Schedule :: Paper Proposals
Schedule

The 6th Annual Conference of the STC India Chapter was held at Taj Connemara, Chennai from December 2-4, 2004. Click on against the speaker to download the respective presentation.
Day Time   Event Speaker Company
Pre-Conference Workshops, Thursday, December 2, 2004 8:30 – 9:00 am   Welcome and Registration    
9:00 – 1:00 pm Fundamentals of Technical Writing   Vishnupriya Ramanujan Nokia Enterprise Solutions
    Developing API Documentation Akash Dubey EMC
  Source Code Documentation using Doxygen    Ruchi Kak Hughes Software Systems
1:00 – 2:00 pm Lunch
2:00 – 6:00 pm   Better Language, Better Documentation - A Refresher on English Language Usage and Editing Freya Barua Tata Consultancy Services
  Framemaker 7.0 - Learning the Basics Asit Pant Cadence
 

Conference Day 1,
Friday, December 3, 2004

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Conference Day 1, Friday, December 3, 2004

 8:30 – 9:00 am   Registration    
9:00 – 9:30 am   Welcome Address    
9:30 - 9:45   Chief Guest’s Speech Chandra Sekaran Managing Director, Cognizant Technology Solutions
9:45– 10:00 am   Distribution of Awards to Competition Winners    
10:00 – 11:00 am   Keynote Speech James V. Romano Ph.D, President & CEO, Prisma International, Inc.
11:30 – 12:15 pm
Track 1
(Conference Hall) 		  Succeeding in a Global Economy – Tips for Technical Writers Francisco Abedrabbo & Pavi Sandhu Oracle Corporation
Track 2
(Room 2) 		  Shaping your Career as a Technical Writer/Instructional Designer Akanksha Malik QAI India
12:15 – 1:00 pm
Track 1
(Conference Hall) 		  Documentation Estimation Roshini Krishnamurthy Computer Associates
Track 2
(Room 2) 		API Documentation - Trends and Opportunities  Rajeev Jain Clovis Solutions
11:30 – 1:00 pm
Workshop
(Room 3) 		  Getting the Most Out of Team Meetings Makarand Pandit Director - Technowrites Pvt. Ltd. and Knowgence Technologies Pvt. Ltd.
1:00 – 2:00 pm Lunch
2:00 – 2:45 pm
Track 1
(Conference Hall) 		  Intellectual Property Rights and Technical Communicators Vijay Tase Peer Technical
Track 2
(Room 2) 		Using DFSS Tools for Better Technical Writing Process and Deliverables Paresh Naik vMoksha
2:45 – 3:30 pm
Track 1
(Conference Hall) 		Do Online Indexes Increase the Usability of Documentation? Melanie Doulton BMC Software
Track 2
(Room 2) 		The Open Source Movement and India: Where are our Documents? Amandeep Singh Sandhu  
2:00– 3:30 pm
Workshop
(Room 3) 		Viewlet Builder Pawan Nayar and Tanvi Malhotra Cadence
3:30 – 4:00 pm Coffee/Tea Break
4:00 – 4:45 pm Single Sourcing Using WebWorks Aoyon Chowdhury Cadence
4:45 – 5:45 pm   Panel Discussion - Future of User Documentation: New Directions    
5:45 – 6:00 pm   Celebration of STC, India Chapter's Special Achievements in 2004 and Recognition of Volunteers    
5:45 – 7:00 pm   STC India Chapter Annual General Meeting    
7:30 pm onwards   Entertainment Programme & Dinner    
 

Conference Day 2 - Saturday, December 4, 2004

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Conference Day 2 - Saturday, December 4, 2004

 9:00 – 9:45 am Technical Issues in Choosing a CMS Katriina Valli Citec
9:45 – 10:30 am   Building a Successful, Global Technical Publications Team Erin Bank Computer Associates
10:30 – 11:00 am   Panel Discussion: Are Technical Writers in India Globally Competitive?    
11:00 – 11:30 am Coffee/Tea Break
11:30 – 12:15 pm        
Track 1
(Conference Hall) 		  Research Techniques Edwin Skau BayPackets Technologies
Track 2
(Room 2) 		  Approach to Documentation Maintenance P Kiranmayee iSoft
12:15 – 1:00 pm        
Track 1
(Conference Hall) 		  User Behaviour Dr. Beena Chintalapuri Associate Professor of Psychology, Osmania University
Track 2
(Room 2) 		Exploring Different Genres of Technical Writing and its Allied Fields Rahul Prabhakar
 Oracle Corporation
Saravanan Manoharan think3 Designs
1:00 – 2:00 pm   Lunch    
2:00 – 2:45 pm        
  Use of XML and Open Source to Achieve Single Sourcing Hemanth Basrur Hewlett-Packard
  Creating Context Sensitive Help using Single Sourcing Debjani Sen and Roger Dearth BMC Software
2:45 – 3:30 pm        
  Impact of Accessibility on Technical Writing Mohd Qais Mujeeb VisualSoft Technologies
    Tech Writing Practices: A Case Study
 Prachi Sharma Quark
3:30 – 4:00 pm   Coffee/Tea Break    
4:00 – 5:00 pm   Quiz on Technical Communication Frederick Menezes Veritas
5:00– 5:30 pm   Awards and Closing Ceremony    
Note: This is a preliminary conference programme and is subject to change.