DITA Europe Conference 2008 Agenda

Monday, 17 November 2008
09:00 - 09:15
Welcome JoAnn Hackos, Director The Center for Information-Development Management
09:15 - 10:15
Keynote Presentation The Topic-Based Documentation World Sissi Closs, Comet Computers GmbH
10:15 - 10:30 — Break
10:30 - 11:30
What Does it Mean to Adopt DITA? David Hollis, A&O Consultancy Ltd.	DITA and Information Architecture Kristen James Eberlein, IBM Corporation
11:30 - 12:30
Getting Enterprise Buy-In…and then Making it Happen in a Global Organisation Vikram Nanwani, ITT Fluid Technologies	The Proof of the DITA Pudding Wouter Verkerken, MasterCard Worldwide
12:30 - 13:30 — Lunch
13:30 - 14:30
Buzzwords at Work : An Agile Approach to Specialized DITA-Based Authoring Gunnar H. Krause, Qimonda AG	Mathematical Content in Documentation Lois Patterson, QuIC Financial Technologies
14:30 - 15:30
Data Merge and Automation with DITA Frank Miller & Hal Trent, Comtech Services, Inc.	Case Study: Publishing Market Research Reports Mark Poston, Mekon Ltd.
15:30 - 16:00 — Break
16:00 - 17:00
Using DITA in a Scrum Environment Eva Lemaire, Agfa HealthCare	Publishing Single Source DITA Content to Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Lauri Kinnunen, KONE Corporation Ole Rom Andersen, Content Technologies
17:00 - 18:00
What’s the Box in Out of the Box? Harvey Greenberg, XyEnterprise	DITA for the Machine and Automotive Industries Christian Kravogel, SeicoDyne GmbH
18:00 - 20:00 — Exhibitor's Reception

Tuesday, 18 November 2008
09:00 - 10:00
Increasing Your Competitive Edge and Global Business Agility through Intelligent Content Design Jaana Gallagher, Nokia Corporation Miel DeSchepper, Trisoft	Migration to DITA and CMS Implementation B. Noz Urbina, Mekon Ltd.
10:00 - 10:30 — Break
10:30 - 11:30
Alfresco XTM: The Open Source Open Standards Open Architecture DITA Approach Andrzej Zydroń, XML-INTL	Undertaking a DITA Pilot Project at STMicroelectronics Sheila D’Annunzio, STMicroelectronics Marc Speyer, Stilo International
11:30 - 12:30
DITA for Enterprise Business Documents Jerry Silver, EMC Documentum	Aeronautical Information Management and DITA: A standards-based approach to the new SDO Input Guidance Manual Chris Turchin, Tanner AG
12:30 - 13:30 — Lunch
13:30 - 14:30
Strategies for Comprehensive and Reusable Content between the Tags Kristina Brinck, ITT Fluid Technologies	DITA Case Study: Creating Training Materials Robin Sloan, PTC
14:30 - 15:30
Extending DITA Knowledge Systems Using Topic Maps Alex Griessel, SYSPRO	DITA Case Study: Proposal Generator Tony Self, HyperWrite Pty. Ltd.
15:30 - 16:00 — Break
16:00 - 17:30
DITA and XLIFF: Panel Presentation JoAnn Hackos, Comtech Services, Inc. Andrzej Zydroń, XML International, Ltd. Rodolfo M. Raya, Maxprograms Peter Li, PTC Nick Rosenthal, Salford Translations Ltd. Bryan Schnabel, Tektronix, Inc.