Program by Day
Program by Track
A-Z Program Titles
A Comparison of Three Visual Help Authoring Tools
A Practical Guide to Capturing, Organizing, and Securing Your Documents
Authoring Assistance: Friend or Foe?
Being Smart About Global vs. Local During Clinical Trials
Bringing User Experience to Medical Devices
Centralized Translation Processes: Overcoming Global Regulatory and Multilingual Content Challenges
Collaboration Via Reuse: Are We There Yet?
Content Technologies Market: Where It's Heading
Creating and Serving Relevant Content: Driving Response with Real Time Personalization
Creativity or Confusion Factor?: The Case for Sentence-level Reuse in Mission Critical Communication
Developing a Collaborative Team: Lessons Learned from GE Healthcare
Developing a Unified Enterprise Content Model
Drowning in a Sea of Information… What’s Your Rescue Plan?
Ensuring Information Quality: Leveraging Intelligent Automation
Globalization Issues with Medical Device Embedded Systems
Handling DITA Topics and Translation in a Regulated Industry
Health Information Portals: Case Studies
Healthcare and the Internet: How To Truly Understand and Influence the Customer Experience
How to Enforce Standards in Life Sciences Documentation
How To Select and Procure Content Technologies
Marketing in a Connected World: The New Rules of Marketing
Migrating to Structured Authoring on Your Way To XML
Phase 2 - What’s Next for Life Sciences and Enterprise Content Management
Preparing Compliant eCTD Submissions
SPL Beyond CDER: Lessons Learned from the Pharma Experience
Structured Content Beyond the Label
Structured Product Labeling Workshop
Transforming Technology Transfer and Recipe Management: From Spreadsheets to Standardized Practices
Unlocking Handwritten Information from Medical Records
What’s New in Collaboration Tools
Writing Reusable Content for Different Audiences
XML-Based Collaboration with Office 2007: Benefits for Medical Writers
[Case Study] Physician, Know Thy User: Using Personas to Target Content and Usability
[Workshop] Adobe Captivate: The Visual Swiss Army Knife
[Workshop] Analyzing Your Deliverables: Developing the Optimal Documentation Library
[Workshop] Content Modeling for Life Sciences Content
[Workshop] Do you Know Adobe Acrobat?
[Workshop] Learning DITA From Concept to Implementation
[Workshop] Product Life Cycles in the Life Sciences Industry: FAQ for the Vendor Selection Process
Program
Day 1
Pre-conference Workshops
[Workshop] Adobe Captivate: The Visual Swiss Army Knife
Speaker: Neil Perlin
Time: 1:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Experience level: All levels
Laptop computer required for this session
[Workshop] Writing Reusable Content
Speaker: Pamela Kostur
Time: 1:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Experience level: All levels
[Workshop] Content Modeling for Life Sciences Content
Speaker: Ann Rockley
Time: 1:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Experience level: Intermediate
Speaker: Berry Braster
Time: 1:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Experience level: All levels
Day 2
Ensuring Information Quality: Leveraging Intelligent Automation
Speaker: Joseph Gollner
Time: 8:00 AM - 8:45 AM
Experience level: All levels
Developing a Unified Enterprise Content Model
Speaker: Ann Rockley
Time: 8:45 AM - 9:30 AM
Experience level: Advanced
Marketing in a Connected World: The New Rules of Marketing
Speaker: Michael Silverman
Time: 9:45 AM - 10:45 AM
Experience level: All levels
Globalization Issues with Medical Device Embedded Systems
Speaker: Jon Ritzdorf
Time: 9:45 AM - 10:45 AM
Experience level: All levels
Preparing Compliant eCTD Submissions
Speaker: Antoinette Azevedo
Time: 9:45 AM - 10:45 AM
Experience level: All levels
Transforming Technology Transfer and Recipe Management: From Spreadsheets to Standardized Practices
Speaker: Paul Wlodarczyk
Time: 10:45 AM - 11:30 AM
Experience level: All levels
Speaker: John Yunker
Time: 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM
Experience level: All levels
A Practical Guide to Capturing, Organizing, and Securing Your Documents
Speaker: Jeff Potts
Time: 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM
Experience level: All levels
Speaker: Richard Brandt
Time: 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM
Experience level: All levels
Creating and Serving Relevant Content: Driving Response with Real Time Personalization
Speaker: James Michelson
Time: 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Experience level: All levels
[Case Study] Physician, Know Thy User: Using Personas to Target Content and Usability
Speaker: Joe Sokohl
Time: 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Experience level: All levels
Unlocking Handwritten Information from Medical Records
Speaker: Courtney Rand
Time: 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Experience level: All levels
Centralized Translation Processes: Overcoming Global Regulatory and Multilingual Content Challenges
Speaker: Inna Kassatkina
Time: 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Experience level: All levels
Bringing User Experience to Medical Devices
Speaker: Sebastian Heycke
Time: 3:30 PM - 4:30 PM
Experience level: All levels
Healthcare and the Internet: How To Truly Understand and Influence the Customer Experience
Speaker: Mona Patel
Time: 3:30 PM - 4:30 PM
Experience level: Intermediate
Health Information Portals: Case Studies
Speaker: Joseph Gollner
Time: 3:30 PM - 4:30 PM
Experience level: All levels
SPL Beyond CDER: Lessons Learned from the Pharma Experience
Speaker: Don Bridges
Time: 3:30 PM - 4:30 PM
Experience level: All levels
Day 3
Speaker: Jerome Nadel
Time: 9:00 AM - 9:45 AM
Experience level: All levels
Content Technologies Market: Where It's Heading
Speaker: Alan Pelz-Sharpe
Time: 9:45 AM - 10:30 AM
Experience level: All levels
Structured Content Beyond the Label
Speaker: Ann Rockley
Time: 10:45 AM - 11:45 AM
Experience level: All levels
Phase 2 - What’s Next for Life Sciences and Enterprise Content Management
Speaker: David Giordano
Time: 10:45 AM - 11:45 AM
Experience level: All levels
Speaker: Maxwell Hoffmann
Time: 10:45 AM - 11:45 AM
Experience level: All levels
What’s New in Collaboration Tools
Speaker: Alan Houser
Time: 10:45 AM - 11:45 AM
Experience level: All levels
Creativity or Confusion Factor?: The Case for Sentence-level Reuse in Mission Critical Communication
Speaker: Kent Taylor
Time: 10:45 AM - 11:45 AM
Experience level: All levels
Drowning in a Sea of Information… What’s Your Rescue Plan?
Speaker: Joe Jenkins
Time: 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Experience level: All levels
Being Smart About Global vs. Local During Clinical Trials
Speaker: Don DePalma
Time: 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Experience level: All levels
Developing a Collaborative Team: Lessons Learned from GE Healthcare
Speaker: Jeanette Eichholz
Time: 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Experience level: All levels
Writing Reusable Content for Different Audiences
Speaker: Pamela Kostur
Time: 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Experience level: All levels
Handling DITA Topics and Translation in a Regulated Industry
Speaker: Jennifer Linton & Jennifer Perkins
Time: 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Experience level: All levels
How To Select and Procure Content Technologies
Speaker: Alan Pelz-Sharpe
Time: 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Experience level: All levels
Collaboration Via Reuse: Are We There Yet?
Speaker: Ann Rockley & Don Bridges
Time: 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Experience level: All levels
A Comparison of Three Visual Help Authoring Tools
Speaker: Neil Perlin
Time: 3:30 PM - 4:30 PM
Experience level: All levels
How to Enforce Standards in Life Sciences Documentation
Speaker: Suzanne Mescan & Bill Rabkin
Time: 3:30 PM - 4:30 PM
Experience level: All levels
Migrating to Structured Authoring on Your Way To XML
Speaker: Alan Houser
Time: 3:30 PM - 4:30 PM
Experience level: All levels
XML-Based Collaboration with Office 2007: Benefits for Medical Writers
Speaker: Richard Brandt
Time: 3:30 PM - 4:30 PM
Experience level: All levels
Authoring Assistance: Friend or Foe?
Speaker: Richard Sikes
Time: 3:30 PM - 4:30 PM
Experience level: All levels
Speaker: Maxwell Hoffmann
Time: 4:45 PM - 5:45 PM
Experience level: All levels
Day 4
Speaker: Dr. Ronald G. Shapiro
Time: 8:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Experience level: All levels
[Workshop] Learning DITA From Concept to Implementation
Speaker: Jennifer Linton
Time: 8:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Experience level: All levels
[Workshop] Analyzing Your Deliverables: Developing the Optimal Documentation Library
Speaker: Nicky Bleiel
Time: 8:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Experience level: All levels
Speaker: Kent Taylor
Time: 8:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Experience level: All levels
[Workshop] Product Life Cycles in the Life Sciences Industry: FAQ for the Vendor Selection Process
Speaker: Tina Cargile
Time: 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Experience level: All levels
Structured Product Labeling Workshop
Speaker: Richard Brandt
Time: 1:30 PM - 5:00 PM
Experience level: All levels
[Workshop] Do you Know Adobe Acrobat?
Speaker: Alan Houser
Time: 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
Experience level: All levels
Laptop computer required for this session
