Content Management Strategies/DITA North America Conference 2008

Content Management Strategies/DITA North America
Conference 2008

When

April 7–9, 2008

Where

Hyatt Regency

Santa Clara, CA

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The details of this agenda may change before the conference. To receive the most up to date schedule, please pick one up at the start of the conference. Thank you.

CMS/XML/DITA Terminology Primer
CIDM is holding a free two hour primer on Sunday April 6, 2008 from 12:00pm – 2:00pm. If you are interested in attending this session, please email Lisa Lambert to help us arrange for adequate seating. Please note that this primer is a benefit offered only to conference attendees.

Registration and the Opening Reception on Sunday, April 6th, will be held from 6:00–8:00pm.

Monday, April 7, 2008

7:00–8:00 Breakfast and Morning Registration
8:00–8:30
Welcome JoAnn Hackos The Center for Information-Development Management
8:30–9:30
Keynote Address: Content Management: Where did we come from? Where are we going? JoAnn Hackos, Comtech Services, Inc.
9:30–10:00 Break
10:00–11:00
Management Track	DITA Track	Technical Track	Demo Track
Getting Enterprise Buy-In to XML Content Management Bjorn von Euler ITT Fluid Technologies JoAnn Hackos Comtech Services, Inc.	Best Practices for DITA in a Global Economy Eric Severson Flatirons Solutions	Don't Seek and You Will Find: Bringing content directly to your fingertips Matt Armstrong Author–it Software Corporation	10:00–10:30 Quadralay 10:30–11:00 Vasont Systems
11:00–12:00
The Playlist Model: Designing and delivering modular content Renu Bhargava, Aviva Garrett, & Christine Nay Juniper Networks	Successful Implementations of DITA and a CMS Chip Gettinger & Fred Lass Astoria Software	Veni, Vidi, Wiki: How (and why) open source wikis are changing the face of technical publishing Peter Dykstra MetaphorX, LLC	11:00–11:30 JustSystems 11:30–12:00 MarkLogic
12:00–1:30 Lunch
1:30–2:30
A Democratic Approach to Overcoming DITA and CMS Issues Sarah-Beth Doner & Laura Hood Research In Motion, Ltd.	Using SharePoint as the Complete DITA Content Collaboration Platform Steffen Frederiksen Content Technologies ApS	Implementing a CMS to help manage what your current CMS doesn't Robert Lankford Lexmark International, Inc.	1:30–2:00 XyEnterprise 2:00–2:30 SDL International
2:30–3:00 Break			PTC Demo
3:00–4:00
All I Really Need to Know About Successful Content Management I Learned in Kindergarten Charlotte Robidoux Hewlett–Packard Company Suzanne Mescan Vasont Systems	Developing a Comprehensive Information Model Frank Miller & Anne Bovard Comtech Services, Inc.	7 Reuse Strategies for DITA France Baril IXIASOFT	3:00–3:30 Tedopres International 3:30–4:00 Stilo ePublishing
4:00–5:00
Information Architecture in the DITA World of Topic-Based Information Lori Fisher, Andrea Ames, Shawn Benham, Jennifer Fell IBM Corporation	Complex Maps for Componentized Products Judy Kessler Sybase, Inc.	Applications and Documents Collide: The emergence of dynamic documents JustSystems	4:00–4:30 Author–it 4:30–5:00 Doczone.com
5:00–7:00 Vendor Reception

Tuesday, April 8, 2008

7:30–8:30 Breakfast
8:30 – 8:45 Morning Announcements Delivered by Room Monitors
8:45–9:45
Management Track	DITA Track	Technical Track	Demo Track
Pilot Projects: What to ask yourself before you start and after you finish Suzanne Barr & Martha Morgan Network Appliance, Inc.	Single Sourcing and eLearning Content: From XML to DITA William Gill Innovatia, Inc.	Staged Production and Quality Documentation within a DITA-Based CMS Keith Schengili-Roberts AMD, Inc.	8:45–9:15 Inmedius 9:15–9:45 nSight
9:45–10:15 Break			Content Technologies
10:15–11:15
After the Pilot Project, What Next? Nancy Howe & Colleen Smith Teradata Corporation	DocBook vs. DITA: Will the real standard please stand up? Teresa Mulvihill t2a Communications	The DITA Troubleshooting Specialization Dan Dionne & Carolyn Inkster IBM Corporation	10:15–10:45 Acrolinx 10:45–11:15 Data Conversion Labs
11:15–12:15
Improving Source and Translation Quality with DITA and Content Management Ann Adams Kyocera Technology Development & Dan Dube DocZone.com	Tips and Tricks to Getting the Most out of DITA Dan Dionne IBM Corporation	Reducing Translation Costs with Scalable Vector Graphics Frank Miller & Hal Trent Comtech Services, Inc.	11:15–11:45 IXIASOFT 11:45–12:15 Trisoft
12:15–1:45 Lunch
1:45–2:45
Putting the 'M' in CMS Harvey Greenberg XyEnterprise	Managing Links with Relationship Tables Amber Swope JustSystems	OAXAL—Beyond DITA Andrzej Zydroń XML–INTL	1:45–2:15 IFN Solutions 2:15–2:45 Antenna House
2:45–3:15 Break			Astoria Software Demo
3:15–4:15
Strategy to Scale Global Documentation at VMware Denise Kiser & Sharon Fingold VMware, Inc. Howard Schwartz SDL International	Authoring and Publishing DITA Content with Eclipse and the DITA Open Toolkit Maria Brownstein Sybase Inc. Guanjun Cai & David Muir IBM Corporation	The Ins and Outs of Content Migration Joe Gollner Stilo e-Publishing Solutions	3:15–3:45 Wolff & Associates 3:45–4:15 Eurofield Information Solutions
4:15–5:15
Pleasures and Pitfalls of Content Management for Enterprise Product Documentation Liz Semmelmeyer & Carol Woronow Symantec Corporation	Selecting a Content Management System for DITA Scott Wolff WOLFF and Associates	An Introduction to Using XSLT with the DITA Open Toolkit Steve Anderson Salesforce.com	4:15–4:45 Refresh Software 4:45–5:15 CSOFT
5:15–6:15 DITA Question and Answer Session

Wednesday, April 9, 2008

7:30–8:30 Breakfast
8:30 – 8:45 Morning Announcements Delivered by Room Monitors
8:45–9:45
Management Track	DITA Track	Technical Track	Demo Track
Business Drivers for Changing to DITA Bruce Nevin Cisco Systems, Inc.	Defining an Optimal Content Repurposing Systems Architecture Jim Cain Jacquette Consulting	Using IBM Task Modeler to Create DITA-Based Information Sets Kristen James Eberlein Systems Documentation, Inc.	8:45–9:15 Demo 9:15–9:45 Demo
9:45–10:15 Break
10:15–11:15
Content Excellence and the Total User Experience Eileen Jones, David Muir & Jamie Roberts IBM Corporation	Improving Code Quality with DITA Code Reviews Carolyn Inkster & Shannon Rouiller IBM Corporation	From Unstructured to Structured, From HTML/FRAME to XML: A case study Padma Neppalli Intel Corporation	10:15–10:45 Demo 10:45–11:15 Demo
11:15–12:15
Influence: The missing ingredient for content management Meryl Natchez TechProse Andrea Ames IBM Corporation	Implementing DITA in the Real World Raymond Lei Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.	Content Reduction and Reuse in a Multi-Channel Publishing Environment Elizabeth Fraley & Maria Ortmann Single-Sourcing Solutions, Inc.	11:15–11:45 Demo 11:45–12:15 Demo
1:15–5:15 Workshops
Hands-On Specialization Erik Hennum IBM Corporation		Information Modeling JoAnn Hackos Comtech Services, Inc.