After stimulating lunchtime conversation with BJ (1), and chatting with Christina (2) in the hallway, I'm back in the conference for a panel discussion on managing teams of information architects from a manager's perspective (3 & 4). I also found out that the team that won the gold medal for yesterday afternoon's IA Slam. The IA Slam is a think-on-your-feet competition where sevral randomly selected teams are given 45 minutes to come up with a "big idea" solution to a business problem. The problem this year was to design a new shopping experience for a large national retailer named "BAL-MART," which aquired a high-end department store named "Fordstrom." I'm wearing my medal (5) this afternoon.

- mike lee - montreal