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Online conferences for technical writers in 2022

January 30, 2022 by RDesprez Leave a Comment

Here’s a list of inter­est­ing North Amer­i­can and vir­tu­al con­fer­ences. With the pan­dem­ic still with us, it seems that the num­ber of con­fer­ences has dwin­dled, com­pared to pre­vi­ous years.

Lava­con, Octo­ber 23 to 26, 2022, New Orleans, LA
http://lavacon.org

Mad­World Con­fer­ence, June 12 to 15, 2022, Austin, TX and online ver­sion
Mad­World

STC annu­al con­fer­ence, May 15 to 18, 2022, Rose­mont, IL
http://summit.stc.org/

Write the Docs, May 22 to 24, 2022, Port­land, OR
Write the Docs

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