Industry Events from 2007

DITA Europe Conference 2007, Brussels, 13 - 14 November

Marc Speyer - Vice President, Content Migration Services, presented.

Stilo are delighted to confirm their sponsorship of the 3rd Annual DITA Europe Conference 2007, held on 13-14 November in Brussels, Belgium. Organised by The Center for Information-Development Management (CIDM), this year's event featured presentations from the DITA technical committee, companies currently implementing DITA, and vendors creating tools to assist with the implementation of DITA. As part of our sponsorship, Stilo's Marc Speyer - VP, Content Migration Services, presented a paper entitled Accelerating DITA, which introduces strategies for systematically addressing the technical and business challenges associated with implementing DITA. DITA provides an exceedingly attractive framework for implementing efficient mechanisms for creating, reusing and publishing content. However, its implementation does present a number of challenges for organisations, such as the impact upon how authors and editors plan and develop their content and from a technical perspective issues around system performance and scalability. Marc's presentation addressed some of these issues and presented a coherent strategy for accelerating adoption of DITA.

For more information about this event, please visit the conference website at: www.infomanagementcenter.com/DITAeurope/

DocTrain 2007 EAST , Lowell, Massachusetts, USA, 16 - 20 October 2007

Joe Gollner, Stilo's VP, e-Publishing solutions, facilitated a pre-conference workshop on Implementing S1000D in the Real World at DocTrain EAST 2007. Joe also presented a paper called Practical Content Management: What Really Works, as well as the closing keynote presentation. Staged in the birthplace of the American Industrial Revolution, Lowell, Massachusetts, the theme of the 8th Annual Documentation & Training East Conference was Advancing Your Career. The event took place October 16 - 20, 2007.

For more information please visit the conference website at: www.doctrain.com

XML@Boeing Conference, Seattle, WA 15 October

Once again, Stilo co-sponsored the Boeing XML Conference in Seattle. The theme for this year's conference was Adoption of XML Standards. Stilo's Joe Gollner presented An Implementer's Guide to XML Standards.

For complete information about this conference, please visit http://www.ecnw.org/BoeingXMLconf/Boeing_xml_conference_2007.html.

DITA 2007 East Conference , Raleigh, NC, 4 - 6 October

Stilo attended DITA 2007 EAST, held on 4 - 6 October in Raleigh, North Carolina, USA. The event featured keynote addresses delivered by knowledgeable DITA experts, presentations by real users, and practical case studies providing an enviable forum for extended learning and knowledge gathering. Three breakout rooms, a general session and exhibition area provided the backdrop for this gathering of DITA enthusiasts. One of the key knowledgeable DITA experts was our very own, Joe Gollner - VP, Stilo e-Publishing Solutions. .

For more information about the conference, please visit www.travelthepath.com/conf/

Institute of Scientific and Technical Communicators (ISTC) Annual Conference 2007, Liverpool, UK, 2 - 4 October 2007

Stilo are delighted to confirm their sponsorship of the forthcoming ISTC Conference 2007, held on 2-4 October in Liverpool, United Kingdom. The theme for this year's Conference is "The Technical Communication Culture": what we do, how we do it, and how we interact with other professionals. Liverpool was chosen as the host city because it has been selected as the European City of Culture for 2008, which fitted nicely with the conference theme. As well as a presentation by our own Marc Speyer - VP, Content Migration Services in which he introduced strategies for systematically addressing the technical and business challenges associated with implementing DITA, there were a number of Stilo representatives on hand at a co-located exhibition to present our content transformation solutions and discuss recent projects that we have worked on that leverage DITA.

For more information please visit the conference website at: http://istc.org.uk/Events/Conference/conference_2007.htm

Extreme Markup Languages Conference, Montréal, Canada 7 - 10 August

Stilo's Roy Amodeo and Mario Blažević presented papers at Extreme Markup, billed as the leading international conference on markup theory and practice. Roy's paper, Applying structured content transformation techniques to software source code, takes a fresh look at the challenge of producing XML markup from programming languages by recasting it as a content processing problem using tools developed in the same way as any other content-processing application. Mario's presentation, entitled Composable Templates describes how a template language can be used as a functional programming language, with each template a pure function that generates its output value from a restricted set of input values, using a set of predefined text filters that are also pure functions.

Visit the Extreme Markup Languages Conference website for more details.

X-Pubs 2007, Reading, UK 4 - 5 June

Stilo was a sponsor of the X-Pubs Conference on June 4-5 2007 in Reading, UK. Several specialists from Stilo participated in the event and were available to discuss recent projects that leverage DITA and S1000D. For more information about the event, please visit www.x-pubs.com

3rd European PLM Summit 2007, London, UK, 5 - 6 June 2007

The 3rd Annual Product Lifecycle Management summit was Europe's premier event for PLM practitioners and senior decision makers to network, learn and do business. Stilo consultants, who are the UK's foremost specialists in mySAP™ PLM implementations, were present. Visit the www.plmsummit.com website for more details.

S1000D User Forum 2007, Brisbane, Australia, 1-3 May 2007

Stilo was a sponsor of the Australian S1000D User Forum, held in Brisbane at the beginning of May this year. Our own Joe Gollner spoke about Leveraging the Relative Strengths of S1000D and DITA. DITA introduces mechanisms that can be used to address a number of well-known challenges bearing upon content usability, both for authors and for alignment with legacy or parallel investments. S1000D, on the other hand, mobilizes substantial sector knowledge and brings it to bear upon the fundamental challenges surrounding the interchange of reusable and manageable content. For more information on the conference, please visit the S1000D User Forum website.

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