Alan Formby-Jackson

The next Dutch Infographics conference is to be held in the Hotel Theater Figi in Zeist in the centre of Holland on Friday, March 20.

Here’s the line up:
09:00 Opening
10:00 Welcome, Frederik Ruys
10:05 Opening’s ceremony by the Dutch Designers Association and the Union of Dutch Journalists
10:15 Transition from print to online, Nigel Holmes
10:45 Le Monde interactif, Geoff McGee
11:15 BREAK
11:45 Visual Storytelling, Gerrit de Jager (famous Dutch comic artist)
12:15 Broadcasting the news with television graphics, Barbara van Os (RTL Graphics) and Gert de Graaff (Teacher at the Media Academy)
13:00 BREAK
14:00 case 1: How to… transform your Illustrator graphics to Flash effectively, Ton Frederiks (Adobe)
14:30 case 2: How to… set up an infographic agency, Karin Schwandt (Schwandt Infographics)
15:00 case 3: How to… visualize data, Jeroen Barendse (Lust, internationally rewarded processing designers)
15:30 BREAK
16:00 case 4: How to… do your research, Henk van Es (web intelligence specialist)
16:30 Where the hell are we going to? John Grimwade 
17:00 ENDING - Let’s all have a drink!

Organiser Frederik Ruys says: “Because we have four english speakers and last year’s survey showed that attendees were interested to have it translated into Dutch, we decided to book professional simultaneous translators and give headphones to (a part of) the audience. That also gives us the opportunity to translate the Dutch presentations for our speakers and to you (and some other guests abroad).

“So far 130 people have signed up for the conference. Last year we receveid 200 registrars and a lot of people had to be on a waiting list, so we choose this year for the larger theater in Figi. Although we very much liked the intimacy of last year’s smaller conference room, we hope to avoid disappointments to registrars and extra paperwork for us.

“We’re working together with The Dutch Designers Association and the Union of Dutch Journalists for a special feature magazine on Infographics. It will entirely be dedicated to the conference.

“Also good news from our partner Adobe: they will give away one set of the brand new Creative Suite to a lucky attendee.”

Sounds like another great day.

For more details go the conference’s website here.

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