Even though the Idea 2007 conference was sponsored by The Information Architecture Institute, the speakers were really diverse, ranging from artists/designers to developers/engineers, and public agencies, such as hospitals and New York City's non-emergency number, 311. A lot of the speakers were ITP alums or teaching at ITP. I'm working on a wiki with my extensive notes, and will publish the link here (TK TK TK). Missed some really good presentations, but for the entire list, please visit http://ideaconference.org/program.html.

Here were some of the speakers:

Rachel Abrams (who currently teaches a mapping class at ITP) - I just caught the end of her presentation on taxis.

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Frank Lantz, area/code (also teaches at ITP)

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Brad Paley, Information Esthetics

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Hasan Elahi, artist (he was a guest speaker at one of ITP's Friday seminars)
He's working on a pretty cool project titled Tracking Transcience (will have more of the backstory in my notes.

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Chenda Frutcher, The City of New York's 311 line, (alum of ITP)
Couldn't take photos of her presentation, sorry (will have a section of her presentation in my notes). I enjoyed her presentation because she works and designs around real-world problems.

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Fernanda Viegas & Martin Wattenberg, Many Eyes, open source data visualization site

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David Rose, Ambient Devices, founder of the Ambient Orb

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Mike Kuniavsky, Founder of ThingM and Co-founder of Adaptive Path
RFID Wine Rack

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Jake Barton, Local Projects (teaches thesis at ITP)