This year's event is focused on Research and Creativity. This year will feature keynote speaker Kwame Anthony Appiah, author of Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers (Issues of Our Time).

On September 25, Aaron Rosenberg, Program of Information Architecture and Knowledge Management (IAKM), Usability Lab Business Manager for ScanPath at Kent State University, will do a demonstration and talk about basic principles of user centered design for websites and the use of eye tracking software for getting input for design purposes. His presentation will include a demonstration of the Tobii EyeTracker, which measures where users actually look on web pages. This eye tracking technology represents the latest in the rapidly advancing field of quantitative user research for website design.