Congility S1000D 2013 - Post 2

Following on from my previous Blog entry about the Congility Conference I have to report that the programme is progressing well with a number of speakers confirmed.

The programme content is such that there are going to be two streams which take effect after the opening sessions.

The Key Note Address will cover the direction that the S1000D Specification is taking and will be Given by Dennis Hoyland who is chair of the S1000D Steering Committee and this will be followed by the important subject of Mod Policy and Direction. At the time of writing this the presenter has not been confirmed but it will be a significant person from the MoD.

An just touching on the confirmed speakers the session subjects include:

• What is new in 4.1
• Simplified Technical English in a Real Project (No theory here!)
• For those involved in Training we have an   Introduction into SCORM
• For those moving current data to S1000D we have Legacy Data Conversion
• And for those with long running projects we have Applicability in S1000D

There are also a number of very useful and practical subjects for which the speakser have yet to confirm their involvement.

At the moment the programme is not on the Congility web site but be sure, as soon as it is published I will pass this on.

This conference is clearly very important for the S1000D community in Europe. With the current state of the economy (and in the recent past as well) the money just has not been there to travel to the US where most of the related conferences take place. Most technical publications departments never had the cash to send delegates to the states and also a significant number of vendors have had to dig really deep to get someone to them.

With the Congility Conference taking place almost adjacent to Gatwick Airport just outside London this is very easy to get to from almost anywhere in the UK. This certainly makes it easier for prospective delegates to get authority to attend.