Preconference Workshop Proceedings

Time Hall 1
9:30am - 12:30pm DITA Quick Start, Selvakumar T S, Cadence
1:30 - 2:45pm Fixing the Five, Suhag Shirodkar, Teclarity
3:00pm - 5:00pm Simplified English, Douglas Dow


 

Conference Proceedings
Friday, October 26

Time Grande Sala Sala de Banquete HRL Boardroom
10:00 - 10:45 am Get ready for the next wave, Brian Keefe, EMC    
10:45 - 11:30 am Strategies for succeeding in a global documentation team, Francisco Abedrabbo, Oracle If you agree, click "No!", Suman Kumar, Dell Demystifying localization, S Ravi Kumar, Sun
2:00 - 2:45 pm Collaborative content development through communities, Shripad M. Patki/Peter Fernandez, Sun Test plans as a source of improving documentation quality, Rachna Ganguli/Shilpa Sharma, Cadence From good to great: what it takes to be a great Tech Pubs manager, Denise Kiser, Vmware
2:45 - 3:30 pm Introducing Adobe Technical Communication Suite, Vivek Jain, Adobe     



Saturday, October 27

Time Grande Sala Sala de Banquete HRL Boardroom
10:00 - 10:45 am Tools, communication, process: the keys to a global, collaborative Technical Publications organization, Manmohan/Jayalakshmi, CA    
10:45 - 11:30 am The business management lessons I learnt from my gardening hobby, Makarand Pandit, Technowrites Usability evaluation of Help, Anupama G/Jayalakshmi M, Amit B, Infosys Documentation tools for technical writing 2.0, Suraj Jayan, HP
12:00 - 12:45 pm Makeover of information management systems - DITA migration strategy, Jyothi Jandhyala, BEA Creating readers by capturing and delivering documentation in Question and Answer format, Nandini Gupta, Cadence E-learning through gaming, Surag Ramachandran, Honeywell
2:30 - 3:15 pm The truth about blogging, Dr Manjula Kandula, Sun A technical editor's job, Sankara Rajnala, Cisco