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2019 SIGUCCS Conference: post-conference wrap-up

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The 2019 ACM SIGUCCS conference is over, and that means it’s time for another conference wrap-up post!

Photo of my badge for SIGUCCS 2019, as well as the program and the presenter gift, which was a coaster.
I designed everything you see here that was printed for the conference – the name badges, the printed program, and the coaster design!

One of the especially exciting things about this year’s conference was getting to be publications chair – I’d never served on a conference planning committee before, and it was so much fun that I ended up volunteering to do it again for the 2020 conference!

The Penny Crane Award and Communication Award banners I designed for SIGUCCS 2019.
The award banners I designed – I love how they turned out.

It was exciting to get to see my design work all over the conference. I love doing print design, and it was fun to get to work on all sorts of design projects for the conference over the course of the year.

In addition to serving as publications chair, I also took part in four presentations! I presented two posters (at the same time, no less), participated in two panels, and led IT Training’s cybersecurity-themed escape room, Catching The Big Bad Wolf.

The posters IU presented at SIGUCCS 2019.
I presented the two posters on the right, and my colleague Tom presented the poster on the left.

Everyone really enjoyed the escape room, and we got lots of positive feedback on it!

A group of people participating in the cybersecurity escape room.
This group was working hard to solve the puzzles that were included in the escape room.

Additionally, we won three Communication Awards this year! Think Before You Click won Best in Category for General Service Campaign Materials, the NameCoach at IU video won Best in Category for Short Promotional Video, and Audition: The Basics won Best in Category for Instructional Materials. I’m especially proud of the last one, since I was the lead developer on that course!

Photo of the three communication awards IU won at SIGUCCS 2019.
The awards! (I designed them too)

All in all, the conference was great, and I’m definitely looking forward to being on the 2020 conference committee!

Members of the SIGUCCS 2020 conference committee, wearing yellow t-shirts with blue sunglasses on them.
The early members of the 2020 conference committee! (… and yes, I designed the t-shirts too)

 

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