Inaugural Day -- 8-Dec-06
8:30 A.M – 9:30 A.M	Registration
9.30 A.M	Conference Inauguration by Chapter President: Gururaj. B.S
9:45 A.M – 10:30 A.M	Chief Guest Address - Dr.Naresh Gupta, MD, Adobe Systems India
10.30 A.M – 11:00 A.M	Rewards and Recognition
11.00 A.M - 11:15 A.M	Tea Break
11.15 A.M - 12:00 P.M	Keynote Address: Coming out of the Shadows by Geoff Hart, an Associate Fellow of the STC
12.00 P.M – 12.15 PM	Inclusion of Technical Writing as a University Program by Dr. Kiran Thakur, HOD, Dept. of Communication, University of Pune
12.15 PM – 12.30 PM	Are we fully exploiting the power of communication? by Dr. Pradeep, HOD Aerospace Engg & Communication, IISc.
12.30 P.M	Special: Group Picture
1.00 P.M – 2:00 P.M	Lunch Break
2:00 P.M – 2:30 P.M	Quiz Preliminaries - Frederick Menezes, Manager, Symantec
2.30 P.M – 3:15 P.M	Migration to DITA – Lessons and Experiences by Sandhya Ravishankar	Indexing Guide for Technical Writers by Sharada Chalapalli
3:15 P.M - 3:30 P.M	Tea Break
3.30 P.M – 4:15 P.M	Ten Tips to Grow Your Writing Career: A Manager's Perspective by Francisco Abedrabbo	Developing an In-House Documentation Sign-Off by Wasique Robbani and Amit Chandra
4.15 P.M – 5:00 P.M	The Business of Technical Communication by John Rosberg	MS Office Security by Khushbu Jithra
6.00 PM – 7.00 PM	STC India Chapter Annual General Meeting (STC Members only)
7.00 P.M onwards	Gala Dinner and Entertainment