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More about the virtual conference format. The Summer of UX (Yes, we realize that these dates are the winter in the southern hemisphere, but The Winter of UX doesn't sound as good. At least, winter in Sydney is warmer than summer in San Francisco.) June 15 - July 2: Targeting time zones in the Americas, Europe, and Middle East. San Francisco: 9am-12:30pm New York: 12pm-3:30pm São Paulo/Buenos Aires: 1pm-4:30pm London: 5pm-8:30pm Amsterdam/Berlin: 6pm-9:30pm Helsinki/Athens/Moscow/Riyadh: 7pm-10:30pm Dubai: 8pm-11:30pm New Delhi: 9:30pm-1am July 25-31: Targeting time zones in Asia and Australia. Jakarta: 7am-2pm Singapore/Hong Kong/Beijing: 8am-3pm Tokyo/Seoul: 9am-4pm Sydney: 10am-5pm Auckland: 12pm-7pm Honolulu/Tahiti: 2pm-9pm the prior day August 10-21: Targeting time zones in the Americas. San Francisco: 8am-3pm Denver: 9am-4pm Chicago: 10am-5pm New York: 11am-6pm São Paulo/Buenos Aires: 12pm-7pm London: 4pm-11pm Amsterdam/Berlin: 5pm-midnight Three innovations leverage the online format: At the June event, each course meets across 2 consecutive days, for 3.5 hours each day. You must attend both days. (In the July and August events, each course meets for one full day.) The two-half-days format will help conference participants who find it difficult to attend for a full day due to other obligations, whether work or family. (While not perfect times, this is also the best conference for attendees in India.) At the July event, we take advantage of the way time zones run north–south to schedule times that are simultaneously convenient for participants in Asia and in Australia/New Zealand. (This is also the only event we will host this year which is convenient for attendees in Hawaii and French Polynesia, but note that due to the International Date Line, each course will be on the day before the announced date for attendees in these locations. All event dates for the July conference are listed for time zones in Asia and Australia.) The August event runs for two full weeks and allows us to offer an unprecedented selection of 43 different full-day UX courses. At a physical conference, it would have been prohibitively expensive to offer this many courses. Also, if participants had to travel, most people would have found it difficult to attend a conference across two weeks. But when attending from home, you can attend as few or as many courses as you like, scattered across the two conference weeks. For each event, we have listed time zones from which it's convenient to attend these live virtual conferences (i.e., during the day or evening). However, we welcome participants from anywhere in the world, and the experience from our first virtual conferences is that many people do participate very actively even if they live in places where attending requires them to stay up at night. (The first Virtual UX Conference had participants from 46 countries and territories, and the second Virtual UX Conference had participants from 50 countries and territories.) Physical Conferences Canceled All the previously-announced physical UX Conferences have been canceled. If you have a confirmed registration for one of the canceled conferences (San Francisco in May, Amsterdam in June, Sydney in July, or Vancouver in August), we will contact you directly with information about how to transition your registration to one of the new virtual conferences. If you have not received our email by April 30, then please first check your spam folder, and if not there, contact our registration office directly at the address given in your confirmation email. Case Studies Wanted: UX Metrics We're collecting case studies about UX benchmarking. In other words, we want to hear about a specific time when your team implemented some kind of design change and collected quantitative data before and after that change. We're offering free reports, online seminars, and full-day training courses as thank-you gifts (the more you share, the more gifts you get). Any project, product, or service could be eligible. Please fill in this short form to share: http://short.nngroup.com/metrics Online Seminars See list of all online seminars, including on-demand courses. |
