Duration

Career Streams for Writers Knowledge Unlimited Open Up

From To Venue: Citrix Venue: Novell Venue: Huawei

9:15 9:45 30 Minutes

9:45 11:15 90 Minutes Documentation in Cloud - By Rajdeep Gupta

Next-Gen Content Delivery - Archana Maheshwari,

Mahasweta Dey,

Sanjay Sharma

Authoring in the Open – a sneak peak on using Open

Source

Tools for Technical Writing - Divya M N & Anjana Suparna

Sriram

11:15 11:30 15 Minutes Tea break Tea break Tea break

11:30 13:00 90 Minutes Documentation in Cloud - By Rajdeep Gupta

Next-Gen Content Delivery - Archana Maheshwari,

Mahasweta Dey,

Sanjay Sharma

Authoring in the Open – a sneak peak on using Open

Source

Tools for Technical Writing - Divya M N & Anjana Suparna

Sriram

13:00 14:00 60 Minutes Lunch break Lunch break Lunch break

14:00 15:30 90 MinutesPlain Language for Technical Communicators - Bruce

PoropatUnleashing Wiki-Based Authoring - Harkirtan Kaur

From Technical Writer to Information Developer and

Beyond – Exploring Skill

Sets for the Next Generation of Writers - Cindy Frakes

15:30 15:45 15 Minutes Tea break Tea break

15:45 17:30 90 MinutesPlain Language for Technical Communicators - Bruce

PoropatUnleashing Wiki-Based Authoring - Harkirtan Kaur

From Technical Writer to Information Developer and

Beyond – Exploring Skill

Sets for the Next Generation of Writers - Cindy Frakes

November 29, 2012 Preconference Workshops

Time

Pre-conference Registrations

Note: Pre-conference workshop participants will be awarded STC India participation

certificates at the end of the workshop.

Note:

Duration Hall 1 Hall 2 Hall 3

From To

8:30 9:30 60 Minutes

9:30 9:45 15 Minutes

9:45 10:30 45 Minutes

10:30 11:30 60 Minutes

11:30 11:45 15 Minutes

11:45 12:30 45 MinutesManagement Lessons I learnt from Body

Building - Mak PanditTBD

Demystifying search: Tips on how to make your help

content search-friendly - Anindita Basu12:30 12:45 15 Minutes

12:45 13:45 60 Minutes

Hall 1 Hall 2 Hall 3

13:45 14:30 45 Minutes We will tell the User what they Want - Puneet Bhagat

14:30 15:15 45 MinutesImproving the End User Documentation: Addressing the

Demands of Industrial Automation - Chitra Udayakumar

15:15 15:30 15 Minutes

15:30 16:15 45 MinutesImplementing Mobile-friendly Help - Mrini

GorlaDocumentation as a Service - Aparna Nair Camtasia Studio - Jaya Choudhury

16:15 17:00 45 Minutes

One size doesn’t fit all – producing role-

and task-based documentation for your

users - Attaullah Syed, Neeti SukhtankarInformation Mapping - Swapna Narayanan

Overcoming DITA Content Management Challenges with

DITAToo - Amit and Alex

17:00 17:15 15 Minutes

17:15 18:15 60 Minutes

18:15 21:30 180 Minutes

Keynote address: Kapil Verma

Tea Break

Group Photo

Lunch Break

Tea Break

November 30, 2012 Day One Conference (Venue: Chancery Pavillion, Bangalore)

Registrations

Welcome Note - <STC India President>

Chief Guest:

Close of Day

AGM

Entertainment Evening, Networking, and Cocktail Dinner

Publish virtually anywhere with Adobe Technical Communication Suite 4 - Vivek

Publish virtually anywhere with Adobe Technical Communication Suite 4 - Vivek

Duration Hall 1 Hall 2 Hall 3

From To

9:30 10:15 45 Minutes

Mobile documentation: Creating ePubs and

other mobile device outputs using TCS and

its point products - Gyaneshwar Talwar and

Girish Mehta

Video as a genre in Technical

Communication - Faraaz Mohiuddin and

Nabaneeta Sarkar

Surviving and thriving in an Agile

Development Environment - Susanne

Grisham and Manjula Kandula

10:15 11:00 45 Minutes

Let’s Get Technical

Getting the technical back into tech

writing

- Percy Monteiro

11:00 11:15 15 Minutes

11:15 12:00 45 MinutesAlfresco – An open source enterprise

content management tool - Bindu

Nayar

12:00 12:45 45 MinutesSocial Documentation—The Era of

Interaction - Monalisa Sen

Break the paper ceiling with Enterprise

2.0 | The technical communicator as

digital curator - Sandhya Prasad

Open Writing !

-Collaborative Authoring on Apache’s

First Open-Source Cloud Computing

Project - Jessica Tomechak and

Radhika PC

12:45 13:45 60 Minutes

Hall 1 Hall 2 Hall 3

13:45 14:30 45 Minutes

Documentation as a Service (DaaS):

Challenges and Opportunities in a Cloud -

Suraj Jayan

Competition Analysis: A Lesser

Explored Combination of Technical and

Marketing Communications - Anima

Palshikar

Agile documentation development

methodology - Giby

14:30 15:15 45 MinutesEngaging With Your Users - Frederick

Menezes

Legal Documentation: How InfoDev can

contribute towards it. - Greshma

My Experiences with DITA:

Conversion, Migration, and

Collaboration - Varughese Cherian

15:15 15:30 15 Minutes

15:30 16:15 45 Minutes TBD

Yes, It’s English, But What Does It Mean?

Challenges in Editing Non-Native Speakers -

Melanie G. Flanders

ADVANCING TECHNICAL ENGLISH

EASTWARD: GLOBAL CHALLENGES

AND TRAINING SOLUTIONS - Tissa

Salter

16:15 17:15 45 MinutesPlagiarism and Technical Writing -

Aakanksha Singh

Adriane’s Thread For Content -

Shatadeepa C and Moitrayee B

Image handling in a help file -

Kiranmayee

17:15 18:00 45 Minutes Close of Day

Do more with less! Meeting your content creation needs with Adobe FrameMaker ®

11 - Kapil Verma

Do more with less! Meeting your content creation needs with Adobe FrameMaker ®

11 - Kapil Verma

December 1, 2012 Day Two Conference (Venue: Chancery Pavillion, Bangalore)

Time

Tea Break

Lunch Break

Tea Break