Agenda

Monday, April 27, 2009

Time

Management

Technical

DITA

Demo (30 minute slots)

7:00-8:00

Breakfast and Morning Registration

8:00-8:30

Welcome
JoAnn Hackos, Director
The Center for Information-Development Management, Inc.

8:30-9:30

From the Trenches ... Successfully Introducing Enterprise Content Management Throughout Your Organization
Gershon Joseph
Cisco Systems, Inc.

9:30-10:00

Break

10:00-11:00

10 Easy Lessons: From DITA Theory to Reality
Kathryn Ohman
Sybase, Inc.

ROI, Specialization, and Processing
France Baril
Architextus, Inc.

Undertaking a DITA Pilot Project at STMicroelectronics
Marc Speyer
Stilo International
Sheila D'Annunzio
STMicroelectronics

11:00-12:00

Enterprise DITA and the Content Ecosystem
Michael Priestley
IBM Corporation

DITA EDEN (Electronic Documentation Essential Norm): Simplifying DITA
Andrzej Zydroń
XML International

After the Dust Settles: The Evolving Roles of Writers and Editors in a CMS
Ashley Korol
Research In Motion
Stephanie Thibault
Research In Motion

11:00-11:30

 

 

11:30-12:00

SDL Global Authoring Management System with SDL Trisoft Component Content Management System
SDL Trisoft


Accelerate your XML Document Creation and Review Process
JustSystems

12:00-1:30

Lunch

1:30-2:30

Living in a Single Sourcing House
Heidi Sandler
Siemens Building Technologies

Oh Brother, Where Art Thou? Using Relationship Tables and XQuery to Blend DITA and Non-DITA XML
Seth Park
Freescale Semiconductor, Inc.

Adapting to Modular Product Development
Tom Goering
Fair Isaac Corporation

1:30-2:00

 

 

2:00-2:30

DITA Exploration and Implementation with PTC/Arbortext
PTC

 


Finding the Right Content When You Need It
Vasont Systems

2:30-3:00

Break

3:00-4:00

Crossing Organizational Boundaries with Content Management and DITA
Colleen Smith
Teradata Corporation

Data Merge and Automation with DITA:
A Case Study

Hal Trent
Comtech Services, Inc.

Introduction to DITA Conditional Processing
Dave Gash
HyperTrain dot Com

3:00-3:30

 

 

3:30-4:00

Acrolinx® Information Quality Suite
acrolinx


Antenna House V5: Support for CSS and XSL-FO
Antenna House

4:00-5:00

Selling the Vision to Management: Building Compelling ROIs For a DITA Implementation
Chip Gettinger
SDL Trisoft
Howard Schwartz
SDL Trisoft

From FrameMaker to FrameMaker, Growing a DITA-Capable Department
Elizabeth Fraley
Single-Sourcing Solutions, Inc.
Larry Owen
Software AG

DITA for Enterprise-Wide Business Content
Eric Severson
Flatirons Solutions, Inc.
Kelly Stirman
Mark Logic Corporation

4:00-4:30

 

 

4:30-5:00

IXIASOFT’s DITA CMS Framework
Ixiasoft


TerraXML

5:00-7:00

Exhibitor Reception

Tuesday, April 28, 2009

Time

Management

Technical

DITA

Demo (30 minute slots)

7:30-8:30

Breakfast and Morning Registration

8:30-9:30

The CMS Myth
George Ross
ISITE Design
Jeff Cram
ISITE Design

Successful Content Management through Taxonomy and Metadata Design
Rachel Sondag
Project Performance Corporation
Sara James
Project Performance Corporation

Indexing Effectively in DITA
Julio Vazquez
Systems Documentation, Inc.

Rewards with Challenges: CMS Year 1
Brenda Oakley
Citrix Systems, Inc.
Tammy Jones
Citrix Systems, Inc.

(Management track talk)

9:30-10:00

Break

10:00-11:00

How to Convince Management to Move the Team to a New Arena
Bill Gamboa
Vasont Systems
Jack Miller
Joy Mining Machinery

Nuts and Bolts of the DITA Open Toolkit
Joe Gelb
Suite Solutions

DITA's Open Source Friends: Eclipse, Flexbuilder, and PHP MySQL
Jesse Towle
Bridgewater Systems
Tom Towle
BlueCross BlueShield

10:00-10:30

 

 

 

 

10:30-11:00

Enterprise Authoring of DITA Content with IBM FileNet Content Manager and Quark XML Author
IBM Corporation


oXygen XML Editor and Author for DITA
SyncRO Soft

11:00-12:00

Planning and Executing Portal Content Migration
Nick Nylund
Project Perfomance Corporation
Sharon Silsbee
Jacobs Engineering Group

Using Feature-Based Metadata to Improve Maintainability
Mike Rice
Xerox Corporation

Configuring the DITA Open Toolkit for PDF Deliverables
Jennifer Linton
CaridianBCT

11:00-11:30

 

11:30-12:00

HyperSTE
Tedopres

 


EMC Documentum Technical Publishing Solution
Flatirons Solutions

12:00-1:30

Lunch

1:30-2:30

DITA Implementation at BMC Software: A Case Study
David Brainard
BMC Software, Inc.
Shalini Komarla
BMC Software, Inc.

Questions and Answers: Using the DITA Learning and Training Module for Test Preparation Publications
Eliot Kimber
Really Strategies, Inc.

IDCMS BluePrint: IBM’s Information Development Content Management Strategy
Mike Iantosca
IBM Corporation

1:30-2:00

 

 

2:00-2:30

Delivering Dynamic DITA Content with LiveContent
XyEnterprise


eComPress – electronic publications that work
Eurofield Information Solutions

2:30-3:00

Break

3:00-4:00

Conquering Content: The Minimalism Crusade
Buddy Lee
Jack Henry and Associates, Inc.

Enabling Online Community: Putting Taxonomy to Work at the Urban Land Institute
Stephanie Lemieux
Earley and Associates, Inc.

The Perfect Conversion: FrameMaker to DITA in 365 Days
Laura Bellamy
VMware, Inc.
Yas Etessam
VMware, Inc.

3:00-3:30

 

 

3:30-4:00

Realizing the DITA Vision – Legacy Conversions Made Easy
Stilo International


Astoria Software

4:00-5:00

DITA 1.2 Panel
Kristen James Eberlein
IBM Corporation
JoAnn Hackos
Comtech Services, Inc.

4:00-4:30

Mark Logic Server – the place to put your XML
Mark Logic

Wednesday, April 29, 2009

Time

Management

Technical

DITA

Demo

 

7:30-8:30

Breakfast

8:30-9:30

Creating and Maintaining a Corporate-Wide DITA Authoring Environment with a CMS
Paul Masalsky
EMC Corporation

Conditional Publishing with DITA
Scott Wolff
WOLFF and Associates, Inc.

Case Study: DITA for Training Materials
Robin Sloan
PTC

Managing Design Documentation for Microelectronics Using DITA and FileNet P8
Brian Merzbach
IBM Corporation

(DITA track talk)

9:30-10:00

Break

10:00-11:00

Selecting a CMS in 11 Weeks: A Case Study
Liz Augustine
Dassault Systèmes SolidWorks Corporation

Best Practices From The Outside In
Sarahjane Clark
XyEnterprise

Achieving Usability, Consistency, and Reuse Efficiencies with Content References in DITA
Karen Mobley
IBM Corporation

10:00-10:30

 

 

10:30-11:00

DocZone's Software-as-a-Service
DocZone

 


DITA Exchange™ by Content Technologies
Content Technologies

11:00-12:00

Content Management on the Other Side of the Fence: Copyright and Licensing Controls
Robert Minard
Eurofield Information Solutions

Getting the Devil Out of the Details: Successful Localization with DITA
Su-Laine Yeo
JustSystems, Inc.
Yas Etessam
VMware, Inc.

Case Study: Building Training Content with DITA or How We Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Bad Page Breaks
Patrick Quinlan
Citrix Systems, Inc.
Alisha Carter
Citrix Systems, Inc.

 

 

12:00-1:00

Lunch (Workshop Attendees Only)

1:00-5:00

Information Modeling
JoAnn Hackos
Comtech Services, Inc.

IBM Special Event:
Enterprise Content Management Meets DITA

Expert Panel Discussion, IBM and Quark

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