DITA Europe Conference 2011 Agenda

Monday, 7 November 2011
09:00 - 09:20
Welcome JoAnn Hackos, Director The Center for Information-Development Management
09:30 - 10:10
Topic Based Tech Author Website Constant Gordon & John Walker, NXP Semiconductors	DITA Macroscopes—Using Information Visualization to Get a Better Understanding of Your Content Frank Shipley, Componize Software
10:10 - 10:40 — Break
10:40 - 11:20
The Expert, the Persona and I Create the Perfect Unit Kristina Brinck, ITT Fluid & Motion Control	Best Practice For the European Machine Industry: Introducing CMS with PI-Mod for technical documentation Karsten Schrempp, Dokuwerk KG
11:30 - 12:10
The Modular Multi-Modal Content Production Project at SAP Education Thilo Buchholz & Teresa Pask, SAP-AG	DITA Metrics: Tune your DITA usage George Bina, Syncro Soft/oXygen XML Editor
12:10 - 13:40 — Lunch
13:40 - 14:20
Creating Training Blueprints for Complex Learning in DITA Thomas Zschocke, World Agroforestry Centre	Strategies to Implement an Enterprise Social Platform with DITA Content Kristof Van Tomme, Pronovix
14:30 - 15:10
Implementing Structured Writing: How hard can it be? Henrik Evanth, Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications AB	Embedded User Assistance Using DITA Content Marc Speyer, Sperotech
15:10 - 15:40 — Break
15:40 - 16:20
DITA Based Technical Writing and Translation: Evil combination or match made in heaven? Eef Blommaart, Yamagata Europe Luc Mastelinck, Scripto	Automating FrameMaker to DITA Conversions at IBM Sterling Commerce Karen Buchanan, IBM Sterling Commerce Les Burnham, Stilo International
16:30 - 17:10
Using Comics to Present DITA Concepts Erika Webb & Ultan O'Broin, Oracle Corporation	Innovative Ways of Taking DITA to the Next Level Mark Poston, Mekon Ltd.
17:10 - 19:00 — Exhibitor's Reception

Tuesday, 8 November 2011
09:00 - 09:40
Iconmania: Don't ruin the benefits of your DITA implementation! Marie-Louise Flacke, CI3M	Is it Possible to Reuse Text From the Software User Interface in The Manual, Using DITA? Anette Modée, ITT Fluid Technology
09:40 - 10:10 — Break
10:10 - 10:50
Avoiding DITA Spaghetti: Keep track of your content Jang Graat, JANG Communication	Understand Why in a World of Multi Source Language Authoring CMS and TMS Belong Together Claudia Blaschke, Schema GmbH
11:00 - 11:40
Up, Close and Personal with Your Customers: The next stages of DITA and product content maturity Tom Smith, SDL & Chris Hadley, Micro Focus	How Do You Design for Findability? Using SeSAM to make DITA content findable Jonatan Lundin, Phd Student MDH
11:40 - 13:10 — Lunch
13:10 - 13:50
Drug-Labeling Documents with DITA Christian Kravogel, SeicoDyne GmbH	Using XLIFF to Optimize Your Translation Process Frank Miller, Comtech Services, Inc.
14:00 - 14:40
Integrating Social Media into New DITA Workflows Don Day, Learning by Wrote	Introduction of DITA in SAP Documentation Bernd Lauer, SAP-AG
14:40 - 15:10 — Break
15:10 - 15:50
Don't Drive in the Dark: Metrics and information design Nicholas Hill, Nokia	Implementing DITA Solutions using Content Scenarios Joe Gollner, Gnostyx Research
16:00 - 16:40
How to Move into XML/DITA/Topic Based Authoring from a Book Paradigm Keld Jellesen, advice2u & Dorthe Iwan Sonne, Siemens Wind Power A/S	Key References and Content References: A world of reuse Sophie McMonagle, IBM Corporation
16:50 - 17:30
Closing Address JoAnn Hackos, Director The Center for Information-Development Management, Inc.

Post-conference Workshops: 9-10 November 2011
08:30 - 16:30
Advanced DITA Training including DITA 1.2 Instructor: Hal Trent, Comtech Services, Inc.	Minimalism: Creating Information People Really Need Instructor: JoAnn Hackos, Comtech Services, Inc