Technical writing conference concludes at Bangalore

PRESS RELEASE

Pune, December 11, 2006

The 8th Annual Conference of the India chapter of the Society for Technical Communication (STC) recently concluded at The Grand Ashok, Bangalore. The technical writing conference saw an audience of more than 580 delegates from all over the country and abroad. STC India’s Annual Conference is India’s largest annual gathering of technical writers.

Dr. Naresh Gupta, Managing Director, Adobe Systems India was the Chief Guest at the inaugural function. Geoff Hart from Canada (an Associate Fellow of STC) delivered the keynote address.


The conference offered several presentations on different aspects of technical communication, hosted interactive workshops, provided a wealth of networking opportunities, and served as a platform for companies and job seekers to meet. Most of the slides used for the presentations at the conference are available on STC India’s website at
http://www.stc-india.org/conferences/2006/Presentations.

A recurring presentation theme was increasing the value of services provided by technical writing teams and the need to acquire a range of skills to offset the possibility of losing opportunities to other countries. This comes at a time even though the technical communication industry is going through a boom and hiring is at an all time high.

Mary Ann from Pivotal and Wasique Robbani and Amit Chandra from Cadence were adjudged the best speakers at the conference for their respective paper presentations.

Citec, Adobe, BEA Systems, Oracle, LSI Logic, and Symphony Services were the main sponsors of the event.

The conference was hosted under the leadership of STC India president Gururaj B S and conference program manager Anupama A.