Day 1 - November 3 (DITA, XML and Publishing)
Please note that content in the following table may change in the coming weeks as speakers confirm their topics.
| Time | Track 1 | Track 2 | Track 3 |
| 8:00 8:30 |
Registration, Coffee Break & Networking |
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| 8:30 8:45 |
Welcome & Speaker Introductions |
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| 8:45 9:45 |
Content Management: No Mystery!, Mollye Barrett (Day 1, Morning Keynote) |
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| 9:45 10:00 |
Coffee Break & Networking | ||
| 10:00 11:15 |
Leigh White |
Kristen James Eberlein |
Content Analysis: The Keys to Reuse Mollye Barrett |
| 11:15 12:45 |
Planning for DITA and a CMS, Glenn Emerson (Day 1, Lunch Keynote) |
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| 12:45 2:00 |
XML Alphabet Soup |
Understanding the Structure and Benefits of DITA Hal Trent |
Leigh White |
| 2:00 2:15 |
Coffee Break & Networking |
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| 2:15 3:30 |
Breaking Out of the DITA Box: A Real-World Usage Case Study Speaker ToBeAnn and Lynne Price |
DITA and Maps: Building for Publishing |
Using File Management Systems / Source Code Control Systems Ed Marshall |
| 3:30 3:45 |
Coffee Break & Networking |
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| 3:45 5:00 |
Formatting your XML |
DITA Formatting Issues/Troubleshooting |
Julio J. Vazquez |
Day 2 - November 4 (DITA, XML and Publishing)
Please note that content in the following table may change in the coming weeks as speakers confirm their topics.
| Time | Track 1 | Track 2 | Track 3 |
| 8:00 8:30 |
Registration, Coffee Break & Networking |
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| 8:30 8:45 |
Welcome & Speaker Introductions |
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| 8:45 9:45 |
This presenter has canceled. A new presenter/presentation is being sought for this presentation slot. |
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| 9:45 10:00 |
Coffee Break & Networking | ||
| 10:00 11:15 |
Hal Trent |
From MS Word to DITA - A step-by-step process (case study) Barbara Stuhlemmer |
DITA Doclet Tool for API Documentation Mariana Alupului |
| 11:15 12:45 |
Publishing: Past, Present and Future, Bernard Aschwanden (Day 2, Lunch Keynote) |
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| 12:45 2:00 |
Lynne Price |
Improving the migratability of your legacy content to DITA XML Don Bridges |
We Broke All The Rules. Now What? A story of an imperfect implementation Robert Perry and Kristeen Broussard |
| 2:00 2:15 |
Coffee Break & Networking |
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| 2:15 3:30 |
Kristen James Eberlein |
Building Powerful Corporate Technical Knowledgebase Using DITA Yaniv Shoshani |
Using Help Authoring Tools to Create "Test-Bed" CMSs Neil Perlin |
| 3:30 3:45 |
Coffee Break & Networking |
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| 3:45 5:00 |
XSLT and DITA: Hands on Demo |
Glenn Emerson |
Developing a Task Based Information Model for DITA Scott Wolff |
Day 3 - November 5 (Technical Communications and Publishing)
Please note that content in the following table may change in the coming weeks as speakers confirm their topics.
| Time | Track 1 | Track 2 | Track 3 |
| 8:00 8:30 |
Registration, Coffee Break & Networking |
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| 8:30 8:45 |
Welcome & Speaker Introductions |
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| 8:45 9:45 |
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| 9:45 10:00 |
Coffee Break & Networking | ||
| 10:00 11:15 |
Understanding Structured FrameMaker: The Files Behind Round Tripping XML Kay Whatley |
Creating Visual Training and Marketing Materials Using Adobe Captivate Neil Perlin |
Converting FrameMaker 8 Content to Online Help Using RoboHelp 7 Leigh White |
| 11:15 12:45 |
Integrating the Adobe Technical Communications Suite (Day 3, Lunch Keynote) |
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| 12:45 2:00 |
FrameMaker Session |
Selecting a Component Content Management System for use with DITA Scott Wolff |
What's Up With RoboHelp (and Adobe's Technical Communication Suite) Neil Perlin |
| 2:00 2:15 |
Coffee Break & Networking |
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| 2:15 3:30 |
DITA Authoring in FrameMaker 8 Terry Smith |
Lynne Price |
Mary Ann Howell |
| 3:30 3:45 |
Coffee Break & Networking |
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| 3:45 5:00 |
FrameMaker Session |
TBD Session |
RoboHelp Session |
Day 4 - November 6 (Beyond Tech Comm and Publishing)
Please note that content in the following table may change in the coming weeks as speakers confirm their topics.
| Time | Track 1 | Track 2 | Track 3 |
| 8:00 8:30 |
Registration, Coffee Break & Networking |
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| 8:30 8:45 |
Welcome & Speaker Introductions |
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| 8:45 9:45 |
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| 9:45 10:00 |
Coffee Break & Networking | ||
| 10:00 11:15 |
Defining Structure Applications in FrameMaker Lynne A. Price |
Captivate Session |
RoboHelp Session |
| 11:15 12:45 |
Suite Spot -- A Comparison of Adobe Product Suites (Day 4, Lunch Keynote) |
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| 12:45 2:00 |
FrameMaker and DITA: A Technical Overview |
TBD Session |
RoboHelp Session |
| 2:00 2:15 |
Coffee Break & Networking |
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| 2:15 3:30 |
FrameMaker Session |
Strategies for Conditional Text in FrameMaker 8 Terry Smith |
TBD Session |
| 3:30 3:45 |
Closing comments/Adjourn for the year |
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