28 Oct 2021: Announcing the WIAD22 global keynote: Stephanie Akkaoui Hughes

Stephanie Akkaoui Hughes will deliver the World IA Day 2022 global keynote on Architecting Interaction and creating contexts that facilitate connections in physical and digital spaces.

By Ghada Kandil and Grace Lau Reviewed by Andrea Rosenbusch

October 28, 2021 — We are thrilled to announce Stephanie Akkaoui Hughes as the 2022 World Information Architecture Day (WIAD) global keynote speaker!

Stephanie Akkaoui Hughes will be the global keynote speaker for the 2022 World IA Day on 5 March 2021 online.

Architecting a Connected World

Stephanie’s vision of Architecting Interaction explores how we can create contexts — physical, digital or other — that facilitate interactions and nurture connections. Architecting Interaction, like information architecture, is not an end in itself, but a process. It is a process centred on facilitating connectedness. It connects different stakeholders, helps them make sense of connections, and empowers them to continue building connections in and for the future.

Preview from 2018

For a glimpse of her topic, watch the talk she presented at WIAD Switzerland in 2018.

https://vimeo.com/258795415vimeo.com

Stephanie presented “Architecting Interactions: Interactions are the Seeds of Innovation” at World IA Day Zurich in 2018. https://worldiaday.org/talks/architecting-interactions-interactions-are-seeds-innovation

We are excited to have Stephanie join us in March next year.

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More about Stephanie

Stephanie Akkaoui Hughes is a visionary leader of a new calibre, using her vision of Architecting Interaction as an aspirational and operational framework. She is an advocate of value created through cross-disciplinary interactions. She believes that the most sustainable innovation will happen at the intersection of different fields; that interactions are the seeds of innovation, Architecting Interaction explores how spaces and contexts can foster the interactions needed for innovation.

Born and raised in the Middle East, Stephanie has cross-cultural experiences which helped in shaping her compelling and engaging voice. She has given speeches at numerous corporate companies, international conferences, governmental institutions and educational institutions worldwide.

Stephanie is the founder and CEO of AKKA Architects. Among her recent clients are Guardian Glass, Saint Gobain, the European Commission, and a number of Dutch ministries. Stephanie also serves on the advisory and executive boards of a number of business & creative organizations.

• Website: https://www.akkaarchitects.com/

• Twitter: https://twitter.com/s_akkaouihughes

• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephanieakkaoui/

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UPDATED: 2022 January 18 to include an abstract of Stephanie’s talk and link to the global theme.

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