Stilo International Events Programme

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Intelligent Content 2009 - Presented by The Rockley Group Palm Springs, California, USA, 29-30 January 2009 What is Intelligent Content? Yesterday's content was static, hard to find, and difficult to manipulate.  Today we're not restricted by the technology, format or use.  Today we create, manage and deliver content in a more intelligent manner.  In fact, the content itself must be almost 'intelligent'.  Intelligent content is content which is: * discoverable * automatically reconfigurable * semantically aware * adaptable * collaborative * rich Our own Joe Gollner, VP Content Processing Solutions is one of the 'featured speakers' and will be presenting a paper entitled: 'Content Fusion: There's a Piece of Data Lodged in my Document' which will showcase how completely data and documents can be integrated and what benefits and challenges emerge as a result.  To read the full presentation synopsis, click on the title link. For more information on this event and to register, visit the conference website at: conference website.  Register before 15 December 2008 to benefit from the early bird discount.

DocTrain West 2009 Palm Springs, California, USA, 17-20 March 2009 Held in beautiful Palm Springs, CA, the theme of the Documentation and Training West 2009 Conference is Moving From Unstructured to Structured Content. The event includes a special focus on the Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA).  Paid registration includes two days of conference presentations, case studies, and panel discussions, as well as, access to 2 days of hands-on training workshops at no additional cost! For more information on this event and to register, visit the conference website at: conference website.

Content Management Strategies/DITA North America 2009 St. Petersbury, Florida, USA, 27-29 April 2009  Content Management Strategies/DITA North America bring together speakers, vendors, and participants who are looking for the best solution to manage their marketing, technical, and enterprise content.  If you are looking for better ways to manage content and democratize content creation throughout your organization, CMS/DITA 2009 will meet your needs. DITA North America brings you the leading corporate adopters, industry experts, and key vendors of the Darwin Information Typing Architecture.  Learn from the best in the field who know how to get started with a DITA implementation and reap a significant Return on Investment. Learn how quickly DITA is spreading far beyond technical manuals to technical and business content in the enterprise. Linked Feature: Stilo Migrate Demo As well as visiting us at our booth, you can also see a demonstration of our new web-based tool for content conversion - Stilo Migrate.  See the conference website for full details. For more information on this event and to register, visit the conference website at: conference website.

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DITA Europe 2008 Munich, Germany, 17-18 November 2008  This annual conference is designed for those who are interested in implementing XML, DITA, or learning more about this new standard for topic-based authoring. If you develop, produce, and deliver technical information today, you know that "content is everything." You also know that you have to keep costs under control and provide new solutions that deliver content in multiple ways to your customers. You've thought about "chunking" your content into smaller, reusable topics, but you don't know how to get started. For further information on this event, please visit the conference website. Joint Presentation at DITA Europe 2008 At this year's DITA Europe conference, we were selected to make a joint presentation with our customer STMicroelectronics. STMicroelectronics, one of the world’s largest semiconductor companies, whose products include microprocessors and microcontrollers, are currently undertaking a DITA publishing pilot project, supported by Stilo International. This presentation focused upon the business case for DITA adoption at ST and the key stages of the pilot project, including: Content modeling and specialisation Stylesheet development using the DITA OpenToolkit Migration of legacy content from FrameMaker Problems faced by the authoring team in adopting DITA The presentation provided a detailed appreciation of the practical issues involved in DITA adoption, including changes to existing working practices, use of the emerging DITA tools, and the delivery of quantifiable project outcomes.  Linked News Story - Stilo teams up with STMicroelectronics to share practical experience of DITA

tcworld Conference and Trade Fair 2008 Wiesbaden, Germany, 5-7 November 2008 The world‘s largest annual event in the field of technical communication! About tcworld: For decades, tekom has promoted the occupational image of technical communicators and supported their education and training. The tekom conferences provide excellent opportunities to exchange knowledge, learn about new technologies and get in touch with experts and developers. Over the past years, tekom has also strengthened its international position and today maintains superb relations with top-class speakers and professionals from around the world. The 5th tcworld conference offers seven tracks covering the entire chain of information development – from the original creation of documents to the preparation of product-specific information for multiple markets and languages. Who should attend: Documentation specialists from intense technology-oriented industries like: >> Software development >> Aerospace >> Telecommunications >> Defence >> Engineering For further information, please visit the tekom website.

DocTrain East 2008 Burlington, Massachusetts, USA, 29 October - 1 November 2008 The theme of the recent 10th Annual Documentation & Training East Conference was Producing Quality Content. The event included a special focus on both software documentation, project best practices and translation and localization issues. For more information on the DocTrain series of event, please visit the conference website at: conference website.

ATA e-Business Forum and S1000D User Forum Intercontinental Hotel, Budapest, Hungary, 21-23 October 2008 The ATA e-Business Forum and the S1000D User Forum are the industry's premier events to learn about the latest developments in information exchange to support engineering, maintenance, material and flight operations. This year, the two conferences combined to provide the single, most comprehensive event dedicated to information exchange standards and technologies in the global aerospace and defense industry.   For more information on the ATA e-Business Forum or S1000D User Forum, please visit the conference website at: conference website.

Institute of Scientific & Technical Communicators (ISTC) Annual Conference 2008 Eastwood Hall, Nottingham, UK, 23-25 September 2008  The ISTC Annual Conference is the largest UK event for technical communicators.  The theme for this year's event was Technical Communication: Past, Present and Future: How professional technical communication has changed over the years and what can be expected in the future. For more information on this event, please visit the conference website.

DocTrain Life Sciences Indianapolis, Indiana, 23 - 26 June 2008 This conference was devoted to the particular content challenges faced by the health care and life sciences sector. Joe Gollner, Stilo's VP, Content Processing Solutions, delivered a keynote presentation entitled Ensuring Information Quality: Leveraging Intelligent Automation. In the life sciences sector information quality, or its absence, can be a matter of life and death. The presentation introduced some background about the science of content validation and verification that is available to companies in the life sciences industry in its quest to achieve ever higher levels of quality. Later Joe delivered a presentation on Health Information Portals: Case Studies. The cases were of a major institution responsible for setting health care standards which set out to establish a web portal that would provide an integrated view of useful health information for the public, and an independent agency in the pharmaceutical sector determined that it needed to deliver a new generation of intelligent drug look-up tools. These cases illustrated, graphically, the types of challenges that need to be addressed and the magnitude of the benefits that can be realized when these challenges are overcome. For further information on this event, please visit the conference website.

DocTrain West 2008 Vancouver, Canada, 6 - 9 May 2008 The theme of the 2nd Annual Documentation & Training West Conference was Web 2.0 and Its Impact on Communication. Joe Gollner, Stilo's VP, Content Processing Solutions, presented several different papers at the conference, along with his ever-popular Content Engineering Workshop. Joe's first presention was entitled 'XML in the Wilderness', and focused on how Web 2.0 innovations are taking XML back to its roots as a language for designing content and the associated processing applications. Joe also presented 'Putting Everything Back Together Again: Delivering Effective Information Products' - in which he reviewed the demands that must be met if modularized content is to be assembled, resolved, compiled and rendered into the types of information products that people rightfully expect. Joe's final presented was entitled 'Extreme Content Makeover: Migrating Content to DITA'.   A successful migration of content to DITA can be a harrowing experience, but past experiences have shown that success is fully achievable and that what may seem to be an insurmountable mountain of legacy content can become the most durable part of a successful renovation project. For further information on Joe's presentations or the conference itself, please visit the conference website.

Content Management Strategies/DITA North America Conference 2008 Santa Clara, CA, 7 - 9 April 2008 This event combined two unique conferences to meet the needs of organizations looking for cost effective ways to produce and manage content and increase the value of information for customers.  Stilo's Joe Gollner, VP, Content Processing Solutions, presented a paper on 'The Ins and Outs of Content Migration'.  One of the critical success factors for any content management initiative, and specifically any initiative targeting the latest generation of reuse oriented standards (e.g., DITA or S1000D), will be how well they leverage the available tools and techniques for migrating content efficiently and effectively.  The presentation introduced some of the key tools and techniques that should be considered. For more on Joe's presentation or the conference itself, please visit the Conference website.

Content Convergence and Integration 2008 Vancouver, Canada, 12 - 14 March 2008  Content Convergence and Integration 2008 was for content professionals looking to find more strategic ways to manage their content in a world where content now gets created and syndicated, integrated, repurposed, and redistributed. On March 12, Stilo's Joe Gollner, VP e-Publishing solutions, spoke about Web 2.0 and the End of DITA. Will Web 2.0 technologies resolve persistent challenges in usability, thus fulfilling the promise of DITA and causing it to disappear? Then on March 14, Joe presented his popular Content Engineering Workshop. Content engineering, as Joe explained, sets out proven approaches to designing content solutions, migrating content assets and managing patterns of continuous innovation. For more on Joe's presentations or the conference itself, please visit the Conference website.