimp. These workshops will be a full day immersion in the art and craft of visual listening?-turning conversation into large scale visual notes. The 101 course is geared to beginners, and the 201 course is geared to experienced visual listeners.

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In-Conference Mini-Workshops (these might change a little in title and topic, but this is more or less what we have so far. We will have another couple of mini-workshops in addition to these).

-Sketchnoting and hand drawn type with Mike Rohde

-Cartooning with Lloyd Dangle (at the Toonseum)

-Advanced Cartooning with Jim Nuttle (at the Toonseum)

-Sketch Video Creation

-Graphic Recording on the iPad with Rachel Smith

-Knowledge exchange session focused on Graphic Facilitation with Ole Qvist.

-?Doctor?s Hours? with a variety of successful visual practitioners to personally address your business questions

-Distilling your visual practice?s unique value propostion, facilitated by MAYA Design

-Timeline murals using Prezi, with Eileen Clegg

-?Getting Pens into Peoples? Hands?, a session on how to get word and number crunchers over the hump of picking up a pen and drawing, with John Ward.

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Panels:

1) Visual Practice and Design Thinking

2) Visual Practice and Business

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Open Space:

We will have time for self organized sessions where people can create impromptu discussions about topics of interest.

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Book Presentations:

Conference partipants will have the opportunity to hear lightning presentations from authors who are part of the conference.
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Offsite at the Warhol Museum:

We?ll take a walk across the Allegheny River for Dinner and a private tour of the Warhol Museum.
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And more awesome stuff that we can?t quite announce yet!
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Conference info and registration

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