STC-ETC Practical Conference on Communication

PCOC Conference Schedule

Friday, October 10
Time	Activity
	Room 1	Room 2	Room 3
7:30 a.m.	Breakfast (Ballroom)
8:30 - 9:30	Mark Mendenhall, Keynote Speaker (Ballroom)
10:00 - 11:00	*Berry Braster* How Controlled Authoring Improves Readability, Saves Costs, and Facilitates Structured Authoring	*Judy Shenouda* Style Guides -- Who Needs Them	*Kent Taylor* The Case for Sentence-Level Reuse
11:30 - 12:30	Lunch (Ballroom)
1:00 - 1:30	*Richard Sikes* Overview of Translation Technology	*Scott Abel* Augmenting Your Technical Documentation with User-Generated Content	*Sharon Burton* Blaze: How the Print Publishing World is About to Change
2:30 - 3:30	*Helen Moody* PowerEditing^TM: Rapid Revision for Busy Writers	*Suzanna Laurent* Revealing Your Hidden Value	*Hans Fenstermacher* Meeting Today's Globalization Challenges
4:00 - 5:00	*Helen Moody* 16 Tips for Editing Global English	*Sandra Bravo* The Secret for Successful Translation Projects	*Brenda Huettner* Delivering Accessible Technical Information

Saturday, October 11
Time	Activity
	Room 1	Room 2	Room 3
7:00 a.m.	Breakfast (Ballroom)
8:00 - 9:00	Kirk St. Amant, Keynote Speaker (Ballroom)
9:30 - 10:30	*Donald Samulack* Coordinating Team Productivity on Both Sides of the Planet	*Suzanna Laurent* and *Laura Ramsey* Gaining the Respect We Deserve	*Brenda Huettner* A Technical Communicator's Guide to Project Manager
11:00 - 12:00	*Myriam Siftar* Technical Writing With Translation in Mind	*Cathrine Snyder* Translating a Tristan da Cunha Diary	*Hans Fenstermacher* Decreasing Engineering Time in Localization
12:15 - 1:15	Lunch (Ballroom)
1:30 - 2:30	*Kent Taylor* Creating Content That Communicates Across Language Barriers	*Scott Abel* Developing a Business Career the Content Wrangler Way	*Julie Grady* Style Manuals in a Single-Source Environment
3:00 - 4:00	*Richard Sikes* What Source Language Content Teams Need to Know about the Downstream World	*Judith Glick-Smith* Managing Conflict on Global Teams	*Speaker and Topic Pending*

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