Mon: Day 1

Monday, April 4 2016

Time

Information Design & Development

Technical Solutions

Management Issues

Technical Innovations

Technology Test Kitchen

7:00 – 8:00

Breakfast and Morning Registration

8:00 – 8:30

Welcome Address
JoAnn Hackos, The Center for Information-Development Management

8:30 – 9:30

Knowledge in the Networked Age
David Weinberger

9:30 – 10:00

Break

10:00 – 10:40

Lightweight DITA
Lightweight DITA: A pre/overview
Michael Priestley, IBM Canada

The Keys to the (DITA) Kingdom: Using indirection without losing your way
Kris Eberlein, Eberlein Consulting

DITA and Content Management: Just getting started
JoAnn Hackos, Comtech Services, Inc.

Beware: The rise of content robots
Andrew Bredenkamp, Acrolinx

Taxonomy and Delivery: Use Subject Scheme and Classification to drive customer success
Joe Gelb, Zoomin

10:45 –
11:25

Lightweight DITA
Lightweight DITA with Markdown: Everyone contributes
Jenifer Schlotfeldt, IBM

Social Media at Huawei
Hebe Hui He & Liu Canling, Huawei Technologies

How to Turn Your Story into a Business Case
Joan Taggart, Welch Allyn and Suzanne Mescan, Vasont Systems

DITA Maps are More than a TOC: Maps can guide users through their experience
Chris Nitchie, Oberon Technologies

Discover the new oXygen XML Web Author
George Bina, Syncro Soft

11:30 – 12:10

Lightweight DITA
Lightweight DITA in Action: Authoring and evaluating technical content with HDITA
Carlos Evia, Virginia Tech

Taxonomy
Just Tag it: How to build a taxonomy and use it to enrich your enterprise content
Mark Leher, WAND, Inc.

Start Small, Think Big
Lisa Pampuch, NETGEAR, Inc. and Alex Masycheff, Intuillion Ltd.

model2dita: Generate your DITA project structure from the information model
Magda Caloian, FCT AG

Branch-Merge Designed for Efficiency and Usability
Bill Gamboa, Astoria Software

12:15 – 1:45

Lunch: ‘Birds of a Feather’ lunch groups

1:50
–
2:30

Lightweight DITA
Cross-format Content with Lightweight DITA
Michael Priestley & Jenifer Schlotfeldt, IBM and Carlos Evia, Virginia Tech

Taxonomy
Getting to First Base: Managing cross-organizational content with basic metadata
Stanley Doherty, SimpliVity

DITA Pilot Case Study: What we did, what went wrong, how we recovered
Fiona Hanington & Teresa Acob, HCL Technologies

CSS for Print
James Mandas, Molina Healthcare and Mark Giffin, Mark Giffin Consulting, Inc.

Yes We conref! Web-based authoring in DITA with Xeditor

Anthony Apodaca, Xeditor

2:35 –
3:15

Lightweight DITA
Intelligent Content Authoring for Everyone
Mike Iantosca, IBM and Patrick Baker, Stilo International

Taxonomy
Using a Unified Taxonomy to Reduce Customer Pain with Content Silos
Chip Gettinger, SDL

Beyond Translation Savings: Operational efficiencies with a CCMS and DITA
Stacy Jackson, LexisNexis

Get to Gittin’ On: Integrating Code and Content Management in Git
Paul Zimmerman, Cisco

The Power of Real-Time in the Age of IoT
Joe Gelb, Zoomin

3:20
–
3:50

Break

3:55
–
4:35

Mediumweight DITA
Bob Thomas, Tagsmiths

Taxonomy
Taxonomy for DITA: A powerful magnifier with a harsh lens
Joe Pairman, Mekon Ltd. and Dawn Stevens, Comtech Services, Inc.

Special Double session

DITA Type = “other”
Sven Leukert, SAP

They Worked Before, What Happened? Understanding DITA cross-book links
Eliot Kimber, Contrext

Enjoy a Taste of a State-of-the Art Dynamic Publishing with Your Own Content

Aubin LeGall, Antidot

4:40
–
5:20

DITA Success: Small team quickly delivers on all DITA benefits
Bob Garber & Judy Weinzetl, Cybex International and Brian Trombley, DCL

Going the “Last Mile”: Delivering DITA content to mobile devices
Dan Dube, Compass Behavior and André Dubé, Cognilore

DITA-OT 2.x: Discover what’s new in Toolkit 2
Robert Anderson, IBM Authoring Tools Development

Lightweight DITA and Content Mapper: Less filling, tastes great

Doug Gorman, Simply XML

5:30
–
7:30

Exhibitor’s Reception

Next Day