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List of upcoming
technical communications conferences

February 5, 2015 by RDesprez 6 Comments

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Here’s a list of upcom­ing con­fer­ences this year in North America.

Intel­li­gent Con­tent Con­fer­ence, March 23–25, San Francisco
http://www.intelligentcontentconference.com/

Mad­World 2015 World­wide Learn­ing Con­fer­ence, April 12–14, San Diego
http://www.madcapsoftware.com/events/madworld/

Writ­er­sUA User Assis­tance Boot Camp, April 15–17, Seattle
http://west.writersua.com/

Con­tent Man­age­ment Strategies/DITA North Amer­i­ca, April 20–22, Chicago
http://www.cm-strategies.com/2015/index.htm

IA Sum­mit, April 22–26, Minneapolis
http://www.iasummit.org/

Write the Docs 2015, May 17–19, Portland
http://www.writethedocs.org/conf/na/2015/

STC annu­al con­fer­ence, June 21–24, Columbus
http://summit.stc.org/

Lava­con, Octo­ber 18–21, New Orleans
http://lavacon.org

How do you keep your skills up to date? Any oth­er North Amer­i­can con­fer­ences that I should add?

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  1. John Grossman says

    February 6, 2015 at 8:19 pm

    Thanks for pub­lish­ing this list! Very help­ful. I prob­a­bly would­n’t have known about Write the Docs oth­er­wise. I might have to check out that conference!

    Reply
  2. Kelly Schrank says

    February 9, 2015 at 12:56 am

    The Spec­trum con­fer­ence in Rochester, NY is the longest-run­ning local con­fer­ence of its kind. It’s orga­nized by the Soci­ety for Tech­ni­cal Com­mu­ni­ca­tion’s Rochester chap­ter. It’s hap­pen­ing March 30, 2015.

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  3. RDesprez says

    February 9, 2015 at 5:31 am

    Thanks for review­ing and post­ing your feedback.

    Reply
  4. Annette Reilly says

    February 9, 2015 at 10:19 am

    The 2015 Mid-Atlantic Tech­ni­cal Com­mu­ni­ca­tion con­fer­ence is March 28, spon­sored by STC Philadel­phia Metro chapter 

    Reply
  5. Kristen James Eberlein says

    February 9, 2015 at 11:42 am

    Infor­ma­tion Devel­op­ment World 2015
    https://www.etouches.com/ehome/113382

    Reply
  6. RDesprez says

    February 10, 2015 at 8:51 pm

    Hi Annette and Kristen,

    Thank you for the updates. Good to know.

    Robert

    Reply

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