November 29, 2012 Preconference Workshops

Career Streams for Writers Time From 9:15 9:45 11:15 11:30 13:00 14:00 15:30 15:45 To 9:45 11:15 11:30 13:00 14:00 15:30 15:45 17:30 Duration Venue: Citrix 30 Minutes 90 Minutes 15 Minutes 90 Minutes 60 Minutes 90 Minutes 15 Minutes 90 Minutes Documentation in Cloud - By Rajdeep Gupta Tea break Documentation in Cloud - By Rajdeep Gupta Lunch break Plain Language for Technical Communicators - Bruce Poropat Tea break Plain Language for Technical Communicators - Bruce Poropat Venue: Novell Pre-conference Registrations Next-Gen Content Delivery - Archana Maheshwari, Mahasweta Dey, Sanjay Sharma Tea break Next-Gen Content Delivery - Archana Maheshwari, Mahasweta Dey, Sanjay Sharma Lunch break Unleashing Wiki-Based Authoring - Harkirtan Kaur Tea break Unleashing Wiki-Based Authoring - Harkirtan Kaur From Technical Writer to Information Developer and Beyond Exploring Skill Sets for the Next Generation of Writers - Cindy Frakes Venue: Huawei Authoring in the Open a sneak peak on using Open Source Tools for Technical Writing - Divya M N & Anjana Suparna Sriram Tea break Authoring in the Open a sneak peak on using Open Source Tools for Technical Writing - Divya M N & Anjana Suparna Sriram Lunch break From Technical Writer to Information Developer and Beyond Exploring Skill Sets for the Next Generation of Writers - Cindy Frakes Knowledge Unlimited Open Up

Note: Pre-conference workshop participants will be awarded STC India participation certificates at the end of the workshop. Note:

November 30, 2012 Day One Conference (Venue: Chancery Pavillion, Bangalore)
Duration From 8:30 9:30 9:45 10:30 11:30 11:45 12:30 12:45 13:45 14:30 15:15 15:30 To 9:30 9:45 10:30 11:30 11:45 12:30 12:45 13:45 14:30 15:15 15:30 16:15 60 Minutes 15 Minutes 45 Minutes 60 Minutes 15 Minutes 45 Minutes 15 Minutes 60 Minutes 45 Minutes 45 Minutes 15 Minutes 45 Minutes Registrations Welcome Note - <STC India President> Chief Guest: Keynote address: Kapil Verma Tea Break Management Lessons I learnt from Body Building - Mak Pandit Group Photo Hall 1 TBD Lunch Break Hall 2 Demystifying search: Tips on how to make your help content search-friendly - Anindita Basu Hall 1 Hall 2 Hall 3

Hall 3 We will tell the User what they Want - Puneet Bhagat Improving the End User Documentation: Addressing the Demands of Industrial Automation - Chitra Udayakumar

Publish virtually anywhere with Adobe Technical Communication Suite 4 - Vivek Publish virtually anywhere with Adobe Technical Communication Suite 4 - Vivek Tea Break Implementing Mobile-friendly Help - Mrini Documentation as a Service - Aparna Nair Gorla One size doesnt fit all producing roleand task-based documentation for your users - Attaullah Syed, Neeti Sukhtankar

Camtasia Studio - Jaya Choudhury Overcoming DITA Content Management Challenges with DITAToo - Amit and Alex

16:15 17:00

17:00 17:15

45 Minutes 15 Minutes

Information Mapping - Swapna Narayanan Close of Day

17:15 18:15

18:15 21:30

60 Minutes 180 Minutes

AGM Entertainment Evening, Networking, and Cocktail Dinner

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

Time From To Mobile documentation: Creating ePubs and Video as a genre in Technical Surviving and thriving in an Agile other mobile device outputs using TCS and Communication - Faraaz Mohiuddin and Development Environment - Susanne its point products - Gyaneshwar Talwar and Nabaneeta Sarkar Grisham and Manjula Kandula Girish Mehta Lets Get Technical Getting the technical back into tech Do more with less! Meeting your content creation needs with Adobe FrameMaker writing - Percy Monteiro 11 - Kapil Verma Tea Break Alfresco An open source enterprise Do more with less! Meeting your content creation needs with Adobe FrameMaker content management tool - Bindu 11 - Kapil Verma Nayar Open Writing ! Break the paper ceiling with Enterprise -Collaborative Authoring on Apaches Social DocumentationThe Era of 2.0 | The technical communicator as First Open-Source Cloud Computing Interaction - Monalisa Sen digital curator - Sandhya Prasad Project - Jessica Tomechak and Radhika PC Lunch Break Hall 1 Hall 2 Hall 3 Competition Analysis: A Lesser Documentation as a Service (DaaS): Explored Combination of Technical and Agile documentation development Challenges and Opportunities in a Cloud Marketing Communications - Anima methodology - Giby Suraj Jayan Palshikar My Experiences with DITA: Engaging With Your Users - Frederick Legal Documentation: How InfoDev can Conversion, Migration, and contribute towards it. - Greshma Menezes Collaboration - Varughese Cherian Tea Break ADVANCING TECHNICAL ENGLISH Yes, Its English, But What Does It Mean? EASTWARD: GLOBAL CHALLENGES Challenges in Editing Non-Native Speakers TBD AND TRAINING SOLUTIONS - Tissa Melanie G. Flanders Salter Plagiarism and Technical Writing Adrianes Thread For Content Image handling in a help file Aakanksha Singh Shatadeepa C and Moitrayee B Kiranmayee Close of Day Duration Hall 1 Hall 2 Hall 3

9:30

10:15

45 Minutes

10:15 11:00 11:15

11:00 11:15 12:00

45 Minutes 15 Minutes 45 Minutes

12:00

12:45

45 Minutes

12:45

13:45

60 Minutes

13:45

14:30

45 Minutes

14:30 15:15 15:30

15:15 15:30 16:15

45 Minutes 15 Minutes 45 Minutes

16:15 17:15

17:15 18:00

45 Minutes 45 Minutes