Our annual calendar of events includes a research fair, career fair, industry day, and Capstone celebration. iAffiliates members are invited to attend these events and sponsor projects that facilitate connections with students and faculty. From recruiting students to enrolling in professional development courses to sponsoring research, there are a multitude of ways to get involved.

Affiliate partners and employers are invited and encouraged to participate in annual events involving faculty and students. Our iAffiliate partners receive priority registration, free parking and personalized concierge services for these events to make participating with the iSchool as seamless as possible.

Research Fair

Each year during Winter Quarter
The Research Fair showcases current research that iSchool faculty and their collaborators are conducting on a variety of information topics. Approximately 40 projects are shown at the event, many with interactive demonstrations.

Learn more about the iSchool Research Fair.

iAffiliates Day

This event is dedicated to Affiliate partners. Faculty, students and partners meet to hold workshops, swap ideas on various topics and discuss potential areas of interest that could lead to collaborative projects.

Past participating companies and organizations include Avanade, The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, BlackRock, Boeing, Cisco, Costco, Deloitte, Expeditors, King County Library System, Microsoft, Seattle Public Library, Serials Solutions and VX Technologies, to name just a few. Topics that generated the most interest included:

• Cybersecurity and information assurance
• Digital curation and social media
• The future of IT
• Leveraging social networking in a public library system
• Knowledge management and social media
• Project management and social computational systems

Learn about iAffiliates Day 2023: "Unlock the Full Potential of Your Workforce: Empowering Neurodiversity in the Workplace"

Capstone Event

Each year in June
This event showcases how students design and build effective solutions to information problems that people and organizations face every day. Students serve as consultants to an organization and then develop the approach and methods needed to address the information problem, conduct the research and present the findings in both oral and written formats. The event is an action-packed evening of poster presentations, networking and hors d’oeuvres. Capstone project collaborators include organizations from the public, private and non-profit sectors.

View past projects and search by partners or programs in the Capstone section.

iSchool Career Fair

Each year in January or February
The iSchool Career Fair is a great way for businesses and organizations to develop relationships with outstanding students in the information field who are potential future interns and part- or full-time employees. This event has sold out in recent years and receives very positive feedback from students and employers.

Learn more about the iSchool Career Fair.

Affiliate News

Reach out to iAffiliates@uw.edu to join our mailing list and receive updates, news and invitations to affiliate events.