Plan. Essentials to Designing a Conference. In the past year, I’ve been to an obscene amount of conferences. It started with Nielsen Norman group’s User Experience in Las Vegas in December 2007, followed by the inaugural IxDA Interaction 08 in Savannah, IA Summit 2008 in Miami, Gel 2008 in New York, Web 2.0 Expo NY , IAI ‘s IDEA 2008 in Chicago, UIE ‘s UI13 in Cambridge, MA, and most recently Interaction 09 in Vancouver. And I’m attending another six this year… so far. I’ve been lucky to observe several different approaches to organizing a conference and varying levels of formality. Tame The Web » Blog Archive » Planning & Pitfalls: Using Pag. Invitations, Free eCards and Party Planning Ideas from Evite.