Program

This page presents the preliminary program for the STC France Chapter Annual Conference on Friday 14 March 2008. Click the title of any session for more information about the presentation and speaker. For details of pre-conference workshops, see the Workshops page.

 

Time

Room 1

8.00

Registration and breakfast

9.00

A1 - Welcome

Jennifer O Neill, President STC France

9.05

A2 - Opening keynote: Content as a Commodity: A Farewell to Technical Writing

Hans Fenstermacher

 

Room 1

Room 2

9.35

B1.1 Herwart Schütte, DocWare

Creation of illustrated spare parts catalogues and service information systems in various languages – optimised catalogue creation with a standard software

 

B2.1 Theresa Cameron

Communicating successfully in Europe

 

10.15

Sponsor showcase and refreshments

 

Room 1

Room 2

10.45

B1.2 Dr Jonathan Price

Use Cases: An Agile, just-in-time approach to software documentation

 

B2.2 Luc Bouquet

Sharing best practices through Information Mapping®

 

11.35

B1.3 Dr Andrew Bredenkamp, acrolinx

Addressing information quality issues: A holistic view

 

B2.3 Alison Reynolds

Understanding international usability testing: why translation and localization do not guarantee success

 

12.15

Sponsor showcase

12.45

Lunch

 

Room 1

Room 2

14.15

B1.4 Noz Urbina

Living multiple lives: The new technical communicator

 

B2.4 Jeff Allen and Hans Fenstermacher

Managing multilingual content in Europe

 

15.05

B1.5 Alison Reynolds

Technical communication today: what do employers really want?

 

B2.5 Vici Koster-Lenhardt

How communicating Europe helped me get my dream job

 

15.50

Sponsor showcase and refreshments

 

Room 1

16.20

A3 - Panel discussion: Communicating Europe

Speakers plus moderator

17.20

A4 - Closing keynote: Communicating the EU – Mission Impossible?

Joe Hennon

17.55

A5 - Closing remarks and thanks

Jennifer O Neill, President STC France

18.00

Finish

18.00 to 19.30

Post-conference drinks in La Brasserie

Raffle Draw

Program subject to change